Hacker News: notfromhere

New comment by notfromhere in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

notfromhere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:59:01 +0000

Congress passed laws that blocked the federal government from fusing data across departments for this specific reason. the admin decided to ignore those, and a friendly congress is deciding to not act on that.

You really, really don't want a government who can build a unified profile on you in that way.

New comment by notfromhere in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

notfromhere — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:52:47 +0000

you don't need AI to deal drugs, plenty of people with little education do it all the time

New comment by notfromhere in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

notfromhere — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:50:51 +0000

xAI is a dead company; you don't sell compute if you're growing.

More promising is that cursor is training a model using it.

New comment by notfromhere in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

notfromhere — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:30:28 +0000

Internal trade barriers are a real problem, Canada is a country with a small population and vast resource wealth, so its odd that there are barriers between provinces.

New comment by notfromhere in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

notfromhere — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:57:25 +0000

id rather use the thinking models so the voice mode isnt' useful, i do use voice-to-text more and more just to speed things up though

New comment by notfromhere in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

notfromhere — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:58:00 +0000

Well yeah, YC is a tech incubator plugged pretty deep into the SV hivemind, and the leading figures of it seemed to have decided that fascism is a better alternative to any kind of regulation on their activities.

New comment by notfromhere in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

notfromhere — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:55:01 +0000

its inevitable if you do nothing to organize politically against it.

New comment by notfromhere in "Welcome to Gas Town"

notfromhere — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:28:55 +0000

prescription amphetamines don't do this if you are taking the prescribed dose (and you're not getting enough prescribed to get anywhere near high)

New comment by notfromhere in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

notfromhere — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:58:37 +0000

New Deal-era regulations on financial flows made it painful tax-wise to remove cash from a company. So you either had to pay it as dividends, or you invest it in R&D, wages, or benefits for employees (this is why companies used to have very plush benefits even for lower level managers). When combined with pretty aggressive anti-trust, it also funneled cash into business expansion via conglomerates.

Companies were asset rich (which is the seam of valuable companies that private equity has been strip mining for 40 years, but even those are running out now).

Share buybacks are more symbolic that the Reagan era made it easy to take cash out of companies, which led to a race to the bottom of extracting as much cash as possible while leaving little for operations, wages, or expansion.

New comment by notfromhere in "GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades"

notfromhere — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:29:10 +0000

they probably mean gpt-5-low. but the small models are bad for parsing data where the data has strong implications

New comment by notfromhere in "Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Federal Workers Quit"

notfromhere — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:54:06 +0000

In the U.S. context this impacts agencies that regulate industry and offer beneficial state services (healthcare, food inspection, pollution monitoring) and not services that impact state control (DHS, the military, or domestic secret police (FBI)).

The longstanding goal has been to undo the new deal

New comment by notfromhere in "Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex"

notfromhere — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:27:18 +0000

Gpt5 writes clean, simple code and listens to instructions. I went from tons of Claude APi usage to usage to basically none overnight

New comment by notfromhere in "US lawmakers introduce bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism"

notfromhere — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:19:50 +0000

if you have the right to travel between internal states then there should be no reason you can't travel to other sovereign states.

New comment by notfromhere in "Gitpod is now Ona, moving beyond the IDE"

notfromhere — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:16:35 +0000

I don't think they're offering a VSCode fork, esp when the copy you pasted says 'move beyond the IDE'.

Seems more like an agent layer on top of their existing CDE product. Which is a bit different than a cursor/windsurf/etc clone.

New comment by notfromhere in "Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine meddling on Covid shot guidance"

notfromhere — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:09:12 +0000

Literally no credible research supports your conclusions. The only one being ideological here is you.

New comment by notfromhere in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

notfromhere — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:24:18 +0000

Drug responses can be weird. Plus if you’ve been told this will make you manic and hyperfocused, your body will respond accordingly even if biochemically that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

New comment by notfromhere in "Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad"

notfromhere — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:46:32 +0000

Its also high quality and their products last a long time

New comment by notfromhere in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

notfromhere — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:14:10 +0000

I don’t understand how this works when legally in many states they can only dispense a 30 day supply

New comment by notfromhere in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

notfromhere — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:13:01 +0000

You aren’t really going to get addicted to therapeutic doses. Recreational doses are like 5-10x what a doctor would prescribe, with restrictive laws in the U.S. you can only get a months supply at a time.

Would be pretty dumb to use your months dosage for 3 days of partying

New comment by notfromhere in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

notfromhere — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:10:29 +0000

Eh. When you take it the first time the euphoria is more that you can focus and the mind becomes quieter. It’s not like a party drug