MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d4mi3n | 2025-11-17 22:30:57+00:00
Here here. I also have ADHD though I couldn’t use stimulant medications due to bad reactions to it, but I’ve had success with non-stimulant medications (Straterra aka atomoxetine [1]).

A big thing I struggled with prior to medical treatment that I don’t often hear discussed about ADHd was rejection sensitivity.

For those unfamiliar: imagine a time someone said something that hurt your feelings or caused a strong emotional reaction.

Now imagine that as a routine emotional response to day to day interactions. Feeling intensely sad, irritated, insulted, etc. to extents completely o it of proportion to whatever was said or even implied.

It’s brutal. It contributes to a lot of depression and social anxiety for folks with ADHD. It doesn’t matter if you’re aware of the response being disproportionate—you get to go on that emotional roller coaster whenever somebody says they don’t care for your favorite food, accidentally cut you off in a conversation, or the day just turns out differently than you were expecting.

Medical treatment makes a huge difference—in my particular case the difference between feeling like I had the emotional regulation of a toddler and not needing to constantly question every emotion I felt prior to responding to things I was reacting to.

Stimulant medications didn’t work for me, but they do this for most people with ADHD (more effectively, too!) and like alterom it saddens me whenever FUD like this crops up.
by francescopace | 2025-11-17 22:31:13+00:00
Fun fact: I’m working on turning ESPectre into a Wi‑Fi Theremin (the musical instrument you play by moving your hands near an antenna).

The idea of “playing” by simply moving around a room sounds a bit ridiculous… but also kind of fun.

The key is the Moving Variance of the spatial turbulence: this value is continuous and stable, making it perfect for mapping directly to pitch/frequency, just like the original Theremin. Other features can be mapped to volume and timbre.

It’s pure signal processing, running entirely on the ESP32. Has anyone here experimented with audio synthesis or sonification using real-time signal processing?
by housel | 2025-11-17 22:31:36+00:00
Given that it's an essential/definitional issue, I would have preferred that the author at least showed awareness of the differences between languages intended for marking up text and languages intended to represent data in a structured way.

Back when XML was first being developed, I was really anticipating having a standardized, easier-to-implement successor to SGML (which was hampered by its complexity and by the cost of the ISO standard) in the text markup space. It was that disappointing it ended up filling the vacuum in the space of serialized representations for for structured data, then getting rejected when it wasn't quite as suitable for that as alternatives such as JSON.
by specproc | 2025-11-17 22:31:44+00:00
LLMs are awful for this. I've got a project that's doing structured extraction and half the work is deduplication.

I didn't go down the route of LLMs for the clean up, as you're getting into scale and context issues with larger datasets.

I got into semantic similarity networks for this use case. You can do efficient pairwise matching with Annoy, set a cutoff threshold, and your isolated subgraphs are merger candidates.

I wrapped up my code in a little library if you're into this sort of thing.

github.com/specialprocedures/semnet
by markdown | 2025-11-17 22:31:53+00:00
> You can spread the profit across a run and give a group of people something for a low price instead of giving one person a high price.

Why not somewhere in between those options:

For example (made up numbers), sell 100 units at $100 after which the price goes up by $10 for each additional sale. So the 100th unit would be $100, the 101st unit $110, the 200th unit $1100, and so on.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-17 22:31:54+00:00
We neuter male cats so they don’t spray piss everywhere and spay female cats so they don’t go into heat and scream incessantly to be let outside.

Both procedures seem slightly more invasive than removing a scent gland in a skunk, given that it removes the sex organs that secrete hormones and changes their behavior for the rest of their life.

It’s possible that a skunk gets anxious when it tries to spray and nothing comes out, I can’t say I’m an expert in skunk behavior, it just seems less invasive than spaying or neutering to me.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 22:32:00+00:00
You might want to familiarize yourself with this material before commenting further on this thread:

Common Article 3; GC I Art. 12 & 18; GC III Art. 13; GC IV Arts. 27, 32 & 51; AP I Arts. 48, 51(2–5), 57 & 54; CCW Amended Protocol II Art. 7(2) of the Geneva Conventions.
by creatonez | 2025-11-17 22:32:22+00:00
Should be noted that wild cats (felis silvestris, felis lybica, felis catus) are not "apex" predators based on hunting success or being obligate carnivores. It's a common misconception that cats were apex predators when they were domesticated. They are both predator and prey, firmly in the middle of the food chain, and as such have the instincts of both. "Apex predator" would mean taking down large animals like elk, which would obviously be ridiculous for a small cat unless the prey is literally immobile.

