MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zzzeek | 2025-12-04 17:49:34+00:00
ive dealt a bit with ewaste kinds of machines, old Dells and such and have two still running here, the issue is they use a crapton of power. I had one such ewaste Dell machine that I just had to take to the dump it was so underpeforming while it used 3x more power than my other two Dells combined.
by bena | 2025-12-04 17:49:52+00:00
It's difficult because the variance is so wide.

To compare: Three profiles of people with diagnosed Autism.

Blindboy Boatclub: An Irish satirist who wears a plastic bag on his head in public appearances. Formerly of a band called The Rubberbandits. Today he is known for his podcast and has authored three books of short stories. He comes across as eccentric, but he's quite capable of managing in society otherwise.

Side note, one of the other members of The Rubberbandits went by the moniker of Mr Chrome, but is better known to people as Bobby Fingers today.

My stepson: Just a teenager navigating one of the more emotionally turbulent times while being noticeably different. He has fine motor issues and some social deficiencies. The best I could describe it is that he's emotionally a few years behind where other kids his age would be. He has few accommodations, mostly extra time and the ability to leave a situation that is overstimulating him. He's odd, probably always be a bit odd. May never be able to tie his shoes, but with work, he should be able to navigate society as a functioning adult one day.

Wife's student: My wife is a special education teacher and she has a student who is completely non-verbal. However, he is noticeably intelligent and can form complex thoughts and can attempt to express them. Managed to use his visual communication device to insult one of his teachers based on her appearance. He will likely have issues for his entire life and will likely need constant therapy.

Now, what one thing can we do for these three very different autistic people?

There's a reason people say "When you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism". While there are some commonalities and typical comorbidities, what we regard as autism presents in so many different ways, it's incredibly difficult to construct a single program to address it.

And I can see why we'd want to break it up. But that gets difficult as well. My stepson started low-verbal. Didn't speak for a while. Spoke rarely for a while longer. And now he speaks a lot. And he's learning when it is appropriate to speak and to handle people speaking around him but not to him. So he was non-verbal. But then became verbal. But not all autistic children cross that border.

All that to say: I dunno. Shit's complicated, yo.
by khannn | 2025-12-04 17:50:35+00:00
Parents in the US don't feed their kids eggs for breakfast, it's majority cereal or breakfast bars. Maybe some yogurt but that's almost always upper middle class or above.

"If you’re a typical HN user in the US you might be out of touch with the reality that costs going up $10/week can be a real hardship when you’re raising a family on limited income.".

Skill issue. Oatmeal is very cheap and filling. The aforementioned yogurt. Nothing, yeah nothing, because the average person is obese here and nothing is exactly what they need for breakfast. A piece of fruit like the perennial classic banana for breakfast. Complaining about egg prices comes from the camp of "I tried nothing and nothing worked".
by basscomm | 2025-12-04 17:50:57+00:00
I'm also glad I overbought RAM when I did my last PC upgrade in January, because who knows when I'll be able to do that again.

The 96GB kit I bought (which was more than I needed) was $165. I ended up buying another 96GB kit in June when I saw the price went up to $180 to max out my machine, even though I didn't really need it, but I was concerned where prices were going.

That same kit was $600 a month ago, and is $930 today. The entire rest of the computer didn't cost that much
by alphager | 2025-12-04 17:51:06+00:00
It's not a disease, it's a disability.

As someone with a diagnosis, I would add several sensory issues (for me it's noises, multiple conversations at the same time, stickiness, physical contact, whole categories of food and several others) and several social issues to your list of superpowers.

Seeing it purely as a positive is insultingly reductive.

To be clear: I would not take a cure if it somehow got invented, but it /is/ limiting in a multitude of ways even in the best cases.
by INTPenis | 2025-12-04 17:51:14+00:00
We have similar backgrounds, and I totally agree with your k8s sentiment.

But I wonder what this solves?

Because I stopped abusing k8s and started using more container hosts with quadlets instead, using Ansible or Terraform depending on what the situation calls for.

