skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were marketed as working and have similar side effects as pseudoephedrine-based products. I’d think those would be pretty strong contributors to a placebo effect.
Isn’t the whole premise behind this article that, coming from Python where indentation is program structure, that TOML confuses the reader with syntax foreign to the reader?

Like a C++ developer crying foul because inheritance doesn’t exist in YAML.
Founder mental health: actionable insights and stories
It’s really difficult to untangle the placebo and nocebo effects. I was recently surprised to learn there are studies showing placebos can be effective even when people are told they are taking a placebo. Ie literally telling people, “take this pill every day, but please understand it’s a placebo and has no active ingredients whatsoever”. And yet, their symptoms improve. The theory is that the subconscious mind acts on some information (white-coated professional giving me a medicine) without being fully affected by the conscious mind’s knowledge that the pill ought to do nothing.

It’s even possible that the negative attitudes of your pharmacist family members toward the medications their patients are taking are affecting their efficacy!
Many founders I know (including myself) have gone through lots of mental health struggles. While working on my startup, I was lonely, isolated, and just needed some perspective sometimes.

I started Founder Wellness Daily for founders to share their stories and get actionable insights into improving how they feel on a daily basis. I believe that seeing shared pain in a community can be extremely comforting. Its also important to have a daily routine for mental health (meditation, exercise, etc).

If you'd like to share your mental story, please comment on the thread! (Anonymity is definitely allowed)
0.14C/second, right?
I don't mean it as any kind of rule of course, it's a massive generalization. But in general in Europe we are more used getting on the train without a barrier and then later having to show our ticket to the conductor who walks through the train, compared to having to pass an impenetrable barrier by showing our ticket just to get onto the platform.

Obviously both systems exist in both places, but I think the former exists more in Europe. It is just a comparison of course, take it as you will. I do find someone checking my bags randomly bit annoying but I prefer it to fighting an automated system that manages a poor approximation of figuring out what you put in your bags. At least in the Netherlands I have not seen that latter kind of system here, and I suspect it's precisely because people would not like it.
> I've maintained my own reserve of pseudoephedrine for years.

Synthesizing it from widely-available and affordable street drugs, I assume.

https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...
They changed that last year: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2022/01...
mistake vote, gc language. hn unvoting dark patterns.
this story could be used to teach some macroeconomics lessons. There’s direct stimulus causing a boom(bills printed) because they spend it so fast, lending at 0 interest, and how directly a countries faith in their money can cause a devaluation
that wasn't a decision informed by any kind of research
See the list here

https://intercoin.org/applications

Would love to see the same type of reaction by numbered point by point as you did above
Show HN: Lantern – a PostgreSQL vector database for building AI applications
We are excited to share Lantern! Lantern is a PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.
Install and use our extension here: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern

We have the most complete feature set of all the PostgreSQL vector database extensions. Our database is built on top of usearch — a state of the art implementation of HNSW, the most scalable and performant algorithm for handling vector search.

There’s three key metrics we track. CREATE INDEX time, SELECT throughput, and SELECT latency. We match or outperform pgvector and pg_embedding (Neon) on all of these metrics.

** Here’s what we support today **

- Creating an AI application end to end without leaving your database (example: https://github.com/ezra-varady/lanterndb-semantic-image-sear...)

- Embedding generation for popular use cases (CLIP model, Hugging Face models, custom model)

- Interoperability with pgvector's data type, so anyone using pgvector can switch to Lantern

- Parallel index creation capabilities -- Support for creating the index outside of the database and inside another instance allows you to create an index without interrupting database workflows.

** Here’s what’s coming soon **

- Cloud-hosted version of Lantern

- Templates and guides for building applications for different industries

- Tools for generating embeddings (support for third party model API's, more local models)

- Support for version control and A/B test embeddings

- Autotuned index type that will choose appropriate index creation parameters

- 1 byte and 2 byte vector elements, and up to 8000 dimensional vectors support

** Why we started Lantern today **

There's dozens of vector databases on the market, but no enterprise option built on top of PostgreSQL. We think it's super important to build on top of PostgreSQL

- Developers know how to use PostgreSQL.

- Companies already store their data on PostgreSQL.

- Standalone vector databases have to rebuild all of what PostgreSQL has built for the past 30-years, including all of the optimizations on how to best store and access data.

We are open source and excited to have community contributors!
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
The photos the iPhone 6 took were fine and image stabilized. Why so we need a better camera?

I mean, you're going to put to market a $700 phone and cant upgrade one chip on it to do USB3?

Really!
Scheduling work between 9-4 M-F is the reason for massive delays and budget overruns? Union tradesmen purely to blame?

Here’s a comment from another article linked in the OP to give another side to the story:

“I have intimate knowledge of this project from the beginning. There are multiple causes for this project being behind schedule and over budget. They all stem from TSMC themselves.

