MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munk-a | 2025-10-02 20:35:59+00:00
If a justification was given we'd be able to evaluate the worthiness of that decision - if there were technical notes about, for instance, food safety concerns, we could evaluate the justification against other standards in different areas of the world around proper formula storage.

Without a justification the decision is arbitrary and silences any ability to push back against it within the normal bounds of dialog. A justification would potentially allow aid groups to remedy whatever the specific deficiency is if it is a reasonable deficiency to remedy.

If there was a justification it might be acceptable - depending on the justification - without a justification it is unacceptable when there is such a clear need. The aid is blocked and there is no recourse to unblock it outside the current attempts to just smuggle it in.
by cyrnel | 2025-10-02 20:36:18+00:00
Both are billion dollar companies, we as individuals have nothing in common with them. Enshittification happens due to market conditions that apply to small and large companies alike. Redis and elasticsearch aren't underdogs fighting for the little guy, they are just a smaller scale version of the same shit.

I'd rather have a software commons and have tech be owned by the workers and not soul-sucking corporations, no matter the size.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 20:36:28+00:00
"Autism spectrum disorder", by virtue of being a "disorder" ISN'T a single condition with one cause.

That's what disorder means

Every single medical professional is aware of that.

None of the neurodivergent conditions have a single "cause" yet. None of them are "diseases" yet because we don't know what causes them.

Yes, lots of people have small amounts of the "symptoms" that get labeled as a condition. That is not meaningful.

Everyone gets diarrhea sometimes. But if you get diarrhea regularly, or really bad diarrhea, or diarrhea that includes severe pain, then it might be IBD. IBD doesn't have one cause. It's very unlikely that it's even a single problem.

If you eat too much greasy food and have bad shits, you do not have IBD even though you have that "symptom". If you claim to have IBD, you are just wrong.

Yes, some people on tiktok who think they have ADHD or Autism are just wrong. If Americans could afford to go to the doctor for non-life threatening problems, they could get a psychologist to tell them that. Americans self diagnose because they can't go to the doctor.

This is all true of "Cancer" as well, but there isn't a giant PR campaign to convince Americans that we are diagnosing too many people as having cancer. Nobody gives a shit that both they guy who dies in a month from metastasizing brain tumors and the guy who had to remove a benign skin mole both had "Cancer". Every kind of cancer has a name, but people will still say "I have Cancer" just fine.

It's only with Autism and ADHD that people insist we have somehow done something wrong by using the exact same language structures as other medical problems.

Meanwhile, with attacks against Social Security, this admin who claims to care so much about helping Autistic people is ensuring that people who cannot function in society will die miserably and uncared for.

Maybe Tylenol while pregnant is a risk factor for people who are already genetically predisposed to it or something. The data sucks so far, but maybe further study will show something. My sister worked on a study in the 2000s that was looking at this, as well as looking at getting the flu while pregnant. Nothing came of it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-02 20:36:31+00:00
I would expect it to shift power dynamics quite dramatically, and probably in ways that can't be accurately predicted. What happens when raising a family no longer occupies the bulk of adults' healthy lives and lived experience and wisdom is no longer dragged down by the gradual descent into senility? What if age didn't inversely correlate to neuroplasticity? What if as a young person, your runway to get where you want to go is 80+ years after graduating high school instead of 30-40? All sorts of assumptions and social structures would be upended.
by basisword | 2025-10-02 20:36:45+00:00
As you say definitions matter - so let's not invent hypothetical scenarios to dismiss points.

Israel was not arguing about the definition of 'acute malnourished'. The threshold for famine is 15%. The IPC said it had just hit 16% and was thus a famine. Israel was arguing that other data showed it was only 12.2-13.5% and therefore not a famine. When you get to the point of arguing "only 12% of the children are starving, not 16%" you probably shouldn't bother.
by procaryote | 2025-10-02 20:36:51+00:00
Am I getting it wrong? It sounds like they're still doing quarterly planning just with a different ritual?

