skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe drugs are overprescribed in this country, especially for mental health issues. Maybe Tom Cruise went too far in claiming all psychiatry is quackery but I don't think it was necessarily dangerous and irresponsible for a celebrity to come out and share their opinion like this, celebrities opening up about their wacky beliefs used to be pretty much accepted before all celebrities decided brand management was instrumental to all public relations.
Brain wiring is guided by activity even in early development
If I'm not going to listen to Linus Pauling about megadoses of vitamin C, I'm not going listen to celebrities about anything except fame and whatever made them famous.
Basically, he got away because Sanchez let him.
This reminds me of the Microsoft PowerPoint design ideas feature, which is just awesome. Takes the content and puts it into a great design very intelligently.

It might just be my habit, but I prefer designing directly in HTML/CSS than Figma. I wonder if the future will have an AI tool like PowerPoint Design Ideas to automatically set up design given bare-bones HTML/CSS.
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What I found funny about the Wired piece, is that one of the worlds top big brother companies, Palantir (do they see themselves as Saruman or are they on the good side, I earnestly wonder, perhaps someone from the inside could comment on that, highly appreciated), makes the point.
An archival video of all coding sessions (locally, hosted by the student), starting with a visible outline of pseudo-code and ending with debugging should be sufficient.

In case of a false positive from a faulty detector this is extraordinary evidence.
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When this happened, Facebook was a much, much smaller company. They made the decision around pushing videos before this code was written, because of the engagement of videos on Facebook and Instagram.

Source: I was there, and tangentially involved in this
Bit of a tangent, but Adam Bell was recently laid off from his day job, and IIRC hasn't found work yet.

If you see value in Corecursive, it's probably an especially considerate time to support him on Patreon.
The fundamental theorem of Galois theory reduces certain problems in field theory (like finding roots of polynomials) to group theory (counting permutations and symmetries), which makes them simpler and easier to understand and solve (or prove non-solvable). Galois theory is the proof and applications of this theorem, and related topics. Key to this theory is being more methodical about extending the rational numbers into the real numbers, by introducing new numbers one at a time, instead of all at once.

One of the immediate discoveries in beginning this study is the fact that in many common cases you cannot add just one numbers one at a time, but must add 2 or more numbers at once. These sets of numbers are called conjugates, and have the interesting property that even though you can prove how many must exist and that they are distinct from each other, they are otherwise identical except in the arbitray names you give them.
Yes it makes it look like nothing happens on mobile when you click.
How to Use Omakase Rubocop Linter/Formatter Rules for Rails (Example)
Because it takes capital to start a business. People with capital like to retain control over their capital, so they don’t start cooperatives.

Coops don’t have the same incentive structure as external-investor-beholden corporations, so they don’t pursue “growth at all costs”, but rather survival at all costs (job preservation), and then growth where appropriate (pie expansion).

It’s kind of like the trade off between authoritarian regimes and democratic regimes. One is fast but flimsy, the other is slow but robust.
Why does anyone ever listen to celebrities on things like medicine?

If Tom Cruise talks about movie making or acting I’ll listen.
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Feedback for the team: the landing page offers me no insight into what this is. The "introduction" link points to the same file that is hosted.

At a minimum, I expect a screenshot (preferrably multiple) and example code snippets that show some of what can be done. This is general guidance for any open source repository that desires other people to use it, not limited to this project.
Are any of the databases certain (as certain as one can be) to stay open?
Yeah. Pretty sure everyone does it. I've seen it every place I've worked.
I'm looking for something like this that runs on Linux. Best thing I've found is LiveCaptions, but its output is janky. I can't just use it to type in any old text field, and its output requires substantial editing after the fact.

I guess I understand that a lot of things are being developed for Apple silicon specifically. It's just frustrating that despite hours of searching, I'm not finding anything decent.
The caveat is finding a high-quality supply of creatine. So many on-line reviews for once great brands of creatine powder talk about how those brands recently switched to a new supplier, how the consistency changed to that of powdered sugar, and how all of a sudden they were getting major gastrointestinal problems from a brand that used to be good.

It's hard to know where to go for the right kind of supplement. I've taken it as an exercise supplement in the past with no seeming downsides, but in a few hours search, I couldn't find a supply that doesn't have dozens to hundreds of these complaints against it.
Interesting peek into how the sausage is actually made.

Also notable: the code is open source, but the test suite is not. I've seen this in other projects, including one I worked on (on the commercial side). It's a little sneaky, particularly in the case that there's a "decoy" test suite open sourced that isn't the real one. Not to say I criticize this: we all need to make a living, but nieve consumers of OSS projects should be aware of this.
So much for build back better.

