MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hizonner | 2025-10-02 17:23:19+00:00
This is fun...

> Signatories shall maintain institutional neutrality at all levels of their administration. This requires policies that all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives, will abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.

How do you teach political science, history, basically any social science, or even freaking literature, while doing that? Even if it only required you to be "neutral" (which is not what it says), that would be impossible.

But most of it doesn't seem to be that blatant. The majority of the text seems to be about setting up expectations that sound reasonable until you see how they actually get interpreted later. Most of which is prolly still unconstitutional, mind you...
by xpe | 2025-10-02 17:23:37+00:00
> My skepticism of AI safety is just because of skepticism of AI generally. These are amazing things, but I don't believe the technology is even a road to AGI.

Thanks for your response. I'm curious how to state your claim in a way that you would feel is accurate. Would you say "LLMs are not a road to AGI"?

I put ~zero weight on what an arbitrary person believes until they clarify their ideas, show me their model, and give me a prediction. So:

- Clarify: What exactly do you mean by "a road to"? Does this mean you are saying any future technology that uses LLMs (for training? for inference? something else) won't assist the development of AGI?

- Model: On what model(s) of how the world works do you make your claims?

- Prediction: If you are right, when will we know and what will be observe?
by stego-tech | 2025-10-02 17:23:38+00:00
I’m of two minds about these proposed changes.

On the subject of surveilling foreign students without warrants and demanding schools hand over data when asked, fuck off. Students - domestic or international - deserve a campus where they can explore new ideas without fear of reprisal at home or abroad. This mandate is reprehensible, as is the mandate that these marketplaces of ideas demand students listen to viewpoints they consistently rebuff (conservatism, namely). Free speech means people are allowed to talk, not that others are required to listen or attend.

On the other items, namely tuition caps and restrictions on foreign students…yeah, hate to say I agree with those, but I do. A domestic education system should prioritize domestic students, but the lax tuition rules in the USA has meant tuition surged to fleece foreign students at the expense of domestic students. Tuition is way too high given the return on investment, and the allowance of theoretically unlimited foreign enrollment means colleges don’t have to worry about domestic enrollment at all if they’re elite enough.

This is the part I’ve been dreading, to be honest. Fuck the current regime, even if I agree with a few technical points along the way. They’re couching what I feel are decent policy changes in xenophobia and bigotry, which I refuse to abide by.
by rapind | 2025-10-02 17:23:46+00:00
> The left is ready to fight.

I hope you're right. By idealism, I meant not fighting dirty. There's this moral superiority / higher ground thing with some politicians, that while I admire it, I doubt it's the right attitude for the moment.

For example, the retaliatory gerrymandering proposed by some democratic states is the right response IMO, as horrible as gerrymandering is. In fact, they should probably stop apologizing for it and just take a page from MAGA and sell it as "sticking it to MAGA" instead of calling it a necessary evil.
by jandrese | 2025-10-02 17:23:49+00:00
For me the problem is that the start menu want you to use the search bar, but the search bar breaks all the time. This isn't just on one machine either. I have seen this on at least three different Win11 installs and it drives me crazy. Type anything into the search bar on the start menu and nothing appears in the box, just a big empty black box.

I always have to go and dig through the menu (which Microsoft made more difficult to use to encourage use of the search bar) to launch any application.

There is a service you can restart to get it working again, or you can reboot the machine. But it typically stays working for less than an hour.
by mindcrime | 2025-10-02 17:23:50+00:00
I can so relate to this. I just had cataract surgery (both eyes) back in August. Amazing. The procedure took about 20 minutes, was totally pain free (thanks to anesthesia), and my vision is markedly improved. And even more important than the point that I can see better now, is that I just plain feel better and to a degree that's hard to put into words.

It turns out, apparently, that when you are dealing with constant severe levels of eye strain and eye fatigue as a result of cataracts, that feeling somehow permeates throughout your whole body and leaves you feeling like dogshit. At least that's the way it was for me. Within, say, 10 hours of my surgery, I felt better than I'd felt in probably a year.

Now, are things perfect? No... I do have some (expected) side effects based on the lens replacement I chose (panoptix). Specifically I see rings around bright lights, especially at night. And reading text on a computer screen is a bit annoying since I sometimes see a bit of a halo or glow effect around fonts, especially with my preferred "green on black" terminal configuration. But I can live with that, and the only other side effects so far are the occasional day when one or both eyes seem a bit more light sensitive than normal. I understand that will fade over time. On balance though, for how much better I feel now, and for being able to read without glasses, it's totally worth it.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 17:24:13+00:00
> Requiring companies to make and maintain a separate app entirely if their product has messaging features is an unreasonable requirement.

