MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrowen | 2025-12-04 18:26:28+00:00
Understood, thanks, and yeah it’s not totally a brand new idea (except the video thing which could be a separate oddball idea), but maybe just refining a concept with remote work as the baseline. I think the main thing is the modularity and self-serve-ification. Renting a floor and doing your buildout, putting your logos, FFE, etc is non trivial and high friction. And then nobody wants to deal with how to pay for the common area stuff.

I can see why this all might sound dystopian, but it feels like a step in the right direction to me. At BigCo HQ you are surrounded by Kool-Aid. Many people have been plucked out of different places and whisked away to SV. Here it would be more diverse and less company-town-y. You could have lunch with your local friends that work for other companies. One could change jobs and stay working at the same desk. Instead of bringing everyone to the company, we bring the company to everyone.

I sense you may have balked when I said "commodify" but in this case it just meant making a luxury good attainable to more people. You have to have a strong central authority to create that kind of campus and have it not be a Regus or whatever. "Outsourcing" that to a multi-tenancy provider makes it accessible to more firms and individuals.

I’m not actually going to pursue this or anything, just thought it was interesting. Maybe instead things go the direction I gather you are espousing, moving away from offices entirely.

I’ve actually been out of the industry for a bit, maybe Covid did kill the office? Does Gen Z equate offices to corporate boomer death? To be honest I do the home/cafe laptop nomad thing as well, but I am independent, and there are challenges. I could see myself working at a facility like this if it were an option. Sometimes it’s valuable to just be in the energy of that environment.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-04 18:26:30+00:00
No real argument, but I'm not talking about that long ago. When I was a kid, lots of parents smoked, in the house, in the car, everywhere. My father did. Yet I don't remember any of my friends having asthma or using inhalers. Peanut allergy is very common today, among my kids friends, several of them had it. Was almost unheard of when I was a kid, schools served peanut butter often at lunch. Nobody was ever asked what food allergies they had.

It's possible my anecdotes are not representative, but this is just what I have observed.
by int_19h | 2025-12-04 18:26:55+00:00
The entire extensibility story in Unreal series has been amazing from the get go. Where QuakeC was really more of a scripting language "on the side", with UT it felt more like the entire game is written in UnrealScript, with some native bits here and there for performance. The language was interesting too, incorporating things such as first-class support for various states (you could define different implementations for a function depending on which state the object is, and derived classes could extend that).

No wonder the mutator scene in UT was crazy. My favorite mod for the original UT99 was Dr Strangelove, which modded the Redeemer gun (the one that shoots huge nuclear missiles) to allow you to ride them.
by vpShane | 2025-12-04 18:27:25+00:00
> That is not a US government program.

You're right, it isn't. It's a foreign one (allagedly) and they used the tools telecoms and agencies use to monitor data, sms, call logs with IMEI/IMS mapping. Those, do belong to government agencies.

> You also brought up ECH, DoH, DoT, Android's fake cell tower detection, and Android's NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES permission that also demonstrate a strong industry-wide push to limit mass surveillance, contributing to my argument that GGP's assertion that nothing has changed is incorrect.

This sounds more like you want to be correct; data brokers and mass surveillance are at an all time high, with platform providers requiring biometrics, ID uploads, data being sold, re-sold, re-sprinkled.

Android devices that can not utilize the latest Android OS (16+) to my knowledge can not access these features, by default DoH, DoT are not enabled by default. Whether the device itself can show if a fake cell tower is being used is only one step. The telecom and infrastructure companies that provide 5g have more tech layered on top of it that is indeed vulnerable, salt typhoon sat dormant in major telecom and internet backbone devices for over a year before being discovered.

We don't know whos cyber campaigns or who's involved in surveillance. I'll often get customers sharing the same stories where they call their ISPs and the ISP operator will list all the websites the customer viewed in casual conversation over the phone; which is scary.

> No, it doesn't. Just because someone proposes something doesn't mean the EU wants it, especially when the EU completely removes that proposal from the table.

