MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-12-04 20:32:42+00:00
Quoting from my more detailed post below...

> it is possible for a savvy user to partially control the newer hardware in limited ways by hacking open the wall button and soldering a connection to a third-party relay module that interfaces with your home control system. But your home control system won't know if the garage door is open, closed or in-between or if/when it was remotely activated from an arriving or leaving vehicle. It also won't know if the door stopped due to the electric eye being blocked. Knowing the full system state, activation history and sensor data is much better, enabling all kinds of flexible automations like auto opening as you enter your driveway.

You could, in theory, start adding more third-party sensors around your garage door opener like a tilt/angle sensor on the door, a voltage detector on the motor wires, etc but it's just more and more "science project" to regain access to information that should be yours to start with. It's not like Chamberlain is giving away these garage door openers for free - just buy a non-Chamberlain brand (note: they now own MyQ, LiftMaster, Merlin, Arrow and several others so shop carefully). If you have a 2.0 (or earlier) Chamberlain from before ~2022 get a RATGDO to open it back up 100%. If you're stuck with a post-2022 encrypted 3.0 Chamberlain, then your only options are science project hacking to regain some limited control or just replacing it. I'm fortunate to have 2.0 Chamberlains and I only bought them because they HAD an open API that worked with open source Home Assistant - then Chamberlain sprang their carefully laid trap. I don't believe it was "accidental" that they heavily marketed compatibility with open source while acquiring several competing brands, then discontinued API access at the moment they released new hardware with unnecessary encryption on wires that are internal to the user's home.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-04 20:32:46+00:00
> This customer is an otherwise normal-ish buyer who wants a fix and flip

Are you referring to chrisBob? They aren’t the ones who made the “ragged edge” comment.

If you’re on the ragged edge of any financial product, you’re stretching something. If a customer is buying well within their means, they shouldn’t be pursuing—nor getting sold—a ragged edge product.

If, on the other hand, you’re doing a new build that isn’t optimized for resale, yeah, you may very well need to be on the ragged edge of a financial product. But I’d still evaluate that with scepticism if you aren’t financially stretching.

> they outnumber people who have any relevance to a "mortgage specialist with a wealth management arm"

Most home buyers don’t buy below their means. (They buy at or a bit above.)

Most home buyers should not be buying niche financial products, or optimising to be within tolerances of specific financial products.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-12-04 20:32:54+00:00
I think what it comes down to is that the advocates making false claims are relatively uncommon on HN. So, for example, I don't know what advocates you're talking about here. I know people exist who say they can vibe-code quality applications with 100k LoC, or that guy at Anthropic who claims that software engineering will be a dead profession in the first half of '26, and I know that these people tend to be the loudest on other platforms. I also know sober-minded people exist who say that LLMs save them a few hours here and there per week trawling documentation, writing a 200 line SQL script to seed data into a dev db, or finding some off-by-one error in a haystack. If my main or only exposure to AI discourse was HN, I would really only be familiar with the latter group and I would interpret your comment as very biased against AI.

Alternatively, you are referring to the latter group and, uh, sorry.
by lumost | 2025-12-04 20:33:22+00:00
They lead with the headline that most of these students have a mental health disability - particularly ADHD. Is it surprising that legalized Amphetamines drive teenagers to higher performance for a short period in their lives? Adderall and other amphetamines only have problems with long term usage.

It should be expected that some portion of the teenage population sees a net-benefit from Amphetamines for the duration of late high school/college. It's unlikely that that net-benefit holds for the rest of their lives.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-04 20:33:52+00:00
The difference reduces to:

1. The career I would like to have, and the life I desire to live, is my free choice. Once I've made that choice, the community's responsibility is to give me whatever I need so that I can apply myself to that career and live the life I imagine for myself.

vs

2. I have certain capabilities and limitations. The community has certain needs. If there's any way for me to do so, it's my responsibility to figure out how my capabilities can service the community's needs, respecting my limitations, and it's the community's reciprocal responsibility to make sure my contribution is fairly acknowledged so that I can live a secure and constructive life. I'll figure out the rest from there.
by mastax | 2025-12-04 20:34:41+00:00
> And those companies all realized they can make billions more dollars making RAM just for AI datacenter products, and neglect the rest of the market.

> So they're shutting down their consumer memory lines, and devoting all production to AI.

Okay this was the missing piece for me. I was wondering why AI demand, which should be mostly HBM, would have such an impact on DDR prices, which I’m quite sure are produced on separate lines. I’d appreciate a citation so I could read more.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-12-04 20:35:18+00:00
I have serious doubts that an autistic advocate with low support needs, as opposed to 'neurotypicals' or impacted parents, are meaningfully more qualified to represent the needs of autistics with high support needs (e.g. severe intellectual disability, nonverbal, severe self injurious behaviors). Those autism are very very different with very very different lived experiences....and yet, well-meaning autistic advocates often bristle at that idea, almost as if it is an attempt to divide and and destroy autistic advocacy. The neurodiversity vs profound autism battle for hearts and minds continues to rage, and even threatens how and what autism research gets conducted...sometimes with good consequences, sometimes with poor consequences.

