MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-06 14:22:00+00:00
> balancing self optimization and social optimization

A person in a society has a right to the minimum of essential ordinary resources (food, shelter, clothing) to function as a general matter. (We have a right to pursue other goods, and in some cases a right to them once had, but we cannot say we have a right to them per se and before the fact. We have to be careful to distinguish between the two, as undisciplined and entitled people consumed by appetite tend to be unprincipled and like to inflate the list of “essentials” in self-serving ways. There’s certainly a pathology of envy at work as well, and we should in no way naturalize envy.)

In a situation of scarcity where there isn’t enough for everyone (which does not apply to the developed world), there is no solution that could satisfy that right universally. There is therefore no injustice committed when such basic resources are not distributed accordingly. Whoever gets their share gets it; whoever doesn’t simply doesn’t. You would expect competition here. Now, you could be charitable and self-sacrificial and give up your own share for another, but you have no such obligation to do so, and thus no one has the right to your share. Such charity would be an extraordinary act that transcends mere justice. It is entirely voluntary, even if heroic.

> and you'll have a utopia

Well no, you wouldn’t. This is the fallacy of consumerism and homo economicus. Even if everyone were rich, you would still have plenty of misery. The idea that human well-being is rooted in mere consumption - full stop - is at the root of so many ills. There is no well-being without virtue.
by tezza | 2025-12-06 14:22:00+00:00
While this topic is here

Also see specialisms WITHIN Autism that are different to the mainstream Autism

The one I know most about is

PDA: Pathological Demand Avoidance [1]

PDA presents differently and needs very different strategies to mainstream Autism.

Main signs… kids under 12 attend school. However they explode at home or in private. At school the PDAers are masking (pretending to fit in) which is draining. When they get home the pent up frustration is released (explosively). So the family at home see a very different kid to the one that school/extended family witness. If this is an A-Ha! lightbulb moment for you or your child, see the questionnaire at the PDA Society[1]

[1] https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-is-pda/
Show HN: Seq2Seq ML Learns the Inverse of Manual Multiplication (Gelosia Method)
by 9o1d | 2025-12-06 14:22:42+00:00
I built an unconventional application of sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) neural networks: predicting the intermediate steps of manual multiplication from the final answer alone. The model receives just the digits of a product (e.g., 56088) and must reconstruct the original 9 hidden cell values of the 3x3 Gelosia lattice table that produced that sum. This project turns a deterministic math problem on its head, forcing an LSTM to learn abstract mathematical relationships implicitly through observation. It's a fun exploration of how ML can map a final, "collapsed" sequence of information back to its higher-dimensional, hidden components. Check out the code and project details here: https://gitlab.com/9o1d/gelosia
by undeveloper | 2025-12-06 14:23:31+00:00
Lot to unpack from what you said, but whatever you want to make of the classifications (created by people much more knowledgeable than you or I in this field, but with plenty of conformist baggage), my time with ADHD or whatever you'd like to call it has absolutely shaped the experience of my life, and taking medication has objectively helped. My brain objectively processes things differently from whatever you'd like to call the median of people, and functions different with different chemicals. Personally, because of this medication that allows me to focus, I have been able to remain on par with my peers, if not with more elbow grease -- so I quite benefit from the label, weird and fluid as it may be.

An interesting fact is that caffeine will often affect the "ADHD mind" differently. It's been reported to have no effect, or have very limited effect, or make people even sleepy, but almost always something non-standard. Once, in high school, without the supervision of my parents, I drank maybe 2 red bulls and 2 cups of coffee, 1 black. I remember feeling disappointed it didn't work, and I didn't feel any rush of energy.
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-06 14:24:33+00:00
Because their old fridge died and they need a new one now, and this is all that's in stock.

Because they didn't buy the fridge, their landlord did.

Because the fridge is installed at a workplace, or community centre, or other location at which the individual has no effective choice.

Because there are no new fridges with other desired features which don't have screens.

Because, at some future date, absent legislation or crushing litigation, no non-screen, ad-free fridges exist.