Yes, it does. Many countries are in favor of it in the EU and even if it fails, they keep proposing it until it'll pass.

The U.N. just signed a multi-nation treaty with 72 countries, including Russia, China, and Iran to swap data with other intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the data its collected as its joint mission to, on paper look like a good thing but broaden surveillance and share that data among countries. https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/72-Nations-Create-Global-Surveil...

The U.S. isn't involved with that, but here in the U.S. states are just now proposing VPN bans and requiring logging for major AI providers.

Most things are walled gardens.

The claims that it's getting better need all of us to put in a lot more work. Security, privacy, data integrity all go hand in hand.

Those SSIDs have among them, tracking that tracks MAC addresses, which can also be scanned out of the air using basic tools like aircrack-ng

A simple 'Share Your Location with this website' popup on a browser is more than enough to geo-locate you and provides enough information to geo-locate others on the same network.

It getting better is just not true. I wish that were the case, but it's going to take a lot of work for all of us.
by KronisLV | 2025-12-04 18:27:28+00:00
If I needed a budget build, I'd probably look in the direction of used parts on AliExpress, you can sometimes find good deals on AM4 CPUs (that platform had a lot of longevity, even now my main PC has a Ryzen 7 5800X) and for whatever reason RX 580 GPUs were really, really widespread (though typically the 2048SP units). Not amazing by any means, but a significant upgrade from your current setup and if you don't get particularly unlucky, it might last for years with no issues.

Ofc there's also the alternate strategy of going for a mid/high end rig and hoping it lasts a decade, but the current DDR5 prices make me depressed so yeah maybe not.

I genuinely hope that at some point the market will get flooded with good components with a lot of longevity and reasonable prices again in the next gens: like AM4 CPUs, like that RX 580, or GTX 1080 Ti but I fear that Nvidia has learnt their lesson in releasing stuff that pushes you in the direction of incremental upgrades rather than making something really good for the time, same with Intel's LGA1851 being basically dead on arrival, after the reviews started rolling in (who knows, maybe at least mobos and Core Ultra chips will eventually be cheap as old stock). On the other hand, at least something like the Arc B580 GPUs were a step in the right direction - competent and not horribly overpriced (at least when it came to MSRP, unfortunately the merchants were scumbags and often ignored it).
by al_borland | 2025-12-04 18:27:35+00:00
A simple Google search can do this as well, and has been able to for many years. Not only current addresses, but everywhere a person ever lived, as well as relatives and where they live.

Go after the data brokers who harvest all the information and post it publicly online, apparently with even more information for a price. I’ve never paid, so I don’t know how legit any of those places are.

There are dozens of sites that are all seemingly the same. Now there are even services were people can pay money to have the data removed, but it feels like a cat and mouse game.
by valyala | 2025-12-04 18:27:36+00:00
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by froggertoaster | 2025-12-04 18:27:36+00:00
Ignoring the spotlight is detrimental.

As a person who does consulting work, the best thing I've found I can do is stay visible with my accomplishments.

I did a presentation earlier this year for a client where the CEO was in attendance. I did not know he was going to be there. They were blown away by my presentation.

You make your own luck.
by masswerk | 2025-12-04 18:27:47+00:00
Well, having a platform agnostic runtime, you could throw arbitrary code at, was potentially a great deal. It was one of the founding concepts for ARPANET, which never took off, since nobody wanted to run foreign code from the network on their machines. For a platform agnostic runtime, OO may have seemed to fit well, by encapsulating data, handlers and logic into interacting objects. (This is close to the original use case for OO as described by Alan Kay.)

