MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ericrallen | 2025-10-19 14:16:48+00:00
This seems to completely ignore, and maybe even dismiss, the lived experience of all the kids who weren’t diagnosed or treated but who developed coping mechanisms to survive school and adolescent life, then found those mechanisms incapable of dealing with the ever-increasing burdens of adult life and finally sought diagnosis as adults after years of struggling to understand things that have been complicating their lives all along.

This kind of dismissive rhetoric increases the stigma around seeking a diagnosis as an adult, which is already hard enough because an entire system of caregivers, teachers, and institutions already failed the undiagnosed person throughout their life and navigating the health care system, especially for mental health, is extremely frustrating - and challenging from an executive function perspective.
by a022311 | 2025-10-19 14:17:05+00:00
> Don't recommend other people to install Linux on random laptops, they'll probably have loads of minor and major issues that you don't have if you bought hardware specifically with the goal of running Linux.

I think this is a wrong approach. These are the first two thoughts that come to mind: 1. A major reason for migrating from Windows 10 to Linux is avoiding e-waste and by encouraging others to acquire a device specifically for Linux causes more e-waste to be generated (I don't deny the benefits of picking special hardware, I just think this it something worth pointing out). 2. Linux generally has excellent hardware support in my experience and while not everything may be plug-and-play, it's usually easy to get it working. I've installed Linux on an old no-name laptop with really unusual hardware and while Windows required special drivers (which I couldn't find) for audio, webcam and wireless networking, with Linux all worked out of the box. Many issues with laptops running Linux have already been solved. You might find the Laptops category in the Arch Wiki [1] useful.

> A lot of minor display related issues (mostly involving using an external monitor as my main screen) were solved when I switched to Gnome on X11 instead of Wayland.

Display issues are indeed one of the weak points of Linux, frequently due to the need for proprietary graphics drivers which may not even be available on Linux. X11 is more stable in this regard, as it is way more mature, but Wayland is catching up quickly.

Linux isn't perfect and you can certainly improve your experience by preferring well-tested setups, but existing hardware can be brought back to life, which is important. Not everyone can afford new devices.
by trentnix | 2025-10-19 14:17:11+00:00
I’d bet the farm the land in question is Ag value land. Property taxes are significant in Texas relative to most states, as there is no income tax. Consequently, it’s hard to sit in property indefinitely if you’re paying taxes on its fair market value.

But land that is classified by each appraisal district as “Ag” is only taxed on the value it derives from agricultural activity. Consequently, you’ll see large plots of land in the middle of the suburbs and the city that are bailed for hay or that contain a corn field. So then the owner is only subject to pay taxes on the amount the hay or corn produced.

This is meant to protect and encourage agricultural operations, incentivize the maintenance of rural land, and shield residents that are subject to being overtaken by sprawl. But it’s also used to protect land investment, including large ranches owned by hedge funds and foreign nationals.

If the land is sold and developed, some back taxes are owed when the land is no longer city considered Agricultural. But that gets passed on the purchaser and is rarely assessed against the seller.
by cjonas | 2025-10-19 14:17:35+00:00
I just leave 'duckdb --ui' running on my computer at all times. While the functionality is great, I'm really not happy that UI itself isn't open source and instead controlled by motherduck. There are many quick and easy improvements that will probably never get made, as motherduck has no real incentive to improve it at this point.

Wonder if this work could be ported as a replacement to duckdb local UI?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-19 14:18:43+00:00
One of the things that I detest about the Brexit referendum was that "Brexit" wasn't at all defined (apart from leaving the EU). There were lots of hot air about Brexit not at all meaning a "hard" exit from the single market, and yet here we are.

My favourite analogy on the referendum is having people vote on whether to have "meat" or "vegetarian" dinner:

Suppose 40% of people enjoy vegetarian food, 20% only eat pork, 20% only eat beef and 20% only eat chicken.

Then, after "voting", the results come in as 60% for "meat" and 40% for veg. However, what meal can you prepare to satisfy the "meat" vote considering that you can only satisfy 20% of them?

