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by aynyc | 2025-12-04 19:07:34+00:00
I don't know about Stanford students' actual disability, so I can't say much to that. I went to shitty high school and decent middle school in relatively poor middle class neighborhood. Now, I live in a wealthy school district. The way parents in the two different neighborhood treat "learning disability" is mind blowing.

In my current school district, IEP (Individual Education Program) is assigned to students that need help, and parents are actively and explicitly ask for it, even if the kids are borderline. Please note that, this doesn't take away resource for regular kids, in fact, classrooms with IEP student get more teachers so everyone in that class benefits. IEP students are also assigned to regular classroom so they are not treated differently and their identities aren't top secret. Mind you, the parents here can easily afford additional help if needed.

In other neighborhood, a long time family friend with two young children, the older one doesn't talk in school, period. Their speech is clearly behind. The parents refuse to have the kids assign IEP and insist that as long as the child is not disruptive, there is no reason to do so. Why the parents don't want to get help, because they feel the older child will get labelled and bullied and treated differently. The older child hates school and they are only in kindergarten. Teachers don't know what to do with the child.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-04 19:08:01+00:00
> Because they really are both very smart and disabled at the same time.

I agree with almost everything you say here. However, I wanted to point out that you make the same mistake the articles author does. "Disabled" and "Diagnosed" are not actually the same thing, even though we do describe ADHD and the like as "learning disabilities."

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.

That doesn't fit the authors narrative, or trigger the human animals "unfairness" detector though so it makes a far less interesting article.
by shetaye | 2025-12-04 19:08:42+00:00
Regarding Stanford specifically, I did not see the number broken down by academic or residential disability (in the underlying Atlantic article). This is relevant, because

> Some students get approved for housing accommodations, including single rooms and emotional-support animals.

buries the lede, at least for Stanford. It is incredibly commonplace for students to "get an OAE" (Office of Accessible Education) exclusively to get a single room. Moreover, residential accommodations allow you to be placed in housing prior to the general population and thus grant larger (& better) housing selection.

I would not be surprised if a majority of the cited Stanford accommodations were not used for test taking but instead used exclusively for housing (there are different processes internally for each).

edit: there is even a practice of "stacking" where certain disabilities are used to strategically reduce the subset of dorms in which you can live, to the point where the only intersection between your requirements is a comfy single, forcing Admin to put you there. It is well known, for example, that a particularly popular dorm is the nearest to the campus clinic. If you can get an accommodation requiring proximity to the clinic, you have narrowed your choices to that dorm or another. One more accommodation and you are guaranteed the good dorm.
by gibsonsmog | 2025-12-04 19:09:29+00:00
>improve things they are already doing repeatedly. For example, I click the same button in Epic every day because Epic can't remove a tab. Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this and just...do it for me?

You could solve that issue (and probably lot's of similar issues) with something like Auto Hotkey. Seems like extreme overkill to have an autonomous agent watch everything you do, so it might possibly click a button.
by mey | 2025-12-04 19:09:50+00:00
But do you (or MSFT) trust it to do that correctly, consistently, and handle failure modes (what happens when the meaning of that button/screen changes)?

I agree, an assistant would be fantastic in my life, but LLMs aren't AGI. They can not reason about my intentions, don't ask clarifing questions (bring back ELIZA), and handle state in an interesting way (are there designs out there that automatically prune/compress context?).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-04 19:10:01+00:00
> Why not just announce limited supply, then, instead of exiting?

Because it would be a lie. The amount of supply they're planning to allocate to Crucial in the near future is zero. Keeping the website up as a place you can go and order nothing would only mislead people into thinking they should come back in a few days when they're restocked, when that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

> This seems like a "automaker invests more in financing arm, because it's the most profitable" concentration mistake, towards an industry with wide concerns over intermediate term financial sustainability.

Their business is manufacturing DRAM. Also selling it at retail makes sense most of the time because they get the retailer's margin too, but it doesn't right now, and that's the side business.
by crote | 2025-12-04 19:10:11+00:00
No, having no summary can be more valuable than having a wrong summary.

