skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets obfuscated by claiming that water has a memory and will "remember" those substances. Which is of course entirely implausible for anyone with sufficient physics or chemistry background.

You're right that no further study is needed for homeopathy, it simply cannot work at these kinds of dilutions.
The music, film, and game industries are about to be completely disrupted.

LLMs and AGI might be hogwash, but processing multimedia is where Gen AI and especially diffusion models shine.

Furthermore text-to-{whatever} models might produce slop, but Gen AI "exoskeletons" (spatial domain, temporal domain editors) are Photoshop and Blender from next century. These turbocharge creatives.

Hearing and vision are simple operations relative to reasoning. They're naturally occurring physical signals that the animal kingdom has evolved, on several different occasions, to process. This is likely why they're such a low hanging fruit to replicate with Gen AI.
It's considered a dietary supplement, which is governed by the dietary supplement health enforcement act, which in turn classifies dietary supplements as a food product.
They're even covered by some insurance plans.

A friend of mine is an orthopedic surgeon, and they explained to me that for mild problems, which would normally heal on their own, it's cheaper to cover a placebo rather than real medication.
I'm not going to learn assembly to program in c, and especially not as a beginner.
I regularly had arguments on homeopathy with some close family members. I stopped, because belief in homeopathy is the same kind of belief as belief in flat-earth, and you can't be cured off it.

People get seduced by a somewhat internal logic. They get a fuzzy feeling of superiority in their discovery that the mainstream ignores. If you point out the absolute lack of evidence of any of what they believe in, it's because pharma is silencing them. They are excited to be enlightened, because only they can see how crooked big pharma is: they need you to be sick so you can buy their "allopathic medicine" (derogatory calling of drugs that actually work), so they're trying to kill homeopathy who would really save you ; which to be fair is not helped by the fact that pharmaceutical companies are indeed crooked and want you to be sick.

I don't think there's any volume that can be said on homeopathy that will convince anyone who already believes in it that it's all a scam.
You forgot "it is so slow you might be faster with pen and paper".
I deal with ADHD and procrastination and to-do lists are already pretty psychologically rough. Sure, it feels good to complete things, especially if I remember to mark them complete, but when I have a lot of tasks I don't want to start, they all look gigantic and I start ignoring it.

I can't imagine how awful that would be for social connections to be watching, maybe commenting on it. "Hey buddy, aren't you going to fix the scanner? It's been weeks".

Gamification makes things worse for me. Maybe it feels good to have a streak and level up. But then something comes up and you lose your streak and that's like 10x worse. The app is basically saying you suck. That was my Duolingo experience, which is probably why they now make it very hard to lose a streak, but then it just feels dumb.

I stopped playing Wordle after missing a couple days, losing the streak.

Other ADHD/executive function disorder people might have another opinion. We're all wired differently.

I say all this without trying it out because the pitch turns me off. If there's something unique that makes it better than social accountability and gamification, maybe put that in the pitch.
I was gonna say... When your system is large enough to run into this specific performance bottleneck, pop a bottle and celebrate, you are making enough money to solve that problem.

While knowing this information is useful, most services fail in different domains and problems way before you reach that point. I'm not sure people really comprehend how hard you can hit a single machine before you need to distribute a workload.
If you're not going to give a few free test runs, I need some examples.
Right, but how to do this while preserving the placebo effect? If the patient knows it’s “just” water, the effect is lost. Some sort of deliberate deception seems to be necessary, which raises ethical problems.
Human music!
> But it just seemed unethical to take advantage of the poorly educated

I thought about doing the same during COVID when people were believing ludicrous claims about nanobots in the vaccine.

I was thinking that you could make a nice chunk of coin selling those old acam magnetic bracelets that 'deactivate the nanobots so that you can get the vaccine protection without the bots'

That way people would be helped by your scam product. And another way to look at it is that these people are going to be scammed by someone, it might as well be you, some with morals and not someone who is going to use that scamoney to move onto a bigger and bigger scam until they scam their way into the office of president.
Because every bottle is clearly labeled “The FDA has not evaluated this for treating any condition”. There are a great many products that the FDA hasn’t evaluated that are still sold, why should these be any different?
It likely wouldn't work. All these treatments are rooted in personality cults, social pressure, and anecdotes.

Unless one of the big names in naturopathy gives your widget the thumbs up, the whackos won't buy it. In order to get them to give your widget the thumbs up, you'd have to give them a take.

Once you get 1-2 big names on board - now all the others have to decide whether to go with the flow (while not getting paid), try to shake you down, or go against the big names.

Reiki is a good example of this bullshit. You can get "certified" to a certain level, but the first question that people want to know is "who trained you", and they essentially follow a flowchart to see if your training came from the "good" reiki practitioners.
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If they get sick that's only because of the mercury in those vaccines.
The plausible mechanism is placebo which is mediated by the autonomous nervous system. The same mechanism at play with back pain via either chiropractic (placebo) and the majority of spinal surgeries (placebo).

