MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-12-07 02:50:36+00:00
> It seems in the DSM 5 the definition was narrowed

I think it may have been narrowed in theory, but often not in practice.

Here in Australia, making DSM-5 ASD a shortcut to getting funded by our national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) caused a lot of pressure to broaden the diagnosis in practice - if clinicians have to stretch the diagnosis to get someone the support they need, they feel ethically obliged to engage in that stretching, since it is in the best interests of their client (who are experiencing real challenges, even if those challenges map poorly to the official diagnostic criteria).

And Australia is not unique in providing funding pressures for ASD diagnosis, although NDIS is arguably a global outlier in the scale of that pressure. Apart from funding, growing popular and clinical mindshare of the diagnosis creates independent pressure to broaden its definition.

So a theoretical narrowing coexists with a practical broadening - and the latter is arguably what really counts
by averynicepen | 2025-12-07 02:51:34+00:00
I'll give it a shot.

Text, images, art, and music are all methods of expressing our internal ideas to other human beings. Our thoughts are the source, and these methods are how they are expressed. Our true goal in any form of communication is to understand the internal ideas of others.

An LLM expresses itself in all the same ways, but the source doesn't come from an individual - it comes from a giant dataset. This could be considered an expression of the aggregate thoughts of humanity, which is fine in some contexts (like retrieval of ideas and information highly represented in the data/world), but not when presented in a context of expressing the thoughts of an individual.

LLMs express the statistical summation of everyone's thoughts. It presents the mean, when what we're really interested in are the data points a couple standard deviations away from the mean. That's where all the interesting, unique, and thought provoking ideas are. Diversity is a core of the human experience.

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An interesting paradox is the use of LLMs for translation into a non-native language. LLMs are actively being used to better express an individual's ideas using words better than they can with their limited language proficiency, but for those of us on the receiving end, we interpret the expression to mirror the source and have immediate suspicions on the legitimacy of the individual's thoughts. Which is a little unfortunate for those who just want to express themselves better.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-07 02:51:41+00:00
Huawei has a whole-ass Chinese government behind it with quite a lot of incentives to move away from Google. Samsung does not. Heck, China's making its own GPUs and x86 CPUs. They're not great, but when the incentives over there are that strong, the market forces are clearly in a whole different universe compared to the rest of the world.

Bada lasted, what, 3 years? So it did better than Firefox OS (unless you want to count KaiOS as the same thing), but not by much? Not a great look I'd say. And things haven't gotten any easier during the past 15 years, with Apple and Google's positions being more entrenched than ever.
by fsagx | 2025-12-07 02:52:06+00:00
on a pi?

You can run nodejs fine on a pi with "Raspberry Pi OS Lite". In the configs, look for "Overlay File System" and enable it on the boot partition and main partition. The pi will boot from the sd card and run entirely in ram.

Be sure to run something to clear your logs occasionally or reboot once in a while or you'll run out of RAM. Still, get a quality sd card and power supply. You can get years out of a setup like this.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-07 02:52:09+00:00
> This correlated with an earthquake…

Plenty of disasters don't. "No earthquake, no incident" obviously can't be the logic tree.

> In the UK (and elsewhere) a large percentage of track is covered by cameras - inspection of over the top claims can be rapidly dismissed.

"Yes. That doesn't do much to detect a stone from a parapet rolling onto the line though. Hence the need for inspection."

Sounds like you now agree it's less a need?

> Sounds like a case for cyber crimes and public nuisance.

"Sorry, not much we can do." As is the case when elderly folks get their accounts drained over the phone today.
by al_borland | 2025-12-07 02:53:18+00:00
A bill was proposed in my state to outlaw VPNs, “for the children”. I am hoping the whole thing dies, but am curious what the ramifications would be. I work from home and need to connect to a corporate VPN for work. Will working from home become illegal, where I need to choose between my job or my home?