Substitute for "fridge" and "ads" any of number of other consumer / general appliances: stoves, washing machines, dishwashers, phones, televisions, thermostats, doorbells, petrol pumps, etc., or features: cameras, microphones, speakers, iris scanners, thumbprint readers, facial recognition, etc., etc.
by Pikamander2 | 2025-12-06 14:24:53+00:00
The YouTube equivalent is SponsorBlock:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-yo...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

And the smart fridge equivalent is either PiHole, or.. not buying a smart fridge.
by nis0s | 2025-12-06 14:25:38+00:00
A lot of people who believe that the problems in the Global South are due to western governments or regional histories are going to experience a rude awakening.

The order established by the Abrahamic faiths and western philosophies (which were heavily influenced by pre-existing middle eastern cultures or works) has been useful for demonstrating what ideas work and what don’t. People who want to believe in their own false narratives about alternatives will experience a rude awakening, and blame their failures on their “enemies”, like many in western cultures are doing now to their detractors. What hasn’t worked is pretending that oligopoly and monopoly are capitalism; too much influence is given to a few sources, and too many resources are spent or wasted on them.

U.S. the country will be fine because it has an arsenal of weapons, both military and otherwise, as long as it doesn’t let its debt issues overpower its economy. U.S. will need to remember that you have to spend money to make money, that means more grants and funding opportunities, and at the same time maybe that means less social programs, like public education.

Europe will be fine as long as it puts immigration quotas in place, and doesn’t let Russia overpower it.

Middle East and South Asian countries need to calm down with Israel because they really need to worry about India, which is positioned for supremacy after China. Russia seems like a distraction at this point, but it depends. Israel is more influenced by western democratic principles and philosophies than India, and so would make a better ally for most countries, as long as both countries can operate in good faith. You can never trust countries to operate in good faith, doesn’t matter which country it is.

LATAM and Africa will continue the blame and social manipulation games, as per usual. Oceania will be fine as long as it doesn’t let Europe’s migration issues target it.

The other global powers will find that they never should have wanted global supremacy, and they’re ill-equipped to deal with it. The UK will coast on via indirect manipulation as always since it gave up global supremacy.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-06 14:25:39+00:00
Because it makes a potential customer's life more inconvenient, so the customer has incentive to not buy Netflix. For example, me. The only reason I have for not buying Netflix is this little thing.

Also,

> Why would Netflix let Apple list all their content in an Apple branded interface as if it were their own

That's not how it works. It literally says "Open in Netflix" or whatever app. All it does is make it easy to search for stuff, add it to your watchlist, and start playing it.

What Netflix doesn't like is that it makes it easier for its customers to watch non Netflix content...which is obviously anti customer.
by fijiaarone | 2025-12-06 14:26:47+00:00
Your understanding of not-containers is incorrect.

In non-containerized applications, the data & state live outside the application, store in files, database, cache, s3, etc.

In fact, this is the only way containers can decouple programs from state — if it’s already done so by the application. But with containers you have the extra steps of setting up volumes, virtual networks, and port translation.

But I’m not surprised this has to be explained to some people in 2025, considering you probably think that a CPU is something transmitted by a series of tubes from AWS to Vercel that is made obsolete by NVidia NFTs.
by Supernaut | 2025-12-06 14:26:58+00:00
> Was there more money to spend?

In California, there certainly was. The US economy had already started its decline, but from such a high that well-to-do Americans hadn't noticed. By contrast, because Europe had had to be rebuilt after WWII, the general populace had benefitted far less from the postwar boom.

In 1982, my family had a relatively comfortable middle class existence, but buying a home computer that cost (at the time) about half as much as a one-bedroom apartment would have been absolutely unimaginable to my parents. The ZX81 they bought for me cost £99.
by spectralfriend | 2025-12-06 14:27:02+00:00
As a diagnosed autistic, I think I would ask -- does ticking these boxes make you feel like, "oh shit, this could explain some difficulties..." or just go, "huh, interesting?"

