skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's the entire team or not doesn't really matter, what matters is is that the locus of control, the people who really own the project and commit most of the changes are all based in China.

But you are correct, they do get commits from outside of the country
The second paragraph means that the placebo group experienced similar effects as those in the 26μg group. So the 26μg group could well just be placebo anyway.
I'm not a huge fan of how spdy and then quic were kinda ramrodded into the HTTP standards process, but realistically I think QUIC is basically the future of connection transport wherever tcp or udp alone are failing at this point. I recently discovered the nQuick proposal to do noise-based connection initiation for peer-to-peer connections and I love it[1]. It's an incredibly versatile protocol.

It seems likely that a lot of the issues raised in the OP will be somewhat forced to be resolved due to the aforementioned ramrodding of QUIC into the HTTP3 path, but maybe in the long run the two ideas will co-evolve to the same solution.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/028.pdf
I think your sentiment is both right and wrong. There is scientific benefit to tracing the origins because it can help solve mysteries such as identifying which language family their tongue fell under. Also evidence of this type of cultural migration helps explain similarities in the material culture of the Greeks and Philistines.

But yes, many countries hype up the historical peoples that lived within their modern-day borders or who spoke a similar language. Now, it definitely seems like countries in the Balkans, Near East, and Caucus region are keen to jump on any genetic or archaeological result that supports their nation building project.
Show HN: Worble, a Wordle-inspired word game
We wouldn't know if it was a thing.
If you're interested in high quality background noise, I'll plug this absolutely amazing site: mynoise.net
It could be a fun exercise to consider why someone might find it horrendous. You know, just to put yourself in someone else's shoes for a bit.
Yo HN, happy Sunday!

A friend reached out to my partner and I with a fun idea for a game. Over the next two weekends we prototyped and polished. It’s a wordle-style guessing game but each time you guess, the mystery word is edited by one letter. Most puzzles can be solved in 3 guesses and almost all can be solve in 4 because the edit gives away a lot of information. It was really fun to hack together a tiny thing and we're excited to show it off.

Technically, it’s a next.js app deployed on vercel. All the stats and turn data are stored in local storage in your browser, no centralized database or high score mechanism at this time. We only calculate daily stats and wipe all the data daily so as not to encourage grinding. If you get stuck, there’s a cheat code but you’ll have to find it :).

Thanks for checking it out, hope you think it’s as fun as we (and our moms) do. Questions and feedback very much welcome.

Free upvote for the first person to complain it only works with js enabled.

Best,
@rgbrgb, @ralusek, @eberyvody
The replies you’re receiving seem to be reinforcing your original point.
I think you’re going in the wrong direction.

We suffer from a mass delusion that once something is said and accepted, it represents the precipice of understanding.

It does not.

We must remake ourselves every generation. We must replicate, disseminate, corroborate. And reprocess.

This information processing is distributed, asynchronous, and working at a glacial pace in our minds.

Our human understanding is not what can be googled or found in a book, it is our working knowledge. For working knowledge, knowing must be worked. This produces endless distillations and specializations. There will be content creators for as long as there will be content consumers.

The popular ones will skew for modern relevance. The “good” ones will preserve faithfulness to barely knowable truths.

Cognitively it actually takes three years of familiarity before a mind has integrated an idea. And ten years to see the full consequences of that ideas integration.

We aren’t as individually competent and knowledgeable as we imagine. We need the churn, merely of highest available quality.
IIRC in earlier versions, an infinite loop without function calls could freeze the entire runtime: GC's stop the world event is triggered => goroutines are being suspended cooperatively => but this one goroutine never enters a function prolog and thus never suspends => all goroutines except one are suspended and there's no progress. Preemptive scheduling is much more robust. Although it's solvable in cooperative scheduling with an additional suspension check at the end of each loop, but it adds overhead for all loops. If I remember correctly, .NET or JVM implement safe points for GC (which can be used to switch contexts cooperatively as well) by simply reading a pointer from a special preallocated virtual memory page which is remapped to nothing when a stop-the-world event is triggered, so such a read traps into an invalid memory handler where you can park your thread. But I'm not sure how costly it is for thousands/millions of coroutines.
A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol
By a random ID as others [1] do?