I don’t think these lawmakers understand what they’re doing.
by bloppe | 2025-12-07 02:53:30+00:00
I agree about some criticisms of the framework. I think they could do away with the plug modules and just go all in on usb-c. I don't mind the occasional dongle for HDMI. I also would prefer a thinner screen bezel, even if that means it's not swappable either.

But having easy access to internal hardware for upgrades is pretty huge. Rather than blowing 1-2k on a new machine every few years, it's just $200-500 for more RAM and a better CPU (assuming prices go back to normal in a reasonable amount of time)
by docjay | 2025-12-07 02:54:08+00:00
Your system ~3+ years old or so? Your story screams DMI 3.0 or similar PCH/PCIe switch saturation issue. DMI 3.0 caps at ~3.5GB/s but about 1.5-1.7 when bidirectional, such as drive to drive. If 100% reads hit about 3.5 then you’ve all but confirmed it. ~1.5GB/s bidirectional is a super common issue for a super common hardware combination.

It’ll happen if your U.2 ports route through DMI 3.0 PCH/Chipset/PCIe switch rather than directly to the CPU PCIe lanes. Easiest to just check motherboard manual, but you can use hwinfo to inspect the PCI tree and see if your U.2 ports are under a “chipset” labeled node. You might have different ports on the mobo that are direct, or possibly bios changes to explore. Sometimes lots of options, sometimes none. Worst case a direct PCIe adapter will resolve it.
by LTL_FTC | 2025-12-07 02:55:03+00:00
I have been considering the OMSCS program for some time but one of my reservations is the network one misses out on by working side by side with students and faculty vs online ed.

For context: non-traditional student who transferred to UCSD for college, two of those years were spent during Covid. Moved back to Bay Area. My network isn’t as big as someone who maybe went to San Jose state. And so they prob have an easier time finding jobs. I worked with other students through discord and so on, attended virtual office hours with professors and TAs (who were the reason many of us passed these classes, I’m sure) but never truly built a relationship that lasted beyond the quarter because zoom, essentially.

And if I go back to grad school, I would really love to build relationships with others around me. Wondering how others have managed with this regard?
by array_key_first | 2025-12-07 02:55:18+00:00
Not the same, those directly compete. We all know IP doesn't work like this.

If you say you want Mexican food and I say Restaurant X is closed but we can go to Y, that's probably fine.

If you say you want to watch ratatouille and I say no, but we can watch ratatouing, which is 2 bucks at the DVD graveyard bin at Walmart, you'll say no.
by fsckboy | 2025-12-07 02:55:20+00:00
there is a poignant set of images taken by a photographer Robert Landsburg who chose to post himself too close to the blow up of the top of Mount Saint Helens in 1980.

the last picture from his salvaged camera is similar to what we see for this topic: https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads... his camera was found under this body, with speculation that he was protecting it, which doesn't seem unlikely, but it also would not be surprising for him not to have had that presence of mind, things were happening very quickly.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-landsburg
by roenxi | 2025-12-07 02:55:27+00:00
> The fact that our relatively small population supports the GDP it does is wild.

Yes and no. It is very impressive what humans can do and the US is a remarkable country for managing to achieve what they have. On the other hand, if we're talking GDP it is basically just a trendline [0] of whether you let people better their own lives or not.

The main reason for US success on the GDP front is that the median administrator chooses to make people fail and the US does the best job of resisting that tendency. To me the mystery is less why the US succeeds but more why polities are so committed to failing. It isn't even like there is a political ideology that genuinely wants to make it hard to do business [1]. It mostly happens by accident, foolishness and ignorance.

[0] https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/the-cost-of-regulation - see the figure, note the logarithmic axis

[1] I suppose the environmentalists, maybe.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-07 02:55:44+00:00
I think we’re just getting started, with fake images and videos.

I suspect that people will be killed, because of outrage over fake stuff. Before the Ukraine invasion, some of the folks in Donbas made a fake bomb, complete with corpses from a morgue (with autopsy scars)[0]. That didn’t require any AI at all.

