MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cassianoleal | 2025-10-02 08:06:44+00:00
> But one of the things I am trying to work out is whether my definition of "imagine" is different.

Yeah that's where I'm at as well. I can answer yes to that question but I'm not sure my answer means what GP might interpret from it.

> Sort of like picturing one part at a time, but perhaps more like remembering than picturing. I know the overall layout, but I don't know if I literally "see" it.

Similar here, though in my case I wouldn't necessarily call it "remembering". I can "picture" a completely made up house and it will "appear" similarly in my mind.

> there have been moments, usually when I'm close to falling asleep, where I have actually seen something vividly

Same, or during actual dreams.

> I remember thinking the illustration on the Wikipedia page might be a good way to think of it.

If you mean the one with the apple inside the heads, it doesn't help me at all. I can't relate to any of the pictures in it. :D
by juliangmp | 2025-10-02 08:08:34+00:00
Conflicts with symbol names are a thing yes, but if I use some open source library I don't have to care about how they named their translation units. Header files might clash, which is also bad design IMO, so the reasonable thing and what I've made my default is to have a subdirectory with the library name in the include path (I.e. inc/MyLib/foo.h instead of inc/foo.h).
by izzdwizz | 2025-10-02 08:08:44+00:00
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by ciaovietnam | 2025-10-02 08:09:21+00:00
I've been building this CMS, e-commerce and app builder platform - https://sitegui.app - solo in order to keep the cost down before it gains enough growth momentum. It is built by one to be extended by other developers/freelancers. Now AI also is a part of the platform too (AI App Builder & Integrated AI Agents for chatbot, reporting and automation).
by cassianoleal | 2025-10-02 08:10:04+00:00
> It leaves you with not having aphantasia!

That's what I always assumed from reading about it in the past, where it was mostly "I can't imagine things in my mind". Well, I can certainly imagine things.

Now, the guide in the top comment talks about actually seeing things. I don't. As in, really not at all, for any interpretation of "seeing" I can think of.

I wouldn't even describe it as fuzzy - it's just not an image at all, it's more abstract thought and abstract perception.

Hence my confusion.
by zwaps | 2025-10-02 08:10:09+00:00
Yes but that would be worse than many RAG approaches, which were implemented precisely because there is no good way to cleanly search through a knowledge base for a million different reasons.

At that point, you are just doing Agentic RAG, or even just Query Review + RAG.

I mean, yeah, agentic RAG is the future. It's still RAG though.
by kaelyx | 2025-10-02 08:10:31+00:00
Choosing autism speaks as a place for support and advocacy is an interested and, in my opinion, a short-sighted choice. They don't hold a strong track record or convey an image of trust towards the ND community. Even when they tried to improve their brand image, their funding mostly going into advertisement and their current choices such as comparing Autism to Cancer and stating that it is a hopeless condition (At least changing away from the autism is curable stance they had) are less than ideal.
by srb24 | 2025-10-02 08:10:33+00:00
POP is not perfect (could a new version be created - POP4??) but IMAP is not always the solution. For one thing it makes switching mail provider very hard when you haven't got a copy of all your historic emails - with POP you just change settings and away you go. Ms are also always trying to turn off POP access for the Office Outlook program. Hmmmmmm It's almost as if both they and Google run two of the largest subscription email hosting platforms which would both benefit if it's harder for people to change provider... Of course the less you download the more you have to store on their servers and the more you store the more you pay and of course every day brings more emails to store....
by jritchie | 2025-10-02 08:10:36+00:00
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by whage | 2025-10-02 08:11:25+00:00
I've been looking for an article that I think I found 10+ years ago on the web about a very similar topic, something like "the evolution of database systems". It was a very well written article that I just skimmed through and planned to read properly but could never find it again. I remember it had hand-drawn-style diagrams of database architectures with blue backgrounds, sometimes squiggly lines and maybe even some bees on them (could be just my mind mixing it with something). I'd be eternally grateful if someone here could find it.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-02 08:11:29+00:00
Yep.

Examples:

"The International Jew" - Henry Ford, BFF with Adolf Hitler.

Musk "Roman Salutes" more-or-less prove he wasn't able to overcome South Africa's apartheid hate ideology.

