MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 17:10:41+00:00
> Autism is not Mendelian. There is no autism gene.

Autism is heritable which suggests there are autism genes involved. [1]

It's not a 100% thing, which could point to things other than genetics causing autism. It is, however, very strongly correlated to your parents.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5818813/
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 17:10:58+00:00
At the very least, telemetry should be opt-in, but yes I agree it's whatever, there's unfortunately no avoiding it any commercial software today. The dark patterns to lock out usage of local accounts though I take issue with. There's still workarounds for now, but how long will those workarounds exist for non enterprise users?

The right click menu though, I wouldn't call it a non-issue it's a pretty big regression. The legacy right-click menu loads instantaneously. The new one doesn't seem to do any caching either because it's consistently laggy even after an initial load. Is it still usable? Sure, but it's definitely annoying. It's not the only performance regression either.

> Can you move the menu bar on Mac? Can we not just accept that this is a design decision and move on?

Because it was an option in every single windows version up until now. And on macOS I can move the dock to any side of the screen I'd like. Hell, it will even dynamically move if I'm using multiple monitors and hover my mouse where it should be.

> It actually is a pretty great OS, but like every OS it’s not perfect and never will be.

I never said it wasn't. It's got plenty of features I like, use and appreciate. I wouldn't complain if I hated Windows, because I wouldn't care if that was the case. I'm one of the few on here that actually likes and uses Windows, so of course it's frustrating to see regressions.
by JosifA | 2025-10-02 17:11:17+00:00
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I am a seasoned C++ developer with 23 years of experience in the industry. I have experience in Desktop, Embedded and Mobile development. I also did some back-end work and even some reverse engineering, though that was a while ago. I also have some ML experience (PyTorch) - also a while ago, but not that much. Most recently I've doing 3D graphics (simulation and later maps). My Linear Algebra is quite decent - I use it regularly.

My preferred next career move is independent contracting. 6-12 months contracts ideally. I will also consider permanent fully remote positions, but only quite senior ones - Staff Engineer / Architect level.

I've been fully remote since 2018 and I intend to keep it that way.
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-02 17:11:17+00:00
The current risk of AI is the elimination of any (screen) job that requires a person of average intelligence. Given that LLMs are the sum-total of human output, it makes sense that they might behave much like an average person. (Better since they do not sleep or get bored; worse because they are not embodied; unclear because they have no emotions or consciousness.) But what we have today will undermine the (screen-based) job opportunities for everyone at or below average intelligence, which is 50% of the human population. This is not the existential risk of super-AGI but it's here now and will hurt a lot of people. This lesser but more real risk is of much higher priority than unbounded, self-improving AGI. The OP's metaphor might be extended to be 1 billion immortal aliens with 100 IQ but who have no sense of self or personal autonomy and willingly work as slaves (and are constantly microdosing LSD).
by geocrasher | 2025-10-02 17:11:31+00:00
Wow. I have never heard of this. Thank you. I just Googled it and while not all of the symptoms fit, a good number of them do. It's rather interesting, I know how to use numbers- I've done several types of analyses over the years, professionally. And my own budget/savings is done in my own self-designed spreadsheet, calculated/balanced down to the cent.

But ask me to do subtraction? Forget it.
by dinobones | 2025-10-02 17:11:33+00:00
You are still overcomplicating it.

300 IQ in a vacuum gets you nothing. You need some type of status/power/influence in the world to have impact.

I think the previous "world record" holder for IQ is actually just a pretty normal guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan.

Just because AI is/can be super intelligent ("300 IQ"), doesn't mean it can impact or change the world.

Most startups are made of "high IQ" intelligent people trying very hard to sell basic $20/month SaaS subscriptions, and yet they can't even achieve that and most fail.

My biggest counter argument to AI safety risk is that, it's not the AI that will be the issue. It will be the applied use of AI by humans. Do I think GPT6 will be mostly harmlesss? Yeah. Do I think GPT6 embodied as a robo cop would be mostly harmless? No.

Instead of making these silly arguments, we should be policing the humans that try to weaponize AI, and not stagnate the development of it.
by rapind | 2025-10-02 17:11:56+00:00
This is unfortunately probably going to be necessary, and should start happening soon while they still have any power. It's been going on like this for decades, since Gingrich IMO.

It feels like the idealism of some on the left is failing to understand the prisoner's dilemma, and so they just keep losing. There's probably as many or more people from centre right to far left who'd be just as interested in sticking it to the right (let's just call it MAGA), as the right has been interested in owning the libs.

I get that the election says otherwise, but I have a hunch that MAGA isn't nearly as popular as they think they are. I suspect a lot of people are just tired of the wet noodle Kumbaya politics from some on the left, upset with the status quo, really upset with the economy, etc.

