MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-26 20:03:51+00:00
I tried to correct myself above, and included the source this time.

The actual statistic I was misremembering says that 50.8% of people will meet the requirements for an Axis 1 or higher diagnoses before the age of 75. You're right that it's important to be accurate. Mea Culpa.

To the actual point of my wildly incorrect claim: If most people are judged to be mentally ill at some point in their life, and most of the diagnoses can only be made relative to some baseline that's deemed to be "normal", isn't that just a different way of saying that it's "normal" to be mentally ill?
by Terr_ | 2025-08-26 20:03:54+00:00
If they cared about measurable outcomes we wouldn't be in this situation.

For them, "success" involves feeling that a particular social arrangement has been solidified. It involves an exploitative hierarchy (which they believe is both inevitable and required) where they aren't obviously on the bottom and where "the right people" are on top.

They simply do not care how much it costs to raid people's attics looking for Anne Franco, or even the odds of finding her family, as long as The Authority is taking Firm Steps and people like Anne Franco are afraid.
by becomevocal | 2025-08-26 20:03:59+00:00
I found that too, so I updated to putting limited comments at the beginning of core files that: - Describe what the file contains (e.g. endpoints for x with their route names) - Links to docs that are also in the repo (e.g. bruno files for those endpoints)

The core agent files links out to architectural and product decisions as well (i have a /docs folder for them)

This works better for me and I can get a good result when asking to make sure docs are updated whenever changes are made
by williamscales | 2025-08-26 20:04:23+00:00
I think most people want computers to be predictable and repeatable _at a level that makes sense to them_. That's going to look different for non-programmers.

Having worked helping "average" users, my perception is that there is often no mental model at any level, let alone anywhere close to what HN folks have. Developing that model is something that most people just don't do in the first place. I think this is mostly because they have never really had the opportunity to and are more interested in getting things done quickly.

When I explain things like MFA in terms of why they are valuable, most folks I've helped see usefulness there and are willing to learn. The user experience is not close to universally seamless however which is a big hangup.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-26 20:04:42+00:00
Why would you not go first? If you are blind it cannot be worse (well it can, but there are always risks).

My wife went through semi-expetimental therapy (at that time) for her MS. It was tough but ultimately a net benefit.

It all depends on what is at stake - I would consider Ozempic for some weight loss but prefer, for now, go for no sugar and moderate portions. This is not life changing for me so I indeed prefer people who will benefit way more from it to go first.
by wetoastfood | 2025-08-26 20:05:28+00:00
Texas has all sorts of options. Most power usage here is structured where individuals can select which Retail Electric Provider (REP) to use. They essentially wholesale energy from the grid. I had the (dis)pleasure of searching for a new contract after ours expired so have a refreshed memory of options: - flat rates

- discounted for more or less spend

- credits issued at X usage (which is only good at X specifically because its generally an expensive rate but it’s a marketing ploy for filter based searches).

- free or discounted night time or weekends

- etc.

If you can imagine they charge a certain way, there is likely someone trying it.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-26 20:05:36+00:00
The thing is making a smart phone is hard. You need experienced and knowledgable embedded engineers to design every aspect of the phone. You need people who are knowledgable about RF and know how to go about regulations in various countries. You need software engineers to build up a whole operating system from scratch and probably do that multiple times as the available technology changes. Not to mention create an entire production line to fabricate the parts and assemble them.

And while efforts like Pinephone are good, they don't have the VC or talent to really make that a reality anytime soon on a massive scale. Most efforts in this space are open source which is great but doesn't really pay anything. People with these skills can easily work at any phone OEM and make good money. So I think it will take a massive company to do it. Maybe Microsoft wants to give it another go haha. Amazon has tried multiple times to make this a reality but it's just cost so much money and time that they keep shutting it down.

I don't have any answers, for something to become viable is has to appeal to the average consumer and getting to that point is like crossing a mountain.
by oceanplexian | 2025-08-26 20:05:37+00:00
It's so bizarre to me seeing these comments as a professional software engineer. Like, you do realize that at least 80% of the code written in large companies like Microsoft, Amazon, etc was slop long before AI was ever invented right?

The stuff you get to see in open source, papers, academia- that's a very small curated 1% of the actual glue code written by an overworked engineer at 1am that holds literally everything together.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-26 20:05:38+00:00
I am sure they claim this from time to time, but don't do so in writing.

