skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of dismissiveness here. What I don't see, so far, is even one comment actually engaging with the statistical analyses that are the heart of the article. (Maybe one's being written by someone else while I write this.)

I assume most people here are very skeptical about homeopathy. And yet, there are plenty of statistical studies that "show" that it works. The interesting thing about them is that the more rigorously the studies are done in terms of conforming to best practices for minimizing the risks of confounding errors, the smaller the statistical affects are, until they get to near zero for the most rigorous ones. Which is exactly what you'd expect to see if the effects of homeopathy are actually nonexistent other than placebo. Which I believe them to be, since the "theory" behind homeopathy makes no sense at all to me.

The article we're discussing here purports to show a similar thing: Studies that correct for more confounding factors show smaller effects. I can't judge how factually true analyses found in this article are; the writers may be making it all up. On the other hand, it could be a mistake to dismiss it out of hand just because its conclusions are not consistent with today's common wisdom. Also, we should note that anecdotal reports from individuals, here or elsewhere, about what good it has done them don't disprove the author's point. Psychotherapy can work for some people but still not have a great average effect size.

Personally, I'd be very surprised if psychotherapy is actually worthless on average, although I think that the therapy I had in my late teens and 20's, for years, probably did me more harm than good, other than just having a group therapy group to talk to. Which WAS valuable. But most of the good came just from talking to other people who happened to be in the group, not from the therapist. (I had individual and group therapies during that period. I think the individual therapy was probably worth less than nothing; there were definitely harmful things that came out of it that I am very clear on decades later.) But my personal story is just another anecdote. It seems logical that if someone is trained in helping, and someone wants to be helped, then on average there would be positive results.

But they may not be as much as is commonly thought to be the case in today's world.
This assumes employees have the privilege of walking away from a risky proposition.
Only thing that actually works without horrifying side effects is a Bathmate. Even then, the results are quite limited, and very temporary.

C’est la vie
Huge ffmpeg fan, though I could never remember the magical incantations I've used.

Nowadays I wrapped them all with Emacs functions. This makes them easily accessible as a "right-click" menu of sorts via M-x.

https://xenodium.com/emacs-ffmpeg-and-macos-alias-commands
Ask HN: What “Web Integrity API” merge means for the future of internet?
It's done, The WIA feature has been merge into the Chronium repo (https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd).

Is the worst to come? What this means for the “open” internet? Is it over?
Pointless answer. The fact that there are many articles making the argument that "everyone should be in therapy" means that this is not some outlandish and never heard of opinion like you imply, but rather a well established one that you weren't, somehow, aware of.
Better article on this topic:

>Is the Universe 13.8 or 26.7 billion years old?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-13-8-or-26-...
FOBSs go to orbit.
Regarding „matriarchal character“, what Marija Gumbutienė wrote and how postmodernist society nowadays is (mis)interpreting her writing is very different. It wasn't „matriarchal“ as in ruled-by-women. Instead, those societies were glorifying maternity (and women) through and through.

Which is funny when modern feminists try to glorify Gimbutienė and those societies. While doing exactly opposite to what those societies were doing.
Massive kudos to the BBC, for the editorial discipline required here to avoid "[…] is having its moment in the sun"
Show HN: Create your own AI videos with Stable Diffusion
Over Christmas break, I wanted to make an AI generated music video. I started going into the rabbit hole of tools like Video Killed The Radio Star, Deforum, and Warpfusion.

What I learned was that these tools had a high learning curve. They required knowledge of Python notebooks, expensive compute, and knowledge of all of the settings and how to manipulate them.

What I wanted was a cheaper, easier, and faster way to create high-quality videos.

In January, I started prototyping products in Python notebooks that could automate the video production process. I started posting videos at @magichourai on Youtube, TikTok, FB, and IG.

The videos have received millions of views, and I realized other people wanted this too.

I asked a friend to help me productize this, and in June we launched magichour.ai.

Currently there are three tools: Animated Music Videos (Deforum-style), Video-to-Video, and Face Swap (i.e. deep fakes).

So far, a small number of users are using Video-to-Video every day, but overall usage is low and very few users are paid.

This is the first product I’ve ever shipped publicly. I’d love to get feedback from HN on how to improve it and give more value to users.
What aspects of Docker trouble you so?
Zoom is much less expensive. Though not a replacement for all use cases, the best 'bang for the buck' for transportation infrastructure comes from demand destruction. Of course, there are many ways to destroy demand, some with unacceptable side effects, but more emphasis on structuring business in ways that can lessen the demand for business travel is going to be much more valuable with less cost than building more ways of moving ugly bags of mostly water long distances.
I'm not sure what you mean? Could you explain?

Does it really bother you someone could be ignorant of something here?
What this article is leaving out is that you do need an extremely deep understanding of the opposing arguments to be a good K-debater. There are tons of tools to defeat Kritiks, and if all you can do as the K debater is say, "but thing bad", you won't actually win.

