MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-04 21:18:35+00:00
Have you considered the fact that you may be neurodivergent? Your assumption that you’ve never met a neurodivergent co-worker is surprising.

From what I understand, some autistic people assume everyone has the same worldview and agenda as they do, they lack a theory of mind. I’m not making this accusation about you, I’m bringing it up because I find it surprising that everyone you’ve worked with is neurotypical.

I can usually tell if someone is neurodivergent or not within the first minute of meeting them, usually just from eye contact and body language.
Show HN: ~$ root-dir closed beta is live – a command-line community for devs
by madsmadsdk | 2025-12-04 21:18:55+00:00
just rolled out the closed beta today, and 15 people already signed up.

i started building this thing 13 days ago, and had 96 waitlist signups so far.

new batch of invite codes rolling out soon.

come and join in on the fun :)
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-04 21:19:49+00:00
Four steps to reproduce locally:

cd $(mktemp -d) curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/embedding-shapes/niccup/refs/heads/master/examples/quine/flake.nix curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/embedding-shapes/niccup/refs/heads/master/examples/quine/build.nix nix build python -m http.server -d result 8000
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 21:20:01+00:00
They can - if they are willing to invest a a lot of money over several years. The US got Nuclear bombs in a few years during WWII with this thinking, and China (or anyone else) could too. This problem might be harder than a bomb, but the point remains, all it takes is a willingness to invest.

Of course the problem is we don't see what would be missed by doing this investment. If you put extra people into solving this problem that means less people curing cancer or whatever. (China has a lot of people, but not unlimited)
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-04 21:20:12+00:00
> The diagnosis "Asperger's" was invented by Hans Asperger

No, it wasn't. The diagnosis of “autistic psychopathy”, which loosely corresponds to much of the range of the modern diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder was invented by Hans Asperger (Asperger does not seem to be the first to have described the condition, though he invented that name; a Societ doctor seems to have recognized a similar condition a couple decades earlier.) The distinct separate diagnoses of “Asperger’s syndrome” was invented later (the term seems to have first been used in 1976), and roughly corresponded to the “higher-functioning” individuals within his diagnosis of “autistic psychopathy” that Asperger described as potentially socially useful.
by jareds | 2025-12-04 21:20:26+00:00
I didn't realize that using disability accommodations to get a single was so common. I used the fact that I was blind to get a single in the early 2000's. It may not have been strictly necessary, but I justified it by the fact I had an incredibly loud braille printer that took up a bunch of space. I didn't try to stack accommodations though, since I could walk as well as anyone else I didn't get preferential treatment when it came to location.
by daemonologist | 2025-12-04 21:20:39+00:00
The theory I've heard is built on the fact that China (CXMT) is starting to properly get into DRAM manufacturing - Micron might expect that to swamp the low end of the market, leaving Crucial unprofitable regardless, so they might as well throw in the towel now and make as much money as possible from AI/datacenter (which has bigger margins) while they can.

But yeah even if that's true I don't know why they wouldn't hedge their bets a bit.
AI-Native vs. Anti-AI Engineers
by grandimam | 2025-12-04 21:20:47+00:00
One of the key differences I an seeing between AI-native engineers and Anti-AI ones: the idea of "fully understanding" what you ship.

Before LLMs, we did not fully understand the libraries we read, the kernels we touched, the networks we only grasped conceptually. We' have always been outsourcing intelligence to other engineers, teams, and systems for decades.

One possible reason is that we use a library, we can tell ourselves we could read it. With an LLM, the fiction of potential understanding collapses. The real shift I am seeing isn't from "understanding" to "not understanding."

It is towatds "I understand the boundaries, guarantees, and failure modes of what I'm responsible for." If agentic coding is the future, mastery becomes the ability to steer, constrain, test, and catch failures - not the ability to manually type every line.

Full piece:

https://open.substack.com/pub/grandimam/p/ai-native-and-anti-ai-engineers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-04 21:21:00+00:00
A ban, no, but if ubereats is required to purchase foods for example, that is an infringement. You don't have to use ubereats to buy food.

Let me spin it a bit, if a new tech comes along and that results in not being able to use delivery apps like ubereats to get food, that new tech should be considered an infringement of rights.

"New means by which individuals purchase food may not inhibit or otherwise reduce their ability existing means of purchasing food" that's how I'd word it. An uber eats ban is not a new mean of buying food but uber eats itself is. If doordash collaborates with payment card processors for an exclusive payment processing for delivery apps, that would be an infringement for example, because that's new tech/means reducing existing means.
by siquick | 2025-12-04 21:21:02+00:00
> Personally, I think a big driver of this belief is a tendency in the West to not challenge each other's views or hold each other accountable - "don't talk politics at Thanksgiving" sort of thing

We’re in such a “you’re either with us or against us” phase of politics that a discussion with the “other team” is difficult.