We can expect videos of unpopular minorities, doing horrible things, politicians saying stuff they never said, and evidence submitted to trial, that was completely made from whole cloth.

It’s gonna suck.

[0] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/28/exploiting-cadave...
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-07 02:56:01+00:00
> When debugging a vexing problem one has little to lose by using an LLM — but perhaps also little to gain.

This probably doesn't give them enough credit. If you can feed an LLM a list of crash dumps it can do a remarkable job producing both analyses and fixes. And I don't mean just for super obvious crashes. I was most impressed with a deadlock where numerous engineers and tried and failed to understand exactly how to fix it.
by hasyimibhar | 2025-12-07 02:56:29+00:00
I completed OMSCS with 2 kids (both preschool), taking 1 class per semester from Fall 2019 to Spring 2023. It was possible thanks to having full remote job and a very supportive wife. I learned a lot, but I probably wouldn't do it again, it was extremely unhealthy, especially for certain classes like Distributed Computing (CS7210).
by blululu | 2025-12-07 02:57:50+00:00
This brings back memories. I low key miss the drug market on hippie hill. We used to have the 'nugs' game where you had to try to sell the bums weed before they offered you drugs.

FWIW, the parent's comment matches my dad's sentiments about the city in the 60s/70s, but I wouldn't start a bar fight to defend his honor on this point. I would be genuinely curious to hear you elaborate on the changes. I live around the corner from the Upper Haight and it has always been one of my favorite parts of the city, but it has always had a lot of loafers doing nothing but drugs as long as I can remember.
by ckwalsh | 2025-12-07 02:58:07+00:00
I'm in the "Pro-Rust" camp (not fanboy level "everything must be rewritten in rust", but "the world would be a better place if more stuff used Rust"), and I love this post.

They saw some benefits to Rust, tried it, and continued to measure. They identified the Typescript/Rust language boundary was slow, and noticed an effect on their contributions. After further research, they realized there was a faster way that didn't need the Rust dependency.

Good stuff, good explanation!
by quotemstr | 2025-12-07 02:58:39+00:00
Good. Rust is fine, but it makes you pay a complexity tax for manual memory management that you just don't need most of the time. In almost all real world cases, a GC is fine. TypeScript is a memory-safe language, just like Rust, and I can't imagine a database ORM of all things needing manual memory management to get good performance. (Talking to the database, not memory management, is the bottleneck!)
by array_key_first | 2025-12-07 02:58:58+00:00
> meanwhile they will destroy your financial and private life if you so much as disagree with a made up pronounce.

No they won't. Who do you know, in your real life, that this has happened to?

Because I actually know a few different people who were fired for racist or sexist reasons. I've never met anyone who was fired because they won't use "made up pronouns"

I've seen actors and rich people claim this, but the thing is they don't just disagree with a pronoun. No, they're loud and obnoxious on Twitter and then their movie does bad and they get fired. That's different.
by keyle | 2025-12-07 02:59:42+00:00
> That junior engineer possibly hasn't programmed without the tantalizing, even desperately tempting option to be assisted by an LLM.

This gives me somewhat of a knee jerk reaction.

When I started programming professionally in the 90s, the internet came of age and I remember being told "in my days, we had books and we remembered things" which of course is hilarious because today you can't possibly retain ALL the knowledge needed to be software engineer due to the sheer size of knowledge required today to produce a meaningful product. It's too big and it moves too fast.

There was this long argument that you should know things and not have to look it up all the time. Altavista was a joke, and Google was cheating.

Then syntax highlighting came around and there'd always be a guy going "yeah nah, you shouldn't need syntax highlighting to program, you screen looks like a Christmas tree".

Then we got stuff like auto-complete, and it was amazing, the amount of keystrokes we saved. That too, was seen as heresy by the purists (followed later by LSP - which many today call heresy).

That reminds me also, back in the day, people would have entire Encyclopaedia on DVDs collections. Did they use it? No. But they criticised Wikipedia for being inferior. Look at today, though.