I tend to invite people to think about how their lives have been impacted. For example, I experience anxiety at late invites to events I'd enjoy. I panic and decline them because I'm experiencing a highly irrational anger fear response to changing schedules. This causes me to miss events I would otherwise enjoy, and then I feel guilty. Having to process all those feelings takes a lot of energy, and it's really draining. That has significant impact on my life.

Compare to a friend of mine who just prefers quiet evenings. She declines things all the time but never gives it a second thought.

Disability vs preference. It's ok if it's either! Neither of us are wrong, we just experience different impacts in our lives.
by pillars | 2025-12-06 14:27:40+00:00
Sorry for offtopic, I want to share,

Some Machining related channels on youtube:

this old tony, Chronova engineering, cylo's garage, inheritance machining, breaking taps, blondie hacks, tarkka, dan gelbert, Jonesey Makes, Eric(with a K), Clough42, Alec steele, NBR Works, Not An engineer, Stefan Gotteswinter, oxtoolco, ROBRENZ, MrCrispin, Clickspring, Artisan Makes, MH Anything, Jellyfish machine,Maker B,

And also there is great course on precision engineering by Alex slocum:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLksE8LDXGXl_MQHKr2DqhfD...
by nobodyandproud | 2025-12-06 14:28:12+00:00
Drip coffee is amazing: A consistent grinder; fresh, light or medium roasted beans protected from oxidation; and a machine that heats the water to the correct brew temperature (190-195 F)is all you need.

The flavor profiles are akin to wines; no decanting required.

Extremely enjoyable in the early morning moments.
by Liftyee | 2025-12-06 14:28:12+00:00
Are we using the same Google Photos? I've found Immich face recognition and context/object search to be miles better than Google Photos. In particular, Google Photos is exceptionally bad at distinguishing non-European looking faces (though it's not great in general), and it completely gave up on updating / scanning new photos in 2024 after I imported party photos with a lot of different people.

Almost all my Google Photos "people" are mix-and-matched similar looking faces, so it's borderline useless. Immich isn't perfect, but it gives me the control to rerun face recognition and reassign faces when I want, even on my ancient GTX 1060.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-06 14:29:05+00:00
> Regarding NixOS, I'm mostly afraid of them going on a user purge after their developer purge

... Why? I don't know what developer purge you're talking about, but getting rid of people running a project almost never means suddenly they'll start to get rid of users, I'm not sure why that assumption is there. Not to mention that they couldn't even "purge users" if they wanted to, unless they make the download URLs private and start including some licensing schema which, come on, hardly is realistic to be worried about...
by spectralfriend | 2025-12-06 14:29:25+00:00
> nowadays most people in my country would say "we are all somewhat autistic in some way or another

Careful with this. In small amounts it can be good -- recognizing that autistic traits are human traits and we should recognize each others humanity -- but in large amounts it is regularly used to deny autistic people experiences. Like, "it's not so bad. It's not a disability. We're all a little autistic." Etc.
by palata | 2025-12-06 14:29:56+00:00
Genuinely interested: did the distro break "on its own", or was it due to something you did? Not trying to suggest you are incompetent: maybe "doing it right" is not intuitive, and that's an issue. But I wonder which distro publishes changes that they call "stable" and just break things. Or worse get to the point where it requires a complete reinstall every year...

For instance, by installing stuff on the system with "sudo make install" that breaks the expectations of the system package manager, or by modifying config files and then not handling the merge conflict during the update, or stuff like this?

Very, very long ago I remember having to reinstall some nvidia drivers once in a while (but while annoying it took minutes), and I haven't used nvidia since then.
by kneel25 | 2025-12-06 14:30:12+00:00
There is no surveillance because it's third-parties responsible for the verification and no knowledge of the content or identity is passed between them beyond yes/no. Population control, sure, but that's not inherently wrong or unreasonable for reducing harmful internet usage. Pornhub's traffic are temporarily lazy users looking for a quick fix. Them being able to serve up step-sister roleplay slop in two clicks isn't something I care about protecting. I doubt they said that comment about Pornhub specifically, maybe, but I can believe driving certain sites out of business being part of the intention, barely moderated suicide discussion forums filled with teenagers for one.

