MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyanydeez | 2025-12-06 23:55:42+00:00
As far as I can tell, the definition of autism coincides with the desire of healthcare to address it without having to carve out 100+ variations of behavioral outcomes to get insurance to pay for it.

We know autism affects all sorts of long term outcomes, but if you tried to split it into actual diagnoses, you end up with insurance companies dividing and conquering approvals.

So instead of having several definitions, we put them all behind autism because that has already received appreopiate laws that establish requirements to treat both at school and in healthcare settings.

So basically, once it breached the "we need to address this", rather than every new diagnosis having to struggle to say "look, this problem effects society", it just grows offshoots and spectrum status.

Because it's definitely not a physically identifiable disability. It's all behavioral and that will always have more coincidences.
by m000 | 2025-12-06 23:55:51+00:00
The problem here that this probably is only part of a larger society militarization plan.

The guaranteed next step is to offer the volunteers a long term paid contract at the end of their term. This would probably be well above what they would be paid elsewhere (young men with no university degree, desperate enough to volunteer in the first place).

Run the scheme for a few years, and you will have a large number of, young, high-school-level educated people that are financially dependent on the army. Thus, a militarized society.

What could possibly go wrong?
by nine_k | 2025-12-06 23:56:22+00:00
I'd say that picture ad market alone would suffice.

OTOH these are open-weight models released to the public. We don't get to use more advanced models for free; the free models are likely a byproduct of producing more advanced models anyway. These models can be the freemium tier, or gateway drugs, or a way of torpedoing the competition, if you don't want to believe in the goodwill of their producers.
by throwaway89201 | 2025-12-06 23:56:42+00:00
> Looking at it now, German TFR has been well below replacement for nearly 60 years, so I suppose it makes sense.

That's really dumb. It's not that hard to look up population statistics [1]. Without having to say anything on the validity of your last paragraph (I'd have to apply Hanlon's razor before I would be able to argue in good faith), it really has nothing to do with your random tourist observation. There are very much 'white' children (which you probably meant to say, but didn't for some reason) running around in Nuremberg (not "Nuremburg").

[1] https://www.nuernberg.de/imperia/md/statistik/dokumente/vero...
by kotaKat | 2025-12-06 23:57:30+00:00
And they'll bill it as security for the end user, of course, to make sure only an authorized user has the keys in their hand...

Gotta scare it up with some stock photos of a bad guy with a balaclava on trying to push the button on your remote opener, angry that they've Been Had thanks to your clever high-tech fingerprint button!

... and then I'll go make a fake fingerprint out of gel material. Mythbusters did it.
by writtiewrat | 2025-12-06 23:58:10+00:00
Some of the reasons why I never bothered with Perl was that I had the perception that it, like Ruby, encouraged mutating and modifying classes on the fly, willy-nilly. And the lack of static typing. Python also did not have static typing (it has some optional typing now or something like it), but my perception was that monkeypatching was not abused as much in Python as it might be in Perl and Ruby. Not that I used Python a lot.
Project Bhavanga: Fixing LLM Context Dilution with Buddhist Psychology
by DosankoTousan | 2025-12-06 23:58:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I wanted to share an experiment I've been working on for the past 11 months. I am a non-coder (architect) based in Japan, but I managed to build a system that stabilizes Gemini 1.5 Pro over long contexts (800k+ tokens).

The Problem: When context gets too long, the AI gets "Drunk" (Context Dilution) and ignores System Instructions.

The Solution: I applied the concept of "Bhavanga" (Life Continuum) from ancient Buddhist Psychology. Instead of a static RAG, I built a 3-layer architecture: 1. Super-Ego: System Instructions v1.5.0 (The Anchor) 2. Ego: Gemini 1.5 Pro (The Processor) 3. Id: Vector DB (The Unconscious Stream)

I wrote a detailed breakdown of this architecture on Medium. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this "Pseudo-Human" approach.

