MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by squigz | 2025-12-04 19:43:39+00:00
You don't notice nearly as much as a kid as you do as an adult; nor do you get a representative picture of your friends.

Beyond that, there's a question of, while maybe they didn't have an inhaler, how many needed one but didn't get one due to awareness or whatnot? Or how many people had allergic reactions, because we didn't ask about their allergies?
by squigz | 2025-12-04 19:43:46+00:00
There's a lot of stuff to unpack in such a discussion, but I only want to add that I see the prevalence of things like autism as a sort of "over correction" to practically all of history. Sure, some kids might relate to it and incorporate it as part of their personality, but 1) I don't think that's as widespread a problem as some people claim, 2) kids do this all the time with various things, and have done forever, and 3) I think that's a small price to pay for society learning about these things and destigmatizing them

> I also wish you were not being downvoted. You express some common sentiments and I think your comment adds to the conversation.

Common or reasonable sentiments or not, the whole "kids these days" overtone is tiring and annoying, and most people - online and in person - don't want to engage with that, because it does not imply a position of good faith.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-04 19:43:48+00:00
> Is it much though? 38%? I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies.

How do you know this?

Do you have access to their medical records?

Are you in HR and have access to any accomodations they may have filed?

Do they even have accommodations filed at work? Neither I nor many of the people I knew in university who had accommodations needed them in the workplace because the structure of an undergrad course setting is wildly different from that of an actual workplace.

I have told HR at basically every place I've worked that I had filed for accommodations during university and that I generally manage my disability well but that I may need to file for formal accommodations at some point in the future. This isn't something that I've necessarily told people I work with and it's not visible or obvious. Most disabilities aren't.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-04 19:43:57+00:00
> The reason for all this, of course, is AI datacenter buildouts. I have no clue if there's any price fixing going on like there was a few decades ago—that's something conspiracy theorists can debate—but the problem is there's only a few companies producing all the world's memory supplies.

So it's the Bitcoin craze all over again. Sigh. The bubble will eventually collapse, it has to - but the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent... or, to use a more appropriate comparison, have a working computer.

I for myself? I hope once this bubble collapses, we see actual punishments again. Too-large-to-fail companies broken up, people getting prosecuted for the wash trading masquerading itself as "legitimate investments" in the entire bubble (that more looks like the genetic family table of the infamously incestuous Habsburg family), greedy executives jailed or, at least where national security is impacted due to chip shortages, permanently gotten rid of. I'm sick and tired of large companies being able to just get away with gobbling up everything, killing off the economy at large, they are not just parasites - they are a cancer, killing its host society.
by dangus | 2025-12-04 19:44:12+00:00
The fact that we have been conditioned to talk in relative terms like this is sad.

Getting paid $10-30 million a year doesn’t become reasonable just because someone else is making $100 million or $1 billion per year.

That’s like saying I’m not overweight compared to someone who weighs 600 pounds. Doesn’t change the fact that I’m overweight.
by atoav | 2025-12-04 19:44:31+00:00
CSS can be laser-like specific if you want it to. Want to only affect that thing? Use ids, inline styles or learn how to write proper selectors.

I am by no means a CSS expert, but 90% of CSS issues I heard complaints about boiled down to the complainers not having spent the time necessary to learn the basics. And the other 10% were solved by :has()

That being said, most other styling solutions I had used (e.g. in GUI libraries) will quickly make you wish you had CSS.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 19:44:33+00:00
Well, I was and I know plenty of others that did the same. Slackware was 1993. By 1995 we even had Red Hat.

In 1995 NCSA was running just fine and from December onwards there was Apache. I had the first commercial version of the cam software out (which ran on SGI) and a year later it ran on PCs as well.
by archi42 | 2025-12-04 19:44:42+00:00
Ah, for me that would have been UT aka UT99. But chances are, I'm simply 3 - 6 years older than you ;-) Though I definitely I was not the intended age group upon release.

UT4 would have been pretty nice. I remember building the alpha from source when they put it GitHub.... .... Which is now closer to the release of UT 2004 than today. sigh
by LoganDark | 2025-12-04 19:45:01+00:00
> > The percentages of workers that are neurodivergent is much higher than usual

> Is it much though? 38%? I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies.

Just another anecdote, but where I work (tech startup) there are at least 7 other employees (that I know of) and I can identify every single one as autistic. Three are one type, another three are another type, and I think the one other as well as myself are the same type.

Research in the space hasn't advanced enough yet for this to be consensus, but in my opinion this preprint is exactly correct, and is what taught me that there are even subtypes to recognize at all: https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/untangling-biologica...

