skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would a huge chunk of the population have a imbalance of brain chemicals?

That's what I think about from time to time as well. I have ADD and take meds for it. But I'm pretty sure that I only need these meds to be able to work in an open-space, corporate IT environment with dead-lines, responsibilities etc.

Without meds I get overwhelmed and panicky quickly, when taking them they turn me into kind of an office robot who's able to work without getting too stressed out or distracted by other things.

I suspect that I wouldn't need the meds if I had a different job. Which feels weird, because it sounds like I'm trying to fit into an environment, instead of being in an environment which fits me, if that makes sense. Then again, maybe everyone has to do that and it's just my biased perspective that I'm the one who's not made for it.

Which sucks, because I love IT, also as a hobby.

The easiest examples for that: Sometimes I do an IT project at home, maybe build a PC, configure a homelab, try out Stable Diffusion or edit videos from time to time. If I do these things at home I can easily sit in front of the computer for 5+ hours and loose track of time, but I don't seem to be able to be as focused for IT projects at work if I'm unmedicated. Unless they really interest me.
I knew React would show up here :)
I mean this is how humans learn. You look at code and over time you will spit out some section and in some cases large sections of things you have seen.

I guess when a computer does it people get creeped out. Or the computer is not smart enough to change the variables names. :)
I’ve always thought the fact that there are commercials for cancer drugs is very telling. Surely your oncologist will put you on what’s best, right?

I’ve never had cancer but my experience with plenty of other doctors points the other way, and that they wouldn’t be spending money on those commercials if they didn’t get a return from them.
this one hits home for me because I do work in academia where funding goes kaput frequently and I do have to agree on some level. Some of the most stable and popular tools in my field have few to zero dependencies and are written in c... bioinformaticians will know what I mean.
I think we'll look back to this era the same way we currently look back at the time we prescribed heroin for all kinds of things: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Drug_sto...

The fact that they work and helped people isn't mutually exclusive with the fact that they're abused, over prescribed and have crazy side effects
>Like it or not, you are your neurology. You are your synaptic structure, you are your neurotransmitters.

Yeah, but look who's saying that. Your neurology etc.

By that logic the cast of Seinfeld is a tribe of gnomes living inside your tv.
Came here to make your comment. I think though that in the time since manna was written the ratio of machine performance on hands on and creative tasks vs management tasks has radically equalized.
As you move around, the background color changes. It becomes greener and greener as you move near the random hidden goal and vice versa.
Breaking cycles or bootstrapping changes for those too overwhelmed with depression or anxiety to make lige changes are the ideal uses for the drugs. And then you are supposed to get weaned off them until the next spiral, and then ise rhem to shorten that one too. But in the US plenty of doctors seem to treat simply asking for these drugs as the requisite symptoms for diagnosis. Andany people I care about were diagnosed with chronic depression or anxiety as early teens when all sorts of things are happening. Decades later they still take them and who can say now if they ever needed them, but they certainly do now. It is the normal state for their brains and any attempt to wean would require those complex feedback loops to rebalance.

Continuous use isn't always bad either, but im the US we don't always try other options first, and if the mess work they almost never encourage you to stop, because if you hurt yourself that is a liability for them, but if you are a robot with no strong feelings about anything that eats cake, watches circuses and goes to work, then at least that is something.
> It's rather offensive to assume that a group of UX professionals decided to take on a massive overhaul just for fun.

And it's experience that says that they do. Maybe not for fun, but for another 3, 6, 9 mos of pay.
As someone living in the eternally rain-drenched and cloud-wreathed north of Europe, you lost me at "The sun..."
Just a tip; FDroids clone of Firefox (called "Fennec") isn't locked down from using add-ons.
I use this too, a very low dose to just alleviate my anxiety. If I don't take it, stress often leads to severe anxiety for me. The same way it leads to ulcers or other things for other people.

A small dose of it serves as a safety net for me. I still get it but it doesn't get out of control.

I've tried to do without in the past but eventually when I get in a rough patch things get bad and this drug is only affective after taking it for a few months. So just taking it when it's most needed is not an option.
Tags Are a Bad Data Model
Pretty cool. I had never thought to do this we my PhD genealogy before, it took about 10 clicks to get to Poisson (the first name I recognized).
Great article.

> I never ever again want to think about IP rules. I want to tell the cloud to connect service A and B!

DigitalOcean's firewall is a bit like this.
It's kind of weird how terrible this code is (according to software design 'best practices'). 5k lines in a single file, tons of repetition that could be replaced with more compact code etc.

I would think the author was a novice programmer, but looking at the creator's history they've already made Towerfall, another hugely acclaimed game (and one I still play to this day), about 5 years before this was released.

