MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arcticfox | 2025-04-27 11:27:27+00:00
He's specifically talking about nonverbal kids like mine. I'm sorry, it's a disability, and I'm terrified what's going to happen to my kid when I'm gone. I don't think RFK Jr's policies will help and I didn't vote for them. But the amount of frustration I have towards comments like yours that ignore our worlds is immense. At least RFK Jr speaks honestly and candidly.

The challenges a level 1 autistic person faces are well recognized and good for network TV. finally - finally! - someone is talking about the rest of the population that face far greater challenges.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-27 11:27:29+00:00
The word you want is tenet

A tenant is somebody paying to lease property, for example if you have a landlord, you're their tenant, and by analogy e.g. an Azure tenant is an organisation within the Azure cloud with a unique identifier.

A tenet is a belief or principle that is important to some group, for example the IETF's Best Common Practice series are not just RFCs describing a protocol or technology but instead statements of principle such as BCP 188 "Pervasive Monitoring Is An Attack".
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-27 11:28:04+00:00
This is like saying what makes cerebal palsy so dangerous. Why is trying to find out causes so dangerous? The dangers of empiricism in the 21st century.

In the UK, there are regions where 50% of children born in the early 2000s have special needs, and more children than adults are claiming disability benefits. It is going to have a very big impact on the labour market when 20-30% of these cohorts cannot work and, therefore, need to obtain income support from everyone else.
by Rochus | 2025-04-27 11:28:37+00:00
> it does not matter whether it is huge and complex

I was talking about the migration effort and usage complexity, not what the compiler or linker actually sees. It may well be that Newlib can be configured for every conceivable application, but it was more important to me not to have a such a behemoth and bag full of surprises in the project with preprocessor rules and dependencies that a single developer can hardly understand or keep track of. My solution is lean, complete, and works with standard-conforming compilers on each platform I need it.
by timoth3y | 2025-04-27 11:29:11+00:00
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

― G. M. Gilbert, American psychologist who worked on the Nuremberg trials
by pridkett | 2025-04-27 11:30:22+00:00
And let’s not forget that until the DSM-V, a child could not be diagnosed with both autism and ADHD (see section E at the bottom of this table [0] showing changes from the DSM-IV to DSM-V):

> The symptoms do not occur exclusively during the course of a pervasive developmental disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders and is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., mood disorder, anxiety disorder, dissociative disorder, or a personality disorder).

The DSM-V states that they can exist together. In fact something like 28-44% of people with Autism exhibit some form of ADHD. [1]

It just goes to show that we’re still evolving in how we understand things. And then we can get into things like twice exceptionality and Asperger’s…and yeah. Lots to learn.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t3/

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by itsoktocry | 2025-04-27 11:31:07+00:00
Theme: normal people who know nothing about technology "have an idea for an app" with no clue what that actually entails.

It's a shame they got swindled, but the company had totally unrealistic proposals. I bet these people scoffed at quotes from legitimate shops. How so many people will invest their life savings without doing much research is astonishing.

These are the same people who will now pay for AI slop.
by eigenhombre | 2025-04-27 11:31:59+00:00
Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Games[1][2] is a fantastic journey into the history and the possibilities of text-based games. I got the physical book and was surprised to find it as engaging as a novel. Each chapter takes one year between 1971 and 2020 and picks a game from that year to discuss in depth. While it might not help with the writing per se, you might good ideas there (several of the games discussed are in the "Adventure" lineage).

[1] https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=new

[2] https://if50.textories.com/
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-27 11:32:18+00:00
<< not realizing they were not allowed to vote << Introducing laws that don't affect the (already low) level of fraud << voter fraud is rare

Hmm. Just the perception of fraud among the population is enough to undermine the system. We can argue whether Republicans in this case are simply playing to their base by drumming up doubt in the voting system or rigging the system for their benefit or both, but if you are going to admit that a) people who are not supposed to vote do vote b) argue that laws to penalize such votes don't work, you sound about as partisan as they do ( and merely arguing for 'your' side ). Just sayin'.

<< Voter ID laws disproportionately affect a very specific subset of the population,

Why is that important to you?
by namaria | 2025-04-27 11:32:24+00:00
I take the charitable view that some high profile people painted themselves into a corner very publicly. I think they made an estimation that they could work out the kinks as they went, but it's becoming apparent that the large early gains were not sustainable. And now there appears to be some very fundamental limitations to what this architecture can achieve and everyone involved has basically little option other than to keep doubling down. I expect this to blow up spectacularly pretty soon.
by zdragnar | 2025-04-27 11:33:05+00:00
Britain's ecosystem also hasn't been isolated and untouched for many many generations. Isolated islands like Australia have far more unique plants and animals that could be wiped out by an invasive species. It doesn't take much for one to gain a foothold to the point of being impossible to remove, either.