I don't think it's unreasonable and I'll take it further - messaging should be forced to use an open protocol. No more iMessage or Facebook messenger. If you want those, great, then open them.

Now everything works with everything and the world is a utopia and also we cured cancer. Downside: Meta will make slightly less money. I can live with that.
by marcon680 | 2025-10-02 17:24:19+00:00
Could I ask why the flow starts with a human logging in? Is it because you're using their credentials and/or have some sensitivity around storing their credentials? Or is it something to do with 2FA (we handle 2FA)? Or are you just storing the session data after they log in so you can re-use it for those few months you mentioned?

Re: Puppeteer automation as part of the script -- we have a feature we wrote for one of our customers that we didn't promote to production where you can define a deterministic action in the dashboard that allows you to paste in JavaScript, but we're likely not to push that to prod anytime soon. Could you explain your reasoning for wanting to use Puppeteer still? We've generally seen customers fully switch over to Simplex instead of relying on their original Puppeteer/Playwright scripts -- since we have action caching, the underlying script (click on div locator with this div id, etc.) is pretty similar to what you'd get using Playwright.
by anonym29 | 2025-10-02 17:24:27+00:00
Topically relevant: the DSM 5 eliminated the distinction between what was formerly called an Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis from an Autism diagnosis, in part because the name "Asperger" came from a Nazi scientist, and therefore, per then-current political winds, the only morally correct action to take was to erase the name. Of course, this motive needed some kind of non-political justification to not come across as what it was (an example of non-medical political partisanship aimed at erasing history that was disfavored by the political partisans pushing the agenda), which is where the idea of re-categorizing what were and still are clearly at least two distinct clusters of diagnostic patterns as one grand, unified "autism spectrum" that functionally resulted in little more than muddying of waters in the field, which now need to be cleared up again - as pointed out by TFA.

You're right that there are external variables, including non-medical variables, influencing the DSM-5's diagnostic shuffle, I just don't see them as particularly well "hidden".
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-02 17:24:29+00:00
True, but it's still very vague.

"I'm autistic" could mean "I'm non-verbal and can't function without constant care", "I'm very good at hacking, but need help with basic things", "I can function independently, but tend to over-think and over-explain and can't read people's emotions", "I can read people's emotions but am overwhelmed by them, I'm also unusually soothed by ASMR", "I'm unusually irritated by ASMR"...and there's no boundary that separates "real" autism from almost normal with certain traits slightly elevated.
by Aunche | 2025-10-02 17:24:31+00:00
I agree with that the risk of 300 IQ aliens landing on earth is roughly equivalent the risk of 300 IQ AIs. The obvious conclusion from this is that you should take neither of those risks seriously. We have no idea what intelligent aliens are actually like, there is no way to prepare for them outside of deciding to kill every one on site (which would be incredibly difficult since they can land anywhere on earth). We could prepare if we had a blueprint of their biology or of a related species with 50 IQ. We don't have the equivalent blueprint for true AI, so obsessing over longtermist style "ai-risk" is a waste of time.
by estearum | 2025-10-02 17:24:33+00:00
"Don't take Tylenol, don't take it. If you just can't… I mean, it's just fight like hell not to take it. There may be a point where you have to and that you have to work out with yourself. So don't take Tylenol."

That's what they said, which is fucking stupid.

The existing guidance is to discuss use with your doctor and to take the minimum necessary. It is not "fight like hell", ostensibly through fever and significant pain, to avoid it.

There is no good evidence to substantiate this belief, and if there were, then it'd be part of the guidance and we wouldn't need somebody who learned acetaminophen == Tylenol at 79 years old saying things like "Don't take Tylenol" on national TV.
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 17:24:41+00:00
I think the disconnect between you and GitHub support is that you're positioning this as a problem of proving your identity whereas for GitHub support it is a policy. The GitHub policy is: you lose your 2FA, you lose your account. Verifying your identity is not relevant. GitHub provides extensive tooling to protect your account (multiple methods of 2FA, recovery codes etc.) and so from their perspective, while this is deeply unfortunate, the policy is very clear and allowing you access to the account would be a major security issue (not for your account specifically, but for GitHub as an organization).

edit: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/g...
by techblueberry | 2025-10-02 17:24:54+00:00
Ahh for a show Netflix Cancelled in 2023:

