MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-04 19:56:42+00:00
I've noticed this apprehension about credit unions, myself, over the years. It's real.

But I've also noticed a stream of unrequested adoration towards credit unions, seemingly whenever any topic of personal banking pops up. A random person may simply lament about some fee their bank has charged, or the rate that their mortgage is financed at, or even mention in passing that they use a bank at all. That's normal-enough; people chat about whatever is on their mind all the time.

But quite often (too often?) upon the utterance of the word "bank," a whole cadre of people then immediately show up to sing a chorus (in unison) to remind them [and eachother] about how amazingly great credit unions are. Sometimes that cadre snowballs into a circus replete with a marching band, a dancing bear, and a trapeze artist.

"Oh, you still have a bank? Why aren't you in a credit union yet?"

"Yeah! Credit unions are awesome! People who don't use credit unions are just dumb or something!"

"Hey, guess what! My credit union even lets me access my money at 3:00AM the middle of the Mojave! These things are great!"

"Oh cool! The dancing bear is here again! I love that bear!"

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The rather uniform predictability of this kind of spectacle can have a very daunting appearance to someone who never asked for it.

And thus the apprehension may be explainable easily-enough with one word: Contrarianism. "This group of people is telling me I need to do this thing; therefore, I must not."

Or, perhaps with a cautious phrase: "If it sounds like it is too good to be true, then it probably is."

We spend a portion of our lives seeking to avoid scams and pitfalls. We aren't always successful at it ("there's a sucker born every minute"), but we still try to seek to avoid being a mark. When see a bunch of guys having a great time playing 3 Card Monte on the corner, we either learn to avoid them or we learn to lose our money.

When an unsolicited and eerily-coordinated group of cheering fans crawl out of the woodwork without deliberate provocation and actively seek to impart change, it's justifiable and sane to turn around and run away. Especially when they haul out the dancing bear routine.

"The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know."
by iepathos | 2025-12-04 19:56:56+00:00
I agree with you that cheating is a loaded word, but the question at the end here that the rules or standards enable users to work around it therefore it's not cheating is a bad semantic argument. We can use the exact same argument to excuse every kind of rule breaking that people do. If a hacker drains a billion dollars out of a smart contract, then they literally were only able to do so because the coded rules of the smart contract itself enabled it through whatever flaw the hacker identified. That doesn't make it less illegal or not cheating for the hacker. It feels like victim blaming to point the finger at the institution being exploited or people who get hacked and say its their problem not the individuals intentionally exploiting them.
by MPSimmons | 2025-12-04 19:57:13+00:00
This reminds me of the recent LaurieWired video presenting a hypothetical of, "what if we stopped making CPUs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2OJFqs8bUk

Spoiler, but the answer is basically that old hardware rules the day because it lasts longer and is more reliable of timespans of decades.

DDR5 32GB is currently going for ~$330 on Amazon

DDR4 32GB is currently going for ~$130 on Amazon

DDR3 32GB is currently going for ~50 on Amazon (4x8GB)

For anyone where cost is a concern, using older hardware seems like a particularly easy choice, especially if a person is comfortable with a Linux environment, since the massive droves of recently retired Windows 10 incompatible hardware works great with your Linux distro of choice.
by mrandish | 2025-12-04 19:57:14+00:00
Chamberlain is one of the worst anti-user companies because they used a trojan horse deception while they were buying up other garage door opener companies to eliminate competition (they now own MyQ, LiftMaster, Merlin, CPSG, Arrow and several others). Their products used to have an open API and worked well with open source home control systems like Home Assistant. HA support was specifically why I chose to install their products in two homes (Liftmaster brand). Then around 2022 they pulled a Darth Vader and "changed the deal" by shutting down API access for third-parties - except for companies willing to pay them - AND releasing a new 3.0 version of their control hardware that's encrypted.

While the prior versions of their control hardware weren't documented, it was still possible to reverse engineer the serial protocol. But the new hardware even encrypts communications between the wall button and lift motor for no legitimate security reason other than "securing" Chamberlain's revenue stream. Fortunately my units are the older 2.0 version hardware so third-party add-ons like RATGDO can tap into the system and open it back up. While adding that hardware is an extra hassle I didn't expect, newer customers don't even have that option. I used to have a Home Assistant failsafe automation that closed the garage door if it was accidentally left open and we weren't home. That automation worked great for years and then just stopped working when Chamberlain disabled their open API.