I am a proponent of finding neurobiological bases for subgrouping autism into different clinically meaningful etiologies so that the debate can move forward productively. Its one reason that more and more I'd rather forgo acquiring non-autistic controls in my studies, but just look within the autism sample for how to parse the heterogeneity into homogeneous subsets
by iamwil | 2025-12-04 20:35:21+00:00
My general impression of kids from elite colleges are that they're very good at finding some sort of loophole in the system to exploit, and they get lauded for it. And if they balk, for whatever reason, they feel like they're falling behind those that do. So then there's a feedback loop for everyone to take advantage of some kind of exploit to stay competitive. "You'd be stupid not to do X also, if everyone else is." with no consider to morals or character--because they're not easy to measure.
Show HN: Dinotool – a foundation model vector embedding CLI
by mikkoim | 2025-12-04 20:35:25+00:00
Hi HN,

I have built a small CLI tool for extracting image feature vectors for images, videos and image folders. I work in an application area where people who are not deep learning experts are interested in working with image data and foundation models, but are perhaps not familiar with python and would rather analyze embeddings in R or other software. Dinotool makes this possible, producing both local and global vector embeddings and outputs them in parquet files, making it possible to process large amounts of images or videos quite easily.

The tool and API is still in a phase where I would like to improve it further, and any feedback is welcome, especially suggestions for additional backbone models.
by scratchyone | 2025-12-04 20:35:31+00:00
This is not what they're describing. Have you ever gone through the process of receiving an accommodation at a university? It is significantly more challenging than just having a diagnosis. They will look for every single possible excuse to refuse you access. They will require you to repeatedly book new doctor's appointments to get extremely specific wording for any accommodation you may need. Your doctor will have to fill out multiple forms for the university. Then, for each class, you will have to meet with every professor you have to request your accommodations. Many of these professors will try to talk you out of using them, or find ways to get around them.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 20:35:59+00:00
The original article is more enlightening: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-universit... (Gift link taken from the linked article, not my own)

The stats are thin because not everything from private universities (where the disability numbers are highest) is reported. However they did get this:

> L. Scott Lissner, the ADA coordinator at Ohio State University, told me that 36 percent of the students registered with OSU’s disability office have accommodations for mental-health issues

Note that's only accommodations for mental health issues, so exclusive of the numerous other disability types.
by Hizonner | 2025-12-04 20:36:35+00:00
Get rid of academic terms, so that the finals don't all fall in the same week. Probably a hard sell.

Be less obsessed with evaluation and grading. Which probably means people have to be less obsessed with having a credentialing and gatekeeping system while calling it an "education" system. Probably an even harder sell. Although since the next step is for the AI to eliminate the need for credentialed humans, maybe we get it throught the back door.
by pja | 2025-12-04 20:36:44+00:00
Yeah, I think (sadly) this kills the Steam Machine in the short term if the competition is current consoles.

At least until the supply contracts Sony & Microsoft have signed come up for renewal, at which point they’re going to be getting the short end of the RAM stick too.

In the short term the RAM shortage is going to kill homebrew PC building & small PC builders stone dead - prebuilts from the larger suppliers will be able to outcompete them on price so much that it simply won’t make any sense to buy from anyone except HP, Dell etc etc. Again, this applies only until the supply contracts those big PC firms have signed run out, or possibly only until their suppliers find they can’t source DDR5 ram chips for love nor money, because the fabs are only making HBM chips & so they have to break the contracts themselves.

It’s going to get bumpy.
by tome | 2025-12-04 20:37:05+00:00
Ah! My favourite Haskell discussion. So, consider these two programs, the first in Haskell:

main :: IO () main = do foo foo foo :: IO () foo = putStrLn "Hello"

and the second in Python:

def main(): foo() foo() def foo(): print("Hello")

For the Python one I'd say "I/O is done inside `foo` before returning". Would you? If not, why not? And if so, what purpose does it serve to not say the same for the Haskell?
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-04 20:37:18+00:00
Kids can access the internet in all kinds of places outside the home, and outside the purview of their parents supervision. Schools, libraries, friend's houses, public wifi anywhere.

You may be right about the authoritarianism; it's a tendency of our species and makes it all the more remarkable that Western freedoms have lasted this long. I think, though, that it's more likely simple greed. The giant tech companies, dependent on ad revenue because nobody would actually pay for what they are offering, must be able to track and profile people.