Do you ever come back from this though? No idea...
by em-bee | 2025-10-02 17:11:58+00:00
"I'm expecting my workplace to be totally fair and merit-based"

i don't know where you worked, but i have been working for a few decades now, and i still expect exactly that. even more so than school was. the point is, even if my expectations do not match reality everywhere, not expecting that would be like giving up. instead, because of this expectation, i do my best to create a work environment where this is actually true, and i do not allow others unfair behavior deter me from my belief and expectation of fair treatment of everyone around me.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-10-02 17:11:59+00:00
Theoretically Congress has a lot of power over the Supreme Court, if they're sufficiently unified and motivated.

The confirmation aspect is one end, but Congress also has the power to impeach Supreme Court justices. So, theoretically, Congress could impeach all the justices that are believed to be acting in unconstitutional ways, and then refuse to confirm any new nominees that are believed would act similarly.
by samiv | 2025-10-02 17:12:20+00:00
I'm so frustrated with Windows 11.

I recently bought a laptop and that came with Windows 11.

After hours of trying to work around the OOB "experience" that really really wants to you to sign up for a Microsoft account I finally managed to circumvent it.

After using it for a while I actually like it. It's smooth and no major glitches.

Then I didn't use my laptop for a while, logged in and was greeted with

"Let's finish setting up your account". Only options are "Remind me again x days later" and "Ok"

This is so obnoxious behavior it really makes me want to just roll over the whole machine with Linux.

I wish the clowns from the marketing department hadn't taken over the Windows product division. My laptop is already setup thank you very much. I don't need your condesdencing dark pattern UX BS in my face.
by _1tem | 2025-10-02 17:12:27+00:00
What about hybrid automations or human-in-the-loop flows? We have automations where the human starts by logging in, then hands over to the agent. Some parts may even be Puppeteer automated. This also means the session may be long running, typically for months at a time and the agent needs to notify the human again if they get logged out. None of the existing browser automation platforms I have tried make this easy or cost effective, so we are currently trying to build our own. Would love to consider Simplex if this is solved.
by marcon680 | 2025-10-02 17:12:44+00:00
Yes, it's a huge pain from what we've seen. That portal is actually running in production for some of our AR/AP AI customers, and getting browser agents to properly parse that page was difficult -- Coupa injects all the DOM elements through a JavaScript <script/> tag like 2-5 seconds after the page loads, non-deterministically. :)
by reaperducer | 2025-10-02 17:12:46+00:00
I just can't live without the Gmail spamfilter. It's just the best. Industry-leading; no question.

I have accounts on Gmail and other services, and can say from close to a decade of use that Fastmail's spam filter is usually far better than Gmail's.

Occasionally it'll fall behind for a few weeks, but always seems to catch up or surpass Google's.

Over the last couple of months, for example, 100% of the spam I've received has come from Gmail. 0% from Fastmail.
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-02 17:13:06+00:00
Yeah, "thinks or reacts to things differently than most people" is way too broad.

It also shouldn't be a binary classifier. Some people are definitely "autistic", and some are definitely not, but many of the personality traits that define autism are continuous: e.g. some people are barely distracted by loud noises (normal), others are distracted by loud but not quiet noises (normal), others are distracted by specific quiet noises like chewing (autism?), others are very distracted by any noise even with noise-cancelling headphones (autism?).

I think people should just say "I have sensory issues" (or clarify "noise really distracts me"), "I'm bad at reading emotions", "my mood is really affected by others". And accommodations maybe do need to be binary (or graded), but should ideally be informal, and definitely be for specific traits instead of "autism": e.g. don't give someone who thinks methodically but isn't bothered by loud environments their own room (unless you give everyone that), but don't assign them vague tasks or they'll perform poorly.
by injidup | 2025-10-02 17:13:11+00:00
I came back to this. NOBODY mentioned speckit!

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

""" Spec-Driven Development flips the script on traditional software development. For decades, code has been king — specifications were just scaffolding we built and discarded once the "real work" of coding began. Spec-Driven Development changes this: specifications become executable, directly generating working implementations rather than just guiding them. """

The takeaway is that instead of vibecoding you write specs and you get the LLM to align the generated code to the specs.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-02 17:13:13+00:00
> Fertility rates are plummeting globally for this reason in addition to housing

That's very much not the reason for plummeting fertility rates, those are just your pet issues. It's rare for people to acknowledge the true cause of reduced fertility, because it's a huge bummer and the only even remotely plausible solutions are pretty much unthinkable for all but the most regressive.
by palmotea | 2025-10-02 17:13:16+00:00
> Its interesting to imagine that somebody [1] is already now capturing encrypted internet traffic and storing it all long-term, to then hypothetically in 40-50 years or something decrypt it and draw value from that information. I suppose to blackmail future politicians, learn military secrets, whatever.