I had hoped they'd realise quarterly planning is a bad premise and asked themselves why they do it.

If you have a mature product where you add incremental features, you don't need that plan because it's just an arbitrary block of pretty fungible work.

If you're still looking for product market fit, that three month plan wont last a week before becoming obsolete.

If you need to build a bigger thing that is only valuable once it's all done, you A: need a project and B: probably don't because it will fail.
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-02 20:36:57+00:00
Most planing is bad for two reasons that we never talk about.

1. The wrong metrics: Ultimately the only metric that matters is money. Is this saving us money, are we wasting money. Every feature has a cost, and we are decent about tracking its construction costs but not its operational costs. This matters when you're paying for every iota of infra on AWS.

2. No one ever gets promoted for ripping out a feature that costs too much to run or doesn't retain customers, or is under used. Heath of the product as a whole isnt always about growing the business, sometimes it's about running it.
by blablabla123 | 2025-10-02 20:37:04+00:00
Autism with adults is rarely presented and very individual anyway. I like to see such issues like some wound. Sure you can continue your daily chores. But if you accidentally rub against it, it gets worse and worse. Eventually you need to make a longer break so it doesn't get infected like crazy.

The whole masking thing isn't about skill. (Like in the intro, the guy is in fact even outgoing at times...) It's rather that you need to run behavior with software instead of hardware acceleration. Possible but it sucks.

That being said, the whole thing with falling asleep at the desk is a tough manifestation. For me it's less drastic but gets me into problems in the long run.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-02 20:37:05+00:00
> This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven.

Is it actually important in Islam? Or is it just a way for fundamentalists to make a claim to land that was historically Jewish? Islam was not invented until the 7th century. The temple ruins that the Al Aqsa mosque is built on is much older - by over a thousand years. I’ve also seen some Muslim scholars claim that the “real” Al-Aqsa is actually not on this site but elsewhere, and potentially lost over time.
by jrockway | 2025-10-02 20:37:10+00:00
I don't think this would accomplish anything. For one thing, quite a bit of misinformation these days comes from official government sources that can just compel the manufacturers to turn over authentic signing keys. Remember that Trump just posted an AI-generated video of himself shilling medbeds; when it was pointed out as AI-generated, he deleted it. If Truth Social checked the cryptographic signature, he'd order his staff to sign it. They wouldn't dare say no.

The next flaw is that cameras are happy to record screens playing AI-generated videos and mark them as authentic. Perhaps you can tell today because the screen pixels aren't perfectly 1:1 mapped to the image sensor pixels, but as soon as elections depend on being able to do that, those screens will exist.

People are saying to add LIDAR to prevent this "record the screen" hack, but a mirror over the LIDAR sensor and me sitting at a desk motionless looks to LIDAR exactly like the world leader I'm deepfaking sitting motionless at a desk. People are not using AI to generate amazing action shots.

At the end of the day, people will have to take some personal responsibility. Migrants probably aren't killing and eating pets. Pets taste terrible and grocery stores that you can just walk into and steal whatever you want exist. There isn't a bed that can cure any disease. If someone says they do, even a world leader, test them out on something non-critical. Break off a fingernail and see if the magic bed can regrow it overnight. If not, maybe stick to traditional cancer treatments until there is some clearer evidence.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 20:37:11+00:00
It all works out, unless everyone is doing it, and then entire swaths of the economy just burn down.

In lower level jobs like retail and food service, nobody can retain workers.

You would think then "oh, labor market, the cost of labor goes up"

But no. Everyone is greedy, stubborn, and stupid.

Instead, you just run your business with half the labor. Does it work? Not really.

So then you think, "oh, well free market dynamics. These companies will go out of business because their product or service sucks"

But no! Because everyone is doing it! And now everything just sucks!
by greygoo222 | 2025-10-02 20:37:25+00:00
Symptoms and side effects can vary a lot between people, you could've gotten unlucky.