Same thing with LLMs. Whether you use them as a powerful context based auto-complete, as a research tool faster than wikipedia and google, as rubber-duck debugger, or as a text generator -- who cares: this is today, stop talking like a fossil.

It's 2025 and junior developers can't work without LSP and LLM? It's fine. They're not in front of a 386 DX33 with 1 book of K&R C and a blue EDIT screen. They have massive challenged ahead of them, the IT world is complete shambles, and it's impossible to decipher how anything is made, even open source.

Today is today. Use all the tools at hand. Don't shame kids for using the best tools.

We should be talking about sustainability of such tools rather than what it means to use them (cf. enshittification, open source models etc.)
by msla | 2025-12-07 03:01:10+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_sack_dress

> Feed sack dresses, flour sack dresses, or feedsack dresses were a common article of clothing in rural US and Canadian communities from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. They were made at home, usually by women, using the cotton sacks in which flour, sugar, animal feed, seeds, and other commodities were packaged, shipped, and sold. They became an iconic part of rural life from the 1920s through the Great Depression, World War II, and post-World War II years.

Good, Honest, Old-Fashioned Clothing was Consumerism, too, bucko.

> During World War II it was estimated that 3 million women and children in the United States were wearing feed sack clothing at any given point in time.[7][14] One participant in an oral history project stated that "everything on the clothesline was from feed sacks."[2] The US Department of Agriculture reported in 1951 that 75% of mothers living in urban areas and 97% of those living in rural areas had heard of making garments from feed sacks.[15]

Did Granny make clothes from scratch? Did she, Hell! She bought cloth from a Large Evil Corporation what with the Dark Satanic Mills and Finance Capitalism and she was mainly unhappy she couldn't spend more:

> There was an element of shame experienced by those dressed in flour sack clothing, as it was seen as a mark of poverty, so efforts were often made to hide the fact the clothing was made from feed sacks, such as soaking off logos, dying the fabric, or adding trim.

Our ancestors would be appalled at people wanting to go back to The Good Old Days. They fought and struggled mightily against what the Cottagecore Losers on their Laptops and iPods want.
by rasz | 2025-12-07 03:01:12+00:00
> The Trump Administration has been clear: we oppose censorship and will challenge burdensome regulations that target US companies abroad. We expect the EU to engage in fair, open, & reciprocal trade — & nothing less.

Except for mother russia, they are fine to do whatever https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-restricts-facetime...
by mr_windfrog | 2025-12-07 03:01:19+00:00
Your approach looks promising. One question: how do you handle conflict resolution at scale? ProseMirror's steps model helps, but once you mix in multiple cursors, mobile clients, and permission controls, things get complicated fast. If you've built extra abstractions or a custom syncing layer on top of ProseMirror, I'd be very interested in how you approached it.

Overall, impressive work - it’s refreshing to see an editor that aims for minimalism without sacrificing collaboration features. Bookmarking this to test on a few writing workflows.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-07 03:02:36+00:00
Even Sony is releasing their games on Steam since they finally figured out that releasing their games for the PC is a more profitable venture than having them be console exclusives. Good luck convincing Microsoft of doing the opposite. Sure, they can make their games Xbox or MS Store exclusives, but it would be an irrational decision even if their end-goal is nothing but profit, since exclusivity clearly will lose them more sales than they can earn back in not having Steam be a middleman.
by skybrian | 2025-12-07 03:04:25+00:00
Yes, we clearly have a lot more options. We could pick and choose the parts of the past that are worth reviving.

However, in general, most of the past really was terrible. More than half of the people who ever lived were subsistence farmers who, if they were lucky, grew enough food to live on and a little bit more.

Less than half of their children lived to adulthood. To make up for staggering mortality rates, women had to have roughly six live births for the population to replace itself.

And in peasant households, everyone has to work if they're able to, including children as soon as they were able.

