skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recent research has indicated that Serotonin levels in depressed people are not lower than average. But SSRIs are effective for relieving depressive symptoms - either boosting serotonin levels above average works, or they work through some other pathway that hasn't been identified.

But that is exactly the point. If we don't know why something works, we can't even be sure that it does work.

Also SSRIs are only slightly more effective than placebo. [0]

Quote: "So, when we accessed the public domain data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) archives for the antidepressants approved between 1985 and 1997 (7), it quickly became apparent that many of the assumptions about the relative potency of antidepressants compared to placebo were not based on data from the contemporary trials but from an earlier era. Specifically, it became evident that the magnitude of symptom reduction was about 40% with antidepressants and about 30% with placebo."

Until/unless we can finally understand how the human endocrine system works, on both a broad statistical basis as well as on a predictable individual basis (i.e. in the same sense that statistically we know that X number of people die each year in automobile collisions but we don't know exactly WHICH people will die) we are making guesses.

The level of scientism our society exhibits - in which we cannot just accept that some things don't have answers that we can access at this time, and instead accept any answer "science" gives us - is unfortunate. Research we do is limited by what we look for, and the positivist approach we see in medicine ("Find diseases we can make money on") limits everything.

I'm done with Internet today. Damn.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592645/
Madoff did, but I only know that because it was remarkable enough to be big news.
> You can demand the right to free speech. You can't demand everyone has to listen.

I don't mean you in the specific, but I am deeply alarmed by what seems like a coordinated regime effort to re-define free speech into what you describe above. Perhaps the WEF-affiliated Twitter CEO put it best on CNBC the other day: "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach".

So in effect, for the regime censors, freedom of speech now means freedom of expression + censorship. That is, as long as the censors allow you to put the words on paper, you have "freedom of speech" in their eyes, even if that paper is immediately thrown into a lead bottle and into the Mariana Trench. As long as your Tweet is not outright and immediately deleted, you have "free speech", even if the algorithmic censors immediately ensure that no one but you will ever see it.

This will not end well.
>It is all about having a good user experience, if the program fails at that, it fails at the core of what i asked.

You don't want what you said you wanted because you won't do the work to get it. It's not even that much work tbh. That's fine. It does work for me and the "user experience" is fine. I'm not associated with the project, nor pushing anything. You can pretend it's because I'm so much smarter or this is my con or something else to explain that but I doubt these lines of reasoning.

Best.
Is "there was science on both sides" the new "there are very fine people on both sides?"
I'm not a fan of theirs and I'm puzzled why they have such following. I suspect they actively paying for influencers and people on social media to hype it. Their commercial offering, especially support is subpar to what I'm used to.

I don't think they deserve the status they have.
Yep. I considered phrasing my answer that way.
Optimization Algorithms for Planar Graphs
Yes, for whatever reason he went on clubhouse and started explaining his side of the story. That’s a nightmare for most lawyers.
> “The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that.”

I miss Jon Stewart.
Usenet is my backup. I've tried to make Backblaze my backup a couple times but the ETA on completing the first pass is always right about never.
What's the problem with how the author brought up Kuhn?

Just because others might invoke him improperly makes Kuhn taboo now?
It’s not that AGI wouldn't be a problem. It’s that it sucks all of the oxygen out of the room when instead people should be talking about the problems that automated systems are causing right now. Is it not an existential threat that large swaths of the population will essentially become redundant in the next decades?

Deindustrialization took 50 years in the US. Imagine if it took 5 or 10, how much worse it would be. Or imagine hundreds of millions of people in China being cut off at the knees because their jobs were automated or reliant on a person who is no longer necessary.

Is it not an existential threat to democracy when trillion dollar multinational companies suck up all of the productivity gains and begin to manipulate the very systems which are supposed to regulate them? Strictly speaking, corporations are collective superintelligences as defined by Nick Bostrom.
How does someone get such a job? It’s not like the nyt puts out an online app, screens thousands, then picks a random individual. It’s always going to be through personal networks.
"Anti-vaxxers" generally refers to people claiming vacccines cause autism/magnetism(?) etc. Most people support bodily autonomy (though most also think that choosing not to get vaccinated should come with additional responsibilities/restrictions so those who partake don't fuck everyone else over).

For my 2c on the comparison, anti vaxxers do more harm, but dark matter deniers are annoying as hell, because (IMHO) they debate with straw men. There's no church of LCDM, its just the current best set of theories until something else comes along. Alternate theories are routinely considered, attempts are being made to falsify or constrain LCDM all the time, and precisely nobody who actually knows anything claims we have any sort of comprehensive understanding of what's going on.