> Who is more negatively affected by this behavior: your employer or you?

I like my job. I think I am making the world a better place, and I would choose to do this even if I was wealthy enough to never work. When I am unable to do my job because my ego does not align with my id, it makes me angry and disappointed.

> I do not think there is anything pathological about being a jack-of-all trades type or not committing to some hobby.

Nor do I. I do, however, think there is something pathological about sitting on the floor for three hours doing nothing because you're procrastinating on deciding what book to read next, or debugging a 3D printer, or replying to an invitation (or because you need to shower, or cook, ...). This behavior is not enjoyable at all.

It sounds like you primarily experience ADHD as getting in the way of things you have to do, rather than things you want to do. I'm sure that sucks in its own way, but the grass looks greener from over here.

> Which I believe is direct evidence of how our symptoms affect others and not inherently oneself.

I inherently care about other people, and when I let them down, it makes me sad. Perhaps you prefer to define all instances of your friends having desires and expectations around your relationship as oppression, that when I am upset I missed an important event it is because I am being brainwashed by society. But I think this is a small, selfish way of viewing the world. Many traits can get in the way of being a good friend (surely you know someone who is prone to anger, or envy, or insecurity), and if you are a good friend, you try to mitigate them.

> I would say that I made a deal with the Devil just to feel some sense of respite.

Next time you see the Devil, do me a favor and ask him if he has any other opportunities.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-02 20:37:38+00:00
The poster shouldn't be assuming anything.

The poster is claiming without any evidence other than the "friend" was "self-diagnosed", which doesn't tell us if the "friend" was right, or not, and adding that they knew the diagnosis was wrong because of other claimed attributes.

I'm honestly shocked at the response to me pointing that out.

If you want to go round making judgements on peoples' mental health without any qualification to do so, and post that judgement on social media (which Hacker News is) then I will call you out for that, every time I notice.

People come to these comments claiming to be all about science, all about serious thinking that's not found on other social media, but then this trash gets posted and people calling it out get attacked.

This might as well be on Reddit, or Facebook.
by WrongOnInternet | 2025-10-02 20:38:09+00:00
The problem with this approach is that it is easily bypassed. Simply point your camera at a high quality monitor playing an AI generated video, and there you go, and authenticated AI video. In the future, video evidence is going to be as convincing as it was for 99.9999...% of human history. We survived with out it in the past. We'll survive without it in the future.
by foxglacier | 2025-10-02 20:38:16+00:00
Do you actually believe CNN readers will see this story as good news? It's presented in a way that feel like a bad thing. "No clear path out" suggests it's something they should get out of.

Anyway, that's just the most prominent story I saw when I first looked at cnn.com. I was being careful not to cherry pick. If you want cherry picked biased factually correct stories, those exist but I won't put in the work to search for them for you. Their existence shows how factually correct stories still mislead people. This is what you don't agree with because you want truthful and factual over fair and balanced.
by wpollock | 2025-10-02 20:38:32+00:00
Until retired as a professor, I used Thunderbird and the GPG plug-in to sign emails. That makes them immutable no matter who hosts the email server you use. I encrypted the emails holding grades, if the recipient said they were able to decrypt. Setup was non-trivial but very doable. I also used (and still use) a plug-in that clearly shows if any email fails DKIM or SPF (I think DMarc too).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:38:45+00:00
> Stem cells are kinda scarce, as far as I know

Embryonic stem cells are rare in America because of religious types. They're not particularly difficult to manufacture or extract--the limit is really human eggs, and we can make those in the lab [1]. (Human sperm are not, for many reasons, difficult to secure.)

I'd actually guess hESCs would be the cheapest route. If we insist on iPSCs, then this turns into a personalised medicine treatment. But in that, it's no different from e.g. oncology.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5553322/ivg-human-eggs-...
by sfRattan | 2025-10-02 20:38:46+00:00
> Authors using Fair want to share their code while getting protections for themselves. Strong copyleft doesn't care about authors and is all about protecting the end users.

