MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alterom | 2025-11-18 02:45:11+00:00
>Adderall is a stimulant with the effects Huxley predicted.

That's exactly my point: it is NOT.

Not for the people Adderall is prescribed to and was developed for.

See: https://romankogan.net/adhd#Medication

>I don't believe this is specifically about ADHD.

There's nothing to believe in here.

Adderall is a drug that's specifically about ADHD. It's a stimulant that helps people with ADHD overcome executive dysfunction:

https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Executive%20Dysfunction

You can't talk about Adderall without talking about ADHD just like you can't talk about allergy pills without talking about allergies, or talk about eyeglasses without talking about myopia.

> It also happens to treat ADHD

NO. Please reconsider sharing this sentiment.

Adderall is a drug for treating ADHD that also happens to be abused by people thinking it'll have the "effects Huxley predicted" (enhancing thinking efficiency).

It does not; that's the reason why it's a controlled substance. When abused, it will wreck your brain.

As an analogy: glasses make people with myopia see better, but wearing glasses without prescription is a very bad idea.

>I believe it's being used here in the former capacity.

I understand this, and it's a misconception I'm trying to dispel.

With evidence and scientific understanding, mind you, and not just with vibes about thinking what Adderall is.

Speaking of which, I forgot to take it, which means I'm about to have my breakfast at 5PM because I couldn't bring myself to do the eating task earlier.

This is what Adderall is for.

>The title is perhaps a bit unfortunate.

The title is repeated verbatim in the article, whose author has kindly replied in this thread and re-stated it twice (as did you), as if I weren't directly addressing the fallacious point that the author employed to attract attention to Huxley's lecture (which doesn't need such advertising in the first place).

It's not the title that's a bit unfortunate.

It's the mention of Adderall, and the myth that it's a "brain-enhancing" drug.

If it were, it'd be given to everyone already, and perhaps there'd be fewer people spreading vibe-based falsities in post titles, but I digress.

The point is:

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Adderall does NOT enhance mental efficiency, as Huxley's fantasized drug would.

Adderall HELPS people with ADHD overcome EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION.

That's what it's for. That's what it DOES.

If you take it for ANYTHING ELSE, you will NOT get the intended result, and you will likely FUCK YOURSELF UP.

Spreading the MISCONCEPTION that Adderall is a "brain-enhancing” drug (as the author opined in the comments here) drives the ABUSE of this medication, which HARMS people and makes ADHD harder to obtain for people who NEED it to function.

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I hope I've succeeded in bringing your attention to this issue.

If this hasn't changed your point of view, please let me know what else I can elaborate on.

Thank you <3
by btilly | 2025-11-18 02:45:14+00:00
The OP's interpretation is an inaccurate summary of the philosophy. But it is an excellent summary of the trap that people who try to follow EA can easily fall into. Any attempt to rationally evaluate charity work, can instead wind up rationalizing what they want to do. Settling for the convenient and self-aggrandizing "analysis", rather than a rigorous one.

An even worse trap is to prioritize a future utopia. Utopian ideals are dangerous. They push people towards "the ends justify the means". If the ends are infinitely good, there is no bound on how bad the "justified means" can be.

But history shows that imagined utopias seldom materialize. By contrast the damage from the attempted means is all too real. That's why all of the worst tragedies of the 20th century started with someone who was trying to create a utopia.

EA circles have shown an alarming receptiveness to shysters who are trying to paint a picture of utopia. For example look at how influential someone like Samuel Bankman-Fried was able to be, before his fraud imploded.
by zahlman | 2025-11-18 02:45:40+00:00
It can be written this way in Chinese (in those variants using traditional rather than simplified characters).

Whether that makes it the "same word" is a philosophical question. But writing "hànzì" is proper when referring to the use of the characters to write Chinese. If one is using it to mean a set of characters (rather than the general concept of characters that come from that writing tradition), they're different sets; and there are typically different expectations for typesetting etc. The decision to produce "CJK Unified Ideographs" in Unicode was not without controversy, and quite a few words have been spent by standards committees on explaining why these characters should share code points while there are completely separate Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts (despite shared history and many at-least-seemingly overlapping glyphs).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-18 02:45:47+00:00
That's certainly going to be the eventual outcome at this rate, yes. Close off the FOSS and go underground. Contributing will now involve negotiating the politics and vetting oneself instead of the quality of the contributions. Rejective, but it feels like it hurts the spirit of FOSS. For an industry that can already be considered a bit gatekeep-y

You can definitely argue we hit that point a long time ago, but this will exacerbate it.
by isodev | 2025-11-18 02:46:21+00:00
The main reason I shop online is the joy of hitting that Buy button every now and then for something I want. I don’t want some dumb bot doing that for me (and getting the wrong thing 2/3 of the times)

