MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pas | 2025-09-22 12:17:59+00:00
We don't know, but epidemiological data hints at which one is more likely.

ADHD diagnosis requires "onset" before age 14, yet there is such a thing as acquired ADHD (due to brain damage).

And of course the genes don't change during the latter, nor did they change when the age of onset criteria was raised from 12.

And even though both autism and ADHD was described more than a 100 (and 200) years ago it took a long time for AuDHD to be noticed. (2013)

The maps we have are bad, the territory is treacherous, and even if we assume the genes are unchanging the environment they find themselves in does seemingly faster and faster.
by mgkimsal | 2025-09-22 12:18:36+00:00
I had this issue during a job interview exercise. Their "follow these steps exactly" were simply broken. The root cause was that they were having people re-use the same shared remote amazon desktop system. Each candidate got their own home directory, but they wouldn't just reset the image between candidates. The person before me had used up 98% of the drive space. When I followed the 'step by step' guide, nothing worked, because it was out of drive space, but... I wasn't seeing 'out of drive space' messages directly - I was seeing their 'setup shell scripts' looking like they worked, but then nothing did.

I honestly thought this was some sort of trick exercise to see how I deal with broken processes, and I was writing fixes to their docs and shell scripts to deal with error states, and reported back to the person. I initially got a 'no, this isn't that sort of test. the docs work, just follow them'. After more back and forth, I got 'oh, I see that might be broken, yeah, just carry on'. I fixed what I could, made a couple commits back up, but was then told my commits needed more context, which I then added, and promptly never heard back from them again. Until... weeks later, HR reached out to say "we've gone with someone else". I recounted this story and got at least some semblance of feigned shock of 'that's not how any of this is supposed to go'. I'd kept some screenshots and emails, but they didn't care to go down that road.

tldr - Employers giving tests, please run through your own exercise processes now and then (or maybe even automate them with some smoke tests).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-22 12:18:55+00:00
> How the hell does the government have the right to decide what this private company can do on their private land?

Because the world is bigger than just the wishes of private businesses. I don't think there is anywhere on this planet where you as a private business can do literally whatever you want, there are always regulations about what you can and cannot do. The first thing is usually "zoning" as one example, so regardless if you own the land, if it isn't zoned for industrial/commercial usage, then you cannot use it for industrial/commercial usage.

What libertarian utopia do you live in that would allow land owners to do whatever they want?
by curiousObject | 2025-09-22 12:19:26+00:00
It’s an accident that could also happen to an inattentive human driver. (Ask me how I know :( )

But, if you watch the car’s display panel, it looks as if the car didn’t see anything and just went full speed ahead. That’s not great.

It should have slowed down and alerted the driver that something was there. I didn’t watch the complete video so maybe there’s more.
by gmuslera | 2025-09-22 12:19:32+00:00
A key piece of human civilization shouldn’t be seen as an unidimensional tool.

My subjective time is not your subjective time, so at the very least for meetings, coordination, dealing with more people, work or not, are essential. And time, and time zones, is what makes a global civilization run.

If anything, having watches made us free from more work, is 8 hours, not “during daylight”. But the key here is the other people, you don’t work alone.
by logifail | 2025-09-22 12:19:40+00:00
Spent many (un)happy hours in front of both SGI Indy and SGI O2 during my PhD...

High point was definitely when we found out that if you telnetted to another box you could remotely play audio clips and the operator typically had no idea what was going on. Every single device ended up with a collection of Star Wars audio clips ... :)
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-22 12:19:46+00:00
I actually think the stock price would go up. His detour to fascism and megalomania has chased off tons of liberal environmentalists like myself that are the target audience for electric cars. I cancelled what would have been our replacement Tesla when he was implying on Twitter there can be good reasons for sneaking into the speaker of the house’s house and hitting her husband in the head with a hammer.
by Jensson | 2025-09-22 12:20:36+00:00
Are you implying that was due to HN right wing bias? If so why is this the topic about Jimmy Kimmel not flagged when it is clearly left wing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282482

In general all topics about politics gets flagged when they first appear since they are semi off topic. Then when enough people vouch for them they get unflagged, reports of big political events tend to get unflagged, but political opinion pieces or smaller events typically do not.
by thomaspoignant | 2025-09-22 12:20:42+00:00
GO Feature Flag is a fully opensource feature flag solution written in GO and working really well with OpenFeature.

GOFF allows you to manage your feature flag directly in a file you put wherever you want (GitHub, S3, ConfigMaps …), no UI, it is a tool for developers close to your actual ecosystem.

Latest version of GOFF has introduced the concept of flag sets, where you can group feature flags by teams, it means that you can now be multi-tenant.