[1] Threema
The robotaxi’s draw will be its lower prices. They are removing the cost of a driver from the equation. Assuming the car felt as safe as a normal taxi, I’d take the cheaper one.
TMI[1] is a library that serves a very similar purpose but is still actually relatively maintained (the last commit on the main release branch of twitch.js was back in late 2021 - the main branch has more recent commits but it is not a great sign there has been no releaae since late 2021)

Also TMI seems to better handle the nuances of how twitch uses IRC to provide more useful info. (Twitch uses IRCv3 tags to pass extra info on various messages[2])

[1]:https://github.com/tmijs/tmi.js

[2]: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/tags
And this was people with locally advanced rectal cancer. Typically this means the tumor has grown to a considerable size and is already causing symptoms severe enough for people to go to a specialist. I am not a doctor but my understanding is that a placebo in this case would have a 5 year survival rate that is pretty close to 0%.
U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' (2018)
Well, in Germany, Amazon logistics is so bad, that I am actively looking for other online shops that deliver through DHL. Most of the time, I don't care whether an electronic gadget arrives in one or two days. But I like reliability. And Amazon's own drivers usually arrive very late in evening, drop the packet wherever they want without even ringing the bell. Recently, I found an Amazon packages in my garden that was delivered before christmas.

And I agree totally with your point about search.
Women tend to make less than men so it makes economic sense for the woman to stay at home. The problem gets worse and the disparity as the man’s career progresses and the woman’s declines, sometimes to the point that day care comes with opportunity cost relative to not working - I.e., the woman’s income doesn’t offset the increased expenses.

This is a systemic and structural tragedy.

That said as a hiring manager I love hiring women returning to work. They have a very clear reason to be there and their productivity is very high, and more than offsets any reduction in hours they might face due to lingering responsibilities.
The observations about complex systems declining faster than they grow was interesting. The rest of the post kind of boils down to "complex systems fail because they're complex".
That’s entirely developer decided. Most are starting to recombine channels to get around the feature.
It's the "law" of numbers. 400k pings, even if only 1% clicked on the repo, and maybe 10% of them commented: that's 400 comments to make. Even on internal repos I've never seen productive discussion really happen past 50 or so comments.

And then the news broke out and that drove even more than 1% to check out the drama. Maybe even had some people sign up for Epic just to check it out.
Why is it, then, that people in traditionally progressive countries—my native social-democratic Sweden being a prime example—can believe the same things, read the same books, and propound the same ideas as their American counterparts, without their societies experiencing the same sort of catastrophic polarization afflicting the U.S.?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it's our "winner-take-all" electoral system.
Collapse is a matter of time scales. We know pretty well when our star stops functioning and everyone on earth dies.

Are we not then therefore in a very slightly downward slope towards absolute annihilation and collapse?
As GP said:

> if you want reliable data transfer over UDP you have to basically implement almost everything TCP does on top of it.

Even QUIC has an ACK-like signal so you will never avoid it as otherwise you will deal with the two generals' problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem). The reason QUIC is more efficient than TCP is simply due to the fact that TCP can't evolve further due to middleboxes (called ossification, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification), not that TCP is inherently bad.
> Perhaps the first person who reasoned in scientific terms about how to avoid collapses was the American scientist Jay Forrester (1918-2016). He was one of the main developers of the field known today as “system science.” To him we owe the idea that when people try to avoid collapse, they usually take actions that worsen the situation. Forrester described this tendency as “pulling the levers in the wrong direction.”

This is an interesting insight but I wonder if it is sort of an observational artifact. A complex social system that has developed formidable power, like the Roman Empire, probably has the ability to pull itself out of most tailspins if its superior resources are directed in a retrospectively-optimal way. So whenever you see a collapse of such a formidably powerful system, you'll see ways in which it could have averted the collapse, and attribute its decline to not doing those things.

Retrospectively optimal control isn't possible in general, so this insight might not be as useful as it sounds.
I don't quite understand, can you elaborate?

I'm a nix user who'd like to see others be able to get as much value out of it as I do.
This is a very conservative view. Giving birth is something only the mother can do, but there is no biological reason why a mother should raise the child and not the father. This renders you argument about specialization mute. In almost every developed country, it's possible to work 32 hours instead of 40 hours, which means that with 3 days of daycare the mother and father can share the responsibility raising a child equally.
Geoffrey West has some really good work on this. What happens most of the time is that new alternative technologies and ways come in and change the whole context around. That is, the old civilization really does collapse in a sense but a new and different one takes its place. A good recent example of this is the "green revolution" which for better or worse created a burst of productivity in agriculture that has so far sustained ongoing population growth that previous agricultural traditions could not have supported.
I didn’t use the word “lie” just related my experience, including using a gps speed app. It’s fine if other people have a different experience. I like trains which is why I use such an app on my phone.

