MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by free_bip | 2025-12-04 20:25:00+00:00
Seems like a pretty big overreaction IMO. Advertisements deserve more strict regulation than general user-generated content because they tend to reach far more people. The fact that they aren't has resulted in something like 10% of all ads shown being outright scams or fraud[0]. And they should never have allowed the ad to air in the first place - it was patently and obviously illegal even without considering the GDPR.

If these companies aren't willing to put basic measures in place to stop even the most obviously illegal ads from airing, I have a lot of trouble having sympathy for them getting their just desserts in court.

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/meta-showed-...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-04 20:25:37+00:00
I have had great luck with ChatGPT trying to figure out a complex AWS issue with

“I am going to give you the problem I have. I want you to help me work backwards step by step and give me the AWS cli commands to help you troubleshoot. I will give you the output of the command”.

It’s a combination of advice that ChatGPT gives me and my own rubberducking.
by hajile | 2025-12-04 20:25:38+00:00
Only if you change TS to have actually sound types and it enables good performance instead of enabling you to craft extraordinarily convoluted types for stuff that you should have never written in the first place.

Put another way, I'm fine with the TS syntax (and use TS because there aren't other choices), but the TS semantics aren't a good long-term solution.
by tester756 | 2025-12-04 20:26:15+00:00
>This goes for all new startups (non-profit or not!) if you want me to give you money, make it easy for me to give you money.

Man, as far as I know this is not some wanna be unicorn startup, this is curiosity-driven, for-hackers content managed by people who were top at competitive security for many years
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-04 20:26:46+00:00
You've put into excellent words what I have done my whole life. Intent matters but it isn't sufficient. If you "meant to be on time" but weren't, you failed. Simple as. You don't need to lash yourself about it but too many folk are ready to give themselves a pat on the back for good intentions, or trying but failing, etc.

If you say you're gonna be somewhere, show the fuck up. Anything short is a miss. Failing to account for that makes you an asshole, IMO.
by rconti | 2025-12-04 20:26:58+00:00
Can confirm. I've worked on infra teams for decades, at companies from 80-80,000 people, and I don't think I've _ever_ had a PM on a project I worked on.

EDIT: Note, this is not _necessarily_ a complaint, although I think they would have been very helpful in some circumstances. My main misgivings in working with PM orgs is when they treat my projects as a necessary evil input to the success of the projects they care about. So you get all of the hectoring and demands of professional management with none of the help.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-12-04 20:27:26+00:00
Not disagreeing with the author's conclusion, but the price comparison to the original struck me as a bit odd.

Ceteris paribus, building the exact same bridge will result in the exact same failure. Some of the additional cost is precisely to avoid the present scenario repeating itself in the future.

How big that addition represents and how effective it is up for debate, but asking for a better bridge at inflation adjusted price is not a. apples to apples comparison.
by dlivingston | 2025-12-04 20:27:29+00:00
I have, and my experience does not match yours. It was extremely trivial and was little more than (1) booking a psych appointment, (2) filling out an intake ADHD questionnaire at home (which can easily be filled out to give whatever diagnosis you'd desire), (3) meeting the psych & getting a formal diagnosis, and (4) picking up my Rx from the pharmacy.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-04 20:27:41+00:00
> The percentages of workers that are neurodivergent is much higher than usual, but it's not as if tech hires them out of compassion, but because there's a big cadre or neurodivergent people that are just in the line where they are very productive workers anyway.

There are certainly way more neurodivergent people in tech. But 38%?? I don't think so. And I think you're conflating HN nerdery with actual medical issues that mean you need extra time on tests. I'd believe that e.g. 30% of HN are pretty weird nerds, but there's absolutely no way that means they all need extra time on tests.
by VikingCoder | 2025-12-04 20:27:43+00:00
I'm thinking more about a subscription to a monthly fee that you and I and other fans of OSS voluntarily pay.

Say, I pay $10 a month. It figures out I used curl 850 times. I used gunzip 1246 times. And etc.

It may turn out that I'm donating a 10th of a penny to curl every time I use it.

Do I want to commit to donating a 10th of a penny BEFORE I can use curl each time?

No.

But if I set a flat rate of donating to OSS - $10 a month - and there were a simple tool that figured out a semi-reasonable way to allocate that money... I think that'd be neat.

Like, "Steam for Donating to OSS."
by kalterdev | 2025-12-04 20:27:56+00:00
I believe that while centralized computing excels at specific tasks like consumer storage, it cannot compete with the unmatched diversity and unique intrinsic benefits of personal computing. Kindle cannot replace all e-readers. Even Apple’s closed ecosystem cannot permit it to replace macOS with iPadOS. These are not preferences but constraints of reality.