Engineers and logical types take everything too much at face value (e.g. astrology and personality types, as well as health and fitness). The reality is usually that neither camp /really/ knows what they're doing, but have plausible (to them) explanations. Though empiricism is much more mentally rigorous than woo-woo/sham.

Generally, if the treatment achieves the patient's desired goals -- I don't think it matters (barring severe ethical concerns like body integrity dysphoria). People not generally educated in a Western background are more likely to be susceptible to placebo or "magic" (this includes the less educated in the anglosphere but also the majority in foreign countries).

Barring life-saving procedures, most elective medicine is -- imco -- on a similar, if not slightly higher standing compared to homeopathy et al.
> Did the American revolution happen before, during, or after the Enlightenment?

I’ve no idea. When did the American revolution happen?

Not everyone’s cultural frame of reference is the same as yours. I can tell you when the Synod of Whitby happened, though.
I think being a software developer is always being in conflict with reality. Most of our job is logic and rules. Preciseness and completeness. Reality, however, is full of people, chaos, and change and we are uncomfortable by that. I think this is why programmers have such strong opinions on languages, tools, and techniques.

Over the years I've started to tune out articles that say everything is doomed or articles that propose the silver bullet to fix everything. Things are not terrible -- they are, in fact, always getting better. It's never been a better or easier time to be a software developer. But, because of that, the problems we have to solve are harder. The demands are greater. I think this appears to many like we're stuck in place because we always feel like we're behind the 8 ball. The appetite for software is insatiable.
I look forward to the kernel, user space, compilers, and web browser you will author from scratch
Well, it's interesting - based on your description, the medication you took is not homeopathic:

> Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent.

If in a preparation there is a measurable quantity of the active ingredient, then it's not an homeopathic preparation.
Meta is on their Nth generation.
They’re suggesting more induced deliveries and caesarians happen in December due to tax advantages. I would have thought it would be because people are concerned about getting proper care if they go to the hospital to deliver over the holidays, and their medical providers suggest inducing or scheduling caesarians to ensure they don’t have that issue.
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> Am I wrong here and this is something that really matters and you should invest more time in?

Specifically, no - you don't need to worry about it. Reconfiguring your tables to use a different style of unique identifier if your tables have a unique identifier is a bit of a pain but no more so than any other instance of renaming a column - if you want to minimize downtime you add the new column, migrate data to the column, deploy code that utilizes the new column and then finally retire the old column. Even if the previous version of the table lacked any sort of unique key it is still possible to add one after the fact (it's a bit technically harder to properly keep them in sync but it is possible to do safely).

It's just a question of the cost of doing so and the benefits of it - I work in a system that exclusively uses integral keys and our data is such that we don't really suffer any downsides from that choice - if you're working in a larger system with less confidence in the security practices of other teams then avoiding sequential keys so that you have obscurity to fall back on if someone really drops the ball on real security isn't the worst idea... but I think the really compelling reason to prefer UUIDs is for the power of distributed generation... that really only applies to inherently decentralized or astoundingly large products though - and if your product eventually grows to astoundingly large you'll have plenty of time to switch first (probably the wake-up call will be closing in on running out of 4 bit serial unique keys).
It's so weird to me that people use Adderall recreationally. It's as "recreational" in my mind as functional shoes are. I usually need them, but they're usually not what makes an activity fun.

How is crushing up Adderall and snorting it even worth doing?

I've accidentally taken my "normal" Adderall twice and it's an extremely uncomfortable experience. The last place I'd want to be in that state would be at a party, getting drunk. Sitting in a quiet place and rocking/sweating/puking until it's done is more what comes to mind.

For what it's worth, there's no "quick release" Adderall. There's a normal kind, and an "extended release" kind (officially Adderall XR). The latter encapsulates little beads of the drug in coatings that dissolve at different rates, allowing the dose to be spread out over a longer period of time. What I think you're referring to when you say "quick release" is the non-XR variant of the drug.

The drug found in Adderall XR is identical to that of Adderall with the exception of the coatings on the beads. I think crushing up those beads would likely work the same as crushing up an Adderall tablet, assuming the coatings on the beads were also suitably crushed. Not something I'll be testing any time soon though.
Fair use may not exist, but rights of citation or parody still do.
Not really familiar with it, but hopefully they can get unstuck from Nvidia, especially on Linux. Only very recently things started improving it seems and not even with Nvidia's effort but outside community working on nova + nvk.
Sure, it'd be great if all the little bumps in the road were already hammered out, but that we all know that's not how massive scale production works.

