MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-06-26 13:26:42+00:00
Why not? It shouldn’t cost me $450 to go speak to my doctor for 5 minutes and say ‘I need Viagra’ and then have them write me a prescription, but it does cost $450 for me to do that. I can get (4) quarterly shipments from Hims for less than $450.

Personally I think viagra should be OTC, there’s no reason to gatekeep erectile dysfunction medicine.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 13:27:31+00:00
I find it tiring to use things like Siri and Alexa even just a little bit, never mind the Dragon Dictate kind of systems.

It's like talking to somebody who has the ears of a 120-year old and the language aptitude of a 1.5-year old. I have to slow down and enunciate v-e-r-y c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y and suppress all the "umms" and "aaahs" by thinking ahead careful what I'm going to say ahead of time so I don't have to pause in the middle of talking which will cause the thing to finish processing.

On stage you have to enunciate better than usual and use muscular energy in your vocal track to project but you can get emotional, you can get loud. Talking to Alexa is really draining because you have to work hard at holding your voice back and being really conventional, if you have any pronunciations that are all unusual (I've been told by speech therapists I speech "Pennsylvania Dutch") you have to suppress it. And after all that I'm going to have to make corrections. So I find it tiring to even ask Siri to dictate a note for me.
by lbalazscs | 2025-06-26 13:27:59+00:00
It's naive to hope that automatic tests will find all problems. There are several types of problems that are hard to detect automatically: concurrency problems, resource management errors, security vulnerabilities, etc.

An even more important question: who tests the tests themselves? In traditional development, every piece of logic is implemented twice: once in the code and once in the tests. The tests checks the code, and in turn, the code implicitly checks the tests. It's quite common to find that a bug was actually in the tests, not the app code. You can't just blindly trust the tests, and wait until your agent finds a way to replicate a test bug in the code.
by eastbound | 2025-06-26 13:28:38+00:00
Youtube videos. I use them, and loud, to avoid thinking. I’ve been bullied quite a lot in the last 10 years (you may say as a result of being a capitalist/democracy believer surrounded by left-wingers, but that doesn’t justify bullying), and just understanding that the opponents are bad-faithed, follow no logic, goes to a point where you must let go, independently of any shower argument that you may still run in your head. And listening all the time to scientific arguments, engineering investigations, etc, is soothing because it’s logic.

At one point, the videos became less necessary. It was unhealthy in the highest year of the crisis, but less unhealthy than thinking about winning an argument with a bully.

Of course, who knew that having a lot of distractions and sources of satisfaction could lead to fewer addictions, but sometimes you don’t have them / can’t afford them.
by brk | 2025-06-26 13:28:39+00:00
There is a ton of DIY solar info online, but it is very much regionally dependent. Both for permits and system design.

Here in Florida, I can get high output from an average panel, but there are a lot of permit issues (and rightly so, a poorly installed panel can become a severe hazard in a hurricane).

Where I lived in Michigan, there weren't many permitting or zoning issues, but I'd need 3-4x the number of panels to get usable output in the winter time.

Most truly small scale solar systems don't provide enough output/value to be worth the effort, unless you're living a very low-power lifestyle.
by seatac76 | 2025-06-26 13:28:41+00:00
I remember going to the Louvre into the room with a Mona Lisa and being surprised by two things:

- How small the actual painting is, I always imagined it to be bigger.

- And the sea of heads between the entrance and the panting, there was no way I could get to the front to admire it up close.

The rest of the museum though was lovely to walk around in.
by justtinker | 2025-06-26 13:30:57+00:00
In the days when perl was the language of choice for the web I got a 97% reduction in code size. I was asked to join a late project to speed it up. (Yes I know that has low success rate).

The lead dev was a hard core c programmer and had no perl experience before this job. He handed me a 200 line uncommented function that he wrote and was not working. It was a pattern matcher. I replaced it with 6 lines of commented perl with regex that was very readable (for a regex).

Since he had no idiomatic understanding of perl he did not accept it and complained to management. We had to bring in the local perl demigod to arbitrate(at 21 was half my age at the time, but smart as a whip). Ruled in my favor and the lead was pissed.
by acedTrex | 2025-06-26 13:32:47+00:00
> you might think it's related, but it's not.

In my experience they very much are related. High quality devs are far more likely to output high quality working code. They test, they validate, they think, ultimately they care.

In that case that you are reviewing a patch from someone you have limited experience with, it previously was feasible to infer the quality of the dev from the context of the patch itself and the surrounding context by which it was submitted.

LLMs make that judgement far far more difficult and when you can not make a snap judgement you have to revert your review style to very low trust in depth review.

No more greasing the wheels to expedite a process.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-26 13:33:04+00:00
I think it was with the anthropic guys on Dwarkeshs podcast, but really it could have been any of the other tech podcasts with a big name AI guest, but anyway they were talking about how orgs need to make big decisions about compute allocation.

