skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be true, but I don't think the case presented here is very compelling.

The general problem is it interprets the evidence to fit the conclusion: studies showing a placebo effect are interpreted as having bad methodology while ones showing no effect are interpreted as having correct methodology.

Of course, study design can exaggerate the effect. Does that mean it's doesn't exist, though?

Probably the more general problem is that contrarian views get clicks (and all that goes with that) which creates an unfortunate incentive.
When Half-Life 2 came out it caused me to break a video game addiction I'd had since being a teenager. I was so awestruck by the quality and enjoyment I derived from the game that after playing through it any other game I tried later paled in comparison to the memory. It got to the point that I couldn't make it more than 30 minutes into a new game without losing interest and eventually I just stopped buying games altogether and that was it. I'm still not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
no I mean that they are not reproducible and don't show up in randomised controlled trials without intellectual dishonesty.
This is nothing more than someone complaining that they’re being required to consider that the idea of relentless innovation that steamrolls all other concerns might not be the right way to think about progress, and then contriving an idea that labeling technical progress as a religion is a way to sidestep a course requirement.

This might seem like a profound idea to a university student who’s very technically minded, but it’s just exposing their naïveté.

I would recommend that this person needs to spend more time exposed to non-technical pursuits to gain a better perspective on the world, instead of inventing “logical” ways to avoid such exposure. Having this requirement in the curriculum is ironically bolstered by the author’s objection to it.
Truncating the public key to fit in an IPv6 address isn’t totally ideal, agreed, but for now it means that just about any existing IPv6-capable application will work over Yggdrasil without modification, which is a nice property for a testnet.
Isn't it more like a superstition to assume the placebo effect is real (and not just a measurement artifact or regression to the mean)? It is hard to make a scientific experiment that could show the placebo effect to be real:

> t’s impossible to achieve a blind when comparing placebo to no treatment, since the placebo itself is the main method for blinding in the first place.
If you are struggling to understand the README, I highly recommend the book Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan by Richard McElreath. Although the examples are in R, the same concepts apply to Pyro (and NumPyro)

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26619686-statistical-ret...
> imagine here the xkcd comic about standards

These tools come and go in the Python world... It's basically like JavaScript frameworks. It seems that people recommend a different one every month
> There's almost zero chance they backtrack on this. Amazon is looking to reduce costs, this is fairly cheap since people will quit. Anyone who is irreplaceable will be exempted.

This was very clear from the start, even the timing of mandating RTO while announcing mass layoffs. I don't know what compells anyone within Amazon to focus on the red herring.
i’m flattered you made an acct just to wish us luck :) EX is here, and the jank is gone (although Element Call is admittedly still beta). Sorry it comes too late for you.

But just as Bluesky dipped and then returned with critical mass, so can Matrix. The uptake patterns of decentralised platforms seems to be much less linear than the tightly controller centralised apps of the path.
I love this initiative. We thought it would be a great idea to have a radar specifically for our own internal projects. Turns out that many companies are doing this already!

ThoughtWorks even provides open-source tooling to help you set this up.

For our second iteration we rewrote the entire radar frontend to better suit our needs. Using ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot, this was a breeze.

[1] https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/byor
Apple does a lot of good stuff, But remember that their whole business model is selling hardware. They have no financial interest in making it easy to continue to use old phones.
Yes but not for a specific job, given by the employer, and certainly not for every job. And this is only one of the professional fields mentioned.
Not once they have familiarity with the language at all.

One of your examples has a word within a word, so it's like half pronounced if you can say "structure" which I think difficult to mispronounce.
It's always braggable to be able to do that more than another language, but I'm not sure how mainstream or common it is to have the use case of requiring numerical manipulation at the scale of number of molecules in the universe
Dreamt of fine design,
layers of code, art refined—
found wrappers instead.

Nothing to see here folks.
I really believe that the confluence of these paradigm shifting technologies will enable even greater gains in productivity.

With our new AI enabled smart algorithms, we can meta-analyze transactions in systems such as blockchain networks to identify areas where resources can be more effectively aggregated.

We also gave tight integration with salesforce and Jira, enabling next-gen teams to conduct research and ship products with much flatter management structure.

I wish word salad artist was a profession
The abstract is interesting. I don't understand economics enough to approve or disapprove, but it looks to me like all the right elements are there.
Who is letting an AI kiosk draw their blood? That's crazy.
The evidence is that the stream went down.