I’ll be happy to have feedbacks about flag sets or about GO Feature Flag in general.

https://github.com/thomaspoignant/go-feature-flag
by yk | 2025-09-22 12:20:50+00:00
Pretty sure bullshitting is pretty universal. In particular the pattern were I, the mighty expert, insist that only I, the mighty expert, can decode the meaning of those deceptive others, and therefore you, the gullible rube, has to give me all your money so that I, the mighty expert, can keep you, the gullible rube, save from those deceptive foreigners.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-22 12:20:55+00:00
Somewhat recently here in Bogotá police have learned of criminal organizations dedicated to steal expensive watches from wealthy people. It seems to me like since a year ago or so it was kind of frequent to hear someone got stolen their rolex that went around COP$50000000 (around US$12950). President, senators, ministers and the like are earning around the same amount each month, which is around 50x the minimum wage (and as with many "third world" countries, in many cases a minimum wage is the only income for an entire family). Not long ago there were children dying of starvation in the northest part of the country.

Colombia still rakes the top 10 of most unequal countries in the world [0], recently it was in the top 3.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=C...
by jarym | 2025-09-22 12:21:43+00:00
"is a Level 2 driver assistance system that requires constant supervision by a human driver" - the reason for human supervision might have something to do with uncommon situations (debris in road being such a situation).

Elon's estimates have always been off but it is irresponsible to see an obstacle up ahead and assume the computer would do something about it while the driver and passenger debate on what the said obstacle is. I am not sure if they were trying to win a Darwin Award and I say that as no particularly fan of Musk!
by vidarh | 2025-09-22 12:22:02+00:00
One way would be to ask for an update before we make a decision. By making an explicit statement that a decision will be taken in the future you're making it clear that this wasn't the decision.

Another would be to be explicit about asking for them to conduct an experiment or test, as those would unambiguously not be intended to be a final solution.

But you might then well find that the request to carry out an experiment to do X will sound equally nebulous. But at least it's clear you're not being told it's a decision to do X.
by lazide | 2025-09-22 12:22:22+00:00
The issue with ‘driver in the loop only for emergencies’ is that it’s harder for someone to be prepared to react only occasionally (but still promptly and correctly) when outlier behavior happens, not easier.

For automated tools like CNC machines, there is a reason it’s just ‘emergency stop’ for instance, not ‘tap the correct thing we should do instead’.

But doing an e-stop on a road at speed is a very dangerous action as well, which is why that isn’t an option here either.
by user____name | 2025-09-22 12:22:38+00:00
C2 is still in development [0] and in my opinion sticks most closely to C in spirit. It seems like the best way to modernize a C project incrementally because it sticks most closely.

I haven't tried any of these languages though, I genuinely enjoy writing dumb-as-bricks C despite all the downsides. Call it Stockholm Syndrome or whatever.

[0] http://c2lang.org/site/introduction/evolution/
by catapart | 2025-09-22 12:22:39+00:00
And if the car was fully self driving and capable of seeing debris that was clearly seen by two humans (whom tesla claims have inferior eyes), it could have taken the opportunity to change lanes and avoid the obstruction.

They want to pretend you'll only need to actually intervene in 'edge case' situations, but here we have an example of perfect conditions requiring intervention. Regardless of the buzzwords they can attach to whatever methods they are using, it doesn't feel like it works.
by bombcar | 2025-09-22 12:22:41+00:00
We called this the “receptionist” test decades ago at the small company I was at - after we though we were done we’d give it all to the receptionist and ask her to use it; and we’d hang our head in shame at everything we forgot and head back.

There’s a version for kids to show the details of how to program by literally interpreting steps. https://youtube.com/watch?v=n4rh2jD8OkY
by kevincox | 2025-09-22 12:22:50+00:00
Yes, it doesn't "break" encryption, it just defeats it.

The client-side scanning means that some amount of your communication will be uploaded in clear text to the government. And unless the government keeps it completely secure (spoiler: they won't) this will leak. Therefore it defeats the point of the encrypted channel.

So sure, it isn't as bad as just removing encryption from these apps. But it is very similar to giving the government a backdoor key to all messages. Maybe you see it as slightly better because only the messages flagged by the automated scanning are made vulnerable or maybe you see it as slightly worse because previously you would need both the backdoor key and access to the original messages and now all of the data you want is in a single location.

But the point is that this significantly weakens the security properties that these E2EE messengers provide if implemented.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-22 12:22:59+00:00
The 'Dark Arts' in both games - while ultimately stemming from a lack of sportsmanship - are aimed at obtaining an illicit advantage.

In Soccer players are not generally penalised for pleading or arguing with the Referee - so an appeal to authority is the name of the game. In Soccer it involves performative diving in or around the box to try and earn a penalty, or get the marking player carded, all as a show to the Referee.