Seeing a bunch of armchair skeptics bash the theories as if they were mindless dogma is annoying AF.
What's your source for this opinion?
I wonder how much of is just about getting local cities tax breaks, or even state taxes in some cases.

Governments are not ready for the majority of people having the freedom to work anywhere.

The whole foundation of our local and state governments control is based on manageable demographics, we are red or blue, we embrace the old or the new ways, etc., they are not ready for a sudden change in the mix, every local government had worked really hard to keep the status quo.
At this stage of the AI, The implementation details matters a lot for the chat to be actually meaningful… RAG is over-hyped
The fortune cookies tried to warn you!
We are social animals and having in person interactions would probably boost the team’s cohesion. But it’s not a requirement and we’d have plenty examples of projects built over virtual meeting and async communications.
I can't speak to hiring practices now (I'm retired), but back in the day, putting your certification(s) on your CV would definitely be advantageous. If the job posting says “RHCE strongly desirable”, the non-technical person screening the applications would often put any that didn't say that in a different, lower-priority pile. Now of course the person who is actually going to be your boss is definitely more interested in your job history, education, and skill set than whether your CV is buzzword-compliant.

Whether that is worth it to you, given the cost of certification, is a different matter.
> People who are awaiting trail or extradition...

My information is a few years out of date but I've been assured that at least he is only being extradited to Sweden for wild sex crimes and not the United States! Now let me check the Wikipedia arti... oh, turns out he is being extradited to the United States. A lot of people didn't see that coming (never really understood why not, but that is people for you).

The situation is in this awkward position where there was an obvious conspiracy to get Assange and making predictions on the assumption of a conspiracy has had great predictive power. The only change is it is isn't a conspiracy any more because everything is playing out publicly in British courts.

So while Assange is certainly being subjected to a lot of usual processes, the usual processes are being turned on him because he embarrassed the US government by bringing its activities to light. I have no doubt that is illegal. If I was a government, I too would want to criminalise people trying to hold me accountable. The issue is that punishing people for encouraging transparency is an inescapably political act.

And Assange is on the right side of history on this one. It is easy to see him as a footnote in every textbook one day as "and this was the moment when people started to find out what was going on".
> security by obscurity only stops casual bots

Casual bots is what 95% of website operators have to deal with, blocking them is still a win.

Same reason people move ssh ports around. Of course it doesn't add security if you're targeted, but it makes casual bruteforce bots go away.

Call that log hygiene if you really object to the security aspect.
Wow, this guy is BRAVE. I'm sure a ToS got violated and google could lock him out. I suppose the fact he works at Apple shields him ... for now.
If people were that good at noticing patterns, it wouldn't have taken Cortez arriving on the soil of the New World in order to bring the wheel to its inhabitants, who had been here 14,000 years and produced zero wheels.
> Open source core, paid premium features + support. It's a valid business model

I’m a pretty rusted on Odoo developer, this has been their business model for years and it’s worked thus far, even when facing off with the likes of the SAP and Dynamics of the world.
This is the strangest story. Sam is clearly autistic, highly intelligent and was likely suffering form a variety of other maladies, many of them [I had thought] induced by massive overuse of stimulants. Either he is still abusing drugs or the delusions of grandeur / smarter than everyone else perception is just part of him.

As soon as the entire thing broke I expected him to be on a plane to Dubai like the 3AC founders. He didn't and kept insisting he could fix it. He was actively seeking to raise funds. It was baffling, who would give $ to someone that just liquidated billions? Why would he stick around? He likely has many millions hidden in a variety of wallets. I am not sure he fully understands what he has done and why it is wrong. This could be narccissm, could be something else. With that said, he broke a million laws and cost regular people billions. He probably needs to go to jail.

I always saw him, Vitalik and to a lesser extent Cobie [in a different way] and Hoskinson as part of the crypto brain trust. He was definitely the sketchiest of them though.
Probably not always, but in general, yes.
This causes a lot of grief for IDEs like Visual Studio, where updating Git breaks the IDE because there is no "API contract". The text output changes, VS fails to parse it, and just crashes out with inscrutable errors.

I've become very opinionated in my old age, and I now firmly believe that:

1. All command-line tools should be "library first, cli second".

2. All text-based formats should include a parser and formatter as a function. Never specify a text format you can't round-trip. In other words, always include an "escape" function and an "unescape" function, or better yet, a parser and serializer. Random config files in Linux are notorious for not doing this. I want to be able to parse them, modify the object in memory, and then write them back out without having to worry about how strings are quoted or dates are formatted.