First, TSMC and their engineers are absolutely clueless about building to meet U.S. code. Within 8 weeks of the project starting, they were firing the Tiawan based engineers because they were clueless and could not communicate with the U.S. based partners.

Second, they are behind schedule because THEY OWE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO SUBCONTRACTORS AND ARE NOT PAYING. Yes, HUNDREDS of MILLIONS. Contractors have stopped work because they have not been paid. No wonder they want to bring in out of country labor. They won't have to worry about paying anybody. I literally have been told "this is not how we do it in Taiwan. We just settle up at the end of the project."

This should be an insult and slap in the face to all U.S. taxpayers, not just the contractors and workers who are being taken advantage of by TSMC and our local officials who are supporting them and their actions. Yes, Mayor Gallego, Senator Sinema, Senator Kelly I am calling you out. Keep telling everyone how great a deal this is for us.
So TSMC wants $50 billion from U.S. tax payers, they don't want to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors who have done work, and now they want to bring in their cheap slave labor so they can circumvent the work stoppage by contractors they wont pay. Everything I said is true and verifiable.”

https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/29/tsmc-arizona-chip-plant-delay...
I skipped a few generations and if things going like this (no new feature that I’m interested in), at this rate I will change it when Apple drops the support.
Oh, wow, I was expecting AGPL but it's Apache 2: https://github.com/grafana/beyla/blob/v0.1.0/LICENSE

That means 2 of the 3 I know of in this space are friendly FOSS licensed, and the one last week is AGPL:

https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/blob/79fb24634cff711c63754... (Apache 2)

https://github.com/ddosify/alaz/blob/v0.1.3/LICENSE (AGPLv3)
Oregon no longer requires a prescription since 2022.
On the contrary, it must be repeated, when an authoritarian regime conducting a murderous war of conquest of their neighbours promulgates their twisted justifications very loudly, and have entire state bodies devoted to manipulating the press, promoting a message that if left unopposed will become the prevailing narrative, as it has in their home nation.

Head-in-the-sand bullshit neutrality is why Switzerland is a moral toilet. Demanding that journalists be "neutral" is a sliproad to manipulation. These are nothing more than an abandonment of principles.

The public in functioning democracies is most definitely interested in reading opinionated editorial. Representing otherwise is downright obnoxious.
Interview with the former top US diplomat in West Africa on what exactly happens in the US government when a coup occurs abroad
I always thought it was pretty brazen of them to openly label their cold medicine as 'placebo effect' (pretty sure that's what the 'PE' stands for).
Let's assume I am a savvy career criminal (I am not...promise). What would I want to use for counter-surveillance? I would probably go:

- For desktop - Tails OS booted from USB + TOR for browser

- For mobile - GrapheneOS on latest pixel device
> I think the primary limitation with TOML is the restriction that in-line tables cannot cross multiple lines. This is not done for technical reasons, it's an aesthetic choice on the part of the designer.

I'm sure you'll be happy to know this is getting relaxed in toml 1.1, wherever that comes out (and the implementations adopt it): https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/516

Though the difficulty will then be knowing whether a given piece of software uses 1.0 (and single-line tables) or 1.1 (and more flexible tables).
Strange - I see them on sale for $199 CAD.

They seem to be sprouting from off-grid cabins around here. I'm posting from one right now via Starlink :)
Who doesn't wish they could redo life with the benefit of perfect foresight/hindsight?
I know it is no longer available in Colombia, prescription or not.
Anecdotally the most useful drugs are antibiotics and corticosteroids. Other remedies I found truly impactful are neti pot usage everyday if needed and zone 2 daily exercise.
Placebo effect is strong.

"Medicine" never wandered that far from religion, after all.
Disclaimer: I don't know category theory and I only skimmed the linked page :)

This looks great - I love the illustrations, and as far as I know the information looks great! I've got it in my Pocket list and am looking forwards to reading it on the bus.

A while back there was a "Group Theory Coloring Book" that someone posted here. I was kinda hoping that this link would be another one of those. (Spoiler: it's an illustrated explanation of category theory - which is great! - not a coloring book).

Sorry in advance for hijacking this post, but it's kinda, sorta related to ask: Does anyone have a link to 'fun math/STEM-themed coloring books'?
It is very clearly not open source nor is it claimed to be open source. They take great pains to explain their structure.

They are not being willfully mendacious. You are being willfully dickish.
It sounds great but there are simple use cases where the "portable" app isn't enough. For example, if you want multiple users to be able to use the program and have their own settings, you need something to be saved to the user folder. Or, if you want any basic interaction with the system (run on startup, run from a browser address, etc), you need to start messing with the registry.