Lake Michigan is considered a "coast" (which Chicagoans kind of like! See: "Third coast" stuff), but that bizarrely puts their jurisdiction ~70 miles into the Illinois cornfields based on them saying they treat the lake as a "coast".
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-08-26 20:05:51+00:00
I think you're right, but I think the mental model of the average computer user does not assume that the computer is predictable and repeatable. Most conventional software will behave in the same way, every time, if you perform the same operations, but I think the average user views computers as black boxes that are fundamentally unpredictable. Complex tasks will have a learning curve, and there may be multiple paths that arrive at the same end result; these paths can also be changed at the will of the person who made the software, which is probably something the average user is used to in our days of auto-updating app stores, OS upgrades, and cloud services. The computer is still deterministic, but it doesn't feel that way when the interface is constantly shifting and all of the "complicated" bits that expose what the software is actually doing are obfuscated or removed (for user convenience, of course).
by timr | 2025-08-26 20:05:52+00:00
> Labor vs. Trade ≠ Tariffs vs. Free Trade — Democrats’ historic opposition to trade deals like NAFTA and the TPP was about protecting workers from job outsourcing and race-to-the-bottom standards.

OK, so we agree on the facts -- historically, the Democrats were aligned with labor, and opposed to trade. They had absolutely no qualms about opposing trade when they felt it was in their political interests to do so.

> Obama’s 2009 tire tariffs were a narrow safeguard against China dumping

I mean...you can attempt to diminish it in scale if you like, but the fact is that the left has historically been pro-labor and anti-trade, and the right has been pro-trade and anti-labor. Now the right controls the government, and they're clearly anti-trade.

They've flipped.
by kens | 2025-08-26 20:06:12+00:00
The Honeywell's "special register groups" were rather unusual, since the processor switched tasks and registers after every instruction. (This is more commonly known as a barrel processor.) I don't see an evolutionary path to register files, windows, banks, etc, although the concept is a bit similar. Rather, I think the concept of having separate sets of registers developed independently several times.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-08-26 20:06:24+00:00
No criticism of you, nor do I want to put words in your mouth, but there seems to be a generalisation to 'all woman' in this argument, and from that an unstated assumption that the only way for humanity to preserve itself is something like artificial wombs/coercion etc. Surely another possible scenario is that the people that aren't interested in having children (or the conditions that make people not want to have children) will 'go away' as the population declines, and we will reach a new stable population level? Who can say which one of these is more likely?
by Tepix | 2025-08-26 20:06:28+00:00
I don‘t think you‘re allowed to send once per second on LoRa if you play by the rules due to duty cycle restrictions in the license-free ISM bands.

On 868Mhz you get 36 seconds per hour or even 3.6 seconds per hour.

Depending on your power usage sending may also be very slow.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-26 20:06:32+00:00
Why? If there is wrongdoing, then there is wrongdoing. It doesn't matter if the wrongdoer disagrees, or what anybody else did. Thus, the request is a "whataboutism" distraction from the point:

The unsubstantiated claims of the attacker are pretty much always insufficient justification for an attack, but in particular here, because israel in particular is globally notorious for lying, for attacking investigators, journalists, and other innocent civilians, and as we both noted in our posts, for 40+ years of violent, racist terrorist attacks against innocent Palestinian civilians.

On that note, in furtherance of the truth, maybe you could point me at the independent investigatory or journalistic organizations that israel has authorized to operate unmolested by them in Palestine? After all, we're interested in the truth, not propaganda from one of the two combatants, right?
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-26 20:06:33+00:00
If you're saying post offices around the world are wrong, it might be time to reevaluate your own statement for truthiness.

There's multiple countries that are now suspending shipments over $100 to the US. So either there is a huge fuckup in communications from the US to every other country or there's a fuckup in the process itself.
by 0xC0ncord | 2025-08-26 20:06:49+00:00
> The burden of "Identify theft" should at this point is no longer on the victim but the defrauded institution.

This is how it's always been, but the lack of any real privacy protection laws in the US allows institutions to wipe their hands clean of any negligence when they can just blame the affected individuals. Better, the defrauded institution can just offer "free" "credit monitoring" that they themselves created.
by nis0s | 2025-08-26 20:07:31+00:00
Sentience isn’t difficult to define, it’s well understood in the context of neuroscience. The question I guess is how do we measure AI pain? It’s hard to quantify the magnitude of pain in biological organisms, but we do have reliable ways to measure it. I am not convinced self-reports are a reliable way to measure AI pain. That said, even if something is sentient, higher-level consciousness is not a guarantee.
by Animats | 2025-08-26 20:07:55+00:00
It's the "too much information" style of writing. The subject has to be worth it. I've read his "Basin and Range" (geology), "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" (aircraft design), and "The Curve of Binding Energy" (nuclear weapons). Only the last is worth reading. He went off on a years-long geology tangent, interesting only if you're really into geology.

William Langewiesche had a similar style. He died recently, and leaves behind some good writing on aviation. He was the son of Wolfgang Langewiesche, known for writing "Stick and Rudder", a very well written book for pilots on how airplanes really work.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-08-26 20:08:33+00:00
They wouldn't have to register it with the government, just track it internally in the chance that they get challenged on it so they have receipts.