3. Protocols should always come with a non-executable and machine-readable spec. Think ANTLR grammar file, Open API spec, or something. Never use English only to describe a protocol. Make sure client code can be 100% automatically generated by a tool, in multiple languages.
I've been building C++ applications professionally for several years now and can say that AI tools like this are just marketing hype. There are codebases with years of legacy cruft that most people have difficulty navigating; there's no chance that ChatGPT and derivatives like Sweep will solve real, nontrivial problems in them. I wish there was a solution for technical debt, but using AI to approximate solutions is a fundamentally flawed approach.
Your job is to tell the devs the business’s priority. My job is to make it so. If that means I need to build a foundation before putting a house on it, you’re getting a foundation. Any idiot can build a shack, but I build houses. You hired me to build houses.

Granted, I’m not going to go behind your back unless you tell me to build a shack that looks like a house because you don’t want to put down a foundation. (It’s like asking an accountant to cook the books because you don’t want to pay taxes)

POC, MVP, and prototype code excepted.
ok, to anyone who isn't convinced by my (admittedly unsubstantive) comment, let's see where I'm coming from.

The author, Christopher Rufo, has a pretty solid wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo

Let's check out the section on critical race theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo#Critical_race...

> Rufo described his strategy to oppose critical race theory as intentionally using the term to conflate various race-related ideas in order to create a negative association. Rufo said that "[w]e will eventually turn [critical race theory] toxic, as we put all of the 'various cultural insanities' under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something 'crazy' in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory'."

It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you're on. You should be able to see that this person is objectively not good for public discourse. Find someone else to reinforce your right-wing neoreactionary views.
I hate to say I agree. I'm almost feeling motivated enough to teach high school so I can make David Deutsch mandatory reading. At least Chapter 1 of Beginning of Infinity
Three-strikes lifers exist, yes -- a system where your most recent crime is punished as an extension of a previous crime, even if the time was served.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummel_v._Estelle
"taboo" is your word.
Well, yeah, no way I'm debating that.

Weird thing is they had StrongArm in the early 2000s.
$1000/t with a goal of $100/t? According to the article, humans currently emit 38 Gt/year. So that's $38 trillion/year with a goal of $3.8 trillion/year to cover current emissions. Probably doable as a cooperative global effort, but yikes.
AFAIK if you are the owner of the copyright / original author you can use it however you see fit. The license applies to third parties.
Agreed. I don't think people recognize how much of a pain cert management/orchestration can be, and Tailscale's value adds like MagicDNS and managing/creating SSH keys for logging into servers are significant QoL improvements. Sure, you can do that stuff on your own, but I simply don't want to.
It's not conspiracy to note many actual qualified scientists were barred from making any claims contrary to the official stance. As we witnessed in late 2021, 2022 these same scientists went from pariahs to the tip of the spear when the government let up it's censorship program. There are cases being heard right now against major social media companies on their collusion with government officials to push a narrative. Unfortunately, these scientists could only be heard on legitimate conspiracy platforms, thereby undermining their credibility further with the public despite the USG promoting it's own flavor of misinformation via the 4th branch.

For all of 2020 "science" was "agreeing with the dominant viewpoint" rather than "questioning everything, gathering evidence, and presenting contrary views".

You'd have to have had your head in the sand the last few years to miss how quickly the narrative opened up. It was dizzying. It would appear once the media found a new darling (the Ukraine war) the silencing of dissent in science slowly let up as well.
I've noticed the effect too. My friends and family are all just glad Epstein got what was coming to him - blissfully ignorant of the rest of the conspirators who didn't.

It probably shouldn't be surprising that the good old fall guy spectacle works though - Lee Harvey Oswald was a resounding success.
It's more that once it gets to a certain size (say, 100s of 1000s of rows), doing anything with the table is painfully slow, often requiring you to take your application offline for considerable periods. Even deleting rows can take 10s of minutes at a time, and it can certainly take a very long time to work out what indexes need to be added and whether they're actually helping.

Yes, sometimes the pressure comes from management etc., but more often than not it would be premature optimisation to add the archiving, so it's a matter of finding a balance and "predicting" at what point the archiving needs to happen.

Table partitioning can help too but only so much.
Now hang one hot minute!

What on earth are you talking about? Recording radio or television for personal use is illegal now? Are we so used to not owning a single thing that these things are alien to us now? I mean, I'm not misremembering the era where people taped shows to watch them later, am I?

Also, pardon my language, but fuck off with your "watching videos on YT's platform". It's my user agent, my hardware, my actions that are causing the video to be shown. I'm already making allowances to youtube by executing their code mostly unencumbered, I'm not bending over backwards and granting them extraterritorial rights.
Acoustic wavelengths vary from 17m for bass frequencies to 17mm for the very high end. So phase is absolutely an issue.

If you want to hear this for yourself, play sines wave between 1k and 10k (if you can hear that high) through some stereo speakers. Move your head and you will hear some very clear diffraction peaks and troughs.