So in theory apps could be distributed portable .exes but in practice Windows doesn't any ways of interacting with the rest of the system that are that nice.
Of course you are going to get downvoted and you should.

I know my blood pressure medicine works for instance because every time I talk to my doctor about reducing it or getting off it, I monitor my blood pressure and it spikes.

I know psuedophredrine works.

And your data is just that, “anecdotal”, it’s no better than the people doing “research” by watching YouTube on the toilet.
> phenylepherine is the otc version of pseudoephedrine

That’s mostly incorrect, both are “otc” (over-the-counter) wherever you can buy them without a prescription. That’s what that means.
This is a really bad take. I hope you or your family members reconsider. Also maybe they shouldn't hold negative judgemental views on the customers that make their job possible?
The record can technically be correct but not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". In that case the negative record can be "corrected".

So, in my case. When I was a teenager I opened a second bank account with credit card. In only used the card once for something small and forgot about it. Throughout the years the cost of this card started to built up, messages to pay back where not received because I already had a different address and phone number.

Years later this resulted in a negative BKR registration for me. I explained the situation to the bank (that could technically let the registration be removed) but they refused. Later I had a lawyer order them to remove the registration, on grounds that me forgetting about a credit card when I was young was no reason to believe I wouldn't be paying my mortgage. The registration was therefor not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". The bank honored this.
JD has been doing "AI" since a significant portion of the HN readership was even born. Integration of digital info tech into farming was something I was reading about in the '80s and is now just standard on most farms. These days in things like crop fertilization your equipment 'learns' from maps and other tests the quality of the soil and increases/decreases the amount it outputs based on a pretty fine grid system.
Could you provide some information on the Victoria Neuland thing?
Congrats on standing up to the system. Don't forget to beat up a cashier or shoot a security guard on your way out - they are working for the man.
Indeed. I've known that phenylepherine is worthless for a long while, and just make it a point to buy a pack of the real stuff every 6 months or so, so that I always have it on hand when I need it. In my state, it's controlled - you have to get it from a pharmacist (though you can do so without a prescription) - they take your driver's license and don't allow you to purchase it too often.
Updated Terms of Service and commitment to being an open platform (2019)
https://typescripttolua.github.io/
Typically twice...the last time you back up your old phone and the first time you restore to your new phone.

I've had good luck with the bottom storage level for years...until I bought a 360 GoPro...seriously huge filesizes.
Isnt this more a case of the US lagging 1000 years behind like on card payments? All EU laws are publically available? And all laws in Denmark have been publically available for who knows how many years?
Estimand's approach to non-linear thinking
Psuedophedrine requires an ID to purchase and must be kept behind the counter in any state in the US. It's a federal requirement. Stores are also required to keep a record of purchases for 2 years.

If you were able to purchase Sudafed without having someone get it from the back or out of some locked cabinet, and also hand over your ID, it wasn't psuedophedrine.
Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team
> TOML could be extended to support it.

Seems doubtful as that's specifically something TOML was created not to support. If you want unityped ini files you can define that dialect of ini files.
According to Wilipedia only 275 employees became part of Unity theough this acquisition.
It does not matter

A) you had the same speed on existing iPhones - so it’s an upgrade you didn’t get

B) you can get the iPhone Pro and pay for it
i feel obligated once again to mention TSTL, a very high quality TypeScript-to-Lua transpiler: https://typescripttolua.github.io/

works great. used this on a large project. works great with Love/LuaJIT too.
This is an awesome picture! Forgive me if this is a stupid question but are we seeing 0s and 1s here? Is that what the black is? Kind of the equivalent to a morse code dit (0) and dah (1)?
That is not an obvious question if you read the article
I wonder if the antenna is expensive or if it's the other electronics in the terminal? I assume it uses a phased array. I also assume most phased arrays are pretty cheap.
Interesting. I played with Activities for a while when they were introduced, but I've never understood what value they provide. I still don't, to be honest. But perhaps it's because they weren't able to provide value?
It’s been known for years that Phenylephrine is useless and was just kept on the market because of lobbying.
I believe they are referring to CVE-2023-4863[1], see the fix commit[2] in libwebp.

I imagine the issue would also impact Electron, which might be the actual reason for blocking the format if they use that for some/all of their client apps (assuming the OP's claim is correct, I don't use it so can't check myself), because I'd like to think they could push out a back-end deployment quickly.

1: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863

2: https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+/902bc91
It's mushy and inconsistent, absolutely. But it also comes up with wild yet coherent changes that I've seen from nothing else.

