MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LoganDark | 2025-06-19 01:05:24+00:00
> i do now realize i've been unclear in my previous post; this "tunnel vision" we both speak of (hopefully we're indeed referring to the same phenomenon!) is, in my view, the culturally expected default day-to-day state of the neurotypical mind; as in, one is expected to have acquired these mandatory blinders early on, regardless if they're actually harmful to individual health and collective flourishing

I'm not super sure what "blinders" you're speaking of. I don't think it's expected for a neurotypical person to only be able to keep ~one thought in their head at a time. Although I do notice a lot of the time people find it weird that I remember things that were besides a point; maybe that's what you're talking about.

> neurophysiological parameters that result in adhd diagnosis

Weird trivia, but it's really fucking weird that dysgraphia predicts an ADHD diagnosis. I seem to have dysgraphia, and lo and behold[0]:

> Individuals with dysgraphia often have difficulties in Executive Functions (e.g., planning and organizing).

What the fuck lmao.

> a core part of "the blinders" is the assumption that no other stable non-pathological mind-states exist in the first place!

This is a totally different thing; this is intentional rejection of new ideas, and basically rejection of everyone who isn't the same.

> thanks for sharing your experiences!

Of course~

[0]: https://ldaamerica.org/disabilities/dysgraphia
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-19 01:05:26+00:00
Personally I like the older kind of chatbots where I can ask it to write me something little (a function, a SQL query, ...) and I have it in 10-30 seconds and can think about it, try it, look in the manual to confirm it, or give it feedback or ask for something else. This can be a lot more efficient than looking in incomplete or badly organized manuals (MUI, react-router, ...) or filtering out the wrong answers on Stack Overflow that Stack Overflow doesn't filter out.

I can't stand the more complex "agents" like Junie that will go off on a chain of thought and give an update every 30 seconds or so and then 10 minutes later I get something that's occasionally useful but often somewhere between horribly wrong and not even wrong.
by energywut | 2025-06-19 01:07:30+00:00
> FOSS is a flexible term but carries the connotation of community ownership, and therefore independence from for-profit interests.

That's certainly not true. Unless Red Hat, MongoDB, Chef, etc. are not open source.

While I love to believe that the FOSS world is an anarchist utopia that believes in wellbeing for all, I think there are plenty of profit driven people there. They just don't sell access to the code/software.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-19 01:08:44+00:00
I think the magic key might be LLMs that can build and test code, and then revise it and test it again, revise tests, etc...all while accepting feedback from human users about what the requirements really are (because they aren't going to be complete at the beginning). We might already be there with LLMs and we just haven't figured out the workflow yet (it isn't just one LLM activation, for sure, it has to be a series, with feedback from test execution and reviews...like real SWEs).
by echelon | 2025-06-19 01:08:55+00:00
I want a fully clear case, but apparently that's too brittle and isn't possible? This is what the Framework people say. They have keyboards like this, but won't make a full shell in this style.

I'd kill for a fully transparent phone or laptop shell.

I'd pay $1000 more for this aesthetic. Double if it's in the florescent neon colors of 90's /00's Nintendo / Apple designs.

This: https://imgur.com/a/DedpbHQ
by nomel | 2025-06-19 01:09:07+00:00
It becomes clear that it's just statistics once you get near a statistically significant "attractor".

A silly example is any of the riddles where you just simplify it to an obvious degree and the LLM can't get it (mostly gone with recent big models), like: "A man, a sheep, and a boat need to get across a river. How can they do this safely without the sheep being eaten".

A more practically infuriating example is when you want to do something slightly different than a very common problem. The LLM might eventually get it right, after too much guidance, but then it'll slowly revert back to the "common" case. For example, replacing whole chunks of code with whatever common thing when you tell it add comments. This happens frequently to me with super basic vector math.
by Scramblejams | 2025-06-19 01:11:37+00:00
The program didn't get far enough to determine definitively if it was worthwhile for fighter applications -- the aircraft wasn't designed for that level of maneuverability. It was about learning what they could do at the limit of what was known then about composites, unconventional aerodynamics, and flight control law development.