In my experience the Acela is rather absurd. Comfy, sure; I do take it on the BOS-NYC route but in my experience it’s not worth the price for NY-DC. Lookimg right now at Amtrak app nyc-was, we have the regional 57 Vermonter taking 3:27 and the Acela 2259 3:04. I don’t think that’s worth paying extra for.
Not only that, but many studios are one bad selling title away from closing up permanently. They can't afford to take risks. Check out "Press Reset" by Jason Schreier for multiple examples.
Since none of the server software exists anymore, this is effectively all clean-room reverse engineering. Writing the entire backend from scratch and guesswork based on what the client software wants
The important thing is to make sure that it doesn’t fail silently fail or with unknown consequences (e.g. data corruption). So make sure that whenever something doesn’t work, it fails loudly and doesn’t proceed as if everything was okay.
If you want to destress me during lunch, don't ask me riddles which are strongly associated with interview questions
Think I'll pass given the high claim and frankly single study. Not sure I'd call myself an expert but given this is on a uni page and not nature.com I think it's very easy to criticize this as probably not standing up to too much as of yet.
There were times when aluminium was so expensive that the French emperor dined on an aluminium plate. His guests had to do with gold and silver. Several decades later, aluminium was an everyday material.

I definitely hope that we can come with a cheap method of -mab production. I am almost sure we one day will.
You can hold your phone with one hand vertically. People like that and naturally record video vertically and like to watch video vertically.
Didn't tar get some kind of auto flag? I can never remember it's name though...
this is exactly what I do for most apps-install to use, remove after use. For Uber its easy since I only use Uber when I'm traveling in a country where I don't speak the language (Uber makes hailing rides in a foriegn country easy, though we used Yandex in Russia since Uber wasn't as common.) In some cases, I keep the app, but completely silence it.
I welcome anything that helps to grow Toronto and other Canadian cities. But the already unaffordable housing market[1] will become even worse for average Toronto household[2] if the tech talent continues to move into the city.

[1] https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/insights/202...

[2] https://www.narcity.com/toronto/the-surprising-average-incom...
Scale is another big part of it. Over longer time periods resilience comes to mean something different. How many web sites from the 1990s are still up, accessible, and relevant?
> Someone who explicitly has an attitude of, "You're not my peer, we're not having fun" doesn't sound like a good collaborator. Doesn't sound like someone who can be an approachable. Doesn't seem like a good mentor to newer members of the team.

Interviewing is a high stress situation where the person performing the interview ultimately has power. What you're discussing here is how well I can socially fit in - regardless of pressures/stress on my side of the table etc.

It's 100% performative - if I am an interviewee I'm showing you the professional version of myself which is positive attitude and politeness. I'm upholding a social contract.

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> Do they pass the "have a beer together" test?

I'm not here to have beers with you - I'm here to work. And, I think this is pervasive in regards to hiring. This can be incredibly discriminatory and I would appreciate you interview me on the value I can add with my labor vs. "can I have a beer with this guy?" That's weird to me, and as someone who interviews I work hard to not think this way... "Who I like" isn't necessarily who is going to perform in the role - I have to keep my personal preferences out of my professional decisions in my world... and I think that's fair.

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Idk - interviewing is not fun for most people. I defend op's "we're not peers, we're not having fun" perspective both as an interviewer, and interviewee. I think it's a reasonable stance to take as long as they're outwardly presenting as professional and polite as that's what actually matters... not "beers"
There’s really not.
I’m sorry for your loss. I enjoyed reading this even though I am probably 15 years older, I have a similar story with the predecessors to AOL (BBS systems).
Complex systems are always in a failed state.
> Coupled with downsides of microdosing (and yes, there are downsides),

What downsides did you find?
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I found this course [0] from google useful.

[0] https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
> Maybe 10 years ago ARM had a "friendly" stance towards their customer base, but nowadays they're frankly no better than Qualcomm.

I'm sick of this kind of comparison, like I detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31578523

Qualcomm systematically shook down everyone in entire industries with a web of technologies, threatening "well, even if you didn't use ____, you'll also violate ____ and ____. And, we'll cut off your access to important chips in ___, ___ ,and ___."

Between the two, ARM is an absolute pleasure to work with.

> If you want to make a usable ARM computer today, you need to have ISA extensions out-of-the-box and probably design your own cores

Samsung just moved from proprietary cores in flagships to Cortex-X + A710 + A510. Ditto for Snapdragon 8. Graviton is using ARM Neoverse-N1/N2. Actual cores from ARM proper are a bigger share of usage than almost anytime before, with Apple being the main remaining exception.
I remember this from years back.

A friend of mine came up with a fantastic strategy based around the fact that shot strength was a float that could be modified.

He used this to have his team fire extremely weak shots at each other, with the value of the float encoding different messages. He then used these to co-ordinate his bots against the enemy as a team, instead of individuals.
The domain knowledge needed for this particular paper is literally just math, first semester undergrad physics, a chapter or two of an introductory astrophysics text, and some image processing—which, if you understand the underlying math, is easy to pick up. The novelty here is the algorithm, which I imagine, given the prerequisite knowledge, most people here could conceivably develop.

Astronomy is currently a highly accessible field. Amateurs are still making meaningful research contributions. There is also a lot of grunt work available using other people's methods.