This is a one-sided assertion of fairness, and therefore an abuse of the concept. Free software offers the same rights to both authors and users. That is fairness.

If you want to reserve rights to yourself that are withheld from end-users, that's fine. Arguably even still within a broader conceptual realm of fairness. But naming your personally preferred arrangement of rights "fair" and in so doing implying most or all other arrangements are unfair is just plain arrogant.

Strong copyleft cares equally about authors and end-users. It doesn't disregard authors. Some authors just want to co-opt the general notion of fairness to mean their own licensing preferences.

Call it a non-compete license and be forthright.
by Gud | 2025-10-02 20:38:52+00:00
So your counter argument is that the “poor” person will simply sell it because they are immediately cash strapped. That may very well be true.

But first of all, I am not arguing that _poor_ people get ownership shares in the economy, but everyone, at birth. I have no reason to believe that a majority of the population will not be able to manage this wealth.

I argue that if each person receives a nest egg, combined with the economic schooling and support required to manage it, most people would not go spend it but would make it grow.

You even make this point for me,

“ Money tends to flow towards money. Those with money are best positioned to start a new business, and extract maximum revenue from that business. Those without money have to earn as employees. Those with money have resources and (especially) time, to educate themselves above their current skillset.”

That is literally my point. By further boosting the working and middle classes, we will give them(us) the tools to create new businesses, build stronger communities.

My scheme is not targeted at reducing poverty, although that will be a second order effect. I am mainly interested in building a more stable society with overall more prosperity for the common man.

I am neither socialist nor capitalist. I understand both ideologies well.
by mindslight | 2025-10-02 20:38:58+00:00
I've got to wonder if Israel is one the pillars propping up Trump along with China and Russia. It would make perfect sense with its relation to the Epstein files (in which Trump is likely mentioned every other paragraph).

I'm not saying the Democrats have done great by Gaza, but I feel like the point we're at - irrefutable genocide through starvation - there would at least be significant pressure to stop attacking humanitarian convoys.

All I can really say about the current situation is that it would be a great time for the EU to step up, demonstrate some international leadership, and forcibly deliver aid under the guard of military force.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-02 20:38:59+00:00
> only requires 50% to pass

This is incorrect.

The bill that just failed (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5371), is an appropriations bill.

60 votes are needed, and the final vote was 55-45.

https://apnews.com/article/democrats-republicans-shutdown-ne...

What you are referring to with the "50%" is a reconciliation bill (which is what the OBBB was), which requires a simple majority (50% + 1) to pass, and cannot be filibustered.

Appropriations bills are what keep the government open. Reconciliation bills do not have this effect.

The OBBB could not have been an appropriations bill because those are designed to make changes to mandatory spending programs and taxes, while reconciliation bills are for funding discretionary government operations annually.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/budget-resolution-re...
by JeremyHerrman | 2025-10-02 20:39:30+00:00
depends on what abstraction level you enjoy being creative at.

Some people like creative coding, others like being creative with apps and features without much care to how it's implemented under the hood.

I like both, but IMO there is a much larger crowd for higher level creativity, and in those cases AIs don't automate the creativity away, they enable it!
by Venn1 | 2025-10-02 20:39:32+00:00
Loading the VST in Reaper makes it fantastically easy to turn just about any Android or iOS device into a monitor. Great for checking the final mixdown for YouTube videos and EQing my podcasts in real time. It is also handy for bringing a guest onto a show since I can wire things up to use the mix minus in the studio without relying on AEC.

I did my best to explain the NetJack2 layout in my studio in this post https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/03/02/lossless-network-aud...
by godelski | 2025-10-02 20:39:58+00:00
You're reading the problem wrong. Yeah, even considering the birthday problem you're going to have a hard time finding a valid key.