Fun fact: Java was also renamed from formerly Oak.
by flatline | 2025-12-04 18:28:09+00:00
I think your point could be better made with less vitriolic language, and I also think you get a few things wrong: a bunch of my peers were over-medicated to the point of being senseless during the late 80s and early 90s. These drugs were pushed on kids by many well meaning but exasperated parents whose children - mostly boys - could not sit still and behave in the way demanded of them by school and society. So it's a mixed bag with regard to the intent behind medication, and the effectiveness with which it was applied. Nowadays, if anything it's harder than ever to get amphetamines because of US drug scheduling policies and our patchwork, piecemeal healthcare system.
by olyjohn | 2025-12-04 18:28:15+00:00
Lol. The most insane thing about the 1.0 is that they switched back to a timing chain due to the belt issues. But guess what? The fuxking oil pump is still driven by a rubber belt submerged in oil... And guess what happens to the oil pump belt? Just mind blowing that they would half ass this fix so badly.
by staticman2 | 2025-12-04 18:28:19+00:00
The diagnostic criteria for "Aspergers" never required above average, or even average intelligence.

If you had visited the Aspergers and autism website support forum "wrong planet" 20 years ago you'd have seen many lower functioning than you people with "aspergers" complaining about aspects of their lives.

So I don't see how "aspergers" is a superpower.
by seec | 2025-12-04 18:28:29+00:00
Yes that's because Apple marketing is always wildly overhyping the capacities of what they are selling.

In this case the lie was that Siri could understand you just like a real human but it really can't. AI chat bots have some similar problems (figuring out what it can actually do) but at least they are much better at communicating like a human.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-12-04 18:28:51+00:00
Autism isn't a symptom because Autism Spectrum Disorder isn't a singular "thing" it is a combination of features that manifest in various "symptoms" - eye contact avoidance (or the opposite), sensory processing (over- or under-stimulating), restrictive interests (singular focus), etc.

A stomach ache is a single manifestation of something happening. A stomach ache can have varying degrees and reasons behind it. The stomach ache is the signal. The disorder that causes it could be psychological (GAD) or external (someone punched you, and the flesh is bruised) or internal (someone fed you a weeks old egg salad sandwich).

In autism the 'symptom' could be model train enthusiasm or being nonverbal. There are a lot of symptoms the fit under the umbrella of the disorder.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-12-04 18:28:58+00:00
I find this take quite challenging, although I know it is one shared by a lot of autistic people.

I understand that if a person has no support needs, they cannot be diagnosed with autism. But that person may still be neurodivergent, and therefore to me it seems to follow that you have folks who are autistic with high support needs, and folks who are autistic with low support needs. Then, you have neurodivergent folks with no support needs. But this seems to me like a difference in degree, rather than category, and which would mean that the “spectrum” analogy works quite well.

With a clear understanding that I am not trying to minimise the struggles autistic people face, a sincere desire to learn, and an open mind, would you mind trying to help me understand?
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-04 18:29:03+00:00
Man, we can't even buy bare DRAM chips at work. Nobody will sell us anything. The whole US electronics industry has suddenly been put in a chokehold for.... perpetuating the AI bubble?

Man it'd be great if these AI assholes could stop absolutely trashing every single part of society, the economy, and the physical planet at large.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-12-04 18:29:08+00:00
Their customers largely aren't their users. Their customers are the purchasing departments at Dell, Lenovo, and other OEMs. Their customers are the purchasing departments at large enterprises who want to buy Excel. Their customers are the advertisers. The products where the customers and the users are the same people (Excel, MS flight simulator, etc.) tend to be pretty nice. The products where the customers aren't the users inevitably turn to shit.
by skywhopper | 2025-12-04 18:29:45+00:00
This is a really poor article that has no research behind it, and no attempt to investigate anything or talk to anyone with a different view. The only source is the terrible Atlantic article about the topic.

There’s plenty to discuss and disagree with these policies but the author’s willingness to make broad judgments about college students’ behaviors and internal states based on poor understanding of ADHD, the ADA, and what’s actually going on at these schools is incredibly poor journalism by this author and by Reason.
by DANmode | 2025-12-04 18:29:54+00:00
They’ll put you in Gulags in Disneyland if you make too much noise, too.

That’s how you get Disneyland, as a matter of fact.

If you’ve never figured out why those places have a noticeably different vibe, that’s a big part of it.