(By the way, I was thrown off by your use of "As a Britain" rather than "As a Brit")
by nativeit | 2025-10-19 14:18:57+00:00
I’ve got a brilliant idea! What if, hear me out, we had some kind of united alliance of workers, and they could do things like leverage their collective labor power to negotiate better working conditions and/or pay? We might call them something, let’s say “unions”, and we could even setup some sort of National Labor Relations Board to ensure fair access to them, and to help settle disputes? Then we might get some of the things we need, even without resorting to labor strikes, which are disruptive and expensive to everyone on all sides.

Surely this is possible, and companies like Uber haven’t been sandbagging and poisoning the well for decades?
by EarthLaunch | 2025-10-19 14:19:13+00:00
Take a CO2 meter into a hotel, office, convention center, etc in summer. In many, it will be at 1200+. I've seen up to 2500. This is due to "green" interior air recycling that just happens to save companies a few dollars on air conditioning. How much of society is operating under this lower IQ condition?
by gls2ro | 2025-10-19 14:19:21+00:00
I think it depends on how you look at things.

Here is what I like about this code:

1. It is explicit

2. Breadcrumbs are information that this action needs to set. You can set them in the views or in the controller via these helpers. But no matter where you put the data it is custom data that you as developer set and it is specific to this controller.

The information about how to navigate from homepage to this show method is something that either: you can use meta-programming to try to get it if you would for example scope controllers based on paths (not sure it is a good idea) or you have to provided as Rails cannot know if your controllers/views are in the top namespace.
by dinkleberg | 2025-10-19 14:21:27+00:00
Not at all.

Growth, as we mean it, is a positive thing. It isn't a value statement that you are inferior as you are and only through growth will you have value and be acceptable.

Accepting (and loving) yourself for who you are is seeing that you have innate value with all else stripped away. It doesn't matter if you never grow, or in fact, if you decline (as we all do, if we live long enough). You see that you still have worth despite this. You have your lifetime of experiences, your hopes, your dreams, that which makes you who you are.

Growth is one of life's biggest joys. Depriving yourself would be a shame. When you have accepted yourself for who you are and then srive for growth you aren't saying, "Once I have achieved X, I'll be more worthy of acceptance and love". You are instead saying, "Let me explore the heights to which I can climb in this human experience". You might epicly fail, but that is alright, because you are fine with who you are. On the other hand, if you are insecure with who you are and don't love yourself, then growth becomes a risky endeavor. Should you fail, it is further proof that you are an inferior person as you weren't able to live up to your ambitions.
by moefh | 2025-10-19 14:21:36+00:00
> Kevin Weil had the two previous quotes in his context when he did his post and didn't consider the fact that readers would only see the first level, so wouldn't have Sebastien Bubek's post in mind when they read his.

No, Weil said he himself misunderstood Sellke's post[1].

Note Weil's wording (10 previously unsolved Erdos problems) vs. Sellke's wording (10 Erdos problems that were listed as open).

[1] https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1979270343941591525
by mothballed | 2025-10-19 14:21:59+00:00
Yes you understand now. Every time you understand, you move the goal posts. You've moved them twice now, this time simply declaring the speech you don't like "isn't yours." At first it was about offenses that cause harm, then it was essentially about contract law. And then when you found out there was no contract, then you just moved the goal posts to the patient owning the information inside the provider's brain.

There is no curiosity in your approach, you know in your heart of hearts you're simply backtracking and then shifting the posts everytime your claims are wrong.
by nativeit | 2025-10-19 14:22:42+00:00
I bet it’d be so popular, we would set aside a whole Federal holiday to commemorate all of the people who fought, and/or died, to win these basic labor protections 100-years ago! We’ll call it “Labor Day” and everyone will eat hot dogs while totally not spacing on the fact that they even enjoy “holidays” at all due to these very fights.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-19 14:23:47+00:00
Not far beyond. I'm old, so second-hand it seems that the entire reason he toured to do readings (at least in the 80s and 90s) was to stay with locals who had young male children. I know two horror stories myself.

