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18 Oct 18:55

Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

by abetusk
17 Oct 16:46

These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes

by Teddy Rosenbluth
A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist.
17 Oct 16:39

Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.
09 Oct 18:10

My google Google Pixel 5a screen went black after trying to wake it up.

by /u/CommanderRasseru

I was doing some google searches; when my the phone went to screen saver mode... I push the side button to wake it up. But it stay black and never turn back on. So I try to do a manual restart with the power button for 30 secs and nothing happen. Right now I charging it and not see any charging light.

I know there is some power; as touching the power button or finger sensor it will vibration short.

Could it be a battery issue or software glitch? Anyone else has any other tips? Before I contact Google Fi Support.

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06 Oct 00:23

12 Months of Mandarin

by misiti3780

Article URL: https://isaak.net/mandarin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742432

Points: 496

# Comments: 294

06 Oct 00:14

A Nation of Homebodies

by Ronda Kaysen and Alicia Parlapiano
A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic.
02 Oct 17:43

Exploring Literary Dublin

by Dwight Garner
The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.
29 Sep 21:23

The best $4 ever spent

by pmzy
26 Sep 20:18

5 Bike Rides Perfect for Fall

by Cindy Hirschfeld
From Vermont to California, we found routes that will take you close to the sights, sounds and scenery surrounding U.S. rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
16 Sep 18:28

How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal

by Claire Cain Miller
For a generation of girls raised to believe they could be anything, the Trump era moved their politics to the left, a new analysis shows.
13 Sep 19:09

Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation

by dangle1
13 Sep 18:21

Weekend reading: food advertising analysis—from India!

by Marion

Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest is “A national think tank on nutrition” in India, “consisting of independent experts in epidemiology, human nutrition, community nutrition and paediatrics, medical education, administration, social work and management.”  This group is calling for regulation of unhealthy  ultra-processed foods. 

This new report gives examples of food product ads, (50 of them) by method of appeal along with what information is concealed.  One example:

Take a look.  These are fun.  It’s terrific to see this kind of analysis coming from India.

The post Weekend reading: food advertising analysis—from India! appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

12 Sep 18:27

Adderall, Vyvanse in Higher Doses May Be Tied to Psychosis Risk, Study Says

by Christina Caron
New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants.
12 Sep 18:22

Difficulty volleying a serve that bounces off the side wall.

by /u/dgprnt

What are the main tips? Like this shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-OcWm5C5Q

"Being able to hit the ball straight off a crosscourt that has it the side wall is a very important skill. Advanced players and professionals seem to make it look so easy."

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11 Sep 21:56

Kyoto from the Water: Sacred Sites and Sun-Dappled Canals

by Patrick Scott
The Japanese city is famous for its temples and gardens, but it is laced with waterways that can offer a different, and no less enchanting, view.
11 Sep 17:56

Francisco Lopera, the ‘Country Doctor’ Who Upended Our Understanding of Dementia

by Jennie Erin Smith
Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.
10 Sep 23:40

Questions to Ask Your Partner at Midlife, According to Couples Counselors

by Catherine Pearson
Therapists and relationship researchers share 6 questions that can bring couples closer during this stage.
09 Sep 21:33

Teen Girls’ Brains Aged Rapidly During Pandemic, Study Finds

by Ellen Barry
Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns.
05 Sep 19:06

Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations

by Catrin Einhorn
Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths.
03 Sep 17:34

Is My Blue Your Blue?

by bpierre

Article URL: https://ismy.blue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430258

Points: 1391

# Comments: 520

03 Sep 17:33

Rethinking Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease

by Jan Hoffman
Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs.
26 Aug 17:51

Getting to Know Kenya Through a Local Hiking Club

by Rolf Potts
The author sought an authentic experience, and found it in Lets Drift, “an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise” of people living in and near Nairobi.
21 Aug 21:25

Cycling the Western Balkans: A Wild, Yet Welcoming, Mountain Tour

by Sophie Stuber
High temperatures and higher mountains were no match for our author and her companion as they biked the Trans Dinarica, a new cycling route that winds through eight countries in the remote Dinaric Alps.
16 Aug 18:26

Ancient Egyptian Scribes Suffered Ergonomic Injuries

by Franz Lidz
The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests.
15 Aug 22:46

I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)

by ctoth
15 Aug 20:17

This FDA-Cleared Video Game for ADHD Helped Me Focus. But Then I Got Bored.

by Thom Dunn
A colorful illustration of someone playing a game on a phone.