At this comment I listed a few instances:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499067
I just came here to say that I actually find phenylephrine nasal spray quite effective - but I use it for a different use case: stopping nosebleeds quickly. It's quite effective at that and came recommended by an ENT, so I do believe it's an effective vasoconstrictor when applied locally and I'm glad it's available.
Yeah, but these people typically target antennas, not 3 years old phones. And don't work for the ANFR. Source: french, living in a small town with its own anti-EM association.
It’s still pretty narrow, because the individiual stairs themselves are only about one to two people wide, and they’re far enough apart that people would probably ignore any left/right directional flow that you would see on a double-wide set of stairs.

To give some perspective on how long a reconfiguration like this takes, JR East has been working on platform optimization like this at Shibuya Station since 2015, and the last elements will complete in 2027; and that’s at a station that started more optimally than Penn Station.
Isn’t the saying usually ‘rules for me and not for thee’?
What they never shipped is understandable docs and tools for devs to create .msi installers, which caused the deluge of custom installers such as the one being discussed.
So just remove data transfer all together then it's added expense...
As a visitor - I was involved in a photoshoot there. I also used to go a lot as a customer, with some memorable, smoky, all-night triple-bills like the first 3 Alien films. It's a wonderful little cinema.
He said “at the counter”.
Just get a Steam Deck and a USB-C dock. Way cheaper and it can even play real games :)
And remember, extrordinary discovery requires extraordinary proof.
I laughed out loud when I read about the lobbyists who are trying to keep phenylephrine from being taken off store shelves.

In one article about the FDA panel vote, a lobbyist said that most consumers hate the alternatives -- nasal sprays because of the discomfort and pseudoephedrine because it's stored behind the pharmacy counter -- and so depriving them of a hassle-free option is anti-consumer.

The fact that the hassle-free option has been shown to be ineffective was, as you might guess, never mentioned.
Could it be because emulators need JIT and JIT is a window to jailbreak?
> TL;DR, Apple probably doesn't care enough
You're in a very exclusive club if you're targeted by NSO (ie. very few people are victims) and most of the general public probably doesn't understand or care enough to get their pitch forks out.

And yet:

(a) Lockdown Mode cost money to develop and will cost support time from casuals turning it when they shouldn't but Apple did it anyway, and

(b) the journalists only know this happened because Apple told them proactively.

Sounds like they care at least a little.
Tell HN: Troubleshooting Slack Crashes during screen sharing on Wayland
If you're a Linux user (like me) opted for Wayland display server, you might have encountered a frustrating crashes when you try to screen share during huddles. This issue has been a there since April 2023 release (Slack 4.31.155) for Linux and it's still not fixed till the date of submission of this post. I have tried multiple ways to make it work but in the end it still crashed.

Screen sharing is something which was very important to me as I cannot always create a google meet link for small discussions with my team. That's why we have huddle in slack.

I even tried to switch to X11 on my fedora workstation, but then I had to do the workarounds for gestures for touchpad with touchegg (sudo dnf install touchegg) and GNOME extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4033/x11-gestures/) and the results were not as smooth as they were on wayland. I always preferred wayland because of its performance and also noticed better battery life with it than X11.

After searching the web for hours, I finally found the solution on this issue tracker on github: https://github.com/flathub/com.slack.Slack/issues/196#issue-1684889894

The trick is simple, Just rollback to the version 4.29.149 with:
sudo flatpak update --commit=b95d24a8a354db07b95b065b3e57e9442c9fbaf851a49cbe6e7b1aa0afcab591 com.slack.Slack
and then just mask the package so it does not updates to latest version.
flatpak mask com.slack.Slack

Now your screen sharing should work with wayland session. You can test to verify the working from Preferences -> Audio & Video -> Troubleshooting -> Run an audio, video and screensharing test or just start a huddle in an empty channel to test the screen sharing.

Devs hinted that the fix is in work with the latest Slack 4.34.115 release on 5th September 2023 (https://slack.com/intl/en-in/release-notes/linux), till it lands in production, we'll have to use Slack 4.29.149 for working screen sharing in wayland session.
I strongly recommend reading “Dawn of everything” directly after to see an alternative point of view.
I think american medicine just chooses prescribing medication first.

Patients are definitely more likely to take a medication than change their behavior. Patients also ask for medication. And then there's the whole pharmaceutical system.

My personal experience is that many older people I've known have a startling number of bottles of medication they take every day.

I also know some older people that have exercise and eating right as part of their regimen and rarely take any medication.
It's close enough. You can use the engine to make whatever games you want, modify the code, rebuild it, etc and profit from the game you create.

You're not allowed to fork and then profit from the engine itself, or the editor. That's a really important distinction, and you're right that it should be highlighted.

But it seems very reasonable to me. Any real game dev won't care about that. Basically, you can't resell the engine, but you can do anything you want with the games created by it.
Seems very similar to the discord update in the last several months that does a similar thing with servers
This is no different from “cough syrup”, that doesn’t work