Even if Chamberlain provided a similar capability in the set of minimal "free features" in their walled garden of paid upgrade app features (they don't), I wouldn't use it because they lace their apps and panels with pop-ups ads. And there's ZERO fucking chance I'm giving some company's black box device access to my family's real-time phone/vehicle locations or internal home motion sensor data to enable the most useful deep automations. It's bad enough their untrusted device is still in my home. There's no way I'm giving it access to my network, much less the Internet.

(To be clear, it is possible for a savvy user to partially control the newer hardware in limited ways by hacking open the wall button and soldering a connection to a third-party relay module that interfaces with your home control system. But your home control system won't know if the garage door is open, closed or in-between or if/when it was remotely activated from an arriving or leaving vehicle. It also won't know if the door stopped due to the electric eye being blocked. Knowing the full system state, activation history and sensor data is much better, enabling all kinds of flexible automations like auto opening as you enter your driveway. Never buy a garage door opener from a Chamberlain-owned brand).
by supportengineer | 2025-12-04 19:57:32+00:00
BASIC made it even easier to put things on a screen. We had commands like this:

In Apple BASIC:

- HPLOT x, y

- HPLOT x1, y1 TO x2, y2

In QuickBASIC on MS-DOS:

- PSET (x, y), color

In contrast I don't find HTML to be "stupidly simple" at all.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-04 19:57:41+00:00
> common, mild cases where the person has no serious issues existing in society and frequently benefits from their "disorder"

This is not at all a thing. People with some mild neurodivergence sometimes being good at very specific tasks is not even in the same ballpark as "Benefits"

There's no benefit to a brain that struggles in modern society.

>but I assume that it is referring the fact that these two extremes need to be treated completely differently

Except they don't. What is different is the intensity of the treatment. My girlfriend needs patience and a little therapy. Her sister needs intense forever therapy and infinite patience and a system that will allow her to live despite never being able to be a productive member of society.

>They do not for a moment think about the more severe cases that require people to have full time caretakers because they are unable to feed themselves.

They are regularly the parents of exactly those people and are sick and tired of you speaking for them and making their life harder. Those people who need fulltime caretakers can only pay for them through social security benefits, and guess who is trying to change that?

>even discussing ASD is made remarkably difficult because these extremes are the same diagnosis.

The reams of neurodivergent people I have interacted with in my life have never found issues with this, and have regularly been very willing to engage with the nuance of a poorly understood disorder which by definition has no single cause and might be several similar looking diseases because that's what the word disorder means in medical science

The discourse around RFK is that morons with no experience, training, or even ability to read introductory material apparently should shut the fuck up, and let the adults work.
by reducesuffering | 2025-12-04 19:57:42+00:00
One one hand you say sure, they have to provide a diagnosis like an adjustment disorder, and on the other you say walking into a therapist's office and getting that is like a rare pill-mill? Is your only distinction that depression would be harder to obtain?

This article is talking about any sort of mental health "disability", and the way the mental health system financials work is that it's no wonder we have so many identifying as having a disability. The system isn't evaluating an individual and applying a disorder to people that are factually on the 5-10% of the population that would be a rare "disorder". The system is literally slapping a disorder label on everyone that walks in and these people are identifying with the label they're given.
by nomel | 2025-12-04 19:57:50+00:00
No. For best performance, you have to batch your calls/memory access patterns with TBDR in mind. Dropping in a Steam PC game (indy, AA/AAA) game render pipeline, specifically optimized for Nvidia/AMD/Intel, to a TBDR GPU, is going to give poor performance. That's the context of this discussion. Round pegs DO fit into square holes, you just have to make sure the hole is bigger than would normally be necessary. ;)

Steam frame is more for streaming PCVR than running existing PCVR games natively.
by dmm | 2025-12-04 19:57:59+00:00
I just reworked my home server backup strategy to use rsync.net and it's been a great experience.

I'm using btrfs and snapper to take hourly snapshots. The snapborg[0] tool then pushes those snapshots to a borg repo on rsync.net. snapper and snapborg can be configured to keep the number of hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly snapshots you want and can automatically prune them.

[0] https://github.com/enzingerm/snapborg
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-04 19:58:13+00:00
I nearly failed high school and I flunked or dropped out of college four times. I just absolutely cannot work within the framework of modern schooling.

I say this as humbly as possible, but still I'm one of the best engineers I know and working on some pretty advanced stuff. And yes, I'm rather autistic.

The way my brain works is just fundamentally incompatible with school. Starting from fundamentals and building up just doesn't work for me. Especially when we spend six months on fundamentals that I grokked in the first three weeks. The way I learn is totally backwards. I start from the top, high-level concepts and dig down into the fundamentals when I hit something I don't understand. The tradeoff is that the way I think is so radically different from my colleagues that I can come up with novel solutions to any problem posed to me. On the other hand, solving problems is almost a compulsion.

