MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-04-27 14:26:25+00:00
Because it creates a binary when a) it's a spectrum and b) high/low functioning dichotomy is not a constant. Every day needs can be different. Sometimes people are low functioning during child hood and become more functioning into adulthood. Sometimes high functioning autistic people become low functioning later in life. Some people can function very well when they had adequate support but the can't function at all when support levels fall below a threshold.

Reducing the conversation to high/low functioning also limits people's understanding and compassion of autistic people. The sibling commenter to you said they believe high functioning autistic people don't deserve to have a say over matters concerning autistic people, which is incredibly troubling because that just becomes and avenue for silencing autistic people; if having the ability to speak up for yourself means your opinion isn't valid, then that gives license to use and abuse a population, as autistic people often are.
by lazide | 2025-04-27 14:26:35+00:00
Definitely not what I said. You might want to read it again. Quite odd to take a negative reading out of it too, especially since if you’d read the context it would have answered your own question quite clearly eh?

North and South are two magnetic poles that can only exist because the other does.

Structured one way, they can form one of the most powerful and directed kinds of motors possible. Structured another, one of the most destructive forces possible. If aware.

Unstructured or mixed up, just makes a chaotic goo, or nothing at all.

Would you take a similar negative view on ‘most men, uncontrolled, can kill almost anything that walks on this earth.’? Do you think that makes lions, tigers, bears, etc. little blobs of jelly ripe for the taking?

Personally, I take it as a super power, because it is true - despite them definitely not being blobs of jelly. Just like what I said above, despite all men definitely not being robots.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-27 14:27:57+00:00
You can start here, https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

Also regardless of what others say, you can have a go trying to feel how it was to use BASIC in 8 bit computers to do everything their hardware exposed, or even 16 bit systems like MS-DOS, but with Python.

Get a ESP32 board, and have a go at it with MicroPython or CircuitPython,

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/quickref.html

https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-with-esp32-quick-st...
by mantas | 2025-04-27 14:28:30+00:00
Anecdata, but quite a few people I met in alternative music and politics sphere a good decade ago, I meet again in unrelated non-music/political bubbles focused on heavy community involvement.

Further confirming the joke, many of those either apreach own or look to buy a bunch of power tools.

Today’s grown-up counter culture seems to be building sheds and growing wide variety of tomatoes.
by SloopJon | 2025-04-27 14:28:49+00:00
When I read SQL for Dummies almost thirty years ago, it made a point of distinguishing "sequel" as a historical predecessor to standard "SQL." As I recall, the author even asserted that SQL is not an acronym/initialism for structured query language. I felt funny saying sequel for the next decade or so, because I wasn't an old timer experienced with this pre-SQL technology.

Now I usually say sequel because everyone else does. That and it rolls off the tongue better than S-Q-L.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-27 14:29:00+00:00
> Yes, as long as they hate fascism

Really big conditional. A huge amount love fascism, in terms of sharing the same values and desires. How can they resist the allure: "we'll give you everything you want, and you won't even have to work for it by convincing others you're right, because we'll crush those who oppose us".

As long as they believe they'll always be the ones in power (see the crushing dissent part), they see that as a dream come true. Just look at how conservatives have openly opposed due process and judicial checks and balances over the executive branch lately*.

* – Which country am I discussing here? Could be a few lately!
by harrisiva | 2025-04-27 14:29:14+00:00
Most of the martial arts software industry is focused on B2B gym/tournament management software. There's a lack of good software that caters to the average practitioner.

I spoke to a bunch of coaches and practitioners and narrowed down three main features: Journaling, Flowcharting, and Video Annotation. I've built and shipped the journaling and flowcharting features. I'm planning to work on and ship the video annotation feature after I get more users onto the platform.