The problem is that the wrong summary will be treated as the truth, as the original recording will of course have been deleted after a grace period. Oh, you're looking into a way to clean up hanging child processes spawned by your CI worker? Guess it's now on the record that "rvba mentions looking into the best way to kill his children without leaving a trace"! There's no way that could possibly be misinterpreted a few years down the line, right?
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-12-04 19:10:22+00:00
> And the vast majority of that vast majority’s lives in the US work out, you know, fine—mostly including things like climate-controlled indoor spaces, ample calories, professional medical care, access to some kind of justice system, going their whole life without participating in war

By those metrics yes, but not by the more important metrics IMO of: buying a house, having a stable job, starting a family, etc.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-04 19:10:32+00:00
In grad school, we we required to attend 20 seminars in a semester and submit one page summaries of the material presented. For the first few, I had to take a lot of notes, then use those to construct the full page. But somewhere around the 10th seminar, I found myself taking almost no notes, then writing it all while it was still fresh in my head. This may have been the best, most useful course in the 32 semester unit program, though it was only one point out of 32. Why? I became a good listener, and a concise writer. FWIW. Of course, these exercises may have been more valuable with presenting the summary orally to a small audience and answering questions received, and some programs do that too.

Of course in a more analytical or engineering environment, the problem solving is also critical.
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by oefrha | 2025-12-04 19:10:41+00:00
TFA is specifically about students claiming disabilities to get extra time on tests. I’m saying from first hand experience that I didn’t know a single instance of anyone getting extra time on tests, and wondering where those alleged instances were occurring. Anything that “wasn’t diagnosed, defined, or the diagnosis wasn’t good” (huh?) has nothing to do with the 38% stat, or anything else in the article, really.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-04 19:11:26+00:00
True but I don't think that's out of the norm. The upper echelons of American society always consisted of a bunch of fake status games and abuses, a legacy admission is basically a socially accepted form of disability. Or non-ability, I guess.

America never had a rigorous meritocratic national system of education, it's a kind of half developed country in that sense that became democratic before it modernized (that is to say patronage survived) so you have this weird combination of family clans, nepo babies and networks competing with people who are where they are based on their performance.
by seanwilson | 2025-12-04 19:11:28+00:00
> It's funny that it skips the entire cascading part of Cascading Style Sheets though. Are there major downsides besides that?

I think cascading is a bad default. It's useful, but only sometimes, and often causes headaches like unintended coupling and confusion about why rules are being overridden. The utility class approach (like Tailwind) makes a lot of issues like this go away. I don't see a good reason why the traditional approach is worth the extra pain or discipline.
by archagon | 2025-12-04 19:11:42+00:00
That’s kind of what I miss about classic shooters. No rankings, no matchmaking — just random jank in service of pure pubbie fun. Don’t like the map? No worries, we’ll cycle to a new one in a few minutes. (Or hop on over to a different server.) Versus CS just being endless rounds of perfectly balanced de_dust2 these days. “Competitive,” sure, but freakin’ boring!
by 0manrho | 2025-12-04 19:12:04+00:00
Disagree. has very little to do with it. Though it finally clicked why I keep seeing people repeat this, it's Apple users. (Not a dig btw, I can totally see why it'd feel that way from their POV).

For starters, in the past, Crucial RAM wasn't really compatible with the Apple devices that did have socketable/upgradeable RAM. Technically some of their laptops/imacs did, but Apple really didn't want you servicing/upgrading those on your own, Crucial DIMMs weren't QVL approved by Apple (even though it'd generally work), and those were all SO-DIMMs not standard desktop DIMMs. The Mac Pros and what not that had upgradeable ram were all (L)RDIMM, not UDIMM. Crucial didn't make (L)RDIMM, that was Micron's market. Point being, this change in dynamic from Apple had virtually no impact on Crucial, as it was a market they never really served, or at least certainly not in the past decade.

The consumer market isn't shifting to non-upgradeable devices. There are more and more of them, but they're largely either not a market Crucial served to begin with (Apple), or supplementing the consumer devices that do have upgradeable RAM (Steam Deck, very compact HTPC's/Thin Clients, things that aren't really desktop replacements).
by cogman10 | 2025-12-04 19:12:14+00:00
The entire point of diagnosis is because a person needs help.

The point of treatment isn't to "fix" or "make normal" someone. It's to give them the tools needed to participate.

For example, someone with autism might be more prone to having a meltdown. What therapy does is give them the tools to both identify that they are on the verge of such a meltdown and to de-escalate themselves.

The point of treatment is to help someone take care of themselves, hold a job, and generally not burden anyone. It's also to help a person feel better about themselves.
by rose-knuckle17 | 2025-12-04 19:12:14+00:00
Hopefully a consequence of that will be the rest of the world actively telling its people that america is probably a less healthy regime for them than countries like China and discouraging all recreational, educational and employment travel here, under any circumstances - including the desires and fetishes of unregulated capitalism.

We are currently test driving the arbitrary execution of anyone without due process to see if THAT finally wakes up the population. But it wont.
by goku12 | 2025-12-04 19:12:29+00:00
We really need to make this into a website for 'hostile smartphones' or a 'list of smartphones to avoid', and popularize it among the normal folks. This is relevant to them even if they don't unlock the phones themselves. They could pay someone to unlock it and upgrade it - but only if the phone can be unlocked.