If you need to do research, pre-training, RLHF, inference for 5-10 different models across 20 different products, how do you optimally allocate your very finite compute? Weight towards research and training for better future models, or weigh towards output for happier consumers in the moment?

It would make sense that every project in deepmind is in constant war for TPU cycles.
by latexr | 2025-06-26 13:33:38+00:00
> Assuming at least that you are an otherwise competent developer and that you carefully review all code before you commit it.

That is a big assumption. If everyone were doing that, this wouldn’t be a major issue. But as the curl developer has noted, people are using LLMs without thinking and wasting everyone’s time and resources.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl...

I can attest to that. Just the other day I got a bug report, clearly written with the assistance of an LLM, for software which has been stable and used in several places for years. This person, when faced with an error on their first try, instead of pondering “what am I doing wrong” instead opened a bug report with a “fix”. Of course, they were using the software wrong. They did not follow the very short and simple instructions and essentially invented steps (probably suggested by an LLM) that caused the problem.

Waste of time for everyone involved, and one more notch on the road to causing burnout. Some of the worst kind of users are those who think “bug” means “anything which doesn’t immediately behave the way I thought it would”. LLMs empower them, to the detriment of everyone else.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-06-26 13:33:58+00:00
I will add that in my opinion, white collar jobs increasingly /are/ this emotional labor. We don't need as many people to "do stuff" any more (at least not as part of our organizations directly -- it's mostly been outsourced to workers in the far east), but there is endless demand for people to "drive things forward". This is the case for management of course, but that's been their purpose since their position was invented some time in prehistory. Increasingly, this is also an explicit ask of workers, and some jobs are nearly-explicitly nothing but this (product/project/program managers, scrum masters, etc.), even at the IC level.

"Drive things forward" is shorthand for "stress about and take blame for". If you are being asked to "take ownership", you are being asked to earn your bread by conflating your own self worth with the success of some project, usually one whose success is mostly beyond your control. The paycheck is compensation for the sleepless nights and distant stare you affect with your family at the beach. This /is/ the job.

I think this dynamic will only get worse with AI tools doing more for organizations. Project managers are at least somewhat paid for their organization skills and executive function, even if they're mostly being paid for stress. If a machine can organize and coordinate, the only thing left for people to do is...have emotions, worry, absorb threats and abuse.

Another way to think about this is that the ownership class can probably find machine substitutes for most white collar labor, but these machines can't be motivated and managed in the ways that B schools have been teaching for 100 years. Yes, Claude can try to fix a bug, but you can't threaten it to squeeze more out of it. Alice has three kids and a mortgage. It's trivial to threaten Alice -- you don't even have to do it explicitly. If her productivity is enhanced with AI, and her bargaining position softened, this becomes even more attractive because the owners can pay her less to do more.
by Perenti | 2025-06-26 13:34:12+00:00
The paragraph on the relation to Brugada Syndrome hits home, as I have that rare disease. What isn't clear is if it's safe for Brugada patients - a hell of a lot of drugs are not advisable for us. As I also have CRPS type II (complex regional pain syndrome) I'd like a non-narcotic strong pain killer that doesn't induce arrhythmia.
by cheshire_cat | 2025-06-26 13:34:41+00:00
This news article claims that the results of the Phase II trials where not great?

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2024/12/23/more-lack...

As someone else already mentioned in this thread, in Europe there is already metamizole which is used for post-surgery pain. Anyone knows if suzetrigine is more effective than metamizole?
by MaxHoppersGhost | 2025-06-26 13:35:22+00:00
I think having kids when you’re in your early 30s is the way to go but having kids at any age is great. I think waiting until later is a mistake because you want a full life with your kids and ideally you can bless your parents with grandkids (they most likely want one, even if they say they don’t). But not having kids because you “waited too long” is a bigger mistake.

Kids take a lot of energy but they also give you a lot, no matter the age. We are biologically hardwired to rise to the challenge of having kids no matter the age.
by nickjj | 2025-06-26 13:36:23+00:00
Here's a quick story. It's unrelated to depression but it's something related to asking yourself "are you sure?".

I once had stitches which had to be removed after about 2 weeks. It was the only time I've gotten stitches.

It's a weird experience which involves a fair bit of tugging and feeling things you've never felt before along with maybe a little blood.

The doctor told me to let him know if it hurt. After the first tug I said is it normal to feel pain?

Then he asked me if what I'm feeling is really pain or is it a sensation?

Then he did it a few more times and he was right. I wasn't feeling real pain.

I was feeling a combination of sensations I wasn't familiar with. Yes there was a bit of tugging, pressure and a little bit of pinching but I wouldn't register it as "actual pain". Maybe it was like a 1.5 out of 10 on a pain scale. A minor discomfort at most and completely manageable.