Part of the genius in this project was they proved you could actually produce a wing out of composites effectively tailored to resist upward (or downward) wing deflection with a counteracting downward (or upward) twist on the leading edge, so despite aggressive maneuvering the wing would not find itself in a self-reinforcing loop of increasing load that would lead to structural failure.

Therefore, the wings wouldn't twist and buckle.

The math said it was possible, but history is littered with clever composite designs that can't actually be manufactured to the required tolerances, or that change shape after coming out of the mold, or that can't be pulled out of a mold without breaking the part or the mold or both.
by handsclean | 2025-06-19 01:12:25+00:00
Firefox has this built in, about:config privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing. It was contributed upstream by Tor, and off by default in Firefox.

Edit: I think I misunderstood you, you’re looking for something that adds changing noise to the viewport size. Letterboxing isn’t that, but it is another, arguably better, approach to reducing the same fingerprinting vector.
by devmor | 2025-06-19 01:12:39+00:00
As your career goes on, you will likely eventually work on large production systems that are not idealized greenfield deployments - at this time, you will have to come to terms with the constraints of Network and I/O bounds, and your dreams of nano and milliseconds will be shattered.

In particular, I welcome you to experience the lovely word of corporate VPNs, whose maintainers and developers seem to have latency expectations that have not changed in 30 years.
by energywut | 2025-06-19 01:13:49+00:00
I'd go further. Discrimination against some people is axiomatically part of having a nation and a border. There are no nations, to my knowledge, that permit every person residing within their borders to vote and permit any person who wishes to reside in their borders entry.

The assumption of discrimination is therefore baked in to every national project -- there are people who wish to participate in the nation but are barred from doing so. It's uncomfortable for many people to consider this, because it runs counter to the idea that their nations are welcoming places, but it's important to remember this discrimination occurs (even if you think it's a good idea.)
by throw234234234 | 2025-06-19 01:14:08+00:00
Both are true. What the parent poster is saying is that the models don't have to be perfect and can "hallucinate" because software is a unique domain in that:

* Validation: You can validate against objective signals either you or your tooling define (e.g. unit tests, compile errors, etc).

* Cost of Failure is Low: You can undo bad work, and feed errors back into the model as a signal to reduce future errors. Its not like physical domains (e.g. building a house, bridge, etc) where "undoing" is expensive and wasteful.

The models just need to be "good enough" that with enough tries the error accumulated over long jobs doesn't grow -> by adding data back into the model giving it feedback at each step you can curb this. How these agent tools sometimes achieve that is that they integrate with your build tooling stack, your IDE, your unit tests, etc etc -> they have a lot of "guard rails" to effectively curve the risk of hallucinations and/or rather when there is one to bring things back in line because they are long running processes.

TL;DR if you can't reduce the risk of bad model outputs you can mitigate the impact of the risk through retries and guard rails that feed back into the model. That's what these tools do to reduce the error rate. People are complaining about the risk of bad model output without looking at the other side - is there a way to make the effective consequence of that minimal and correct course? That's what these agent tools try to do - they want to work "like a human".

Don't get me wrong; there's a lot of signals that are hard to capture related to taste (e.g. I add a feature, it subtly changes the design of another X features already done) - and I personally find it easier to fine tune/go manual after a certain point but YMMV.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-06-19 01:17:55+00:00
Unfortunately I simply don't agree that it's a better product for everyone, for a few reasons, but the most simple is because there are costs involved.

A hypothetical zero additional effort inclusion at design stage, still wouldn't remove the issue where I now have an additional requirement limiting how I can approach things. I might also end up with higher overhead to modify a system as change requests come.

This is time and money I have to spend not working on the rest of the product.