That said, if I had the option I'd choose a normal childhood over being a smart engineer. Life has been extremely unkind to me.
by gooseus | 2025-12-04 19:58:24+00:00
Because the collapse of complex societies is real - https://github.com/danielmkarlsson/library/blob/master/Josep...

Unbounded increases in complexity lead to diminishing returns on energy investment and increased system fragility which both contribute to an increased likelihood of collapse as solutions to old problems generate new problems faster than new solutions can be created since energy that should be dedicated to new solutions is needed to maintain the layers of complexity generated by the layers of previous solutions.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-04 19:58:33+00:00
You're attempting to construct a notion of need separate from the empirical experience of people's concrete choices, but that isn't possible if you want to be scientific. If a person spends $400 on a phone instead of 32gb of ram, they need the phone more than the ram. If a company spends $400 on ram instead of on some other production good, they need the ram more than the other production good - they expect it to generate more revenue.

These two exchanges are not disconnected either: phone prices are affected by revenues of companies which use ram for production. And those revenues are determined by purchases of phones. The person demonstrates through their choice that the use of ram for an indirect purpose of making phones (however indirectly that might effect it) is more valuable to them than the direct use in their computer. The person is not excluded from "having" the ram in the most general sense: they have it indirectly because they benefit from its use in production whose products they value more than the direct use of ram. The person, along with all other consumers, participates in organizing production in the manner that best benefits them, according to their needs, which may not necessarily involve them directly owning the thing.
by the__alchemist | 2025-12-04 19:58:46+00:00
I haven't checkout out AMD's transparency layer and know nothing about it. I tried to get vkFFT working in addition to cuFFT for a specific computation, but can't get it working right; crickets on the GH issue I posted.

I use Vulkan for graphics, but Vulkan compute is a mess.

I'm not in a mindshare, and this isn't a political thing. I am just trying to get the job done, and have observed that no alternative has stepped up to nvidia's CUDA from a usability perspective.
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-04 19:58:54+00:00
It's the punchline to a meme. This is one example: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRgeiEh...

I don't think it's quite the same as calling yourself or someone else a "friend of Dorothy". People who say they are into trains usually precisely mean they are into trains.
by paulpauper | 2025-12-04 19:58:58+00:00
Being diagnosed with a learning disability or other type of neuro-divergency does not automatically entitle someone to special treatment. The vast majority of that 38% are likely just "diagnosed" people who are asking for no special treatment at all.

Hmm ..the irony is that jobs that require the least amount of credentials have the least accommodations. White collar jobs, especially in tech, seem to have so many accommodations or delays and extra time. Think how often employees come in late or delay work. HR exists to accommodate these requests. College, and school in general, has far fewer accommodations and flexibility than seen in most work environments, save for low-skilled jobs where puantiality is necessary.
by elashri | 2025-12-04 19:59:18+00:00
I use this bookmarklet on phone when I encounter a page like that and it usually make things better.

javascript:(function(){document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><style>body{word-break:break-word;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;text-size-adjust:none;}</style>');})();

It does three things, It adds a viewport meta tag for a proper mobile scaling. Prevents long words/URLs from breaking thr page layout and disables automatic font size adjustment on Safari in landscape mode
by cweld510 | 2025-12-04 19:59:19+00:00
Depends on the team — managing can be quite a bit more scope than being a senior IC, depending on expectations for that role. You have broader ownership of technical outcomes over time, even aside from the extra responsibility for growing a team. Managers have all the responsibility of a senior engineer plus more. In that way manager feels to me like a clear promotion to me. Manager vs staff eng, maybe not though.
by gogurt2000 | 2025-12-04 19:59:29+00:00
If you pursue this, be aware that consumers are tired of AI and don't believe it works well. You need to show that it's "insights" are reliable, accurate, and useful.

If you're stuck in traffic, stressed out because you're running late, do you think it's helpful to have a notification on your phone pop up and tell you "Stress slightly elevated this afternoon"? Do you think the AI could suggest solutions that the user won't be upset to see ("Try to relax with a breathing exercise...")?

If you ask it "Why do I feel tired today?" do you think it's helpful to get a chatGPT response listing bullet point reasons for people commonly being tired? You already know if you didn't get enough sleep, slept poorly, are burnt out, skipped a meal, haven't been exercising regularly, are recovering from a recent workout, are recovering from illness, or haven't been drinking enough water. Can the data collected actually identify a specific cause? Can the AI then suggest a specific, actionable solution?
by lalitmaganti | 2025-12-04 19:59:48+00:00
> But he can only do so because he is a staff software engineer.

