MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by felix-h | 2025-10-01 19:19:50+00:00
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by thomastjeffery | 2025-10-01 19:19:51+00:00
It's literally in the name: Autism Spectrum Disorder.

You experience autistic traits, but not intensely enough to be a disorder? Congratulations, you can leave the word "disorder" out when you describe yourself.

Everyone masks, but some people mask so often and so intensely that it's like performing a second life; all while hoping your audience doesn't notice. Also, it physically hurts to do, because the interactions you are performing overstimulate your brain.

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I'm assuming you are an adult. Would you like to make social room for someone to be themselves around you instead of perform the role of "functional adult"? If you don't want to make that accommodation, is it something that you are willing to do anyway?
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-01 19:19:51+00:00
There was clear, genuine shock even on the right over that event. It lasted a few months, at most, until their talking heads managed to "catapult the propaganda" sufficiently, and various conspiracy theories were seeded, fertilized, watered, and took root to give people something to believe other than their own eyes and ears.

That brief span of perhaps a few months was probably the last window of time we had to save the US—maybe, still would have been a long shot. But nothing was even attempted.
by derefr | 2025-10-01 19:19:58+00:00
It's a bit annoying that you have to tell it to do it, though. Humans (or at least programmers) "build the tools to solve the problem" so intuitively and automatically when the problem starts to "feel hard", that it doesn't often occur to the average programmer that LLMs don't think like this.

When you tell an LLM to check the code for errors, the LLM could simply "realize" that the problem is complex enough to warrant building [or finding+configuring] an appropriate tool to solve the problem, and so start doing that... but instead, even for the hardest problems, the LLM will try to brute-force a solution just by "staring at the code really hard."

(To quote a certain cartoon squirrel, "that trick never works!" And to paraphrase the LLM's predictable response, "this time for sure!")
by CharlesW | 2025-10-01 19:20:00+00:00
The credible rumors beyond AV1 decode include: Wi-Fi 7 via Apple's home-grown N1 chip, a CPU fast enough to support the next-gen Siri release on-device, a RAM bump, improved pass-through for high-end audio formats, potentially a camera (the new square selfie sensor would be perfect for this) for easier group/family FaceTiming, and more aggressive pricing.
by taylorfinley | 2025-10-01 19:20:15+00:00
For both of these scenarios, it seems to happen when the context limit is getting full and the context is summarized. I've found it usually works to respond with the right file, i.e. "great, let's apply those changes in @path/to/file", but it may also be a good time to return to an earlier conversation point by editing one of your previous messages. You might edit the message that got you the response with changes not linked to a specific file, including the file path in that prompt will usually get you back on track.
by z0r | 2025-10-01 19:20:47+00:00
This didn't trip my AI detector; I instinctively skimmed to look at the numbers and conclusions. Your comment made me go back up to the top and read the opening paragraphs and I see what you are saying. It is always painful to realize you are reading AI product. I think it is less of a problem with this blog post because it is just presenting a handful of tables of numbers and a few graphs, but it seems I am already unconsciously training myself to ignore florid AI writing.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 19:20:59+00:00
It really does feel like the GOP has given up on appealing to votes and are just trying to see how much more they can tear down in the next 13 months. They are either ready to make a disgraceful exit or they really have faith that Trump will pull some drastic move to rig the vote.

Of course, the latter basically means civil war. Then again, Trump already declared war on the US recently.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-01 19:21:12+00:00
> Sure, the board is a board of federally appointed individuals.

No, its a federal agency. Explicitly.

> But the board is a subsection of the federal reserve systems.

Yes, the Federal Reserve System is a different thing from the Board with a sui generis relation to the government, which would maybe be relevant if the personnel action involved some part of the system which was not the Board, but we are talking about a personnel action pertaining to the Board.

> And even the board is kind of odd in it's structure, because the governors have staggered appointments and serve a term.

That’s not at all special (particularly when comparing to the FTC), but typical of “independent” federal agencies (including the FTC), which tend to have fixed terms that are longer than a Presidential term (7 years for the FTC, 14 for the Fed Board), staggered terms, and an explicit statutory limits on the number of members of the body that can be from one political party.
by leephillips | 2025-10-01 19:21:51+00:00
Interesting observation about Python providing the worst of all possible worlds: unintuitive arithmetic without any of its speed advantages.

But in answer to “where did we say that's what we want?” I would say, as soon as we wrote the expression, because we read a book about how the language works before we tried to use it. Αfter, for example reading a book¹ about Julia, we know that 0.1 + 0.2 will give us something slightly larger than 0.3, and we also know that we can type 1//10 + 2//10 to get 3//10.