Then you get into deeper issues, where if you actually have accessibility as a first class goal, much of your design should change. Consider an ideal UI for attracting new unguided users vs one with the expectation that users will have training and become experts. Then add in design for specific impairments. It's not easy and should be a big driver of the overall design, usually only done if the customer explicitly has a reason for it.

Again, it's not about deliberate exclusion; it's that I am trying to spend my energy in a way that gives me the most financial benefit (the selfish reasons as per the article), and accessibility does not do that.
by mtalantikite | 2025-06-19 01:18:39+00:00
I mean I hate to be like "vibes", but, kinda vibes. There's just something about the light coming out of the Waveform LED I have in one lamp in my living room versus the incandescent I have on the other side of the room. Definitely not a scientific take!

I did at one point randomly put the LED in different configurations when I first got it and my wife was able to pick out which lamp had the LED in it every time. They just have a different feel, even if the temperature rating is around the same as the incandescent and the R9 was the highest of the LEDs I evaluated. At least these Waveform LEDs don't give me migraines though.
by frollogaston | 2025-06-19 01:19:18+00:00
I'm more interested in the rest of the README rant:

This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics. This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-19 01:20:35+00:00
I don't know what use case you represent. Me, as a very picky sort-of-hater of all things that reek of smartphone, I'm looking at several devices to acquire:

1. Lenovo Legion Go 2: Windows (and possible Linux adaptability), Switch-like, will for some bizarre reason probably get an OLED display, might be at least Wacom AES compatible, pocket rocket with yet unkown but likely sketchy battery life, 8.8 inch. Not out yet.

2. 4th Gen Lenovo Y700 (AKA Legion Tab): Android (don't know how well de-Googleing etc. on Lenovo devices works), outstanding IPS display according to all the relevant ads and brochures, Snapdragon Elite, plenty memory, no 3.5 mm audio jack but mSD card slot and two USB-C ports, possible Wacom AES compatibility, etc. Display size also 8.8 inch, and also not out yet.

3. Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro: 10.1 inch, semi-rugged, Wacom EMR penabled, hot-swappable dual battery configuration, 3.5 mm audio jack, mSD card slot, USB-C 3.2, TFT LCD (120 Hz, 600 nits), Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, a measly 8 GB RAM, Android with Samsung's patented shackles (i. e. very hard to de-Google), corpo long-term support, etc. Essentially a slightly enlarged, but largely performative update of the Active5 below.

4. Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5, a classic example of corporate bean counting to the highest degree: 8.0 inch, semi-rugged, Wacom EMR, removable battery, 3.5 mm audio, mSD... but only USB-C 2.0, 8 GB of RAM, a rather weak processor, and rather meagre accessory support. Also available in a MIL-SPEC version with some extra goodies thrown in.

5. I'm also looking at some semi-rugged Dells and Panasonics. None have Wacom EMR capability. The only other established device makers that serve my use case at least in terms of display size are Chinese knock-offs with questionable support. Outside of that there's only the Steamdeck experience with integrated gaming controls, a form factor I have zero interest in, or small indie-engineered Linux hopefuls (e. g. the 7-inch version of Soulscircuit's Pilet UMPC)... which often suffer from poor energy management and therefore battery life, as well as "enthusiast-grade" support. ;)
by numpad0 | 2025-06-19 01:21:27+00:00
Perhaps too late to comment - but I think it's just population density being too high. There's only so much presence of others that you can take without getting tired of it. Just having people around is communication of its own.

That much anyone can figure, and my point is, that threshold of sustainable density can be way lower than commonly thought. We're just too used to it, like we're used to burning fossil fuel. There might be a "peak density", hopefully after population growth resumed on the high orbit and beyond.
by energywut | 2025-06-19 01:21:53+00:00
Quickly? This has been the path we have been on for at least 30 years, probably longer. Plenty of folks have been calling this out for longer.