The "protect kids from porn" lobby has always been around, it has nothing to do with surveillance or the internet. These people would be picketing a bookstore that sold Hustler magazine back in the 1970s, and demanding that customers be made to prove their age.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-04 20:37:33+00:00
I expected that to be the conclusion, but it's not. They could spend £250m on the bridge, but they're not. And it appears to be the right answer since it wouldn't provide anywhere near £250m worth of utility. They'd spend £250m to make things worse -- right now it's an awesome cyclist/pedestrian bridge, and after spending £250m it'd be much worse for that.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-04 20:38:08+00:00
How does a parent check that a friend isn’t passing pills to them in the back of the bus? How are they checking that they don’t shoplift when out on their own? This is not an argument.

Do your best as a parent and that is enough. Perfection is not possible or even desired; kids do have a degree of agency, and if they want to break the rules they are going to do it! And breaking some rules (ideally in a safe-ish way) is one way that we learn how to be independent from parents as we mature.
by levkk | 2025-12-04 20:38:17+00:00
Not a bad time for the secondary market to be created. We keep buying everything new, when the old stuff works just as well. There is a ton of e-waste. The enthusiast market can benefit, while the enterprise market can just eat the cost.

Also, a great incentive to start writing efficient software. Does Chrome really need 5GB to run a few tabs?
by djoldman | 2025-12-04 20:38:25+00:00
Please, please try using weight whenever possible, aka for all amounts >= 2 grams.

1. People are bad at measuring volume. This has been tested. There is much more variance in amounts measured by volume than be weight. See "science and cooking" (ferran adria).

2. Using a scale means doing a lot fewer dishes! (measuring cups, spoons, etc.)

3. It's faster, try it!
by ryuhhnn | 2025-12-04 20:38:26+00:00
The CDC reports that 1 in 4 Americans are disabled. Sure 38% is higher than 25%, but the 38% number is the worst case scenario, two of the other universities cited only had 20% of students who were disabled, below the CDC number.

> one side campaigns by advocating more social spending

Ironically, having more social spending on 4-year universities would actually alleviate this problem if we are following the author's logic. If students weren't the ones footing the bill for their education, there would be less incentive for them to take measures to try and circumvent a system that penalizes low-performance (doubly-so because you both get a bad grade and you still have to pay back the money).

I read the headline/article exactly the way it was supposed to be interpreted. I'm also not reading that far into it, the byline literally states, "If you get into an elite college, you probably don't have a learning disability", which again, is simply not true and is ableist. Disabled people are not incapable of performing certain tasks, but they are hindered, which is why it's called a disability and not an inability.
by mikem170 | 2025-12-04 20:38:57+00:00
I just bumped into the idea of "demographic diversity" versus "moral diversity" [1].

Demographic diversity speaks to the differences in sex, race, sexual orientation, etc. A nation of immigrants, for example.

Moral diversity speaks to the differences in culture, the rules a society follows. Erosion of those rules is what leads to a low trust society.

I thought this was a really interesting distinction to make.

It seems that the U.S. is not as high trust as it was 75+ years ago. The book I read used the example of neighbors disciplining children, which was more common in U.S. culture 75+ years ago. Today you'd worry about a parent calling the police for that. In general the idea of character has replaced with personality. Moral diversity. Live and let live.

But on the other hand 75+ years ago women and minorities were more limited. We now have more demographic diversity. Which is a good thing.

I would like to think that demographic diversity and a high trust society aren't mutually exclusive. Conflating the two doesn't help.

[1] The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt, Chapter 8, The Felicity of Virtue
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 20:39:04+00:00
> Have you tried Adderall? It gives extreme competitive edge.

Before readers rush out to acquire Adderall, note that "trying" it does not give an accurate picture of what it's like to take it long-term. It has a high discontinuation rate because people read comments like this online or borrow a dose from their friend and think they're going to be running around like Bradley Cooper in Limitless for the rest of their career.

A new patient who tries Adderall will feel a sense of euphoria, energy, and motivation that is temporary. This effect does not last. This is why the Reddit ADHD forums are full of people posting "I just took my first dose and I'm so happy I could cry" followed a few weeks later by "Why did my Adderall stop working?". The focus part is still mostly working, but no drug is going to make you feel happy, energized, and euphoric for very long.

> Just to get legal and easy access to performance-enhancing drugs in elite educational (aka competitive) setting it makes sense to get "disability".