[1] https://lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaBookRanks/
by xp84 | 2025-10-01 19:22:02+00:00
Sorry, I didn't interpret your comment correctly.

I admit you have a fair point here. I'm a political independent but started out left-wing. It's hard for me to accept the reality that a government that starts out well-meaning definitely can tilt toward totalitarianism, and that the lack of good chokepoints on the citizens (such as this hypothetical ability to control payments) may well be a key prevention mechanism. I think the left wing in the US likes to frame suspicion of those kinds of things as silly preparations for a future that won't happen, and the right frames roadblocks to government power as being in place to make that bad future harder to bring about.
by shmerl | 2025-10-01 19:22:13+00:00
> Device Support: Hardware decoding for AV1 isn’t on every device yet.

By now - it should be in most devices that's aren't outdated by even average standards. And it's worth mentioning that for devices that don't have hardware decoding, dav1d does an excellent job of decoding it on the CPU.

The problem is more with hardware encoding. That's indeed only present in only recent generations (or a couple) of hardware and even with that, AMD for example have an aspect ratio limitation bug in their AV1 hardware encoder (which requires adding black bands to work around) that's only fixed in RDNA 4 which is not available in their APUs, so it won't be fixed in APUs until their UDNA is used for them (they didn't fix it in RDNA 3.5 chips).
by permo-w | 2025-10-01 19:22:21+00:00
>But the discussion was about <blink>national</blink> character, not just culture/personality.

what do you think national character is? it's a broad average of people's personalities and traits. personality affects economy and politics and national character is made up of personality. and if you've ever travelled anywhere you can see with your eyes that people from different countries share personality traits
by ayoisaiah | 2025-10-01 19:22:24+00:00
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by zamadatix | 2025-10-01 19:22:34+00:00
I wouldn't mind if they enabled the 120 Hz support with the new chipset. I like my TV but the framerate matching feature causes a few seconds of black screen each time I switch between and also drops the UI to 24 FPS. Would be nice if everything just ran at 120 FPS all the time, and since 24/30/60 are perfect frame multiples that's nice to. NTSTC content at 23.976 I'd hope the player would just speed up at that point, but even if not... judder at 120 Hz is better than at 60 Hz.

Also 6 GHz Wi-Fi would be nice. I had to run a cable to my 2 because the 5 GHz airspace where I am is too crowded to stream high quality movies via Infuse without occasional hitching. Same with the seek speed. Meanwhile my iPhone gets 2.9 Gbps of goodput at solid jitter on 6 GHz Wi-Fi.

There's probably some updates to the HDR standards. For me at least though the current one already supports what my TV does.

Also apps seem to assume "because hardware decode isn't available don't serve AV1" sometimes. As silly as that is with the CPU power in the AppleTV, at least that problem would go away with hardware support and they'd stop trying to serve a "compatible" SDR h.264 stream. Despite internet pessimism, sometimes the quality is also raised with more efficient codecs rather than just "the same quality at less bandwidth".
by joshstrange | 2025-10-01 19:22:48+00:00
This is the best way to approach it but if I had a dollar for each time Claude ran “—no-verify” on the git commits it was doing I’d have 10’s of dollars.

Doesn’t matter if you tell it multiple times in CLAUDE.md to not skip checks, it will eventually just skip them so it can commit. It’s infuriating.

I hope that as CC evolves there is a better way to tell/force the model to do things like that (linters, formatters, unit/e2e tests, etc).
by ikerino | 2025-10-01 19:23:10+00:00
Absolutely agree with this.

I still think it's important to (1) notice what's causing the problem, bring it into consciousness (2) understand the behavior (in this case: masking) and reckon with it if if's causing a bad outcome (burnout.)

Easier said than done. For me, therapy has been life-changing for helping me notice and understand unintentional behaviors.
by next_xibalba | 2025-10-01 19:23:28+00:00
We likely won't agree on this. I think you're wrong and theft should absolutely be criminal, and theft of certain magnitude should result in prison time.

But, he wasn't sent to prison just for the theft and distribution. He also "illegally intruded into MLB computer networks" and then "engaged in an attempt to extort approximately $150,000 from MLB ".

He plead guilty to all of this. You think all of that should just be settled via lawsuit, too?
by sixhobbits | 2025-10-01 19:23:36+00:00
I use exactly this on my personal (free) and work (paid workspace) accounts. I got an official notification from Google that one member in my workspace (me) has used the feature in the last 30 days and will be affected. I didn't (yet) get a notification on my personal account.

