skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cautionary note:

The same department recently completed a good-quality RCT comparing psilocybin and escitalopram (plausibly the most effective SSRI antidepressant) for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. While psilocybin was shown to be marginally more effective than escitalopram, the difference was not statistically significant. A subsequent Bayesian reanalysis did show a statistically significant advantage to psilocybin, but this difference was not clinically significant. Other RCTs investigating classical psychedelics have shown similar results.

There's a lot of excitement about psychedelics, a lot of hype, a lot of people who dearly want them to be a breakthrough (and god knows, we need a breakthrough), but the data we have just doesn't justify that excitement. This article presents a compelling narrative explaining why classical psychedelics might be a radically effective psychiatric treatment, but that amounts to nothing if psychedelics are not in fact radically effective; although it is still far too early to make any firm conclusions, the evidence we do have suggests that psychedelics are, at best, only a modest improvement over the current state-of-the-art.

This does not preclude the possibility that psychedelics could be the best available treatment for a subset of patients, nor does it invalidate the personal experiences of people who believe that they have experienced dramatic benefits from psychedelic therapy, but it is grounds for considerable caution. Pepole enduring the misery of mental illness deserve better than yet another cycle of hype and disappointment.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33852780/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37337526/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36322843/
Nginx is quite extendable, there are tons of nginx plugins to help you add more customizations.

There is OpenResty, a version of nginx [0]. It allows you to script all sorts of stuff with Lua inside nginx itself.

Tools like lockbox are not necessary, nginx, caddy, etc or heck even a normal 70 line python3 fastapi based script works just fine and should be more extendable than lockbox.

[0](https://openresty.org/en/)
> how good is the latency once connections are already established, say for a real time video call over Freenet, or if this is not possible?

We're aiming for the delay between a contract's state being modified and all subscribers being notified to be no more than 1 second, which should be acceptable for applications like IM.

If you were doing something like a video call you'd negotiate it over Freenet and then establish a direct connection for the video/audio for minimal latency.

> Is there any server in the middle that all packets need to route to, especially for peers behind firewall

Freenet uses UDP hole-punching to establish direct connections between peers even if both are behind firewalls. A new peer uses a public (non-firewalled) peer to join the network initially but once joined all further communications can be between firewalled peers.
Interestingly, the Stallmann position still leaves you with a fully functional computer. Chapeau!
From another article

>The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, launched a probe in July, saying that the proposed deal could result in Amazon hindering iRobot rivals from competing on Amazon’s online marketplace. The commission argued that Amazon could delist or reduce rival products’ prominence in search results or elsewhere.

Amazon more than once hindered competitors on their marketplace, so their previous behavior is the reasons for the objection by the EU.

Who to blame for that?
Interesting, but how do you define a function that returns an array? Maybe:

T f(args)[..] { body }

This would be hard to parse. Then what about:

T[..] f(args) { body }

But if adding [] after T is allowed in function declaration, then why not for arrays as well:

T[..] a;
I do not have autism or ADHD,
but a significant number of people in my family do*
such that the behaviours popularly believed to be associated with autistic people are the cultural norm in my family, it took me a few years, and many missteps to adjust to the wider cultural norms, and even now after decades as a functional neurotypical, there is a joy, and a sense of slipping back into speaking my mother tongue when I find myself in conversation with someone who speaks and acts with the patterns of my childhood. When for example, last week - an 11 year old was barely able to meet my gaze begins arguing a strongly articulated position on the nature of mosquito consciousness or my work colleague who cannot bare turning on his webcam, leaps straight into a discussion of the relative merits of different data structures.

*in my close family - two women - both formally diagnosed as autistic, and at least 4 men among the family elders who trained as mathematicians or engineers are assumed by other family members to be on the autism spectrum, but I am not privy to any formal medical diagnosis.
I have the map of US in my cell-phone.

I'm somewhat confused by its directions however when I look at the map and want to go somewhere. Is the top-part of the map where I'm moving? Or is the top-part North?