Yet the game itself is extremely polished.

I kind of have no idea where to take this thought, except that successful auters have very different sensibilities than garden variety programmers.
Apple has won a patent for the creation of Deepfakes
You've reduced a large swath of humanity to propaganda talking points.

The key point you fail to grasp is that this isn't going to be a stripping back but rather a consentration of power and focus around those you vilify. There will be less transparency and fewer chances for humanity to intervene on its behalf.
That's right, you are among the 0-15% SSRI's help. For the rest 85-100% of people they help as much as a sugar pill.
> Surely your oncologist will put you on what’s best, right?

No - best case scenario is they'll put you on the best that their budget and policy allows them to in your particular region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_lottery

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/2700686/Healthcare-p...
I find it amazing that we have people wringing their hands every year that the US dropped ‘tactical’ nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the biggest war ever. And how that is a lesson we should learn and burden we should carry, but in Ukraine, never mind, it’s no big deal. If it happens it happens. We can contain it. Keep up the pressure. If it pops, don’t worry, “We got this!” messaging we’re hearing. Just Wow!
LibreOffice has the "old" UI which I find way easier to navigate. I'll use that until I can't on any given document. Has saved me lots of time.
Tooling around JSON schema is lacking. For example, we have a fairly simple XSD which still requires the latest JSON schema version due to a choice element (IIRC), which Swagger doesn't fully support yet.
Geany is a small and lightweight IDE – version 1.38 released (Oct 2022)
On the contrary - there is now much evidence these drugs do not work as effectively as the glowing reviews state. There is also much evidence that they are being over-prescribed, for profit.

So it is just as toxic to say "these drugs are awesome and you should try them in spite of all of this talk about them being ineffective, addictive, and being sold for massive profit" in that context.
Did you need to build a GUI? It feels like Microsoft invents some new Windows UI library every 5 years or so and deprecates the previous one. The last I used .NET, it was WPF but I hear WinUI is the hot thing now.
Woah, no but it does depend on is-number...
Ask HN: What CRM do you use?
Our product is starting to get traction, and we (co-founder and myself) are receiving more communications than we're used to.

Challenges we're facing:

- High volume of messages, that keeps growing

- Various channels: personal/brand emails, contact form, LinkedIn

- No efficient workflow to share comments about the messages, eg we forward emails to each other with some notes but that's not scalable

I believe a CRM tool would help us, but I'm not sure what to choose.

I hear Hubspot is a popular choice, but it doesn't look like it handles LinkedIn incoming messages out of the box, which is a must for us.
I don't disagree, although I think the biggest advantage they have is that Microsoft sells to its customers (IT and finance departments) and not its users. One bill and one vendor is better than 8 of each.
Google v Oracle
Even if it does violate copyright, I think there is a strong argument for adjusting copyright law to allow training ML algorithms with any data, no matter the source.

In cases like this, the benefits of the technology are so huge, and the downsides to the original code author so tiny. Was he actually going to license that code to someone who said 'nah, I'll recreate it with copilot instead'?

Very few people successfully license anything less than 100,000 lines of code anyway.
In a waiting culture people almost never talk at length like that. They are eager to listen to other ideas. In fact, meetings are usually shorter.

It's also less stressful. And I almost never hear the kind of skeptical sarcasm you're using here. Both of which are nice.
Relay spec lets you do cursor based pagination. Are there specific use cases you are looking to solve?
That's definitely one legal theory.

The theory used here though is that fair use permits transformative use. Normally copilot output should be sufficiently transformative. This particular situation appears to be a sort of bug (overfit).

Note that AI models already work somewhat similarly to how humans work (becoming bug-for-bug compatible at times even :-P ). We may need laws to be amended in the opposite direction even, else it might become illegal for humans to learn too.
So is the conclusion that these drugs are worth the side effects, expense, and significant addiction - just because someone on the Internet had a good time on them.
> Magic: The Gathering works like a computer (quite literally it's Turing complete). When you play a card or ability, it is put on a stack. After you're done, you need to yield - then the other player may play things on the stack too (but, they can only play "instants" - most other cards can only be played if the stack is empty). Then they must yield, and so on.