Statist-type demographics love Disney, now that I’m thinking about it a bit…
by 0manrho | 2025-12-04 18:29:56+00:00
Technically you're right, they do. They don't really serve the US Consumer market (anymore) though. There's no (or comparatively very few) established sales channels with consumer retail vendors by SKHynix themselves in the USDM. It's all reseller stuff, often plucked from OEM devices (prebuilts, workstations, etc).

What you linked is OEM RAM. The enterprise market still uses lots of UDIMM's, even though it certainly favors RDIMMs. Yes, it's DDR UDIMM's that are compatible with consumer PC's. But it's not sold like Samsung or Crucial consumer-oriented memory is, at least in the US market. Check the availability of it compared to say Crucial or Samsung. It's virtually non-existant. Check the comments on that very site as well, note how many people are talking about getting them from pre-builts (aka OEM/SI). Note, SK selling UDIMMs to SI/OEM's for consumer products is not a "consumer transaction" to SK, that's a B2B enterprise sale to another company from SK's perspective.

So technically yes, but practically no, not in the US they don't. Elsewhere I'm unsure, but SK has been deprioritizing consumer DRAM sales for a while now, just like Micron.
by sourabh86 | 2025-12-04 18:30:48+00:00
Many teams end up gluing their app to a background job queue through n8n webhooks, and then discover all the sharp edges: duplicate callbacks, mismatched job states, retries that corrupt data, and workflows that quietly stall under load.

This post walks through a pattern for wiring a custom job queue into n8n using webhook callbacks, with a focus on idempotency, explicit job state transitions, and failure recovery rather than “happy path” demos.

Curious how others are handling this in production: - How do you design your callback contracts and job state machine? - What patterns have worked (or failed) for idempotent callbacks and retries? - Any war stories from running webhook-heavy n8n (or similar) setups at scale?
by dontwannahearit | 2025-12-04 18:30:56+00:00
With respect, I am not insulting people dealing with the issues of ASD diagnosis. Autism is real and can be debilitating.

The comment I replied to said "...claim to be autistic" and that is what I am refering to.

I am calling out self-diagnosing over vague feelings of "feeling different" and on the basis of online tests.

Everyone who needs an autism diagnosis should get one. Not everyone who wants one.
by mindslight | 2025-12-04 18:31:01+00:00
Your description is missing a parallel process of how we arrive(d) at that condition of the nominal government asserting direct control.

Corporate surveillance creates a bunch of coercive soft controls throughout society (ie Retail Equation, "credit bureaus", websites rejecting secure browsers, facial recognition for admission to events, etc). There isn't enough political will for the Constitutional government to positively act to prevent this (eg a good start would be a US GDPR), so the corporate surveillance industry is allowed to continue setting up parallel governance structures right out in the open.

As the corpos increasingly capture the government, this parallel governance structure gradually becomes less escapable - ie ReCAPTCHA, ID.me, official communications published on xitter/faceboot, DOGE exfiltration, Clearview, etc. In a sense the surging neofascist movement is closer to their endgame than to the start.

If we want to push back, merely exorcising Palantir (et al) from the nominal government is not sufficient. We need to view the corporate surveillance industry as a parallel government in competition with the Constitutionally-limited nominally-individual-representing one, and actively stamp it out. Otherwise it just lays low for a bit and springs back up when it can.
by hosh | 2025-12-04 18:31:15+00:00
Number (3) has better explanatory powers than (1).

However, for the purpose of assessing social and family impact, it is rendered to (1). Both schools and state (US) programs use (1) to assess if a child qualifies for support. This is not always related to how to parent or educate the child.

Fortunately, the US school system with IEP (individualized educational plans) are developed along (3). (Source: two of my kids have ASD)

None of that necessarily helps in informal social contexts or in professional workplace settings. I think the American Disabilities Act covers reasonable accommodations for people with autism spectrum disorders, though I am not sure if it requires legal disabled status.