Seems it is not North and that is confusing because maps I've seen before have North at the top always.

If I turn 90 degrees, the map turns around. But I thought it was I who turned around.

And if I stop, the map cannot know where I'm going because I'm not going anywhere. So it is almost like I have to start moving before the map can tell me where to turn.

Or if I hold the smart-phone in front of my eyes the top of the map is towards the sky. Am I supposed to look at the map from above?

What are some good tactics on how to use Google-map on your cell-phone?
For other reasons ;)
My better alternative is: don’t own a printer.

And… don’t print.

But if I really have to print, I do most of my printing at work and let my employer foot the bill.
https://archive.is/UqfBO
This should have better visibility.
I think the mentioned report is "Transport transitions in Copenhagen: Comparing the cost of cars and bicycles" at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180091...

Along these lines, in a less scholarly form:

"Cost-benefit of cycling infrastructure" - https://cyclingsolutions.info/cost-benefit-of-cycling-infras...

"Making the Economic Case for Cycling" - https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC_MAKING-TH...

A related paper is "The social cost of automobility, cycling and walking in the European Union", https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...

That paper has a YouTube version on the CityNerd channel, "Cars Are A Disaster For Society -- Here Are the Numbers " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp75-46PnMY
Wait is this a troll or serious? I really can’t tell.
While I agree with you here, free speech also means you cannot be stripped off the service because of your ideology, views or sorts.
How about move the business logic to stored procedures
Gelsinger put a $4BN compensation package in effect for securing and retaining talent within his first 6 months of taking the role, one of the first things noted was brain drain to competitors.

>Intel Poaches Head Apple Silicon Architect Who Led Transition To Arm And M1 Chips. Intel has reacquired the services of Jeff Wilcox, who spearheaded the transition to Arm and M1 chips for Apple. Wilcox will oversee architecture for all Intel system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs

note re-acquired.

Raja Koduri also came back to Intel (from AMD Radeon) and only recently left to dabble in VFX, as opposed to working for a competitor to Intel.

Anton Kaplanyan (father of RTX at nvidia) is at Intel now.

I think people are not checking linkedin when they make the claim that Intel's talent has been drained and there is nobody left at home. Where there is remuneration and opportunity you will find talent. I think it's safe to say no industry experts have written down Intel.

edit: first foundry customer online in New Mexico fab:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
Lightning isnt indestructible its just proprietary
Illness seems obvious from PTSD, I'm curious about wellness -- as in, can this be used as a tool for healing in a straightforward manner.

My experience with psychedelics in my youth was reckless recreation, and in my not-youth I'm fascinated by how it can be a tool to be a better me. I have a healthy enough respect for the medicine now to not just jump in willy nilly and it would be wonderful to learn if there are "new tricks" that the properly prepared psychonaut can put in play.
Simple but annoying and error-prone optimizations are not necessarily easy ;-) Alternatively, the author might have been not confident enough about C/C++ that a rewrite is straightforward (a hypothesis from the fact that one's Github profile doesn't have any C/C++ code).
Just tried it by asking how to create a game that is turn based, using an ECS system, and how to add a decision tree, and a save/load system, in the language Haxe.

It outputs relatively correct haxe code, but it did halucinate that there is a library called 'haxe-tiled' to read tmx map files...
Dunno. As a scientist I say bring me flowery language and
religiosity any day on this subject.

Some things are improved by formalism, empiricism, and positivist
reductionism. Some things are made worse by that kind of thinking.

Science is not always a process of "removing confusion". A mature
scientist who can question science itself stops seeing it as a hammer
and everything else as a nail.

Secular post-modernity is brilliant at giving us power plants, roads,
and medicines. In other regards it's stunted our emotional and social
development, bringing us to the brink of total war and social
disintegration.
they won't stop there :)
I did a google search for articles about temp laborers because I thought it would be a good analog, and this came up:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-expendables-how-the-t...