But even now, years later I sometimes think back to that experience in other contexts and ask myself "are you sure?" when evaluating situations or thought processes. It's not a lack of confidence, it's more about making sure I'm assessing things in a fair and reasonable way.
by arthur2e5 | 2025-06-26 13:37:53+00:00
From my limited experience of metamizole it feels a bit stronger than paracetamol/acetaminophen. Neat little drug if your genetics can take it.

Tangential: China technically banned metamizole due to the agranulocytosis scare, but somehow small clinics always have fresh stocks of this stuff. And their stocks don't look like my metamizole for horses! It's pressed out of the usual magnesium stearate instead of whatever rock-hard thing they use for animal drugs in China.
by acedTrex | 2025-06-26 13:38:48+00:00
Author here:

For what it's worth I do actually use the tools albeit incredibly intentionally and sparingly.

I see quite a few workflows and tasks that they can be a value add on, mostly outside of the hotpath of actual code generation but still quite enticing. So much so in fact I'm working on my own local agentic tool with some self hosted ollama models. I like to think that i am at least somewhat in the know on the capabilities and failure points of the latest LLM tooling.

That however doesn't change my thoughts on trying to ascertain if code submitted to me deserves a full indepth review or if I can maybe cut a few corners here and there.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-26 13:38:50+00:00
tourists visiting with the expectation of getting their own "magical experience".

Having unrealistic expectations go unfulfilled sounds like what a lot of Japanese tourists feel about Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

I also think tourists, as a class, tend to be more entitled than others. They usually have money and also having spent money, they expect hospitality on their terms (realistically or not).

FWIW, I had a recent trip to Japan before news of issues with tourists, and I would describe my experience as "magical", not because of generosity of strangers though. None was needed. Naoshima in particular is magical on its own.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-26 13:39:01+00:00
Businesses should not be forced to serve abusive users. They should have the choice to refuse to serve somebody permanently. You do not have the right to use somebody else’s service without their permission. If they want you off their platform, they should be able to do so.

The whole point of having trusted issuers is that there aren’t any “disposable companies” who hand out many identities in an uncontrolled manner. If there were, they would quickly become untrusted, making the IDs worthless.
by dadoum | 2025-06-26 13:39:40+00:00
There are cryptography primitives allowing you to privately make an intersection of the certificates you have and the providers the site would trust and compute a kind of score while not exposing any of your certificates or which providers trusted you amongst them. (the only thing is that a website could extract the knowledge that one specific provider trusted you if they only trust one, but that could probably be fixed with a better protocol that the one I have in mind).
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-26 13:39:45+00:00
Yeah, they're real good at doing needless work with a smile on their face.

Next time you go to a GP's office for no reason other than to gatekeep a specialist you know you need ask yourself what all those people are being paid for any why the situation deserves anything more than someone on the order of an RN saying "yeah looks like an infection to me" via a screen, to pick but one example.

Like all bureaucracy, every single part of the system has some skin deep reason to justify its existence or scope but when you take a step back and look at it all you'll find that huge swaths are either redundant or completely unnecessary, and that the industry is rife with this BS from top to bottom and we're all made effectively poorer for it.
by tristenharr | 2025-06-26 13:40:03+00:00
Ah yes. I very well may be going a bit crazy.

Well whatever mental health struggles I am enduring, it is certainly Hasura’s fault. More specifically, Tanmai’s fault. But I’m sure he’ll run the company into the ground without any help needed before too long.

It’s a horrible thing man. Did you not hear the story? I was told I was getting promoted and moved onto a new team at the offsite, then when I went into my performance review expecting the promotion and suddenly I was fired. You know how things go at Hasura… everyone just disappears sooner or later.

You know how it goes… Tanmai decides he doesn’t like someone, so he just kicks them out the door, no matter how hard they work or how much it might hurt his company.

Idk man, I would get out if I were you.

I literally turned down the severance because of just how messed up what they did was, so I could speak about it publicly in places like this.
by bgirard | 2025-06-26 13:40:18+00:00
I went through this after my divorce. The term we used in therapy was 'unhelpful thinking'.

I've seen people sharing this tip on HN for dealing with tinnitus: Picture a volume equalizer or the FFT waveform and image yourself lower the volume until it goes away. In therapy after we unpacked the unhelpful thinking, we talked about 'rewiring' these unhelpful connections in the brain. We pictured a old style phone switchboard with wires, me finding all the unhelpful thoughts and rewriting them one by one. It felt very similar to the tinnitus tips and it was surprising effective.
by mr_00ff00 | 2025-06-26 13:41:38+00:00
I’m a bit confused on what sticky thinking is.