I will read about that, but I quite quickly realised talking about this in person it's one of the few things I feel this strongly about, and even I'm not sure why I agree so entirely. I think I look at it a bit like climate activists interacting with deniers. Say what you want about future risks and criticisms, but there is no time, the situation is extremely fucked right now, particularly with children, and something needed doing asap.
by sakompella | 2025-12-06 14:30:31+00:00
"Telly" [1] is a real 55" TV that is available for free. It is designed to always, constantly be running advertisements.

> To reserve a Telly, you must agree to use the device as the main TV in your home, constantly keep it connected to the internet, and regularly watch it. If the company finds that you violate these rules, Telly will ask you to return the TV (and charge a $1,000 fee if you don’t send it back).

1: https://www.theverge.com/televisions/777588/telly-tv-hands-o...
by prmoustache | 2025-12-06 14:30:40+00:00
I think it would be nice to have as an option, especially when travelling but I also do think that most people don't really want that and prefer the separate device paradigm.

I don't want to toggle options and stuff when I don't want to be distracted or interrupted with calls or messages, I just leave my smartphone in another room. Sure you could attain the same with some keyboard shortcuts but you are pretty sure to sometimes forget to do it while not bringing your phone with you is inconscious and always work.
by saint_yossarian | 2025-12-06 14:31:04+00:00
HDR audio already exists in the form of 24-bit and 32-bit floating point audio (vs. the previous 16-bit CD standard). Volumes are still mapped to the same levels because anything else doesn't make sense, just as SDR content can be mapped to HDR levels to achieve the same levels of brightness (but not the same dynamic range, as with audio).
by oasisaimlessly | 2025-12-06 14:31:24+00:00
Not OP, and not a very experienced with NixOS (I just use Nix for building containers), but roughly speaking:

* With NixOS, you define the configuration for the entire system in one or a couple .nix files that import each other.

* You can very easily put these .nix files under version control and follow a convention of never leaving the system in a state where you have uncommitted changes.

* See the NixOS/infra repo for an example of managing multiple machines' configurations in a single repo: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/6fecd0f4442ca78ac2e4102c...
by spwa4 | 2025-12-06 14:32:08+00:00
Why not take the simple result from economics? The bigger the economic union, the bigger the inequality. Transforming small European countries, without even harmonizing minimum pay laws and social rules, into the EU, was always going to concentrate wealth to an enormous extent.

One might even say that given the EU's history as an organization, this has always been the intent of creating it in the first place, not an accident.
by hosteur | 2025-12-06 14:32:27+00:00
Huh? What are you maintaining? The PostgreSQL db and extensions are provided in the container image. You do not have to use your own external PostgreSQL.

Of course, you may have reasons to do that. But then you also own the maintenance.

I have never had to maintain any PG extensions. Whatever they put in the image, I just run. And so far it has just worked. Upgrades are frequent and nothing has broken on upgrade - yet at least
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-06 14:32:55+00:00
> This is supposed to be a scientific article

The 'article'[1] is completely written by an LLM.

1. https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/... currently, hopefully it is changed to the actual research link which is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09755-9
by filleduchaos | 2025-12-06 14:35:06+00:00
Technically not a word, but the US government uses "lawfully present individuals" in its policy docs. In addition to US citizens, this covers lawful permanent residents, people with valid non-immigrant visas/visa waivers, some country-specific exceptions (e.g. Canadian citizens visiting for short-term business and pleasure), and various humanitarian categories (refugees, people seeking asylum who have filed the proper paperwork, etc).

In short, an unfortunately very wide field of people for ICE to chew through without touching any citizens (even if one takes the most uncharitable interpretation, i.e. only 70% of arrests have been of unlawfully present individuals)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-06 14:35:47+00:00
Well, if I had to guess, many current jj users are git veterans who are tired of watching git noobs struggle. The other segment is the git noobs themselves, who never really bothered to learn git and have a deep aversion to reading the manual and doing basic experiments. Just a guess, though.