But now we have a discovery problem. How do I find my current contacts? Do I need you rebuild my social graph from scratch? Good luck getting my friends with PhDs in computer science doing this, let alone my grandma.

Entropy is a double edged sword. IMO signal is doing a good job here. We can go drop phone numbers completely when enough people are using signal. But while the userbase is low it's probably worth the 3 spam messages I get a year. I get more than that in a week on my iPhone and more than that a month when I used Android. So I'll take the trade.

And I must stress, the phone number issue is about privacy, not security. At least with regards to signal
by blitt | 2025-10-02 20:40:00+00:00
Baserow is in the same realm of Airtable/Monday.com/SmartSheet/etc, which are all effectively visual DBs. These tools shine with structured data & rich field types. The core assumption that unlocks their power is that every row of data in a given tab has the exact same schema.

While powerful, this assumption also creates rigidity that a pure spreadsheet doesn't have. You can't, for example, do some quick scratchpad analysis off to the side of your data, or quickly subtotal a few rows with an adhoc formula. For that type of flexibility, you need a pure spreadsheet, which is the camp that Row Zero falls in (along with Excel & Sheets).

So, to answer your question - they're solving different problems. Some spreadsheet usage may be better served by a visual (or actual) database, which is why that sector has exploded in the last decade. But not all use-cases fit that criteria - the flexibility of the pure spreadsheet remains an incredibly powerful thing.
by danaris | 2025-10-02 20:40:04+00:00
"Revealed preferences" are like "the free market". They make sense in theory, or when you've got a wide array of competing choices that people can pick between at will.

When you have monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly; when all the options in the market come with (or without) X feature (unless you spend a large amount of extra time, money, and/or effort); when, in short, people's choices are significantly constrained...

...the idea that you can determine "what people really want" based on what they pick is bullshit.
by tlavoie | 2025-10-02 20:40:12+00:00
A coworker (also works from home) had some commotion across the street, when one of the roofers on his neighbour's place went off the second-story roof. All these guys were wearing harnesses, but not clipped in. The one who fell was luck in that he hit a garden shed roof rather than another 8' to the concrete, but was definitely hurt. Fire department came, yelled at these guys for being idiots. Roofers said they'd comply, and once the FD left, went back to what they were doing. This is right after losing a guy to a fall.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-02 20:41:06+00:00
> the negotiators in Qatar who were supposedly working towards a ceasefire

Supposedly is the key word. Qatar has urged Hamas to accept Trump’s ceasefire terms publicly. But let’s not forget they welcomed and housed Hamas’s leaders, and funded them, for a long time prior to today. Qatar has a history of supporting other terror groups as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terr...
by jakelazaroff | 2025-10-02 20:41:25+00:00
Author here — I mentioned this in the article but if someone waxes poetic about a march while conveniently omitting the fact that seemingly every speech there was insane and bigoted, [1] they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[1] https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/britains-biggest-far-r...
by qaq | 2025-10-02 20:41:53+00:00
In my experience gemini is good at writing specs it's hit or miss in reviewing code and it's not really usable for iterating on code. Codex is slow but can crack issues that Claude Code struggles with. So my workflow has being to use all three to iterate on specs. Have claude code work on implementation and have Codex review claude code's work (sometimes have gemini double check it).
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-02 20:41:58+00:00
There is a similar long term trend of people being less interested in the factory jobs in China. The government there is complaining of a factory worker shortage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/china-wor...

And, of course, they have had factories moving to other countries like Vietnam. They're part of the same trend of factories constantly chasing after low wages.
by eighthourblink | 2025-10-02 20:42:08+00:00
IIRC, those are not supported as of now.

I have been running Asahi on my M2 MacBook Air for the last ~9 months or so and actually really enjoy it. Showed me the world of aarch64. Battery life could be better but normal low level power usage ranges in the 6 to 7 hour mark. But nothing close to official Apple battery usage.