From a technical pov, this is super cool because LLMs are great at predicting the next best token given any sequence, and if we treat each node/technique in a flowchart as a token, then we can predict the next best technique/node ƒor any given sequence. I also want to explore a computer vision angle on the video annotation engine to be able to produce breakdowns/reports given training footage.
by noam_k | 2025-04-27 14:29:59+00:00
You may want to look at Lua[0]. It's often used as an embedded scripting language in larger projects (and games), has good performance, is memory safe, and is extensible in the same manner as Python (write your performance bottleneck in C/C++).

I don't remember specifics, but there are some odd footguns to look out for.

[0] https://www.lua.org/
by easygenes | 2025-04-27 14:30:21+00:00
bhvr is the opposite end of the spectrum from the Big Three: Next/Rails/Django hand you batteries, bhvr hands you a rocket fuel can. One Bun binary replaces npm + Node + Jest, Hono routes run everywhere from Cloudflare Workers to bare-metal Bun, and a shared types/ folder gives you end-to-end TS safety—zero extra runtime, zero config. You lose turnkey SSR, auth, and ORM magic, but if you care more about installing, hot-reloading, and deploying in under 60 seconds than about convention-heavy kitchensinks, bhvr is the leanest full-stack starter in 2025.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-04-27 14:30:53+00:00
Eh? Don’t you think you’re mindlessly citing the Pareto Principle here as if it’s by itself a natural law that is necessary? I mean, I don’t even have to argue in favor of perfect wealth distribution—it’s simply possible to partition any resource along the lines of 60-40 or 40/40/20, it’s just a matter of initiative.

And yes, in the case of wealth distribution, public policy is a matter of initiative. That in itself a long discussion because there are many factors involved in policymaking and in what makes policies politically viable, but already, those are more interesting and thoughtful questions than just chalking it all up to “pArEtO pRiNcIpLe”.
by xacky | 2025-04-27 14:31:03+00:00
Wikipedia is more vulnerable than you think, there are only around 840 administrators on the English Wikipedia, most of them who have been around for nearly 20 years. It would only take a few takedowns of major admins to disrupt the power balance on Wikipedia to a different viewpoint. The next level in the hierarchy, bureaucrats, only have 16 members. Many administrators, including one quite recently got demoted for conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia. Some of the other language Wikipedias already had their administrator's imprisoned by governments.
by T3OU-736 | 2025-04-27 14:31:24+00:00
As a non-repentant digital hoarder, I struggle with organizing data, and especially, managing the various ways to identify things using multiple, overlapping criteria.

This seems to suggest that their on-the-edge [proof needed :)] ML model helps with that.

Given that a NAS quite frequently has multiple, independent users' data, segmenting the model's learning sources and attendant suggestions is an interesting challenge.
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-27 14:31:36+00:00
> even Rust isn't really memory-safe.

[Heavy citation needed]

Rust isn't memory safe if and only if:

- You messed up writing safe to unsafe interface (and forgot to sanitize your binary afterwards).

- You tripped one of the few unsound bugs in compiler, which either require washing pointers via allocators or triggering some tangle of traits that runs into compiler bugs

- Somewhere in dependecy tree someone did the one of other things.
by gryfft | 2025-04-27 14:31:42+00:00
I keep seeing this take, and it makes me mad. "The house is on fire, didn't you expect people to start burning to death? People will inevitably die, why discuss when it happens?"

Engineering is fundamentally about exercising the power of intelligence to change something in the physical world. Posts to the effect of "<bad thing> is inevitable and unstoppable, so it isn't worth talking about" strike me as the opposite of the hacker ethos!
by exe34 | 2025-04-27 14:33:32+00:00
> And a lot of people think it’s infallible - so if it agrees with them they must be right.

A lot of people reason that way about other humans. My own father and most of the men in my family always called me intelligent when I agreed with them as a child, but any time I contradicted them with reason/evidence, they were disappointed and quickly realized that I wasn't as intelligent as they had thought.
by goku12 | 2025-04-27 14:34:01+00:00
Low functioning peers can't participate and high functioning peers shouldn't participate. So all discussions about autism should include only non-autistic people? Weird logic doesn't compute!