You only really lose stereo location below around 200Hz, which is around 150cm.

With domestic speakers, room reflections and other influences make it hard to hear phase issues. But in a studio you want to hear what's happening as clearly as possible. Some brands - like ATC - put quite a bit of effort into keeping phase coherency.
Yes and no. consumer oriented SBCs are a niche enough project that the price of extra silicon is probably more than made up for by the cost of not making a custom chip
> Their plan was put on pause through the end of the year as Covid-19 cases ticked up once again throughout the U.S., so EY leaders used that time to ask employees about their reluctance to come into the office. Common threads stood out to Frank Giampietro, EY’s chief wellbeing officer for the Americas: Employees weren’t sure what to do about pet care or child care.

> In response, EY announced a fund in February 2022 to reimburse up to $800 per year for commuting, pet care and dependent care costs for each of its 55,000-plus U.S. employees. The fund, which is ongoing, had an immediate positive impact on employees’ in-office attendance, Giampietro adds. Since EY first rolled out this benefit in February 2022, EY has seen a 150% uptick in office attendance across the U.S. “It didn’t take a complete rehaul of our return-to-office policies to make employees happy,” he says. “We just needed to listen to our people and understand what, specifically, was problematic for them, and offer resources to address that.”

This is hilarious. $800/year comes out to ~$70/month. That's a tiny fraction of commuting/pet-care/childcare costs. And that's peanuts compared to the average salary for someone working at a big-4 company. We're supposed to believe this is responsible for a 150% uptick in office attendance, as compared to any number of other factors in play in early 2022?

I have to admire the the "Chief Wellbeing Officer"'s chutzpah. I suppose that's the kind of PR spin that lands you a plush C-suite job
For those looking for an alternative to Hashi vault, take a look at Fortanix DSM. Fortanix is a premium closed source software. Offers integrated HSM. You can try it at https://www.fortanix.com/start-your-free-trial
Maybe I'm missing something, but Infisical ONLY seems to handle shared secrets. Vault handles a lot more, it can for instance create DB users on the fly, with the right permissions that will only live for as long as the vault token does. Vault also has a full CA system in-place, and can rotate secrets, etc.

Does this product do things like that? I couldn't find anywhere where it does those things in the docs, though I admit I only scanned them.
> Claiming that WFH is bad because you can't bounce ideas off other employees and get into the real world-changing "deep work" is silly

Ironically it's easier to get into deep work at home because you don't have to worry about coworkers bouncing ideas on you.
He never said these platforms don’t feature any amount of censorship, or that certain types of content don’t face unique hurdles that other types do not.

The fact is, it’s still vastly easier today to disseminate your ideas — no matter what they are — than at any other time in history. Do you really think radio, newspapers, tv stations, and book publishers weren’t just as influenced by large corporate and political interests?
Publishers, Internet Archive agree to streamline digital book-lending case
The alignment problem is largely incoherent. Aligned with whom? Most problems will require unequal and arguably unfair sacrifices.

Further, people even obvious and largely inconsequential solutions are controversial. If an AGI suggested wearing a mask during a pandemic that spreads via airborne particles, a large percent of the population would say the AGI is “unaligned” and we’re living through skynet.
>That bawdy tales circulated in the 19th century is something we know

Gadzooks!

Balzac?

Rabelais?

Chaucer?

Turn. Grave.
A database that is verifiable and auditable by default
They are going nowhere. Electric motorcycles are a terrible idea because they are not the problem as far as emission go.

Given the ratio between the weight of the motorcycle and the weight of the passenger/s they are extemely efficient, having the whole passenger vehicles switch to motorcycles would be even better than have them switch to 3000 pounds EVs.

The vast majority of people are too coward to drive them unfortunately
You can host videos on any bandwidth and hardware you can get your hands on; old laptops from landfills, SBC Raspberry Pis, $80 decommissioned Optiplex from businesses, and even Android phones and TV sticks if you set the servers up through Termux. You can also use the cheapest VPS option for like $5/month, but that kind of negates not using YT at that point.

It's free in the sense of all the software being available to do so for free (OS, webserver, php, media software), and free as long as you have something to run it on; chances are anyone reading this can use the same device to run the server.

Whether or not the people watching the videos from the server will have a good experience is something different :p But even a low-speed broadband connection in the US today has enough upload to handle small sites and I can vouch for this on measly 1MB/s upload (I've self-hosted videos over years with all the mentioned software).

YouTube is a provider that has the resources to allow people to upload videos, and watch them for free. It's their platform, and they have usage rules.
That's good to hear because I really wanted to join one of the more recent groups that were formed about a year or two ago, but I didn't make the open invitations in time. Figured the door was closed but I've thought about reaching out to offer.