Is it daydreaming about negative future outcomes based on a decision? (If I do this and it doesn’t work, everyone will laugh at me / partner will leave me)

Or is it hyper focus on past bad decisions (I missed out on this / did it wrong and that’s why everyone else is so far ahead. Now I am scared to make same decision again)
by HakanAbbas | 2025-06-26 13:42:12+00:00
Storage is cheaper than it used to be. Bandwidth is also cheaper than it used to be (though not as cheap as storage). So high quality lossy techniques and lossless techniques can be adopted more than low quality lossy compression techniques. Today, processor cores are not getting much faster. And energy is still not cheap. So in all my work, processing speed (energy consumption) is a much higher priority for me.
by ddoolin | 2025-06-26 13:42:54+00:00
Yes, I believe so, or at least a subset of it. The author is not a therapist of any kind, I get the impression he was just a guy who wrote a book about how he overcame his personal struggles. This was off-handedly recommended to me by my therapist via text as she thought of me while reading it as I told her I was struggling with recurring thoughts, ruminations, anxiety, etc so that might lend some credence to it.
by astura | 2025-06-26 13:43:06+00:00
OMG, This reminds me of the ridiculous "50 years of travel tips" that showed up on HN a few months back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066720

Including gems such as:

-have your Uber driver take you to his mother's house so she'll cook for you

-crash a wedding, you'll be the "celebrity guest"
by jimkleiber | 2025-06-26 13:43:20+00:00
I often see it just as overwhelm. Too many conflicting things happening at the same time, wanting attention, not knowing where to put it, and just kinda giving up.

Lately I've been seeing life as consistent conflicts, framing it as "emotional combat," and then ironically it calms me down, because I recognize that the one conflict in front of my face is not necessarily the one causing all the feelings I perceive in me or in other people.
by taneq | 2025-06-26 13:43:34+00:00
Ooh, something in the same spirit as The Hacker's Diet (How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition)[1] which I legitimately used (well, kinda did some of) to lose about 20kg over the space of ~2 years, and then keep it off semi-indefinitely (I started in ~2010 and kept pretty steady since then, I've had a couple of times where I got up about 5kg from my target but it's not too hard to fix at that point.)

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
by SpectraLeper | 2025-06-26 13:43:46+00:00
This is very cool!

I wonder if you took inspiration from "The Timetables of History" (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1756160M/The_timetables_of_h...)?

That book has always been a favorite of mine to just meander through and find interesting parallelism, but incorporating Wikipedia links as you've done adds a new dimension.
by sumtechguy | 2025-06-26 13:43:55+00:00
On a previous project I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a 'generic device driver'. That is actually a decently hard space to crack. As each device has randomly different ways of talking. Some are serial/local bus. Some are memory space. Some have a combination. Some systems broadcast data, some you have to query it, some you have to query then wait for the next broadcast. Some systems mildly follow the spec, some strictly follow it, some strictly follow their own flavor of the spec or an outdated one, some have their totally made up spec that they may or may not give you. Even from the same company you can have two models that on the outside if you use their stuff looks the same but under the hood is sorta different enough that your driver is garbage. I basically ended up here https://xkcd.com/927/
by Attrecomet | 2025-06-26 13:44:14+00:00
I have to wonder how you envision a small community building nucular when the state has already failed them. That's the real neat thing, that cooperations smaller than the entire territory of Puerto Rico can take action and help themselves, and even take away pressure from the rest of the grid doing it!

> Only nuclear power plants can prevent blackouts. That sentence is so maximal that it is trivially maximally wrong. Clearly, other tech can do that too. Like, blindingly obviously.
by gottorf | 2025-06-26 13:44:32+00:00
No, when it comes to spending taxpayer money, the onus is on the one who wants to spend more to show that it would lead to better outcomes. Federal expenditure per capita is nearly $20k/yr now, more than triple what it was 50 years ago in real terms. And that's not counting state and local expenditure. I haven't seen any evidence that if we paid even more, life would be better.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-26 13:45:29+00:00
>A 2% financial transaction tax is very different a 2% income tax though, isn't it?

The severity of the tax is what makes the story worth telling.

It's important to note as well. When you're talking about "millionaires" it's extremely rare for anyone to be under 40.

The 68 year old retiree is who a millionaire tax hits; but they are specifically the people who are dreaming to move to florida or a tropical island. All of these destinations are actively doing marketing to attract such people to spend their savings in their country.

Florida for example calls it's EB5 visa where you move your money out of sweden and into the usa and you permanently stay in the usa.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 13:46:02+00:00
I can't say it ever made me feel high, but acetaminophen has been long shown to have significant behavioral effects

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27217114/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32888031/

My primary care doc doesn't want me taking either NSAIDS or acetaminophen so when I get asked at the urgent care what I take for pain I say "Nothing".