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by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-11-22 01:37:03+00:00
I agree with you, but I could easily convince myself otherwise with the right context or motivation.

> Well funded public education is a bedrock of fair equal society

First we have to decide what a fair equal society is, and then decide that this is what we want, and then demonstrate that spending on public education helps to achieve this.

People I've spoken to about education who do not see it as I do will disagree with me on all three points.

Colin Powell [valued][1] (paywall) his public school education.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221108214853/https://www.wsj.c...
by jac241 | 2025-11-22 01:37:16+00:00
The disclosure section in the cited research article may indicate a financial interest in the authors being able to say that Prozac is not effective:

“ MAH and JM are co-applicants on the RELEASE and RELEASE + trials in Australia, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), evaluating hyperbolic tapering of antidepressants against care as usual. MAH reports being a co-founder of and consultant to Outro Health, a digital clinic which provides support for patients in the US to help stop no longer needed antidepressant treatment using gradual, hyperbolic tapering; and receives royalties for the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines. JM receives royalties for books about psychiatric drugs, and was a co-applicant on the REDUCE trial, funded by the National Institute of Health Research, evaluating digital support for patients stopping long-term antidepressant treatment. MP and RL have no conflicts of interest to declare.”

I would caution those in this thread who have never seen or treated patients in any psychiatric clinic or hospital let alone a pediatric one to be careful assuming that they have adequate experience to make sweeping judgements on the utility of antidepressants in children.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-22 01:37:18+00:00
Definitely. There's almost always a strong incentive to move charges as far back into the flow as possible. Knock $5 off your ISP package price, then hit them with a $5 "infrastructure fee" at the credit card screen. For consumers, just because you picked a higher upfront price for a service doesn't mean you'll you won't be nickle-and-dimed later in addition, so it is not trivial to avoid. I guess you can view the "free with ads" model as the most popular implementation: get people in the door and then charge them with their time at crazy rates.
by roxolotl | 2025-11-22 01:37:47+00:00
Aside from a belief that the AI adoption will happen very quickly, which maybe that’s your main point, you’re not really disagreeing with the article:

> All this means two things to us: 1)The AI revolution will indeed be one of the biggest technology shifts in history. It will spark a generation of innovations that we can’t yet even imagine. 2) It’s going to take way longer to see those changes than we think it’s going to take right now.
by scrubs | 2025-11-22 01:38:01+00:00
I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist. My observation is the more difficult cases of attachment in important adult relationships esp. partner/spouse is far more impacted by parents and their relationship than friends.

This doesn't gain say that in the ages of 15 to say 35 peer interactions are not there or impactful to the worse or better but extremes in the nuclear family are not to be underestimated.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-22 01:38:41+00:00
> The command line flags to learn about to get all these features are: -p -i -n -l -a -e

One of my favorite Perl mnemonics when needing to apply edits to a set of files is:

With Perl, it is as easy as pie.

Which reminds me that making a global substitution across N files can be done with:

perl -p -i -e '<insert substitution here>' $WHAT_FILES
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-22 01:39:50+00:00
I'm the GP of this comment chain. I actually did a 16 week long trial of CBT with a professional where my symptoms were tracked during each week. I actually ended the 16 weeks worse than before I started.

I later learned that CBT can have that effect on people with ADHD, so I attribute that to being a possible explanation.

I still do therapy, but honestly, I think it's a waste of time and money. I predominantly do it for cathartic purposes and so other people/professionals will stop recommending it.

> terrible the withdrawal symptoms are when stopping

I tried one when I was in my early 20s too. I swore I would never take one again. Withdrawals weren't my issue really. It was the clarity I gained after getting off. I realized how awful I was to people around me. I had such blunted emotions, that I basically became devoid of empathy. I also learned that I needed high levels of anxiety to function, which the medication took away from me.
by estearum | 2025-11-22 01:40:03+00:00
“Reasoning” is nothing more than making a prediction, finding out whether it was right or wrong, then encoding that into your probabilities for a future prediction.