The two biggest numbers you need to look at in that article are lfp at 200 wh per kilogram and sodium ion at 160 w per kilogram.

Keep in mind that I believe neither lfp or sodium ion needs extensive amounts of cooling like Cobalt nickel batteries and their runaway fire problems. So their pack density is actually better and simpler.

So the 200 watt hour per kilogram basically equates to a 300 to 400 mile and possibly a 500 mile range car depending on efficiencies.

160 watt hour per kilogram sodium ion is the 200 to 300 and possibly 400 car

When you think about it that way consider the implications for electrifying all consumer transportation. The sodium ion density means that the city car that would serve possibly 4 to 5 billion people in the world is a solve technology, borrowing proper scaling.

The lfp density implies probably another billion to 2 billion people that need slightly better range, assuming good infrastructure for recharging.

Now the road maps for lfp and sodium ion. Both are going to probably increase by at least 20% in the next 2 or 3 years. Maybe 5 years tops.

If they can figure out sulfur chemistry versions of lithium sulfur and sodium sulfur then you may be able to double or triple densities in the next 10 to 15 years.

This is all very very revolutionary stuff.
author here! thanks for submitting - if you dont mind i will copy over some personal highlights from my twiter post (https://x.com/latentspacepod/status/1809300018907828285):

Special interest topics we touched on:

- why encoder-decoder is not actually that different than decoder-only architecture (Reka is notably enc-dec vs GPT which is dec-only)

- why the "Noam architecture" is All You Need

- The chaotic vs stable periods of spinning up GPU clusters ( per this great post I submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39609997 )

- The NeurIPS Mirage paper vs Jason/Yi's Emergent Abilities paper

- The Efficiency Misnomer - reminder on Arvind Narayanan's recent callout that "active params" isn't actually the same thing as lower cost, and also not the same thing as faster inference

- Echoing Founders Fund's skepticism that Open Source AI can have any real lasting impact

please AMA! (Yi will see this)
Or — folks wanting to do good in the world got a job at PMI and directed funds to researchers doing useful things
I guess it's good that there's a new solution to this problem, but I wish it just wasn't a problem in the first place. It's ridiculous that someone can't just walk around outside, making a video of what they're doing, and post it, without having to worry that some copyrighted music is playing in the background for some portion of it.

That sort of situation should be considered fair use, and copyright owners who attempt to make trouble for people caught up in this situation should be slapped down, hard, and fined.
Hey, would you mind sharing how you exported your codes out of Authy?
self-hosted and hassle-free are not typically found together, self-hosted will always be more work than available providers can offer

Vercel is the company behind NextJS and is popular, Netlify is also a common choice. My preference is GCP, though any of the major cloud providers are going to have a container based Cloud Run / ECS offering. Packaging it up into Docker is (mostly) a one time thing and typically very stable once you get it working.
I'm a staunch supporter of homeopathic remedies. I drink more than 2 liters of homeopathic solution per day. /s
I have a lot of things like this. Mostly one-offs for bizarre stuff, like a FUSE plugin that saves data to FAT-formatted image files. Some things, though, I consider useful enough to post on Github for people who might need it. My favorite (and most-used, personally) is an app I made to copy files off of my Panasonic cameras. They still work perfectly well, but the official app no longer works to send pics via wifi. I had to reverse-engineer the entire protocol stack from network traffic, it's a doozy. I ended up implementing SSDP from scratch and faking DLNA server support, along with the miserable SOAP protocol. It's a beautiful mess, but it works. Got me back into Android development too.

https://github.com/kerbalno15/shutterlink
To understand how this works it's important to know that temperature loss is linearly proportional to the temperature difference. Insulation reduces the ratio independently of temperature.

As an approximate example, suppose if takes one hour for the tank/building to reduce to a thermostat set-point 10% lower than the 'high' set point. Further assume you could use that lower set point for 11 hours, so the tank/building temperature is 10% lower for a full 10 hours. Finally, assume increasing the temperature of the tank/building by 10% takes one unit of energy.

In order to maintain the low set point, the first hour is free since we are losing temperature. The middle 9 hours need (190%) = 0.9 units per hour for a total of 8.1 units. In the 10th hour the low-set point scenario needs to warm up to the high set point and overcome heat loss so that individual hour requires more energy than the high set-point scenario: (1110%) = 1.1 units for that single hour to return to the high set point.

In total the low-set point needs 0 + 8.1 + 1.1 = 9.2 units of energy over the 11 hours.

For the full 11 hours the energy required to maintain the high set point is 11 units (1 unit per hour to make up for 10% loss).
What does that even mean? Do we allow for the distortion due to the shift from the Julian to Gregorian calendars, such that the nth year is 11 days earlier? Of course not, because that would be stupid. Instead, we accept that the start point was arbitrary and reference to our normal counting system rather than getting hung up about the precise number of days since some arbitrary epoch.
I don't think anyone thought it was super intelligence.