Dead End: Paranormal Park is an animated fantasy horror comedy television series, based on the graphic novel DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele.[3] The series premiered on June 16, 2022, on Netflix, and the second season premiered on October 13, 2022. In January 2023, Steele announced that the series had been canceled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End:_Paranormal_Park
by xwowsersx | 2025-10-02 17:25:05+00:00
Thoughts of the top of my head:

- If the most important thing is control of the Ruby gems, reach out to RubyGems.org support

- for your projects, if you have are past collaborators on those repos, they can sometimes open GH tickets referencing the project and vouch for you. Doesn't guarantee success, but adds weight

- GH (being part of MSFT) does have some channels for escalated identity verification. Lawyers or notarized ID may be needed...possibly expensive, but sometimes the only way

GH support is extremely strict on account recovery once 2FA/backup codes are gone. I wish you luck!
by glonq | 2025-10-02 17:25:32+00:00
Yeah, I do see where you're coming from. But just like with traditional media, Wikipedia as a "knowledge commons" maybe requires a slight left bias to guard against entrenched power and to raise awareness of marginalized perspectives.

As long as that's done in a way that protects knowledge integrity and relies on reliable sources and ethical review, I think I'm okay with that.

Also keep in mind that the age range of Wikipedia contributors skews much younger than the US population so yeah for boomers and the boomer-minded it's often gonna seem too progressive.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 17:25:33+00:00
I think one of the major mistakes in this was folding in what used to be Aspergers into the Autism Spectrum diagnosis.

I received an Aspergers diagnosis back when it was still separate. To me it still doesn't feel right for my condition to also be lumped in with people like your cousin. I understand that it can still be a "spectrum" but the spectrum is far too wide now.

Your cousin has very different struggles and needs compared to someone with a more high functioning autism, or even someone with (formerly known as Aspergers) like myself.
by yndoendo | 2025-10-02 17:25:37+00:00
Microsoft increases their hostility to the end user with Windows.

They added so much bloat that has become core of the OS. Even XBox game bar is a forced installed feature with their embedded / IoT, same with forcing a Microsoft user account.

Windows 7 embedded allowed for full customization and the end user didn't have to install features a product was never going to use.

Microsoft back end processes have become more aggressive. Their analytics added to Windows 10 cause the computer to eat up a core after startup. This time frame is often when most communication about client issues that have to be resolved ASAP. Instead of the resources going to the user and their clients they go to Microsoft.

Microsoft even hides the resource usage from their background process, such as anti malware and analytics, from the user usage reports. They are purposely trying to hide and mask their deficiencies.

All to push product and features that are not actually used by the majority. Forcing a market instead of allowing it to grow from quality.

Microsoft does not have any completion in the Enterprise OS and management market and they exploit it. CTO and IT managers do not get fired for choosing Microsoft as their users prison. Small companies are the ones that can escape.
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-02 17:26:18+00:00
My views may not carry much influence, but I’ve argued this point for years—and not only about ADHD, but about many psychiatric conditions, including Autism.

For what it is worth, I have ADHD -- 'cousin' disorder to Autism. Like Autism, ADHD has an array of presentations. I hold the belief that diagnostic labels are simply abstractions for grouping clusters of vague and often arbitrary symptoms. In that sense, many labels are tautological. For example, ADHD/Autism is defined by a set of behaviors, yet people are said to have ADHD/Autism because they exhibit that exact same set of behaviors.

From my perspective, conditions like ADHD and Autism are unusual conditions in terms of their pathology. I suspect some autistic people might agree when I say this: ADHD (and certain forms of Autism) seem to be treated less for the benefit of the individual and more for the benefit of those around them. Compare this to depression -- a condition where the primary suffering is internal -- experienced by the person themselves. With ADHD and Autism, the person is not necessarily suffering directly, but their behaviors often cause difficulty for others, and in turn those others impose suffering on the individual. Treatment, then, improves behavior (somewhat), which first benefits those around the person, and only indirectly improves the individual's own quality of life.

I may be struggling to articulate it perfectly, but I can’t shake the sense that there’s something unsettling about the pathology of these conditions. It has become almost imperative that I take amphetamines every single day. A practice that is far from pleasant, to say the least. Technically, no one forces me to medicate myself, yet the pressures of society make it feel obligatory. I alter myself not primarily for my own sake, but because society has deemed my natural state defective, disruptive, or unworthy. Treatment to me seems less about addressing my own suffering and more about making me tolerable to others.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:26:18+00:00
> leaders of both parties are owned by or are identical to the wealthy donor class

To the extent donors have corrupted the Democrats, it’s been on pushing niche leftist issues like the climate and gender activism, on which donors are disconnected from the electorate, and to a minor degree crap like the carried interest deduction.