The odds of an apple seed crossing from the US into Canada without a human involved are astronomically higher than one getting to Australia, hence customs are far more diligent in looking for that sort of thing.

Since they're already on high alert, everything looks suspicious I suppose.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-27 11:33:38+00:00
As I said, this is the issue. "The economy" is a direct consequence of people thinking that everything can be quantified. It is so shallow until you realise that this thinking is pervasive in government, and explains why "line goes up" whilst everything valuable is collapsing is so prevalent. In other words, to explain why basic societal functions are collapsing whilst you have people saying things have never been so good requires an extremely reductive mode of thought.
Show HN: I made Cursor's CMD+K for any website
by andersmyrmel | 2025-04-27 11:33:53+00:00
Was getting annoyed copy-pasting stuff from websites into ChatGPT all the time, basically wished Cursor's CMD+K worked everywhere.

So I built a little Chrome extension, InPageAI, that tries to do just that: https://inpageai.com

Hit a shortcut on any page, it grabs the context automatically, and you can ask AI to summarize, explain, etc. You can also use it to write directly into input fields/text boxes.

It's pretty early days, but give it a try? Would love to hear what you think, or if you find places it breaks!
by crote | 2025-04-27 11:34:11+00:00
You're forgetting the group of people who want to be readers, but just plain tend to forget that books exist.

I keep a big "todo" list on my phone for movies, series, and books: every time I come across something which looks interesting, it gets added to the list. But I don't actively take the time to actually purchase anything from it, so it tends to be forgotten.

If I were to hear about "Independent Bookstore Day" on a Saturday morning, there's a pretty good chance that would remind me that I have a lot of books to buy, and drop by my local bookstore to buy some. If I happened to be shopping on Amazon and saw a big book sale, I would probably be reminded that I have a lot of books to buy, and see if they were discounted.

But if I just purchased a bunch of books from Amazon, I would no longer be going to buy those same books during Independent Bookstore Day, and I would be unlikely to splurge on another pile of books from my local bookstore. In other words, my local bookstore is missing out on sales because of Amazon undercutting them.

The trigger isn't "support your local bookstore", the trigger is "books are a thing you can buy".
by everdrive | 2025-04-27 11:36:43+00:00
It really depends. The model for a smartphone app is that the app is eventually abandoned, leaves behind old platforms, or just drops previously-owned functionality when the business needs to make a few more dollars. If you can do EVERYTHING outside of the app I suppose it's not so bad, but if you rely on the app for basic functionality you're absolutely setting yourself up for failure in the future.
by the_duke | 2025-04-27 11:37:32+00:00
> but I can't fathom why Facebook would want to be in the porn bot business

Why wouldn't they?

People are going to spend a lot of time with their "AI companions", especially once they can talk and get animated avatars.

That may be incredibly sad and will drive people even more into isolation, but it is inevitable.

Meta is all about capturing the users time and attention, so getting into that market early is smart for them.
by kiitos | 2025-04-27 11:38:17+00:00
Your description of "normal load balancing" is certainly one way to do load balancing, but in no way is it the presumptive default. Keeping session data in a shared source of truth like a KV store or DB, and expecting (stateless) application servers to do all their session stuff thru that single source of truth, is a fine approach for some use cases, but certainly not a general-purpose solution.

> With SSE the server has to be stateful, for load balancing to work you need to be able to migrate connections between servers.

Weird take. SSE is inherently stateful, sure, in the sense that it generally expects there to be a single long-lived connection between the client and the server, thru which events are emitted. Purpose of that being that it's a more efficient way to stream data from server to client -- for specific use cases -- than having the client long-poll on an endpoint.
by eqvinox | 2025-04-27 11:38:57+00:00
> Is it? Could you elaborate/provide links to examples of this?

https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/tree/master/lib/printf

Disclaimer: my work.

Customised to support %pHX, %pI4, %pFX, etc. - docs at https://docs.frrouting.org/projects/dev-guide/en/latest/logg... for what these do.

> What customization would it support?

I don't understand your question. It's reasonably readable and understandable source code. You edit the source code. That's the customisation?

> Say, compared to these options: https://github.com/eyalroz/printf?tab=readme-ov-file#cmake-o...

First, it is customary etiquette to indicate when linking your own code/work.

Second, that is not a POSIX compatible printf, it lacks support for '%n$' (which is used primarily for localisation). Arguably can make sense to omit for tiny embedded platforms - but then why is there FP support?

Third, cmake and build options really seem to be overkill for something like this. Copy the code into the target project, edit it. If you use your own printf, you probably need a bunch of other custom stuff anyway.

