MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-01 17:01:03+00:00
It's not clear how distinctive a lot of mental health conditions are. For the most part we're just making up labels for groups of signs and symptoms, after all. To the extent the labels are "real" things mostly rests in their utility—I mean, that's sort of true of all labels for everything (what's a chair?) but these are far more fluid than most.

It could be that autism really is, exactly as we describe it and conceive of it, in some meaningful way defined by actual reality, a thing.

It could be that it's ten different things that aren't actually connected at all, but happen to look kinda similar. Some of which either are a variant of ADHD (or vice-versa, doesn't much matter) or just happen to include similar symptoms and behaviors that respond well to the same drugs and therapies we use to tread ADHD.

(now, to some degree we do have real tests we can do to pick up e.g. genetic markers of certain disorders, but these largely remain just another clue, not exactly solid proof, with some exceptions)

To illustrate: imagine we couldn't ever see the inside of a human body and just had to guess at what was going on when something went wrong. We'd probably have something we just called "bad kidney" that was actually several different problems, and we'd just throw drugs and other therapies at it until (often, but not always) some set of those relieved the symptoms. Meanwhile, sometimes it's a kidney stone, sometimes it's cancer, et c. And maybe we even have a whole step that's trying to figure out if it's "bad kidney" or "bad bladder" and sometimes we'd get that right, but sometimes wrong, but also some of the same medicines work for either (depending on the actual cause) so we might incorrectly diagnose "bad kidney" then accidentally correctly treat "bad bladder", and think we were right all along.
by Ianvdl | 2025-10-01 17:01:06+00:00
It is opt-in by default for non-commercial licenses:

> For companies: Admins can enable data sharing at a company-wide level. To support early adopters, we’re offering a limited number of free All Products Pack subscriptions to organizations willing to participate while we explore this program. For companies that are not willing to opt in to the program, nothing changes, and as always, admins are in control. > For individuals on non-commercial licenses: Data sharing is enabled by default, but you can turn it off anytime in the settings. > For individuals using commercial licenses, free trials, free community licenses, or EAP builds: Nothing changes. You can still opt in via the settings if you are willing to share data with JetBrains (and your admins, if any, allow it).

And the detail of what is collected:

> We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.
by raffael_de | 2025-10-01 17:01:09+00:00
How about Riven/Myst (2.5D), Virtual Virtual Reality (3D) or Portal 1/2 (2.5D)?

Recently I found myself seeking some escapist experience. For many people computer/console games serve that purpose. I myself never owned even a GameBoy or any console despite having grown up right when those were ubiquitous. I sort of just don't care much about computer games, except if I do and then it provides for a really enjoyable time sink. But I just can't replicate the discovery based on features of games I enjoy (like the guy from the video). I'm trying games here and there but nothing clicks. It's always either too stressful (getting attacked all the time), or it's more about memorized finger acrobatics (like most games from the 90s - NES, SNES etc), or the learning curve is too flat (colloquially "too steep" if x is time) etc. I strongly feel drawn towards Cyberpunk as a genre (Beneath a Steel Sky is fun but also a little too static). A game needs a good balance of interesting story that captures the imagination as well as a high level of interactivity.
by Hexigonz | 2025-10-01 17:01:21+00:00
As others have pointed out, this should have been a showHN, but the article is vague enough that it wouldn't have garnered attention as a showHN. Furthermore, the post inflates the problems of design handoff to try and sell a no code editor environment. Yes, I'm aware that the platform enables coding capabilities, but plenty of no code tools can.

If you want to get into the shortcomings of Figma when it comes to hand off, I'm more than happy to have that conversation. Units that aren't valid in the CSS spec? Sure. Vector tools leading to things that are only achievable through clip path and masking? You bet. But claiming that designers and developers should have the same job when they're completely different skill sets and claiming that both roles are using the wrong tools to get the job done is no way to sell your product.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-10-01 17:01:27+00:00
For the last time. I am not saying that lowering cholesterol does not lower the risk of CVD. I am saying that it is oxidized cholesterol that causes CVD, and by lowering cholesterol you are also lowering oxidized cholesterol. Cholersterol good. oxidized cholesterol bad.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18625445/

Oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is one of the earliest events in atherosclerosis.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine...

The point of the original article is we should be focusing more on lowering oxidative stress (inflammation) instead of focusing on lowering cholesterol since 75% of people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol.

