MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tdpvb | 2025-05-11 00:17:53+00:00
Dr. Barkley's counterargument is essentially "it's preposterous to suggest that ADHD isn't well defined ... because clearly it is well defined," but that's a circular argument -- and still conflates "diagnosis" with "loose pattern of symptoms". He seems to get a bit emotional and take things personally; as if merely questioning the status quo of drugging kids implies that he is a bad person. Though we can't blame individual doctors for doing what they and the system institutionally thinks is best, it's still important to have critical, objective dialogue, even if it's uncomfortable. (Although my favorite de-motivational poster quote seems relevant here: "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood".)

He also bristles that "They're only classified as Schedule II drugs!", etc. Let's be explicitly clear, they're amphetamine salts; we're drugging kids with amphetamine uppers.

Dr. Barkley is so (pseudo?)certain! Yet it all begs the question: How on earth did humanity survive back when cavepeople had such inadequate access to amphetamines?

Re: TBI leads to ADHD -- not saying that subcase is never true, but in the context of this thread, "why more US cases of ADHD vs. the world," unless children in the US suffer from proportionally more incidents of TBI to explain the uptick, then TBI isn't as relevant.
by account-5 | 2025-05-11 00:17:58+00:00
I replied to this 3 days ago even though it looks like hours ago now. Either way I've another question, that's similar.

If this is a local first app, why not use the sqlite database itself for state management? Powersync themselves talk about it here:

https://www.powersync.com/blog/how-local-first-simplifies-fl...

Flutter state management always seemed clunky and complicated to me. With the caveat I'm developing small projects in it that tend not to need complicated state management functionality.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-11 00:18:21+00:00
Do you think the world benefits from this monopoly though? I think the world would be a worse place without Google, a much worse place. While it would be nice to live in some timeline were lots of choices for search (there actually are, people are just lazy and don't like change), but we built a world with Google and let it get to where its at. We will just be shooting ourselves in our own foot, at least in the short term.
by classichasclass | 2025-05-11 00:18:58+00:00
It's a Z80 in a cartridge and was capable of booting CP/M 2.2. But don't get too excited: the 1541 was still the 1541, so it could only run software that had been copied to a GCR disk (no directly reading MFM floppies).

CP/M Plus on the 128 was much more useful because the 1571 could read MFM disks, though it was hobbled by its architecture and ran slower than it should have.
by mrandish | 2025-05-11 00:19:27+00:00
I had a Radio Shack Color Computer and Radio Shack actually sold a ROM cartridge (right alongside all the game cartridges) that was an editor/assembler. That's how I got started in assembler. The manual that came with it covered using the assembler itself but only had a minimal overview of 6809 CPU assembly language. Pretty strange that you could pick up an assembly language IDE at your local Radio Shack store (with over 7000 locations, virtually every town in the U.S. had at least one Radio Shack).

My teenaged self actually looked up Motorola in the phone book and called their offices asking for information on how to program their CPU. Some nice salesperson there took pity on me and sent me their 6809 reference manual along with a quick reference card for free. The manual was quite a sizable book that I wasn't fully ready to understand yet but that reference card was my constant companion. I still have it today. :-)
by lolinder | 2025-05-11 00:19:33+00:00
> I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority.

This is not a problem with this feature, this is a problem with your office's expectations surrounding communication.

At my workplace this exchange looks like a slack message along these lines:

> Hey, can I get a copy of the info from side 10? I'll use it for $X.
by WillieCubed | 2025-05-11 00:19:54+00:00
AFAIK, Google stopped making Timeline accessible on the web in favor of local-first storage to avoid having to give location data when subpoenaed by law enforcement (since they can't give away data they literally don't have access to). And they didn't want to deal with the headache of user privacy-related lawsuits, so they defaulted Google accounts into auto-deleting location history (which was already opt-in for years).
by joey_spaztard | 2025-05-11 00:20:30+00:00
CB radio

Specifically 27MHz CB radio.

People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends.

Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting range is reduced because stations from 600 miles to thousands of miles away are coming in.

In the days when it was popular trolling assholes would jam and disrupt. people up on a hill with an illegal high power amplifier talked over people.

In the 1970s and 1980s high power AM transmissions sometimes blasted out of the neighbors cheaply-made hifi or scrambled their TV picture.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

The eleven meter wavelength means you need a reasonably large antenna for good performance.

These days it is local CB is almost dead in most places and the noise level is often high in towns due to every house having a dozen switch mode power supplies and other electronics, which really reduces the range.

Decades ago, when it was popular, it was chaotic. Some CB radios did not receive well if someone nearby was talking within a few channels of you. Meet ups at pubs sometimes turned into fist fights.

