skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.06461 if you want to try a chord dht again.

Kademlia is a lot less intuitive, but by not ever assuming it's tables are correct, it handles and corrects inconsistency (and malicious nodes) better.

Chapter 6 of this pile of (my) crap https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_diss/106/ talks about doing latency optimization on dht routing. Basically just embedding then network graph into a metric space.
A difficulty with the COVID vaccine is that it received emergency approval, which I think is great. But it means traditional clinical study now has to be conducted in an environment where the population, the behavioral environment (isolation, masks, etc) -- and possibly the virus itself -- are drastically changed by widespread use of the vaccine.
This is hilarious. I learned this 5 years from a guy at REI in Los Angeles, when I was complaining that the shoelaces of my Merrell Moab always came loose.
Solvay-Kiteav theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solovay%E2%80%93Kitaev_theorem

/? Solvay-Kiteav theorem Cirq QISkit:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Solvay-Kiteav+theorem+cirq+q...

qiskit/transpiler/passes/synthesis/solovay_kitaev_synthesis.py:
https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/blob/main/qiskit/transpiler...

qiskit/synthesis/discrete_basis/solovay_kitaev.py: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/blob/stable/1.2/qiskit/synt...

SolovayKitaevDecomposition: https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/qiskit.synthesis.Sol...

What are more current alternatives to the Solvay-Kiteav theorem for gate-based quantum computing?
One time I had to run a very old version of Eagle CAD on Linux and it turned out that even tho I had a native Linux version, it was easier to run the windows version in wine! I guess stable interfaces have their advantages.
Sounds like an Amiga with x86 hardware.
Looks like a mini GMW-B5000D: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GMW-B5000D-1...
> The SQL above results in a plan similar to the DuckDB optimized plan, but it is wordier and more error-prone to write, which can potentially lead to bugs.

FWIW, aside from manual filter pushdown, I consider the JOIN variant the canonical / "default" way to merge multiple tables; it keeps all the join-related logic in one place, while mixing both joining conditions and filtering conditions in WHERE always felt more error-prone to me.
> Likewise with vaccines, careful study with placebos could demonstrate that the vaccine under study didn't prevent transmissibility of the infectious virus any better than the placebo did. Notably this was a problem with all the Sars-Cov2 vaccines, none seem to have prevented transmision from an infected person to a vaccinated person. Why wasn't this seen in the clincal trials, one wonders?

The obvious answer is because vaccines are not designed to prevent viruses from ever becoming transmissible through the air according to some impossible standard devised by vaccine sceptics, they were designed to ensure that the body on average killed the virus off more quickly with less strain to their health[1]. So they tested the thing the vaccines were intended to do (against placebo), and not the thing they were not intended to do.

[1]a corollary of this is that people who are infected with viruses for shorter periods are less likely to transmit it, which is in fact what happened....
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153953
The proposal doesn’t remove 32-bit user land or (I think) virtualization.
That were already proven to be stronger than placebo?
> If you watch it over cable, you're live streaming it.

Which is probably done over the cableco's private network (not the public Internet) with a special VLAN used for television (as opposed to general web access). They're probably using multicast.
Maybe you're right--we'll see.

How big do you think a Mastodon instance can get before it's too big? Right now the largest instance is maybe 1 million users. Let's say that's a good size. To get 3 billion people on it (Facebook's scale) we'd need 3,000 different instances, right?

Except, people won't evenly distribute. Instead, we'll have a power law distribution. The largest instance will be maybe 500 million users, the next largest will be 200 million, and so on. That means that most Mastodon users will be in Twitter-sized instances, and you'll either have to spend a ton of money on moderation (except, I don't know who pays) or you'll end up with the usual toxic anarchy.
> Trump ignores laws that are not convenient for him.

That is what I was alluding to. I apologize if my thesis was not clear. It makes for a dangerous and volatile operating environment for the citizenry.
Got me! You’re right.

Ok, gotta remove multiples of factors of twelve, so 2 (whole), 3 (dim), 4 (aug), 6 (tritone), 8 and 9 are out.

That leaves 1, 5, 7, 10, and 11, plus all the variants from adding n*12 (e.g. 13 or 25). So my bold assertion didn’t work out too well.
> Although placebo and “mind-cure” beliefs are widespread, the most parsimonious interpretation of the evidence is that the “placebo effect” is not a real healing effect, but a product of response bias and questionable research practices

This article is built upon a questionable definition of the placebo effect. Debatably, it’s a straw man argument that sidesteps the complexities of placebo response by using an oversimplification that is easier to dismiss.

The placebo effect varies by treatment and illness. Placebo isn’t fixing broken legs or making cancer disappear. Placebo effects are strongest where measures involve perception and are related to more complex mental processes.