'Selling' falling fouls are a particular result of the 'advantage' rule however. Advantage means that if you are making a drive towards the goal and are fouled, but you stay on your feet and are continuing towards the goal, then you are deemed to be playing on the 'advantage' and the rules require the ref to not call the foul.

Thus, in real cases of foul, if you fall and exaggerate, the odds of the ref considering what they saw to be a foul are higher. The more you ham it up, the more likely thereafter that the Referee considers it suitably egregious to award a yellow or red card against the instigator. Even the top technical players of all time like Messi and Neymar are notorious for this.

Given there's no negative consequence to trying it on in Soccer, people will milk 30 seconds rolling around the ground to run down the clock or allow physios onto the pitch or the team to otherwise regroup. Sports like hockey have a specific penalty for this performative falling called embellishment.

Other examples of the 'dark arts' in Soccer include pretending to get elbowed in Aerial play, pulling on uniform to imbalance or slow a player, or even using your hands to keep a ball in play without the officiants seeing it. Even the best players in the world like Thierry Henry are not immune from doing this, as evidenced when France knocked Ireland out of the World Cup 2010 Playoffs due to Thierry Henry's handball in the 13th minute of extra time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Republic_of_Ireland_v_Fra...

In Rugby only the Captains generally communicate with the Referee, and the onus is on polite and respectful dialogue and obeying the Referees word as final. Therefore in Rugby its less about gaining advantage with the Referee and more about disadvantaging the opponent. Thus they do things differently - things like raking players when on the ground - the deliberate scraping of an opponent's leg or arm with the studs of boots to cause injury - and biting, gouging, headbutting in the Ruck, pinching or punching when tackling, and thrusting when handing-off players so as to effectively punch them.

One may come off as more machismo or honorable than the other, but both are simply signifiers of poor sportsmanship and attempts to circumvent the mechanisms that attempt to make the games in question as equitable as possible. If anything, seeing the likes of Brian O'Driscoll get spear-tackled vs Arjen Robben chewing scenery all around him, the Rugby equivalent is exponentially more damaging to the players and the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_tackle
by seec | 2025-09-22 12:23:10+00:00
I think that if you truly "have" Asperger people will make you feel it quite hard. You are very boring and odd to them. If they need you, they'll play along but for the most part you'll get singled out and isolated quickly in many common social situations.

There has been a romantisation of Asperger/autism because people only want to look at the "benefits". But the truth is that it's a very isolating experience and the tradeoffs are rarely very nice.

In a similar fashion, people will romanticize being very tall, when they are actually many pain points to that experience as well... We always desire what we don't have, because we can't be fully aware of the compromises required without experiencing them.
by agobineau | 2025-09-22 12:23:43+00:00
the traditional persian conception is perhaps a more honest evaluation

in the sense of ketman, cognitive dissonance is conscious and almost an indulgence. thus, a kind of internal dialectic forms, which is in its own way a deeper personal truth. the practicioner therefore sees every other persons hypocrisy, self-dishonesty, and their true self, and is not perhaps upset or disturbed by their external lies and internal true self, as they see human condition as a state of layered dialectics

whereas the western conception of truth can emerge as a kind of delusion of the self. the honesty-striving self denies reality and becomes DECLARATIVE rather than OBSERVATIONAL of reality ,and is constantly outraged by what they perceive to be hypocrisy, deception, and so on
by al_borland | 2025-09-22 12:23:59+00:00
I could benefit a lot from hiring housekeepers, but shame and trust are probably at the root of why I don’t.

Shame: I feel like I should be able to handle it, and would be embarrassed to have to pay someone to clean up after me. I’d feel the need to clean before they come. I also think it would be awkward to be sitting there, probably doing nothing, while paying someone else to work. Realistically, I’m not busy enough to say I don’t have the time; I just don’t do it.

Trust: I don’t trust people to be in my home when I’m not there, or even to be alone when I am somewhere in the house. So the whole idea of having someone in everything to clean becomes a non-starter.

Having experienced what it’s like to have housekeepers when staying with my dad for a bit, there is a third thing, and thats having to set things back up after they’re done. Every time the housekeepers came I would have to go through random cupboards and drawers to find things they moved out of the way while they were cleaning surfaces, and didn’t put back. It drove me nuts. My dad also had some security cameras setup, so I saw them playing around with whatever he had lying around, which didn’t help my trust issues.

I do hiring people to handle my lawn and landscaping. I have allergies, so that’s an easy one to excuse, and it’s all outside, so the trust thing isn’t so much of a problem.