Always enough money for war and weapons, while the infrastructure, education, and health systems disintegrate.
I know I will get downvoted. But Tom Cruise is right. Psychiatry is largely nonsense and the DSM book is almost arbitrarily made up by a bunch of suits. In most of the higher quality studies, antidepressants are no better than placebo. And “ADHD Does Not Exist”, that’s book title by one of the foremost ADHD psychiatrists who helped popularize it but is now calling for a reversion. The symptoms exist, not ADHD is not a real disease.
They also let everyone who wants in into this beta. I have access, and everyone I click invite on does within 12 hours or so. The game peaked at 27k users yesterday. It's not exactly a secret, the game isn't in such early stages that there isn't a marketing component to this beta.

https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/
Are the links working for other people? Most of the linked resources do not exist for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263143
Every NFT owner already pays for a $500-1000 portable NFT displaying device. The struggle is the same; finding people who give a shit about the PNGs you own.
Since you could look at what they've done over the years as easily as I, I'll be brief:

They make Apple-only software that only work with other Apple devices, like Logic Pro, FCP, GarageBand, XCode, Safari (though it used to work on Windows), etc. Which is all fine and expected, but is part of the lock in.

But then there are the protocols like Handoff, AirDrop, Continuity, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, and more. AirTags were a security nightmare for most of the world until they allowed Android some access to the protocol. Then there are the Draconian App Store policies that ended up getting them in "trouble" with the EU.

Quick example for feigning superiority: "Mac vs PC". Before those commercials "PC" just meant any desktop, but their (absolutely genius!) marketing figured out a way to differentiate while dissing Windows.

> the platform is great for certain tasks like media creation and editing

I'm positive there have been and still are really great software experiences and paradigms built by Apple; I just get immensely frustrated trying to navigate them (flip your mouse upside and then try to use it... that is an extreme example of the frustration I experience navigating most Apple software -- it comes down to just not being used to it).

All that to say: we're not really thinking about the same aspects of the company, since I'm really just on the periphery, and you're in the midst of it.
It’s unmaintained. See chris_wot’s comment with better and maintained resources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41266438
Dont assume, it makes an ass out of u and me.
It's amazing how close to the inspiration - Broforce - it actually feels, at least from the video.
I'd sacrifice floppy 41 out of 45 of Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition to be able to play this.
Besides giving the world a great piece of tech, Hipp seems to be such a great, levelheaded guy too.

SQLite was my gateway drug to data analysis, because I didn't know any better I just started using that for automated tasks that were done in excel up to that point. It was the basis of my career in data, after I decided to get out of academia.

Anyway.

I've recently built a SQLite extension that bakes Lua into SQLite. You can do

SELECT lua('return some_business_logic(...)', col1, col2 FROM some_table;

It's very much a V0.01 alpha thing, but it's feasible.

The idea allows running complex business logic directly inside the SQLite process. This all for speed and efficiency as you don't schlep data in and out of your language calling SQLite, and for better testability as it seems the sweet spot in terms of decoupling business logic from the query writing.

I've been at it on my own too much, I can't really reason about it anymore.

So, dear HN, is this idea completely idiotic or am I onto something that the world would benefit from?
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> Even feature stories just don't have much pizzaz - who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can't be expressed in video and that isn't 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.

I want. I grew to despise video format, unless it is a movie or a TV series.
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People listen to people they admire, and think they have it all figured out, even if they are just skilled in one area. Listening to Tom Cruise's opinion on anything other than acting is as bad as listening to the All-in podcast for anything other than where to put your VC money.
I'm curious how folks feel after trying to compile information like this long term. Data is cool, but constantly logging everything you do in discrete chunks is not. Not only the constant demands from every company you interact with to "fill out this short survey" and rank things, but to log every book I read, every calorie I consume, every beer I drink....it's exhausting and I've burned out hard on all of it. Do people actually keep up with this for more than a few months?
The author shows media query examples like that in 6.2 and 6.4.

But I thought that using screen size media queries is an anti-pattern, and that we should be aiming for fluid design without arbitrary breakpoints.
Valve memorably did just this over a decade ago with the Director system in Left4Dead.
I would also think in many places expensive (or even moderately priced) services are just not available.
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> Even feature stories just don't have much pizzaz - who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview.

I think you need to check your personal biases there. I want to read an interview, rather than watch it. Reading is typically faster, allows for skimming, can can be done anywhere with little fuss (e.g. no headphones).

That's why I tend to hate video content that could be presented textually. Video should only be be for things that are necessarily visual.

I'd really only want to listen to an interview if it's someone I'm so interested in that I want to take it slow and make time for it.