The manufacturers will do something about it when their hostile behaviour starts to affect their bottom line. They have been ripping us off for far too long.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-04 19:12:35+00:00
> And the vast majority of that vast majority’s lives in the US work out, you know, fine—mostly including things like climate-controlled indoor spaces, ample calories,

I’ll buy this

>professional medical care, access to some kind of justice system,

I doubt this. Most people in the US are probably aware one healthcare or legal issue in their family will derail the whole family’s future.

That is not to say things are worse than before. But humans view the world in relative terms, and they seem to expect more than reality can offer. And whereas before there was ignorance, today, there is widespread knowledge and visibility into the gulf between the have nots, the haves, and the have even mores.
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 19:12:42+00:00
> just another TikTok brain dopamine machine.

You can fight this machine.

You can view shorts on desktop. In a browser on desktop, when you see one on your subscriptions tab (or the front page if you still use that), you can right-click and open in new tab. You can replace "shorts/" with "watch?v=" in the URL and load the same video in the regular UI. You don't have to scroll down.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-04 19:12:55+00:00
Fair point, but I think in that case, you have to look at the government officials and the political string-pullers distinctly.

The money people who have been funding think tanks like the Heritage Foundation absolutely have a long-running strategy and playbook that they've been running for years. The conceit that is really obvious about folks in the MAGA-sphere is they tend to voice what they are doing. The "deep state" is used as a cudgel to torture civil servants and clerks. But the rotating door is the lobbyists and clients. When some of the more dramatic money/influence people say POTUS is a "divine gift", they don't mean that he's some messianic figure (although the President likely hears that), they are saying "here is a blank canvas to get what we want".

The government is just another tool.
by weehobbes | 2025-12-04 19:13:06+00:00
I have a teenager who is at an academically rigorous college prep school. He is incredibly bright and one of the best students in the school. But he has an accommodation in math for extra time because he has a form of dyscalculia which makes him very prone to misreading and mixing up in working memory the numbers, symbols and other formulas. He understands all the concepts well, but his disability results in calculation/mechanical errors unless he has the extra time to check his work multiple times for these errors. I believe this kind of disability and accommodation is legitimate, but I understand why others may disagree. He even says he often feels guilty for getting extra time when others don't. I am sure there are also people who abuse the system and get accommodations when then don't actually need them.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-04 19:13:46+00:00
I went to the university half way through my undergrad to file for a disability because I have ADHD and I go through short periods where my medication just stops being effective for whatever reason.

It's not a major disability but it was a barrier to me performing at my best so I filed the paperwork and got some minor accommodations. It was basic stuff like letting teachers know during periods when I was struggling and they would allow me to take tests in a separate room (same time limit, just by my self in a quiet room) or allow me an extra 24 hours on certain assignments provided I requested it X amount of days ahead of time.

Certainly they provided a minor "advantage" but not substantially. And these were things that most teachers are already generally willing to accommodate regardless of disability but the disability system provides a formal framework for doing so and avoiding the justifying yourself over and over again (vs just getting it cleared up at the start of the semester).

Disabilities come in many shapes and sizes. Most of them are small and it's way easier to deal with an office that deals specially with disabilities to come up with accommodations that make sense for you and keep them consistent across your entire time at university than it does to try and negotiate terms with every single professor or TA.
by rietta | 2025-12-04 19:14:21+00:00
I think the author is significantly straw-manning the concept of servant leadership.

The short take presented in the article doesn't match my lived experience with this style, both in secular and faith-based circles. The core idea is absolutely not that of a "curling parent." Instead, it embodies living the walk, walking the talk, and putting the team's needs before your own ego.

In fact, this profound concept goes all the way back to Jesus Christ, who modeled it by washing the feet of his disciples—a task reserved for the lowliest servant of the time. This act was deliberately shocking and context-defying. He effectively "turned the world upside down" by saying, "Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all."

I'm not trying to proof-text, but this idea is ancient and deep. It's a profound leadership style that is unfortunately often executed poorly or misunderstood by modern practitioners. Poor execution doesn't invalidate the concept itself.
by ryuhhnn | 2025-12-04 19:14:25+00:00
Why is it so hard to believe that disabled people can be accepted into "elite" universities? I think the article author, and many of the commenters here, are conflating "normalised behaviours" with "intelligence". As a society we have normalised pushing students into being able to complete assessments within an allotted time frame, even though the time it takes to finish an assessment isn't a perfect measure of one's intelligence (regardless of whether or not the answers were factually correct/incorrect). We have normalised allowing people who are "articulate" to take up space in society because we have collectively decided that articulate people are more intelligent, even though that isn't inherantly true.