Hans Reiser - convicted murderer

Kip Macy & Nicole Macy - landlords from hell

Martin Shkreli - (no introduction necessary)

Impact and moral reputation/integrity are mostly orthogonal properties. It's the responsibility of decent people to rightly boycott crooks, warmongers, pedophiles, and ethno-nationalist suprematists. When this corrective moderation breaks-down, society is in deep shit.
by raffraffraff | 2025-10-02 08:11:44+00:00
It's extremely handy too! If you try to use web automation tools like selenium or playwright on a website that blocks them, starting chrome browser with the debug port is a great way to get past Cloudflare's "human detector" before kicking off your automation. It's still a pain in the ass but at least it works and it's only once per session
Ask HN: Can you uninstall Notion from macOS?
by watanob | 2025-10-02 08:12:01+00:00
I know this is a weird "please fix my computer" post for HN but it's rather bizzarre.

Removing it from Finder's Applications doesn't work. The app is still around even if it's no longer in Finder's Applications.

It keeps popping up in the launcher, sometimes after reboot or after clicking on a deeplink.

Deleting `/Users/$USER/Applications/Notion.app` is not enough either and it keeps reappearing there somehow.

I couldn't find anything online or with the help of LLMs. Notion docs say nothing about this. For all intent and purposes I'm considering it a malware now.
by Sesse__ | 2025-10-02 08:12:51+00:00
Most likely one of:

1. Noise in the detection (the room is bright etc.) 2. The laser being a form that's not susceptible to direct modulation (if it takes a millisecond to start/stop lasing, obviously you cannot turn it on/off very fast)

High-speed laser-based systems (gigabit and beyond) don't try to turn the laser on/off at all, they just have something in front that tries to cancel out the signal (e.g., through self-interference) when you want to send a zero.
by bheadmaster | 2025-10-02 08:12:54+00:00
In short - it depends on your CPU and your display configuration.

On a 640x480 screen, a terminal will probably render fine with low CPU overhead. On a HiDPI screen, CPU may have millions of pixels to render for a single terminal window.

It's not that different from other application programs IMO. DAWs and VSTs often offload rendering to GPUs to save as many CPU cycles as possible to get the latency down. I love having low latency in my terminals, so I prefer GPU accelerated emulators.
by f4uCL9dNSnQm | 2025-10-02 08:13:19+00:00
It is at least 5 months since spammers use fake "delivery error" to skip the filter: http://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1jzf6o2/fake_... . I would expect more from industry-leading company.

Just joking, I expect nothing from GMail team after I noticed that "block sender" option just puts emails in spam folder instead of deleting them on arrival.
by card_zero | 2025-10-02 08:13:24+00:00
> This is all a digression from the main claims, so I'd prefer that people don't pull on this thread

You want to say your piece and get no back-chat?

Romans started to hit people with iron swords at a certain date, influencing the history of Europe substantially, so the origin of that iron age is interesting. Elsewhere, a copper smelting site of 500 BC would be interesting: consider the Moche, in Peru, who independently had a sort of bronze age around that time while Europe was into iron. (I don't think they did anything much with their bronze because they were too preoccupied with body fluids and erotic pottery.)
by yesnomaybe | 2025-10-02 08:14:43+00:00
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by stavros | 2025-10-02 08:14:59+00:00
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by Strom | 2025-10-02 08:15:52+00:00
The other account may provide IMAP but it won't help you because GMail only supports POP (which is now going away). GMail does NOT support IMAP for 3rd party accounts.

The GMail mobile app does support IMAP, but that is different from GMail as a service supporting it. The mobile app having IMAP support does nothing for people who use a web browser.
by movpasd | 2025-10-02 08:17:38+00:00
Everyone's different. Some people genuinely thrive under the conditions you're describing, others don't like it but are able to put up with it no problem, and others can't stand it but are forced to.

The perspective I've found most useful is this. There is a constellation of correlated "autistic traits", which everyone has to a degree, but which like most traits become disabling if turned up too much. "Autism" is a term describing that state. So, it is much less a particular switch that can be turned on or off, not even a slider between "not autistic" and "very autistic", but more a blurry region at the outskirts of the multidimensional bell curve of the human experience.