I think I saw Scott Chacon talk about his git config file and advanced git features. Whoever it was, it mentioned GitButler. That was a good talk. I would certainly expect someone like that to have a lot of interest and expertise in git. But it seem to me that there is also a potential commercial angle to making a new/alternative VCS.

I looked at the mailing list entry you linked to about `git history` commands and thought to myself, it sounds all wrong and redundant. `git history` sounds like too broad of a name for one thing. I'd want to have it be `git <verb>` instead. All the operations listed can be done with rebase:

- `git history drop`: Instead, rebase interactively and drop one or more commits.

- `git history reorder`: Interactively rebasing makes this work already.

- `git history split`: Insert a pause in the interactive rebase. Do a soft reset or something to the previous commit, and use `git restore` to unstage the changes (there might be a more efficient way to do this in one step, but idk). Then, do `git add -p` to add what you want, commit, as many times as you want to split the patch. Then continue the rebase.

- `git history reword`: There is a reword option in interactive rebase mode, and also a fixup-like option to do it as well if you want to postpone the rebase.

- `git history squash`: Rebase can do this now in multiple ways.

Rebasing is not that hard. It is the Swiss Army knife of VCS tools. Once you realize that you can just break in the middle of a rebase and do nearly anything (except start another rebase), the world is your oyster. We don't need to spam people with many more single-purpose tools. We need people to understand why the way things are is actually pretty damn good already, if only they read the manual.
by brazukadev | 2025-12-06 14:37:02+00:00
the fact that he posted in his personal blog doesn't change the fact that for many of us this is corporate BS and should not be in the top of HN first page. If you disagree, upvote comments you like, don't try to be a moderator.

> Most of his content are technical in nature, the kind of things that would never be on the front page of HN.

That is exactly what many of us prefer to see, actually. The hacker part of hackernews, remember?
by slfnflctd | 2025-12-06 14:37:14+00:00
I worked somewhere with a similarly dysfunctional culture.

Peak absurdity, yet you and I have both seen it happen first hand. I wonder how common it is, because it's as ugly as it is mystifying.

When management isn't properly engaged, they need to delegate to someone who is. If neither things happen, it's just chaos and angry, ignorant apes making a lot of noise.

> in this jobs environment, what are you going to do?

I am currently unemployed with a rapidly shrinking cushion, and I'm honestly on the fence as to whether putting up with the above would be better. If there is no hope for improvement, all you're doing is exchanging your mental health for a few more beans.
by H8crilA | 2025-12-06 14:37:15+00:00
Yeah, at face value the two diagnoses are positively correlated. This is simply true. And traits of these two only become negatively correlated if you remove the shared social difficulties, which includes a lot of the negative symptoms. Unfortunately everything is positively correlated in psychiatry. If you want to explore this deeper I recommend the "p factor" (general psychopathology factor), which is a serious, multi-year attempt at identifying something like the "first eigenvector of psychiatry", a loading common to all psychopathology, including substance use, affective disorders, psychotic disorders, conduct/personality disorders, ... The idea is that if you only know that someone has whatever goes into this vector then you know that person is quite likely to develop some disorder, but you don't know which one.

I would only add that ASDs do not have "real" negative symptoms of schizophrenia, but what they do have can look a bit similar. The research on anti-correlation was using questionnaires and binned the social questions taking that into account.
by the_af | 2025-12-06 14:37:23+00:00
Another example: r/AskHistorians is so heavily moderated almost every comment gets deleted.

Their standards of quality are very high. It's not a sub to push your views or argue, it's a sub for historians or people who can back an answer with academic references. So most comments and answers will get modded.

It's oddly refreshing. No flamewars, no junk comments, no "everybody knows the reason X did Y is Z" because that won't be accepted by the mods.

It's not perfect, but it's good enough.