The goal shouldn’t be to eliminate one side or the other, but to bridge the gap separating them. Let vscode.dev handle the most common cases, but preserve vscode.exe for the uncommon yet critical ones.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-04 20:28:09+00:00
Kids also cannot sign up for internet service, or pay for it. So in both cases, we're talking about society gating access to something, adults obtaining that product legally and bringing it into their home.

The question, then, is who is responsible for the children in the household? I've always answered this exactly one way: the parents. Power and responsibility must go together, so if the parents are responsible, then the parents must have the power. Parents have been held legally responsible for the crimes of their children, and given the coverage of parents being arrested for letting their kids go on a walk across town, I'd say this sets up incentives pretty well.

But all of that is a sideshow; a narrative. What we actually have is a massive swing towards authoritarianism globally, largely fueled by in increase in the internet allowing for unprecedented surveillance overreach, and the folks trying to seize control of those reins are using children seeing porn as a way to seem benevolent to garner support from folks that don't understand what's actually happening. Huge swathes have been duped into believing the narrative and fighting for age-gating in the worst possible ways, and that's because they're missing the larger pattern.

It's manufactured consent.
by atomicfiredoll | 2025-12-04 20:28:15+00:00
I don't mean that it was literally named for the dropdown, just that generally Helvetica was the cause and Arial was the effect. From what I know, it goes back earlier to when Monotype was providing fonts for IBM printers.

From what I know, Monotype was responsible for the name Arial (although IBM called the family Sonoran Sans Serif.) But, even at that point, the intent was to create something that would stand in for Helvetica.

I don't know that the name was selected deliberately to be ahead of Helvetica. But, it's not unheard of in branding to put your product ahead of or near the competition alphabetically. (It was especially important then because people were manually looking up things in phone books and libraries.) I wouldn't be surprised to hear that aspect was considered during naming.
by watwut | 2025-12-04 20:28:33+00:00
Donald Trump won twice. Republican party is mostly cheering everything he does. Ho won by lying a lot. Media mostly sanewashed it. Meanwhile, GOP complained they did not sanewashed it enough.

HN itself and startup culture celebrate breaking the rules and laws to earn money. It is ok to break the law if you are rich enough. People here were defending gambling apps despite all the shady stuff they do just a few weeks ago.

The white collar crime was barely prosecuted before, now the DOJ is loosing even the ability to prosecute it. So, I think the effect you worry about already happened, long time ago.
by nhod | 2025-12-04 20:28:44+00:00
Sorry, no. Hanlon's razor is usually smart and correct, for the majority of cases, including this one.

In this case, it is a huge stretch to ascribe DOGE to incompetence or to stupidity. Thus, we CAN ascribe it to malice.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are many things, but they are NOT stupid and NOT incompetent. Elon is the richest man in the world running some of the most innovative and important companies in the world. Donald Trump has managed to get elected twice despite the fact (because of the fact?) that he a serial liar and a convicted criminal.

They and other actors involved have demonstrated extraordinary malice, time and time again.

It is safe to ascribe this one to malice. And Hanlon's Razor holds.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-12-04 20:28:52+00:00
Your point about Stanford having a larger-than-average proportion of 'extremely gifted' kids is reasonable. Perhaps the smartest 20% at Stanford are drawn from the smartest 0.1% nationally.

But I think you're too dismissive of this part:

The professors Horowitz interviewed largely back up this theory. "You hear 'students with disabilities' and it's not kids in wheelchairs," one professor told Horowitch. "It's just not. It's rich kids getting extra time on tests."

You said "One person in it claims the kids aren’t really disabled because they don’t have wheelchairs" but this is a straw man. The professor did not say this.

If you read the statement charitably, the professor only pointed out two things that are probably true, which I paraphrase below:

- most people, when they hear about students with disabilities, imagine physical disabilities

- the professor has seen that a sizable proportion of students classified as disabled do not require accommodations

Now, we could argue about what are reasonable accommodations and which are not. This is where I'm interested to hear your perspective.

I assume you are in favor of these two:

- kid needs wheelchair and a ramp, so kid can attend class

- kid needs glasses, so kid can see the whiteboard

I assume you are not in favor of this one:

- kid cannot find the derivative of 2x^2, so kid is allowed to use a CAS calculator for Calculus 1 exams

What do you think about this one?

- kid can pass the English Composition 1 exam, but only if given twice as much time as other students
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 20:28:56+00:00
> one professor told Horowitch. "It's just not. It's rich kids getting extra time on tests."

This is a blunt quote, but it gets at a key part of the problem: Qualifying as having a disability can come with some material benefits in many schools.