Pain is a common example. Pain is a sensation, but sharp pain is associated with additional fear and panic response. Placebo addresses some of the fear and panic response, thereby addressing part of the pain. I agree that some of the studies showing placebo performing as well as fentanyl and morphine are likely flawed. We have a lot of studies showing dose-response curves for pain management using OTC analgesics, so it’s laughable to see a study showing a dose-response curve that is basically flat or inverted (placebo == 0mg dose).

The placebo effect gets much more complicated in the context of mental health. Anti-depressant studies are the classic example, with placebo often performing close to (but not as well) as powerful SSRIs. This has created internet backlash that “SSRIs are almost placebo” but the truth is that placebo groups improve dramatically during the study, too. There is something about the hope of receiving treatment, the way patients are told that they’re possibly receiving a treatment, the act of self-measuring and reporting mental health scores, and the interactions with clinicians that causes many (though not all) people to turn a corner and start improving. It’s almost as if they’ve received a signal that the end of their suffering is near so they start reactivating themselves, thereby improving the depression. The SSRI groups usually perform better by a statistically significant amount, but the challenge is that the placebo group improves so much that there is little numeric resolution left in the depression inventory to see much signal!

It’s a strange phenomenon, but I don’t think this article is a good overview of the effect let alone a rebuttal to it.
This is absolutely fascinating, thank you for elaborating! I'll need to dig into this much deeper it seems.

My train of thought was that i was basically offering a hyper-opinionated scraping service since all im doing is scraping publicly available data and packaging it for a particular usecase (similar to say, zoominfo which also provides logos for example).

I will dive into this.

Out of curiosity, what's your background to have all this info? Are you a lawyer of some sort? It was a great writeup.
It's better to think of the FM-Towns as a kind of general purpose arcade machine pressed into service as a Personal Computer. It just so happens that the CPU selected was x86 instead of something else (like a 68k or an SH-2 or ARM or something), so you could technically port IBM-PC compatible software to the system but with some additional caveats. As the x86 line of CPUs progressed, newer version of the FM-Towns came out to keep up (from the 386sx to the Pentium!), but somewhat like the Amiga in the West, the core specialized hardware more or less stayed the same.

1. The systems all came standard with a CD-ROM and expected to boot from this. They had no hard-drives. Writeable media was floppy disks.

2. Each CD-ROM had a copy of an entire OS on it. The relationship we think of today, where the OS is "installed" on the computer didn't exist with the FM-Towns. This meant that software might ship with an MS-DOS variant, a Windows 3.1 variant, or Fujitsu's own OS, whatever was necessary to run the software you were looking to use. There were ways to boot to the OS, and load things from CD-ROM, but this wasn't the primary way to boot the system for many users.

3. Memory map, peripherals, etc. were all different than an IBM-PC compatible. The BIOS was also unique to the system. This was because the graphics, sound, and other hardware was entirely different than IBM-PCs. Again, the system design was a ground up design where the CPU just so happened to be x86, there was no intention of being an IBM-PC compatible system in the design. This meant that IBM-PC compatible software had to be modified to support these differences.

4. They have an entirely custom video/audio subsystem that's entirely different from anything seen in the West on normal IBM-PCs. Lots of sprite-based support, smooth scrolling, the ability to run and overlay multiple resolution graphics with different priority levels (e.g. a high-res text mode could be place on top of a lower-res graphics mode). Keep in mind this was in 1988/89, when most home PCs were maybe EGA with some VGA, and very few even had accelerated mouse pointers in Windows.

* Audio was also completely different than anything on Western x86 systems of the time and would have blown away nearly anything on the Western markets for years. You had redbook audio, multiple PCM voices (better than an Amiga), digital real-time effects like echoes and filters, and multiple FM channels. Again, in 1988/89. IIR the audio hardware shared components used in actual high-end arcade games from that time.

As a result ports of high-end Japanese arcade games were pretty flawless, and there were some interesting ports from the West like a completely unique FM-Towns version of Lucas Arts' Loom that's far superior to pretty much every other port.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away", as Philip K. Dick said.

I don't find it unprobable that a psychological bias of a patient can change the result of an medical observation, since medical problems aren't usually 100% only of physical nature either — when your kid is ill in the morning and they can avoid school they will suddenly feel very unwell, when it is the day you wanted to go to Disneyworld they will suddenly feel very well. This ofc could just be a transparent lie, but often it is not and it truly changes how people feel about their own bodies. Similar that example with the hurt kid being kissed, now the post gives some rational explaination why the pain is soothed, but that doesn't make the effect go away: the psychological presentation of a thing makes an actual difference. A sandwich in a barren break room on a Monday tastes worse than that exact sandwich on a mountain summit after four hours of hiking on a Saturday.