When you have two parties in control, and they are both staunchly pro-capital, anti-worker parties, one party will push conservative and the other will ensure "nothing fundamentally changes".

Obama, Biden, Bush, and Clinton all had parts to play in empowering the executive, normalizing political violence, demonizing and silencing the left (the actual left -- socialists, workers parties, anarchists, etc.), and ramping up the militarization of the police.

This isn't some sudden moment, it might be the first time it's affected people you know, but this has been happening for awhile now.
by Klwy | 2025-06-19 01:22:34+00:00
We’re working on a unique desk virtual pet that interacts with you, learns from you, and brings your workspace to life. We’d love to hear your thoughts and preferences to make this product even better! Just a quick 7 questions, only take less than 3mins. Your feedback means a lot to us—thank you for helping us shape the future of virtual companions!
by em-bee | 2025-06-19 01:24:56+00:00
> The behavior or the character of a person should not affect how critical i review their code.

What are you even talking about? That's not what happened.

you said:

His recent drama and stirring has brought eyes from more senior members of the team

and that's my interpretation of that. did you mean something else? if i misunderstood you then i apologize.

It is absolutely not the same to say I would refuse code from a Nazi apologist as to say I would refuse code from a woman.

i disagree. especially if it is code that has already been accepted. besides, that's not what's happening here. the code is not summarily rejected. it is more critically scrutinized. and doing that is absolutely the same thing as more critically scrutinizing someones code because of their gender. so the nazi excuse doesn't work.
by frollogaston | 2025-06-19 01:25:22+00:00
There's no need. Just make some accounts, upload a pic, leave it alone. The only purpose of that is to avoid any extra restrictions they may later place on new accounts. Like, I have 10 Gmail accounts from before they wanted a phone number, plus a few burner Facebooks. I made one new Gmail recently, and it was banned without explanation.
by tom_m | 2025-06-19 01:26:31+00:00
I agree. AI is an amazing tool to learn. The problem is, few want to. They think they can just hit the "easy button" and become the first "solo-unicorn." The hype train, doomers, and fantasy stories on all this is mind bending. Dangerous too. We'll see a catastrophic global security incident (or two) before it calms down. Yes, it is an absolutely good time to be learning.
by MBCook | 2025-06-19 01:27:10+00:00
OK. There are a handful of people working on accessibility in some projects.

But, in absolute terms, for what I have seen described Wayland is behind X11 for visually impaired users today. And it doesn’t sound like it’s a little bit.

It’s good some people are working hard on it. But as X11 support keeps getting dropped if Wayland isn’t there or close then it’s just pushing those users out.

I get the need for Wayland. I get where X11 is. But I have seen multiple people saying they’re about to switch off Linux to something else because the lack of accessibility in Wayland (again, relative to X11) since they don’t really have a choice without giving up on software updates.

And from seeing the people who are effected talk about this, they sure don’t seem to have the feeling that everything is fine and enough people are working on it.
by sxp | 2025-06-19 01:27:40+00:00
> Primarily out of frustration. The dominant players in XR keep promoting their hardware as “computers”, when really they’re an iPad for your face. The most you can do is browse the web, play games, and consume content. They’re overweight and over constrained.

I'm a fan of HMD programming in general so I love this project. But it should be noted that AOSP-based XR headsets can run pseudo Linux environments via termux + X: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/fc5sfr/oculus_qu...