It was sort of a hippie/counterculture/futurist/Berkeley thing to let pedophiles openly operate and attack anyone as nosy lame perverts who would accuse them of being a problem, even after multiple arrests. See the Breendoggle.
by cjcenizal | 2025-10-19 14:25:17+00:00
Try Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. From the Wikipedia article [1]: “This therapy focuses on challenging unhelpful and irrational negative thoughts and beliefs, referred to as 'self-talk' and replacing them with more rational positive self-talk. This alteration in a person's thinking produces less anxiety and depression.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
by cardanome | 2025-10-19 14:26:09+00:00
Cobi (producing in the EU), Cada, Mould King, Bluebrixx (Germany based, not producing the bricks themselves so quality can vary but sets are pretty good.) I could go on.

Lego has really bad quality these days. They used to have a good reputation but it has been a sharp downturn these days. Just look at the new $1000 Death Star set they recently release. The most expensive set ever and shit tier quality.
by eth0up | 2025-10-19 14:26:43+00:00
I lived right down the street from the bar where he died, in Saint Pete FL.

I don't remember what or if the property is / still is.

Perforated ulcer hit critical mass after the daily round of whiskey. I wonder if hpylori made it worse or it was just the suds.

Edit: found this while searching for the bar

https://stpetekerouachouse.com/
Ask HN: How do you go from thinking like a developer to thinking like a CEO?
by supershobu | 2025-10-19 14:26:57+00:00
I’ve built and launched a real SaaS product with paying customers, but I still catch myself thinking mostly like a developer — focused on features, architecture, and polish — rather than growth, sales, or strategy.

For those who’ve made this transition: how did you train yourself to think like a CEO or founder instead of a builder?

Any essays, habits, or mindset frameworks that helped you make the shift? (e.g. Paul Graham, Jason Cohen, etc.)
by trentnix | 2025-10-19 14:28:12+00:00
I’d like to see how the land is classified, regardless. If it’s genuinely urban land, it should be taxed heavily enough to make it hurt if it is appraised correctly.

It’s possible this land is subject to delinquent taxes that, in Texas, incur significant interest.

Also, I’d want to know about zoning to see if the city has restricted the use of the land. Zoning is a double-edged sword as well.
by macNchz | 2025-10-19 14:28:24+00:00
I think this is correct, but I also have a sense that smartphones and infinite scroll algorithmic social media feeds have acted as a one-two punch, significantly more impactful in combination than each would have been individually.

Modern social media provides effectively limitless opportunity for consumption, but smartphones unlock the ability to actually drink from that firehose regardless of time or place.

Rest is critical for recovery from any sort of stress, but for many people today there is zero rest from this stuff, it’s first thing in the morning through last thing at night, it’s in the car while driving, it’s during the thirty seconds between customers at work, it’s on the beach, in the pool, waiting in line at the post office, at the dinner table, during a movie at the theater, on the toilet, on an airplane, and a million other times and places that would otherwise provide “rest” if it weren’t for smartphones.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-19 14:28:59+00:00
The literal examples show that their concept is or was a fantasy (within a short timeframe of one person's lifetime).

I don't know why one would have expected "AI" to be capable of stamping out machines that have fine motor skills, but to me, it seems perfectly in line that they can re-arrange pixels on a screen to mimic something humans previously made.

The parameters for folding laundry in each individual's home or doing the dishes are so much greater than deconstructing and re-arranging digital information based on prior probabilities.