But what if low functioning and high functioning peers share many symptoms, but at different intensities? Won't that make the 'high functioning' peers more capable of understanding and thus speaking for their low functioning peers? In fact, there is a specific term for this - 'the double empathy problem'. Perhaps you should try a less 'ablist' approach to autism.
by liveafterlove | 2025-04-27 14:34:07+00:00
Hono is pretty good js a runtime agnostic router. On their site:

Works on Cloudflare, Fastly, Deno, Bun, AWS, or Node.js. The same code runs on all platforms.

https://hono.dev

How does compare to ultrajs? Or just use hono client side jsx, its pretty much like react already.
by mjevans | 2025-04-27 14:34:08+00:00
Dorms are a poor example. Everyone there expects it to be a temporary community other than larger structures like fraternal organizations that slowly nibble in new members and continuously digest them as things progress.

It's not like you're in an apartment or house where you don't know if it'll be next year, 4-5 years, or 10 years when you move; only that someone's going to raise the rent, or you'll get a different job somewhere far enough away and have to endure the hardship of moving everything yet again.
by pablogancharov | 2025-04-27 14:34:28+00:00
Just for fun you can explain the domain problem to an LLM, then ask it for the dbdiagram json representation. Fix any issue you may spot, then ask the LLM to convert it to Jhipster modeling language (JDL) and import it with the cli. For me that’s the type of workflow that involves AI, rather cursor/windsurf/claude approach.
by graemep | 2025-04-27 14:35:00+00:00
> China in recent years has reduced inequality

After many years of increasing inequality

> the US has done absolutely nothing to curb discontent, the same discontent that has led to the election of a fascist leader.

I cannot imagine possible definition of "fascist" that would include the US and exclude China. China has far more fascist features than any other major country - personality cult, courts compliant with the government, erasure of minority cultures - and actual genocide.
by Biologist123 | 2025-04-27 14:35:17+00:00
I remember Crap Towns, I loved it! And the Idler! Which had an entire section on jokes for which punchlines had been half-forgotten.

Great and thoughtful reflection piece too.

I’d like to add a few other ideas into the mix as for some reason I’m uncomfortable with the idea “you can’t say that anymore” that I wonder if it’s become a thought-terminating cliche.

Firstly, I suspect there’s always been two forms of puritanism: one with power and one without power. We didn’t historically hear much from puritans without power (famously some shipped off elsewhere and founded an empire). And the ones in power? Well a fish doesn’t know it’s wet…and all the other sods now have X accounts and podcasts!

The second point is to reflect on the fact that British humour is a curious thing. You noticed yourself that satire may have curiously little real world bite.

Maybe there’s been a category error: humour isn’t a mechanism for social change, it’s a coping strategy (I live in Luton, not Hull, TFFT). Or worse mechanism for social control. In my brief time in the Uk I noticed that “banter” often chipped at eccentricities or quirks, and served to bring people into line with group orthodoxy.

In short, and to mirror your uncertainties, I’m just not so sure it’s as clear cut that free speech has been curtailed somehow. Or that humour was ever about just having a laugh.
by reese_john | 2025-04-27 14:36:54+00:00
It's true that formal wealth systems (like land, stock ownership and trademarks) require an elaborate legal and cultural infrastructure to maintain — but only at scale. The absence of such systems doesn't eliminate wealth inequality, it just changes how it's enforced.

In less formal or collapsed systems, wealth and resources are often controlled by a ruling oligarchy or individuals whose hard power acts as a de facto property right.

For example, many argue that Vladimir Putin is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, despite lacking formal ownership on paper — his political and military power effectively grants him control over immense resources. Wealth inequality ultimately stems from control over resources, whether legitimized by law or enforced through power.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-04-27 14:37:03+00:00
I think the bent and “through” pieces would be quite difficult to make and assemble in bulk. You could produce something sort-of similar with laser cut or maybe stamped pieces but the grain would be all wrong and you would need to deal with charring in the case of the laser. So maybe this would not be so easy to mass-manufacture and still have it look impressive.
by latexr | 2025-04-27 14:37:13+00:00
> I'm not sure who made the argument that inequality is unavoidable.