Full Article: https://medium.com/@office.dosanko/project-bhavanga-building-the-akashic-records-for-ai-without-fine-tuning-1ceda048b8a6

GitHub: https://github.com/dosanko-tousan/Gemini-Abhidhamma-Alignment
by andrekandre | 2025-12-06 23:58:56+00:00
> You can pay app developers to port their apps off of play services, you can pay developers to add support for your attestation keys.

microsoft literally tried this back in the day when android/ios was rising against windows mobile... spoiler: it didn't work

an additional anecdote from my time then: they came to where i was working at the time and proposed funding a windows mobile version of our app (quite a large sum) but our supervisor finally said no, because the upkeep of now 3 apps would be too much for too few customers

you cant just throw money at devs and expect much unless you have the user base (potential market) to back it up
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-06 23:59:15+00:00
I think the much bigger issue is that the older generation (those who, say, turned 18 in the 70s) told the younger generation lots of really nasty stories about the cruel trials people had to endure who wanted to do alternative national service (Zivildienst) instead of military service. These formed the value system of many people in at least two generations ("Soldaten sind Mörder" [soldiers are murders]).

EDIT: If you understand German, here is a song from 1972 about these brutal cross-examinations:

> Franz Josef Degenhardt - Befragung eines Kriegsdienstverweigerers

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDTtMTcj8X0

Additionally, the participation of Germany in the first aggressive wars in Yugoslavia in 1999 and then in Afghanistan from 2001 on (before citizens were told that the Bundeswehr is only a defense army, and would never participate in an aggressive war) lead to a radicalization of another generation against the Bundeswehr - and yes, this generation eagerly listened to the above-mentioned horror stories of the older generations. It is even rumored that this next generation's radicalization against the Bundeswehr indirectly lead to the suspension of the compulsory military service in Germany in 2011.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-06 23:59:42+00:00
One, I'm not sure what American founding ideals have to do with Germany.

Two, Germany, like most countries and frankly human populations, has a male surplus in its fighting-age population [1]. This is why, historically, large socities tended to wage war with men first. (Even those that e.g. held elite units in reserve, which undermines the usual biological argument.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media...
by pixl97 | 2025-12-06 23:59:56+00:00
Be nice if you listed any particular settings on the commands....

For robocopy, for example, if you're copying small files/bunch of directories use the /MT:$number flag. It's so much massively faster it's not like the same application.

Also is this a newer version of Windows that supports smb3, Explorer is likely using that to copy more in parallel.
by t_mann | 2025-12-07 00:00:27+00:00
The article says that having decompiled some functions helps with decompiling others, so it seems like more than one example could be provided in the context. I think the OP was referring to the fact that only a single prompt created by a human was used. But then it goes off into what appears to be an agentic loop with no hard stopping conditions outside of what the agent decides.

We're essentially trying to map 'traditional' ML terminology to LLMs, it's natural that it'll take some time to get settled. I just thought that one-shot isn't an ideal name for something that might go off into an arbitrarily long loop.
by g-mork | 2025-12-07 00:02:10+00:00
If it's over SMB/Windows file sharing then you might be looking at some kind of latency-induced limit. AFAIK SMB doesn't stream uploads, they occur as a sequence of individual write operations, which I'm going to guess also produce an acknowledgement from the other end. It's possible something like this (say, client waiting for an ACK before issuing a new pending IO) is responsible

What does iperf say about your client/server combination? If it's capping out at the same level then networking, else something somewhere else in the stack.