People on the furthermost reaches of this space are seriously, unambiguously disabled, by any definition. They're what people traditionally imagine as "autistic". But the movement in psychiatry has been to loosen diagnostic criteria to better capture the grey areas. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is a social question, not a scientific one, in my opinion. Most of us want to live in a society that supports disabled people, but how many resources to allocate to that is a difficult question where our human instincts seem to clash with the reality of living in a modern society.

On your last paragraph: I think this is a serious problem with the discourse around neuroatypicality today. My opinion is that the important thing is that we become more accepting and aware of the diversity of the human experience, and that this is a necessary social force to balance the constant regression to the mean imposed by modernity. If that's the case, then drawing a border around any category of person, staking a territorial claim to a pattern of difficulty the group experiences, and refusing to accept that the pattern exists beyond it: it's just unfair, it's giving into defensiveness.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-10-02 08:18:01+00:00
What does "surveilance capitalism" mean in your opponion?

Just some companies which collect unfathomable troves of data but have no incentive to clamp down individuals or manipulate democracies?

I just spilled my rhetorical counter argument...

You are right, the distinction between public or private abuse of power is futile in the end, but this doesnt mean we should put a blind eye on private corporations doing the dystopian ground work, by eg. relativizing all this with a "It could be worse. It could be the government but thank god its only palantir bundling the data, so no f'ing issue here. Calm down smart people!".
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-02 08:18:09+00:00
But then, there might be two different kinds of politics:

One is a cordial game of soft power exchange, getting things done and everyone winning at the end of the day. No malicious intent, just day to day frustrations boiling over here & there. Tomorrow is another, we are friends again tomorrow & will succeed tomorrow. Forgiveness & forgetting is in good supply. Some amount of grace is allowed, no drawing blood. Help each other up when down (even if via manipulation).

The other kind of politics is basically a blood sport. Its a game of hard power exchange where people try to dominate and humiliate each other. There is almost no self-preservation, no care about tomorrow, no learning, no adapting - only the next way to slaughter you opponent, setting legal traps, messing with their personal lives. Zero grace. These kinds of games & people often do not care about the the goal, the company or product - they only care about winning at the blood sport and each interaction for them is a way to gather data, search for weak spots and so on. Its not enough to win, you have to humiliate and oppress another's spirit. Kick the person while they are down. Certain corps attracts a couple of these contestants and soon you have a full floor of psycho's playing a vicious game. For them it feels normal.

So its best to find groups/companies with good people that plays the gentle game (and keeping the bad apples out), that knows it is all made up & essentially role play, that doesn't crave blood. Its the only places where you can really succeed as a human. The other kind you only succeed at drawing blood and destroying others, while enjoying it.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-02 08:18:31+00:00
I wanted to repair a HyperX mouse, but the switches I needed weren't available. I bought ones on a gamble because they were cheap, but they didn't fit, so I gave them away to a friend, and he used them to mod a cheapo mouse. It felt wrong to me for the clicks to make so little noise. He seemed happy with it, though.
by f4uCL9dNSnQm | 2025-10-02 08:18:50+00:00
I found it disappointing, that the same time MS gets a fine for bundling Teams with Office, they bundle another tool with it. As far I can tell it is an effective maneuver, previous company I worked for gave up selfhosted Mattermost instance, because "there is no point in maintaining it when we get Teams for free".
by zkmon | 2025-10-02 08:19:00+00:00
It's a very common situation at work - if two team members have serious difference of opinion, the manager, instead of looking into the matter or taking sides, asks both to duel it out and come out with an agreed solution. Manager doesn't care about who is right and not willing to take the risk of judging. Easier for manager to is just let them fight it out.

In reality, the manager already has a perception for both and knows the outcome. The team is aware of that perception, and would not dare to correct it or give a surprise because that is not going to benefit them. Bosses don't like their hard-earned perceptions being corrected. No surprises please. The weaker would realize this perceptional power and bow out even if their view point has merit. Manager would thank both for sorting it out.

You can't engage in gladiator fights against bad and powerful people. You are more likely to hurt yourself than influencing the decisions. The audience may clap and encourage the fight, but they are not completely neutral.

Each person gains their power by perception (from their boss or co-workers). They can use this power to shut you off. So, from an individual perspective, you need to choose what's best for you based on how powerful you are. Simply getting into politics without such assessment is foolish.