These days, in most of Europe and the UK you may sometimes hear the last few old men and crazy nitwits that still use CB radio but they are often far away and a legal 4watt radio does not get out far enough for anyone to hear you.
by cyberax | 2025-05-11 00:22:02+00:00
Google Fi is just an MVNO, and there are quite a few competitors in this area (e.g. I'm using US-Mobile). They have comparable prices, so I'd guess that Fi is at least not operating at a loss.

Existing Fiber customers are basically a free money printing press. That's not going to change. But the new area buildouts can slow down.

Honestly, Google has been so un-innovative for so long, that it's hard to make a case for them. They just don't have a lot of products that are really benefiting from being under the umbrella of a large company.

I can definitely see an argument that back in 2006, Google Docs would have been impossible without access to the internal Google infrastructure and the unique expertise of Google engineers. These days? It's just a run-of-the-mill cloud application that can be trivially hosted on commercially available AWS or Google Compute.

Perhaps treating Google as a huge VC company would be more fair.
by pizlonator | 2025-05-11 00:22:36+00:00
The Fil-C stack is composed of :

- Userland: the place where you C code lives. Like the normal userland you're familiar with, but everything is compiled with Fil-C, so it's memory safe.

- Yololand: the place where Fil-C's runtime lives. Fil-C's runtime is about 100,000 lines of C code (almost entirely written by me), which currently has libc as a dependency (because the runtime makes syscalls using the normal C functions for syscalls rather than using assembly directly; also the runtime relies on a handful of libc utility functions that aren't syscalls, like memcpy).

So Fil-C has two libc's. The yololand libc (compiled with a normal C compiler, only there to support the runtime) and the userland libc (compiled with the Fil-C compiler like everything else in Fil-C userland, and this is what your C code calls into).
by ankit219 | 2025-05-11 00:23:03+00:00
It's 100% Google saves my data. And gives me an option to delete that data. It uses that data, and while I have some degree of control over it, i don't have full control over it.

As a user it's preposterous that any kind of data generated by me is anonymized (or not) and effectively sold to a third party. First party usage is kind of understandable. What YC and the govt is asking is that Google should be forced to do exactly that? Sell some data points about me generated by my interactions without my consent. That too it seems for no fee. Without even asking for the permission from the users. What kind of clown world are we living in? I dont care if its anonymized.

Presumably, if that data is so useful, why dont all of these companies lining up to pay the users?Take permission from the users, pay them, and then use whatever they want. Data is only useful in the aggregate, pay ln the aggregate too for whatever revenue and market cap they reach. Doing it without the user consent in 2025 is weird.
by neilv | 2025-05-11 00:24:50+00:00
Alan Kay's "The Early History of Smalltalk" (1993) is long, and absolutely worth a read, and includes this memorable bit about Kay seeing Simula for the first time:

> Finally, another graduate student and I unrolled the program listing 80 feet down the hall and crawled over it yelling discoveries to each other. The weirdest part was the storage allocator, which did not obey a stack discipline as was usual for Algol. A few days later, that provided the clue. What Simula was allocating were structures very much like the instances of Sketchpad. There were descriptions that acted like masters and they could create instances, each of which was an independent entity. What Sketchpad called masters and instances, Simula called activities and processes. Moreover, Simula was a procedural language for controlling Sketchpad-like objects, thus having considerably more flexibility than constraints (though at some cost in elegance) [Nygaard, 1966, Nygaard, 1983].

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/155360.155364
by gibusen | 2025-05-11 00:24:54+00:00
hacker culture =/= martyr culture. I fundamentally disagree with the central premise of your entire perspective.

Society is not entitled to value. If you have the skills to create value for others, then you will inevitably have to use capital to actually scale it. In the process, through voluntary transactions, that enterprise might profit and grow - creating more value for others in the process. The question is really: who profits? I think your perspective is exceedingly misplaced in that, by necessity, it intrinsically hands control of each new innovation to said MBA-types. If a society drafts policies that make it extremely difficult to take control of your own innovation and scale it according to your own wishes, then you are implicitly leaving that work to others who (more often than not) will not share your philosophies. If a society wants to enact policies that make it difficult for a person to take ownership over their own innovations, then they should not be shocked when it becomes extremely difficult to appeal to innovators in the first place. Instead of realizing that the commentor wants to take command of the destiny of their innovations, you go down this peculiar moralizing argument that's orthogonal to their entire point. How do you know they haven't created more value for society than you have, and why are you so comfortable demanding the nature of that value creation happen on your terms?