Rich people who benefit from everyone else thinking this is the natural way of things and thus they are not to blame. The same kind of people who call workers arrogant and say they should be thankful to employers and be put in their place through unemployment.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/the-viral-ceo-shows-the-tru...
by ghaff | 2025-04-27 14:37:31+00:00
Yeah I think if it hadn’t been for the combination of Oracle and CDDL, Red Hat would have been more interested in for Linux. As it was they basically went with XFS and volume management. Fedora did eventually go with btrfs but dints know if there are are any plans for copy-on-write FS for RHEL at any point.
by roenxi | 2025-04-27 14:38:56+00:00
Existence is absurd, there is a massive gaping hole at the root of it all where for some reason everything exists - raising obvious questions like huh? and what?. We can deduce that the macro picture is weird by virtue of it has to be something pretty out there to justify anything existing at all. For example, time existing was always hard to justify because then either everything started from nothing (bit of a stretch, what was there before?) or there was no start and the universe is eternal (which is almost harder to stomach; how could that possibly work). Much more likely that time is an illusion despite the superficial evidence to the contrary.

The idea that there is a macro evolutionary processes going on seems pretty tame by comparison even if it is heavily speculative. We're in a domain where we have no evidence to work with. We can see a bunch of stars. They're moving away from each other. It seems likely gravity is a major factor. We know evolutionary processes turn up at the drop of a hat.
by conductr | 2025-04-27 14:39:11+00:00
I think greed just expands with the capacity to profit from it. It’s not that it didn’t exist in past and cause problems, it’s that our current systems reward it so heavily. I’m sure something as simple as our fiat currency, having most wealth as an intangible digit in a database, is a huge enabler itself. In past, if you acquired wealth you also had to protect it from theft and that was a significant burden itself.
by Retric | 2025-04-27 14:39:15+00:00
Your examples are confusing wealth with social status. An influencer or politician may have relatively low wealth compared to a lottery winner, but the winner has vastly less impact on society.

The issue with wealth inequality is it feeds on itself where other forms of influence tend to erode over time and need to be constantly maintained. A surprisingly long list of people could literally donate 100+M to every presidential election for the rest of their life with interest making up the difference before the next election.
by throw0101b | 2025-04-27 14:41:19+00:00
Apple and Sun couldn't agree on a 'support contract'. From Jeff Bonwick, one of the co-creators ZFS:

>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.

> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://archive.is/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs...

Apple took DTrace, licensed via CDDL—just like ZFS—and put it into the kernel without issue. Of course a file system is much more central to an operating system, so they wanted much more of a CYA for that.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 14:41:23+00:00
I saw yours first because it was recent, and your earlier comment was the first that started using terms like "crazy" and "mentally deranged". Sure, it's not ok for others to break the guidelines in replies, and I've now responded to the one you pointed out and others. We're not always going to have the time and patience go through a tyrefire of a subthread and scold every single person. Those who start or escalate flamewars need to take more responsibility.

As for bias: I've spent much of the past week and several hours today responding to allegations of bias in the opposite direction. I say to you what I've said to the others: we're not interested in ideology; we're interested in keeping HN a good place for curious conversations.
by goku12 | 2025-04-27 14:41:49+00:00
I assume that you don't have direct experience with autism? Success is a very misleading criterion. Even the very successful autistic people often suffer from significant distress. Level 1 autism (the most independent one), is also listed as requiring help. They too need accommodations - but it might be different from what you imagine. And their life situation can change drastically and dramatically at any stage.
by bsnnkv | 2025-04-27 14:43:19+00:00
There is a very interesting and fast-growing (video) niche of African Americans who have moved to China sharing their experiences of daily life in different Chinese areas ranging from these megacities to rural towns and villages.