The human mind is so lossy at this that we literally invent symbolic systems to externalize the process and constrain our intrinsically probabilistic (therefore allegedly “reasoning-less”) hardware.

There are only predictions and outcomes as far as the brain or the LLM are concerned.
by xg15 | 2025-11-22 01:40:03+00:00
> So why don’t airlines rip out a row of seats, raise prices by 3% and enjoy the reduced costs for fuel and customer service? The only answer I can see is that people, on average, aren’t actually willing to pay 3% more for 2.5 cm more legroom. We want a worse but cheaper product, and so that’s what we get.

Who is "we"?

When was the public vote where a democratic majority of all airline customers rejected the idea? I must have missed the memo.

How much is that 3% in dollars?

Who came up with the initial seat number in the first place that the airline now "has to compensate" by raising prices?

The airline would reduce both revenue and costs, but somehow the raised prices only factor in the lost revenue and get to ignore the reduced costs. That's not even a question for the author?
by drekipus | 2025-11-22 01:40:06+00:00
> Pills are for people who feel depressed but don't have something to be depressed about -- they have food, shelter, friends, opportunities to contribute and be productive, nothing traumatic has happened, but they feel hopeless anyway

This warrants a whole different discussion, and I'll be down voted for it, but one that's never addressed: quality over quantity.

Pills are the individuals response to a society that feeds empty food, bland sterile shelter, fake friends, and meaningless jobs.

The natural human response to a lack of meaning is hopelessness, and this comes from our society. Pills helps individuals cope with continuing the meat grinder just a little while longer.

I had depression, and I cured it by finding meaning and beauty in the world. I get told "if you can cure it without pills, you never really had it" yeah cool, self fullfilling prophecy in that case innit. Can't cure it, because it doesn't exist without meds. It just comes out of "nowhere" and is here to stay.
by judahmeek | 2025-11-22 01:40:36+00:00
> It would be a pretty bad strategy to continue to outsource everything and continue to see a massive trade imbalance with the outside world for a prolonged period of time.

It's not actually a strategy at all. It's the organic result of being the global reserve currency. Foreigners want American dollars so that they can trade with everyone else and are incentivized to do whatever it takes to get it.

Also, the "massive trade imbalance" is only an imbalance in goods. When you take services & the flow of foreign investments/loans into consideration as well, things don't look anywhere near as uneven as Donald Trump would like you to believe.
by svat | 2025-11-22 01:41:29+00:00
I agree with the comment you're replying to: the original problem (in the linked post) is about an 8x8 square in which 1x1 squares at either corner are removed, and asking whether it can be tiled by 2x1 tiles. The idea of "coloring" the board and the tiles can then be presented as part of the solution -- in fact, this is a great example of how one idea (coloring) can make a problem much earlier.

I believe your comment is actually about the extension (to this problem and solution) that I posted in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005842
by 01100011 | 2025-11-22 01:42:22+00:00
Your comment is basically paraphrasing my responses to older threads on HN telling me I needed to use vibe coding.

Most of my day isn't coding. But sometimes it is. On those days, AI helps me get back to doing the important stuff. Sure, I like solving problems and writing code, but where I add value to my company is in bringing solutions to users and getting them into production.

I'm a systems/embedded engineer. In my 30 years of being employed I've written very little code, relatively speaking. I am not a code monkey cranking out thousands of lines per day or even week. AI is like having an on-demand intern who can do that if I need to, however. I basically gained an employee for free. AI can also saving me time debugging because look, I'm old and I really don't write all that much code. I mess up syntax sometimes. I can't remember some stupid C++ rule or best-practice sometimes. Now I don't have to read a book or google it.

AI is letting me put my experience and intuition to work much more efficiently than ever before and it's pretty cool.
by loktarogar | 2025-11-22 01:43:27+00:00
I agree!