More here:

https://acoup.blog/2025/07/18/collections-life-work-death-an...

You can read more about the drop in child mortality rates here:

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-big-problem-in-br...
by msla | 2025-12-07 03:04:26+00:00
> The food was extremely good. . . . everything was fresh from the garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness

> Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, is a kind of poisoning characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol. In animals it is known as trembles.

> Although very rare today, milk sickness claimed thousands of lives among migrants to the Midwestern United States in the early 19th century, especially in frontier areas along the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries where white snakeroot was prevalent. New settlers were unfamiliar with the plant and its properties. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, is said to have been a victim of the poison. Nursing calves and lambs may have also died from their mothers' milk contaminated with snakeroot even when the adult cows and sheep showed no signs of poisoning. Cattle, horses, and sheep are the animals most often poisoned.

Nice, Fresh, Honest Milk.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-07 03:04:30+00:00
> I think the biggest mistake people make when thinking about mathematics is that it is fundamentally about numbers. It’s not. Mathematics is fundamentally about relations.

Eh, but you can also say that about philosophy, or art, or really, anything.

What sets mathematics apart is the application of certain analytical methods to these relations, and that these methods essentially allow us to rigorously measure relationships and express them in algebraic terms. "Numbers" (finite fields, complex planes, etc) are absolutely fundamental to the practice of mathematics.

For a work claiming to do mathematics without numbers, this paper uses numbers quite a bit.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-12-07 03:05:12+00:00
Maybe the reason that victorian scientists cautioned that weightlifting was bad for women is because they noticed poor women without better options lifting a lot of heavy weights in the course of their labors, and noticing that this seemed to be bad for their health.

Also, is that actually a claim that "victorian science" made? That weight lifting is bad for women? I'm just taking for granted that the person quoted in this BBC documentary is accurately characterizing a commonly-held view among Anglophone scientists of the victorian era - but I haven't looked into this myself. Maybe this was not in fact scientific consensus of the time. Maybe Ruth Goodman is uncritically repeating a myth about what the past thought, rather than what the past actually thought.
by RandyOrion | 2025-12-07 03:05:41+00:00
For arXiv papers, I prefer HTML format much more than PDF format.

Compared to PDF format, HTML format is much more accessible because of browsers. Basically I can reuse my browser extensions to do anything I like without hassle, like translation, note taking, sending texts to LLMs, and so on.

For now, arXiv offers two HTML services: the default one in https://arxiv.org/html/xxxx.xxxxx , and the alternative one in https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/xxxx.xxxxx , here 'x' is a placeholder for a number or digit.

The most glaring problem of the default HTML service is the coverage of papers. Sometimes it just doesn't work, e.g., https://arxiv.org/html/2505.06708 . The solution may be switch to alternative HTML service, e.g., https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2505.06708 .

Note that alternative HTML service also has coverage problem. Sometimes both HTML services fail, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22625 .
by neurostimulant | 2025-12-07 03:06:37+00:00
I think you can disable machine learning stuff in the settings. And yes, you can control when the sync happen, or even have it only triggered manually and never automatically.

My instance when not running any photo/video processing job:

- immich server: cpu: 0.51% ram: 753MiB

- immich redis: cpu: 0.48 ram: 19.64MiB

- immich machine learning: cpu: 0% ram: 209.3MiB
by skydhash | 2025-12-07 03:08:12+00:00
Take about anything from a standard GUI editor. In a terminal editor, they are also easily accessible. And more easily accessible (if not discoverable). But one of the major gain is how close your shell is. A lot of editors allows to start a cli tool and optionally send a portion of the current buffer as input to it. You may also be able to include the output in some buffer too. Some GUI editors allows that, but it's almost always a config maze and you're never sure of the environment in which it does run the commands.

Also in a terminal environment, all you enter are keyboard keys. If you know how to touch-type, your cognitive load can be greatly reduced (personal feeling). You can also navigate something like sublime with keyboard only. But it's way more tiresome.