All the "smart" people I know were not expecting to replace their HVAC/plumbing/electrical/house cleaners/etc work with automation.
by photonthug | 2025-10-19 14:31:40+00:00
It's actually kinda noteworthy that corporations don't talk like this (yet). Masks are off lately in political discourse, where we're all in on crass flexing on the powerless, the othering, cruelty, humiliation. How long before CEOs are openly talking about workers in the same ways that certain politicians talk about ${out_group}? If you're b2b with nothing consumer-facing to boycott, may as well say what you really think in a climate where it can't hurt and might help. The worst are filled with passionate intensity, something something rough beast etc.
by gdiamos | 2025-10-19 14:32:26+00:00
They will hire anyone who can produce a model better than GPT5, which is the bar for fine tuning

Otherwise, you should just use gpt5

Preparing a few thousands training examples and pressing fine tune can improve the base LLM in a few situations, but it also can make the LLM worse at other tasks in hard to understand ways that only show up in production because you didn’t build evals that are good enough to catch them. It also has all of the failure modes of deep learning. There is a reason why deep learning training never took off like LLMs did despite many attempts at building startups around it.

Andrej karpathy has a rant about it that captures some of the failure modes of fine tuning - https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
by Frieren | 2025-10-19 14:32:59+00:00
> "GPT-5 is really good at literature search, it 'solved' an apparently-open problem by finding an existing solution"

Survivor bias.

I can assure you that GPT-5 fucks up even relatively easy searches. I need to have a very good idea how the results looks like and the ability to test it to be able to use any result from GPT-5.

If I throw the dice 1000 times and post about it each time that I got a double six. Am I the best dice thrower that there is?
by superkuh | 2025-10-19 14:33:01+00:00
Yes, it's hard to get data on 'internet addiction' because it's a meme, not a pathology. It's been brought up in committees in the DSM and other places over and over and over because the public demands their meme be addressed. And each time there are null findings. There's no such thing. It's just a commercial/scam for 'treament centers' and people's natural tendency to fear the new.

Making a plot of the trajectory of this scam is nice, but it should at least be labeled properly. Talk about a thing does not a thing make.
by sandworm101 | 2025-10-19 14:33:35+00:00
If land is actually abandoned, taxation makes no difference. Land with abandoned biuldings can often cost more to redevelop than green fields (asbestos remediation, buried oil tanks etc). An owner dies, a holding company folds, and land sits vacant. Tax it all you want, nobody is around to pay. Of course the city or other government can take the land, but they dont want it either.
by dangus | 2025-10-19 14:33:55+00:00
I feel like you’re still using hyperbole here. For example, you said your family photos were used for training, but most cloud photo providers specifically tell you in their privacy policies (legally binding) that they don’t do that.

My family photos have never trained AI, because my iCloud Photos service specifically says they don’t do that and explains the technical implementation of their object recognition system in detail. Apple even offers an e2e encrypted mode of operation. (Still, I have now moved to a more customer-friendly solution away from iCloud).

As far as training on your code, well, you either believe in open source or you don’t. AI training doesn’t even violate the most copyleft open source licenses. Unless AI has reproduced your code verbatim it’s not engaging in any kind of copyright reproduction.
by dahart | 2025-10-19 14:34:07+00:00
Was going to post this too, I bookmarked it after seeing it on HN and I use it often. Yeah it seems to help me a bit. It seems handy just to identify tinnitus tones, when you have clear tones (I not not everyone with tinnitus does). I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’s had more than moderate success with ACRN.

I already posted another comment, but will mention here for GP that the ‘White Bursts’ noise generator on mynoise.net is where I’ve experience the strongest tinnitus reaction. I can audibly hear the tinnitus drop with every cycle, and after listening to it for a few minutes, my tinnitus is quieter for maybe a half hour, then it comes back later.
by jt2190 | 2025-10-19 14:34:25+00:00
I'll leave this for you to parse.

> § 303

> Duration of copyright: Works created but not published or copyrighted before January 1, 1978

> (a) Copyright in a work created before January 1, 1978, but not theretofore in the public domain or copyrighted, subsists from January 1, 1978, and endures for the term provided by section 302. In no case, however, shall the term of copyright in such a work expire before December 31, 2002; and, if the work is published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright shall not expire before December 31, 2047
by lproven | 2025-10-19 14:34:33+00:00
> couldn't even figure out how to save a document

100% this.