The whole point of collaboration is to build the perceptional power. Also, being in higher position keeps you in loop for all communication giving you more access to the on-goings and opportunity to get visibility. This increases the perceptional power.

People hoard information. It's a treasure and sometimes their whole career depends on keeping it as secret. Also people hoard work items. Just having a long queue of work also gives power. Atleast you have a lot to talk about and possibly grow your team.
by nosianu | 2025-10-02 08:20:13+00:00
On the other hand, if it helps to let go - one of THE most important abilities a brain has - than that is a big potential benefit.

A long time ago but in a place not so far away, as a teenager with some love drama, I once was completely cured from a weeklong lost love hangover in a second when I realized I never had a chance to begin with. That was a very enlightening moment about how "love" works. My brain let go of the idea and that was that, I was free again with zero negative effects remaining.

While it cannot be controlled at will like moving an arm, attitude does have a big influence. You can make your brain move towards letting go. That's not covered by my anecdote where I discovered the effect by accident, that is something I realized over time. Avoidance or confrontation (of the problem) is, I think, neutral, it can work with either.
by phatskat | 2025-10-02 08:20:19+00:00
I actually ran into this recently. Someone linked a doc in iirc a teams chat. Ok, I have teams on my phone. Click the link and get a basic file view, controls are wonky so I’ll download it and…

> You need Edge to download this file

Oh no thanks, not on my phone. I can screenshot the relevant part?

> Screenshot is a black rectangle

Ok well I can copy and pa- fuck!

> Clipboard contains “your organization’s security policy prohibits copying on this device”

—

Also, my org’s policies apparently prevent me from using the official GitHub app, but I can browse the repo on edge? Make it stop.
by somaticbits | 2025-10-02 08:20:23+00:00
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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-02 08:20:51+00:00
I think masking is easily conveyed with words because everybody does it - other terms used are "code switching" where you talk differently to friends, family, parents, bosses, subordinates or children; "emotional labor", a phrase often used for service industry people (think receptionists) where people pretend to be in one emotional state (happy and cheerful) for the sake of their job or role while they really aren't. This is even worse / more obvious in the US where a lot of people can / do switch their personality on a whim, e.g. when picking up the phone.

What's different is that for neurotypical people they don't seem to be aware of it and it comes naturally, but for ND it's learned behaviour that costs energy and conscious effort to do. And they feel like they have to do it because society is used to people effortlessly doing it all the time, so if you don't you're considered off, or simply don't get to participate in society because you're weird/boring/scary. The latter is the worst, you're just yourself but people get uncomfortable around you. They won't tell you why nor just accept you (which is understandable, biological defense mechanisms etc), but you do become an outcast. Unless you play the social games.

> Presenting autism-coded behavior around autistic people is stress-free.

Anecdotal, but... not necessarily, any one person's behaviours can affect someone else negatively.
by zwaps | 2025-10-02 08:21:07+00:00
I am so tired of these undifferentiated takes.

These types of articles regularly come from people who don't actually build SCALE systems with LLMs. Or, people who want to sell you on a new tech. And the frustrating thing is: They ain't even wrong.

Top-K RAG via vector search is not a sufficient solution. It never really was for most interesting use-cases.

Of course, take easiest and most structured - in a sense perfectly indexed - data (code repos) and claim that "RAG is dead". Again. Now try this with billions of unstructured tokens where the LLM really needs to do something with the entire context (like, confirm that something is NOT in the documents), where even the best LLM loses context coherence after like 64k tokens for complex tasks. Good luck!

The truth is: Whether its Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, or a combination of these with ye olde top-k RAG - it's still RAG. You are going to Retrieve, and then you are going to use a system of LLM agents to generate stuff with it. You may now be able to do the first step smarter. It's still Rag tho.

The latest Antrophic whoopsy showed that they also haven't solved the context rot issue. Yes you can get a 1M context scaled version of Claude, but then the small/detail scale performance is so garbage that misrouted customers loose their effin mind.

"My LLM is just gonna ripgrep through millions of technical doc pdfs identified only via undecipherable number-based filenames and inconsistent folder structures"

lol, and also, lmao