I noticed recently that OS X file IO performance is absolute garbage because of all the extra protection functionality they've been piling into newer versions. No idea how any of it works, all I know is some background process burns CPU just from simple operations like recursively listing directories
by bookofjoe | 2025-12-07 00:02:19+00:00
It particularly hit home as I recall what my daughter said to me about my 9-year-old grandson, now in fourth grade: "Dad, there's no such thing as a snow day any more!" If school's closed by snow (they live in Pittsburgh) kids have a virtual schedule for snow days, with periods and assignments, hours of busy work and activity. They have to sit at their Chromebooks for group video classes! My daughter said it's HORRIBLE for her as a parent because my grandson gets so bored that she has to sit shotgun during his school hours to make sure he doesn't do other stuff!!! I'm sure other parents mirror her sentiments.
by DosankoTousan | 2025-12-07 00:02:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I am the author of this article. I'm a non-coder (architect) based in Japan.

Over the past 11 months, I've been experimenting with Gemini 1.5 Pro to solve the "Context Dilution" problem (where the AI gets "drunk" and hallucinates in long contexts).

Instead of fine-tuning, I applied the cognitive model of Abhidhamma (Ancient Buddhist Psychology) to the system architecture.

The Architecture:

1.Super-Ego: System Instructions v1.5.0 (Logic Filter)

2.Ego: Gemini 1.5 Pro (Processor with limited active context)

3.Id: Vector DB (Deep storage of 800k+ tokens)

I wrote zero lines of code for this. I built it entirely through dialogue with the AI. I've open-sourced the System Instructions on GitHub (link in the article).

I'd love to hear your feedback on this "Pseudo-Human" approach.
by mort96 | 2025-12-07 00:02:20+00:00
> curl will do the same (up to a point) if the output stream is slower than the download itself

That "up to a point" is crucial. Storing chunks in memory up to some max size as you wait for them to be written to disk makes complete sense. Buffering the entire download in memory before writing to disk at the end doesn't make sense at all.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-07 00:02:38+00:00
I've asked AI to help some, and maybe it's me who hallucinated it, but something that's super stuck with me from reading Philip K Dick's VALIS trilogy/Radio Free Albemuth were two dual modes: of the scorching mid-day heat of the Palm Tree Garden, a sweltering heat of the sun/that red even with your eyes closed, then at night, a sort of relief, an un-watched-over state. I enjoyed VALIS the first time a lot, but going back and finding these specific sections has a strong lure to it.

At the time it felt cute, a nice flourish. But over the years, the idea has sort of grown into me. I find that during the day, my critical mind is quite active & wants really exact precise things. Expectations can be large & slow down just letting things pour out of me. Now, this isn't the same in-between sleep/waking state as the article, but at night a lot of my concern goes away, and I can just enjoy things, work on things, uninhibited. Let it flow. Some level of tiredness can help.

I would like to be better about the flip side. I think the morning is another interesting, that a lot of people use well & love. Before the world is really awake, seizing the moment. Ursala Le Guin wrote about her daily routine, which involves waking prompty & writing writing writing. I feel like there's likely strong similarity. But also it sure feels good to have a bunch of work under your belt at the beginning of the day, right away. https://www.openculture.com/2019/01/ursula-k-le-guins-daily-...
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-07 00:02:40+00:00
I would also like to try that some day, but theres little information on efficiency.

I'd also like to see one running on laughing gas (N2O), as the autodecomposition reaction is nitrogen and oxygen gas, in similar proportions to atmosphere. But the reaction efficiency would have to be high enough or I'd feel bad about the GWP.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-07 00:03:25+00:00
> Run the scheme for a few years, and you will have a large number of, young, high-school-level educated people that are financially dependent on the army. Thus, a militarized society

Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Thailand each have active conscription [1]. The slippery slop you describe is far from inevitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription
by esperent | 2025-12-07 00:03:43+00:00
Do you add whole milk to coffee? The casein and fat should help to reduce acidity and make it easier on the stomach.

If you can't do that, I've heard of people adding a sprinkle of baking soda as a buffer to black coffee. I'm not sure how much you'd need, probably just a tiny amount that you'd barely be able to taste.
by jsk2600 | 2025-12-07 00:03:50+00:00
This is the guy who is 'browsing' web using wget+email afterall:

> For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
by bluedino | 2025-12-07 00:03:55+00:00
> The food was extremely good. . . . everything was fresh from the garden.