The common thread throughout these videos is how much safer it feels to be black in China vs. America, and more generally how welcoming and friendly China is to foreigners (in stark contrast to the expectations that were set for them by non-Chinese people repeating comments like the parent comment here)
by thyristan | 2025-04-27 14:44:18+00:00
We had those things at work as fileservers, so no containers or anything fancy.

Sun salespeople tried to sell us the idea of "zfs filesystems are very cheap, you can create many of them, you don't need quota" (which ZFS didn't have at the time), which we tried out. It was abysmally slow. It was even slow with just one filesystem on it. We scrapped the whole idea, just put Linux on them and suddenly fileserver performance doubled. Which is something we weren't used to with older Solaris/Sparc/UFS or /VXFS systems.

We never tried another generation of those, and soon after Sun was bought by Oracle anyways.
by throw0101b | 2025-04-27 14:44:46+00:00
> Sorry, why should it be noted? What is the relevance of your comment other than whataboutism?

It is worth noting because nowadays the Nazis are treated as evil incarnate, and the Allied side of WW2 the side of justice, but the history of the ideas behind the Nazis does not lie (entirely) with-in Germany. There is darkness in every society (including the US) and certain tendencies, and worth reminding people that these things can take hold anywhere, and not just "over there".
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-27 14:45:17+00:00
You don't need to be deep in the jungle. You might just not want to pay for mobile data. If your phone has an SD card slot, you can put in 1 TB of storage and have wikipedia, a lifetime of music, tons of books, an atlas of your country for GPS navigation, and plenty of room for taking photos/videos. Storage is cheap enough that mobile data should be basically pointless.
by martin-t | 2025-04-27 14:46:22+00:00
Obviously all available tools will by used by bad people. What we need is:

1) Good people to also use those tools - a lot of self-proclaimed good people think some tools are bad and therefore they won't use them. But tools are just tools, what makes it good or bad is who you use it against / for what reason.

A simple example is killing. Many people will have a knee-jerk reaction and say it's always bad. And they you start asking them questions and they begrudgingly admit that it's OK in self defense. And then you ask more questions and you come up a bunch of examples where logically it's the right tool to use but it's outside of the Overton window for them to admit it.

A good way to reveal people's true morality is movies. People will cheer for the good guys taking revenge, killing a rapist, overthrowing a corrupt government, etc. Because they naturally understand those things to be right, they've just been conditioned to not say it.

2) When bad people hurt someone using a tool, we need the tool to backfire when caught.

Obviously, to jail someone, the lying needs to be proven "beyond reasonable doubt" - i.e. Blackstone's ratio. Oh and no government appointed experts who get to dictate the truth. If the truth is not known with sufficient certainty, then neither side can be punished.

This threshold should be sufficient so that if it later turns out the person was not in fact lying, the trial is reevaluated and it will show that the prosecution manipulated evidence to manipulate the judge into believing the evidence was sufficient.

Alternatively, since incentives dictate how people play the game, we can decide that 10:1 is an acceptable error ratio and automatically punish prosecutors who have an error rate higher than that and jail them for the excess time.

So yes, if A jails B and it later turns out this was done through either sufficient incompetence or malice, then A should face the same punishment.

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I am sure given more time, we can come up with less "naive" and more reliable systems. What we know for sure is that the current system is not working - polarization is rising, anti-social disorders are more common, inequality is rising, censorship in the west increased massively in the last few years, etc.

So either we come up with ways to reverse the trend or it will keep getting worse until it reaches some threshold above which society will rapidly and violently change (either more countries fall into authoritarianism or civil war erupts, neither of which is desirable).
by api | 2025-04-27 14:46:47+00:00
Yes it probably would, as would the contemporary emptying of skilled labor from small towns and more conservative cities.

Chasing jobs is one reason people do this, but fleeing boring repressive and rigid culture is another. The jobs thing is a feedback loop: the more intelligent ambitious young people come to a place, the more it grows. The allure of its openness and liberalism is one of the forces that made California the world’s fourth largest economy.