Combine that with people adopting political viewpoints as a big part of their personality and any disagreement is seen as a personal attack.
by q3k | 2025-12-04 21:21:24+00:00
A photolithography machine doesn't etch anything (well, some EUV machines do it as an unwanted side effect because of plasma generation), it just patterns some resist material. Etching is happening elsewhere. Also, keep in mind, you'll need to do multiple passes through a photolithography machine to pattern different steps of the process - it's not a single pass thing.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-04 21:21:39+00:00
8.3% of Americans 18-34yo have a disability according to the Census department.

Stanford's rate is 4.3x higher than that.

Add in that half of all students who claim a disability have no record of a diagnosis or disability classification prior to beginning college, all the reports of rampant cheating in school, the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal where some parents helped their kid fake disabilities to get ahead, and even people here who seem to think it's ok to defraud the system to get ahead?

I think perhaps elite schools need a better way to gauge an applicant's ethics to deny them entry since the last thing the world needs is more unethical people in positions of power.
by bluerooibos | 2025-12-04 21:21:46+00:00
It's getting a tad out of hand. A friend "jokes" that I'm on the spectrum fairly often any time I speak with any sort of passion on topics in interested in or care about.

I feel social media has conditioned people to think of you're anything other than bland and "normal" in your personality and have any degree of uniqueness about you then you're on the spectrum.
by imglorp | 2025-12-04 21:21:48+00:00
If we give up the ability to negotiate, then we would not be able to have this conversation in the future. As we have seen many times, all over the world, authoritarian regimes will absolutely suppress dissent and chill speech if they have the tools. Today maybe it's adult content. They're already attacking the press and anyone critical about the administration: they keep trying to get the corporations to fire their comedians and rein in their reporters. So this isn't slippery slope. We're there and nearing the bottom.
by probably_wrong | 2025-12-04 21:21:49+00:00
Your premise goes precisely against the base of the lawsuit itself:

> (...) an unidentified third party published on that website an untrue and harmful advertisement presenting her as offering sexual services. That advertisement contained photographs of that applicant, which had been used without her consent, along with her telephone number.(...) The same advertisement nevertheless remains available on other websites which have reproduced it.

Anonymous author, great reach, enough damage for the victim to take a lawsuit all the way to the CJEU.
by aspenmayer | 2025-12-04 21:21:58+00:00
The blocks tend to be implemented at the DNS level, so you can usually connect by using a different DNS server. The Tor onion link works fine as well, and that URL is on the archive.today Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

> archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion

via this post on their blog:

https://blog.archive.today/post/711271973835227136/did-somet...
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-04 21:22:03+00:00
Well that’s the core of the problem. Either you’re measuring speed on a test or you’re not. If you are, then people with disabilities unfortunately do not pass the test and that’s the way it is. If you are not, then testing some students but not others is unfair.

At the end of the day setting up a system where different students have different criteria for succeeding, automatically incentivizes students to find the easiest criteria for themselves.
by cardanome | 2025-12-04 21:22:28+00:00
If you have met one person with autism you have met one person with autism.

This is true for anything else and no argument against the current diagnosis.

There are people with Covid that ended up in the hospital and people with Covid who barely had any symptoms. Both have Covid.

Autism doesn't work from "little autism" to "a lot of autism". One person can have strong sensory issues but decent social skills. Another bad social skills but not sensory issues at all. And care needs can change over your life, they are not fixed.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-04 21:22:37+00:00
My wife has a cousin who basically gamed the system for undergraduate and law school. She grew up white, middle class, but her dad, being of Mexican descent (US born) allowed her to play up the Hispanic angle on college applications, landing her scholarships and better admissions. Then, for law school, she claimed she had ADHD so that she could get extra time on tests. It was all a scam.
by mrob | 2025-12-04 21:22:40+00:00
RAM latency doesn't affect mouse response in any perceptible way. The fastest gaming mice I know of run at 8000Hz, so that's 125000ns between samples, much bigger than any CAS latency. And most mice run substantially slower.

Maybe your old PC used lower-latency GUI software, e.g. uncomposited Xorg instead of Wayland.
by fudged71 | 2025-12-04 21:22:41+00:00
This is the mechanical equivalent of vibe coding. 3D printing itself isn't exactly to blame but the negligence of the company that created and sold this part and omitted it's use from an inspection.