There's certainly a difference between making useful content for the love of it and making content because you think there's an opportunity to get something out of that (that could be money, but it could also just be appreciation or someone reading your work).

It's demoralising to not get any views on your hard work, and in this economic environment it sometimes feels more worth your time to do any other activity.

You may be the counter-proof to that and I enjoy your blog! But, also a lot of what makes your content useful is timing with depth and that's something that AI can't beat yet
by workworkwork71 | 2025-11-22 01:43:32+00:00
That's kind of just a brag about being wealthy though, isn't it? For many people who are trying to get escape velocity to being financially secure, tracking spending + investments is a necessary reality.

No one is saying it's healthy but if you have debt, can't save or don't have investments on track to meet your future needs then what's more unhealthy, monitoring or lower living standards?
by collingreen | 2025-11-22 01:43:36+00:00
This is a pretty nasty line to double down on.

I hope you can take your personal anecdotes and add them to a larger body of research and other people's experience to refine your understanding. If you're right that everyone who has Depression is actually just lazy, you'll see lots of support for that. If, instead, you find a lot of different experiences you might conclude that Depression is a pretty nuanced and complicated topic, which might both expand your understanding and help you bring more empathy to the suffering people around you.
by tombert | 2025-11-22 01:43:42+00:00
I don't have a problem with reading papers and doing research, and I never once claimed that the "educated class" has or should have a monopoly on a field. You wouldn't know this, but for the first ten years of my career as a software person I was as a college dropout; I certainly am not someone who is going to get all hot and bothered about people having letters after their names.

That said, I have a tough time believing that spending an hour on Sci-Hub makes you better at diagnosis, yourself or otherwise, than someone who spent a decade being educated with decades of practicing. Thinking that you know better than trained experts because you have an understanding of the very beginning of a field is overwhelmingly tempting but is generally not based in reality. Usually the people who have actually been trained in the field know more about the field than a random person who read a few papers that they thought were "comparatively relatively simple".

I read papers all the time, usually formal methods, but sometimes other fields like medicine, and I will sometimes leave the medical paper thinking that it's "easier" than what I study, but I think that's just Dunning Kruger. I know more about formal methods, so I know a lot more about what I don't know, and thus I feel like it's harder. I don't know a ton about medicine, and since I don't know what I don't know it can feel like I know everything, and I have to fight this urge.

By all means, read about research in whatever ailment you have, I'm not really trying to discourage that, but I feel like dismissing experts in the field is almost the definition of "anti-intellectualism". If you find a study that you think is promising, bring it to your doctor. Hell, bring it to a dozen doctors, multiple opinions isn't a bad thing.

I just don't like the general "don't trust experts" thing that seems to be flying around certain circles now.
by conradev | 2025-11-22 01:44:25+00:00
I manage all of my finances with Beancount (https://github.com/beancount/beancount). It has a native document store and I primarily use it to archive all of my statements to share with my accountants via Fava (https://github.com/beancount/fava). It’s not pretty, but it’s all in one (local) git repo.

Language models are great at turning those statements into Beancount postings and fixing errors, but the local ones not so much yet.
by dmix | 2025-11-22 01:44:36+00:00
> tax your salary and capital gains much more to finance affordable public housing construction

I would have taken that position when I was younger so I won't be too critical. But IRL trusting centrists politicians to spend that money properly and actually build mass housing is mostly a pipe dream. They can't even build a single railroad in the country let alone hundreds of thousands of houses in the city proper.

Radicals rarely take government for long... and as long a capitalism is the only true wealth generator for the public I wouldn't gamble on the far-left being the party that achieves that rare feat (absent a dictatorship).

It's easier to just campaign for government to do less instead of more. Just let people build things they need. There's already massive pent up demand and private capital ready to build housing the second government lets them. It doesn't need risky advertising for more taxation.
by bigiain | 2025-11-22 01:45:39+00:00
I do. Mostly because I literally have dozens of them lying around ready to be reused for whatever my latest idea is. Admittedly the bulk of those are clones, not "official" Arduino products.