I don't doubt that many of those students are faking having a disability to game the system in order to benefit themselves, but this article and the discussion around it are anything but intellectual.
by yks | 2025-12-04 19:14:30+00:00
Every time I see post-DOGE kvetching about foreign governments' hacking attempts, I'm quite bewildered. Guys, it's done, we're fully and thoroughly hacked already. Obviously I don't know if Elon or Big Balls have already given Putin data on all American military personnel, but I do know, that we're always one ketamine trip gone wrong away from such event.

The absolute craziest heist just went in front of our eyes, and everyone collectively shrugged off and moved on, presumably to enjoy spy novels, where the most hidden subversion attempts are getting caught by the cunning agents.
by noboostforyou | 2025-12-04 19:14:47+00:00
But it's a cascading effect, OpenAI gobbled up all of DDR5 production to the point that consumers are choosing to upgrade their older DDR4 systems instead of paying even more to upgrade to a new system that uses DDR5. As a result, DDR4 ram is at a new all time high - https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
by saurik | 2025-12-04 19:14:54+00:00
This isn't "we are only going to sell products to big companies" nor is it "we are only going to make products that are locked down appliances"... the "consumer" versions of these products are just cheaper unreliable parts that lack the error correction or power loss protection of the enterprise parts, and in a world where we routinely have disks with tens of terabytes of storage in computers with a terabyte of memory, the argument for why "consumer" grade parts can even make sense to exist is pretty weak. It maybe sucks that, in the very short term, there will be a quick uptick in prices, but focusing on the better parts will also help bring their prices down... and, fwiw, they really aren't that bad to begin with: you can build a micro-ATX machine with a Xeon or an EPYC in it for what feels like a pretty reasonable price.
Co Pilot for Factories of Future
by mohidzahid | 2025-12-04 19:15:24+00:00
Mohid here. In last year of University , I have been running an apparel manufacturing company for past 2 years https://retrohood.com which produces collegiate and street wear apparel.

I’m building an AI copilot for the factories of the future ; a black-box operating system that monitors every entity in a facility, from humans to robots to machines.

The future factory will rely on fewer managers, more automation, and faster, data-driven problem solving ; with live standards scoring instead of just an ISO certificate.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-12-04 19:15:37+00:00
True downloads don’t equal usage but there’s a correlation. I also doubt deployment equals usage - I can deploy to some env and not make any requests.

Additionally, how you can get data on how many deployments without telemetry? The only telemetry that I’m interested in is for my uses, and don’t really care about sending data on deployment count to a third party. So the download count becomes a “good enough” metric.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-04 19:15:46+00:00
Yeah I do regret not going 64GB when it was so cheap but honestly? 32 has been fine. I had already pushed the budget to future-proof critical things (mobo, PSU, CPU, etc.) and ram hopefully one day will drop to sane prices again. I doubt I'll feel the strain for 3-5 years if at all. It's mainly a gaming rig right now
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-12-04 19:15:50+00:00
When I built WebP lossless format I kept testing design decisions against PNG. The average gain against my Internet PNG test corpus was 42 % and 26.5 % if I optimized the PNGs with pngcrush and pngout (kzip). I had not yet come up with ZopfliPNG ideas, those were backports from some WebP lossless ideas into gzip and PNG.
by goku12 | 2025-12-04 19:15:52+00:00
This isn't the 'market not fixing itself'. This is the 'market being actively manipulated and enshittified'. Don't forget that it's much easier to leave the boot-loader unlockable or even unlockable by just the owner, than it is to keep it locked and under control of a remote corporation. They went out of their way to enshittify it.
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by rishavmitra | 2025-12-04 19:16:11+00:00
Hi HN! We built Zalor. It turns an OpenAPI spec into an MCP server, so you can make your APIs callable by Claude or ChatGPT without writing any code. Here's a list of specs you can try: https://github.com/ZalorAI/test-data/tree/main/openapi, but feel free to use your own.

For background, MCP is a protocol that standardizes how you connect tools to AI assistants. We're both engineers at large software companies, and when we worked on MCP integrations we saw how long setup took and how often the spec was changing. So we built a platform to handle the MCP infrastructure, letting you keep doing normal API work and expose it to AI when you're ready.

Right now we're creating a 1:1 mapping from APIs to MCP tools, but we're working on improving tool discovery so the AI doesn't get overwhelmed by 100 endpoints at the start of every conversation.

Still early. Would love feedback!