Edit to add: You don't even need to gather your own data. There are many, many datasets lying around waiting to be processed by new techniques.
At least for me, starting a family is the only reason I'm an employee. Otherwise I'd just go buy some land in the woods and live in a secluded cabin.
You seem to be misunderstanding what is meant by "placebo". The question is not whether there is an effect. It's whether the substance is sufficient cause for the effect. I.e. if your friend took sugar water that you told them had LSD, would they have the same panic disorder? And also not just the one friend of course, but repeated across many trials.
For those interested in the chemical origins of life, the Lex Fridman podcast has a fascinating interview with University of Glasgow chemist Dr. Lee Cronin who has done some of the fundamental research in this field. It's long but worth a listen.

https://lexfridman.com/lee-cronin/
can't right now but hopefully eventually :)
I mean, I'm sure there are because I've met them and they've said that to me.
I’m fairly convinced that social media should be banned altogether, but at the very least we should probably ban it for people under 18.
The "-state" part is the neologism. GP meant "solid tumors" or "solid cancers".
> patriarchal grievance culture revanchism

That's a new one for the left-wing academia bingo card.
I had the privilege of dining with an ex-CEO of AOL around 2017 or so (long after his retirement). I was prepared to rail him for taking advantage of Americans, but he was such a humble and fascinating guy… no.
Why don't the father and mother both work less? I.e. 4 days (32 hours) instead of 5 days (40 hours). As long as this is not common practice, combined with expensive or inaccessible daycare, women will always face more difficulties in their career. There's no biological justification for this, instead it's entirely the result of cultural conventions and political decisions. I think we should recognize this, because if we don't, gender equality will be out of reach in the near future.
>People will mostly all charge their vehicles at night, so it won’t be from solar power.

It always amazes me that people assume that.

Take a 3 car household. Lets assume every one is a Tesla. Just for ease of calculation.

To charge a Tesla in 8 hours, one needs a 240v level 2 charger. This is the same type of connection one would need for a washer/drier/oven/stove.

Per car.

Now. You've about doubled the number of high pull outlets in the average home. Most people [sans shift workers] work during the day, and there are only so many hours in the day for people to charge. 3 Teslas could in theory be charged back to back off one outlet, but now you have a nightly ritual. I assure you, people will go for the parallel charge.

Now expand this load to neighborhood scale. Now propagate that to the trandmission infrastructure.

This is not as easy a thing to accommodate once you start sitting down and actually tracking the numbers.
A lot of stuff that works on mice doesn’t work on humans. I’m surprised this made it to the front page.
That appears to be the point of the comparison, no? If you are operating a machine so complex and unpredictable you don't truly know how it works (a Roman Empire, in this case), you'll never know which way to pull the lever until you have already done so.
A bit dated, but .NET Framework Design Guidelines is one that came to mind. I read it ages ago, and its content has since been baked into static analysis tools and ides, but at the time as a younger dev I greatly appreciated the prescriptive simple style. “Do, Don’t, Consider” plain English rules, just enough explanation to help understand the rule, and a simple code example. Maybe I’m just weird, but I often think that this style is a good fit for a number of technical areas. I could see for cooking for example, providing similar might help people unsure about the “rules”.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2700831-framework-design...
That’s not what I’m saying, but yes, a very large part of the effects of any drug (recreational or not) you know you’re taking can be attributed to the placebo effect.

There’s this thing called the placebo crisis going on at the moment, which is making it harder and harder to validate drug candidates: because medicine is improving, people’s faith in it is increasing, which in turn increases the strength of the placebo effect, which raises the bar for drug candidates.
> by booking a car??

by hooking a car, of course

*agressive eyebrow movements*
Or they'll be domesticated.
Would you argue that social systems of the past failed mostly because of technological advancement?
If anyone is interested in this idea, Adam Nicolson spends a few entertaining pages covering the story of Goliath in his book Why Homer Matters. He makes an argument that the Goliath story is basically a satirical take on the battle scenes in the Iliad.
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
I have always found SQLite to have fantastic documentation. Very clear writing. https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Back in the heydays of Ruby on Rails I also found the Net::SSH library by Jamis Buck to be very excellent in terms of documentation.
If i put a single coin to the vending machine and get 7 cans instead of 0.98, i surely will try a few times more before reaching the conclusion my coins are magical beans.
Visibly medical research jump so quick to conclusion it's to the millions of news reader to swallow the clickbaits.
Instead of my supposing or assuming, I'd rather you speak for your own position. Pretending to be a different person may be a fun exercise, but it doesn't get me any closer to understanding that person's motives or thoughts as they are.
Would you use a microwave, a sous vide apparatus, or an air fryer to make a Chinese-style stir fry? How about an omelet?