I also rely pretty heavily on this feature for a few very low traffic domains that I need but only have super set up on super clunky web mail, so I guess I'm in the market for a new mail client :(
by tukunjil | 2025-10-01 19:24:24+00:00
After reading lots of comments, I’m now feeling very unique myself. I leave apple notes because that cannot be synced to another windows or android devices. Also cannot be accessible from internet any time. Telegram fixed my problem with private channel feature. I’ve created couple of channels and set suitable name and icon on them then pinned them on my chat list. Also Created a chat group for my channels. Now I just pick the right channel and start typing, date and time are automatically added. Also notes under threads (messages under channels) can be edited any time. From my pc, android, iPhone elsewhere!! Also I can upload images videos or files, unlimited storage! One problem is, there are character limits without telegram premium. So, if the writing became long that will be uploaded in part. Also there are hashtag facilities! After discovering this unique technique I’ve stopped all tools and apps (except microsoftWORD)! But my pen pencils are all time beside me with my notebooks and diary….
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-01 19:24:33+00:00
Yeah, I'm really curious about their stacked multi-tenant lora training at the same time. If this gets commoditised enough, it could be interesting to try "end of the day fine-tunes on daily conversations" and see where that leads. Or a targeted RL on "missed / rejected tasks" for an agent, after you get enough samples for a run, and so on.
by GenericPoster | 2025-10-01 19:24:42+00:00
Single text file a year in n++. I Try to do it once a week and do end of month and end of year analysis. Usually I end up writing more and that's fine.

My requirements are local only and fast.

Start with the simplest tool you have available and go from there. If it becomes a habit and you have certain pain points then you can always switch. But trying to find the PerfectTool_TM before you're even journaling feels like putting the cart before the horse.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 19:24:48+00:00
Autism has become a culturally dominant force that's displaced other kinds of neurodiversity almost completely. 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.
by akamaka | 2025-10-01 19:24:51+00:00
The diminishing return happens when you have so many solar panels that on a sunny day you generate more than 100% of the electricity you can use. Maybe that situation is great if you want to subsidize solar panel factories, but you get less usable kWh for the same cost.

It’s completely expected for Europe’s installation of solar panels to begin tapering off as they get more return on investment by installing battery storage and decarbonizing other parts of the economy.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-01 19:24:56+00:00
Hours? Not in my experience. It will do a handful of tasks then say “Great! I’ve finished a block of tasks” and stop. and honestly, you’re gonna want to check its work periodically. You can’t even trust it to run litters and unit test reliably. I’ve lost count of how many times it’s skipped pre-commit checks or committed code with failing tests because it just gives up.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-01 19:25:12+00:00
The printing press definitely played a huge role.

The earliest equivalents of modern mass market paperbacks were fueled by existing legends like King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable which invented the whole medieval romanticism genre. I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of the cosplay gear at renfaires reflects that 12-13th century era rather than the changes that amassed versus gun powder (although that might just be the ones I've been to).

Sadly not much of that literature survived because it was bottom of the market and it's hard for scholars to really study.
by jasonsb | 2025-10-01 19:26:01+00:00
> A lot of the behaviors this seems to force I don't understand - like railroading whether to skip breakfast or not. I am well aware that for kids with autism frequently there are feeding issues, but what's going on in the "simulation" is very not clear to me.

I lost interest after the breakfast question. For someone who’s physically fit (which this person likely is) skipping breakfast shouldn’t cause a noticeable drop in energy. If it does, then there may be more going on than just autism.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-01 19:26:04+00:00
I’m French. Unless something major changes, I hope we will be out before the UK comes back. I don’t see how anyone can be in favour of the EU after the Greek debt crisis.

I’m not too surprised about my original comment being downvoted while being entirely factually true. It was a bit much from me to expect people to understand the underside of running too much intermittent energy sources and how this is currently dealt with (the braindead part). I invite the champions of solar to explain to me the current plan of the EU for actually running the whole grid past 2050 while phasing out the coal and gas (hint: there is none).

Anyway I invite everyone to take a look at what the EU used to do nuclear, how it was purposefully omitted from the definition of clean energy for years, how they used to fine France despite its energy being clean, how it forces the French energy operator to sell at a loss, how it impedes France properly managing its dams and then look at who actually pushed for these policies while buying Russian gas and burning coal. The whole thing is a complete joke. At least they apparently saw the light on nuclear. That’s a start.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-10-01 19:26:26+00:00
The article covers the enjoyable experience of getting networked computers to all agree on a single monotonic clock time. That got me wondering - does there exist a commodity, high-precision, high-reliability hardware clock that can be plugged into a computer to give it super-accurate timekeeping?