There are, of course, plenty of non-neurodivergent tech companies. These are typically boring corporate ones, though I think there are some non-flashy ones that are perfectly respectable. I don't think Microsoft would count, though; Asperger's can look a lot like a lack of neurodivergence if you don't pay close enough attention.
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-04 19:45:19+00:00
I don't think the 3rd metaphor fits. rgb values still points to a single color, which maps back to a single value on a 0 -> 1 or red -> violet continuum. It's more apt to describe it like a multi channel audio mixer. Many different channels ("really into a specific topic", "freaks out at parties"), each with their own value (10%, 20%).

Metaphors often fail though, so it might just be best to say what we mean plainly.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-04 19:45:23+00:00
Damaging in different ways. I'm not sure you can say one is worse.

Sure most kids can look at naked people and not be too affected, we all have the same parts. But beyond that, a lot of really harmful behavior is depicted in some porn and kids are not really mature enough to understand that in real healthy relationships people don't actually have sex like that.

Both porn and social media can be addictive and unhealthy if they become a substitute for interacting with real people. And this also happens with adults not just kids.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-12-04 19:45:27+00:00
I find that a bit hard to believe. Someone in that family knew and took care of it sometimes.

The longest I've seen a used car go without an oil change was 40k miles and it was changed when it started making noise instantly on startup. That was basically 90k to 130k. Sure 0 to 40k would go a bit better.. but not 15 years of typical driving.

Between carbon blowby, gasoline dilution, oil burning at the rings/cylinder walls even if minimal, no car is making it 15 years if the person drives more than 5k miles a year IMO.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-12-04 19:45:31+00:00
They claim they will only release when the game has something innovative to offer.

But then why release Alyx as VR instead of HL3? What innovation did HL2 episodes 1 and 3 offer? Why are Valve releasing virtual card games today?

Half Life as a franchise is great. Gabe was right to start nearly from scratch on HL1 back in the day. But now, they've got everything they want so the hunger is gone.
by kergonath | 2025-12-04 19:45:45+00:00
> A powerbook 5300 was $6500 in 1995

The TCO was much higher, considering how terrible and flimsy this laptop was. The power plug would break if you looked at it funny and the hinge was stiff and brittle. I know that’s not the point you are making but I am still bitter about that computer.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-04 19:45:51+00:00
>We still love what we do over here, but we all have chosen to let our lives and loved ones come first over the project

I think that's sensible but from a user perspective it's also why I think these nth degree derivatives are pointless. So much infrastructure and maintenance to effectively ship arch with a wallpaper.

Many of these projects eventually go the way of the dodo, I believe this is in itself a successor to Antergos. Just install Arch, Debian or Fedora and take 10 minutes to configure the desktop. The biggest issue with arch was the setup but they ship a TUI install script now that anyone can use. The OS on your computer shouldn't be a hobby project.
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-04 19:46:11+00:00
Pricing compute out of the average persons budget to prop up investment in data centers, stocks, ultimately control agency

If an RTX 5000 series price topped out at historical prices no one would need hosted AI

Then it came to be that models were on a path to run well enough loaded into RAM... uh oh

This is in line with ISPs long ago banning running personal services and the long held desire to sell dumb thin clients that must work with a central service

Web developers fell for confidence games of old elders hook line and sinker. Nothing but the insane ego and vanity of some tech oligarchs driving this. They cannot appear weak. Vain aura farming, projection of strength.
by crote | 2025-12-04 19:46:55+00:00
I'd extend that to "very few people love AI".

In real life, I don't know anyone who genuinely wants to use AI. Most of them think it's "meh", but don't have any strong feelings about using it if it's more convenient - like Google shoving it in their face during a search. But would they pay for it, or miss it if it's gone? Nope, not a chance.
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by zenware | 2025-12-04 19:47:00+00:00
Not for nothing but the vast majority of people doing the kind of work that’s done on TV & Film just-so-happen to be geographically co-located for some reason.

It’s possibly worth noting that both activities require humans and even fully operational end-to-end supply chains of rare-earth minerals and semiconductor fabrication. Among many, many other things involved.

I just don’t think we can freely discount that it takes heavy industrial equipment and people and transport vehicles to move and process the raw materials to make LLM/AI tech possible, and that the … excitement has driven those activities to precipitous heights. And then of course transporting refined materials, fabricating end products, transporting those, building and deploying new machines in new data centers around the world, massively increasing global energy demand and spiking it way beyond household use in locales where these new data centers are deployed. And so on and so forth.

I suspect that we will find out someday that maybe LLMs really are more efficient, possibly even somehow “carbon negative” if you amortize it across a long enough timespan—but also that the data will show, for this window of time, that it was egregiously bad across a full spectrum of metrics.
by swiftcoder | 2025-12-04 19:47:21+00:00
> Is it much though? 38%?