1) Person believes company is posting fake job listings and notes a few as evidence.

2) Person submits this to some government form similar to an FCC complaint form.

3) Government contacts the company to investigate or whatever.
by latexr | 2025-08-26 20:09:00+00:00
> Then it's a great time to be a LLM security researcher then.

This reminded me of Jon Stewart’s Crossfire interview where they asked him “which candidate do you supposed would provide you better material if he won?” because he has “a stake in it that way, not just as citizen but as a professional comic”. Stewart answered he held the citizen part to be much more important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=599s

I mean, yes, it’s “probably a great time to be an LLM security researcher” from a business standpoint, but it would be preferable if that didn’t have to be a thing.
by Loic | 2025-08-26 20:09:24+00:00
I am French living in Germany, the amount of time Claude saves me every week by reviewing the emails I send to contractors, customers is incredible. It is very hard to write good idiomatic German while ensuring no grammar and spelling mistakes.

I second you, just for that, I would continue paying for a subscription, that I can also use it for coding, toying with ideas, quickly look for information, extract information out of documents, everything out of a simple chat interface is incredible. I am old, but I live in the future now :-)
by nxobject | 2025-08-26 20:09:30+00:00
SSA's CIO "accepts all risks" - but what does that actually mean in practice? Is he going to be held accountable?

> The agency’s chief information officer Aram Moghaddassi approved the move to copy the database to the agency’s cloud, saying he “determined the business need is higher than the security risk” and that he accepts “all risks” with the project.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-26 20:09:36+00:00
That’s why I find old publications so interesting. I have several copies of Scientific American from the 19th century and watching the advertisements evolve at the pace of the industrial revolution is really fun, as are all the letters to the editor debating stuff like the nature of comets from a 19th century layperson’s perspective.

(You can get the same experience from the Scientific American archives but holding the 170 year old bound copies with all the prints is something else)
by dang | 2025-08-26 20:09:54+00:00
Since we just asked you to stop breaking the site guidelines and you've continued to do it, I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-08-26 20:09:55+00:00
>can they wire up the neurons [...] to something useful e.g. "Open terminal" shortcut?

Pretty much. You could do something like that with non-invasive consumer-grade BCIs already though. What we really need to see is more distinct "keypresses" you can listen for. It's my understanding that something like "imagining pushing/pulling a heavy object" can be read clearly enough, while "twitching your left ear" gets lost in the noise.

It's a long way to go before we can replace the 400 keystrokes per minute, 104/105 distinct keys bandwidth of a keyboard.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-26 20:10:27+00:00
The details are here: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/entry-summ...

And

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/...

And you use the ACE system to set everything up and report origins of melting, etc and it computes the fees for you:

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/automated
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-26 20:10:41+00:00
Fun bit of trivia: Byte was edited and published in Peterborough, New Hampshire. If you've ever been to that area of the world, you'd know how totally absurd it is that such an influential, world-renowned tech magazine was based there.

Nominally, the offices were located sorta near Boston, which at the time had some important tech companies like Digital and Lotus, amongst others. But Peterborough was a small, rural, old-fashioned New England town about as far away from Silicon Valley as you could get. How a publication from that area was able to be so relevant to the tech industry is almost a mystery!
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-26 20:10:53+00:00
The kids already have Nintendo Switches. A raspberry pi wouldn’t be practical and they’d never want to use it when everything else is on the Switch.

We also have our own Microsoft servers. It’s pretty easy to set up a Bedrock server. Though most of the time the kids just host their own on their Switch.

CoreProtect isn’t really needed because they know not to visit public servers and ransoms can’t join our private servers even if they wanted to.
by timr | 2025-08-26 20:10:55+00:00
> If you're saying post offices around the world are wrong, it might be time to reevaluate your own statement for truthiness.

...or you could read the actual changes? Accusing people of lying is not cool when you clearly haven't even read the source material.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/susp...

Here's a summary by a law firm:

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/united-states-suspen...

Specifically:

> The executive order declares that “[t]he duty-free de minimis exemption provided under 19 U.S.C. § 1321(a)(2)(C) shall no longer apply to any shipment of articles not covered by 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) [enumerating narrow exceptions, such as for donations, informational materials and transactions ordinarily incident to travel] regardless of value, country of origin, mode of transportation, or method of entry.”

50 USC 1702(b)(4) lays it out explicitly:

> (4) any transactions ordinarily incident to travel to or from any country, including importation of accompanied baggage for personal use, maintenance within any country including payment of living expenses and acquisition of goods or services for personal use, and arrangement or facilitation of such travel including nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyages.

You don't need to go into this much detail, of course -- you could just Google it or ask an LLM -- Google's AI summary currently returns the correct answer.