On the contrary, there are a lot of non-K policy debaters who want to be able to parrot the same generics at each other each round, and they don't know how to engage with Ks precisely because they don't understand their own position well enough to argue why the basic assumptions it relies upon are the way they are (or aren't what the K is proposing they are).
This might be fun for scambaiting?
You already have those things. Network rarely like maybe once a year goes down at home, if your company doesn't provide food then you either order and the cost is the same or you can cook and it's cheaper.

You are right, companies save money and you save commute time. It's win/win.

That's if you like working from home which I don't.
You're welcome to fork and find another leader, I guess.
Different spaces have different cultural values and taboos.

It's revolutionary for an Anglo-Saxon educational setting, I'd imagine, because I'd infer Marxism is enforced as a moral standard by a significant number of teachers in some schools.

It's a leftist moral pocket inside the US.

Muslims would be a conservative moral pocket.

Saying gays should die is taboo in most of the country but not inside most islamic religious gatherings.

Etc.
Apparently the “good olde dayes” of Elizabeth I.
A lot of people echoing each other online isn’t much of a revolt, either.
The problem is the absence of democracy.
Mine too, but I’ve not always had the pleasure of working for the enlightened
For many sites all you need is the AAAA record.

But something like HN probably has various moderation/spam preventing tools that assume IPV4.

I believe people have made IPv6 gateways to the ipv4 content.
When I read these sorts of articles were clearly there a govt for the NIMBYs, by the NIMBYS, so that everyone gets off my lawn, I start to wonder if we need a maximum voting age.

If you're not going to be around in 20 years, don’t understand the issues that will impact working people today and into the next generation, maybe you shouldn’t be voting.
There are some promising codecs based on neural networks, however they are all very much research projects and have major limitations. Additionally, the compression ratios are only marginally higher than state-of-the-art engineered codecs. I think for your use case a more modern engineered codec such as VVC (H.266) or AV1 is perhaps more suitable.
If you are interested in learning more about binary serialization (for Cap'n Proto and others), I wrote two free-to-read papers extensively looking at the scene from a space-efficiency point of view that people here might be interested in:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051

Not something that aims to compete with Cap'n Proto (different use cases), but I've been also working on a binary serialization format that is pure JSON-compatible with a focus on space-efficiency: https://www.jsonbinpack.org.

Benchmarks here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799
The key to clickbait articles is not to provide one click access to methodology, if any at all.
The fact remains that you would not expect to see black Africans speaking any Afroasiatic language without some kind of significant cultural shock. The reason those languages are in Ethiopia ( / Nigeria / etc. ) today is not that Ethiopia is populated by the descendants of an originally afroasiatic group. Something must have happened.
Because without E2E in messaging apps they have no way to encrypt things /s
> You think fusion reactors will solve the construction cost problem?

I don't think DT reactors will solve this problem. If anything, they will make it worse. The volumetric power density of a DT fusion reactor is going to be at least an order of magnitude worse than a fission reactor, for fundamental reasons involving limits on heat transfer across surfaces.

This is why people are excited about Helion, which sidesteps the problem by extracting energy from the plasma electromagnetically rather than as heat (heat is still dissipated, but it does not have to be run through a heat engine.)

BTW, for transmission, superconductors would be more interesting for buried power lines, where voltage is limited and heat dissipation is problematic. Sueprconductors are also interesting in aerospace, particularly for hybrid electric aircraft.
Trickle down economics have been with us since Thatcher.
UKs austerity dates back to Thatcher.
KDE Plasma in my opinion comes closest to this. It's stayed very snappy over the years and I'm mainly a laptop user.

I'm on Gnome because I prefer the design, but if you want fast it might be worth a shot.
I agree! I submitted it when it came out but it kinda just sank.
The rot had set in decades before any of these trifling issues.
I’m not vegan so it’s none of my business, but: Sure! if you’re not eating processed foods, and you don’t want to spend hours a day cooking, everyone needs supplements.

Don’t forget that our salt and our flour and our milk and — “raw ingredients” — are supplemented by default with micros the standard diet is deficient in.

If the standard diet was vegan, there’d be taurine in the lentils and we’d be saying a meat-and-dairy diet is impossible without “supplements”.
People can make up their own minds about the implications of me not having heard of something. I'm simply providing the data point: this thread is the first time I've heard someone say "everyone should be in therapy". That doesn't make a lot of sense as an argument, either, so I'd be surprised if it was all that prevalent a belief. But who knows?
If you can't vote, you shouldn't be obligated to participate in society through taxes, laws, and other requirements. I doubt you could sell anyone on that though.
My favorite is the GNU libiberty library, which is picked up when you pass the -liberty option to gcc. :D
> Our politicians have been slow to act

on the contrary, they have acted far too fast and too mindlesly - for instance brexit.
In the case of Thailand, the same political forces pressured the Chinese into intermarrying with the Thai, so genetics do come into play. But a clean victory was won over language; that didn't happen with genetics.
Yeah, I’m aware of Serenity and think it has a really cool combination of old school Windows and Mac OS!
I like the general idea, but I don't know if this could ever be implemented, much less in a clean way
This.