This is actually my single least favorite part of magic compared to yugioh, and I've played both a ton. Instead of a stack, yugioh has a similar first-in-first-out concept called the chain, with two major differences:

1) Every time you place a card on the stack, you yield to your opponent, who can either play a response or yield back to you, and this goes on forever until both of you have yielded without taking an action

2) cards have "spell speeds" of 1, 2, or 3 , where you can only chain an equivalent or higher speed card - this means unlike magic, you can pile up multiple sorceries/spell speed 1 cards into the same resolution queue

Both of these encourage a ton of interaction on the stack/chain, and often times yugioh games are won or lost as the result of a resolution or 5 or more cards and effects piling up and resolving, which is a relative rarity in magic outside of a few combo decks or infinites. Conversely, yugioh also presents a lot of powerful defensive options for interrupting degenerate combos, usually at a high cost.
Cherry’s latest mechanical keyboard switch is inspired by the community
ah, I didn't mean to imply my links were exactly the same technology, merely that the concept of getting the prompt out of an image is a good one.

Naming one thing Image-to-Prompt when there's another thing already called img2promp makes it hard to keep things apart.
Not really, I'm just saying you are your neurons and their configuration and function.

If not, what are "you"? There's nothing else but the state and mechanics in your brain and their interface with the world.

I appreciate for some, this fact is scary. For some, it undermines odd outdated ideas of soul or spirit. That doesn't make it less true.

Sometimes this complex, organic, non-deterministic, environment coupled, feedback driven system ... gets out of balance and needs help.
What this suggests to me is that what we diagnose as "depression" has multiple causes, and current antidepressants are fairly effective at treating at least one of them.

It's as if we had a single category for "breathing trouble" and consistently treated it with antibiotics. Sometimes it's bacterial pneumonia and that works very well. Often it's emphysema or lung cancer, and antibiotics don't help.
> Stimulant medications DO NOT have this claimed opposite effect on people with ADHD.

Do they, as far as you're aware, have this opposite effect one some people - but it's not considered to be correlated to whether they have ADHD?
Oh I see. I have a ps, pc and switch to play already so I guess Apple Arcade doesn’t pull me enough. Thanks for sharing!
I believe I was quite careful in what I said rather than pimping antidepressants.

Each time I start a course of antidepressants, I am genuinely worried what the outcome will be. Messing with your brain chemistry isn't something to do lightly. But equally, for many people, possibly including myself, it quite literally saves their life.

However, I must take umbrage at your characterisation of how considering a course of these drugs is akin to taking on a lifetime addiction.

They do cause withdrawal/discontinuation effects if you stop suddenly, and often tapering isn't particularly pleasant either. This is something that users of these drugs have known for a long time, likely since they first hit the market, but it took a surprisingly long time for the medical industry to accept this and list it on patient information leaflets.

I also certainly accept that many doctors are quite terrible at discussing potential side effects and discontinuation syndrome with patients. This doesn't just concern antidepressants or even heavily marketed drugs. Common, generic, 50+ year old antibiotics can have really horrific side effects that aren't often mentioned by your doctor. This is a serious informed consent issue that needs addressing more widely within the medical field.

However, these drugs are not heroin. They are, for most people, relatively easy (albeit sometimes unpleasant) to taper. They don't cause the same kind of pleasure/punishment cycle that makes substances like cocaine or heroin so hard to quit. You don't become a fiend when you miss a dose, you just feel shitty and get some brain zaps. Nobody's holding up gas stations to get some dollars to pay for their Prozac. If you do discontinue antidepressants, your life is typically better for having taken them compared to when you started, and for the most part, you can take these drugs for your entire life without significant adverse consequences.
>Good luck finding the Big Dipper down under!

Good luck finding it in Britain. It's called "The Plough" here.
Why do you think it would escalate? Do you have a crystal ball?

I don't know anything about anything, but there have been many regional conflicts over the last 100 years that have remained regional. I don't see how the technology used to fight those regional conflicts changes anything.

Perhaps the social connotations of those technologies is significant enough that using some rather than others is "triggering" enough that non-combatants can't help but get involved. <shrug>
Too many people take these drugs just so that they don't have to take responsibility for their own lives.

And that is the cause of a lot of ruin around the world - not just in the US.
That's what a maybe once per day coffee break is for. Once indexed on the rare occasion I have to actually reboot or restart JetBrains products, I don't think I can recall ever having noticed indexing after that.
Having been out for 9 months because of burnout, I think I can add at least my pov on it.
My burnout was not caused because of the amount of hours I worked per week (60~80 were no exception) but rather some other factors.
Being perfectionist being the easiest to identity and to work on, was one of them but surely not the only one. Issues with management (within other departments I depended on) and overloaded (often almost useless) administration were certainly important as well.
Medical issues (with my wife) were not the most important factor, but was rather the one factor that pushed me over the edge.
All of these factors together made it at some point even impossible for me to even read my e-mail (even my personal one).

