MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaoD | 2025-12-06 13:14:58+00:00
I am on Discord and the balkanization+homogeneization is still as prominent there as everywhere else.

Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged (spoiler: the average Joe is just irritated by those). Sometimes you get a quest from them.

Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center.

I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same ploy.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-06 13:16:06+00:00
This is such an insane stance. The proposal of chat control is surveillance of most private communication.

Blaming Russia is such a tiresome stance. Russian propaganda is so bad and so hilariously ineffective that it penetrates only small bubbles inside political parties, even after years of propaganda.

Also the current German government includes the historically most notorious Russian shill party.

The laws are absolutely the issue and if you are tearing down democracy to "preserve democracy", you just see democracy as a useful propaganda tool, for the sake of your own power.
by nis0s | 2025-12-06 13:17:28+00:00
This fits in with another thread on an article about over-diagnosis.

I think it’s safe to say that if someone appears “weird” to the hive mind of a community, that person is more likely to be correctly diagnosed.

There are people who desire a diagnosis for special treatment, but if the first time you find out about a person’s diagnosis is after knowing them as “weird” the whole time, then they’re not acting weird on purpose, or saying they are X for attention or special treatment.

Disabled people, mentally or otherwise, usually like to keep their business to themselves, unless they absolutely don’t need to. Some mentally disabled people might even forgo getting special treatment via disability services at their colleges, or getting parking permits for disability because they’re not interested in bringing attention to their difficulties or differences, or using these issues as a cause for special treatment. Though, I’d advised that people who need accommodations should get them.

I also saw a comment about disability becoming normalized due to late stage capitalism, which sounds like a thesis out of postmodernist thinking. The fact is that group behavior has always isolated “weird” behaviors and put undue negative attention on them, but it just happened to be the case that that weird behavior was evolutionary helpful, which is why it has persisted for millions of generations of humans across their evolutionary history.

This only applies to high-functioning categories of behaviors. But I’ve found that more often than not, it’s the social reaction of groups that is the problem for high-functioning autists, and less the autism itself. Maybe neurotypical behavior or neurotypical mindedness is the disease because I don’t understand why or how some people find it so hard to think differently. Are they not individuals, are they zombies?
by captainbland | 2025-12-06 13:17:41+00:00
I think a crucial bit of context is that in the UK, many people who are seeking diagnosis as adults grew up in areas where there were no or very few child psychiatry services in the 80s/90s. In such areas only very profound cases would be referred to out of area services. Most people with neurodevelopment disorders in such areas were diagnosed with SpLDs like dyspraxia or dyslexia which could be diagnosed by community paediatricians, usually with evidence from educational psychologists and occupational therapists.

In fact the pattern is almost the opposite of what you'd see in the US where it would be hard to get diagnosed with a SpLD and e.g. ADHD was more widely recognised. But the rub lies in the fact that ADHD, ASD and many SpLDs have fairly high rates of comorbidities with one another, to the point where if you've got dyspraxia and no other diagnosable comorbidity, you're actually in the minority of people with it.
by armchairhacker | 2025-12-06 13:18:04+00:00
I've heard similar stories involving ChatGPT. I believe at least some of them. Why not? ERs are known to misdiagnose patients who end up having serious conditions; there are examples of this exact scenario (misdiagnosed appendicitis as a stomach bug). It's also known that Google searching symptoms will pull up serious diseases, which someone with said symptoms may or may not actually have, so an LLM also will.

Ultimately, effectively diagnosing patients from descriptions is impossible, because two can give the same description, where one has a mild condition and the other serious. More tests would resolve most ambiguity, but most ERs are too overworked, so you only get more tests if you really advocate for yourself (and/or are rich). A stomach bug can have nearly the same symptoms as the initial stages of appendicitis, and Grok (allegedly) told OP he needs to advocate for a CT.

I do see an issue, where LLMs tell too many people they have a serious condition and must go to the ER and order unnecessary tests, where a doctor would say to those people "you're fine" and they really are fine. People would end up anxious and angry at doctors over nothing, and ERs would end up overwhelmed with so many spurious tests and requests, that they would miss necessary ones. I say "would" but this situation has already started, except it's Google that is telling people to panic. Ultimately, there are too many people and not enough doctors and equipment (and too many tests may itself be unhealthy), so people who may have serious conditions aren't tested for them. I don't know the solution, but do want to point out, with people saying LLMs will replace mass sections of the workforce; why don't we as a society train more nurses and doctors?
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-06 13:18:16+00:00
Maybe, just maybe life has gotten legitimately more stressful? Like, even my parents' generation wasn't forced to move away from family and friends (aka their support network) just for career. And on top of that, a single income was enough to afford a decently sized home, stay-at-home spouse, car and children.