Psychological context won't unbreak a broken leg or anything, so there are clear limits, but I am not convinced that the placebo effect is something that only works when researchers believe in the placebo effect themselves. As a Film student I don't find it unlikely that the acting performance of active anti-placebo critics could be unconvincing, but that just means they didn't do a good study then. If you want to study the effect where people are convinced of a thing (placebo) and you half-ass the convincing-part, then you are not researching the effect. But as someone who worked with actors I can assure everybody that you don't necessarily need to believe in a thing to create a convincing performance.

Now the actual question is how far that psychological effect goes when it comes to actual measurable numbers.
What year is it
RAG is so yesterday.

Upload entire PDF directly[1] to API, don't convert PDF to markdown, don't vectorise.. Put that in API cache [2] and keep asking questions.

Chunking and vector search gives mediocre results [3]. Same with full-time search. Difficult to calibrate when structure of PDF is volatile.

[1] - https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/pdf-sup...

[2] - https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

[3] - This works but for well formated PDFs where you chunk intelligently and extract reasonable metadata.
Photomator by the Pixelmator folks is a Lightroom alternative.
The idea of it being positioned as meritocratic is hilarious to me. As if having a process outside of the leetcode question bank will lead to any more bias. I'm generally of the belief that an interview process should be standardized in an attempt to reduce bias, but I disagree that it needs to be something people can study for to the extent that leetcode questions can be studied.

I've interviewed people with leetcode questions where my co-interviewers made the candidate's confidence in presenting the correct answer the tipping point for hiring (with women mostly being targeted in this category). Bias can happen in any process, and with "culture" frequently being a consideration it's hard to tell what should be justified. Meritocracy in the tech industry is mostly a joke outside the overachieving outliers.
The 23 Most Dangerous Cars On The Road
Same with humans!
Can Hamsters Eat Cheese?
This is good for the US. H1B is being manipulated and citizens are losing jobs because of racial discrimination by foreigners, once in a position of power. There are plenty of highly skilled engineers already in the US without jobs, and anyone who tells otherwise is lying.
Yep, this is also the reason LLMs can probably work well for a lot more things if we did have the data
Ask HN: Is there a [blazing fast] alternative to homebrew for macOS yet?
Is anyone out there working on it?
While I agree with you on all your remaining points, one could argue that logic in tests has a non-zero risk of being flawed or buggy on its own. Worst case, a bug in the test's logic and another in the logic under test cancels each other out.

That's why I've made it a habit to write only strictly linear tests in my own code, and use fixtures and parametrization to keep duplication to a minimum.

Ultimately, there's no one true best strategy. Everything is full of trade-offs all the way down.
> OP expresses disappointment with Apple

I read it as polarisation against Apple. As in what follows is not to be taken literally, but as a diatribe. The message being, in essence, "I don't like Apple." If that wasn't the intended message, OP is right--the comment is stronger without it.
A wrap around display ring would be cool.
the point i’m making is that the netflix live streaming timeline didn’t go

chris rock -> love is blind -> mike tyson

they have had other, successful executions in between. the comment i was replying to had cherry picked failures and i’m trying to git rebase them onto main.
Anecdotal but for my startup (caido.io) I have seen an uptick of follows this week on bluesky. I had abandoned hope a few months ago, but I will restart posting our company updates on it.
That's fair. Pex does support specifying a target platform though, which can package linux binary dependencies on a Mac for example. That being said, if a native dependency doesn't provide binaries (i.e. source only) we're out of luck. We solve this issue by precompiling and publishing those dependencies on a private package index. Thankfully there are only a handful of dependencies that need this.
Even better : ignore unknown numbers, real unknown people can leave voicemail.

(Hopefully leaving voicemail keeps out of reach of spammers, I guess it's just too expensive for them ?)
Apparently, a lot of it can be avoided altogether, as many of the chocolate producing countries in Africa still use leaded gas which gets into the soil.
Very cool! I was actually looking for something like this to personalize demos on our platform. Will try it out!
Interesting juxtaposition against yesterday's front page: Valve updates Half Life 2 for 25th Anniversary.

If the requirements are still accurate, it will run on XP with 512MB RAM.
Usenet and the Future of Comp.text.tex [pdf]
Are there any Macs that can run 13.4 but can't run 13.5?
Everything Will Change in 2025 (Housing Market, Jobs, Hand-Outs, the Dollar) [video]
Bingo! Framer it is

However i hired a designer for the landing page. My design skills are decent but for a product named "brand.dev" i thought it was worth it to pay for a proper design.
12kya spindle whorls and the innovation of wheeled rotational technologies
Strange article, social media isn’t going anywhere, it’s just evolving. The decline of X is due to Elon, that’s all.
we fail to perceive the intelligence of the animals around us.

I recent had a tiny hole in my floor through which mice came in (via the crawlspace) and foraged for food in the kitchen - evidenced by their droppings.