And that's not just for news. I work in a company where "documentation" is typically a pile of years-old, 1-2 hour long meeting recordings, if you're lucky. All that content would be soooo much better as text.

> Why would I pay to read about a carjacking in a far off neighborhood?

Because I might go to that neighborhood sometime? The whole point of a regional newspaper is to give a view of a local area not a hyperlocal area.
Sounds like the "Fast Protosun" from Larry Niven's short story, "Flatlander". (I could swear its called "Cannonball Express" in another story of Larry's).

Just don't try to land on it right away!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlander_(short_story)
I wouldn't get stuck on it. Scientology is in LA for the movie stars, Tom Cruise is a movie star that got sucked into Scientology, because they like to recruit movie stars. I wouldn't pass that burden on to the whole city of the Olympics.
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Show HN: Open Sourcing YouSim – Use AI to simulate any identity
Taking inspiration from projects like websim and worldsim we built a terminal like experience to elicit identities from Claude Sonnet 3.5 and let you interact with them. This is hosted live at yousim.ai

After doing some work to clean up the codebase we're finally open sourcing the prompts and code
is this value investment at peak and looks like very long term invesment of few years? he is super old and It's weird when he ignores all great tech and then invest in some random tech IPO because he got a great deal for IPO. His tech picks are like like just average joe for decades.
Is it really that sneaky? I am pretty sure the SQLite website is crystal clear on this point.
In the early 90s, my primary school in "rural" Texas (45 minutes outside of Houston) got it's first computer lab. It had 30 Macs. Every class room had an ancient Apple (not sure what version at this point - IIe or III?).

Apple had BIG BIG discounts for education, that IBM did not. Even being a town outside of Houston, we never got Compaq PCs.

That said, once Win95 hit, EVERYTHING was swapped out for PC district wide. I remember my parents complaining that a new school tax was getting levied on our town to upgrade technology just a couple years after a previous one had already hit.
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Theres an interview video with Matt Lauer where he partially explains his disdain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFgF1JPNR5E&t=5s

The psychiatry stuff starts at around 8 mins in.

I don't think Tom Cruise is fully unreasonable and certainly don't think psychiatry is a reasonable arbiter either.
Still a challenge.
Yes, but you could argue that web browsers shouldn't accept broken HTML either. But they do, and that's why there are so much broken HTML out there in the wild. Same with broken CSV -- basically people's measure is "if Excel can read it correctly, it's fine" even if not every CSV library in every programming language can.
My undergrad had those things and they are the courses that have been most helpful to me in the real world. But I generally agree, it is rare to see them outside of master's degrees but doesn't mean they shouldn't be in there.
1.6 million km/h is 0.001483c, or roughly 0.1%. Which is pretty darn quick for something that, if it's something like a brown dwarf, weighs between 10 - 80 times as much as Jupiter.
This makes sense. The easier something is to do, the more likely anyone is to do it.
We had a professor require us to use git as a timestamped log of our progress. Of course you could fake it but stealing work and basically redoing it piece by piece with fake timestamps is a lot of work for cheaters.
Having exclusives is unrelated to the store walled garden conversation. I have a game, I can choose my store's infrastructure to exclusively sell this game. For instance, if Walmart made a game, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect Walmart to be the only one distributing it - however Walmart would have to accept the consequences of doing so, which would include people who refuse to go to Walmart not being able to buy the game.

The Apple store walled garden is a completely different beast altogether. Not only Apple sells their software through the store, it requires everybody else to also do so. That reduces competition because it prevents others from lowering their prices beyond a certain point and distributing content that Apple finds objectionable (some of which would undermine Apple's semi-monopoly, such as portable apps using certain technologies like emulation).
I like C# as a scripting language, so I'm happy to see the more modern versions of it made available through projects like this.
Looks like it's a feed that combines various (personal) sources.
It's not really open source in the strictest sense as they strangely refuse to provide any license for it and as far as I know they are not open to contributions either.
I don't really need to know how to build a compiler, and I've got enough other "don't need but am doing out of curiosity" things going on that I don't need any more of those, but if it wasn't $70 I'd probably get it anyway. It would be interesting to compare to the last building a compiler book I read back and see how things have changed. Based on the comments here a lot has changed.

That last book was Allen Holub's "Compiler Design in C", which is from 1990. Here's how the blurb on the back describes it:

> Allen I. Holub's Compiler Design in C offers a comprehensive, new approach to compilers that proves to be more accessible to computer science students than the other strictly mathematical books.