We will see why it went down and to what extent they underinvested in their post mortem.
iOS dropped 32-bit support because the CPU itself no longer supports AArch32. Virtualization won’t help.
if you bet on an Indian behind the wheel of Tesla you win most. Inverse bet with Jeeps.

Sorry that clear observations violate decorum.
This is not my domain so my knowledge is limited, but I wonder if the chip designers have some sort of a standard library of ready to use components. Do you have to design e.g. ALU every time you design a new CPU or is there some standard component to use? I think having a proven components that can be glued on a higher level may be the key to productivity here.

Returning to LLMs. I think the problem here may be that there is simply not enough learning material for LLM. Verilog comparing to C is a niche with little documentation and even less open source code. If open hw were more popular I think LLMs could learn to write better Verilog code. Maybe the key is to persuade hardware companies to share their closed source code to teach LLM for the industry benefit?
We're going to see the return of diseases we have controlled for decades
> they put developers in situations they’d never face in the workplace, where collaboration and support are standard

If you are the one doing the supporting of your collaborators it's pretty much just like a coding challenge.

"your coworker needs to Inver binary tree but doesn't know how, can you help him? ... also the Internet just returns interview worthy crap when you try to search"
Chances are Jake might fight Connor McGregor. Sure, Connor is not as famous as Tyson but that will also invite a large number of people to stream it.
> Introducing a subjective, belief-driven course as a mandatory requirement within an otherwise objective, fact-based program undermines the integrity of the curriculum and its focus on evidence-based learning.

This seems like a subjective belief, but the entire position described at the blog depends on it being objectively true.

Having said that, the complaint amounts to 'I object to having to sit through a class with a guest speaker I didn't like hearing', so not terribly consequent. I'm guessing it was like 1 hour out of a 168-hour week? This honestly seems like good workforce training in attending a meeting you don't want to attend.

I'm not sure where the author gets the idea that we should be exempted from a course because we don't like hearing something said during one of the classes, religious or otherwise? Like, I am having trouble understanding why the below assertion is true:

> individuals [should] have the freedom to opt out of mandatory courses that do not align with their professional focus or are antithetical to their personal positions

On another level, the choice is still there anyways: the degree plans of most colleges and universities are available, and we can each choose to apply for degrees with which we agree. The one from the article seems to want its degree to include some education on sustainability. I doubt every college or university in the world does.
Yggdrasil was actually inspired in part by cjdns but the design is very different. We care deeply about scale and we want an Yggdrasil network to be able to grow organically without requiring a strict hierarchy, huge amounts of state etc. We’re still working on it of course but for now the public test network is somewhere around 5000-6000 nodes and continues to work pretty well as it grows.
SQL to Natural for Databases?
AI generated granny helping to waste scammers time
Note that placebos aren't just limited to areas like pain and depression, but were also used in clincal trials that involved infectious disease treatments, including antibiotics and vaccines. In these cases, the issue is not the effect of the mind/brain/nervous system so much as the body's immune and biochemical processing systems (liver/kidneys).

Thus, in some kinds of infectious disease, the body is entirely capable of clearing the infection on its own in most cases as long as the subject isn't suffering some kind of immunodeficiency (e.g. all the strange diseases that HIV patients succumbed to before antiviral therapy was introduced). Studies like this led to the movement to reduce antibiotic treatment for minor infections that are very unlikely to lead to issues like sepsis etc, given the deleterious side effects on the human microbiome and so on. A placebo study might also reveal significant problems with toxicity, such as liver-kidney damage to the subject caused by a problem with the antibiotic under study.

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?

As far as depression/mental health studies, placebos are often readily detectable by the patient, which is a big problem in today's research into the 5-HT2a receptor drug research (eg psilocybin, LSD, DMT, mescaline). They've tried to get around this by giving subjects drugs like methyphenidate and methamphetamine as the 'placebo' (because the subject clearly can tell when they've been given a powerful psychoactive substance), but this is not a usual placebo, it's an alternative treatment.
Yes, and the medical licensing board is in charge of that, not the employer, and every doctor is evaluated to the same standards. Also, doctors are only one of the professions mentioned.

Somehow in programming every interview starts from the assumption that the candidate must prove competence to the employer, and the employer decides what "competent" means.
Someone would have to maintain all the old OS versions that would be required to run those old apps, and keep those OS versions reasonably secure. That sounds like a maintenance nightmare to me.
1. seeing who originally wrote the file i'm working on, which can set up some expectations, eg i know a certain someone likely didn't test the code well, if at all, so i know that i'm going to spend time constraining the existing code with tests before i can even get into it properly
2. figuring out what i did today so i can fill in the absolutely pointless timesheet that i have to fill out every day, because we can't just assign hours to a trello card, no! we have to also blurb about it so someone else can gloss over it
But if you don't have a job right now... you have time to put in to projects that can showcase your specific skills.