Wolves are, though.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 22:33:04+00:00
For future reference, the specific articles:

Common Article 3; GC I Art. 12 & 18; GC III Art. 13; GC IV Arts. 27, 32 & 51; AP I Arts. 48, 51(2–5), 57 & 54; CCW Amended Protocol II Art. 7(2) of the Geneva Conventions.
by TrackerFF | 2025-11-17 22:33:06+00:00
When I grew up, in the late 80s/early 90s, we'd be outside like 90% of the time. This was in rural northern Europe, and from my memories, parents there just used to send their kids out. The few times we were allowed to be inside, we really had to ask nice.

Outside activities included playing soccer, biking around, exploring places, building stuff.

It is such a huge contrast to my peers / people my age are raising their kids now. Some of the parents are basically hovering over their kids from 7 in the morning to 9 in the evening. It's non-stop.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-11-17 22:33:11+00:00
It feels like more related to this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-runs-more-ai-mode...

And doing it their way than the traditional way.

Note: Their innovation seems to lie in smaller and fine-tuned ( broader catalog) models than larger ones. So Replicate seems a perfect match.

The traditional way: Rent a GPU and run inference on an container.
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-17 22:33:12+00:00
Why would you explicitly assume something that confirms your bias? Why not just say that you suspect a trend?

Individual anecdote, but I bought a pistol for defense in the US because of the (two way) threats I constantly read and hear in my real life, and I do not consume any social media. No Twitter, no Facebook. I don't read news outside HN, my local paper, and the occasional CS Monitor story. I rarely sit around scrolling TikTok/YouTube/etc on my phone, and when I do, it thankfully just shows me engineering/trades stuff (BigClive type stuff, plumbers, etc). Admittedly, I have visited 4chan occasionally since it was established.

My opinion is: It's fallacious to imply that the hatred and violence of Americans against Americans is negligible, and could only be considered a real problem through the lens of dishonest media. Yes, consuming garbage media will amplify that fear, but the fear is absolutely, obviously based on real, actual attitudes and words in the US.
by exabrial | 2025-11-17 22:33:34+00:00
Not at all. I'm using industry standard definitions. To be clear, the US does not have an operational hypersonic either.

A ballistic weapon follows a somewhat parabolic trajectory. It goes way up, often into outer space, then it falls down with enormous speed. A bunch of potential energy is built up in its boost phase, and released as kinetic energy in a much shorter dive, usually exceeding several times the speed of sound.

A hypersonic weapon can travel at low altitudes in sustained flight in a non-parabolic flight path. That is the key differentiator. How you get there is up to you.

To that end, that often implies other things. Lower altitudes often has stuff you have to go around: the earth itself (sea level), hills or mountains, buildings, observation posts, radars, or you might want it to take a particular approach path in general for geopolitical reasons and fly it in commercial airline flight paths or along borders. This often means a lot of power is required to sustain flight, so usually not carrying your oxidizer is handy.
by thrwwXZTYE | 2025-11-17 22:33:39+00:00
You don't usually realize that's why you're the way you are until much later.

At first it might feel like "these people don't like me cause of how much better I am than them", or "these people don't like me, well fuck them, I don't need anybody".

People have all kinds of excuses they tell themselves to feel better about the needs they can't satisfy.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-11-17 22:33:54+00:00
The goal of influence is often manipulation... we see it all the time with "influencers" trying to illegally advertise to people by not disclosing sponsorships

People influencing others are trying to manipulate their emotions or thoughts into feeling a certain way about something...

We can look to the definitions themselves...

influence: the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.

manipulation: control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.

influence is literally there in the definition of manipulation
by ghurtado | 2025-11-17 22:34:22+00:00
If you read "how to win friends and influence people", you'll realize that these two things are inseparable.

It's pretty much in the title of the book already: it's an ironic title because "influence people" sounds like a shady goal to have, but the book is fully focused on self improvement without ulterior motives. It makes constant reference to authenticity, for instance.

Just because something can be used for nefarious purposes doesn't mean that it shouldn't be studied or learned.
by LinchZhang | 2025-11-17 22:34:25+00:00
I think many people have some intuition that work can be separated between “real work“ (farming, say, or building trains) and “middlemen” (e.g. accounting, salespeople, lawyers, bureaucrats, DEI strategists). “Bullshit jobs” by David Graeber is a more intellectualized framing of the same intuition. Many people believe that middlemen are entirely useless, and we can get rid of (almost) all middleman jobs, RETVRN to people doing real work, and society would be much better off.

Like many populist intuitions, this intuition is completely backwards. Middlemen are extremely important! Coordination problems are real problems, and the bottlenecks to global wealth and flourishing.