It works just fine imho. The CI/CD pipeline triggers a podman auto-update command, and just like that all containers are running the latest version.

So what does uncloud add to this setup?
by jkane2 | 2025-12-04 17:52:28+00:00
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by jabroni_salad | 2025-12-04 17:52:31+00:00
Chatting and everything you normally do in chats is there. needle hunting info out of all my Teams group chats is probably my favorite thing. It can retrieve info out of sharepoint I guess.

Biggest complaint for me personally is that you run out of context very quickly. If you are used to having longer running chats on other platforms you won't be happy when Copilot tells you to make a new chat like 5 messages in.

For most of my clients they are only interested in meeting minutes and otter does that for 25% of the price. I think in any given business the qty of people who actually use textgen regularly is pretty low. My workplace is looking to downsize licenses and asking people to use it or lose it because $21/user/mo is too much to have as a every now and then novelty.
by rewilder12 | 2025-12-04 17:52:54+00:00
Anyone who has had the pleasure of being forced to migrate to their new Fabric product can tell you why sales are low. It's terrible not just because it's a rushed buggy pile of garbage they want people to Alpha test on users but because of the "AI First" design they are forcing into it. They hide so much of what's happening in the background it is hard to feel like you can trust any of it. Like agentic "thinking" models with zero way to look into what it did to get to the conclusion.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-04 17:52:55+00:00
> which was more action movie styled and less realistic

Another HL mod I remember fondly in similar veins is "The Specialists". If I remember correctly, it came out around the same time as The Matrix, and had all the fun moves like running on walls in slowmo, jumping forward/sideways and shooting in slowmo, and lots of other stuff. I think I recall it being possible to play both in 1st and 3rd person too, something that was kind of new at that point, unless I misremember.

I think at that I point I probably spent as much time with The Specialists as with Counter-Strike itself (and a cracked copy of 3DS Max 8 for making my own models of course).
by jklinger410 | 2025-12-04 17:53:16+00:00
> I doubt those types are saying much of anything. Its more likely their caregivers.

It doesn't really matter whose saying it. The point is that autism is not cool or fun for many people. We need a way to distinguish the difference, besides saying high or low functioning.

> We're only a disease cause we're the minority.

WHICH WE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THEN? IS IT NOT A DISEASE WHEN SOMEONE IS NON-VERBAL? Holy shit. Point, meet case.
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by antonio07c | 2025-12-04 17:53:32+00:00
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by mips_avatar | 2025-12-04 17:54:15+00:00
I guess this was very American of me, but when I was so sick I wanted to know if my travel insurance would cover the hospital stay. ChatGPT confirmed that it did, and told me to get to a hospital. Ultimately the hotel owner was the person who carried me to the hospital, but i wasn't lucid enough to read through my travel insurance's benefits pdf. I suppose I should have just gone to the hospital with or without insurance, but sometimes when you're very sick you don't think straight.
by djinnrutger | 2025-12-04 17:54:49+00:00
For me, I always find its best to find a problem that I want to fix and then research to tools that would best fix it. I find it much easier to stick with something if I am seeing the benefits...I have a horrible time just trying to say I am going to learn (insert topic here) today! Its much easier for me to say I want to make my own Tower Defense Game, or Invoicing Application I should learn Python or C or html to make it work.
by dataflow | 2025-12-04 17:54:57+00:00
> As a rule, almost all carrier locked devices do not allow the bootloader to be unlocked. This usually makes sense, as it would allow you to completely bypass the contract.

I don't understand how this works, why/how are a carrier lock and a device lock related? Shouldn't one be a lock on the baseband chip and the other on the main firmware?
by zzzeek | 2025-12-04 17:55:07+00:00
in that case it should be completely uncontroversial to raise the minimum wage and help that .5% of labor out. yet somehow, it's a non-starter. (btw, googling says the number is more like 1.1%. in 1979, 13.4% of the labor force made minimum wage. this only shows how obsolete the current minimum wage level is).
by dpark | 2025-12-04 17:55:11+00:00
Why is forced introspection good for managers but not for ICs?