A lot of these problems go away with a robot. The trust issue is still there, but it’s more about trust in the company providing the robot to not collect or use personal data, I would want it to be completely offline. I don’t have to worry so much about theft or it messing with my stuff. The shame issue goes away completely, assuming there isn’t a social stigma to owning one.
by strken | 2025-09-22 12:24:02+00:00
I understand there's a metaphor here, but clocks and watches are most associated with churches and religious institutions, who used them to keep track of prayer times; the nobility, who used them as demonstrations of wealth; and astronomers and sailors, who used them to precisely measure the stars. I suppose during the industrial revolution they were also associated with factories, but weren't owned by workers at the earlier stages.

If you were a worker during most of the industrial revolution, you probably tracked time using church bells, the clock in your workplace, the sun, or a man with a long pole who'd wake you up in time for your shift by tapping on your shutters. You wouldn't have a watch any more than a worker in 1968 would have a computer.

You would also likely face consequences for failing to turn up to church on your Sunday off.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-22 12:24:10+00:00
> I'm more pissed off at Obama's inaction in the last 7 months

This. There’s a deep vacuum of leadership in the Democratic Party. Obama is a widely trusted figure on the progressive side and has nothing to lose by saying plainly what everyone can see. Only Gavin Newsom has demonstrated a willingness to do this. At the Federal level, though, the leadership is MIA. I mean Obama owes no one anything now; but I do wish he would just say what needs to be said.
by sestep | 2025-09-22 12:24:17+00:00
Genuine question: why do people sometimes write comments like this instead of Googling? Two guesses I have:

- HN responses might contain more first-hand experience and thus be richer than what one could find via Google or an LLM.

- Some terms are contextual so Google might not give the right answer, and an LLM could give a more contextual answer but might still just be wrong.

Are those usually the reason, or are there other reasons as well?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-22 12:24:32+00:00
That's unlikely. Sovereign nations generally act in their own best interest. For a quite visual example, for most of the Ukrainian war, Ukraine worked as a key transit hub for a huge chunk of all Russian gas heading to the EU. Why? Because they assessed the billions of dollars they gained in transit fees as being more beneficial to themselves, and their war effort, than interrupting the flow would be.

Doing something self destructive to spite another country is often a sign of either incompetent leadership or of a country that's not truly sovereign - countries that end up with some major dependency (economic, military, or political) on another country can be compelled to act against their rational self interest.

So back to here, the effect of what Trump's doing is not particularly unique. The US has few, if any, allies and lots of countries that are simply nominally independent vassals. We say jump, and they only ask how high. But what he is doing that's particularly unique is making this entire charade 100% transparent and giving them absolutely 0 chance at saving face. I think he simply enjoys humiliating them, very possibly as a result of things that happened during the previous administration.

It will probably accelerate the shift to a multipolar world. I'm very much not a believer in the 5d chess stuff, but I would at least tease the possibility that this outcome might have been considered and not be seen as undesirable. If one considers the goal of solely advancing American interests, it's not clear that hegemony is beneficial. Hegemony entails endless wars and endless interventions around the world funded by endless debt. And as allies and enemies alike reach technological parity, it's becoming ever more dangerous.

And for what? How does this all positively affect the average American? In a purely transactional world, it's hard to see how America, in terms of the affects on Americans, would be worse off than in the current one where we expend just unimaginably massive amounts of resources trying to maintain hegemony.
by Kneecaps07 | 2025-09-22 12:25:36+00:00
I write stuff for our internal teams and it's usually for sensitive systems where you can cause a lot of problems if you make a mistake. I will often start the doc by saying "This assumes you know how to use x, y, and z. If not, then you probably shouldn't be doing this." We limit access already, but some of these could be used in a DR scenario by someone who is not super-familiar with the product. I purposefully will not explain certain things because if you can't figure those out, then you shouldn't be doing these steps.
by dspillett | 2025-09-22 12:25:47+00:00
I dropped to a four-day week (with 20% pay drop so in the same ballpark as your 5% for 12 days off) for stress reasons “temporarily” almost exactly two years ago. The burnout problem is finally looking like it might permanently recede (family health matters are much more stable, some work matters have been addressed, I've sorted a few personal things out, some external problems have been fixed or just told to fuck off, etc.) but I think I'm going to stick with the four days week as long as I can.

The extra money would be very useful to me right now, but I'm surviving without it and the three-day weekend is really working for me. I'm even finding time to relearn a second language on case the UK follows the US too far down the full-fash route and I feel the need to get out of dodge [I refuse to be the sort of Brit who rocks up everywhere expecting everyone to speak English!].
by SoKamil | 2025-09-22 12:25:49+00:00
We are kind of both correct.

GP mentioned:

> The title of the blog post currently is:

> > How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

> The HN title is:

> > How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

So GP cut off , a beginner ending which in turn falsified my claim of it being longer, and I didn't verify blog title.