Compare that to today: more and more adults have to live with their parents due to cost of living, you need until age 23 until you earn your own money because you're effectively worthless without an academic degree, you get saddled with debt from acquiring said degree, when you finally have a job it's usually impossible to afford even a run-down slumlord shack unless you have two (or, worse, three) incomes... and we never had the time to actually reset after the polycrises - 2007 ff financial crisis, euro crisis, refugee crisis (in Europe), refugee crisis 2 (in Europe), Trump 1, Covid, Russian war, Trump 2...

Particularly the fact that our generation can't rely on our parents and friend networks for support any more is the largest factor to blame. And obviously, earlier generations were significantly underdiagnosed, partially because medicine literally didn't know better, partially because their parents beat them into submission with sheer violence.
by JohnMakin | 2025-12-06 13:18:28+00:00
The title is kind of baiting junk takes and misses the nuance here. Life stressors can induce depression or symptoms of it. Medication has shown to improve these symptoms. It does make treating actual chronic pathological mental illness more difficult, because of the exact attitudes expressed here.

Hint: mental illness and life being stressful is often comorbid and causal.
by metalman | 2025-12-06 13:19:00+00:00
get calls from "shippers" and "logistics", every few days, and notice that the faces and trucks and logo's(or total lack thereof), change just as fast. The only thing happening is a massive increase in costs. So more and more I say fuck it, local only, and I do 90% of my own picks and drops, charge the same flat rate for everything I do, which works out just fine and breaks up the routine.nicely. But the poor basterds doing "piecework" trucking got that maddness in there eye's, got sold on it, and dying trying pull it off.local boys, but people from infinetly bussier and competitive places, just roll with it, and always see the upward oportunity, and move when it's good, and grind harder, when it's not.
by squigz | 2025-12-06 13:19:07+00:00
> Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged. Sometimes you get a quest from them.

Maybe you should join better servers. I'll also add that this was common back in the forum days too. Most admins would just... admin the site.

> Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center.

Wrong on both counts.

> I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same.

I did not present it as an "opposite to social media" - I presented it as a counter to the idea that we've lost the personality GP is talking about
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-06 13:19:51+00:00
This is a bit complicated even in Czechia, with its densest network of railways in the world.

Trains are most efficient when they are long. 30+ cars, ideally. Capacity of railway lines is limited and lines tend to be shared by passenger traffic as well, so freight mostly moves at night and short freight trains are economically unviable.

It might take a long time to gather enough stuff/containers to fill 30 freight cars in one particular railway head (obvious exceptions such as Port of Rotterdam apply). Which means that you may have to wait for 10 days before your shipment actually starts to move.

We aren't that patient anymore.
by nl | 2025-12-06 13:20:00+00:00
> So, what could a model _possibly_ be able to do for this puzzle which is "fair game" as a valid solution, other than magically know an answer by pulling it out of thin air?

Represent the maze as a sequence of movements which either continue or end up being forced to backtrack.

Basically it would represent the maze as a graph and do a depth-first search, keeping track of what nodes it as visited in its reasoning tokens.

See for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3097556/programming-theo... where the solution is represented as:

A B D (backtrack) E H L (backtrack) M * (backtrack) O (backtrack thrice) I (backtrack thrice) C F (backtrack) G J
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-06 13:20:04+00:00
Carol is a very uncommon name, it was last popular in the 40s and 50s so almost every Carol you find today will be in an old folk's home. The odds of two truly independent instances of somebody named Carol appearing in this manner of circumstance is extremely small.

Edit: https://www.babynameatlas.com/name/carol

Also, it came from reddit therefore it is fake. Reddit is a dumpster fire, if we're being generous it's a website for playing around with creative writing exercises. The not so generous interpretation is that reddit users are deranged internet point addicts who habitually lie to get their fix.
by Zigurd | 2025-12-06 13:20:05+00:00
Or could it be that the tech bros have enabled shifting costs to externalities, like road safety, and the tax funded social safety net keeping underpaid drivers fed? Startup ideas that collect ongoing transaction fees are a hot pattern in investing. The money for those fees has to come from somewhere. Not necessarily a productive somewhere.

This sounds like an echo of ride hailing, where people will now pay a bit more to ride a Waymo so they don't have to tell their financially desperate driver that they'll get a bigger tip for calming down a bit.
Ask HN: If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years?
by keepamovin | 2025-12-06 13:21:15+00:00
What does this quesiton mean? If the US doesn't win. Win what? The AI war? The geopolitical battle against China/etc? It's own implicit "civil war"? The battle to be the predominant superpower? Or what? What are the table stakes of today?