I am working again for almost 2 years now, but I dare to say my burnout is not yet over, but ather under control.
I have a very good manager and he teamed me with a coworker that acts as a buffer between me and the other departments.
I have daily meetings with my co-worker and let him decide when solutions I develop are 'good enough', even if I see plenty room of imporovement.
I work 95% of my time from home, but I have a seperate working room. Closing the door of that room means end of the working day for me. This really works.

From my first week out I have been visiting a psychiatrist and have been practicing yoga. 2 activities I would recommend everyone, even to those not (yet) in a burnout.
The psy sessions really helped a lot, not only to identify what were the real causes of my burnout, but also working towards a solution for each of them.

I can really say, I do enjoy my work again, although it will never be the same as it once was.
Even now I make progress every week, little things I wasn't able to do anymore are coming back bit by bit.

I see lot's of 'care less' advices. I'd like to adjust this a little: Only care when you're in control of it, and even then try to balance.
Just making a file valid HTML doesn't make it "web content". This file is being fetched by an application, not being viewed by a user.

I'm not sure this is the most reasonable rule but there are definitely some benificial aspects to it. For example the load on human-viewed content is limited by how often people want to view it. Not how often their browser wants to redownload it.
Personally I use common sense to determine if something is utilitarian in nature. The real issue is with the “overall shape”, like, class structure, specific data types, etc, which is somewhat arbitrary in nature.

At this point Copilot is awful at this higher-order level of abstraction but I can see a time where this is not the case!

Microsoft will have to put more work into filtering out responses that are indeed copyright violations if they want people to use their tools.

I doubt that MS will ever be held liable for the violations themselves as there is precedent in themselves and their legal department has plenty of cash to burn.
Are diabetics "addicted" to insulin?

> Taking a pill means not taking responsibility

I think this nonsense deserves some psychoanalysis of itself, as well as acknowledging that brain chemistry does matter for various sorts of mental illness.
It doesn’t honestly matter. If the big tech companies want to call off the IP war, thats fine, but until such a time they should be forced to play by the same stupid rules us mortals have to comply with.
Udemy is great. Modern web development probably includes TypeScript and Webpack, so you could start with either of those.
3b. Some lazy dev somewhere finds Person 2's code and copy-pastes it on their project.

This is not really a new problem that has suddenly appeared with these new AIs...
Runme's co-creator here, would you rather have it as a standalone web app? Or in other words, what VS Code alternative?
I find it interesting that the article doesn’t describe a single harm from the drugs, instead focusing on alleged weak efficacy.

My theory is that the article is playing into a vaguely Protestant ethos that drugs are Bad and Unnatural and thus suspect, and (implicitly) that suffering is actually good to some extent and that alleviating it through “artificial” means is unnatural. This attitude is ubiquitous in the US and I assume UK (where Economist originates) as well. Even artificial sweeteners are ridiculously scrutinized and suspect for the same reason.

If some or even many people are taking what the article calls “useless” drugs, how is that, absent serious side effects, bad?
I think for cases like this it should be copilots job to have to deal with the fact that things like this exists. And if there isn't a way to do it without risk of laundering copyrighted code, then it just shouldn't be a service. Lots of grey zone illegal things you could build is 'insanely valuable' but would be sued into non existence if created by a smaller actor.
These drugs ruin lives just as efficiently as they 'improve' them.

Be very, very careful if you are going to advise people that they should overlook the evidence of this fact, "because they're great for me so you should try them too!".

Yes, you are pimping these drugs in so doing.
> Statements like this need to be worded very carefully. In many people's minds, saying something like "most people don't need antidepressants" quickly becomes "antidepressants are useless".

The statement is factually true and worded correctly.
The entire world uses vehicles of all shapes and sizes. If they’re all built and powered with sunlight, what does it matter if it’s a passenger car or not.
You’re discriminating against bases other than base 10 ;-)

Why would the base you write the numbers down in affect whether a rational number is considered “best so far”?
Time to ditch the 9-to-5 workday
Keep on reading to learn all about how making natural medicine can improve your survivalist journey.
These drugs do not give you a "good" time, they can at best give you a more normal one.
Which is complete nonsense as most of the time the person forking does not have the right to license the code to github like that
The power they have vs the responsibility they take is completely out of balance.
Absolutely! There's a lot that dads can do, and what's more, I think dads are absolutely essential during the first two weeks, when mom is still recovering from having just pooped an entire baby out of their system.

Society is making way too many excuses for men to avoid raising their children, and it really needs to stop.
Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there).

For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.
There are many good arguments for reorganising copyright law. But giving tech companies an easier time stealing others work to make money is not one of them.
I wonder if it is something simpler. For example, could it have been picked up as a pattern from a local file that is in your project?
https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1583062865116041229?c... gives an idea why it happened. He'll get it back.