Hacker News: mial

New comment by mial in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

mial — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:06:10 +0000

I disagree. As an Infomaniak customer I felt that this information was important. It’s not true that it doesn’t have any impact on customers at all: this protects the customers against scenarios like what happened with Gandi [1] that another commenter mentioned.

Maybe not urgent, but important indeed. Saying that this is "highly disrespectful" and "manipulative" is exaggerated.

[1] https://linuxfr.org/users/acatton/journaux/gandi-passe-de-no...

New comment by mial in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mial — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:38:27 +0000

Sounds like an actual psychopath.

New comment by mial in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mial — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:52:25 +0000

How did you disable it?

New comment by mial in "Time Magazine Launches Time AI Agent"

mial — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:09:26 +0000

I wonder how it can be trusted if a LLM generates it. They say that "Attribution and citation are preserved in every interaction." but I don't know that's possible with an LLM.

Time Magazine Launches Time AI Agent

mial — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:12:29 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/7332572/the-story-behind-the-time-ai-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885786

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by mial in "Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?"

mial — Tue, 14 May 2024 06:51:33 +0000

The anecdote about taking 50k IU of vitamin D is really dangerous. Above 4000 daily IU is already putting a lot of people in hypervitaminosis (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21646368/)

New comment by mial in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

mial — Fri, 03 May 2024 08:00:27 +0000

When the state subsidizes healthcare, it is in its interest to lower the costs/improve productivity.

Meta takes aim at Twitter with Threads app, millions join

mial — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 07:46:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-musk-fight-is-meta-launches-twitter-killer-threads-app-2023-07-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612600

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

GoFundMe refuses to cancel fundraiser for police officer charged with murder

mial — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/03/crowdfunder-for-french-police-officer-charged-with-shooting-teenager-nahel-m-draws-anger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36598732

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by mial in "New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut"

mial — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:38:28 +0000

I’m in the same kind of situation, what functional medicine, diet and lifestyle changes did you try? What worked?

New comment by mial in "Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients"

mial — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:47:05 +0000

I also have a chronic yet unknown condition with a similar story as you, would you share privately your prompts?

Contact me at Drgpt@altmails.com

New comment by mial in "My ADHD founder toolbox"

mial — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:40:43 +0000

While I agree that stimulant are overprescribed they can however be at least temporarily helpful to help someone with ADHD get their life in order and make meaningful lifestyle changes in order to get the symptoms under control.

New comment by mial in "My ADHD founder toolbox"

mial — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:38:32 +0000

My experience is really similar. When my physical health is good my ADD symptoms are barely noticeable. Medication can however be useful to get your life in order, to be able to carve out time for physical exercise and set up other healthy habits (meditation, journaling, task management system, time blocking etc).

Wealth Creators

mial — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://logicmag.io/kids/wealth-creators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29060665

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mial in "Why I left academia"

mial — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:03:07 +0000

This submission's title is editorialized. The politically charged term "cancel culture" is mentioned nowhere in the article.

Edit: sorry, I confused the original blog post of the professor with the news article.

New comment by mial in "Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?"

mial — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:41:33 +0000

Medication helped a lot in the beginning, but what really helped in the long term was talk therapy, and setting up helpful systems and habits such as exercising, diet, journalling. But this would not have been possible without taking Ritalin in the first place. I'm mostly off-meds now.

New comment by mial in "Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen"

mial — Mon, 25 May 2020 08:40:12 +0000

Yes, this is indeed a weird way to frame the effect of coffee on iron absorption. There's a lot of medical litterature about how coffee often play a role in iron deficiency.

New comment by mial in "Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?"

mial — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:42:54 +0000

The book "Music Theory for Computer Musicians" has helped me a lot. It is quite easy to find as a PDF file online.

New comment by mial in "Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest"

mial — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:24:51 +0000

In theory yes, but in practice, most workers can not afford quitting and suing their employers. There is a huge asymmetry of power, and unions exist to reduce this asymmetry.

New comment by mial in "Being ‘Indistractable’"

mial — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:45:20 +0000

Medications can help temporarily, but then tolerance appears and you need to up the dose. I think they are mostly helpful in the range of a few months up to a year, as a crutch to help someone sort their life out (professionally and/or academically), and also in terms of setting up efficient organizational techniques, developing helpful practices for focusing (meditation, exercising, diet). It helped me a lot in this way, I was then able to quit ADHD meds while retaining a much improved focus ability.