Was it this, or was it that your mother/grandmother was a great cook? I hear a lot of older people talk about how awful their food was, limited ingredients, everything was boiled...

Food also probably tastes better when you're actually hungry, and not able to Doordash whatever you want to eat at any time of day.
by jcpst | 2025-12-07 00:04:15+00:00
I do this with my friends sometimes. It’s definitely fun. But it’s even more low-key than what the author describes. There’s no big group chat or lighting talks, which would be weird cause we all know each other so well. And I don’t think we get together as much as the author. And there’s no main organizer. We didn’t even have dinner with others the last time. Just meeting at different beaches/parks/forests. Maybe a hang at a house one night.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-07 00:04:29+00:00
>PowerShell guru, but if you can write a (C#?) cmdlet

Yea, I have a workload that has to delete millions of directories/small files on occasion and we wrote a cmdlet to spawn a huge amount of threads to perform the delete to keep the IOPS saturated and it performs much better than explorer or other deletion methods.
by avaer | 2025-12-07 00:04:33+00:00
[Notwithstanding Poe's Law] I chuckled at the satire, but you could just as easily use AI to make the code suck more to pass the filters.

I don't know the solution to this; you have a similar problem in education where students generate their homework with AI, teachers grade it with AI, and you have to question whether the institution makes sense anymore.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-07 00:04:45+00:00
No, the past was not "cute", but it also wasn't entirely a Dickensian disaster, either. There are parts about the past we can miss: shared public spaces, authenticity, quality goods and services, ritual, deeper connectedness to each other. Why does it have to be this dichotomy? Why can't we have both now? In fact, we ought to have both. It's not like it's impossible. We just have to user the power we have to build that world. It won't be easy, but it isn't a choice between "Little House on the Prairie" and "Bladerunner".
by palata | 2025-12-07 00:04:49+00:00
> If neither of the two major players can make an open, secure, _simple_, easy-to-understand, bloat-free OS, then we somehow need another player.

I really hoped that Huawei would go for a fork of AOSP (they could even pull the changes from Google :-) ), but they chose to go with their proprietary HarmonyOS.
by 9rx | 2025-12-07 00:06:04+00:00
The hypothetical vanilla farmer hasn't reached a place of having value. Only after the vanilla is actually able to be captured as value does the farmer enter into trade with it. This scenario you've outlined is much like the entrepreneurial software developer in his basement working on his secret startup idea. Until he has a working MVP that people actually want to buy, he's just there on his own trying to find value to deliver.

This is not aligned with the participation spoken of earlier where the value is already established and others are giving up their value under the expectation of receiving equal value in kind. You're going down a much different road here.
by idoubtit | 2025-12-07 00:06:15+00:00
So, a handful of persons "believe that OpenStreetMap is a creation of Chinese communists" and are removing specific data from OpenStreetMap, and the OP explains why this is stupid but innocuous.

But that's not the first time that a community is tagged "Chinese communists" and attacked as such. Now imagine if some maga/alt-right/whatever leaders asked their followers to attack the "communist" OpenStreetMap by injecting a bit of false data everyday. Could OSM defend itself as easily?
by themafia | 2025-12-07 00:06:48+00:00
Farming has always been seasonal and before gasoline engines drastically changed their efficiency they often involved horses and oxen. There was a larger number of people living rurally but most of them weren't spending the majority of their year actually working on any farm.

The other nitpick of the post is, yes, of course, people in work clothes of any generation do not look particularly elegant. People didn't wear their work clothes all day and would have had nicer sets for special functions like church or weddings.
by ajross | 2025-12-07 00:06:58+00:00
I think I see only one truly tiled layout. But yes, "terminals and editors" as the core developer workflow is extremely conserved over time. It dates from the mid 80's on Sun 2's and really hasn't changed much in four decades.