I think it's impressive that we went from LLMs not being useful at all to GPT3.5 shocking the world to GPT4 becoming super useful for many things in around 7 months time.

LLM progress have slowed down a bit. But I think we're just getting started. It's still really early. It's only been 1 year since GPT4 came out. Even at the level of GPT4, scaling it would have immense benefits. But my sense is that we'll have a few more levels of great leaps in LLM capabilities that will shock people in the next 3-4 years.
That's the plan. Here's the general spec for bill pay.[1]

[1] https://explore.fednow.org/resources/rfp-market-practices.pd...
I would say you are generally correct re: the insular viewpoint, except when it comes to The Office the US version was immensely more popular - it was a worldwide phenomenon. So when people say The Office they are way more often talking about the US version. It’s a reasonable assumption imo. Kind of like how people used to talk about House of Cards.
Not only that. Putin’s spokesperson, Peskov, has a daughter, Elizabeth, who was an assistant to far-right Aymeric Chauprade, a French Member of the European Parliament.

It is quite evident to one with geopolitical sense how Russia attempts to enflame Western countries far right and far left in order to undermine the Western centrist order.
Brain 'chimeroids' reveal person-to-person differences rooted in genetics
Yes, that would be what /most/ people very probably already do - and "people" are not what you take for a good example.

Now for the /right/ people: they do not let dubious third parties track their lives and activities, so a mandated system is supposed to avoid all unacceptable clauses. But given that the norms are often not established by the right ones, that the unacceptable is avoided is far from granted.

The problem is not "what most people do", but "what sensible people would not do".

And when journalism tackles information oblivious of the big questions behind it, it is lousy.
I guess one thing I got lucky with was that I got into the federal MTA study when I was a child and then was with it for a long time. Anytime a doc wanted to play games, I’d just refer back to that and it pretty much quashed any issues they had.

The changing of meds was and is a horrific experience. I still remember the last time I took Adderall, it made me feel like I was locked in a jail within my own body. Glad I’m now on something else.
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One of the problems with homeopathy is that many practitioners don’t understand what homeopathy actually means. It’s essentially synonymous with “naturopathy” for them.
> The potential downside is that this system requires energy to release the water – the base of the device needs to reach 184 °C

There are heat pumps that can go up to 200°C now, and if it’s already a hot environment I imagine they could be fairly efficient. The “cold” side could be connected to some black panels facing the sun.

But this would require a facility on an industrial scale so not something for a single home. Maybe a small village.
I took the plunge and made an account to try it out. Here's my feedback:

1.Don't require an account, period. There's no reason to require it. If someone wants to sync their data, let them opt-in.

2.I sent a friend invite to an alternate email of mine. After creating another account, I hade to verify my email. This shouldn't be necessary, since the invite was sent to my email in the first place.

3.I got the two accounts to be friends, but there wasn't much benefit to it IMO. All it tells you is their streak, not the specific tasks they want to complete. I think there's a lot of room for improvement here. A. Let people see other's tasks. B. Let people add little emoji reactions. I think that would be fun.

4.When you check off a task, it takes somewhere between 230-342ms to show that it's visually checked off, since it waits for the network request to complete. I would recommend updating the UI beforehand.

5.I spent the time to write all this out because I think the principle of the idea is really cool. I have a rudimentary version of this with my siblings using a google sheet. We check the sheet once in a while to see how we're all doing with our stress-inducing tasks. Having a more polished and social version of this could be a lot of fun.

Keep up the good work :)
I don't think the distinction really matters. If no copyright claim has been made on some background music in a video, then the person who posted the video need not care if that music is copyrighted or not.
sounds more simple than Ente's Auth; for instance I can see having a simple totp record-keeping app on an internet-less rpi or similar (or highly restricted networking where an auth'd user can only webui interface with some backup/restore feature when blue-green'ing the device), integrated with some built in (touch)?screen to select/search service-account to read totp from and adding-new via screen as well.

edit: simple in terms of only ever needing to compile/validate the thing for linux (arm + intel)
Indeed, that sounds more like a “naturopath” which can be both more effective and more dangerous than homeopathy because their remedies actually contain active ingredients (although in somewhat random and nonstandardized quantities).
Not very much compassion if they let them die at 6 which would be expected when their clan realized they couldn’t hold their own and left them to die.

Sounds more like these academics are putting their own feelings into their research than anything. Do you honestly believe neanderthals even knew what Down’s syndrome was? They probably just saw all of the other 6 year olds taking care of themselves and this one was just slowing them down, if anything this just confirms they take care of all children until a certain point.
Which would be irrelevant except YouTube's copyright strike system is effectively run by the copyright holders, and thus goes far further than the law requires.