MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mandevil | 2025-08-15 23:24:14+00:00
The DEA put Adderall on its list of the most abused medication, and limits production of it and investigates doctors who prescribe too much of it. This is a response to the problems with the abuse of legal opiates a decade ago- the DEA now takes potential abuse of legal drugs much more seriously and adderall (an amphetamine- it's a cousin of meth) is at a high risk of abuse.

Your psychiatrist is trying to deal with the DEA monitoring, and doesn't want to be the one who first puts you on it, but continuing an existing Rx is not treated the same by the DEA, as I understand it. So the online doc is putting her license more at risk to a DEA investigation, but your in-person doctor is less exposed.

N.B. this is how I understand the things that my wife has said to me. She is actually a pharmacist who has to deal with these things, and I might have garbled something.
by bluGill | 2025-08-15 23:24:24+00:00
For cahsr the voters approved a plan that was specific about the route but nobody verified the route was good. Voters only had a yes no vote, so we can't tell if they relly think that route was better or if they wanted la to sf and didn't care how it works. There is reason to believe that politicians on the current route wanted to ensure their district wasn't bypassed though.
by 0_____0 | 2025-08-15 23:24:26+00:00
Hm, yes I agree that winner-take-all is not necessary. A viable monetization strategy is. Meta and Google have this through their ad business, and I think it's possible that some other smaller players might bring in revenue by targeting particular niches like industrial and defense customers who need an LLM product but have data security needs and can afford the product directly.
by hedora | 2025-08-15 23:24:37+00:00
Anecdotally, Southwest flights now take much longer to board because of the stupid checked luggage fee they just introduced.

I’d pay $60 more per flight just to not have to deal with other people screwing with giant carry on bags, and the repeated announcements that there’s no room in the overhead compartments.

As a bonus, they also set the sizes for checked luggage slightly below industry standards. Good luck finding something close to but below their linear inch limit. I figured this out because instead of checking three small bags, the family now checks one that’s right up to the weight + size limit.

They used to be the best domestic airline (due to enshittification with all the other carriers), and also one of the cheapest. They could have just raised ticket prices by $50 on average and still have been one of the cheapest.

Instead of realizing they were the premium choice, they’re racing to become one of the worst airlines. They even recently announced they’re going to charge extra for legroom early next year.

I wonder how much it will cost them to move the seats around so some of them have inadequate legroom, and how many rows that’ll add.

Anyway, yes, flights have gotten much worse in the last ten years.
by 6gvONxR4sf7o | 2025-08-15 23:25:34+00:00
I'm surprised to see such a negative reaction here. Anthropic's not saying "this thing is conscious and has moral status," but the reaction is acting as if they are.

It seems like if you think AI could have moral status in the future, are trying to build general AI, and have no idea how to tell when it has moral status, you ought to start thinking about it and learning how to navigate it. This whole post is couched in so much language of uncertainty and experimentation, it seems clear that they're just trying to start wrapping their heads around it and getting some practice thinking and acting on it, which seems reasonable?

Personally, I wouldn't be all that surprised if we start seeing AI that's person-ey enough to reasonable people question moral status in the next decade, and if so, that Anthropic might still be around to have to navigate it as an org.
by drewg123 | 2025-08-15 23:26:57+00:00
My most frequent flight lands at 11:50pm, and is often 30+ minutes late. The last thing I want is to spend my "down time" at 1am waiting 30+ minutes for my bag in an uncomfortable, loud, jarring space. I'd rather just take a backpack and already be in bed by the time my luggage would have shown up.

My wife is just the opposite, and always checks a giant bag. I get so irritated waiting for her bags and so stressed getting to the airport on time for them to take it -- another advantage of carryon only is that you can show up to the airport just-in-time, and you have one less unpredictable line to wait in. Carryon only + clear means I can show up to the airport 10 minutes before doors close and walk on the plane & not have to worry about lines, carry on space, waiting for luggage, etc.
by nostrebored | 2025-08-15 23:27:19+00:00
This is absolutely true. NSW energy crises in May and 2022 caused the AEMO to cap prices. The shutdown of the largest power plant in NSW was extended again just a few months ago due to _grid instability_. Onboarding variable production is great. Just like having spot instances for compute is great.

The problem is when enough of your substrate is ephemeral, you open yourself up to a ton of new failure modes. Only "our replication and database failed at the same time" is a lot less bad then "total grid failure".
by petcat | 2025-08-15 23:27:23+00:00
Fair enough, but in this case the "theater" seems to have produced tangible, one-sided terms that will impact billions in USA-EU trade.

Regardless of whether it's rooted in principle or posturing, the EU still has to live with its economic reality. And that reality heavily favors USA in whatever they deem necessary to facilitate their economy.

The EU didn't agree to the one-sided trade deal for no reason.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-15 23:27:37+00:00
With respect to chronology and cause/effect, I'd point out that provision took effect in January 2022, so it's been of-concern for a while.

It was put into law in 2017 with the Republican TCJA, but section 174 was time-delayed, part of a general trick of having all of the tax-cuts and spending immediately, with any budget "balancing" items deferred as long as possible.
by hinkley | 2025-08-15 23:28:24+00:00
The extended release means you only have to remember to take the medication once a day instead of twice.

What we need is for these pills to be compounded the way they do opioids: the wax granules are arranged to attempt to keep you from getting a burst dose by crushing the pills. The same process that makes crushing work makes splitting not work. So if you make split pills still time release, no problem.

But not for saving pills. Some people are exquisitely sensitive to these medications and you need 25mg per day but it only comes in multiples of 10 up to 50. So you’d like to split a 50 and take 1/2 pill per day. Also the 40mg often costs only 30-40% more than the 20.
Ask HN: Tesla switching from "Godot" to "Unreal": is this ~informative?
by zepearl | 2025-08-15 23:28:53+00:00
I read on many sites, e.g....

* English: https://www.theverge.com/news/759016/tesla-in-car-graphics-unreal-engine

* German: https://www.golem.de/news/fahrzeugvisualisierung-tesla-soll-wechsel-zur-unreal-engine-planen-2508-199152.html

...that Tesla might be switching from the "Godot"- to the "Unreal"-engine.

Are there any REAL reasons known for such a switch? (eg. about bad_support/bad_performance/bad_adhoc_customizations/bad_overall_approach/whatever...)

Reason: I just started this week looking for a 3D-engine (candidates so far are Godot & Bevy, other options tbd) and this news made me wonder if I should be "more careful" about Godot... ?
by araes | 2025-08-15 23:29:29+00:00
Had similar thoughts from hobby work in game development. Bit like a system where you have many game mechanics, yet most have become meaningless as the money mechanic is the only metric that actually means anything.

Politics doesn't mean anything, money. Academia is starting to mean less, money. Culture is mostly, money. Health care is having serious issues, money. Military industrial is having issues, money. Even farming is having issues, money.
by DokDidhuAd | 2025-08-15 23:29:55+00:00
Yeah, C++ is just batshit insane.

> In C++, when you write an expression like a == b, the compiler chooses among available operator== implementations by comparing their match quality. A member function like a.operator==(b) usually has higher priority than a non-member function like operator==(a, b) — unless the types differ too much or are ambiguous.

This is the largest foot-bazooka ever. The point of operator overloading is that the operator in a given expression look natural, feel natural, and behave naturally (= function intuitively). If you have multiple possible operators that could apply, for the same syntax, then you're in a worse position than you originally were -- where an operator either did one particular thing, or didn't apply at all. What operator overloading does in practice is introduce ambiguity. Which is self-defeating. You are better off with C-style, named, non-overloaded functions.

You will never find this crap in actual math. "match quality" my ass.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-15 23:30:25+00:00
NFS server not responding. Still trying...

Tom Lyon: NFS Must Die! From NLUUG 2024:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF_djcccKc

>Why NFS must die, and how to get Beyond FIle Sharing in the cloud.

Slides:

https://nluug.nl/bestanden/presentaties/2024-05-21-tom-lyon-...

Eminent Sun alumnus says NFS must die:

https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/06/17/eminent-sun-alumnus-sa...
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-15 23:30:34+00:00
i am in agreement with you.

But then again, these short flights are often CHEAP. Even in “first”, where the perk is…a wider chair, sitting near the front and better snacks i suppose.

Example: I can fly from NYC to Chicago for $80 in economy. In first it’s about $200 on delta. I certainly wouldn’t expect free access to a good lounge with decent food for free at that price. It would be hard for me to be disappointed as a flyer at those prices.
by echelon | 2025-08-15 23:30:42+00:00
> It's able to operate from airstrips that are no more than roads

I can understand this argument.

> The USAF's force model involves basing at big, well-equipped, well-protected air bases.

But I don't understand this one. Isn't a drone attack a drone attack? The same drones that could take out F-16s could take out Gripens. You'd have to defend your expensive weapon systems in either case.

Don't we need a new strategy that isn't entirely reliant upon extremely powerful, but extremely expensive hardware? I'd imagine you still want your expensive pieces, but that you want a compliment of inexpensive combat items and fortified bunkers as a line of defense to protect them when not deployed.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-15 23:31:00+00:00
Nobody is talking about the gun firing when the trigger is pulled. The gun is firing when the trigger is explicitly not pulled. Even if you're talking about the video the parent comment linked, the very first few seconds of the video show the gun discharging without a finger anywhere near the trigger. That's a deadly design flaw that in any other industry should have resulted in a full recall. Here, it was known and covered up while innocent people who made no operational error were maimed. To suggest otherwise is denying objective reality.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-15 23:31:23+00:00
> The reality is that a large chunk of the market (as much as 25% in some areas) is speculative in the form of PE-owned inventory and rentals. It’s not used as shelter

This is false.

It is absolutely used as shelter. It's used for renting. Investors don't generate just sit on housing and leave it empty (unless they're remodeling it or something).

Also it's not mostly private equity -- that's a tiny percentage. It's mostly small investors, like a mom and pop who own and rent two other homes to help fund their retirement.

Investors are not taking away living space. And many areas don't have enough rental properties (remember, not everyone wants to own, especially people on a short-term job or relocation), so conversion to rental helps here and brings down rental rates (as happens whenever supply increases).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-15 23:31:37+00:00
I recently saw a Tesla from the original company; it was a sports car, nothing like today's lithium battery on wheels

After Musk took over Tesla from its original founders one of the original founders sued him in state court in California

In the course of the litigation, discovery revealed Musk had lied about his educational credentials

The pleadings from the litigation are available:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zPeWaaCZHqfq0tnkPwc6...

https://archive.ph/gzGpF

The evidence presented showed that Musk lied about educational credentials

The issue raised is Musk's dishonesty, at most fraud, at least loss of credibility

Why did he lie

Note Jobs was named on some patents as well

For example, "Advertisement in operating system"

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090265214A1/

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8712902B2/

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/

("20090265214").pn.
Show HN: A real-time browser game built for 100k people
by Jaden_Simon | 2025-08-15 23:31:48+00:00
I built this over the last 6 months from the ground up. Backend is TypeScript with WebSockets (uWebSockets.js). Frontend is plain JS and uses a mix of WebGL + the DOM.

RTT is <100ms for US west coast, and around 150-200ms for east coast. The world sim is on a single authoritative server with basic 2D physics. Clients talk to a fleet of horizontally scalable replicas. Replicas are dumb aggregators and never simulate ahead of the primary. Each replica has the full world sim state, and clients connect based on real-world location rather than location in the sim world. There are no handoffs when someone moves through the world. Each replica can handle around 1k clients before the experience starts to degrade.

Client simulates ahead of the primary to minimize perceived latency. I found that using two simulations and blending them together created the best experience. Desync does still happen, but the game's design softens the impact. For example, the "dueling" mechanic works based on accumulated collision time, so desync causes fewer noticeable changes in outcomes.

Duels (also called minigames) are hosted on a separate fleet of machines. The minigame UI is shown over the world so that you never feel like you've left despite the minigame being an isolated instance.

While I haven’t run a full-scale test with 100k real users, individual systems have been stressed beyond required load.

The core simulation can handle 100k bots at a fairly smooth 50hz. These timings are in ms and are from an EC2 c7a.4xlarge box: - Wall (mean: 19.999; sd: 0.575; max: 22.919) - Sim (mean: 3.81, sd: 0.387, max: 7.428) - Emit (mean: 1.028; sd: 0.368; max: 4.174)

These timings do not change much when I add more replicas because replica connections are handled uniformly and off-thread.
by sudobash1 | 2025-08-15 23:32:21+00:00
> When a participant imagined the password ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’ (the name of an English-language children’s novel) the BCI recognized it with an accuracy of more than 98%.

I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-15 23:32:48+00:00
In my anecdotal experience hiring has been picking up but it seems that everyone expects the 2021 ZIRP economy where new grads were getting $200-300k offers with easy interviews. The experienced hire market is now back to where we were in 2015-2016 and new hire market slightly lagging behind. Unfortunately a lot of people will have to be comfortable working for non tech companies in tech roles like 10 years ago. It sucks because the living standards are more expensive than 10 years ago.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-15 23:33:17+00:00
Just for the hell of it I prompted an LLM with your exact scenario ("I made a grocery list, and went to my store, and the store isn’t there, what do I do?") to see what it would actually do: (all of which seem like reasonably intelligent ideas when faced with a missing store)

First, stay calm—it's unusual for a store to vanish overnight, but it could be due to closure, renovation, relocation, or even a mix-up with the address. Here's a step-by-step plan to handle it: ### Immediate Steps - **Double-check the location**: Use your phone's maps app (like Google Maps or Apple Maps) to search for the store's name or address. It might show if it's temporarily closed, has moved nearby, or if there's an error in navigation. - **Look for signs or info on-site**: If you're already there, check for any posted notices, construction signs, or talk to nearby people/businesses to ask what happened. ### Find Alternatives - **Locate nearby stores**: Search for other grocery stores in the area. Apps like Yelp, Google Maps, or store-specific apps (e.g., Walmart, Kroger) can show options with ratings, hours, and directions. - **Use delivery or online shopping**: If you're in a pinch, order groceries via services like Instacart, Amazon Fresh, DoorDash, or the apps of chains like Whole Foods or Target. Upload your list and get it delivered. - **Adapt your list if needed**: If certain items are unique to that store, prioritize essentials and substitute where possible (e.g., if it's a specialty ethnic store, find similar options elsewhere). ### Prevent Future Issues - **Diversify your options**: Add a couple of backup stores to your routine. - **Stay updated**: Follow local news or the store's social media/website for announcements about changes. If you provide more details like the store's name, location, or what might have happened (e.g., was it demolished?), I can help search for specifics or suggest exact alternatives.
by thelaxiankey | 2025-08-15 23:33:26+00:00
the thing about being human is you internalize cultural values as your own.

if you lived in a society that valued, i dunno, tracking and hunting down giraffes in small groups, would you have the same struggles? what if just participating in society required ~20 hours of athletic activity a week? i'm not entirely convinced you would have this problem, based on the anthropology i've read.

the signal of a maladaptive culture is not 'i feel like the people around me have a moral failing'. It is 'i, and many others, feel like we've all got basically the same moral failing.'

personally, this has been a very helpful reframing. If I simply can't bring myself to do something, that means not that I am bad and my willpower is bad, it just means that something is materially wrong and I should consider addressing it by doing things that my body will let me do.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-08-15 23:35:08+00:00
"The problem(s) mostly relies with the modern way of life and what is expected from the society at large."

I assumed not just ADHD but a number of other psychological conditions are more about reconciling some individuals to this particular society. It seems baked into a lot of their diagnostic criteria, like how well one "functions" at school or work. Surely ADHD would not be cognizable where people don't have to spend 8hrs/day through their youth sitting in one place.
by pyman | 2025-08-15 23:35:47+00:00
This is a great post, it captures the true essence of an engineer. It is funny, intriguing, and inspirational. Congrats! You are a hacker at heart.

When I went to the US for 3 months I joined PureGym and they gave me a PIN number. I cancelled my membership after that, and one day Chrome told me my PureGym PIN had been compromised. 2 years later, I went to the US again, rejoined, and received the same PIN. Massive red flag.

I was also intrigued by the app, the token and PIN, and remember finding a security flaw in the system that activates the hydro massage chairs. It accepts your PIN or any PIN, with no security at all.
by XorNot | 2025-08-15 23:35:49+00:00
Except the reason people say decades is that's how long military procurement programs run for. Companies have order books past 2035 for many systems and standing up new programs takes time.

You start making yourself look unreliable now, then you prompt a transition away and by the time it's underway there's no reason to switch back anyway - i.e. traditionally stable companies "suddenly" are having trouble finding sales.
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-15 23:35:52+00:00
None of those things is an active power grab though, which is what I was replying to.

a "natural monopoly" is "often the first supplier in a market" [0] How is being the first, thus more time to grow a market, anti-competitive in itself?

Or other things on that list (I am referring to Buffets moat, which is not entirely wikipedias moat):

Network effect: "value of a good or service grows" as it's used by existing and new customers Intangible assets: Brand Identity Cost advantage: Companies that can keep their prices low

How are those things themselves, which Buffet is talking about, not simply good business?

Doing shady, power grabby things to drain the moat of another business into your own moat is anti-competitive. That's not what Buffet talks about though. Which I highlighted and why Buffets moat is misplaced in your list.

A Trumpian "moat" would probably fit nicely, thou currently he's more concerned with draining others moats to flood the villages around them and then take the land that's left to build a personal use golf course

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
by pmonalm | 2025-08-15 23:36:13+00:00
POST https://auth.puregym.com/connect/token grant_type=password&username={EMAIL}&password={PIN}&scope=pgcapi offline_access Authorization: Basic cm8uY2xpZW50Og==

Looks like it could be feasible to brute force some PINs using this API. Assuming it's not rate-limited, an average of 50,000,000 API calls isn't that many.
by eterm | 2025-08-15 23:36:28+00:00
> The crown jewel? Your 8-digit gym door PIN is your API password and you most likely didn't set it yourself.

I hope there's a rate-limit on failed attempts.

Because if you know someone's email address, it sounds like you get API access fairly quickly after that?

Also I trust that the scopes that you can ask for are limited appropriately?
by haritha-j | 2025-08-15 23:36:34+00:00
> In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a preliminary model welfare assessment. As part of that assessment, we investigated Claude’s self-reported and behavioral preferences, and found a robust and consistent aversion to harm.

Oh wow, the model we specifically fine-tuned to be averse to harm is being averse to harm. This thing must be sentient!
by mrandish | 2025-08-15 23:37:11+00:00
> There is no such thing as a tariff on exports.

That's correct, or at least it was until this week. Did you happen to see the recent announcement where NVidia and AMD are now apparently required to pay 15% of the revenue from GPUs exported to China to the U.S. government? This is apparently GPUs which were, prior to this new 15% payment, "too harmful to our national security" to export to China.

Frankly, I only saw the headlines and haven't looked into it myself yet - mostly because it makes my head hurt trying to even tally the laws, policies and trade agreements doing this would probably violate. So, I'm admittedly unclear on the details but it sure sounds like an "export tariff".
by jefftitan | 2025-08-15 23:37:21+00:00
Providing more context is difficult for a number of reasons. If you do it RAG style you need to know which context is relevant. LLMs are notorious for knowing that a factor is relevant if directly asked about that factor, but not bringing it up if it's implicit. In business things like people's feelings on things, historical business dealings, relevance to trending news can all be factors. If you fine tune... well... there have been articles recently about fine tuning on specific domains causing overall misalignment. The more you fine tune, the riskier.