You're confusing two different things. Registering with the school's disability office is orthogonal to getting a prescription for anything.
by Bender | 2025-12-04 20:39:48+00:00
Youtube has been repeatedly told about videos that are abusive towards children and they do nothing about it. They're not interested in effective solutions

Youtube is user-generated content which is precisely why I would prefer they add an RTA header. Random people uploading videos can claim to be kid friendly when they are not. Take that responsibility away from the uploaders and away from Youtube and hand it to the parents. Less work, liability and cost for Youtube should be a nifty incentive at the risk of blocking some advertising to children which is another loaded topic all together.
by all2 | 2025-12-04 20:40:12+00:00
The tracking app would be pretty simple. A shim in the shell that tracks the first argument on the command line and increments a counter. Then usage stats are pushed to the service every 24 hours (or something like that).

app usage / all tracked app usage --> donation to app.

Handling the payments portion would be... nightmarish?

With crypto it would be really easy. I'd be tempted to take cash on the frontend, convert to crypto, split, then reconvert to cash and make payouts.

How do we handle registering apps that you use? What about upstream dependencies? Example: you just spun up a new React project, do we target all deps on that project? Is this only for command line? What about cron jobs, or systemd? Or that systemd service script you copied from a gist somewhere?
by catapart | 2025-12-04 20:40:12+00:00
I appreciate that this writeup takes care to call out use cases when they help with understanding!

I do have a semi-unrelated question though: does using the recursive approach prevent it from being calculated efficiently on the GPU/compute shaders? Not that it matters; plenty of value in a CPU-bound version of a solution and especially one that is easy to understand when recursive. I was just wondering why the prominent examples used a non-recursive approach, but then I was like "oh, because they expect you to use them on the GPU". ...and then I was like "wait, is that why?"
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-04 20:40:13+00:00
> I suppose one happy fact from this must be that USCIS has never had convenient access to dragnet surveillance. For if they did, they would simply have used the backdoor rather than ask you to make the profile public.

Not necessarily.

One of the very common tactics by federal investigators is asking a question they already know the answer to. That lets them know when you're lying, which can be a crime on its own!
by powerclue | 2025-12-04 20:40:29+00:00
If you have better data, I'm sure the world would love to have it. The world, however, seems to agree the number is somewhere around 15-20%.

World Health Organization: 16%

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/disability-...

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: 15%

https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/resources/f...

CDC: 25% of Americans

https://www.cdc.gov/disability-and-health/articles-documents...

ROD Group: 22%

https://www.rod-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The-Glo...
by msuniverse2026 | 2025-12-04 20:40:36+00:00
I wonder if you could have a vibrating chladni plate with sand on it and you match when the sand should jump with the light that's meant to be at that spot. You get the interruption of light looking like a mid-air pixel and then when it isn't needed it drops back down allowing light to pass through. Kind of like one of those mist-screens except there isn't mist where you don't need it.
by khannn | 2025-12-04 20:40:47+00:00
I started in 2003, learned C++, then did the majority of my courses in C++ with a class in Java with self-taught Python, C#, and PHP along the way for coursework.

Can someone fill me in, but is there still the derogatory "Java school"? I find that silly because most jobs in programming use some sort of managed memory programming language so teaching everyone in Java makes a lot of sense.
by cardanome | 2025-12-04 20:40:54+00:00
The more helpful way to think about is that the neurotypical brain is like RGB(63.32, 12.3, 73.02) but with thousands or maybe millions of variables. If certain values are significantly lower or bigger it might cause you trouble.

Having Autism is one cluster of values you can have. So is having ADHD. So is having Trauma. And many more things. And you can and often have multiple things at once and their symptoms overlap.
by init0 | 2025-12-04 20:41:21+00:00
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by fsmv | 2025-12-04 20:42:22+00:00
What a disgusting article. It's abliest to say that disabled students won't be able to make it Stanford. The only weird part is calling anxiety and depression a disability.

Saying that people who are using accommodations are cheating is morally repugnant.

Instead of saying that we need to clamp down on people claiming disabilities, we should open up the accommodations to everyone.
Show HN: Cheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with Parquet, DuckDB, and Iceberg
by smithclay | 2025-12-04 20:42:48+00:00
Side project: exploring storing and querying OpenTelemetry data with duckdb, open table formats, and cheap object storage with some rust glue code.

Yesterday, AWS made this exact sort of data architecture lot easier with new CloudWatch features: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-introduce...
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-04 20:42:59+00:00
Ironically very accurate for an en vogue theory of how autism occurs.

Babies are born with many more neural connections than most adults have. The learning process appears to include a "winnowing" process. OTOH, autistic individuals appear to have a larger number of neural connections, which suggests that they did in fact "not converge" (or not weed out excessive connections that distract from more productive decision-making).
by byronic | 2025-12-04 20:43:05+00:00
The hyperbolic "surely a child with a learning disability can't (or shouldn't) go to college!" is very funny post-1950. John Keats wrote the definitive treatise on the subject and nobody read it. The secondary "oh no, rich kids are getting unfair advantages!" argument makes the article somehow worse and less informed. I feel dumber for having read it.

My conclusion: Reason is running the world's dumbest cover for The Atlantic