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Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder (OCPD) is actually way more common than people realize, but it barely gets talked about compared to other mental health issues - and it may even be more of a root cause of things like anxiety, depression. and it is often confused with autism.

What’s interesting about this research is that it points to a possible biological reason why something like psilocybin might help, I.e it seems to loosen really rigid brain patterns. That’s basically the core issue in OCPD: being stuck in overcontrol and perfectionism. It’s not a treatment yet, but it does help explain why psychedelics could be useful for this kind of rigidity.

Would love to see more talk about this - OCPD is often overlooked both by the general public and unfortunately by those impacted by it

Impulse Labs is doing exactly this..

I believe there master plan foresees a future where batteries are more integrated with a house for decentralized grid storage. But the additional consumer advantage is better hardware - i.e cooking time.

In my experience I have found this to be entirely true.

I find happiness to be "the art of expectation setting", and the "art of reframe".

Mindfulness meditation and introspection help a lot.

But, becoming "good" at this skill comes with a particular loss, of which I have some wistful feelings for.

Life no longer feels like it is happening to me. I do not experience large swings of emotion, great loss, unexpected turns, high highs, low lows. Music doesn't hit like it once did.

I have traded the turbulence of life for predictable, stable growth. It is less exciting, and I have mourned the loss of my previous way of seeing, but I am much happier now.

You can't legally hunt for mushrooms with dogs in England?

High quality ("beautiful") code is as simple AND legible as possible, while remaining logically correct. All must be present.

It is a balance. And legibility is a fuzzy attribute that depends on the intellectual capacity of the collective observer.

But, beauty is subjective.. some people think maximally terse code is beautiful so... shrug

By impeaching and removing him, yes

Surprised no mention of space per person. The sweet spot is not yet fully known to me. But maybe about 8-10 square feet per person. You want that intoxicating social energy, but people need the space to bop from circle to circle

It’s not doublespeak. Multiple people can share the same role. Downsizing reduces redundancy. The number of roles can remain the same even with a smaller headcount.

I'm convinced I probably have aphantasia.. maybe even quite extreme. On a scale of 1-10 probably 1 or 2 vividness.

But if I take shrooms.... I can actually see objects with my eyes closed. I can rotate them. Morph them. It's so fun! Huge bummer that I miss out on stuff like this in my daily life.

What's weird is that I can still "rotate objects" and correctly predict their final state when I am sober (up to a point, of course). But I am blind to the actual visual. It's hard to explain. It's just not registering in my consciousness - but perhaps it's there behind the curtain.

So, the mind is undoubtedly capable of performing this feat. However, my brain in sober state is not wired to transfer information in this way.

There is a minimum threshold that a partner must make in order for it to be economically advantageous due to "doubling up" and sharing resources. Below this threshold, the partner is not pulling their weight relative to median living expenses.

That threshold is about 38-40k USD as of 2025.

About 40-55 percent of single men in the US meet that threshold.

So - there is probably not a serious shortage of "economically advantageous" men. Where marriage would make perfect sense.

But I don't doubt there is a shortage of "economically attractive men". Women seem to prefer a partner that makes the same or more than them. And the same goes with level of education... oh and they must be tall, oh and ideally a symmetrical face with a happy family ... this pool of men is diminishingly small.

I was spoiled at my first company out of college. My director cared deeply about product specs, acceptance criteria, and making sure engineers actually understood product and business decisions. It was so nice.

Oh, how sweet and naive I was to the world… hahah.

It still blows my mind that product isn’t treated like a soft engineering discipline in its own right. When product doesn’t do its own thinking, the cognitive load shifts to engineering. Suddenly, engineers are doing parts of product’s job. The result is predictable: engineering gets stretched thin, and both Product and Engineering fail to fully document or even understand what they’ve built.

The project falls apart because Product drops the ball, but Engineering is the team at the end of the funnel, so the blame naturally tends to land on them. Product’s output is often hidden, and it’s easy for them to say, “Well, we did our part. Engineering just didn’t deliver.”

I'm still using cursor and it seems fine. What does CC and Codex offer that's so much better than Cursor. Idgi

I like Project Kamp and have been following them for years. However, I feel they’re moving quite slowly and often making mistakes on problems that have already been solved. For example, it took them a while to figure out their composting toilet, and even now it’s not a great solution.

They tend to have what are essentially interns do a bit of “research” and then piece together a solution. That said, I do applaud their efforts. It’s very entertaining to watch, and they seem to be hiring people lately who are more knowledgeable in their fields.

So, I very much appreciate this open-source-ecology “academic approach.”

There is plenty of reason to welcome death. And be optimistic about its presence.

As Max Planck observed: "Science progresses one funeral at a time".

And really, the same can be said for political beliefs.

Humans are stubborn creatures that stratify power. Death has always been the great equalizer. But perhaps soon, no longer.

Do we have enough info here?

This article seems to be predicated on a couple sentence in their YouTube.

"Lyrics from the heart. AI assisted vocals and instrumentals".

..."Assisted"

We have no idea how much human input went into these songs.

Either way, though, it's crazy how we're starting to enter this unknown territory.

That's standard pay for expert witness.

Do you think that simply getting paid to provide expert witness voids all reasonable credibility?

Do we know what his exact testimony was in this case?

You realize it's also possible for a judge to be wrong. Why are we just assuming that the judge's opinion trumps the expert witnesses opinion on how to properly review the literature?

here were the expert defendant witnesses:

These are the five general causation experts for plaintiffs in the Tylenol MDL:

Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, is a leading expert in the field of environmental health science. Dr. Baccarelli is Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. His research focuses primarily on exploring the chemical and molecular links between human disease and exposure to certain drugs or chemicals. He has published over 600 articles, if you can imagine. Dr. Baccarelli is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and he is also President of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology Dr. Robert Cabrera, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Cabrera is a molecular & cellular biologist and his expertise and research focuses on chemical causes of birth defects during embryonic development.