Other reasons I'll reach for an Arduino over alternatives like ESP, RasPi (Linux or 2040/2350) include:

Simplicity. I very much ascribe to KISS. Having WiFi or Linux as part of my hardware _always_ leads me into scope creep. If the idea could be done on an AT328 (or similar), in my head it _needs_ to be.

Robustness. I probably have thrown out dozens of 3.3V microcontrollers/SOCs with dead io pins because I fucked up. An Arduino will often shrug off shorting 12V to an io pin (or even vcc) without blinking. RasPis seem to sometimes get damaged just because you looked sideways at them while thinking about 12V.

Experience. For me, the way I come up with project ideas seems to often be fundamentally linked with "knowing" how I'll do it on an Arduino. I've been using them over 20 years now, practically since they first appeared. And I'd been writing code for ATMega chips since a Burningman project in 1999, struggling with a cross compiling gcc toolchain. Arduino IDE was both instantly familiar, and such a breath of fresh air for me back then. It allowed me to easily experiment, and lowered my barrier of entry to random weekend or evening project ideas.

Separateness from work. I find the low level coding on a bare 8 bit microcontroller to be almost a completely different thing to coding for work. When work is going badly and I'm approaching burnout, any personal time Linux based coding for RasPis pretty much grinds to a halt. I'll find myself reading a book or doomscrolling social media instead of tinkering with that kind of project. The Arduino IDE is different enough to "work tools" that it doesnt get affected quite as
by jezek2 | 2025-11-22 01:45:51+00:00
We've had a small amount (just 3) with plenty of space and it was fun to observe them, all sort of interesting behaviors.

My favorite thing is them cooperating against a common enemy (a dog that was eating their food sometimes, which we've tried to mitigate but not being much successful).

Then once they had a discussion in the opposite corner about the problem and launched a stealth attack, covering themselves behind the trees while approaching the dog without the dog knowing it. Then once close enough they attacked from behind, the dog squeaked, more from the surprise than pain and since then the dog never touched their food again and avoided them.
by lolc | 2025-11-22 01:46:30+00:00
Yeah could be useful for basal delivery. But I wonder how variable it will be. Temperature, moisture, rub-off, other lotions, could all hinder the delivery. Don't want additional variability on a medication this sensitive to dosage.

The biggest danger I see that it's a deadly cream. Untrained people are unlikely to inject insulin by mistake. With a cream, they might just rub some on.
by 01100011 | 2025-11-22 01:46:48+00:00
Up until using claude 4.5 I had very poor experiences with C/C++. Sure, bash and python worked ok, albeit the occasional hallucination. ChatGPT-5 did ok with C/C++ and fairly well with python(again having issues with omitting code during iterations, requiring me to yell at it a lot). Claude 4.5 just works and it's crazy good.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-22 01:47:51+00:00
That's true; network too. Can play digital backups (off USB/Eth) only by using POPStarter (for those unaware, POPS being Sony's PS1 emulator ripped off the single game that was officially used on). Although POPS isn't really that good (was used, experimentally, only once afterall), USB throughput isn't an issue.
by ckw | 2025-11-22 01:48:40+00:00
My deepest views on this subject are personal, subjective, and more controversial. I have watched several family members take antidepressants for upwards of four decades, and I myself suffered terrible depression throughout my childhood and teenage years. Despite my depression, I always avoided antidepressants for some ineffable reason-- a hunch, a nebulous suspicion, I'm not sure what to call it. Somewhere in my mid twenties my depression lifted and never returned. I look back on my life, which has been filled with hardship, and I feel positively disposed to the suffering. The suffering made me who I am. I feel strongly that my character would be diminished had I not experienced it.