Do you think this article is ineffective?
Emacs was developed on the KTV in TECO on ITS, and the space cadet keyboard was only on the lisp machine. How did the latter affect vi, which ran on different hardware and has a different model? Or Emacs, really? I wrote an awful lot of code using it but as I said it was unfortunately spongy.
This is super neat! I like the idea of better auditing of _what_ data gets sent over these integrations, not just what integrations are currently set up.

We do something similar with our tool (generative code thingy), where users can make API calls to various services (without credentials), and then we add the necessary auth tokens/headers for their code to actually run.

I'd love to give folks better control over their own data/credentials, Lockbox could be an interesting workaround without us having to build anything. Thanks and nice work!
TIL: Son of David Horowitz. Oh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
OK I am a snob, but wearing VisionPro while on the mountain skiing -- that's just plain wrong.

What are they thinking?
I pay CHF 64.75 (~USD 75) a month for 25gbit symmetric in Switzerland.

I can not understand how they can get away with charging 200+ for 10G. That is nuts.

But we have providers selling bullshit here too. One such provider claims 5G wireless is the equivalent of fiber. Sells 1gbit but actuall throughput is bellow 300mbit even with the best tower. Theoretical max is 2gbit but their equipment can't even do 1. Misleading customers to believe 5G wireless can ever beat fiber is just wrong.
Very fun! Most hilarious result I found is James Bond + Tarzan = Jane Bond
Really amusing aside. This article, "Shitshow! Britain’s potty-mouthed parliament", was just published: https://www.politico.eu/article/britains-potty-mouthed-parli...

That stiff upper lip has, perhaps, become a bit more relaxed.
Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011)
This was the first regularly scheduled comic on the WWW in 1993. It ran for over 12 years. Slightly geekier than Far Side.

https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/ar00514.htm#banner
Mostly playing around with stacking "powerful" words:

King Kong + Power Ranger = King Kong Ranger (first)
Megazord + Power Ranger = Power Megazord
Megazord + Power Megazord or Artzord + Megazord = Ultrazord
Dragonzord + Art = Artzord (first)
Groot + Mega Artzord = Grootzord
Megazord + Grootzord = Gigazord (first)
Godzord + Giga Artzord = Giga Godzord (first)
Giga Godzord + Giga Titanic Gigazord = Giga Titanic Godzord (first)
Giga Titanic Godzord + Mega Power Godzillazord = Super Giga Mega Titanic Power Godzillazord (first)

I also got firsts on both Earthquake Laser and Laser Earthquake, but I'm not sure what the recipes were.

Trying to get Zebra was an interesting sequence.

Tamer + Africa = Tamerlane (first)
Tamerlane + Terror = Timur (first)
Timur + Asia = Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan + Bellerophon = Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great + Unicorn = Bucephalus (first)
Alexander the Great + Bucephalus = Horse
Horse + Africa = Zebra
The EU's objection is based on Amazon's previous behaviour of obstructing competitors on its platform.

So who is to blame?
>Psychological transformation (defined here as rapid, marked and enduring psychological change, where ‘psychological’ refers to perception, cognition and action or behaviour) has been the focus of previous psychological and philosophical texts (Miller and C’de Baca, 2001; Paul, 2014) as well as influential therapeutic programmes (Wilson and Cohen, 2015), but it has received surprisingly little formal scientific investigation and past definitions have been vague.

I'd argue this is one of the very few fields where religion, specifically Buddhism, is more advanced than modern science. I'm not joking either, Buddhists have been concerned with this exact thing for over 2,000 years.

When studied, I think scientists will find that certain mystical practices induce these pivotal mental states, at least in a percentage of the population.
A truly free market has guardrails to prevent cheating such as monopolies, price fixing etc etc. The current fetishized free market is one of the avenues for monopoly creation. see Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T. In this kind of free market, if there is no outside influence such as government regulation or crowdsourced guillotines, the person with the most Capital will just buy up all the competitors and on the market.