Mice/Rats have co-evolved with humans to be very intelligent, and the traps I laid out could not catch them - perhaps because i did not wear gloves, and they could perceive human scent. They could navigate paths around the home in complete darkness return back via the entrypoint. amazing.

I am convinced they can communicate with each-other, and they are very social, and are learning machines just as we humans are. I am also convinced that they are explorers - exploring the space around them for food using their keen sense of smell.

The way I got rid of them is not by trapping them, but by removing all exposed food sources, and blocking entrypoints, so they learnt that that it was pointless to come in.
Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
Let's match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as "Who's Hiring" but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.

Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.

Ground rules:

Post only if you maintain/run the project

One post per project/suite

No commercial recruitment

No thread complaints

Developers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.
There’s this whole genre of scientific questions it seems we’re just going to go back and forth about and mostly your opinion is based on your priors/personal beliefs. Kinda interesting but doesn’t seem like there will ever be a real definitive answer on the placebo effect. I wonder if there’s some kind of proof you could do on certain questions that would categorize them in this way.
SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
I have a Surface Laptop 7 with 32GB RAM (the Costco edition).

Software-wise as a user, no complaints. All the software I use (90% MS stack) works perfectly.

Even as a developer in the Windows space I have 0 complaints.

Moving to WSL, even that works fine, as long as the software you can get is ARM64 (as your WSL layer doesn't have an emulator). And there you run into brew not supporting ARM64 for Linux... yet.

In terms of hardware, I'm super happy. The fan barely runs. The battery life is amazing. The charging port is MS' version of Magsafe, and adds safety.

The screen is not bad, but not good either. I wish it was brighter and had a higher resolution.
It's probably worth finding out whether this is a bug or an intentional decision before making assumptions.
Matcha is having a moment. What are the health benefits of this green tea drink?
Tomorrow, LLMs will be able to perform slightly below-average versions of whatever humans are capable of doing tomorrow. Because they work by predicting what a human would produce based on training data.
What does this tool give you that a regular markdown editor (like the one available at GitHub ) doesn't? Suggested sections? It seems like just another markdown editor to me but I'm probably missing something.
> Per TechCrunch, a CarePod subscription cost $99 a month, and Forward didn’t accept insurance.

More likely, insurers wouldn’t fund this obvious garbage when pitched on the tech.
If feels like the entire world has gone crazy.

Even the serious idea that the article thinks could work is throwing the unreliable LLMs at verification! If there's any place you can use something that doesn't work most of the time, I guess it's there.
I hope they included the iconic worst-in-the-world backlight into it.
Explain the "don't test implementation"
Generative models are bimodal - in certain tasks they are crazy terrible , and in certain tasks they are better than humans. The key is to recognize which is which.

And much more important:

- LLMs can suddenly become more competent when you give them the right tools, just like humans. Ever try to drive a nail without a hammer?

- Models with spatial and physical awareness are coming and will dramatically broaden what’s possible

It’s easy to get stuck on what LLMs are bad at. The art is to apply an LLMs strengths to your specific problem, often by augmenting the LLM with the right custom tools written in regular code
I agree that feelings are okay. But also the internet and society is so overloaded with emotional hyperboles. I like with HN that a lot of people make the effort to be bit more diplomatic, less aggressive and more based in facts than most online communities.
I think this essay is valuable in helping me clarify just what is meant by placebo effects, and their putative biological mechanisms and processes.

The arguments should not be summarily dismissed (a lot of thinking and research went into this essay). The arguments should be taken apart and critiqued individually.

In particular I agree with the key idea that it is important to critically evsluate the strength of evidence and the strength of experimental designs that favor long-lasting functional placebo effects.

If a design is a perfectly implemented triple-blinded study (https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/double-blind-study/) in which a reliable outcome measure is significantly affected with a reasonably large effect size—-for example, a Cohen’s d score above 0.2) then the evidence in favor would be pretty compelling (https://www.statology.org/interpret-cohens-d/). And very compelling us independently replicated in a second case/control study.

But how many studies reach this level? I doubt that there are any in animal model research with which I am more familiar.

If “faith and prayer” are regarded as a placebo effect then how much does this reduce the incidence and impact of illness when controlling well for socioeconomic factors? Was COVID severity modulated by said factors (or ivermectin ;-) ?
YC is just spraying & praying AI, like most investors
Study finds high-speed internet link to increased obesity
Not quite. Photomator + Photos is sort of a Lightroom alternative but it’s not a fully integrated photo management system to the level of aperture or Lightroom.

There’s a lot of organizational workflows that neither photos nor Photomator even attempt to include today. Ratings, multiple tags, quick selects, rapid export presets, multiple version handling etc
Very helpful, thank you. This also makes it apparent (it wasn't clear to me before) that each graph is declared alongside the data. You cannot reuse a graph to run multiple times on different data; you define the graph every time.
The "reverse" effect would be a Nocebo. Which also exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo