MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksenzee | 2025-11-22 01:53:33+00:00
Fluoxetine has received FDA approval to treat major depressive disorder (8 and older), obsessive-compulsive disorder (7 and older), panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia), [and] bulimia nervosa...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459223/
by api | 2025-11-22 01:54:33+00:00
As an OG networking person, developer, and Linux user, the state of modern dev culture just makes me sad.

Modern devs are helpless in the face of things I taught myself to do in a day or two when I was fourteen, and they’re paralyzed with terror at the thought of running something.

It’s “hard” goes the cliche. Networking is “hard.” Sys admin is “hard.” Everything is “hard” so you’d better pay an expert to do it.

Where do we get these experts? Ever wonder that?

It’s just depressing. Why even bother.

It really makes me worry about who will keep all this stuff running or build anything new in the future if we are losing not only skills but spine and curiosity. Maybe AI.
by karakoram | 2025-11-22 01:54:41+00:00
I follow this blog of an entrepreneur based in Malaysia, Asim Qureshi.

https://wonderyearsschool.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@asim-qureshi/videos

He has been documenting his children's homeschooling journey and I have to say the results are beyond amazing.

All of the kids were done with "high school" level education before the age of 15.

Daughters going to Oxford and Cambridge. They were accepted at 16 I think but the University told them they could not join until they turn 18.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-22 01:55:02+00:00
> doctors get lots of kickbacks for prescribing drugs.

From your own source: "In 2024: $172 or more in general payments have been received by half of physicians."

Even if all of those payments count as kickbacks, a median of $172 in a year (significantly less than 0.1% of the median physician's annual pay) is not "a lot of kickbacks".
by sarchertech | 2025-11-22 01:55:17+00:00
>>and you can't just dismantle the house and sell it for parts to cover payments

>You can do this in every state, at least with a conventional mortgage.

No you can’t. Mortgages require you to keep the property in good repair. Your lender won’t let you start taking the house apart to sell pieces of it because that lowers the overall value of the property.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-11-22 01:56:11+00:00
> Therein resides the true libidinal enigma of this dispositif [...]

This part near the end caught my attention:

> One could effectively claim that Smith [...] stands in for the figure of the psychoanalyst within the universe of the film. Here Hinton gets it wrong: our (humans’) only chance is to grasp that our imperfection is grounded in the imperfection of the AI machinery itself, which still needs us in order to continue running.

In the Hyperion sci-fi novels, (spoilers ahead) the godlike AIs are ultimately characterized as parasites of humans. Their existence was stored in some high-dimensional quantum medium, but the hardware they ran on was the old fashioned human brain. Then I read that in the initial draft of The Matrix, that's why the machines needed to farm humans; but test audiences were confused by it and so they changed to story to "body heat is energy."
by NoboruWataya | 2025-11-22 01:57:56+00:00
The Gemini protocol, which has been posted here recently, is pretty good for reading personal and niche blogs. Yes, yes, I know you don't need Gemini for this, it is entirely possible from a technical perspective to host a minimalist personal blog over HTTP. But a great thing about Gemini is that there really isn't that much else on there, so the signal to noise ratio is higher. I check gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ pretty regularly and find some interesting posts there.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 01:58:07+00:00
> I think a better solution is exponential tax on a company size. I.e. once a company starts to earn above, say, 1 billion, it will be taxed by income by ever increasing amount.

This is in the right spirit but you want two things to be different about it.

The first is that the threshold for a given industry doesn't make sense as a dollar amount, it makes sense as a market share percentage. Having more than 15% market share should be a thing companies don't want, regardless of whether it's a $100 trillion industry or a $100 million one.

And the second is that taxes create a perverse incentive for the government. You absolutely do not want the government to have even more of a financial incentive to sustain and create more of the companies of that size. What you want is to have fewer of them.

So, what you want is a rule that if a company has more than 15% market share, the entire general public is allowed to sue them into bankruptcy for the offense of market consolidation. Which also removes the problem where they buy off the government prosecutors, because if they commit the offense then anybody can sue them.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 01:58:11+00:00
> There's too much group-think in the executive class.

I think this is actually the long tail of "too big to fail." It's not that they're all thinking the same way, it's that they're all no longer hedging their bets.

> we have made the rewards too extreme and too narrowly distributed

We give the military far too much money in the USA.
by seltzered_ | 2025-11-22 02:01:53+00:00
In addition to the other comments, its worth noting macOS started adding developer documentation around energy efficiency, quality of service prioritization, etc. (along with support within its OS) around 2015-2016 when the first fanless usb-c macbook came out: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

Think I'm arguing its both things where the OS itself can optimize things for battery life along with instilling awareness and API support for it so developers can consider it too.
by ohyoutravel | 2025-11-22 02:03:14+00:00
This is what radicalized me. “Uber is 4 minutes away” so I call them, and it tells me it’s trying to find drivers for the next 6-8 minutes, then a driver is selected and they are 11 minutes away, then they sit at their location for 4-5 minutes, then they start moving toward me, then they’re 5 minutes away and cancel and uber changes to finding me a ride. Infuriating.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 02:03:20+00:00
> I frequently saw fights, so I learned

So this part of your education was entirely self-guided? And you're worried if children don't see fights and just sort of 'figure out' how to deal with them on their own they won't develop properly?

> I was bullied [...] learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

So the institution valued popularity to the point of allowing you to be abused because you didn't possess it. Another self-guided lesson.

I can never understand why people defend schools. They're terrible environments for learning. We clearly need a school setting for book learning and an _entirely separate_ one for social learning. This seems easily surmountable.
by janalsncm | 2025-11-22 02:03:23+00:00
> But matrix multiplication, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, has all the elegance of a man hammering a nail into a board.

Elegance is a silly critique. Imagine instead we were spending trillions on floral bouquets, calligraphy, and porcelain tea sets. I would argue that would be a bad allocation of resources.

What matters to me is whether it solves the problems we have. Not how elegant we are in doing so. And to the extent AI fails to do that, I think those are valid critiques. Not how elegant it is.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-22 02:03:26+00:00
Wow, was everything you just said wrong on every account. Reasoning is the ability to follow logical rules to their conclusion; it is not a probabilistic endeavour. We have 100% confidence that 1 + 1 is 2, 2 + 1 is 3, 3 + 1 is 4, following infinitely. Meanwhile an LLM cannot reliably sum two numbers because it is operating purely probabilistically.

We invent symbolic systems to record and communicate the reasoning that occurs inside our heads. Externalization is in no way necessary to the actual reasoning. The "lossy" part is when humans die and lose the progress they had made on reasoning. Writing it down preserves and transfers the progress so that others can learn from and continue building on it.

I don't understand why LLM consciousness-believers are so down on the brain's code. Why is it difficult for you to believe that we have code that is, in fact, more complicated than guessing the next token? It's weird that we develop this technology that is cool but pretty clearly nowhere near our capabilities, and then diminish our own capabilities in our eagerness to promote how cool the new tool is.
by cyberax | 2025-11-22 02:04:33+00:00
> Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate.

Waymo costs are immaterial right now. Their cars are not production cars, and they have spent billions on R&D that they can't even hope to recoup with the current fleet.

That being said, $2 is super-low. The IRS rate for car depreciation write-off is 71 cents per mile.

> But that's still pretty expensive to be using as a daily commuter!

The true cost of a transit ride in NYC or Seattle is around $20-$30 per ride. People don't actually pay that much because it's heavily subsidized.

Once self-driving matures, it'll also be subsidized and it will completely kill off transit. Maaaaaybe excluding subways in some areas.
by topspin | 2025-11-22 02:05:05+00:00
"NAT instances"

That's what you did before AWS had the "NAT Gateway" managed service. It's literally called "NAT Instance" in current AWS documentation, and you can implement it in any way you wish. Of course, you don't have to limit yourself to iptables/nftables etc. OPNsense is a great way to do a NAT instance.
by DANmode | 2025-11-22 02:05:11+00:00
Stopping back in, because I unironically came across someone's almost-surely AI assisted summary that does a better job than I have summarizing the processes being discussed:

== === Why the Sick Get Sicker Most people think illness progresses because of pathogens, toxins, or genetics — but the deeper truth is that tension, stress, and breathing patterns control the trajectory of health more than anything else.

When the body is stressed, the breath changes.

When the breath changes, the lymph stagnates.

When the lymph stagnates, toxins accumulate.

When toxins accumulate, inflammation accelerates.

And that is how sick becomes sicker.

Here’s the breakdown:

1. Stress Immediately Changes Your Breathing Pattern

When the nervous system senses stress — emotional, physical, mental, or energetic — breathing becomes:

• shallow

• rapid

• high in the chest

• tight in the ribs

• limited in diaphragm expansion

This cuts oxygen supply, raises cortisol, and signals the body to brace.

Bracing = stagnation.

2. Your Breath Controls Your Lymphatic System

The lymphatic system is the body’s drainage system, and it has no pump of its own.

It relies entirely on: • diaphragmatic breathing

• muscle movement

• fascia softness

• a calm nervous system

Shallow breathing = no diaphragm movement.

No diaphragm movement = lymph stagnation.

When lymph stagnates:

• waste can’t drain

• toxins recirculate

• inflammation builds

• swelling increases

• the immune system gets overwhelmed

This is why people in long-term stress decline rapidly.

3. Chronic Tension Physically Constricts Detox Pathways

Tension in the shoulders, neck, jaw, abdomen, and ribs acts like a clamp on the lymphatic system.

Chronic tightness:

• blocks lymph nodes

• stiffens fascia

• shuts down circulation

• compresses nerves

• restricts oxygen

• slows detox

The body becomes a closed loop where waste can’t leave — so it begins leaking into tissues, joints, and organs.

This accelerates aging, pain, brain fog, and inflammation.

4. This Is the Progression From Sick → Sicker

When breath + lymph + fascia are blocked:

Phase 1 — Shallow breathing

Fatigue, anxiety, tight chest, poor digestion.

Phase 2 — Lymph stagnation

Swelling, puffiness, inflammatory symptoms, chronic infections.

Phase 3 — Detox recirculation

Migrating symptoms, rashes, headaches, histamine issues, chemical sensitivity.

Phase 4 — Systemic overload

Autoimmune symptoms, mold sensitivity, debilitating fatigue, hormone disruption.

It appears “mysterious,” but physiologically it is predictable.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 02:05:21+00:00
With both my kids in 2nd grade and my wife also a public 2nd grade teacher, I consider myself pretty aware of what kids are being taught these days. They certainly are being gradually introduced to some of the problems of the world, but I think childhood development experts would all agree that's healthy. As for them being told they're the source or victim that's hardly the case. I'm sure there are a few isolated incidents that right-wing media love to bang on about, but not the experience for most.
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-22 02:06:12+00:00
> be wary of such a generalization.

My mistake. I should have worded what I wrote differently. I meant to say "not some true disorder for me."

> Having an objectively crappy life is normal. Being depressed about it isn't.

Not sure I can agree on this though. Rates of depression are quite high in institutions like prisons, for example. Especially in solitary confinement. Of course, I am not in prison, but I do believe the environment plays a larger role in depression than many are willing to admit.

This is not my first rodeo with depression. I'm in my early 30s, and this is probably my 5th or 6th time. I won't go into the details of those periods, but I almost didn't make it through a few of them.

> Ah, this is just due to problem X

Why is this outside the realm of possibility though? I believe depression is just a catch-all term for negative states that are too abstract to treat. If one is in a bad environment or unsatisfied in life, then a doctor cannot really do much to treat that. However, pills can be given to make people numb enough to their circumstances that they no longer care. Though, perhaps that lack of care is enough that people can actually benefit?

I mean, with SSRIs, the lows of life are diminished as are the highs of life, one might gain significant weight, and have a host of other issues like low libido, erectile dysfunction, anorgimasa, etc., but at least they aren't depressed...