Also, this forum is managed by a VC firm. They explicitly support people taking charge of their own creations and scaling that to society. People are allowed to ask if a society has created legitimate bottlenecks to accomplishing that.
by volemo | 2025-05-11 00:25:00+00:00
I wish [1] our (western) culture was not built on a bicameral [2] alphabet, but c'est la vie: uppercase and lowercase are distinct through out our lives, and thus computers must not break the norm. “MW” != “mW” and “Taylor” != “taylor”.

[1]: Capitalisation could have been made purely stylistic, the same way italics are — it’s a helpful hint for the reader, but isn’t expected to convey meaning on its own, therefore, generally can be stripped without loss of information.

[2]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicase
by dannycastonguay | 2025-05-11 00:28:02+00:00
Why do antitrust proposals always suggest breaking up Google by function—Search, Ads, Gmail, etc.? What if, instead, we cloned the whole company?

Start by splitting Google into two identical, full-stack companies, each with all the core products. A year later, split them again. Over time, you get 4 or 8 Googles competing across the board.

Employees could be assigned algorithmically to avoid chaos. This feels more like cell division than amputation—preserving the synergies while creating competition.
by caseyy | 2025-05-11 00:28:06+00:00
I know many pro-LLM people here are very smart, but sometimes it's wise to heed the words of world-renowned experts on a subject.

Otherwise, you may end up defending this and it's really foolish:

> “Seriously, good for you for standing up for yourself and taking control of your own life,” it reportedly responded to a user, who claimed they had stopped taking their medication and had left their family because they were “responsible for the radio signals coming in through the walls”.
by kgdiem | 2025-05-11 00:28:15+00:00
Gotcha! I did a 2 second google to illustrate what I was trying to ask in my original question about someone trying to recruit researchers. I did a ChatGPT query to see what my hypothetical would be and it quoted ~$44,880 USD, not taking it as gospel though.

I have worked at startups and got some worthless equity. I've also launched some (small) things on my own and am very interested in building large things, raising some money, etc.

Given OOP is actively recruiting I'm really just curious how this could effect your/their/someone in or interested in Norway's thinking when they could go anywhere in the EU or from TFA, remain in the US.
Show HN: Swytch – A lightweight, alternative web framework in C#
by Gwali-Gwali | 2025-05-11 00:28:44+00:00
Hello HN,

I’d love to share something I’ve worked on over the past few months.

Swytch is a lightweight and fun alternative web framework written in C#.

I had to work with C# professionally early last year, so I wanted to spend some time digging into the language and its ecosystem. While it wasn’t too difficult (coming from other languages), I found the .NET world to be quite formal compared to what I was used to, with most content and tooling focused on ASP.NET Core and large-scale enterprise applications.

I wanted to explore C# in a more raw and expressive way, which led me to build Swytch.

It’s been a really fun project, and I’m especially happy to have followed it through to a stable release.

I’d love any kind of feedback.

Thanks.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-11 00:30:17+00:00
> "And that's hundreds of jobs right here in our region and across the country," he said, adding that his port had not witnessed such a significant downturn in activity since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

So much for "creating jobs for Americans", which is supposedly what this is all about. Shocking to me that some people actually believe Trump when he says that.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-05-11 00:31:12+00:00
Recommending to stay away from something is a valid recommendation in my mind :-). I may not agree, and in this case I don't, but I appreciate the spirit in which it's given.

Disco elysium, deus ex, cyberpunk 2077 have tremendous replay value to me in various ways. The story, for me, builds the flavour and the world, gets excited and invested, so that I want to replay and spend time in that game. It's not tough mutually exclusive from also enjoying games purely for their mechanics.
by jader201 | 2025-05-11 00:31:56+00:00
> Almost all the things in this list were acquired from someone else that built them, rebranded, and then given away for free

Nearly everything that was acquired was a) already free, and b) built (and given away for free) in hopes that someone like Google would acquire them.

If you look at most startups, their exit strategy is acquisition. Some would live to IPO, but that is a much tougher road.

It could be argued that IPO is a less likely exit strategy because of Google’s and others’ position, but I think it’s disingenuous to imply that startups (that are already giving away their products for free) are getting acquired as a last resort.

Most CEOs plan and hope for it.
by pelagicAustral | 2025-05-11 00:32:04+00:00
If you want to talk about redundancy in domain naming conventions look no further. The Falkland Islands ran FIG.GOV.FK for government websites, in the shape of FIG.GOV.FK/CUSTOMS meaning "Customs service of the Falkland Islands Government (FIG), of the government (GOV) of the Falkland Islands (FK)". Even today they dont shake the FALKLANDS.GOV.FK which is again redundant...
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-11 00:32:59+00:00
Well, the very recent Papal document that talked about this [1], did compare it to Revelation 13:15 [2] very explicitly [3]. I can't help but think he's piggybacking off that notion.