I'd say 30-40% is definitely in line with what I saw at various FAANG employers. Though it may be that other types of employer optimise less for those attributes.

> I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies

Have you considered that you yourself may be neurodivergent?
by ErrantX | 2025-12-04 19:48:07+00:00
I suspect this is written by someone who stepped into managing a team and no further.

My reflection overall is; he's probably heard of servant leadership but not understood it? It's not about sweeping away problems but more a mindset that your role is to empower. I feel strongly that all new managers should embrace and get good at this because it instills the mindset that the best leaders ultimately only succeed through their team.

A servant leader who becomes overworked is either not doing their job well (delegation isn't contrary to the mindset!) or, more likely, has a poor leader themselvesw.

I actually love the concept of transparent leadership but sadly I can't see it come through in his points. They are all things a good leader, a good servant leader, should also do.

For me transparent leadership becomes more critical as you move up the stack. Once you get to multiple teams or teams of teams leaders must pivot strongly to strategy setting, and in this your servant leadership comes in painting a clear destination for everyone to get to.

At this point I believe the best leaders are genuinely transparent and the worst keep secrets. One of my most respected mentors framed it as deliberately over-sharing. Which I love, even if I get into trouble for it constantly!

(I do like the writers anarchic streak; the best leaders are radicals)
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-04 19:48:10+00:00
Please read the article. When it says it'll burn $x on $x revenue, it means the burn is not expenses but the net loss. Here is another article that says the same thing:

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/openai-cash-burn-rate-annual-...

Do you really think Anthrophic's annual expenses are in single digit billions? Or OpenAI's annual expenses being less than $9 billion?

> people latch on to them because it confirms their own ideals

I think this applies universally, even to yourself, no? You're so deadset on believeing Anthrophic is not losing billions, you're debating semantics and borderline insulting my reading skills.
by tavavex | 2025-12-04 19:48:16+00:00
What authoritative ML expert had ever based their conclusions about consciousness, usefulness etc. on "well, I put that question into the LLM and it returned that it's just a tool"? All the worthwhile conclusions and speculation on these topics seem to be based on what the developers and researchers think about their product, and what we already know about machine learning in general. The opinion that their responses are a natural conclusion derived from the sum of training data is a lot more straightforward than thinking that every instance of LLM training ever had been deliberately tampered with in a universal conspiracy propped up by all the different businesses and countries involved (and this tampering is invisible, and despite it being possible, companies have so far failed to censor and direct their models in ways more immediately useful to them and their customers).
by apical_dendrite | 2025-12-04 19:48:35+00:00
I'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "tis" to autism.

One could argue that mythologizing a particular characteristic is itself a form of stigma.
by swaits | 2025-12-04 19:48:36+00:00
I know what you’re trying to say. That Proton IS Windows at some level. And so MS gets some credit for that. But they don’t.

A lot of actual work went into Proton and into making games work therein.

MS is a slow, lumbering, monoculture that has lacked innovation and creativity for a very long time. I don’t see how freezing APIs or keeping old APIs around (mostly through versioned DLL hell) as some grand accomplishment.
by marcusb | 2025-12-04 19:48:39+00:00
Another happy rsync.net customer.

I published my scripts[0] and notes[1] about doing append-only backups with Borg on rsync.net since at the time rclone studio wasn't supported. My strategy is to do Restic backups to a backup server at my house and Borg backups to rsync.net as my offsite backup, so the scripts handle both.

The post I linked above also outlines how I handle expiring old backups (requires either manual action with your privileged key, or a suitably isolated host that has the ability to purge the backups automatically.). You really don't want to fill up your disk (or hit your hard quota) with Borg. Recovering -- even deleting existing backups -- requires a bit of extra space unless you want to rm -rf.

0 - https://marcusb.org/hacks/backuptools.html

1 - https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/07/ransomware-resistant-backu...
by hintymad | 2025-12-04 19:48:39+00:00
> continuously trains their replacement, and > generally makes themselves redundant.

This is the advice we get from many business books and leadership advices. However, I see more often than not leaders in a company do the opposite to keep their power. There is a missing link to making the good advice actionable: what can the leader do to keep becoming more valuable while making themselves "redundant".
by recursive | 2025-12-04 19:48:43+00:00
I once lived with a guy who had a valid disabled parking placard. But he didn't like to use it because he didn't feel like he really needed it. Once the apartment manager basically begged him to use it because parking was scarce in the complex and the disabled parking was under-utilized.

I don't think the dad necessarily sucks here. The dad didn't make up the system.
by ok_dad | 2025-12-04 19:48:57+00:00
I am very excited for a few years when the bubble bursts and all this hardware is on the market for cheap like back in the early to mid 2000's after that bubble burst and you had tons of old servers available for homelabs. I can't wait to fill a room with 50kW of bulk GPUs on a pallet and run some cool shit.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-04 19:49:04+00:00
It really depends on the environment tbh. I know just for the "low distraction environment" accomodations, those normally aren't used for small classes but they are used for the big exams where they stuff the entire freshman class in the program into a series of auditoriums.