If anything, I think of antidepressants like opioids. Opioids do not treat pain -- the pain is still there -- one just can't feel it.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-22 02:06:47+00:00
If you read fiction you might find The Children of Time to be interesting. It follows the hyper accelerated evolution of jumping spiders to a sentient species that eventually has to coexist with humans. It leans on a lot of fact about jumping spiders and uses it as a jumping point to what their societies might look like if given the chance to evolve as the top predators.
by ajb | 2025-11-22 02:07:09+00:00
Dram alternates between feast and famine; it's the nature of a business when the granularity of investment is so huge (you have a fab or you don't, and they cost billions -maybe trillions by now). So, it will swing back. Unfortunately it looks like maybe 3-5 years on average, from some analysis here: https://storagesearch.com/memory-boom-bust-cycles.html

(That's just me eyeballing it, feel free to do the math)
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-22 02:07:29+00:00
> > and you can't just dismantle the house and sell it for parts to cover payments

> You can do this in every state, at least with a conventional mortgage.

Legally, you generally can't, because the terms of the mortgage will prohibit it. Practically, you probably can get away with it, as long as you actually make the payments, unless the dismantling requires recorded paperwork that comes to the lenders attention, because how will they know? But if you fail to make payments, then the lender is likely to care about the condition of the property, and then, in addition to collecting your debt on the mortgage itself, the lender will have a cause of action against you for breach of contract. (And such breaches of duties under the mortgage also will often be within the scope of "recourse carve-outs" in loans in non-recourse states.)
by rustystump | 2025-11-22 02:08:15+00:00
Valve is private right? One of the reasons they are not pure evil is because they have the luxury of not needing to chase the magic dragon of inf growth. They can focus on product. Bet your ass if they were public u would see the slimiest shit coming out to eek every possible percent so bonuses are made.

I wish more companies were private for profit but not inf growth.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-11-22 02:09:04+00:00
IMO Khan was by far the best we've had in at least 2 decades. Her FCC even got a judge to rule to break up Google! The biggest downside Khan had was being attached to a 1 term president. There's just not that many court cases against trillion dollar companies you can take from investigation to winning the appeal on in 4 years
by tempestn | 2025-11-22 02:09:16+00:00
> The whole experience made me a lot more humble about opinions I hold without relevant experience.

I wish there were a way to shortcut this process for society so that so many people didn't need to either go through a similar experience personally to have such an epiphany, or worse, never have it at all. (Speaking not only about medication for kids, but other polarizing issues as well.)
by nodesocket | 2025-11-22 02:10:28+00:00
I believe the NAT instances also use super old and end-of-life Amazon Linux. I prefer Debian Trixie with Packer and EC2 instances and no EIP. Most secure, performant, and cost effective setup possible.

> NAT AMI is built on the last version of the Amazon Linux AMI, 2018.03, which reached the end of standard support on December 31, 2020 and end of maintenance support on December 31, 2023.
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-22 02:10:45+00:00
Yeah, drivers want to maximize their hourly revenue, and this is frequently at odds with the wants of passengers. For a while, VC subsidies meant Uber and Lyft could pretend they were fundamentally different somehow, but that's all over now that they're public, and the classic misaligned incentives between drivers and passengers are back in play.

The cars are increasingly beat-up too, another thing we incorrectly believed was Uber being fundamentally different from and better than yellow cabs.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-11-22 02:11:05+00:00
> I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them.

Most research does not support the idea that homeschooling inherently creates social bubbles or makes children unable to interact with others. Studies generally find that homeschooled children perform as well as or better than traditionally schooled peers on standardized social skills measures and often participate actively in community groups, sports, etc. Long term studies of adults who were homeschooled also show no meaningful deficits in life outcomes or social functioning. The main caveat is that homeschooling varies widely: children in highly isolated or restrictive environments may have fewer opportunities to practice mainstream social norms, but this is a function of the specific homeschooling approach, not homeschooling as a whole. Overall, the literature suggests that social problems arise from lack of social exposure not from homeschooling itself.
by pyuser583 | 2025-11-22 02:11:47+00:00
Gifted and average students who aren’t given attention become poor performers quickly.