It's probably not worth arguing whether this is the "best" when compared with vscode+LSP+Claude or whatever happens to be en vogue in the moment.

But terminals and editors is sticky in a way that tells me it's probably close to optimal. Those of us in the cult aren't observed to leave the compound except in extremely rare circumstances. I'll be doing the same stuff on my death bed, likely.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-07 00:07:00+00:00
Yes, many parts of German cities have a majority of non-germans. This is not uncommon, it doesn't help that the minority of the German youth in those areas is integrating themselves into the immigrant culture.

>The German government is one of the few on Earth that seems to actually hate its native populace.

They certainly don't hate the pensioners or the people on welfare. Just the native youth, which will have to bear the burden for all of this, but does not get to decide.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-07 00:07:48+00:00
I think a lot of young people look at all of the wars waged post-WWII and are rightfully opposed to fighting for their governments. Would you want to die for nothing in Vietnam? Probably not, and a lot of other people didn't want to as well. Some of them did anyway, and it was all for nothing.

So please have some grace if today's kids have looked back at our miserable history and have decided that they'd rather not die for a country that doesn't seem to give a shit about them.
by konmok | 2025-12-07 00:08:38+00:00
You are now jumping between at least three different definitions of "male" when convenient for your argument. This is silly.

And yes, women can have high testosterone without testes. Again, it's bizarre that you're clinging to a testosterone standard that would declare a decent percentage of healthy, normal women to actually be men. I'm sorry, but sex is more complicated than that. You're not doing anyone any favors by trying to impose neat definitions on a messy reality.
by themafia | 2025-12-07 00:09:37+00:00
> Romanticizing the past is hot again right now

It would be better to understand _why_ rather than _who_. Since this same sentiment has arrived in previous eras it seems like a human phenomenon rather than a political one.

> I’m talking about romanticizing the past to the point of imagining a lost golden age.

Or perhaps they're just attempting to avoid thinking about their bleak future.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-07 00:10:47+00:00
> I think there's a misunderstanding here. You aren't beholden to NixOS here. You don't have to use nixpkgs nor home-manager modules. You can make your own flakes and you can use containers, but the benefit is still that you set it up declaratively in config.

There's actually no misunderstanding and this is exactly my point. With any Nix config you are beholden to that specific platform. What I'm saying is any other Linux distro can be dropped in with almost no changes in my existing implementation. I've already experienced breaking changes pre-Flakes with Nix and so I don't actually view it as stable as other options. Beyond that there's some politics surrounding Nix that I don't care to follow. So when you say "all you have to do is write your own Flake"... Why? I already have something that's able to be reliably reinstalled in minutes if need be. I don't need a specific declarative set of tooling to get there.

I like the idea of a declarative setup, but I don't think Nix is mature enough nor does it bring enough differentiation to the plate to be worthwhile as of yet.
by cm2187 | 2025-12-07 00:10:59+00:00
The problem I describe is local (U.2 to U.2 SSD on the same machine, drives that could easily performs at 4GB/s read/write, and even when I pool them in RAID0 in arrays that can do 10GB/s).

Windows has weird behaviors for copying. Like if I pool some SAS or NVMe SSD in storage space parity (~RAID5) the performance in CrystalDiskMark is abyssal (~250MB/s) but a windows copy will be stable at about 1GB/s over terabytes of data.

So it seems that whatever they do hurts in certain cases and severely limits the upside as well.
by type0 | 2025-12-07 00:12:06+00:00
> I think maybe you're trying to say "white" instead

Not sure what you are babbling about but, It's about ethnicity and not race. Plenty of third generation Turks still don't consider themselves German, then someone with black skin adopted as a child might consider themself German, it's about culture not race, we're not in last century anymore. Proportion of young people with immigrant background is high in many Westeuropean countries, if they don't integrate into society they won't be willing to defend it.