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

[2] "and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain." (Rev 13:15)

[3] `Moreover, AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that “have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear” (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can “speak,” or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15). Yet, it is vital to remember that AI is but a pale reflection of humanity—it is crafted by human minds, trained on human-generated material, responsive to human input, and sustained through human labor. AI cannot possess many of the capabilities specific to human life, and it is also fallible. By turning to AI as a perceived “Other” greater than itself, with which to share existence and responsibilities, humanity risks creating a substitute for God. However, it is not AI that is ultimately deified and worshipped, but humanity itself—which, in this way, becomes enslaved to its own work`
by int_19h | 2025-05-11 00:33:00+00:00
The precise formula, assuming that object was at rest at the event horizon, is:

τ = (2√2)·R/3c

So "fraction of a second" is only true if you're talking about relatively small black holes. For a supermassive one, it can take hours or even days for the largest ones.

But note again that this assumes no orbit, just falling straight towards it from rest. For orbiting objects it could take much longer depending on their velocity.

Also, this all is from the perspective of the observer who is undergoing the fall. From the outside, time dilation means that objects never actually cross the event horizon at all - no matter how long you wait, you'll see them as they were getting closer and closer to it, but never the actual crossing.
by disambiguation | 2025-05-11 00:33:45+00:00
I would describe myself as the opposite of OP (very bad at reading people) so it was quite a shock the first time I met someone like this. Not only for the revelation that these type of people exist, but the experience of another person reading my "internal architecture" - and subsequently judging it - it opened a new avenue of self reflection for me. And while I think there's still a lot of the subjectivity in the author's formulation, I do have a relatively new appreciation for "people watching" insights like this now.
by kouteiheika | 2025-05-11 00:34:20+00:00
No, the OP is right, although perhaps for the wrong reasons.

In a 100 (or a few hundred) years none of the games from that physical archive will be playable, as both the physical media and the physical consoles needed to play those games will become unusable. Physical archives work only as long as the physical medium itself lasts.

The only way to actually preserve games is to digitize them. Period. Collecting physical media and consoles is a fun hobby, but in the long term it's completely useless if the goal is preservation. If you want to preserve games you should be dumping whatever undumped games still exist, contribute to databases like no-intro.org, and download and seed/share what has already been dumped. This is what will help preserve those games, not a physical collection that will turn into an unusable paperweight sooner or later.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-11 00:36:18+00:00
Sure, the words she uses to represent her observations is a reflection of her self; in that she describes it in a more creatively descriptive way than, say, a scientist in a laboratory. It's observation, not research; but it's also not judgment which is where I find projection lives.

Under that I see someone whose job it is to be keenly observant and to notice these things, otherwise she wouldn't be a very good wedding painter. It probably helps that she seems to be passionate about observing people. Why have someone paint your wedding if the painter isn't able to understand and observe the nuances of human interactions going on?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-05-11 00:36:43+00:00
Not just bad. There isn't a single piece of Apple software that is (1) free and (2) people choose to use on iOS, only use because the user is forced to. Photos? Forced, sucks. iMessage? Forced, sucks. Apple Mail, Calendar, Contacts? Huge pieces of shit. The App Store, the very gateway into competition, is the shittiest of all, and not just because the 30% fee, but because its discovery is maybe the worst ever made by any catalog-style front end in the world.

At least they opened up the password completion APIs.
by viraptor | 2025-05-11 00:37:11+00:00
> and still conflates "diagnosis" with "loose pattern of symptoms"

He doesn't, he's really precise about the naming in those cases. For now we don't have a better way to diagnose, but you can follow him review papers which do try to improve the diagnosis. If ADHD is defined in terms of symptoms, the diagnosis has to use those.

> He seems to get a bit emotional

Oh no, someone cares about their field of work being misrepresented. I'm glad it never happens in places like HN ;) You can listen to the arguments and ignore how he feels about the topic.

> Let's be explicitly clear, they're amphetamine salts; we're drugging kids with amphetamine uppers.

First, only one part of available drugs are amphetamines - there are other options. Second, they don't work for them the same as others. I've had the most relaxing naps after stimulants, which is not why others use them. I'm not sure what you're specifically against here - improving kids' lives by giving them meds that others can abuse for fun? Is this just about a moral take? Because we know that medication in ADHD lowers the chance of dying from multiple causes https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10901868/

> How on earth did humanity survive back when cavepeople had such inadequate access to amphetamines?

Just like we do today. Some people have a bit worse experience with life than others. Is not like ADHD kills you in short term, just lowers the life expectancy.