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yard2010 commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)   bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme
noosphr · a day ago
Remember that in the US slaves wanting freedom was a mental disorder that made it past peer review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
yard2010 · 21 hours ago
I member! Remember when dissatisfied women needing an orgasm was a mental disorder?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3480686/

> Fate, which takes away healthy, free, young people, never pardoned me once. It has let me live all this time, quite lucid, but closed up in here ... since I was ten years old .... eighty years in psychiatric hospital for a headache

Take modern medicine with a grain of salt.

yard2010 commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT   justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve
qwertox · 5 days ago
I had things like

* Do not use emotional reinforcement, not even robotic one (e.g., "Excellent," "Perfect," "Unfortunately", "Acknowledged").

* Do not use metaphors or hyperbole (e.g., "smoking gun," "major turning point").

in it. When they upgraded to GPT 5, Advanced Voice embedded into every answer things like:

---

Me: "I want to make a pizza tonight. What's the best way to start?"

It: "Sure, I'll stick to your guidelines and leave out the emotional reinforcements. If you want to make a pizza tonight, I'd first briefly explain how to go about it and why."

Me: "What should I drink with it?"

It: "To put it simply: Just drink whatever you like with it. Water, juice, or maybe a simple soft drink are classic options. It's really up to you, and I'll stick to your guidelines of saying it simply and without any frills. If you need anything else, just let me know.

Understood, I've noted that. I'll just stick to that and give you the information directly and without frills in the future. If you need anything else, just ask.

"

---

Absolutely useless. The next day my subscription expired, and when I talked with it again, it behaved like it used to prior to GPT 5: good.

I'm now big into Claude.

Also, before you ask: The chat about the pizza was just to test if it would behave that same way in every conversation.

yard2010 · 5 days ago
You are absolutely right.
yard2010 commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?    · Posted by u/mbix77
kolla · 8 days ago
My biggest grief with that site is that it's like something from the 90s.
yard2010 · 8 days ago
I think you are confusing something from the 90 with something from the gov
yard2010 commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room   nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
1-6 · 9 days ago
In the late 1990s, living in South Korea during the fallout of the IMF financial crisis, my friends and I discovered PC bangs. These gaming havens offered titles like Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 2, and the legendary StarCraft. As a teenager, those moments were unforgettable—sitting in a buzzing PC bang, immersed in epic battles, sparked a lifelong passion for computer networks that I still pursue today.

In the 2000s, I helped establish CyberCafe, a PC bang in Oakland, California, where a diverse crowd came together to play StarCraft and Counter-Strike. It was a vibrant community hub, filled with shared excitement.

I wish PC bangs would make a comeback. Despite our powerful home setups and fast internet, gaming solo in your room can’t match the electric atmosphere of playing alongside others in a match, surrounded by camaraderie and competition.

yard2010 · 9 days ago
PC Bangs in Korea are so awesome. I wish we had some where I live. The atmosphere is hard to describe. They are easy to miss. If you happen to get to Korea (gz as this whole country is just tantalizing) don't skip on the PC Bang experience!
yard2010 commented on Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration   nodejs.org/en/blog/releas... · Posted by u/steren
yard2010 · 11 days ago
Bun can do it for years now. I think it's time to move on.
yard2010 commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
yard2010 · 12 days ago
I think so too - the latest AI changes mark the new "automate everything" era. When everything is automated, everything costs basically zero, as this will eliminate the most expensive part of every business - human labor. No one will make money from all the automated stuff, but no one would need the money anyway. This will create a society in which money is not the only value pursued. Instead of trying to chase papers, people would do what they are intended to - create art and celebrate life. And maybe fight each other for no reason.

I'm flying, ofc, this is just a weird theory I had in the back of my head for the past 20 years, and it seems like we're getting there.

Antirez you are the best

yard2010 commented on New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning   medschool.umaryland.edu/n... · Posted by u/breve
EvanAnderson · 14 days ago
Methylene blue has a fun/shocking side-effect.
yard2010 · 14 days ago
It turns you into a meth head.
yard2010 commented on Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs   github.com/trvon/yams... · Posted by u/blackmanta
yard2010 · 14 days ago
I'm puzzled - where are the header files?
yard2010 commented on We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online   themarkup.org/privacy/202... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
anonzzzies · 15 days ago
Yes, I am happy I can export my data with google but boy it is annoying to do.
yard2010 · 15 days ago
Those pricks throttled the download to 30 kbps. When I tried to download with aria, after a few failed attempts (not straight forward ofc) I got a message saying I can only download it 6 times, and that I should send a new request.

This is evil.

yard2010 commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
meindnoch · 16 days ago
Microsoft being the cool guys? The cool guys? Mwuhahahhaa.

This gave me the good belly laugh I needed.

For the last 25 years, Microsoft was known for:

- being the no. 1 enemy of free software

- shipping the worst web browser in existence, despite 80%+ market share

- making corrupt deals with governments around the world to tie them to their office software suite

- creating vendor-locked proprietary extensions to kill open technologies (ActiveX plugins, Silverlight, C++/CLI, MSJVM, etc.)

- making cringe hardware that basically noone purchased (Zune, Windows Phone)

The last time they might have been considered the "cool guys" was sometime in the 90s.

yard2010 · 16 days ago
Can't they be forgiven? For taking the shit show JS was/is and turning it into magical TS?

u/yard2010

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