Also, CVD mortality is lowered, but other causes of death increase.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-10-01 17:01:55+00:00
I tried this -- I am undiagnosed, but my kids are diagnosed. On one hand I thought parts over-dramatized, on the other hand I thought parts were watered down.

Misophonia for me does not give me any choice. Either the noise stops or I am leaving. If necessary I will explain later. If the noise stops I am possibly leaving anyway in case it starts again. Fortunately in my case the trigger is pretty obscure, like nails on a chalkboard type of rarity -- people don't actually do that so often.

The explanations I thought were dramatized. One of the challenges I think people with autism have is trying to explain their reactions and coming up with things that neurotypical people cannot relate to. It is more like reflexes. I'd be slack-jawed if my co-worker asked me to explain why my leg moved when the doctor hits my knee, "it just does that when you hit it that way", "probably something to do with ligaments, or tendons? IDK". Could you make an "undiagnosed" mode where your scores just go up and down?

And the options -- when the people team came through at $bigcorp and announced tiny hotdesking, I filed all the necessary paperwork, gave constructive feedback, worked with my manager etc, but started looking for new work immediately and noped out at the first opportunity. The people team was happy to close the file which was growing fat with demerits like not hanging my coat the right way, but my peers and reports were upset. well done people team! This was at a company that professed to be supportive of neurodivergence.
by rustystump | 2025-10-01 17:02:19+00:00
Sad that autism has become such a trend. I have a niece on the spectrum and it was obvious at a very young age luckily she is more high functioning now via years of therapy.

No one wants to hear it but there is a vast difference between those on the spectrum and those not. I am in tech and i have never met anyone autistic. This is because the sad reality is that autism makes it that hard to hold down a job even if high functioning.

It is grossly over exaggerated by many and used as an excuse. This is not saying anyone here does that but in media it is extremely common. This only makes it harder for those who do suffer from it. The majority of autism stereotypes are almost all on the high functioning side. Closer to the low functioning side, it is very sad.
by saltyoldman | 2025-10-01 17:02:36+00:00
I think personally I really like Claude, but our company has standardized on Cursor. Both are very good. I do like the tab completion. The "accept/undo" flow of cursor is really annoying for me. I get why its there, but it just seems like a secondary on top of Git. I usually get everything in a completely committed state so I can already see all my changes through the standard git management features of "VSCode".

I think Claude's latest VSCode plugin is really great, and it does make me question why Cursor decided to fork instead of make a plugin. I'd rather have it be a plugin so I don't have to wipe out my entire Python extension stack.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-01 17:02:59+00:00
> It also seems to me that there is an implicit bias in your comments favoring modern pharmaceuticals over plant-based medicines

That's a fair criticism. I'm an engineer not just by training, but by nature. When the only tool you have is an engineer, every problem looks like it can be solved with better engineering. So far in life that's mostly worked out well for me.

> One thing I've learned is that biology rarely works with pure chemicals. There are always metabolites, precursors, enzymes, enantiomers, and other chemical variations. Sometimes (often?) these prove important as well.

Similarly, it seems to me that you may be unfairly biased against man made solutions. The problems you describe are just engineering challenges. Difficult ones to be sure, but we have some very clever scientists and some very sophisticated tools that are improving at a non-linear pace. We may not crack the nut this week, but someone will eventually.

> From my perspective, a green leafy plant which manufactures a useful compound is a more sophisticated and desirable tool than a fume belching chemical factory making same.

Plants are also technology now. Why not a genetically modified plant that produces only the desired cannabanoids, or modified versions of the cannabanoids?

I'm being a bit tongue in cheek here, but what I mean to say is that the comparison is a bit unfair. Not every plant is good for you and not every man-made solution is the cartoon chemical plant from Captain Planet. Cannabis as it exists is good for many things, but it can certainly still be improved.
by pqtyw | 2025-10-01 17:03:01+00:00
It does occasionally happen, though. e.g. in Britain Labour replaced the Liberals in the 20s and 30s. Conservatives got almost destroyed last election if polls stay were they are they will likely be replaced by Farage's party.

France maybe doesn't fully count but when turnout is very high they are almost FPTP. Also the second round when it happens is usually three way and sometimes even four way. And their party system is about as hectic as it gets (i.e. most PR countries in Europe are much more stable)...
by TitoTarantula | 2025-10-01 17:03:15+00:00
I really got sick of social media and doomscrolling my time away.