(TBH, I'm pretty sure the answer is no - if you want super-accurate time, I think you buy your own very expensive NTP server [1].)

[1] https://www.masterclock.com/master-clock-products.html
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-01 19:26:29+00:00
The gap between us and the chimpanzees is, at the same time, "tantalizingly small" and "too big".

We have learnt to communicate with them, but they also don't seem to ask questions, at least not the way that humans do.

There is obvious intelligence in their eyes and deliberation in their movements, but they seem to be content with an almost static culture. Which was also true for the Neanderthals.

What was the last subtle mutation that prodded our species onto the road of intellectual curiosity?

We still don't know.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-01 19:26:42+00:00
It's very bizarre to act this is being done in order to replace artists.

I build gen AI for entertainment: I don't build to replace anyone, and if my product gets eyeballs existing creators can't, it's because it gives the consumer something they wanted to see in the world.

Past that you're just complaining that consumers don't want what you made.
by timr | 2025-10-01 19:26:59+00:00
> As usual HN comments are more on point than the article....I've lost count of how many times something was proposed and rejected by everyone in the chain except the C-suite. Then the C-suite overrode the process decisions basically because they played golf with someone outside the company.

You're just naming legitimate stakeholders (the C-suite) and asserting that they're illegitimate.

I grant you that playing golf is a cartoonishly pathological [1] version of it, but yes, there are always people more powerful than you in the organization, and if they have an opinion on what you should be doing, then you can either try to convince them (i.e. politics), or you can give up. Not playing is not an option, and being obstinate is a good way to get fired.

So maybe a case of HN comments being "more on point than the article", but primarily in the way that it directly illustrates what the author is saying: engineers routinely bail out of the politics, to their own detriment.

(FWIW, all of the items in the parent comment's list are even less extreme, and more reasonable, than your own. For example, if you throw up your hands in disgust simply because your colleagues want to use a new tool, you're gonna have a bad career.)

[1] and likely apocryphal - there’s probably something going on that is more rational, and characterizing it as “picking the golf buddy” is a cope.
by jltsiren | 2025-10-01 19:27:01+00:00
That depends on the country. In Finland, reenactment events tend to be either "ancient" or "medieval". The former focus on the Iron Age until around 1200, or prehistoric times before Swedish rule and the establishment of Christianity. The latter extend until around 1500 or 1600.

Then there is a separate tradition around idealized peasant life in the 18th and 19th centuries. But that's not really reenactment, as the tradition started with the rise of nationalism in the 19th century.
by top256 | 2025-10-01 19:27:15+00:00
Thank you for the comment and engaging with my thinking.

You're using hindsight to define inevitability, which is exactly the circular reasoning my essay critiques. "It happened widely, therefore it was inevitable" isn't a useful framework, it's survivorship bias.

Using your IC example: they became cheap because of massive government investment in the space program and military procurement, not natural law. The Apollo Guidance Computer alone drove early IC demand. Different policy choices = different outcome.

Personal computing almost died multiple times. Xerox PARC had it all in 1973 but management killed it. IBM thought the market was ~5 computers total. The Homebrew Computer Club was nearly shut down for copyright infringement. Any of these inflection points going differently changes history.

Your "no moat" observation is telling - you're really describing business strategy (technologies that spread can't be monopolized) not philosophical inevitability. But even that's questionable: TCP/IP could have lost to OSI, the Web to Gopher or AOL's walled garden.

The counterfactual test: if these were truly inevitable, we'd see simultaneous independent invention everywhere. Instead we see: singular inventors, path dependence, and technologies that almost weren't (or actually weren't: where's our supersonic passenger travel?).

Calling only successes "inevitable" while ignoring what didn't happen or was actively prevented (nuclear proliferation, human cloning, various chemicals/drugs) demonstrates the selection bias in this thinking.
by nextaccountic | 2025-10-01 19:27:38+00:00
What about a tool that tracks updates to shared Excel spreadsheet and replicate them in a SQL database?

And then, if somebody makes a change in the database, a trigger will update the spreadsheet

Such a two-way binding makes it possible to continue relying on spreadsheets for UX, all the while the data is not locked in there and we can also have other processes handling the data (a web app, some cron job, etc)

Maybe market it as an API for excel or something