Lastly: I met a Native (Navajo) family with a child that seems to me, have some developmental disabilities — but I think they take a very different approach. For one, they don’t seem to have the usual social stigma associated with this, and are baffled why I would suggest getting state support for early childhood intervention. If anything, I would not be surprised if they thought I was, yet again, someone unthinkingly pushing a colonialist worldview.
by mystraline | 2025-12-04 18:31:44+00:00
I only have so many comments before idiotic rate limiting. But I'll comment here.

So for dis-ease or dis-ability, it doesnt interfere with ease of life. Nor does it materially affect my ability.

> I would add several sensory issues (for me it's noises, multiple conversations at the same time, stickiness, physical contact, whole categories of food and several others) and several social issues to your list of superpowers.

And too true. I have some as you listed as well. However, I also figured out what causes them in me, and how to reduce their effects to nil. In a way, its self-treatment with n=1.

Noise: I dont have a problem with noise per se. However, when multiple people are talking or music with lyrics are on in the background, its incredibly hard for me to process what's spoken along with it.

Weirdly though, when I was principal clarinettist in a symphony, I could easily pick out any instrument by simple concentration. All I know is the noise issue with me is something with vocal processing of over-talking voices.

stickiness: for me, its dirt on my hands. Or chicken/turkey/beef/pork/lamb/goat blood. I do a lot of cooking. I hate those feelings on my skin. But I find that as long as I wash my hands before and after with a good degreasing soap (Dawn), the icky goes away. I can still do the task at speed.

I dont have the physical contact issues for people I'm close with. So, thats not an issue.

Food: theres only a few foods I can't eat, due to vomiting reasons. Tapioca based products are the big one. Aside from that, I eat everything from blue cheese, to cow tongue, offal from beef and birds,ghost peppers, pork brains, hakarl. I like the tastes and sensations that foods have. In a way, I'm wondering if this is also relayed to the supersensitive reject-foods type. Definitely not a disability.

And of course, theres the huge downsides with interpersonal interactions. Took me decades to really piece together and emulate and identify emotional state in others. But the psychologists dont know how to fix this either. Most of them are NTs who it comes naturally. But they want their indefinite sessions to do basically nothing but pay $200/hr.

> Seeing it purely as a positive is insultingly reductive.

Again, there are up and downsides to NT's and ND's.

Neurotypicals are more known for deception and lying. Or they use the term "little white lies". These things slowly stack up in NT conversations until they become huge problems. Sitcoms are based on this. But ND's, well, we are the weird ones. When someone asks "do I look good in this?" And you say "no, it clashes with your skin tone" - you were supposed to know they wanted a yes.

I feel sad that NTs can't properly hyperfocus, and can easily drop out of hyperfocus with low sensory input.

NTs memory is foggy and badly reorders things. Or they misremember and blame others for ill-perceived issues.

There are good and bad. I'm glad I'm ND, likely Aspergers (hence autistic). Most of these problems are ones that can be solved, at least for Aspergers side of things.
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 18:32:01+00:00
> Content glorifying terrorist groups such as the Al Qassam brigades can stay up for many days on Reddit, for example. I had to personally fill the special form for content illegal in the EU, and even then it took a long time to be removed.

I remember reporting open calls to violence in various socialist subreddits with no action ever taken as far as I could tell. That was about a decade ago.

There was also a comment (I still have the link saved and it was never deleted) from more than a decade ago, from a moderator at the time (account since deleted) of the main transgender subreddit, openly accusing transgender members of the sub of being drug addicts and prostitutes based on absolutely nothing beyond disagreeing with the moderation team's hard-line woke (it was called "SJW" back then, of course) posture.
by codyb | 2025-12-04 18:32:24+00:00
Managing upwards beats being managed in my experience. Seems to work with most managers, and reduces surprises which reduces stress all around and causes course corrections and course alignments earlier.

I tend to do status updates in public channels before anyone can ask me but I've been the fortunate loner for the last couple years where I get to work with a lot of people but outside a lot of process.