It is (counts on fingers) 43 years since I got my first computer of my own, and I've been using Unix-like OSes since just 6 years later in 1988... So, 37 years?

Still, even now, Emacs is this bizarre thing that teleported in from 1962 or something. Older than Unix, older than -- well, anything else still used by almost anyone except Cobol and Fortran.

I am old, starting to think about retirement, and Emacs is weird and clunky and ugly. It uses weird nonstandard names for things like "files" and "windows" and even the keys on your keyboard.

I know they are native and natural for the fans. I'm not one. I'm a fan of the great era of UI standardisation that happened at the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s.

I wish someone would do a distro of Emacs with ErgoEmacs built in, on by default, and which could pick up the keyboard layout from the OS.

ErgoEmacs is a brave attempt to yank Emacs into the 1990s but you need to know Emacs to use it, so it's not enough.

https://ergoemacs.github.io/
by marshfram | 2025-10-19 14:34:41+00:00
The technology of language is designed to fool the receiver. That's its primary goal. Read any substantial text on language post western functional linguistics like Deacon's The Symbolic Species. In his view "language is a virus or a parasite"

Once language became a strategy of cybernetic and then cog-sci regimes (which is what all computer science is modeled from), the basic principle of control-deception in language became electronic through its perceptions of socialization, which comp sci totally mistakes as information (see above) and then control, accelerated and now automated. The entire point of computer science operating socialization is completely off the rails mindblowingly simple-minded and damaging to us. Algorithms a/b tested to succeed are in essence, suicidal to the survival of our species. We're not optimized to horizontalize communication of this type: arbitrary metaphors and symbols. Language wasn't built for speed, horizontalization or decentralization.

Now read the above again. To call Donna Haraway the great theorist/historian of cyborg studies and the development of science into cog science pseudo in any way reveals you have never grasped anything deep and resonant about human computer interaction.
by verisimi | 2025-10-19 14:35:04+00:00
First line of the link you posted:

> Traditionally, the inception of Neolithic lifeways in the Western Valleys of northern Chile is believed to have occurred during the early Formative Period (c. 2000 BC)

key word: "believed" re 2000 BC

They also say:

> The chacu and small-scale settlements described above suggest that a range of human groups occupied this landscape from at least 6000 BC to AD 1700. These groups moved strategically across the highlands, tethered primarily to hunting resources, particularly vicuña.

Its simply stated as true.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-19 14:35:24+00:00
You can't build an infinite height tower with no parking if the market doesn't support it. You need to be building that in a neighborhood of half infinite height towers to make it make sense.

But there are no neighborhoods like that because we have regulated incremental development out of existence. There is no gradual redevelopment anymore because nobody can afford to get kicked in the dick by huge amounts of of compliance cost bullshit (all of which the useful idiots and those with financial motive are more than capable of justifying in abstract, no one droplet feels responsible for the flood and all that) to just take an incremental step. The only way to make the math make sense is to go whole hog, seek a variance and put up something huge and make back the costs.

This is why it "looks" like local residents care. They'd be fine with triple deckers organically filling in as well as subdivisions, back lot houses, etc, etc. They just don't want a N-over-1 in their suburban neighborhood. This is exacerbated by the fact that anyone who could be living in such a place at such a time when that conversation is happen is rich enough to have no other real problems.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-19 14:36:14+00:00
They may not be paying taxes. When I worked with this in other states, most of time, it's commercial property that property owner LLC just walked away from because it's worthless. LLC exists on paper owning the land but has no money/assets besides the land so nothing for government to take. Bills just go into shredder and arrears continuing piling up.

County does not want to seize the land because they know they can't get tax amount owed and would be stuck with worthless property it has to maintain.

Probably need some form of tax amnesty system where counties can seize these properties, sell them off for any amount and wipe tax bill clean. However, that's process would be ripe for corruption which thinking about TX, I'm surprised they haven't allowed that.