Dr. Eric Hollander, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Hollander has been the primary investigator in numerous federal grant studies on the causes of autism. These have included several major studies on autism causes funded by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hollander has published hundreds of scientific articles on autism and edited over 20 medical textbooks including Autism Spectrum Disorders (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2017), and the Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2011).

Dr. Stan G. Louie is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Louie’s current research and work focuses on the testing and development of new drugs for inflammatory diseases, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Brandon Pearson, PhD, is a neuroscientist and toxicologist and currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Pearson is an expert in neurotoxicology, epigenetics, and cell biology and he is currently involved in laboratory studies focusing on genetic and environmental factors causing autism. Dr. Pearson has never previously testified as a litigation expert but was compelled by a sense of moral duty to provide his expertise in this case.

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and heres the judge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Cote

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary's College in 1968 and a Master of Arts in history from Columbia University in 1969, after which she taught U.S. history, world history, and African-American history at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a school in Manhattan. Cote then attended Columbia Law School, where she was Notes & Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and she received her Juris Doctor in 1975.[3]

His comments... if you actually read them.. remain reasonable.

The article itself clarifies..

> Baccarelli’s published statement to the White House only referred to the “possibility of a causal relationship” between acetaminophen and autism. In both his statement and the August paper, Baccarelli called for further study.

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"Possibility"

See also

https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2025/mount-sinai-s...

No offense but your comment is basically HN parody. OpenAI created AI tech decades ahead of estimates. And they just signed a 100B deal with Nvidea. They are actually doing the things that are astonishing.

Every engineer I see in coffee shops uses AI. All my coworkers use AI. I use AI. AI nearly solved protein folding. It is beginning to unlock personalized medicine. AI absolutely will be a fundamental driver of the economy in the future.

Being skeptical is still reasonable.. but flippant dismissal of legitimately amazing accomplishments is peak HN top comment.

I really like this. But yes, don't promote using this while driving for anything other than navigation, weather, music, etc.

But, this is one step closer to my dream of being able to do my software engineer job while on walk through a park. Chatting async with an AI coding agent. Sitting on bench to review the changes. Repeat.

Note - fans should be at least two feet away from the window to leverage the Bernoulli effect

This absolutely resonates with me.

I have always felt that my verbal recall skills and the size of my lexicon do not correspond strongly to the quality of my ideas.

Which is unfortunate because I believe most people over-index on these attributes. folks with extremely high wit and low/average critical thinking, I.e Russel Brand types are extremely persuasive due to their ability to be so _accurate_. But accuracy doesn't matter if you're not shooting at the right target. We confuse accuracy with truthfulness. It is some sort of cognitive fallacy our brains short circuit to.

The best folks in our position can do is find work that allows our results to speak for us. And yes, write. Find the time to write. Strategically position yourself such that the battleground is async written text.

Reminder that Trump signed two (of three) Covid stimulus checks

Terse, poorly named variables, and clever code is worse than verbose, well documented, thoroughly named variables with readable dsl.

Debt is proportional to the time it takes to understand, change, and extend the codebase.

Lines of code are an imperfect mapping to tech debt. And if all things truly were equal then this metric has been minimized at the expense of readability - which almost certainty impacts debt worse.

So I think the better argument here is that, "lack of theory is debt" - so ironically, perhaps the better argument is the shorter codebase is debt in the analogy to LLMs. LLM usage minimizes theory building. But this is assuming that AI doesn't continue to progress and its ability to build theory about the project (and communicate it correctly to the engineer) remains constrained.

I have "vibe coded" a few internal tools now that are very low risk in terms of negative business impact but nonetheless valuable for our team's efficiency.

E.g one tool packages a debug build of an iOS simulator app with various metadata and uploads it to a specified location.

Another tool spits out my team's github velocity metrics.

These were relatively small scripting apps, that yes, I code reviewed and checked for security issues.

I don't see why this wouldn't be a valid professional tool? It's working well, saves me time, is fun, and safe (assuming proper code review, and LLM tool usage).

With these little scripts it creates it's actually pretty quick to validate their safety and efficacy. They're like validating NP problems.

Carpenters, landscapers, roofers, plumbers, electricians, elderly care, nurses, cooks, servers, bakers, musicians, actors, artists...

Those jobs are probably still a couple decades plus off from displacement. some possibly never, And we will need them in higher numbers.. and perhaps it's ironic because these are some of the oldest professions.

Everything we do is in service of paying for our housing, transportation, eating food, healthcare and some fun money.

Most goes to housing, healthcare, and transportation.

Healthcare costs may come down some with advancements in AI. R&D will be cheaper. Knowledge will be cheaper and more accessible.

But what people care about, what people have always cared about, remains in professions that are as old as time and, I don't see them fully replaceable by AI just yet - enhanced, yes, but not replaced.

Imagine a world where high quality landscaping exists for the average person. And this is made possible because we'll live in a world where the equivalent of today's uber driver owns a team of gardening androids.

Or perhaps in the future everyone will work in finance. Everyone's a corporation.

Ramble ramble ramble

What are folks uploading an article that's the equivalent of supermarket tabloid junk?

You just like the title?

It's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.

Magnus Midtbo has Kristian Blummrnfelt on his show, who is the Olympic gold medalist for triathlon.

Kristian essentially eats pasta and Nutella and bread all day.

So technically, yes, you can outrun a bad diet..

Though me thinks this article is aimed at the average person.