Also if anyone is looking for a full-sized portable keyboard, I suggest https://www.protoarc.com/products/xk01-tri-fold-bluetooth-ke... which is my primary keyboard when I'm working remotely on my tablet. It is "pocket-sized" for certain definitions of "pocket".
by fitsumbelay | 2025-06-19 01:29:16+00:00
very cool project

not long ago there was a post by a user also using glasses -- 85% sure they're the same ones -- but the goal was to replace a laptop display a fuller size one. I like that this project replaces the laptop with a SBC. I spent a decade and a half wishing that SBC would be a Raspberry Pi but ... welp, better late than never
by zentara_code | 2025-06-19 01:29:39+00:00
Yes, runtime debugging helps to solve a lot of bugs. I was so annoyed with buggy codes generated by AI so at the end I actually developed something not sure similar to your or not:both AI coder and AI debugger two-in-one, a fork of Roo-Code. So it (Zentara-Code) can code and debug it code at the same time in runtime. It automatically set breakpoints, do stack tracing, inspect stack frame variables. As it leverages Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), it works for any language in VSCode. https://github.com/Zentar-Ai/Zentara-Code
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-19 01:30:54+00:00
You've stated the blindingly obvious. The issue is that in certain cases there are not "plenty of tools available" but rather none that work properly. Most of the gaps have been closed by now (AFAICT) but the refrain for at least the past 5 years has been that the issues don't exist rather than acknowledging the glaringly obvious usability problems in an upfront manner.

I'd characterize the wayland ecosystem as only just barely production ready (for typical desktop use) today. I don't think it was ready when I switched to it. As but one example, to this day drag and drop between windows still doesn't work reliably for me (I'm running sway) although it's certainly better than it used to be.

Or consider multi-window usecases seen in scientific computing (among other things) and the active hostility of the maintainers towards standardizing any protocol that would enable an application to actively control layout across multiple monitors (provided user consent, of course).
by gchamonlive | 2025-06-19 01:31:24+00:00
I think it's interesting to juxtapose traditional coding, neural network weights and prompts because in many areas -- like the example of the self driving module having code being replaced by neural networks tuned to the target dataset representing the domain -- this will be quite useful.

However I think it's important to make it clear that given the hardware constraints of many environments the applicability of what's being called software 2.0 and 3.0 will be severely limited.

So instead of being replacements, these paradigms are more like extra tools in the tool belt. Code and prompts will live side by side, being used when convenient, but none a panacea.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-19 01:32:39+00:00
Cut to chase, there's a distinction without a difference:

According to the article:

UTC is a standard world-wide time coordinate.

UTC should always be expressed as a 24 hr clock. It is also referred to as Zulu time.

GMT is a time zone with zero offset from UTC, so GMT = UTC.

UK observes "British summer time" which is 1 hr ahead of GMT from March ?? until ??? (don't bother to click through as this is omitted)

Click though if you want these four points expressed in 10x the words.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-19 01:32:50+00:00
Many Americans have never seriously looked at a map before. Should they be categorically denied entry to foreign countries for their stereotypical ignorance?

Here in America, you can't put someone on trial for a crime they haven't committed. Even if you think they're from a suspicious country. That's called racial profiling, and it's forbidden by civil rights laws for a reason; nobody should have to tolerate the indignation of their peer's stupidity.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-19 01:33:03+00:00
With what you've said, the only options are you either invest it in something that will appreciate above the inflation rate with manageable risk, or you invest it in a small business with return cash flow. The idea is to diversify in risk managed assets.

Bonds are out. Commodities are out. Equity Securities, Index and ETFs are all out. All of these are overpriced, have unmanageable risk, and will lose people money; even the best traders out there will lose money on these.

The stock market is not an investment, its a casino where the PFOF house always wins. Price discovery failed when 25% of the exchange transactions started occurring in dark pools; its well over half now. Any investment in the stock market is burning money in effigy. Google Stop loss hunting, market manipulation (FRC/GME), PFOF, synthetic shares via options contracts, etc; to get an idea of how bad of an idea it is to do this.

Sectors that serve non-discretionary goods are usually more stable in down economies than other areas.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-19 01:33:28+00:00
Oh, and by the way, entropy is the evolution of a system given the forces in it. So yes, in a universe with only repellent forces at first it would have low entropy (like ours did) and then as the particles get forced into an ever emptier lattice the universe would have more entropy. It's the forces -attractive or repellent- that make the system evolutions possible that lead to higher entropy over time.