Fourth, the output callback is a reasonable idea, but somewhat self-contradictory. You're bringing in your own printf. Just adapt it to your own I/O backend, like libc has FILE*.
by parrit | 2025-04-27 11:39:15+00:00
I'm a coder and got ripped off when outsourcing coding (because I didn't know the tech stack). Luckily lost $2k before I cut my losses and run. They kept begging for more money while returning buggy shit. So yeah easy to get ripped off and easy to get played. If you hire agencies (or any contractors) you need to be default asshole with rod up their ass. Milestones. Deliverables. Quality. Or no pay.
by Spivak | 2025-04-27 11:39:27+00:00
I mean there certainly is a stigma, the stigma is probably on average greater than the current stigma surrounding trans people because even Republicans understand gender dysphoria as an illness. Ohio's Republican governor DeWine is, even by Democrat standards a huge trans rights and treatment supporter even for minors. It's legitimately uncanny to read stories about him from back home. But cross-dressers occupy an almost exclusively sexual connotation now that femboy/butch/tomboy/andro occupy the common term for just casually dressing in a manner defying gender norms.

But when it comes to policy actions taken by bigots they pretty narrowly target transgender people. If for no other reason than trying to legislate dress is going to (and has) run into 1A issues for anything not extremely narrowly scoped. Project 2025, arguably the comprehensive policy manifesto for the new GOP only really outlines policy targeting transgender persons.
by kouteiheika | 2025-04-27 11:39:54+00:00
Just as people demand unrestricted, uncensored Internet. In the same vein you can open your web browser, type in "porn" in your search bar, and trivially find videos of people engaging in lewd acts. Children can do it too! Do you think that should be censored by default, and, say, have people upload their IDs and photos to verify their age before they're being allowed to access those sites?

Obviously children shouldn't be exposed to any of this, but as long as the solution is either implementing a privacy violating surveillance scheme, or gatekeeping so that only the rich and powerful have unrestricted/uncensored access then I'm vehemently opposed to it and will gladly die on this hill.
by spilldahill | 2025-04-27 11:41:40+00:00
You can really feel the tension between short-term shipping and long-term survivability here. The incentives almost always push toward deeper integration today, and someone else deals with the migration crisis five years later. ...honestly, just having basic rules like "only use cloud services that have open equivalents" would save a lot of pain later, but it feels rare to see that kind of governance actually enforced.
Ask HN: How can I jump in to the RoboticsxAI domain as an CS graduate?
by quocanh34 | 2025-04-27 11:41:41+00:00
Quick background: I have a Math/CS degree and about 2 years of experience in CV/Speech/Diffusion models (mostly on the engineering side). I'm looking to pivot more into robotics now and I'm super curious about building a learning roadmap. I'd love to dive deeper into the software/AI side, especially things like Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Does anyone have advice or suggestions on a good roadmap for someone with my background who's relatively new to the robotics domain itself? Thanks in advance for any pointers!
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-27 11:42:48+00:00
> What amazes me is China's capacity to do development on a large scale, something that's completely missing in Europe.

In the US, especially with renewed appetite for "America First" and bringing back good paying jobs for American laborers, there should be a lot more building of infrastructure and housing units around our country... Why can China do this and we can't even when the government has won a mandate from people to empower domestic labor (for everyone who says China can only do this because of wealth inequality)?
by autoexec | 2025-04-27 11:43:50+00:00
> At least RFK Jr speaks honestly

That's a very strange take considering he's known to spread lies. The very comment you replied to demonstrated that. He says that vaccines cause autism - they don't. He says that "Most cases now are severe." - they aren't.

I wouldn't say his record shows that he is either honest or candid:

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-kennedy-vacc...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rfk-jr-disqualified-from-ne...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/19/robert-f-k...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/rfk-jr-fact-check-co...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/debunking-some-of-rfk-...
by motoxpro | 2025-04-27 11:43:58+00:00
I know the anthropomorphizing feels inaccurate to some. What is the "correct" way to describe this in one word other than "personality"? We use "respond" in programming, but a machine can't really "respond," can it? It can pass data from a server to a client. We just use shorthand for these types of actions because they are so easily analogous to the human action.
by Hamuko | 2025-04-27 11:43:58+00:00
>When it finally got through, were they nice to you at least?

Not really. They continued to grumble about being "stuck" with the data on the talk page because they couldn't find any source to refute it, and the last edit one of them made about it was "Since I can't find any source to refute this (everyone seems to use it without question), let's at least sort the data correctly".

>And, it probably wasn't administrators, unless you specifically looked.

I did look! One of them is still an administrator and the other one is currently a "former administrator". I think I remember the other one being an admin back then too, but I could be misremembering.
by kasey_junk | 2025-04-27 11:44:22+00:00
You don’t know anything about my moral system. I know that you declared all regressive use taxes in all cases as morally right.