There are regulation-based monopolies are relatively rare. there are examples of natural monopolies such as cable companies using regulation to enhance the power of a natural monopoly. One important regulation-based Monopoly is the one created by patents and copyrights. one fix is to make patents automatically license-able under RAND https://mpeg-g.org/knowledge-base/what-is-a-rand-license-ran.... Inventor is rewarded, everyone gets to use it, pubic licensing terms.
We need a new buzzword before we move off it
I'm totally blind and built Gptcmd, a small console app to make interacting with GPT, manipulating context/conversations, etc. easier. Since it's just a console app, when streaming is enabled, output is seemlessly reported.

https://github.com/codeofdusk/gptcmd
Yes, you articulated what I think often when I read a tpt post. Enjoy the casual writing but feel like I’m frequently left out of the joke.

I understand all these concepts in general but looking at a block of code… I’m supposed to 1) know if it’s serious/not and 2) he’s being sarcastic about it not.

I even know Python well but the whole post is so “inside baseball” am not sure what to think. Guessing the bulk of the audience is not grizzled security engineers.

(I’d recommend another summary/details tag to put the grandparent explanation directly into the fly post.)
What dang is saying is that you shouldn't post a summarizing comment with your submission.

Yes, HN has the option of submitting a comment with and when you create a post, but that the use of that should be to provide your own commentary or context, not merely to re-hash the post itself.

And yes, the additional text you provide with a text link does appear as a comment, that's intentional, see e.g.,:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29543426>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7897019>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18652492>

(Not HN staff or a mod, just a long-term member.)
I think maybe they're referring to the logo on the main page, not on a binary file? But that's an answer to another question I definitely had.
apple doesn’t care.

with this connector, no one will be accidentally plugging the headset straight into a usbc power adapter without the battery in the loop. at least not without some third party help.
It's a neat trick, I'd be curious to see how those "self-healing" carbonate networks do in a simulation under load. We need to be careful around any notions about Roman concrete being somehow superior; this is one of those intellectual traps that Western civilization - having had a somewhat overactive overachiever as a father - can sometimes fall into. It's such a romantic notion - ha! romantic. I kill me - that it's hard to not fall for it a little.

It is, however, important to note that Roman structures were generally overbuilt, with >5 meter walls not uncommon on lower levels (with such thicknesses capable of loads a fraction of those of modern concrete). And of course there's survivorship bias; we might just be seeing the Roman equivalent of Cheyenne Mountain.

Probably the main reason contemporary structures have such relatively short shelf life is the inclusion of ferrous materials; although they make a much stronger structure, that rust inside the concrete is basically an egg timer so far as long term is concerned.
Perhaps interviews need to assume the person being interviewed is using an LLM and can be evaluated on how effective they are with it. Presumably this is what employers want. The challenge is interviewers are busy, would prefer to be doing other things and want to stick to their old playbook ("tell me how to invert a binary tree").
Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)
I'm not sure if you're joking about binge-ing but you have to be delusional to think that someone taping their favorite show on their own or waiting for it until it ends is nearly the same as dropping all episodes at the same time on principle for every show and only offering that as an option for a long time. building your whole UI around it and encouraging this behavior?
The point about others jumping on the bandwagon can only happen if Netflix broke down the barrier and over-invested (by going into deep red) to justify accessibility, knowing full well they won't be able to keep up the steam indefinitely. I know you're trying to be smart here, and failing, but are books built to be binged? Do they know when your attention is dipping? Do books have such UI to do this? You can make same inane argument about doing math for 8 hours a day or something.

Also the scale at which Netflix was throwing money around was unprecedented, so much so that other tv shows and writers were making fun of it. That's like saying periods of good investment client are equivalent to a dot com crash or a housing bubble.
Turing complete? Not really, parsing still forms static data structures in linear time.