So I browsed the web and all the big media sites were nothing but boring. I kept surfing and stumbled upon something that was new to me. I started digging deeper and kept exploring.

I found it really relaxing to browse the old web. There are so many personal homepages, many of them are just art, beautiful to watch. Relaxing to discover. Some websites feel like you are playing a game, some of them have eastereggs and a lore. You will experience music, pixel art, animations. Some websites take you back to Windows 95 times, some take you back to the year 2000. A lot of these sites are made with much love and very much worth to discover.

Because you can't find these sites on mayor search engines, the best way to get in touch with the oldweb is is through webrings.

Thats why I will attach a link to a recently updated List of webrings that are still active today and whose member sites are still online: https://tuffgong.nekoweb.org/webring-list.html

You can browse the old web from there on.

Let me know about your findings and how you liked it.

Warning: Some sites on the old web contain flashy graphics.
by whycome | 2025-10-01 17:03:21+00:00
How is "the earth is flat" not an opinion? People form opinions based on the information they have (or are willing to accept). For their worldview, their opinion is valid. If they don't accept certain voices of reason, they have that right. We saw people not allowed to ask about the origins of the covid19 virus because it went against a public narrative. At the beginning of the pandemic, people who expressed that masks should be worn were rejected by even government officials.

People might not have gone to jail, but they did have voices and access to society limited or removed because of their opinions.
by delfinom | 2025-10-01 17:03:32+00:00
This is public housing. Some people simply can't afford AC as the city isn't paying for utilities in all buildings (it does in some). Some people you can see have an AC unit in the bedroom instead of the living room and so on.

But there is also many years long backlog on repair work required for public housing units by the NYC Housing Authority that does result in apartments sitting empty. The current estimate is its $80 billion in repairs backlogged https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/nyc-comptroller-audit-f...

With 6000 units sitting on that backlog https://gothamist.com/news/nycha-has-nearly-6k-vacant-apartm...
by maxglute | 2025-10-01 17:03:47+00:00
This isn't 2010 anymore. PRC more or less caught up in mainstream IC drive trains. They prioritized resources on diesel engines (heavy equipment) it's essentially on par with global leaders and leading in some applications. Gasoline engine at parity for mainstream since 5 years ago, all the major brands has domestic power trains that's basically parity for mass market consumer vehicles, i.e. not extreme highend performance oriented like motorsports, because by then they pivoted to EV, specially because it would be retarded to waste energy on last 5% for high performance gasoline engines, and real secret sauce / aka hard stuff was batteries.

Commerical turbofan harder, but ultimately it boils down to TCO, where fuel efficiency "major" factor, major factor in that 10-15% less efficiency kills margins / ability to discout for current COMAC builds which uses many overpriced western components for certification. PRC switches to all domestic aviation stack (which they already have for military aviation, i.e. most of pieces there already), they can feasibly undercut/discount where PRC commercial aviation is competitive, it doesn't matter if CJ1000A is 15% less efficient than leading if upfront cost (+ favourable PRC financing) makes up for lifetime of less efficient fuel costs (cheaper TCO). But TBH civil aviation is not actually a "commercial" sector, it'a a strategic (geopolitical) sector, US will do everything it can to kill COMAC, or prevent global exports, i.e. no certification, sanction countries that buy COMAC etc.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-01 17:04:02+00:00
Wow, thanks for the link, this and the other replies have been helpful.

I approached the game as a non-neurodivergent person making whatever the natural decision I personally would have made in each situation, and ended up dying to the "masking" every time! It kind of gives me an appreciation that what comes naturally to me, at no cost, imposes a tremendous cost to others. I suppose that might have been the whole point of the site. Well done.
by sinisamikulic | 2025-10-01 17:04:15+00:00
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by jimmytucson | 2025-10-01 17:04:27+00:00
Just wanted to say, thanks for doing this! Now the old rant...

I started my career when on-prem was the norm and remember so much trouble. When you have long-lived hardware, eventually, no matter how hard you try, you just start to treat it as a pet and state naturally accumulates. Then, as the hardware starts to be not good enough, you need to upgrade. There's an internal team that presents the "commodity" interface, so you have to pick out your new hardware from their list and get the cost approved (it's a lot harder to just spend a little more and get a little more). Then your projects are delayed by them racking the new hardware and you properly "un-petting" your pets so they can respawn on the new devices, etc.