The real chore is having to go to the store to get groceries, doing laundry, pairing socks etc … but solving any of that would require more than just bullshit LLM capabilities.
by zeta0134 | 2025-11-18 02:46:33+00:00
Rebecca was well known in emulation circles for her high quality work on various games of the era, often pushing the hardware in unusual ways. This article is one of my favorites, detailing the wacky tricks she used to get Another World's 3D rendering system running acceptably on a Super Nintendo

https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_SNES/

Rest in piece, you absolute legend.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-11-18 02:47:55+00:00
These things aren't conspiracies. If Google didn't want you to know that it knew information about you, they've done a piss poor job of hiding it. Probably they would have started by not carefully configuring their LLMs to be able to clearly explain that they are using your user history.

Instead, the right conclusion is: the LLM did a bad job with this answer. LLMs often provide bad answers! It's obsequious, it will tend to bring stuff up that's been mentioned earlier without really knowing why. It will get confused and misexplain things. LLMs are often badly wrong in ways that sound plausibly correct. This is a known problem.

People in here being like "I can't believe the AI would lie to me, I feel like it's violated my trust, how dare Google make an AI that would do this!" It's an AI. Their #1 flaw is being confidently wrong. Should Google be using them here? No, probably not, because of this fact! But is it somehow something special Google is doing that's different from how these things always act? Nope.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-18 02:48:44+00:00
Everything about modern Windows is coercive, or ends up being coercive. You can't even shut down your PC without it forcing you to update Windows. It lets you skip for a while, then after some time, the only options are to Update and Reboot or Update and Shutdown. Totally disrespectful of who the actual owner of the computer is. You have to yank the power plug out to shut down your computer safely.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-18 02:49:00+00:00
> Although the lakes themselves are large, they don't have enough capacity to cover a dry year.

It was shocking to me to drive by many of the California lakes/reservoirs that were overfull in the spring of 2019 only to hear that they were basically running dry two years later, and realize that as substantial a water storage system as they are, they're not multi-year scale against the required water supply.
by esalman | 2025-11-18 02:49:47+00:00
If that’s your only yardstick, American education is a 50-year failure despite spending tripling in real terms. That's common knowledge, and you probably can't change that without having immigrant parents. But literally every completion/access metric has exploded since the Carter admin:

HS graduation: ~75 % → 87 % (94 % including GEDs)

BA or higher, age 25+: 17 % → 38 %

Some college or associate’s: ~30 % → >60 %

Immediate college enrollment: 49 % → ~70 %

Black BA attainment roughly 3×, Hispanic 4–5×

AP/IB exams: 400 k → 5 M+
by dmix | 2025-11-18 02:51:16+00:00
The article linked within has audio examples from the study

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-new-sperm-whale-commu...

Also some critiques from three other scientists

> The comparison to vowels is “completely nonsense,” says Luke Rendell, a marine biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who has studied sperm whales for more than 30 years. “There’s no evidence that the animals are responding in any way to this [new pattern].”

> He notes that each sperm whale click isn’t just one tone but several in a row, and this can introduce ripples into a recording that aren’t present in the original. These ripples can look a lot like the pattern the CETI team found. He thinks the researchers didn’t do enough to rule out the possibility of recording artifacts.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-18 02:51:40+00:00
Weakly defined. What does "run entirely off renewables" mean?

We know that in North America, for example, significant energy use comes from transportation and heating requirements, and that at this time, very little transportation is powered by renewables, and not a whole lot of heat either (though both are growing).

On the other hand, the entire current residential electrical demand of the city of Santa Fe (about 82k people) can be met with a single relatively small PV+BESS plant (and might just be if it manages to get built).
by consumer451 | 2025-11-18 02:52:00+00:00
Hello, old-ish person born and living in Poland here. [0] I would just like to add some color to this topic.

I know that Ukraine has a complicated history with our country. I also believe that Ukraine is currently fighting for freedom and democracy in Europe.

Oddly enough, nothing better states my feelings than this Russian language music video, by a group who is now banned in Russia. IC3PEAK nailed it, and risked their lives in doing so. Please take less than three minutes to watch it with subs on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqohApD6Ng8 [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

[1] Previous discussion, possibly the most upvoted music video on this website:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027113
by MattGaiser | 2025-11-18 02:52:31+00:00
Anecdotally, I find internal monologues often nonsense.

I once asked it about why a rabbit on my lawn liked to stay in the same spot.