Just because a part has the shape of an engineered part does not make it compatible, strong, safe, and fit for purpose. This part could have likely been fine if it used a different material such as Ultem.
by keeda | 2025-12-04 21:22:42+00:00
This is annoying because Ars is one of the better tech blogs out there, but it still has instances of biased reporting like this one. It's interesting to decipher this article with an eye on what they said, what they implied, and what they didn't say.

Would be good if a sales person chime could in to keep me honest, but:

1. There is a difference between sales quotas and sales growth targets. The former is a goal, latter is aspirational, a "stretch goal". They were not hitting their stretch goals.

2. The stretch goals were, like, doubling the sales in a year. And they dropped it to 25% or 50% growth. No idea what the adoption of such a product should be, but doubling sounds pretty ambitious? I really can't say, and neither did TFA.

3. Only a fraction met their growth goals, but I guess it's safe to assume most hit their sales quotas, otherwise that's what the story would be about. Also, this implies some DID hit their growth goals, which implies at least some doubled their sales in a year. Could be they started small so doubling was easy, or could be a big deal, we don't know.

4. Sales quotas get revised all the time, especially for new products. Apparently, this was for a single product, Foundry, which was launched a year ago, so I expect some trial and error to figure out the real demand.

5. From the reporting it seems Foundry is having problems connecting to internal data sources... indicating it's a problem with engineering, and not a problem with the AI itself. But TFA focuses on AI issues like hallucinations.

6. No reporting on the dozens of other AI products that MSFT has churned out.

As an aside, it seems data connectivity issues are a stickier problem than most realize (e.g. organizational issues) and I believe Palantir created the FDE role for just this purpose: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir

Maybe without that strategy it would be hard for a product like this to work.
by neilv | 2025-12-04 21:22:50+00:00
A few scattered comments, no single argument...

Performance-doping by a large percentage of students at prestigious schools has been going on for decades. Separate from the people who are wired differently and really need the chemical tuning.

Also, it seems a lot of students are on anti-depressants. (You might be, too, if you had pushy overachiever helicopter parents always pushing you. Or if the same career that paid for your affluent upbringing, including college admission advantages, came because a parent operated very selfishly in general.)

Meds seem to be a go-to solution for many affluent families.

Adderall doesn't let someone be the brightest student, but it helps them keep up with courseload, of study-heavy or lab-heavy classes -- to compete with the students who have better/more prior education/experience, better work practices, who prioritize studies over partying, or who are otherwise brighter as a student in some regard.

Of the students who didn't actually have an ADHD disability, but ended up relying on the meds anyway, they aren't bad people. They're actually generally nice and smart, like everyone else. I hope it keeps working for them, or they are able to wean off without ill effects.

One thing I really worry about is a different but related problem: a culture of cheating, most recently accelated by ChatGPT and the like. That seems to be having really bad societal effects already.

One thing I wonder about is whether some of the students on other meds, like for depression, are having too much edge of passion and creativity taken off. Although the college admissions and career prep books and coaches tell students how to give the corporate-standard performative indicators of "passion", that comes out as a very different thing, and maybe all the meds has something to do with that. (I suppose a professor who's been engaged for a few decades would have a good perspective on this.)
by pessimizer | 2025-12-04 21:23:00+00:00
Somebody said "easier" and you said "more secure." Then, your argument that it was more secure (which nobody was discussing) is that it is "basic." Then you added an irrelevant strawman with a slur in it against the person you were arguing with.

Yes, it is more secure against the user. That is not a desirable characteristic for the user, it is a desirable characteristic for the controller of the operating system.
by bawolff | 2025-12-04 21:23:06+00:00
> An "A" in calculus should mean that you can do calculus and that evaluation should be independent of your own strengths

If you can't do calculus, extra time is not going to help you. Its not like an extra 30 minutes in a closed room environment is going to let you rederrive calculus from first principles.

The theory behind these accomedations is that certain people are disadvantaged in ways that have nothing to do with the thing being evaluated.

The least controversial version would be someone that is blind gets a braile version of the test (or someone to read it to them, etc). Sure you can say that without the accomadations the blind student cannot do calculus like the other students can, but you are really just testing if they can see the question not if they "know" calculus. The point of the test is to test their ability at calculus not to test if their eyes work.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-04 21:23:40+00:00
> when the latest issue of the DSM, the manual psychiatrists use to diagnose patients, was released in 2013, it significantly lowered the bar for an ADHD diagnosis.

I've suspected for many years that ADHD is like Medical Marijuana. Some people really need it. For others, it's just a way to get legal access to stimulants.
by owenversteeg | 2025-12-04 21:23:59+00:00
The part was claimed to be ABS-CF. UK AAIB tested the part and found it to have a Tg of approximately 53C. The Tg of ABS is far higher, around 100C. I suspect that the part may have been accidentally printed with PLA-CF (which has a Tg of approximately 55C.)