You don't have to imagine, there's literally a NSA datacenter in Utah for doing just that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-10-02 17:13:57+00:00
The surgery is not fun. The worst part was the cannula for the subtenon block - not painful, but my anxiety at something being poked into my eye socket went through the roof. My sister opted for sedation after she heard of my experience.

The second operation was easier as I told the surgeon about my reaction to the subtenon block and he put some topical in the right place making it much easier. However the residual anxiety from the first operation remained. All that said, I've had rougher times at the dentist.

I opted for optimal vision at arm's length with a monofocal lens. We spend most of our days around the house. Bifocals with plano below work fine for outdoors, driving and flying (check with your aviation doctor before lens selection as aviation authorities are strict in what lens options are allowed). The depth of field has turned out better than I expected, but I use 1.25 diopter drug store readers when I'm using my tablet at home and put it at arm's length in the coffee shop.

The results are absolutely wonderful and I feel gratitude every time I step outside.
by grantWilliams | 2025-10-02 17:13:58+00:00
Most software is developer tools and frameworks to manage electrical state in machines.

Such state management messes use up a lot of resources to copy around.

As an EE working in QA future chips with a goal of compressing away developer syntax art to preserve the least amount of state management possible to achieve maximum utility; sorry self selecting biology of SWEs, but also not sorry.

Above all this is capitalism not honorific obligationism. If hardware engineers can claim more of the tech economy for our shareholders, we must.

There are plenty of other creative outlets that are much less resource intensive. Rich first world programmers are a small subset of the population and can branch out then and explore life rather than believe everyone else has an obligation to conserve the personal story of a generation of future dead.
by mc32 | 2025-10-02 17:14:17+00:00
I think it helped that things were more tribal back then. Enemies could sack and pillage if opportunity presented itself. That presented peasants/commoners/etc. a disincentive to defect. It's not like an outsider would be friendly to a defector in most cases. This provided a bond to the local warlord/chieftain/etc. Essentially it was a fear-factor to not defect because things would be worse. Plus, these people had few possessions. They basically only had their labor and the clothes on their backs. They had very little power. A population that had tenuous leadership would soon be easy pickings for a neighboring rival to swoop in and potentially make things worse.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:14:30+00:00
> not sure what you mean, other than the fact that the Senate confirms Supreme Court justices?

This is the entire text of Article III [1]. Section 1, the part that concerns itself with the Supreme Court, is 64 words. That and the Appointments clause [2] are all the Constitution has to say about our entire judiciary.

Everything else is a creature of statute. Which means a simple majority of the House and Senate, together with the President, can change it.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-3/

[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-3...
by dopple | 2025-10-02 17:14:34+00:00
"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."

- On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

Keeping your head down and just dealing with it as a choice that you can make and it is the choice that they count on you making. But it's not the only choice.
by rootnod3 | 2025-10-02 17:14:56+00:00
A good approach would be that usage means you gotta offer storage or bandwidth in some way. Very very difficult to implement, but say for a PeerTube: wanna watch it? Offer a small percentage of storage for storing chunks. Be a part of the system you use. Of course, the more services you use, the more resources you give up. Or you subscribe.
by soapdog | 2025-10-02 17:14:57+00:00
the amount of people here that think that it is Apple fault is a bug happens cause an unrelated projected used a private API that is not supposed to be used cause implementation and behaviours will change over releases is way too high.

Apple has always changed the behaviour of private APIs. That is why they are private. This has always happened in the lifecycle of MacOS X. This is not unexpected at all.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-02 17:15:16+00:00
That’s exactly what it is. In the free marketplace of ideas, conservatism was gradually shut out because of its refusal to adapt to changing times. A populace embraces conservative values in generally two scenarios: a golden era that they don’t wish to see end and is dependent upon certain ideals, or a populist movement during a downturn or empirical collapse where a certain segment of the population seeks scapegoats instead of reform.

Especially given the origins of the internet and the bulk of folks who maintain or create for it, conservative values were always the extreme minority. Rather than reform or improve their ideology and platform, they seek forced acceptance and indoctrination along with the exclusion or elimination of their perceived enemies.

So yes, they’re using a form of coerced “DEI” to ensure their viewpoints are forcibly represented to a populace that has consistently told them to fuck off, but only for the narrative of DEI as a means of institutional harm against white conservatives.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:15:46+00:00
> Assuming a functional Supreme Court

Nope. The whole point is the Congress can restructure the Supreme Court in highly profound ways.

Shadow docket? The whole thing where the court chooses which cases it tries? The lack of a standard of ethics? These are not Constitutionally empowered. (Hell, the fact that the Supreme Court is a permanent bench of justices versus a rotating set chosen by lot for each case?)