Every hospital I’ve worked at has used Epic and every one has a different “custom” version with different UI and user role configuration.

Even within the same hospital the UI and default displays widely varies based on context and role selection when logging in.

Nursing notes are definitely accessible in every version I’ve used and I also read them fairly frequently (often more useful than MD progress notes) so your hospital may be hiding non-provider notes from you. It would be strange though, are you sure you don’t have “show provider notes only” checked off (or that box hidden)?
> If I'm in another country, getting access to my funds is often extremely difficult.

Not trying to be glib, but have you tried an internationally recognized ATM card?

I travel extensively since 30+ years and never ever had a problem to get access to cash (and thus my funds).

That also goes for "exotic" places like Vietnam, Peru, Laos or Cambodia.
I bet that's his passive income
This is fabulous. Among other gems, it includes film of the famous moving wooden sidewalk from the World's Fair.
This is what I was talking about! Thanks for sharing the video
You can just follow the links in this case. I don't know much about RationalWiki and am disinclined to "trust" it, but often when that site makes claims, the links they provide to primary sources are more than sufficient to support them. That's the case here.
It was hard to read. I'm here (wincing in imagined pain) shouting, "No! What if it is irreversible?! What if your dick gets screwed up?!"

I confess that after reading it I began to feel that it is even unethical to be in the penis-enlargement field.
When you have to resort to refusing to engage in an actual debate and just throwing questions back to confuse the conversation you're no longer arguing in good faith - though it's not clear to me you ever were.
I can’t think of anything that the Brits actually make. All they have going for them are a bunch of iconic brands that have mostly been taken over by Chinese/Indian/American corporations.
What are some reputable "statistical studies" that show homeopathy working?
It’s a meme now on his channel that he works for the CIA given his recent travels et al.

He made a funny video about taking the “test” on the CIA’s website which was an online game for kids (a really weird thing to exist when I stop and think about it).

https://youtu.be/8aanIIDgm5Q
Yep. This is pretty well said.
> I don't need studies to validate the hundreds of incredible results I've seen

<sigh>
It sounds silly, but people would endure a lot of pain to fit significantly larger models into ram.
I actually don't think it sends a credible signal like that at all. I've been to several therapists, know people who've been in lots of therapy (unavoidable these days), and I don't think it leads to much if any self-improvement. It can produce plenty of insights, but insights almost never lead to change.
yes, technically that is possible, but it would give you an image with... big square blocks instead of tiny pixels.

I'm thinking of achieving something like https://github.com/nestoris/win98wallpapers, and maybe Midjourney's img2img (as the other commenter suggested) might be able to do something like that, I don't know.
> until I have found adequate methods to ensure the correct daily intake for all nutrients,

I use gut feeling, but am mindful of stimulants in the diet, so I mega dose with supplements to get a better idea of what something is doing.

I can highlight the pitfills in the so called double blind placebo gold standard of scientific study on lab animals.
> Your example shows why we need more auditers and more frequent auditing, not less.

Yes more auditors for govt. Not more govt. auditors for business.

More auditing != govt auditing of private business

There is a jump of logic there to go from left to right of the equation.
tl; dr:

Starts with some absolute horror stories (e.g. complete loss of function), continues to talk about the technology improving, but still includes horror stories.

It's not clear if the average outcome is horrible, but it sounds like people are getting paid to advocate or sued for sharing horror stories, so it's hard to trust anything.
Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
Uh, you could replace this with one word: Brexit.
> the rich should fear the masses

Only if the masses could coordinate, which doesn't happen easily.
The purpose of a K is not to argue that you should be arguing about Z, it's to say, "X is based on this fundamental assumption, and that assumption is flawed in this way..."

A Neg team running a K has to link directly to the Aff's plan or argument, or they'll just 'no-link' it and move on.

On the K-Aff side, they need to convince the judge(s) that some fundamental assumption of the Topic itself is flawed, which you still have to directly engage with the Topic in order to do.

There is no such thing as a K debate which just says "I'm arguing about some unrelated thing instead".
Spotify Ways of Working in Figma
His argument sounds more to me like, "There are sham cures that have worked. Therefore this other thing that might work isn't conclusively not a sham."
Hosting Outline with Docker Compose and Traefik
I couldn't find a guide on how to host outline with docker compose and traefik, so I've written one myself. Hope it's helpful to someone.
> However you'd find also thousands, millions in fact, of happy people who used the services of psychics, mediums, astrologers, crystal healers, taro readers, shamans, reiki practitioners, remote viewers.