Gifted students especially.

Students who learn ahead don’t want to be told: “ok you have the material, so I’ll ignore you for a bit.” They want more. They want their questions answered, even if the questions aren’t part of the lesson plan.

Nobody wants to be told “we aren’t studying that today.”

You really can’t starve the rest of the class to cater to poor performers.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-22 02:12:13+00:00
> We give the military far too much money in the USA.

~ themafia, 2025

(sorry)

On a more serious note the military is sure a money burning machine, but IMHO it's only government spending, when most of the money in the US is deliberately private.

The fintech sector could be a bigger representation of a money vacuuming system benefiting statistically nobody ?
by theamk | 2025-11-22 02:13:07+00:00
it's rule-based engine, two .c files with <2K lines of .c total. This snippet should give you a good idea what the code is like:

if (strstr(input, "who is") || strstr(input, "what is")) { intent_identity = true; }

That's like 1960-s style rules engine, except even more basic.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-22 02:13:39+00:00
>> Problem is, the enclosing function (`fetch_features`) returns a `Result`, so the `unwrap` on line #82 only serves as a shortcut a developer took due to assuming `features.append_with_names` would never fail. Instead, the routine likely should have worked within `Result`.

> But it's a fatal error. It doesn't matter whether it's implicit or explicit, the result is the same.

I agree it is an error, but disagree that it should be a fatal error at that location. The reason being is the method defining the offending `unwrap` construct produces a `Result`, which is fully capable of representing any error `features.append_with_names` could produce.

> But that has nothing to do with the actual bug here, which was that the invariant failed.

The bug is by invoking `unwrap` the process crashed. To the degree that Cloudfare had a massive outage.

Had the logic been such that a `Result` representing this error condition activated an alternate workflow to handle the error (perhaps by logging it, emitting a notification event alerting SRE's, transitioning into a failure mode, or all of these options), then a global outage might have been averted.

Which makes:

> How they choose to implement checking and failing the invariant in the semantics of the chosen language is irrelevant.

Very relevant indeed.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-22 02:13:55+00:00
It depends on what you mean by "correct" here. It would piss off the United States, which might secure a short-term political goal for some people, but the Gripen is not a complete replacement for what the F-35 offers. The Gripen is a platform tailored around Sweden's need for survivable road-mobile air dominance; the F-35 fulfills a nearly-opposite role as a preemptive strike aircraft intended for fully-intact threat environments.

I'm a huge fan of the Gripen myself, and it's arguably the better fighter aircraft if you're in a WVR dogfight against a monster airframe like the Su-35. That being said, air dominance is not the only role the F-35 was evaluated on. There are lots of great European fighter aircraft, but pretty much nothing that rivals the F-35 in strike capacity.
by gyomu | 2025-11-22 02:14:50+00:00
To this day, the best 3D API I’ve used (and I’ve tried quite a few over the years) is Apple’s SceneKit. Just the right levels of abstraction needed to get things on the screen in a productive, performant manner for most common use cases, from data visualization to games, with no cruft.

Sadly 1) Apple only, 2) soft deprecated.
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-22 02:15:42+00:00
I can't guarantee that Waymo won't be enshittified, but one fundamental difference with Uber is that Waymo doesn't need to compete in the labor market for drivers. When the low end of the labor market got red hot in 2023-24, that's when Uber prices climbed rapidly because drivers had other options; Waymo won't have this problem. It won't be affected by other things like ever-rising health care costs or local regulations guaranteeing driver wage floors either.
by chairmansteve | 2025-11-22 02:15:45+00:00
You may not reach the masses, but there will be an audience.

I have an RSS feed of personal blogs which I really enjoy.

I also refuse to go to LiveNation type concerts. I only go to local musicians charging $10 at the door.

I don't even do it on principle. Corporate entertainment (including blogs) often feels formulaic to me. I find that Medium sucks the life out of good writers for some reason.