Are the consequences as terrible as foretold? The end of Western Civilization? Or can Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia, and New Zealand, save that set of sociocultural values and government?

Does winning mean in hot, kinetic war? A drone war? Is carved up spheres of multipolar influence, 'winning' enough?

All these are important considerations - feel free to entertain them, but the primary one is, assuming some definition of "the US has lost" its significant global power - what does the world look like?

The harder an answer is to arrive at, the better. The more thought, cleverness, insight and analysis, the better. The easier the answer is to construct (ie, "well obviously less regime change wars for oil" etc), the worse answer it is. Or is the whole international game an illusion, there is no superpower, it's all just for show?

I really want to see a picture of what you think is coming within 15 years, and what stands to be lost, or gained, if anything, if the US 'doesn't win'?
by gambiting | 2025-12-06 13:21:35+00:00
The "problem" is that it's all comparative, even if in absolute terms you are right - life is undeniably better than it used to be by every metric.

But to give you an example - my grandma had 8 siblings, out of which only 4 survived into adulthood. They mostly died before even turning 1, the typical "one day he was fine, the next day he turned purple and died, the nearest doctor was 2 hours away if your neighbour let you borrow a horse cart, so that's just what it was" case. Her father and her uncle were taken into Auschwitz and miraculously returned but never wanted to talk about the horrors they have seen while there. For the rest of her life she endured living under communism, seeing her peers in other countries have access to riches she could only dream of.

So now when you talk to her, how can you blame her for thinking that kids nowadays are spoiled, if they have everything provided for them, they have never experienced physical violence of any kind, but they are all depressed and sad about life being shit and saying how it was better in the good old days.

Like, from her perspective, it's impossible to understand.

But also, from the kids perspectives nowadays, all they know is a world where the "old" people have houses, jobs, stable incomes, and they cannot even hope for any of it. 50 year mortgages, 700 job applications with no interview, social media blasting images of a life that they know they can't ever have.....of course they are depressed. Just showing them stats that say "you live better, comfier, safer andd healthier lives than pretty much anyone else ever in the history of humanity" is not going to help if all they know is how much "worse" they have it than the people who came before them.
by kneel25 | 2025-12-06 13:22:31+00:00
What is the goal then? Why do they care that you're bypassing it? I wouldn't deny using children in messaging isn't a deliberate focus to strengthen the case, but I don't think they're lying that it's about reducing access to harmful material, and I don't disagree with that goal or the way they've implemented it. It would be a weak case not to use statistics they find in the younger internet users because that's where it's causing the most unacceptable harm.
by ryukoposting | 2025-12-06 13:22:53+00:00
If you think you (or a loved one) may have a psychological condition, go to a psychologist and get a screening. The diagnosis isn't the important part. The value is in the 20-something pages of detailed analysis by a professional.

At a bare minimum, it will give you a fresh perspective on things you already knew. In my experiences, there will be things you didn't realize about yourself.

They aren't going to tell you what the solution is to all your problems; that's for you and your doctor to figure out. They will give you everything you need to make well-informed decisions, and that's priceless.
by nullwarp | 2025-12-06 13:23:03+00:00
I've never understood it either. I still deploy some things into their own respective manual deployments but for lots of things having a pre-made docker compose means I can throw it on my general app VM and it'll take 5 seconds to spin up and auto get HTTPS certs and DNS. Then I don't lose hours when I get two days into using something and realize it's not for me.

Also have you read some of the setup instructions for some of these things? I'd be churning out 1000 lines of ansible crap.

Either way since Proxmox 9.1 has added at least initial support for docker based containers the whole argument's out the window anyway.
by endorphine | 2025-12-06 13:24:09+00:00
There are also other factors that are not easily quantifiable, even though they might be more important: deep connections with other humans, supportive local communities, finding meaning in something outside of yourself, feeling connected to your vocation etc.

Byung-Chul Han would have a lot to say on this matter.

I would argue that by those measures, we are worse than let's say 50y ago.
by krapp | 2025-12-06 13:24:32+00:00
The purpose of capitalism is the flourishing of the capitalist classes.

The labor classes only need to be maintained like machines or draft animals, kept just alive and well enough to afford the rent on their lives so they can continue to create value.