But a system that makes it so you must drive an ICE vehicle to participate in the economy, makes the price of food directly indexed to gasoline costs and then provides tax breaks to the rich who can afford to buy new electric vehicles while increasing the taxes on the poor who can’t is not 100% morally right.

There are lots of ways to introduce a gas tax that are ethically sound but they aren’t simple and the idea that _any_ use tax is morally just is idiotic.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-27 11:45:26+00:00
Is it 'only' "aggregating details from twelve different man pages" or has it 'studied' (scraped) all (accessible) code in GitHub/GitLab/Stachexchange/etc. and any other publicly available coding repositories on the web (and for the case of MS the Git it owns)? Together with descriptions of what is right and what is wrong..

I use it for code, and I only do fine tuning. When I want something that is clearly never done before, I 'talk' to it and train it on which method to use, and for a human brain some suggestions/instructions are clearly obvious (use an Integer and not a Double, or use Color not Weight). So I do 'teach' it as well when I use it.

Now, I imagine that when 1 million people use LLMs to write code and fine tune it (the code), then we are inherently training the LLMs on how to write even better code.

So it's not just "..different man pages.." but "the finest coding brains (excluding mine) to tweak and train it".
by gavinray | 2025-04-27 11:45:40+00:00
Calcite also has a relatively-unknown web tool for plan visualization that lets you step through execution.

It's a method from "RuleMatchVisualizer":

https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/36f6dddd894b8b79edeb5...

Here's a screenshot of what the webpage looks like, for anyone curious:

https://github.com/GavinRay97/GraphQLCalcite/blob/92b18a850d...
by t-writescode | 2025-04-27 11:45:47+00:00
> It is going to have a very big impact on the labour market when 20-30% of these cohorts cannot work

"Cannot work" has more to do (imo) with the American Welfare Cliff where if you accept disability, you're forced to not have a job because if you make even a small piddling of money (it's something like $600/mo), you lose all your disability.

It's very disgusting, imo, and rejecting people's admission of a very real struggle they have because admission "does more harm than good" is, itself, harmful.
by Brigand | 2025-04-27 11:45:58+00:00
4. We simply let things run their course and consider the current situation a new type of filter event, where those unable to deal with the new high-dopamine environment are unable to procreate. Some people will make it, society will change and a new kind of people will emerge. The black plague reduced the population by up to 90% and the current population collapse will not be half as bad.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-27 11:47:52+00:00
Supposedly, DEC started to lose its way when Olsen no longer had Doriot around to mentor him.

Olsen was an old-school MIT guy - an engineer making "affordable" tools for other engineers and scientists. It was a personal crusade for him, and his biggest competitor was always the ghost of the IBM System 360.

He literally couldn't imagine the economies of scale that VLSI made possible, or how to pivot from DEC's traditional customer base into commodity computing at one extreme and the more open Sun/SGI workstation market at the other.

There's a parallel universe where DEC invented the commodity PC and made the Internet run on it. It's likely quite an interesting place.

DEC always had top-tier engineering talent and had the Alta Vista search engine well before they understood how valuable it could be.

DEC's management and vision were also top-tier, until suddenly they weren't.
by ayaros | 2025-04-27 11:50:09+00:00
Regarding a plan, I often feel the same way about my own project. There are a number of systems I've rewritten multiple times, and I can't help but think much of that would have been unnecessary if I had been more tedious about diagramming out my needs and requirements beforehand. Other times I wonder if I would have gotten this far had I planned things out... It's the age old question of "would I have started this project if I had known how much time and effort it would have taken?"

Each approach has a clear set of pros and cons, as others have explored in this thread. In the end, I think what ultimately matters is whether we're satisfied (and proud) of a project after a significant amount of progress has been made.

I also took the "I want to write everything myself" approach with my project since I wanted it to be a demonstration of my abilities. I wanted to prove to myself and others I could create a project of significant size and scope. It seems like this often means working without libraries and having to reinvent the wheel over and over again. It's tedious, but it certainly adds to the satisfaction you get as you look over your work and think "this is truly mine; I did this."

And yes, copy ideas, not code, is one of those things I do my best to adhere to. Sometimes, at least with JS, you run into problems, look into solutions, and it turns out there's really only one sensible way to do something; what you end up writing feels like a boilerplate solution to the problem. I often find myself going back and forth through search results from places like Stack Overflow and trying to siphon out the best techniques and ideas from multiple examples to mesh together into some usable code in a style I prefer.

Finally, since I failed to say this eariler, congrats on your project! I'm gonna have to try it out as soon as I get some extra time.