I don't agree with this at all. This is how I've worked for my entire time at Google, all the way from new grad L3 joining the company till today. Ignoring the spotlight does not mean "don't get attention from other people" but "don't chase the project execs are focusing on".

Whenever I've work on a project, I make a very active effort to make sure engineers are aware of it, especially if I think they would find it useful. But that's different than going to my execs and asking "what's the highest priority at the moment" and working on that.
by powerclue | 2025-12-04 20:00:24+00:00
That doesn't seem outrageously high for a high cap school?

15-20% of the world is estimated to have a disability. So Stanford population is high, but approximately double the average of a random global population sample.

Now, think about the selection pressures Stanford applies. Stanford selects students who are fighting for top academic honors. Those students are dealing with brutal competition, and likely see their future as hanging on their ability to secure one of a small number of slots in the school. Anxiety would be genuinely higher in the student body than, say, students at a mid rate state school.

Stanford wants students with strong test scores, especially those who are strongly capable in mathematics. High spatial awareness, cognitive integration, and working memory can be positive traits in some autistic people and some find strong success in standardized environments and in mathematics.

We're also improving diagnostic tools for autism and ADHD, and recognizing that the tools we used missed a lot of cases in young women, because they present differently than for young men.

Imagine a house party where the guests are selected at random from MIT or Stanford, then imagine you selected guests at random from, say, all Americans. Are you telling me you'd be surprised if the MIT and Stanford crowd had a noticeably different population demographic than the overall American population?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-04 20:00:25+00:00
> No idea if that's actually what it was, but it's plausible if you're doing sub-gram weighing?

Yes, even dust particles landing on the scale can impact the reading, which is why when you're measuring really small things and want to be precise, you usually have a little glass/plastic cube around the entire thing too.

Also frequently used for people who measure drugs for various purposes.
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by abigail95 | 2025-12-04 20:02:14+00:00
The diagnostic criteria would exclude someone from an autism diagnosis unless they had persistent deficits across time and context.

Your example person may function well within a narrow band of capability - the purpose of treatment/support is to expand that band and help maintain it. I'm not advocating forcing support on someone that doesn't want it, but I am for improving someones quality of life by expanding their choice of occupation and social environment.

Without any external support I would wake up, work, sleep, repeat. Eating? Cleaning? annoyances that just interrupt work.

I've made a lot of money doing that but it's unfulfilling and at times, disgusting.

If you want to live in a society that leaves me be - I won't starve to death but I'm never going to have a partner or a family without external services like psychology, occupational therapy, social events.

Whether I pay for these services or someone else does it doesn't matter. I want them to be available for people like me to understand that we are not alone, there's a reason we can only exist comfortably in our narrow slice of the world, and if we want to leave our bubble there is support available.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-04 20:02:28+00:00
> It comes as no surprise that psychiatry, and medicine in general, is suffering from a massive reproducibility crisis.

Psychiatry still hasn't coped with the fact that it spent most of the 20th century taking Freud seriously. More recently, it still hasn't figured out a way to repudiate the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in the 80s. The people who were involved are literally still working, and have moved on to Facilitated Communication in severe autism, Gender Identity, and are still pushing around the fraud of Multiple Personality Disorder. Literally the same people involved in all of them, and now their children. [edit: forgot about one of the most important, Recovered Memory Syndrome]

There's just no scientific method in most of psychology, it's simply guru-led systemic theories delivered mostly (but often entirely) by a single person who is licensing practitioners. What comes along with that is a complete inability for any of these theories to die. They just eventually become unpopular and unprofitable, and people jump onto the next thing.

The psychopharmacological revolution has complicated this even more, because now there are billions of dollars wrapped up in it. The only advantage to SSRIs and the new generation of knockoffs was that they didn't cause tardive dyskinesia, there was never any statistical evidence that they performed any better than the previous drugs. And in the case of the previous drugs, they weren't ever shown to have much of an effect other than quieting down patients. They were all based on the wackjob theory that people having epileptic seizures suddenly became sane, and were one of the ways of inducing a seizure-like state, along with freezing baths, saline injections, electrocution, etc. All of the pioneers were also enthusiastic lobotomists.

How can we say that these new tactics are medicine or science when the statistics on mental illness keep getting worse?
by bee_rider | 2025-12-04 20:02:32+00:00
In the context of academics I’d call it manipulating, exploiting or scamming the housing system, rather than cheating. Just because academic cheating is the center-of-gravity for this type of conversation, and, IMO, a much much bigger deal.

If someone says they cheated in school, the first thing that pops into your head probably isn’t that they might have gotten a single dorm room, right?