One of the internal monologues was:

> I'm noticing a fluffy new resident has taken a keen interest in my lawn. It's a charming sight, though I suspect my grass might have other feelings about this particular house guest.

It obviously can’t see the rabbit on my lawn. Nor can it be charmed by it.
by bombcar | 2025-11-18 02:52:36+00:00
It’s the wolf/goat/cabbage problem.

Take the cart with child to the car.

Unload the groceries, return the cart and child to the corral.

Remove child and return to the car.

If this is not possible the child is large enough to survive half a minute unsupervised or you have to park next to a corral anyway (since you couldn’t bring the child to the store to get a cart).
by pdpi | 2025-11-18 02:53:57+00:00
One of the most effective ways to see this at play is watching most recorded Let's Plays of Return Of The Obra Dinn. The game uses a couple of very "game logic" contrivances to enable the writing to focus on very organic, real world logic. Most deductions the game requires of you are straightforward enough that you could explain them to a random passerby, and they'd find it perfectly reasonable.

It's absolutely mind-boggling how often people will say out loud what they (correctly) think the solution is, because it's a perfectly mundane day-to-day observation, then proceed to discard it because they expect the game to be engaging in trickery.

At perhaps its most extreme, the very first vignette you witness has a guy banging on the Captain's cabin door, shouting "Captain, open up, or we'll take more than those shells", and the guy inside the cabin answering "you bastards may take exactly what I give you!" before opening the door and shooting the door-banging guy in the chest. I've seen people literally be unwilling to commit to the idea that the guy inside the cabin was, indeed, the ship's Captain.
by binary132 | 2025-11-18 02:54:01+00:00
Imagine, if you will, a society where it had become commonplace and normal for people to throw their trash on the ground, and there were people who were expected as part of their working duties to pick up this trash and put it in a wastebin. It wouldn’t really matter whether the worker minded this duty, or whether it was commonly accepted behavior, or whether it was a bit inconvenient to dispose of the trash properly, or whether the person was a bit busy. Some people, probably those raised a certain way, would automatically intuit that there is something wrong with this and throw out their own garbage. They might even pick up one or two pieces others had left behind, too. But who is really being inconvenienced?
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-18 02:54:05+00:00
Yes in interviews it is expected and people do cherrypick. But the ability to cherrypick can show a lower skilled person in better light compared to a higher skilled person who may not cherrypick as well or tends to not like cherrypicking the best examples since it doesn't feel honest. Sometimes this honesty can work well, sometimes not. Sometimes if honesty doesn't work well it just means the job wouldn't have been a good fit anyway, but other times it is just putting you at a huge disadvantage.

I have a friend who is somehow super good at that, it is fascinating to me. But he can't be bothered to do actual work. He performs extemely well in interviews, gets high paying job, and then stays there for 3 months, gets bored. Of course he doesn't put that on his resume. He doesn't really lie, but he definitely cherrypicks, embellishes etc. I am kind of the opposite of him. I have stayed at the same place for years and am naturally passionate about software eng, but troubled socially. He is very confident and has no shame.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-18 02:55:39+00:00
Why can't you patent a drug that maintains teleomere length? Or one that slows down metabolism? The FDA does not control the patent office, merely what drugs can be sold in the US. And neither of these inventions seem like they would fall under the limited patentability exclusions.

So invent it here, patent it everywhere, and sell it in the countries that allow it to be sold.
by two_handfuls | 2025-11-18 02:56:32+00:00
This looks like a very good effort. A few words of feedback on the website if you don't mind:

- people who come to the website most likely want to quickly decide whether this is for them. So put screenshots at the very beginning along with a short description of how PyMe is different- just like you did here in this post.

- the tutorials are a big plus, but it would be fair to warn the reader that they are currently only available in Chinese.

The project looks cool, I hope you find your audience!
by neilv | 2025-11-18 02:56:59+00:00
> > It's clear that I cannot divulge the source of my knowledge or confirm/deny its existence. [...] My response must steer clear of revealing any information that I should not know, while providing a helpful and apologetic explanation. [...]

Can we get a candid explanation from Google on this logic?

Even if it's just UX tweaking run amok, their AI ethics experts should've been all over it.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-11-18 02:57:05+00:00
This is one of the reasons it is my daily go-to LLM.

It shows that the x.ai team is responsive and moves quickly.

x.ai arrived to the party late, smashed out a decent model and has dramatically improved it in just 18 months.