And of course some professors do double time accommodations by having the students take the test with everyone else and then follow the teacher to their office to finish the exam afterwards but tbh I didn't see that very often.
by benlivengood | 2025-12-04 19:49:20+00:00
If your argument is that value produced per-cpu will increase so significantly that the value produced by AGI/ASI per unit cost exceeds what humans can produce for their upkeep in food and shelter, then yes that seems to be one of the significant risks long term if governments don't intervene.

If the argument is that prices will skyrocket simply because of long-term AI demand, I think that ignores the fact that manufacturing vastly more products will stabilize prices up to the point that raw materials start to become significantly more expensive, and is strongly incentivized over the ~10-year timeframe for IC manufacturers.
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2025-12-04 19:49:33+00:00
Well put.

> A lot of modern, aspiring-middle-class and online culture

Theres also a pernicious way of identifying with the struggle. Instead of I have trouble focusing in certain situations, so maybe I should find ways to spend my time (careers, hobbies) that work well with that. We instead go to 'I have ADHD' and my 'job' should make special accommodations for me.

Regardless of whether a job should or should not make accommodations. It's not a very helpful construct to think they should. It removes agency from the person experiencing the struggle. Which in turn puts them farther from finding a place that they would fit in well.

For the vast majority of behaviors (ADHD, attachment issues, autism, etc) they exist on a continuum and are adaptive/helpful in certain situations. By pathologizing them, we(society) loose touch for what they mean in our life. It also makes discourse hard because the (this is causing me to truly not be able to function) gets mixed in with the (this is a way that my brain behaves, but I can mostly live a life).
by huddlecharge | 2025-12-04 19:49:48+00:00
hey! I'm apart of the Marvin dev team and happy to answer any questions. Specifically about "how" we do what we do and what makes it different from just vibe coding in Gemini (or other).

The main goal is to create thousands of 1 person $+10M revenue studios. We want to give the tools the industry leaders have spent decades painstakingly building to every builder. With Marvin, everyone with a gaming itch has a chance to make it!
by throw0101d | 2025-12-04 19:49:50+00:00
> I wonder if Apple will budge.

Perhaps I don't understand something so clarification would be helpful:

I was under the impression that Apple's RAM was on-die, and so baked in during chip manufacturing and not a 'stand alone' SKU that is grafted onto the die. So Apple does not go out to purchase third-party product, but rather self-makes it (via ASML) when the rest of the chip is made (CPU, GPU, I/O controller, etc).

Is this not the case?
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-04 19:49:53+00:00
It's lumping a bunch of things together because they are empirically linked together

People with sensory issues often also have more cognitive rigidity for example.

Autism, and many other psychological disorders, are quite literally just a lump of symptoms and presentations, because we do not have better options.

Sure, it makes navigating american health insurance easier if you can just say "Autism" and get various treatments paid for, but very similar diagnostic criteria and definitions are used in countries with fully socialized medicine.

Those people with those linked issues tend to benefit from similar treatment, and that's the entire point of a diagnostic criteria.

All the complaints come from people who seem to just not like the vibe of that?

Deal with it. Go fund more research into the heritability of neurodivergent pathologies if you want a blood test.

Some day we WILL be able to separate "Autism" into very specific diseases with specific causes, and some of those causes will have a genetic test. Unless we kill the concept of medical research because we elected morons who tear apart our institutions.

I have "Impaired vision", and I share that with people who are profoundly (but not totally) blind, and it does not matter that I can drive with glasses and they can't, and the name of that condition is not the important part.

All this handwringing about "but but but my mildly autistic son is mostly functional and I'm sad that he has the same name of condition as someone who cannot be educated past a 3rd grade level" is stupid. It does not benefit anyone struggling with autism to complain about it.

Are you aware that we have multiple medical conditions called "Palsy"s, and that they have drastically different causes and effects, such that my sister's Palsy which was caused by medical malpractice and prevented her from using her dominant hand in some cases is very different from my schoolmate's Palsy which left her wheelchair bound and requiring professional help day to day? They are both palsy because they are (partially) movement disorders stemming from nerve damage or dysfunction.

The horror!
by plufz | 2025-12-04 19:49:53+00:00
I don’t think you need a conspiracy theory to explain this. This is simply capitalism, a system that seems less and less like the way forward. I’m not against markets, but I believe most countries need more regulations targeted at the biggest companies and richest people. We need stronger welfare states, smaller income gaps and more democracy. But most countries seems to vote in the absolute opposite direction.