The post goes into details for why.
by OmPatel5 | 2025-11-17 22:34:49+00:00
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by eXpl0it3r | 2025-11-17 22:35:00+00:00
wkhtmltopdf repository has been archived on GitHub. Maybe if you're lucky, someone will make a fork, but it's quite hard for a fork to get traction and retain some user base / not to be immediately discarded as well.

Qt WebKit is, compared to Chromium, quite light-weight at 30-40MB. However it's still quite large, compared to say MigraDoc + PDFsharp at 1MB. Truthfully, if there was a well maintained project using it, I'd have actually considered it.

Though Qt WebKit also moves you into the murky water of copy-left licensing, as Qt is released under LGPL. With the setup of using a shared native library, this should work, but might still not be something everyone wants to touch.
by tkel | 2025-11-17 22:36:26+00:00
It's anti-imperialism. It's not that complicated.

There's many Israelis who will also claim that Palestine does not exist.

It's colonization, and war. Israelis claim the land. Palestinians also claim the land.

NK is united with Palestine via their anti-imperialist stance.

There are many other countries that also do not recognize Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_I...
by g-b-r | 2025-11-17 22:37:07+00:00
I ran into it by chance

Yeah, r/Mozilla can only be accessed with a Reddit account apparently, so I report the text here:

«Hired to work on recruiting contract. They told me 15 to 20 hours per week but said if the work increased they would absolutely cover my hours. I was putting in 40 hours per week at one point because the job postings had more than 1000 applicants each. The VP role had 1700 applicants. They had me interview 65 candidates. 65!!! Terrible candidate experience. For one of the role there was 5500 applicants. I had a total of 7 roles to screen, document and process through the ATS under 20 hours a week. DO THE MATH. It is not humanly possible. They continued giving me more work but when it came time to pay me they refused and made me change the invoice and resubmit the hours. On top of that they claimed that I had shared confidential information (NOT TRUE and NO PROOF) and ended my contract when I spoke up. Horrible people. Took advantage of me. The values they speak of are just lip service. HR is an insult to the practice. Never in my work history have I have been treated so badly. »

Of course I can't know if it's true
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-17 22:37:41+00:00
Presumably these are the 100 words they read:

> Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That's not a new idea, but it's not old fashioned either. It's timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We're not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth.

Those words don't communicate much about Gemini at all. Gemini could be a webring for all this says (it's not, but you could build one on it), or it could be something entirely different. It turns out that Gemini is a protocol and a text format, but those 100 words don't say anything about either of those things.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-11-17 22:38:49+00:00
What you are missing is the whole point of writing better languages is to write better libraries.

It is not worth it to write better languages if just the "last mile" of final program is more productive --- making new languages is extraordinarily expensive, and this sort of single-shot productivity boost just isn't worth it.

If you can make better libraries --- code reuse and abstractions at hitherto unimaginable ways and then use those libraries to write yet more libraries, you get a tower of abstractions, each yielding every more productivity, like an N stage rocket.

This sort of ever-deepening library ecosystem is scarcely imaginable to most programmers. Or, they think they can imagine it, but everything looks like a leftpad waste of time to them.
by Fileformat | 2025-11-17 22:38:55+00:00
But you are tech-savvy and know about RSS & feed readers and such like!

Think about it from a non-technical user's perspective: they click on a RSS link and get a wall of XML text. What are they going to do? Back button and move on. How are they ever going to get introduced to RSS and feed readers and such like?

I think a lot of feeds never get hit by a browser because there isn't a hyperlink to them. For example: HN has feeds, but no link in the HTML body, so I'm pretty confident they don't get browser hits. And no one who doesn't already know about feeds will ever use them.
by Two_hands | 2025-11-17 22:39:29+00:00
wow, this is great! You can't DM but my email is in my blog post, in the footnotes.

Do you remember the cost of Mech Turk? It was something I wanted to use for EyesOff but never could get around the cost aspect.

I need some time to process everything you said, but the EyesOff model has pretty low accuracy at the moment. I'm sure some of these tidbits of info could help to improve the model, although my data is pretty messy in comparison. I had thought of doing more gaze tracking work for my model, but at long ranges it just breaks down completely (in my experience, happy to stand corrected if you're worked on that too).

Regarding the baby screener, I see how this approach could be very useful. If I get the time, I'll look into it a bit more and see what I can come up with. I'll let you know once I get round to it.
by dwb | 2025-11-17 22:40:54+00:00
No, I asked about other things where you think the maker should restrict types of use? Are you saying you agree with EULAs in general? I can’t think of many cases of EULAs restricting usage in the way we’re talking about. Maybe some that try to stop you from publishing benchmarks - but they still don’t prevent you from taking them.

There are laws that try to prevent all kinds of things, but they are not made (directly, at least) by the maker.