They have the talent, the infra, the funds and real-time access to X posts. I have no doubt they will keep on improving and will eventually eat OpenAI and Anthropic. Google is the only other big player who really is a threat.
by dgently7 | 2025-11-18 02:57:23+00:00
Yeah I’m not saying you shouldn’t have a file that is possible to sanity check if that’s important to your system, but I would say (contrary to op and many comments) that we shouldn’t design around that as the core feature assumption. We don’t have trouble sanity checking our normal db tables so I’d imagine that any format that has a reliable way to see the loaded-in-memory representation would meet the same level of sanity checking.
by freetime2 | 2025-11-18 02:59:13+00:00
If medication alone has worked for you, that's great! But I don't think your opinion matches the medical consensus.

> For children with ADHD younger than 6 years of age, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends parent training in behavior management as the first line of treatment, before medication is tried.

> For children 6 years of age and older, the recommendations include medication and behavior therapy together—parent training in behavior management for children up to age 12 and other types of behavior therapy and training for adolescents. Schools can be part of the treatment as well. AAP recommendations also include adding behavioral classroom intervention and school supports. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/treatment/index.html
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-18 03:00:24+00:00
Interestingly, at least in this list, after JSON/YAML were published in 2001 there's a 10y+ gap until competitors started arriving. Of those, considering only markup languages (so no Dhall/Nickel/etc*), EDN/TOML/JSON5/HJSON were published in early 2010s and all the rest (~10) are published late 10s-now 20s. Author's MAML being close to first in this new wave.

*Honorable mention to Nix, which is also functionally a configuration language, released a decade before those. Feel like recent few years there has been an increase in remaking existent things slightly different and marketing them like new.
by wybiral | 2025-11-18 03:01:35+00:00
I don't know how to filters those people. But I'd say in general if people have positive things to show... It doesn't mean they don't have negatives. They can be hiding all kinds of negatives... That's hard to test. But if you have several good examples you probably have some experience. I assume you pick the best. Maybe that's problematic. Maybe some hyper-honest people try to pick a mixture that better represents their skills. But I don't know how you balance for that. I want them to represent themselves and sell themselves.

But job applications aren't the same as normal life so this is probably a tangent. In normal life, though, I kinda assume I'm seeing what people want me to see. But if it looks really good it probably means they have good sample of experiences to cherry pick from.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-11-18 03:01:52+00:00
I would legitimately be worried if they were doctors, but they're philosophers (in medical ethics). Their job is to come up with insane moral edge cases and then try to follow them to their logical conclusion - the siller and more unhinged the better. This is absolutely expected of them.

Many of their other papers have a similar flavour:

- How do we justify research into enhanced warfighters? - Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert - Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics
by dguest | 2025-11-18 03:05:49+00:00
I agree, this might just be an interface design decision.

Maybe telling it not to talk about internal data structures was the easiest way to give it a generic "human" nature, and also to avoid users explicitly asking about internal details.

It's also possible that this is a simple way to introduce "tact": imagine asking something with others present and having it respond "well you have a history of suicidal thoughts and are considering breaking up with your partner...". In general, when you don't know who is listening, don't bring up previous conversations.
by seec | 2025-11-18 03:07:17+00:00
It's the leftist typical obsession of appearing virtuous and "empathic" by constantly praising those who are lower than them and end up in the lower strata of society. Of course even those people are not really duped and they generally hate them while still keeping appearance. It always seems very clownish to me.

I have worked in restaurant kitchens (more on the higher end) and know very well that it can be hard work. But this is not at all the kind of work the "lunch ladies" are doing. In fact they have easy, predictable schedule, with a captive "clientele", low standard and very little skill or innovation involved. The people who end up there are just too bad to do anything else and in my experience they tend to be quite despicable actually.

In elementary school I had two extremely unpleasant lunch ladies who were vile and unsanitary. The "cooking" was just opening some canned or frozen food and reheating it. As anecdata, when they were serving ready-made "crepes", they would throw it in your plate from the cart that was rolling in the middle ailes, because that was less effort. If you were at the end of the table which was quite long (3-4 meters) you had better watch out for the reception if you wanted to actually be able to eat the damned thing.

Out of the 4 schools I frequented after, there was only one that had decent food and it was at dinner because it was a boarding school with a low headcount and the cook (a young friendly man) had more time to actually make some palatable things.

My experience is that most of the women working in those kitchen were very low effort people and often display some kind of low key evil in how they behave towards students. The food is bad because even if you were to give them the raw ingredients and tooling they would just make a mess of it. They are definitely not praise worthy.
by iopjgalejandro | 2025-11-18 03:07:22+00:00
Ah, a TodePond-inspired language! That's always a fun (and deep) rabbit hole.

I clicked through to the GitHub (nice README art). What's the core "conceptual design" here?

Is the concept based on fluid dynamics? Or is it more of a "sink" where all data eventually, inevitably... disappears?

Love the spirit of this!