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who live with ADHD, like I do, the ongoing national stimulant shortage may well have left you reeling.

For me, every month feels like a mind-numbing riddle as I’m forced to project-manage between the doctor’s office and the various pharmacies that may or may not have enough stock of the medication I rely on to help with my executive function disorder—the same condition that makes it so difficult to go through this rigmarole in the first place.

Then I heard about EndeavorOTC, a new, FDA-cleared video game designed to help treat ADHD symptoms.

I was skeptical at first, but I gave it a shot. It certainly wasn’t a substitute for the medicine I’m used to, but I did find it helpful as a supplemental treatment—for a while, anyway.

15 Aug 17:17

Why Youth Mental Health Is on the Decline: Report

by Christina Caron
Economic, climate and technology woes are weighing on young adults, a report finds. It recommends overhauling how we approach mental health care.
15 Aug 17:14

Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface

by kiwicopple

hey HN, supabase ceo here

This is a new service that we're experimenting with that uses PGLite[0], a WASM build of Postgres that runs in the browser. You might remember an earlier WASM build[1] that was around ~30MB. The Electric team [2] have gone one step further and created a complete build of Postgres that’s under 3MB.

Their implementation is technically interesting. Postgres is normally multi-process - each client connection is handed to a child process by the postmaster process. In WASM there’s limited/no support for process forking and threads. Fortunately, Postgres has a relatively unknown built-in “single user mode” [3] primarily designed for bootstrapping a new database and disaster recovery. Single-user mode only supports a minimal cancel REPL, so PGlite adds wire-protocol support which enables parametrised queries etc.

We have created https://postgres.new as an experiment. You can think of it like a love-child between Postgres and ChatGPT: in-browser Postgres sandbox with AI assistance. You can spin up as many new Postgres databases as you want because they all live inside your browser. We pair PGlite with an LLM (currently GPT-4o) and give it full reign over the database with unrestricted permissions. This is an important detail - giving an LLM full autonomy means that it can run multiple operations back-to-back: any SQL errors from Postgres are fed back to the language model so that it can have a few more attempts to solve the problem. Since it’s in-browser it’s low risk.

Some other features include:

    - CSV upload: you can upload a CSV and it will automatically create a Postgres table which you can query with natural language.

    - Charts: you can ask the LLM to create a chart with the data and change the colors of the charts.

    - RAG / pgvector: PGLite supports pgvector, so you can ask the LLM to create embeddings for RAG. The site uses transformers.js [4] to create embeddings inside the browser.
We’re working on an update to deploy your databases and serve them from S3 using pg-gateway [5]. We expect to have a read-only deployments ready by the end of the week. You can access them using any postgres-compatible tool (eg: psql).

Everything is open source. A huge shout-out to the Electric team who have been a pleasure to build with.

[0] PGLite: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

[1] Postgres-wasm: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm

[2] Electric: https://electric-sql.com/

[3] Single user mode: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-postgres.html#AP...

[4] transformers.js: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js

[5] pg-gateway: https://github.com/supabase-community/pg-gateway


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224286

Points: 354

# Comments: 103

15 Aug 16:00

All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

by tigerlily
14 Aug 21:49

Saving Australian Crocodiles by Yucking Their Yum

by Jack Tamisiea
The aquatic reptiles cannot resist eating invasive toads that are toxic, so scientists gave the crocodiles a dose of nonlethal food poisoning to adjust their behavior.