The fundamental screw-up with XML is that it was a textual markup format (e.g. HTML or word processor documents) that got usurped for cross platform data transfer. Among many other problems, that put pressure on its design to be unambiguous to generalized tools - which wasn't an initial design consideration.

So you had an awful lot of making people use document markup processing tools to serialize and parse data structures, schema and transform systems that tried to target both mindsets and did a bit of a poor job at each, and lots and lots of abstractions to try to make it so you only had to deal with the problem once.

Even JSON is a bit of a pain the farther away from late-bound or untyped scripting languages you get.
ORMs are useful when what you want to do matches their expressiveness. For example when I just want to get a record by its primary key. They have their limits, many times when doing complex reports. For that, most ORMs provide a raw SQL function. So just use the right tool for the job.

Stored procedures for business logic can be great for performance when they replace queries/mutations called thousands+ times.
I'm also totally blind and, somewhat relatedly, I've built Gptcmd, a small console app to ease GPT conversation and experimentation (see the readme for more on what it does, with inline demo). Version 2.0 will get GPT vision (image) support:

https://github.com/codeofdusk/gptcmd
> Base64 is never-before seen?

Maybe they're referring to using a prominent website as a C&C server? Wait... no, they've seen that before when they reported, in 2017, on a:

> "backdoor Trojan used comments posted to Britney Spears's official Instagram account to locate the control server that sends instructions and offloads stolen data to and from infected computers." [0]

So they must be talking about the novel use of an image in the staged delivery? Oh... nevermind, that can't be it either because their reporting on VPNFilter in 2018 mentioned:

> "stage 1 relies on a sophisticated mechanism to locate servers where stage 2 and stage 3 payloads were available. The primary method involved downloading images stored on Photobucket.com and extracting an IP address from six integer values used for GPS latitude and longitude stored in the EXIF field of the image." [1]

So yeah, I guess Ars hasn't seen Base64 before it was embedded on their site.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/russi...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/vpnfi...
Exactly same scenario for me. They generously offered me to re-activate the domain for $55 "lapse" fee. I generously offered them to shove it and registered a slightly different domain with a more reputable registrar. Priceless lesson, as it was a tiny hobby website.
Is that mismanagement a scam, though?
Same. I sometimes use Edge when a site is broken on Firefox and I get into trouble there because it has super weird behavior when you highlight text. Very annoying.
Wow, if you told me that this[1] was a Far Side, I'd believe you.

1: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a8/8c/46/a88c46ca525d66d6444b55b3c...
In those cases i took for the night something that reduces coughing for the night only and in the morning something that helps cozghing it out.
for an permanent dry cough my doctor prescribed me codein, that effectivly reduced the coughing to 0.
not to horrify you but https://gomerblog.com/2014/12/soap-note/
found this helpful video posted on a different subthread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcHeO43kgE&t=622s
Another take is we don’t like being lied to. Lots of these ChatGPT job candidates don’t disclose they are using an AI during the interview.
TL;DR: It seemed to work for organizations which fit the appliance's assumptions

> hyperlink based search ranking method of the day doesn't really work on relatively small data holdings of an individual organization

In my experience, it depends on what you mean by relatively small. Cloud editing and permissions aside, there seemed to be the 3 key factors:

1. Structure: hub-and-spoke sites interlinking crucial documents and pages

2. Culture: interdepartmental and personal rivalries which demand links as credit

3. Size: lots of employees creating and maintaining sites and content

I was too young to understand it then, but all of these help an intranet's content resemble the web of the 90s and 2000s. That's the era Google's algorithm was designed for.

The results weren't always perfect, but they were nearly always better than the alternatives. In-house or pre-existing alternatives tended to be awful, especially not having any search at all.

Keep in mind, all of this was ~10 years ago. My memory isn't perfect and a lot of things have changed since then.

I even made sure some of them did. It was my job at a few, but the relationships and boundaries between these were complicated. For convenience, let's say n_observed roughly equals 4.