Maybe, and I know this seems like a crazy idea, we should look into that? It seems like a pretty big blindspot to dismiss all of that outright because the mechanism of action isn't yet understood or because it clashes with philosophical views that were common among some academics who died last century.
That's been my problem with this approach too. It's an arbitrary model, fitted onto very limited data that doesn't generalize, under the very assumption that they all derive from a common root. I'm totally willing to accept that the language and DNA models can be thought of as complementing each other, but any conclusion stronger than "perhaps (almost) all European languages have a common origin" remains speculative. And that's not a very interesting conclusion.
The distinction between derailing and "understanding the values and otherwise" is contestable and in fact routinely contested by debaters - and there is of course no de jure or de facto rule that the person who goes further in trying to critique assumptions and structures wins.

The style of "critique is inherently bad" argument made by this article is also perfectly possible to make within debate. But it's not common, less because of biased judges (who certainly exist, in all directions) than because it doesn't stand up to scrutiny very well in context. Policy debate isn't a great truth-finding endeavor, but it is ruthlessly competitive and as a result pretty effective at weeding out arguments that, like the article's, rely on a low-context audience who have heard a lot about out of control woke college students but haven't just watched a bunch of rounds of vigorous dispute over everything from hypothetical policy details to the boundaries of the year's topic to, yes, critical theory, with practiced advocates on every side.
This is still confusing to me. Does it mean that despite the ubiquity of the warnings, I can actually cook and consume rhubarb leaves like spinach?
Right. Why did I not see that? Thanks!
i use jekyll with my own theme that looks simalar to my website
Related, but I would love to read about the switch in the Western world when we went from Triangle to go back, to Circle.

It's probably just due to consistency with the Xbox.
You didn't comment on "Britain chose finance over industry". Perhaps that has been the greater contributor.
> You have cause and effect switched. The field is the result of the flow of electrons, not the other way around.

I literally said "this field is induced by the flow of electrons." (Specifically, the magnetic field. The electric field is due to charge difference between the wires.)

> for real world wires the bulk of the field is constrained within the wire.

No, there is none - zero - nada - electric field perpendicular to the wire within said wire. If there were, the electrons would all flow to one side of the wire -- but, as you agree, they don't for DC, they are distributed throughout the bulk.

(There is a small electric field within the wire parallel to the wire; this is associated with the resistivity and energy loss in the wire, which is not related to power transfer. Its Poynting vector points outward from the wire, not to or from the source.)
Ah, thanks for the link. The story this post is linked to said only aftermarket screens had this issue.

I don’t have any inside knowledge but I suspect authorized Apple repair centers have access to a tool they can use to recalibrate the screen after replacement that the mom-and-pop shop doesn’t have.
Yeah, that’s exactly it! Unfortunately the different skill sets required here are so different. You part need deep understanding of the low level inner workings, and part need great attention to detail in user interface design. It would probably be easiest to pull of as a team effort.
‘It feels like it’s a strike summer’: US unions flex muscles across industries
The data doesn’t support your assertion about austerity and Brexit. Since 2008, the per capita GDP of the UK, France, Italy, and Spain follow almost the exact same curves. They didn’t have Brexit or austerity in those countries. Germany is really the only large country in the EU that has a higher per capita GDP now than it did in 2008.
> Perhaps some have “nicer” (aka bigger) houses in LA than they would have in Ámsterdam

The (insane) cost of housing in LA doesn't exactly lead to people having bigger houses (or often affording any house).
So were did NeXT get it?

Before that I assume “x” was a metaphor for crossing out the page of text or paragraph marking it invalid. That is probably not as universal.

Windows 3 was using “x” in checkboxes as well, I wonder if switching to checkmarks is connected to putting “x” on the “close window” button.
People with "acute mental ailments" are treated by psychologists not psychotherapists (not the same at all), and are often put on debilitating drugs for the rest of their lives, not "cured". Never heard of people "cured" of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder etc. by psychotherapy.

Also, my argument doesn't "boil down" how you present it, you're severely misrepresenting what I said. The point is just because some people think it has helped them, doesn't mean it did. We're trying to attribute cause to effect, but we're often wrong about it. Our brain works by association, and associations are commonly misattributed.

This is why studying the field scientifically is important, rather than relying on "proof by testimonial". Especially the testimonials of fragile, suggestible people who would look for someone to lean on and trust by the very definition of their conditions.
These seem like explanations, not corrections?
> How do you imagine gifted people have or will save humanity from extinction-level events?

Well, I don't see how the nongifted people will come up with any the technology required to leave this rock.

So the only other option is that we never leave, or we leave purely on the efforts of the gifted alone.