But then... you may end up demonstrating that you can take raw ideas and build an entire business out of them yourself, end to end, soup to nuts, and now you're threatening to others on the team who just want someone who codes, not a jack of all trades.
They could do with defining what "the placebo effect" they are refuting actually is.

I thought placebo proponents were usually advocating it for things like pain relief, tinnitus, fatigue, etc. Things where what you are consciously thinking can make a difference to your experience even if it doesn't actually fix the underlying issue.

I think that's quite a bit different from thinking that placebos actually heal wounds.
A vibration motor would have been even better, but I suppose there wasn't enough space inside for that. Nor for a speaker.

This is Casio, though. If they really want to, the next version could very well contain all of that and a solar battery.
> feels like a misty-eyed throwback to 2005.

Feels like let's get people to invest in our platform and once they're locked in make them pay.
Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens
Those projects can be demonstrating your skill/ability in all areas - testing, docs, UI/UX/DX, support, project management, sales/marketing and more. But now you're possibly (likely?) coming across as more accomplished than the rest of the team, and somehow you think you know more than others who've been at the company for years.
I may be off, but are you serious about asking that question ?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1422109/#:~:text=About%2050%....
It looks like this is just a kernel memory leak? I suppose it could lead to DoS attacks from untrusted containers, but that seems to be the extent of it.

Also, the issue seems to be with storing already-parsed IPv6 addresses, not with actually parsing them.
Just goes to show you can be very smart and very naive at the same time.

It’s amazing that people will reach all these crazy solutions - anything to admit that we have more than enough now for everyone but that it isn’t fairly distributed.

3 men have more wealth than 50% of America combined? Oh yes, the problem is clearly that we haven’t accelerated technology enough.

If anything there’s a silly lack of class consciousness.
> record turnout for the US isn't very high in international terms

Who are you comparing it to? The U.S. is middle of the pack in the OECD [1].

The highest-turnout countries are Equitorial Guinea, Rwanda and Turkmenistan [2]. None are democracies.

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/reg_glance-2009-35-e...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/voter-tur...
My point is that given a prior of 'wired in a chess engine', my posterior odds that they would make it plausibly-good and not implausibly-good approaches one.

For a variety of boring reasons, I'm nearly convinced that what they did was either, as you say, train heavily on chess texts, or a plausible variation of using mixture-of-experts and having one of them be an LLM chess savant.

Most of the sources I can find on the ELO of Stockfish at the lowest setting are around 1350, so that part also contributes no weights to the odds, because it's trivially possible to field a weak chess engine.

The distinction between prior and posterior odds is critical here. Given a decision to cheat (which I believe is counterfactual on priors), all of the things you're trying to Occam's Razor here are trivially easy to do.

So the only interesting considerations are the ones which factor into the likelihood of them deciding to cheat. If you even want to call it that, shelling out to a chess engine is defensible, although the stochastic fault injection (which is five lines of Python) in that explanation of the data does feel like cheating to me.

What I do consider relevant is that, based on what I know of LLMs, intensively training one to emit chess tokens seems almost banal in terms of outcomes. Also, while I don't trust OpenAI company culture much, I do think they're more interested in 'legitimately' weighting their products to pass benchmarks, or just building stuff with LLMs if you prefer.

I actually think their product would benefit from more code which detects "stuff normal programs should be doing" and uses them. There's been somewhat of a trend toward that, which makes the whole chatbot more useful. But I don't think that's what happened with this one edition of GPT 3.5.
This is seriously cool. One lens galaxy is amazing, but two! (Too bad that this is not steerable.)

Underlying paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04177
They summarize their positions clearly in the introduction which is basically on objective observation the placebo effect doesn’t emerge in the physiology but in the self reported effects. While they seem to hold psychology as not relevant because it’s not objectively observable, the less hard ass way to read this is the placebo effect doesn’t produce objectively measurable effects on physiology but it does appear to have a psychological effect.

They are positing the psychological effects are confirmation bias and conforming to expectations, but what they don’t address is whether the psychological outcome is real. Depression is greatly impacted by our psychology and whether the effect is due to some social conformity, beliefs, or other non physiological basis, is irrelevant to the efficacy.