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+trump+de+minimis+tariff...
by qualeed | 2025-08-26 20:10:56+00:00
Calling a comment "ridiculous" is against the guidelines?

Okay. Hopefully it isn't against the guidelines to say I think that's a silly guideline. Apparently saying "ridiculous" in response to a comment is very selectively enforced, must be my lucky day.

Anyways, this is probably the reminder I needed to stop commenting to HN. Some of the moderator decisions you guys are making lately are just.. way off base to me. Either you've changed or I have. Probably me.

Time to randomize the password. Cheers.
by sleepybrett | 2025-08-26 20:10:58+00:00
> Are you willing to write off so many people? That is what the "fascists" want. Division is a core technique of erasing liberty

He told them what he wanted to do, over and over and over again. Now that he's doing what he told them he was going to do (again over and over and over again) they want some respect for their objections? They voted for him knowing what he was going to do. Exactly what is there about these fucking morons that I shouldn't write off?
by jessfyi | 2025-08-26 20:11:06+00:00
Getting a compound incorrect is not an "unimportant" error (for example the difference between sodium nitrate & sodium nitrite is small but critical) and seeing "small but blatant" errors actively propagated is the entire reason why the record should be corrected. The only upside of these little artifacts like "vegetative electron microscopy" [0] is that it's a leading indicator that the entire paper and team deserve more scrutiny--as well as any of those whom cite it.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-...
by tialaramex | 2025-08-26 20:11:14+00:00
In that they're not the GPRs (General Purpose Registers) this kinda sorta makes sense. Mostly the problem is that this terminology isn't actually used this way. Notice how the CPU (which we're thinking of as one small component of e.g. a laptop or phone, but the originators were imagining a furniture sized piece of equipment which is responsible for the actual computing) is supposed to be comprised of these particular elements but not GPRs, not an FPU, or an MMU, or any other elements which are in fact typical today.

So this sort of "quiz" is bogus because it's basically checking whether you've rote memorized some particular words. People who know how a CPU works are confused and likely don't pass, those who've memorized the words but lack all understanding pass. This is not a useful education.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-26 20:11:15+00:00
> Otherwise, you put your local producers at a disadvantage, making the tariffs worse.

Don't some tariffs motivate people to do processing offshore?

If I import 1kg of copper and machine/etch/whatever it down into products, with some wastage, maybe I should just do everything offshore and only import the final articles with 500g of copper in it.

At some point, higher tariffs on input materials will overtake the higher value of finished goods and you might as well just manufacture the whole thing offshore anyway.
by becomevocal | 2025-08-26 20:11:22+00:00
> Generative AI gives us incredible first drafts to work with, but few people want to put in the additional effort it requires to make work that people love

and

> So make your stuff stand out. It doesn't have to be "better." It just has to be different.

equals... craft?

Isn't that what has always mattered a great deal
by tshaddox | 2025-08-26 20:11:42+00:00
You make it sound like a bad thing! That's pretty much already where I'm at, and is in fact exactly what I want. My smartphone is for messaging and a handful of apps from major vendors (Google Maps, Youtube, 1Password, etc.) It shouldn't ever crash, have nagging software updates, require tinkering, etc., just like my microwave and washing machine. And for tinkering, I've got my Mac, my little Linux NAS, a variety of Linux handheld devices, etc.
by jjice | 2025-08-26 20:12:37+00:00
My biggest concern here would be false confidence in LLM code. I don't want someone to vibe code an application that takes in my password or PII if they don't know how to properly audit that code. I'm sure we've all seen the posts online about how "software engineering is dead, look what I did with Claude Code by myself", but I guarantee the serial-solopenuer that's posting that has at least a few security flaws in their application that will do harm to their customers.

And a trained dev can let those through as well, but I really doubt the rate is anywhere close to the same.

I have coworkers that trust their LLM code _way_ too much. It does some great stuff, but I always have to do at least a little bit of cleanup or fixing. The amount of trash AI code I've had to review is kind of upsetting.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-08-26 20:12:58+00:00
I don't think that it's incorrect at all to say that half of us will at some or multiple points in time suffer from some disorder, in fact I find it comforting to recognize that we will all go through this at some point.

We all go through rough patches that can make our mental health slip, just like we go through rough patches where our physical health slips. What's important is that we recognize when something is wrong and get the help we need.

Just like my first point, it's normal to be older and have high blood pressure, but if that's the case, you should probably be taking medication.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-26 20:13:58+00:00
Yes, but it's not how the US government wants them to work. So they legislate more to close the bugs and make it work the way they want.

It's a known flawless way to evolve code... Never revise, never delete, add enough so the tests pass.

But I don't think your lesson is reasonable. Fucking with multivariate dynamic systems is what governments do. And it's well settled that in the absence of the government doing that, everything goes to hell quite quickly.