The collective reactions to this aren't mental illness, they're trauma responses. Capitalism is accelerating towards its final form and the shock is giving people PTSD.
by breppp | 2025-12-06 13:24:57+00:00
It's not only Russia, it's also China and Iran. It's very easy today to control social media conversation by participating as both sides and creating hate. It's actually possible to remotely organize demonstrations, create entire movements from afar

If steering far off (based on Iran's MO in Israel for example) with a little bit of bitcoin and time you can hire someone to do anything for you in a foreign country. This includes graffiti, burning cars, moving weapons and finally assasinations.

Because democracies are so dependent on voters opinions, and organizations that have a vested interest in the failure of a state now have influence, this can be catastrophic (brexit, covid vaccines, race wars)

Can't say I support cracking down on free speech, but IMO that's exactly what we're going to see, especially in Europe where Defensive Democracy is already in place
by shit_game | 2025-12-06 13:25:00+00:00
Very cool project. I love the detail the poster went into in their linked video post about working with the sensor and their implementation.

> Optical computer mice work by detecting movement with a photoelectric cell (or sensor) and a light. The light is emitted downward, striking a desk or mousepad, and then reflecting to the sensor. The sensor has a lens to help direct the reflected light, enabling the mouse to convert precise physical movement into an input for the computer’s on-screen cursor. The way the reflected changes in response to movement is translated into cursor movement values.

I can't tell if this grammatical error is a result of nonchalant editing and a lack of proofreading or a person touching-up LLM content.

> It’s a clever solution for a fundamental computer problem: how to control the cursor. For most computer users, that’s fine, and they can happily use their mouse and go about their day. But when Dycus came across a PCB from an old optical mouse, which they had saved because they knew it was possible to read images from an optical mouse sensor, the itch to build a mouse-based camera was too much to ignore.

Ah, it's an LLM. Dogshit grifter article. Honestly, the HN link should be changed to the reddit post.
by ur-whale | 2025-12-06 13:25:07+00:00
I find all these conversation around neuro-divergence extremely weird, for the simple reason that I have a never seen a proper definition of what a "normal" person actually is, and for good and obvious reasons:

I personally believe that "normal", when it comes to people's behavior, social interactions, and the way their mind works, is a completely broken idea. All of these attributes are completely fluid, depending on the when, where and who with you happen to be.

On that premise, the whole idea of neuro-divergence and the idea that you can classify people in arbitrary categories such as ADHD, Autism, etc ... and that this classification will lead to a way to "fix them" is complete and utter BS.
Show HN: I built a JSON-to-PDF book generator because formatting was killing me
by mxprs | 2025-12-06 13:25:43+00:00
I write a lot of long-form content and the same problem kept slowing me down. Writing was fine, but turning it into a clean, consistent PDF always took more effort than the content itself. I kept fighting with margins, spacing, headers, templates, exports, and it became the part of the process I dreaded most. I eventually stopped trying to force tools that weren’t built for this and started experimenting with a different approach: describe the structure in JSON and generate the PDF with a layout engine. I built it originally as a personal workflow, not as a product, but other people around me had the same pain so I cleaned it up and put a demo online. It is still early and rough in places, but if anyone here writes ebooks, reports, guides, or technical documents, I would appreciate feedback on the idea, the rendering approach, or any pitfalls I might not be seeing. Live demo: https://ebookforge.app/
by realo | 2025-12-06 13:25:48+00:00
I like espresso-style coffee. Over the years i discovered that the very best espresso shots do have a rather strong chocolate note. No acidity, no bitterness.

Unfortunately I also found out that it is basically impossible to get that kind of quality from coffee shops. You must make it yourself, have the right equipment (the grinder is the most important one) and a lot of practice. Then you might have one in 10 god shots... but you taste it... you immediately recognize it.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-12-06 13:26:18+00:00
When people don't read the documentation, discovery is a real problem. When people do read the documentation, things are different. Many software engineers do not read the documentation, and then complain to you if they break something in a documented way. If you compare to hardware engineers, whose vendors put out tens of thousands of pages of documentation for single parts, they have a lot of skill at reading documentation (and the vendors at writing it).
by _kb | 2025-12-06 13:26:43+00:00
Setting this up through your router / network infra is one possible path.

Another AU citizen here. I've been beefing up our home in prep for these laws too.

You can use policy based routing to send traffic through a few VPN egress points depending on either domain, or IP based country lookup. Most providers will let you keep simultaneous connections up. This then applies to all devices so streaming apps works well (e.g. for my partner to access her home country's public broadcaster) and any complexity remains hidden from others you live with. From there, a wireguard tunnel for personal devices back through home means you can keep these same paths active when mobile.

I'm looking forward to the level of networking and systems knowledge these laws will encourage across future generations.