The original part was fiberglass/epoxy with the epoxy having a Tg of 84C.
by normalaccess | 2025-12-04 21:24:18+00:00
The groupthink is real, and it's coming for a skull near you.

But in all seriousness I think it's a mix of bots on the dead internet leading the monkey see monkey do paradigm. If you see 80 out of 100 people doing a thing then you get swept up in the flood. Even if 50 of those 80 are bots.
by fwip | 2025-12-04 21:24:35+00:00
If you're not familiar, you might like reading about the social model of disability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disability

TL;DR: Disability is not inherent in difference, but rather a combination of the difference and an environment in which that difference is not well-supported. For an analogy - a deep-sea fish is blind, but not disabled by their blindness. Similarly, a kid who "can't sit still" isn't disabled unless we put them in an environment where they have to.
by einpoklum | 2025-12-04 21:25:00+00:00
The part was a "plastic air induction elbow", i.e. this kind of thing:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=plastic+air+induction+elbow&ia=ima...

so, if you were thinking "who would use a 3D-printed part", remember that it may otherwise also have been made with some liquid material, but using a mold, and perhaps two parts using a mold that are joined with re-heating etc. - and now it no longer sounds so outlandish.
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-04 21:25:04+00:00
To your point about dysfunctional orgs:

After deploying your transparent shit umbrella, your next problem is your own shitty boss or your boss's boss who will get pissed off you are using a transparent umbrella once that transparency starts blowingback on them. Because once your team learns that it's raining shit outside, they will want to know what you're doing to mitigate, reverse, or sidestep the shit. Some of the time, the things you confide to your team in the course of this feedback will piss off adjacent teams or some people up the ladder once they get wind of it (your opinion of some decisions, or the perceived negative consequences of your mitigation strategy on said people) Hence your umbrella being transparent makes what people euphemistically call "managing up" much more fucking annoying. I don't claim that there is an alternative, just that it's a fact of the principled life (one result being getting fired, often ironically for not being a "team player"). I don't have a fix, but would like to hear some if anyone has any.
by vel0city | 2025-12-04 21:25:17+00:00
Especially when the plan is to just run them in a random rented commercial warehouse.

I drive by a large fab most days of the week. A few breweries I like are down the street from a few small boutique fabs. I got to play with some experimental fab equipment in college. These aren't just some quickly thrown together spaces in any random warehouse.

And it's also ignoring the water manufacturing process, and having the right supply chain to receive and handle these ultra clean discs without introducing lots of gunk into your space.
by jandrese | 2025-12-04 21:25:33+00:00
> The epoxy resin specified for the laminate has a glass transition temperature of 84°C

This seems very low for the kinds of epoxy I've used. I wonder if the manufacturer specs are highly conservative? Or maybe the material has a shortened lifespan with even moderate temperatures?

I was thinking about the ABS in the article and wondering if I would have made the same mistake. Close to every car manufactured today has plastic intakes, usually bolted right on top of the engine. The incoming air should help keep it cool, especially on aircraft. Maybe it was the radiant heat from a nearby cylinder that melted it?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-04 21:25:52+00:00
Yeah, she is, because when reality sets in, these models will probably have monthly cellphone/internet level costs. And training is the main money sink, whereas inference is cheap.

500,000,000 people paying $80/mo is roughly a 5-yr ROI on a $2T investment.

I cannot believe on a tech forum I need to explain the "Get them hooked on the product, then jack up the price" business model that probably 40% of people here are kept employed with.

Right now they are (very successfully) getting everyone dependent on LLMs. They will pull rug, and people will pay to get it back. And none of the labs care if 2% of people use local/chinese models.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-04 21:26:11+00:00
There are certainly elements of this. And there are also elements like my city, where some of the more notable local business owners and developers are all _way too cozy_ with the City Council and Planning/Zoning Boards (like not just rubbing shoulders at community events, fundraisers, but in the "our families rent AirBnBs together and go on vacation together) which gives them greater influence.

All that being said, though, Robert Heinlein said once:

> There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
by belorn | 2025-12-04 21:26:25+00:00
It should be mention the learning disability also include dysgraphia, which include handwriting. If the motor skills is impaired, then that get classified as a learning disability regardless of how easy the person can learn a complex subject in higher education.

I view it similar to the ability to throw, kick and catch balls. Today it doesn't say much about a person ability to learn, but in the old times I can see the argument that it would be a hindrance in going through the education system. Not a learning disability per say, but a schooling disability.