Worst case I guess you need 60 votes in the Senate to remove.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-02 17:16:04+00:00
I like how your wording doesn't actually say that you actually fought in the war as a soldier, which would only get my commiserations for being used as a pawn for the benefit of geopolitics. The partial destruction of the country is extremely sad to see but I won't support the manufacture of wars nor be impressed by bullshit bravado or war jingoism.

I know what pointless violence is and don't glorify it. It never looks good. It's not a movie. It's not something to be proud of, and it depends a lot on luck.
by a022311 | 2025-10-02 17:16:05+00:00
I'm slightly confused about the PCS part. If I've understood correctly the new key is derived from the old key + some kind or message header. If the attacker has access to a key and messages encrypted with it, can't they read the shared secret used for key exchange and use their existing key to generate the new one? Or is this only possible with ECDH and not KEM?
by mikestew | 2025-10-02 17:16:34+00:00
In the late-80s there were also well-publicized predictions that Jesus would return to earth. There's always some crackpot who gets it wrong that one can point to years later as a counter-example ("In the 70s, Time magazine predicted an ice age!"). But what was the general consensus? Without looking it up, I doubt the consensus was nearly that dire.
by saurik | 2025-10-02 17:16:38+00:00
I am struggling to believe that the Roman Empire reference for this acronym is "so obvious". I do know about the meme: in fact, what struck me so hard about this is how, for a protocol where you'd almost expect it to be hard for them to avoid the acronym "SPQR" (as, even if it were not Sparse, it is made by Signal; I could even see them having started with Signal and decided to remove their brand from the acronym), there are not one but two top-level posts on Hacker News where "speaker" seems to have wooshed over their head and somehow this extremely niche acronym from the Roman Empire is clearly the reason why this is called SPQR. Is the tech community on Hacker News really this stereotypical?
by rogerrogerr | 2025-10-02 17:16:59+00:00
The “details” aren’t hidden in the way this headline wants you to think. It’s in bullet points in the middle of the article:

1 was it being rear-ended while stopped. The other 2 were low speed, probably parking lot events.

Shouldn’t be happening, but this is a very misleading headline and undermines the anti-Tesla case.
by rco8786 | 2025-10-02 17:17:14+00:00
My friend, nobody is talking about taxing wealth at a rate higher than that wealth grows.

As a random example, Elon Musk was worth roughly $50B 10 years ago, vs about $500B today. That's a $450B gain in wealth, the vast, vast majority of which was untaxed in any way.

We're not talking about taxing $450B from Elon. We're talking about taxing a small percentage of that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:17:16+00:00
> the idealism of some on the left

I’m generally critical of the left. But this is one game they got right. It’s imbeciles hiding behind the cowardice of aimless moderation who are sinking America. The left is ready to fight.

> Do you ever come back from this

Yes. See: Andrew Jackson. The American Whigs. The British Whigs. The New Deal.

What you don’t get back from is a lack of opposition.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vough...
by diggan | 2025-10-02 17:17:27+00:00
> The creative part for me includes both the implementation and the design

The implementations LLMs end up writing are predicable, because my design locks down what it needs to do. I basically know exactly what they'll end up doing, and how, but it types faster than I do, that's why I hand it off while I go on to think about the next design iteration.

I currently send every single prompt to Claude, Codex, Qwen and Gemini (looks something like this: https://i.imgur.com/YewIjGu.png), and while the all most of the time succeed, doing it like this makes it clear that they're following what I imagined they'd do during the design phase, as they all end up with more or less the same solutions.

> If you like your expensive AI autocomplete

I don't know if you mean that in jest, but what I'm doing isn't "expensive AI autocomplete". I come up with what has to be done, the design for achieving so, then hand off the work. I don't actually write much code at all, just small adjustments when needed.

> and I find understanding my whole implementation faster

Yeah, I guess that's the difference between "vibe-coding" and what I (and others) are doing, as we're not giving up any understanding or control of the architecture and design, but instead focus mostly on those two things while handing off other work.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-02 17:17:37+00:00
The scripting language for Minecraft is Typescript. Lua would require a 3rd party mod.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/scriptap...

>The @minecraft/server-net module contains types for executing HTTP-based requests. This module can only be used on Bedrock Dedicated Server. These APIs do not function within the Minecraft game client or within Minecraft Realms.
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-02 17:17:43+00:00
The worst part is that Win 11 very much does run on the hardware, see any of the requirement bypass solutions out there for proof.

They are intentionally cutting that hardware off from support to force hundreds of millions of upgrades so that they can reap the licensing fees and cram more of their Edge/AI shit down the throats of everyone that has been avoiding it so far.