> The two parties are just different factions of the donor class

This is lazy nihilism.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 17:26:25+00:00
GOP does not do anything you mentioned. Democrats are filibustering pretty much all they can do - with no shame (and kudos to them for the lack of shame).

About detaining ICE agents and not sending withheld federal taxes to Washington - this will happen only if the Democrat states would separate from the Union. Which I really wish would happen. Unfortunately the Union will not break because both separating parties would have to split national debt and nuclear arsenal. So we (Democratic states) are stuck with the deplorables....
by tpmoney | 2025-10-02 17:26:34+00:00
> All kinds of people have to "mask" aspects of themselves to get along. Black people have to talk white, Asian people have to present themselves in a way white people think is assertive. Gay people have to stay closeted. Just try academia when you grew up in a working class family. The "simulator" paradigm pretends to promote empathy but it actually does the opposite.

Why do you feel this way? Do you not think having to do those things is tiring and exhausting for the affected people? Do you think the simulator’s author would disagree? If someone wrote a simulator for trying to code switch as a Black person or an Asian person and didn’t include all the ways that autistic people have to mask, would you feel they were also not promoting empathy?
by Hizonner | 2025-10-02 17:27:10+00:00
Could be. Although if that's what they're getting at, it's more likely they mean earth sciences and biology.

"Yes, dumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere has measurably changed the climate and is likely to change it more".

"No, the world was not created in 6 days 6000 years ago, you moron."

It's a fair cop.
by alwa | 2025-10-02 17:27:20+00:00
Ah, but what happens when somebody rich and powerful decides the aliens’ advantages will serve their purposes, and stands up an industrial-scale cloning operation?

There are only so many base models to date, right? With limited and somewhat ambiguous utility, and no real reason to impute intention to them.

Still, in the short time since they’ve arrived, their existence has inspired the people with money and power to geopolitical jousting, massive financial investment, and spectacular industrial enterprise—a nuclear renaissance and a “network of data centers the size of Manhattan” if I remember correctly?

The models might well turn out to be just, you know—30 kinda alien but basically banal digital humanoids, with a meaningful edge on only a few dimensions of human endeavor—summarization, persuasion, retrieval, sheer volume of output.

Dynomight’s metaphor seems to me like a useful way to think about how a lot of the dangers lie in the higher-order effects: the human behavior the technology enables, rather than the LLM itself exercising comprehensive intelligence or agency or villainy or whatever.
by larrik | 2025-10-02 17:27:20+00:00
And then, somehow, the desktop Outlook is better on mac than on Windows.

On Windows I can't even easily copy/paste from one email to another. It strips out half the formatting and any colors that were there. Nor can I copy email recipients from an email into a new one.

I tried switching to Windows last year and I just couldn't do it. So now my expensive and fancy powerful laptop collects dust and I'm back to my 5 year old m1 (which is somehow faster, usually).
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-02 17:27:26+00:00
From the wikipedia article:

> Asked what he would do if he were in charge, Langan stated his first priority would be to set up an "anti-dysgenics" project, and would prevent people from "breeding as incontinently as they like."[26]: 18:45 He argues that this would be to practice "genetic hygiene to prevent genomic degradation and reverse evolution" owing to technological advances suspending the process of natural selection

> just a pretty normal guy

... that also believes in eugenics?

Edit:

Oh also:

> Langan's support of conspiracy theories, including the 9/11 Truther movement, as well as his opposition to interracial relationships, have contributed to his gaining a following among members of the alt-right and others on the far right.[27][28] Langan has claimed that the George W. Bush administration staged the 9/11 attacks in order to distract the public from learning about the CTMU, and journalists have described some of Langan's Internet posts as containing "thinly veiled" antisemitism,[27] making antisemitic "dog whistles",[28] and being "incredibly racist".[29]
by devmor | 2025-10-02 17:27:30+00:00
Wow, this is one of the most well written cryptography articles I've ever seen.

I consider myself a fairly experienced software engineer with a moderate amount of professional experience in private sector encryption, so I'm not completely out of my element, but many articles along this vein have my eyes glazing over halfway through the breakdown.

This one was actually easy for me to follow the entire time for once, despite explaining something I'm not familiar with.
by EricHallahan | 2025-10-02 17:27:51+00:00
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