Ultimately the authors argument is based on the notion that psychology is not real science, because science deals with things you can directly observe, and anything that isn’t real science is false. This is obviously fallacious. Even assuming psychology isn’t a real science, and psychology researchers have done themselves no favors here, the second statement is where the fallacy lies. Well done science is generally not false. But not everything that is true has been explained by science. Something can be true without us knowing the facts of how it works. Psychology requires self reporting by its very nature and as such is subject to all sorts of bias and difficult to control aspects - some impossible to control - and it’s likely some aspects of psychology are cultural and contextual and change with time. This doesn’t make it not real and not true. It just makes it difficult.
I think there's a placebo effect that is related strictly to the human interaction effect - you go to see a doctor, the doctor pays attention to you, you feel like people care about what happens to you, and so your mood improves. I have no idea how to quantify this effect (send pills in the mail with no human interaction?) but it appears to be significant in some cases of depression.
I think they are taking issue with escalating an already dismissive argument to infinity. It's Godwin's law - even if you're calling the other guy Hitler, you still brought it up in the first place
Any country can rename cities however they want, they can't erase the fact that they were called something else in the past, and that people remember the previous name.

Saint Petersburg was renamed to Petrograd, then Leningrad and then Saint Petersburg again but when Germans sieged the town in 1941, it was Leningrad.

But if your point is more about how people call them, well you're going down another rabbit hole with me.

Just for Belgium, all the major international cities have a name in the 3 official languages. (Dutch, French and German) : Cairo in Egypt is called Caïro (D), Le Caire (F) and Kairo(G).

There I've never met anyone using "Beijing" for the capital of China, it's always "Pékin"(F) and "Peking"(D). [1] [2]

And within Belgium itself, many towns have their names in the 3 languages; Liège (F), Luik (D) and Lüttich(G).
(But other have only one like Knokke, Dinant or Eupen).

This can lead to many interesting situations, especially with the peculiar linguistic situation in Belgium :

- Anyone speaking their native language will use the name from that language : Mechelen in Dutch, Malines in French and Mecheln in German.

- Speaking in French with a Dutch native, they usually use the Dutch name.
If they are willing to use the French name, they'll switch to it if you didn't catch it in Dutch, otherwise, they'only use the Dutch name. [3]

- Speaking English with a French or Dutch native, they'll use the English name if it's Brussels and their language's name any other time, wherever it's located.
For cities in the Dutch speaking part, French natives will always use Anvers(F) for Antwerpen (D), Gand(F) for Gent(D) (even though it is Ghent in English).
For cities in the French speaking part, Dutch will always use Namen(D) for Namur(F) or Bergen(D) for Mons(F)

- French native often need to specify which city they are talking about when using "Louvain" because it can refer to Leuven or Louvain-la-Neuve.

- And everyone want that cities only be called with the name from their linguistic region... hence the first post that said that it's now called Leuven.

1. https://www.lesoir.be/635347/article/2024-11-12/attaque-la-v...

2. https://www.hln.be/economie/china-kondigt-weer-tijdelijke-ma...

3. Which brings me to my true story of meeting a guy from France that only knew the town Luik and never heard of Liège. Nobody in Liège call it Luik, just like nobody in Leuven call it Louvain.
> It's sad that tech employees won't collaborate to push back on management.

Some employees are like the Boxer character from Animal Farm[1]. I vividly recall Amazon employees complaining about Amazon's new leadership principle "strive to be Earth's best employer", and once the job cuts started to hit home there were employees attacking fellow employees with jabs such as "being the Earth's best employer means those who do not like it should just leave", and "you're whining here but 10 would eagerly take your place".

One of the biggest scams is making you believe that your fellow employees are looking out for your best interests, as there were no backstabbers around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)
Underlying report: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78721-8
Or learning through self-play. Chip design sounds like an area where (this would be hard!) a sufficiently powerful simulator and/or FPGA could allow reinforcement learning to work.

Current LLMs can’t do it, but the assumption that that’s what YC meant seems wildly premature.
> It looks like you're writing unsubstantiated nonsense. Would you like to turn it all caps ?

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"Seems like it currently only supports protocols http, mysql, redis?"
yes, more protocols will be supported in future releases

"when you let it run through some wireguard vpn, the information is a lot more limited."
The support for such complex networks is not very good at this stage, but improvements are expected in future versions.
Article says "copyright 2000" at the bottom.