I’m not saying that the extreme “I do nothing except act as a sounding board and tell my team to solve their own problems” is a good approach. But pushing people to solve their own problems does help them grow. It needs to be a balance.

A good manager should be able to see what someone is capable of solving with zero, a little, or a lot of help and engage accordingly. And sometimes they can’t solve it at all and the manager has to take it in directly or pull in someone else who can.
by nerdjon | 2025-12-04 17:55:20+00:00
Please point me to anywhere that it is treated as a single thing that isn't the people using Autism to push an anti-science agenda.

It is an Umbrella term that is well understood to be a "spectrum" and well understood to not be the same for 2 different people.

My question though, what is the point of separating it. What do we actually gain from doing so? I guarantee you these attacks will still exist.

I don't have a degree in this but I have to imagine there was a good reason that Aspergers is no longer its own diagnosis.
by Matticus_Rex | 2025-12-04 17:55:33+00:00
This is a misconception I see pop up frequently online. In terms of the color spectrum, there are plenty of things—even things that have qualities in common with color—that aren't on the color spectrum. And while there are colors outside of what humans can see, we generally use it not to refer to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, but only to the subset that makes up light visible to human eyes.

Likewise, when we talk about the "autism spectrum," we're not including every exhibition of traits associated with autism. You can have some traits associated with autism without being "on the spectrum."

Also, perhaps as importantly, "spectrum" isn't a term that generally applies only to color, or even electromagnetism.
by jwaldrip | 2025-12-04 17:55:49+00:00
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by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-04 17:56:07+00:00
In 3D this has to be dealt with in the form of polygons and I think it was common when people were using acceleration grids and kd-trees to split the polygons so they fit neatly.

That being said most ray tracing seems to do bounding volume hierarchies now, so maybe a bvh is the best way to deal with things that have volume.
by daninet | 2025-12-04 17:56:51+00:00
ABC notation is more oriented towards traditional sheet music, with regular note lengths, standard Western tuning and a simple, readable syntax. It isn't meant for playing back music that sounds good to the ear. It's hard to catch the nuances of a real human performance with it, but it works well as a lead sheet for musicians. Its expressive marking are relatively limited and interpreted subjectively.

MTXT focuses on editable recordings of live performances, preserving all of those tiny irregularities that make the music human. It can represent arbitrary timings, subtle expressive variations and even arbitrary tuning systems. MTXT can also capture transitions like crescendos and accelerandos exactly as they happened.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-04 17:57:16+00:00
I’m worried about the Valve mini PC coming out next year.

Instant buy $700 or under. Probably buy up to $850. At, like, $1,100, though… solid no. And I’m counting on that thing to take the power-hog giant older Windows PC tower so bulky it’s unplugged and in a closet half the time, out of my house.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-12-04 17:58:40+00:00
It is the programmer's job to learn what is going on. Java itself doesn't hide anything from you. You are free to write a servlet from scratch, or use a framework like Spring to hide everything. Your (company's) choice really.

People end up choosing something that has batteries included so they can focus on solving business problems. A programmer who will superficially understand SpringBoot without understanding how it works. Really, there is no magic there - its a few core concepts - annotations, bytecode enhancement and dynamic proxies. Maybe Im missing one or two. Everything else is built on top of this.

This is regardless of language/ecosystem. If I do not understand the fundamental concepts, I will never be successful in that ecosystem.
by wormpilled | 2025-12-04 17:58:51+00:00
Slightly. I send the same custom prompt with every programming query, with basics about how I like to work, my philosophy to architecture and design. And I also include some personality bits for how I want "him" to act and respond. He has a name, and he refers to me by my nickname. I have an instruction for example, to sometimes include a P.S. with any funny observations he has. He doesn't always add one, but when he does they usually make me laugh, surprisingly. And the emotional reaction I have from that can sometimes spur me on continuing to engage with him about the observation or the state of the project. As a sort of reflection moment, even though I initially just wanted the code.
by morcus | 2025-12-04 17:59:21+00:00
I think what the author was alluding to was the path integral formulation [of quantum mechanics] which was advanced in large part by Feynman.