Safety features are about in the area of what we’re talking about, but people aren’t up in arms about most of them because they can be fairly trivially removed or circumvented if you really want to.

But people don’t like restricted LLMs because the restrictions for safety are not easily removed, even for people who don’t want them. It feels paternalistic.
by JohnBooty | 2025-11-17 22:41:20+00:00
I think they test distinct things.

Being nice to a waiter doesn't require additional work. Also, being a jerk to the waiter hurts another human being directly and is a strategic error because it is more likely to cause them to spit in your food than it is to get you better service.

In contrast, leaving your shopping cart saves you work and doesn't really hurt anybody directly. It just makes a supermarket run slightly less efficiently.

This could theoretically raise prices by increasing labor requirements, but it's not a linear relationship. Failing to return a cart would only increase prices if enough people do it to cross the threshold at which they would need to have an additional cart-collecting employee.

It's still an anti-social behavior, but the impact is more nebulous.
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-17 22:41:29+00:00
I do get your sentiment, but you could have picked some better examples:

> Could be an only child

In which case, odds are that they're also the first child ;)

> or the spouse is stay-at-home

Which is a full-time job in itself

> or the author has family wealth and doesn't need a full time job.

which is far far less likely than the assumption you're rebuttelling
by JohnFen | 2025-11-17 22:41:48+00:00
Boy did this set off my pendant side!

> “middlemen” (e.g. accounting, salespeople, lawyers, bureaucrats, DEI strategists).

I wouldn't call any of those positions "middlemen", though. A middleman is an entity that sits between a producer and a purchaser and takes a cut, usually by connecting the two. None of the examples listed are that.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-17 22:41:55+00:00
In my social circle (mostly Asian tech employees in the PNW) there were many first-time gun purchases immediately after the social unrest in 2020. Hysterical social media posts about "the riots are going to come to the suburbs" factored into it. The fears ended up being completely overblown.

Now there are different groups of people who are predicting violence and feeling the need to do something about it. Too early to tell whether the fears are overblown this time around as well.

In any case, I hope all first-time gun owners properly train with them and secure their guns at home. I wouldn't be surprised if the main outcome of both of these clusters of gun buying is not actual defense against the feared threats, but that guns get stolen and used for crimes.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-17 22:42:20+00:00
> Modules need to opt in to even allowing tree shaking by adding sideEffects: false in package.json - which is something most people don't know to do.

That flag has always been a non-standard mostly-just-Webpack-specific thing. It's still useful to include in package.json for now, because Webpack still has a huge footprint.

It shouldn't be an opt-in that anything written and published purely as ESM should need, it was a hack to paper over problems with CommonJS. One of the reasons to be excitedly dropping CommonJS support everywhere and be we are getting to be mostly on the other side of the long and ugly transition and getting to a much more ESM-native JS world.
by buu700 | 2025-11-17 22:42:44+00:00
I recently had to switch Grok from the default behavior to the custom prompt below. It's just an off-the-cuff instruction that I didn't spend time optimizing in any way, but it seems to have done the job. In hindsight, that probably coincided with silent A/B testing of 4.1.

> Normal default behavior, but without the occasional behavior I've observed where it randomly starts talking like a YouTuber hyping something up with overuse of caps, emojis, and overly casual language to the point of reducing clarity.
by eXpl0it3r | 2025-11-17 22:42:45+00:00
The past week, I've implemented a Markdig renderer that outputs / renders into a Migradoc document, which can be converted to PDF. For the limited used case it works quite well and I'm currently looking into open sourcing it with some other MigraDoc related stuff under MIT.

Justified text isn't exactly a standard Markdown feature though. I guess Markdown converters are in general not easy, since there are so many dialects and at best people just mix in pure HTML, requiring a HTML renderer as well.

Anyways, if you're interested in the Markdig to MigraDoc renderer, let me know.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-17 22:42:46+00:00
Suitable locations for pumped hydro are very limited, it is a comparably rare resource.

A lot of mountainous places are dry, and a lot of wet places are flat.

Of the remaining places, some are so unique that they cannot be destroyed by industrial construction (National Parks etc.)

For example, the main ridge of Krkonoše (Riesengebirge) on the Polish-Czech border has a lot of wind and rain and deep valleys, but it is the only place south of Scandinavia with a Scandinavia-like tundra and many endemites surviving from the last Ice Age. Any attempt to construct pumped hydro there would result in a national uproar on both sides of the border.
by vessenes | 2025-11-17 22:43:08+00:00
From the "Installing Logisim" section:

Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/19tOKo1FD-zAyiIquhIKh1A?pwd=l5j2 Passcode: l5j2

Risky click! Logisim-evolution is available on Github directly, FWIW.