Anyways, when cloud came along, I was like, yeah we're switching and never going back. Buuut, come to find out that's part of the master plan: it's a no-brainer good deal until you and everyone in your org/company/industry forgets HTF to rack their own hardware, and then it starts to go from no-brainer to brainer. And basically unless you start to pull back and rebuild that muscle, it will go from brainer to no-brainer bad deal. So thanks for building this muscle!
by jaredsilver | 2025-10-01 17:04:42+00:00
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by temp0826 | 2025-10-01 17:04:42+00:00
I do suspect "visions" can come from different sources as well. I've worked at an ayahuasca retreat center and have drank about 500 times so had some opportunities to investigate this. My vision is typically very "closed" (often it is just a massive intuition increase, it takes me a huge dose to get really into the visionary aspects). I have had visions seemingly from the top of my head (these are the most intense, all encompassing for me), in my "mind's eye"/imagination, in my normal visual field, and from my heart space, and sometimes a mix of all of it. My big suspicion is that DMT induces a type of synesthesia, a mixing of all of the senses, plus intuition, thoughts, and memories, plus a big increase in sensitivity (meaning what we see/feel is not precisely a hallucination).
by fragmede | 2025-10-01 17:04:43+00:00
Ugh, no. Git is a distributed vcs. Changes in git stay local unless and until you push them to a server, and then furthermore, point someone else at your changes for review. (Formal PR or otherwise.)

Your tools should work for you, and git is no exception. Commit early and commit often. Before you (or an LLM) go on a jaunt through the code, changing whatever, commit the wip to git as you go along. That way, if something goes awry, it's an easy git reset HEAD^ to go backwards just a little bit and undo your changes.

Later on, when it's time to share your work, git rebase -i main (or wherever your branching off point was). This will bring up your editor with a list of commits. Reorder them to make more sense, and then also merge commits together by changing the first word on the line to be "fixup". exit your editor and git will rewrite history for outside consumption. Then you can push and ask someone else to review your commits, which hopefully is now a series of readable smaller commits and not one giant commit that does everything, because those suck to review.
by nneonneo | 2025-10-01 17:04:50+00:00
What's extremely saddening is that I had to examine three pages of search results for the CVE number before finding a non-slop explanation of the bug. In the race to "explain" vulnerabilities and bugs (and sell their security solution), a whole ecosystem of slop sites citing other slop sites has appeared, and accurate, careful (and often slow!) technical analysis is being lost in the noise.
by mmphosis | 2025-10-01 17:04:54+00:00
and yet the tools are still difficult to use. I could Read The Fine Manual, web search, stackoverflow, post a question on a Bulletin Board, or ask the Generative Artificial Inference robot. A lot of this seems like our user interface preferences. For example, my preference is that I just intuitively know that -i followed by a filepath is the input file but why can't I just drag the video icon onto ffmpeg? What might be obvious to me is not necessarily exposed functionality that someone else can see right away.
by brunorro | 2025-10-01 17:05:00+00:00
By the way, just wanted to be sure about this: Tiki Torch parades have been documented since the XI century on the Pyrenees, I just wanted to be sure how old was the tradition. That's the first place that came to my mind and the place where I myself have gone down a hill with some other hundreds of people carrying a torch... When we finished, in the town in the valley, there was a reggae concert and most of the guys down the hill went there, no problems at all.

Actually my country had a fascist dictatorship until the end of the 70s. I'm old enough to have been hit by nazis in the early 90s. I have seen fascists in a parade and policemen doing nothing.

IMHO, software philosophy does not have anything to do with some developer philosophy. IMHO again, that is like comparing journaling filesystems and B+ trees as apology of gender-based violence because ReiserFS was one of the first mainstream filesystems that implemented it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 17:05:14+00:00
The whole thing bothers me because I lived through cable TV going to hell because it was bundled and there wasn’t any market discipline. For instance, MTV used to show music videos that people wanted to watch (give people a choice in YouTube and they watch them) and started showing bad reality TV shows (that nobody would watch on VoD) because 65+ Sumner Redstone decreed it. (Once competitive FAST services arrived MTV introduced 5 channels of real music videos that are great). The market couldn’t tell Redstone he was wrong because you paid for MTV if you paid for cable.

On one hand Game Pass can be a good deal and it has not reached the enshittification stage yet so I am sure they are paying good money to the creators of the best games, for now. Once they crush the competition it’s an old story and it’s going to get worse. Games will get so bad that people will decide to play outside instead.