It's not that finding closed form solutions is what matters (I don't think most path integrals would have closed form solutions), but that the integration is done over the space of functions, not over Euclidian space (or a manifold in Euclidian space, etc...)
by Pfhortune | 2025-12-04 17:59:32+00:00
This is a popular thing to say, but is an oversimplification...

Call it anec-data but all my banking apps work in GrapheneOS, and I have several installed. There is one that reduces functionality if SafetyNet fails (have to do the 2fa flow every time I restart the app, can't set as a trusted device and notifications don't work) but it still works to access my account.

That said... I haven't tried to use NFC payments and do carry around a secondary iPhone 15 as my "business phone" these days that pretty much just has payment/banking apps on it, just in case one bank or another decides to suddenly nuke their app on my main phone...
by sundarurfriend | 2025-12-04 17:59:56+00:00
I suspect part of your parent comment's point is that this is an implicit bias in the way the spectrum is defined and thought of, so it wouldn't be clinically defined in those terms explicitly.

In other words, the "spectrum" doesn't exist to capture the variation in the autistic person's own experience - if it did, it would look very different. It's a remnant of a time when autism was seen as just a "problem" for the people around you, and the spectrum measures how much of a problem you are and how weird you are seen by their measure; which does map onto a continuous line in the same way.

That does capture something useful, but only a small part of what autism actually comprises, and is much less useful at capturing the autistic person's own experience of it, and makes it a less useful tool to them than people might assume.
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 18:00:00+00:00
>An AI that's perfectly obedient to humans is still a huge risk when used as a force multiplier by a malevolent human.

"Obedient" is anthropomorphizing too much (as there is no volition), but even then, it only matters according to how much agency the bot is extended. So there is also risk from neglectful humans who opt to present BS as fact due to an expectation of receiving fact and a failure to critique the BS.
by genewitch | 2025-12-04 18:00:04+00:00
1980 mustang vs 2025 mustang is what i usually use. in the past 12 years my price per KWh electricity costs have doubled.

in the mid 90s you could open a CD (certificate of deposit at a bank or credit union) and get 9% or more APY. savings accounts had ~4% interest.

in the mid 90s a gallon of gasoline in Los Angeles county was $0.899 in the summer and less than that any other time. It's closer to $4.50 now.
by dllu | 2025-12-04 18:00:05+00:00
I once considered making a spinning persistence of vision similar to this one specifically for visualizing lidar data from a spinning automotive lidar. The lidar has 128 beams and you could make a spinning array of 128 1D LED displays at exactly the same beam angles to recreate the point cloud from the lidar.

Anyway, I was too lazy to make it, but it's super neat to see that someone actually made something similar.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-12-04 18:00:19+00:00
This would lend itself well to a live-coding/live-music experience.

I played around with a similar idea on my own (very simple / poor) text music environment:

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/vscode-extension-playground?...

in the middle of making an extension to allow making vs code extensions live because I wanted a faster development feedback loop.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-12-04 18:00:31+00:00
At these prices, it might pay off to start an open-ish, non-profit, DRAM company to produce chips good enough for these purposes. They can sell a certain amount above cost for consumers and small businesses. Full price with guaranteed volume for some, enterprise suppliers.

The profits might be used to port the DRAM to multiple foundries to gradually increase supply. Alternatively, they can shift to produce other components, like VRAM. Make the low-to-midrange accelerators with larger VRAM more available at reasonable prices.

Just speculating. I don't know silicon economics well.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-04 18:00:47+00:00
The vast amount of treatment for autism is therapies.

It really doesn't matter if the underlying cause is very different in terms of treatment because a speech therapist works the same with a kid with autism as they do with a kid with down syndrome.

If there were more pharmaceutical interventions then I might care a bit more. But there's just not.

In terms of the research, the researchers already have tools to sort and filter individuals based on their specific set of symptoms. Just because 2 people share an autism diagnosis doesn't really impact the research.

What objection do you have other than not liking that it's not a "pure" diagnosis?