The intentions are good: Schools are doing what they think is best to accommodate and help students with disabilities. It has been a high priority for decades. However, some of these accommodations come with academic advantages. Extra time on tests is the most common one I've seen.

Combine this with the ease of qualifying for a disability (look up the right doctor online, schedule an appointment, pay insurance copay, walk out with a note) and it became an easy, cheap, and tangible academic advantage.

One of the schools I'm familiar with switched to giving everyone the same, longer time period for taking test because it was becoming obvious that the system was being abused.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-04 20:29:36+00:00
My kids are not that old, so it hasn't come to a head yet. I presume you're talking about school performance - particularly closer to high school?

At the same time, we may need to adjust our baseline on what we call "opportunities".

I've lived in other countries, and one of the nice things about the US is how uncompetitive school is. One could (and likely still can) get into a decent "average" university without much difficulty. In other countries, not so. You could be in the top 10% academically and end up in a really low quality university. I would understand playing such games there.
by viraptor | 2025-12-04 20:29:42+00:00
While it doesn't explain the whole difference, it's not surprising that Stanford has a higher rate. First: the more demanding the environment the more likely you are to find (got example) milder ADHD to impact your life. Second: the more well off you are or more access to resources you have, the more likely you are to actually care to get diagnosed. Third: stressful environment can actually cause serious issues, suddenly. For non-education reasons I suddenly gained panic attacks while I was at uni and they took years to go away.

I'm sure there are more things like that.
by bloppe | 2025-12-04 20:29:51+00:00
I just had an edifying conversation with a recent Standford grad who was a TA, and she talked about how some huge percentage of the class has testing accommodations that allowed them to take all exams in a private room, with no supervision, and with access to their phones (and the internet).

And the professors and TAs were not even allowed to ask the students what they needed those accommodations for.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-12-04 20:29:57+00:00
I don't follow F1 at all, but I do see references to it a ton more than I ever used to, so I assume it is surging in popularity.

Why would they make such drastic changes for 2026? Is it to intentionally shake things up and make it more interesting? If so, I love that that is something they are willing to do. Most pro sports are pretty traditional and change quit slowly. Even the fastest changing league (in my opinion), the NBA, still changes quite slowly.
by canucktrash669 | 2025-12-04 20:30:04+00:00
I persuaded my bank out of $200 using AI to formulate the formal ask using their pdf as guidance. I could have gotten it directly but the effort barrier was too high for it to be worth it.

However, as soon as they put AI to handle these queries, this will result in having AI persuade AI. Sound like we need a new LLM benchmark: AI-persuasion^tm.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-04 20:30:15+00:00
> Modern e-readers can read all of the above and are very cheap so there is no reason to refuse any (unless they charge too high of a fee)

Nearly all of them will have some recurring service fees and paying ~3% to process credit card payments is fairly unavoidable, but those aren't even the biggest costs. You have to install card readers everywhere, which is not just the equipment cost but also the labor to install them, and maintain them, and keep them networked with all the costs of that. If any of it fails it's a service interruption which means you need redundancy and overnight support. People call you with billing problems or commit fraud and have to be investigated.

What's the point of any of that when the fares are generating less than 1% of the state budget, have privacy issues and deter people from doing something you want to encourage?
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-12-04 20:30:26+00:00
Read Daniel Pink: "Whole new mind".

Whatever you do, someone else will be able to do it faster and cheaper.

Also, read up on the "Red ocean" vs "Blue ocean" theories about competition.

Yes, you can compete in the cut-throat red ocean, where all other competitors try to survive by offering roughly the same product or service. Look at basically every AliExpress shop.

But it will only get you so far. Will they survive in the long run? To really succeed, you have to offer something unique. Production efficiency is of course on everyones radar. No company ever said "we dont care about how much it cost to produce our product/service".

Google wasn't unique when they started. There were several other search engines out there, Alta Vista being the largest one. Both offered their services for free - so how can you possibly compete on price in the Red Ocean against all other search engine? No matter how efficient the execution was, they had to attract people. Because that was what they were selling. People are the raw material. So, Google offered a different experience than all other engines. That way, they eventually got more and better raw material (people) to sell.

Apple tried what everyone else did back in the early 2000s; Sell mobile phones. But they did not become the world's second largest handset maker by being the most efficient at developing or producing them. In fact, they deliberately sold their phones at a loss for the first years. They decided that they would provide a completely new experience, and that eventually people would be willing to pay a premium which turned out to be twice as much than an android phone with comparable hardware features and costs.