On the other hand, I watched family members take these drugs, and their lives seem somehow dulled-- filled with banal tragedy, like staying in a bad marriage, or not being particularly interested in their grandchildren. I have a theory that the drugs make palatable that which otherwise wouldn't be, hence they stay in the bad marriage, the bad job, and they watch their bad TV and eat their bad food and everything is fine. I've also seen one of them go off the drugs, and for a couple months they were a much more vibrant person. I saw them express joy. I feel a low grade rage toward the industry that I've been deprived of this version of them. I do entertain the possibility that I'm imagining it all. Maybe things really would have been worse without the drugs. But I am glad no one ever insisted, or even strongly advocated I take them myself.
by thegrim33 | 2025-11-22 01:48:49+00:00
SDL 3.0 introduced their GPU API a year or so ago, which is an abstraction layer on top of vulkan/others, might want to check it out.

Although after writing an entire engine with it, I ended up wanting more control, more perf, and to not be limited by the lowest common denominator limits of the various backends, and just ended up switching back to a Vulkan-based engine.

However, I took a lot of learnings from the SDL GPU code, such as their approach to synchronization, which was a pattern that solved a lot of problems for me in my Vulkan engine, and made things a lot easier/nicer to work with.
by notatoad | 2025-11-22 01:49:20+00:00
running a VM where? on an ec2 instance? who's going to keep that updated for me? who's going to reprovision it when aws retires the underlying hardware? who's going to monitor it for PCI compliance for me? i don't want to deal with all that. i could dump it on fargate, but at that point it's barely cheaper than just using the official version.

i've had to look at my nat gateway zero times since i set it up a couple years ago. i can't say that about any VM host i've got. to me, that's easily worth the few dollars a month that aws charges for it. it's cheaper than hiring somebody, and it's cheaper than me.
by iambateman | 2025-11-22 01:50:00+00:00
I think that’s right…

I wish there was another word other than homeschooling for “the parents who are trying to hide the fact that their teenager can’t read.”

Because it’s a real group but yea we are in a co-op that’s a wonderful balance between being in a classroom and being at home more than he would be with public school.
by 01100011 | 2025-11-22 01:50:05+00:00
Two things I solidly recommend it for are helper scripts and test code. Writing boilerplate tests is so much easier with it. I recently vibe coded an entire text-ui frontend to perforce, similar to tig for git, and it took about 2 hours. Yeah, I'm not ready to use it for our driver code yet but I would use it to check my work.
by osigurdson | 2025-11-22 01:51:30+00:00
Are the documents individually large or fairly small - like a page or two each? If they are small docs since you already have Postgres, you can just add the pgvector extension determine what embeddings that you want to use and try it out without committing to much. Maybe add a hash column first so that you can avoid paying to compute the embeddings again if you decide to use a different approach. They are all basically doing the same math to find things so you aren't going to get magically better results with other things. If the docs are larger then you have to do chunking anyway.

Would the 10M documents be searched with a single vector search or would it be pre-filtered by other columns in your table first. If some prefiltering is happening it naturally make things faster. You will likely want to use regular text / tsvector based search as well and potentially feed the LLM with this as well since vector search isn't perfect.

You would then decide if you want to do re-ranking or not before handing it to the final LLM context window. These days, models are pretty good so they will do their own re-ranking to some extent but depends a bit on cost, latency and the quality of result that you are looking for.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-22 01:52:23+00:00
The code could be spaghetti even with a framework and is not necessarily spaghetti without one.

The big challenge when talking about use of frameworks is that developers always try to make it about some extremely subjective criteria that’s only in their own self-interest like easiness (for me) or best (whatever that means). Real criteria like costs or user concerns don’t up until way down the line. Its a massive difference in perspective that many developers refuse to consider and everyone else looks at as a individual contributor capability/maturity limitation.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-22 01:52:49+00:00
Except many many parents have been shown to not be able to decide what's actually best for their kids, or don't care, or have actually harmful ideas.

And maybe those kids aren't their property and society has decided that the rights of the child to their own wellbeing may actually trump "parents decide whats best" when and if those parents are very much not?