> With this method in mind, the book features three major aspects:

> (1) The author develops fully functional versions of lex and yacc (tools available in the UNIX® operating system to write compilers), (2) he uses lex and yacc to develop a complete C compiler that includes parts of C that are normally left out of compiler design books (eg., the complete C "type" system, and structures), and (3) the version of yacc developed here improves on the UNIX version of yacc in two ways (error recovery and the parser, which automatically produces a window-oriented debugging environment in which the parse and value stacks are visible).

It's out of print, but the author has made a searchable PDF available on his website [1]. I found it quite useful.

Holub seems to like the "learn by doing" approach. He's got another book, "Holub on Patterns" that teaches all the design patterns from the gang of four book organically by developing two programs that together use all of those patterns. The two programs are an embedded SQL interpreter and a GUI application for Conway's Game of Life.

PS: Ooh. It occurred to me that No Starch Press books are often available on O'Reilly Learning. I checked and this one is there. So I guess it is going on my "don't need but am doing out of curiosity" pile after all.

[1] https://holub.com/compiler/
My Bachelor in Computer Science didn't include either. I went off and studied those on my own. So... Certainly.
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Thank you for the kind words!

A brain computer interface is a device that records brain signals, and allows people with paralysis to control objects in their environment using their thoughts. Here, we demonstrate how the BCI can help restore communication to a man with ALS using only neural signals recorded from the speech-related motor areas of the brain (ventral precentral gyrus). As he tries to speak, our decoding system translates the neural activity into words on a screen. Hence, to answer your question, we are only using brain signals to determine what he's trying to say.

The microphone is not involved in interpreting his speech at all (and in fact, speech-to-text algorithms applied to the audio signals are nonsensical). One can hear him speak in the supplementary videos in the NEJM paper, and in the video produced by UC Davis.

The eye-tracker is used to help control the GUI, much like an able-bodied person would use a mouse.
I am pretty sure, although I realize I may be off quite a bit so take it with a big grain of salt.

We humans have this sheepish herd mentality - when SHTF its often manifested in even the best and mentally most resilient of us. A great societal evolutionary advantage in the past for sure, but these days it messes up important stuff like politics and overall heading of society, since its trivial for skilled/talented people to abuse. Trump won that way, as did any other populist ever, this is reason why so many stupid movements like flat earthers exist.

All this boils down to us being mostly emotional rather than mostly rational beings. Emotions are easy to manipulate and change even on their own, do something dramatic and decades of hard facts are thrown out of window in an instant.

Back to why simpler folk so desperately cling to celebrities - we want to be told how to live, what to do, what to think. Figuring out life for oneself is massively harder very long task with no guarantee of success. And lets be honest, most folks don't end up very fulfilled nor happy, life has many tricks how to fuck you up even if you don't manage to do it yourself. Thats why and only why fashion is a thing, rationally it makes 0 sense. Thats why folks get addicted to sugary food that kills them while knowing it very well. We are not good at managing emotions, rather emotions manage us.

I try to actively fight all this, but its an uphill mental battle with parts of myself, and the more successful you are, the further you get from most other folks just drifting in their lives, effectively erasing a lot of common ground.
In some way, it is; better minification does give you some additional margin. But it would then be a terrible code golf competition because 13 KiB here is the size after zip archiving so the actual limit is anywhere from 30--40 KiB for typical entries and would be very generous. The introduction of better compression tools may have lifted the upper limit a bit but not too much. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of one of such tools that got popular later.)

It should be noted that most assets are still too large in this limit, so almost everything should be made from a code and many stuffs have to be consciously chosen to be included. For this reason, I feel that the limit is rather a very interesting threshold that allows for ordinary developers without much size optimization experience to start with, but should be plenty enough for experienced people to make difference.
>it's not really defensible as a matter of being a factual description of reality

Is it a factual description of reality? "Seconds since epoch" is an almost entirely abstract idea, given that neither seconds nor epochs exist in the universe. The only way it's connected to reality is that time moves forwards, so "since" has meaning. So it seems to me that someone who says "seconds since epoch" can choose to give the words any meaning they like as long as everyone understands what is meant.

So to me this is as relevant a complaint as saying that the special case of graphs shouldn't be called "trees" because branches in real trees sometimes rejoin. It's a metaphor. We're dealing with entirely human-made concepts with barely any input from the real world, we can use any words we like.
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Honestly PPP is one of those measures that has remained a mystery to me all my life, and I suspect has more to do with the fanciful imaginations of economists rather than reality itself.

I live in a smallish east EU country whose PPP is supposedly double that of nominal GDP, yet whenever the prices I'm expected to pay for a Corolla, my shopping in Lidl or a Macbook are largely the same as what I would pay in Germany (as is expected from a customs union).

Even restaurant prices don't match the differences.