SpaceX, on the other hand, have gotten the world leader in rocket launcher thanks to outstanding execution ; instead of destroying every rocket once the payload has been deployed, they are reusing the rockets, thus keeping the cost per launch much lower. Noone else have yet been near their reusability and cost per launch - because its litterarily rocket science, not because the competitors are less efficient in their execution.

Thomann and Behringer are some of the world's largest companies in the music instrument business. They have perfected execution to such degree that it is hard to find cheaper alternatives that are comparable even on AliExpress!

Ingvar Kamprad started his first company by buying pens in big-pack, selling them piecewize at a large markup. Later the company decided - similar to Behringer - to copy the design of well-known furnitures, but optimize the logistics, eventually also optimizing the manufacturing process. IKEA is now the world's most famous furniture company. But, even they can't sell the cheapest bookshelf anymore.
by cardanome | 2025-12-04 20:30:27+00:00
Autism is something you are born with. It is simply who you are.

Support needs can change over time. You can need less help because you learn better coping strategies and have a stable environment or you can need more as you get older. It is not fixed.

Support needs are denoted in level because that is what system like schools and the like need. They don't really map to reality. Like for example a autistic person can have really bad sensory issues, being really sensitive to sounds, restricted diet and the like but decent social skill. Another autistic person might not have any sensory issues but really struggle with social stuff. Who needs more help? They need different kinds of help.
by Hizonner | 2025-12-04 20:31:13+00:00
> But once you age past the gauntlet of general education that specifically tests all these things, the hope is that you can just sort of flow like water into a valuable enough community role that you can take care of yourself and help some people.

... provided that that gauntlet hasn't stuck a label on you that makes everybody think you're unsuitable for any role, and provided that it's bothered to develop the abilities you do have, and provided that other people aren't being unnecessarily rigid about what roles they'll allow to exist.

Sure, maybe it's stupid to frame it as "THIS counts as being disabled and THAT doesn't"... but we have a world where many systems have decided to do that, and may act slightly less insanely inflexible if they've put you in the "disabled" bucket.

If everybody has some limitations, maybe everybody should get some accommodations. You know, so that they can actually contribute using their strengths. But I'm not holding my breath.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-04 20:31:30+00:00
So you are a long way from Kindergarten to an elite university. I mention this because it is odd to me that you picked your 4 to 5 year old self to validate why you are getting accommodations in your teens/twenties at a self-described elite university.

My own kids have some issues and varying levels of accommodations, but those have evolved and lessened over time. As you would hope they would! You seem to imply your conditions have not really improved and you need same/similar accommodations now as you did 15 years ago?

Sorry, I am trying not to be offensive here but I am genuinely confused.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-04 20:31:30+00:00
Well... in the UK it's now around 25%:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

However, big caveat - it's self-reported. If you look at how many people get disability benefit it's around 10%.

So whether or not that is true depends entirely on what you mean by "disability" which is obviously not a well defined term.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-04 20:31:31+00:00
This sort of scamming has been going on for a long time, by rich kids particularly. I remember 20 years ago I was surprised to learn that one of my friends, a very clever guy from a very well off family, was supposedly so profoundly disabled that he could do all of his tests overnight and at home. When I asked him how he got such a sweet deal, the answer was "My dad's a doctor."
by weehobbes | 2025-12-04 20:31:34+00:00
Ok, in the extreme case, that's a fair point. Tests can't be unlimited in length. But I don't think it's actually that tricky to draw the line. If a typical school test is 1 hour during class, just give students the option to come in at lunch or a free period for an extra period for extra time if needed. That seems easy and reasonable enough to me.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-04 20:32:05+00:00
> I remember way less cross-platform software than we have now

Really? Outside Electron apps and PWAs, I'm seeing fewer apps than ever support macOS as a native target. Additionally, cross-platform packaging feels much more fragile than it used to, especially if you're using Brew over Nix. And cross-platform games... just forget about it.

Modern macOS simply feels abandoned by cross-platform efforts. Upstream Wine runs worse than it did in 2010, depreciated 32-bit libraries annihilated my Mac-native Steam catalog and AU plugins, Vulkan is ignored and CUDA compute drivers work but Apple refuses to sign them. The professional experience that I attributed to macOS is gone in the new releases. All Apple can innovate in is petty politicking.
by nish__ | 2025-12-04 20:32:40+00:00
My napkin math:

According to my research, these machines can etch around 150 wafers per hour and each wafer can fit around 50 top-of-the-line GPUs. This means we can produce around 7500 AI chips per hour. Sell them for $1k a piece. That's $7.5 million per hour in revenue. Run the thing for 3 days and we recover costs.

I'm sure there's more involved but that sounds like a pretty good ROI to me.