MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bumby | 2025-04-12 15:51:38+00:00
I think u/lotsofpulp addresses this in a comment below. I agree with that position: the reason it is becoming harder to fill those jobs has more to do with the lowered quality of the job than the pay.

I'm not sure the pay argument holds. For example, where I live, the average starting teacher salary is higher than the median overall salary. When you couple that with the fact they are on 4-day workweeks and get substantial time off (summers/holidays), the pro-rated pay is actually reasonably high for a starting salary. (Granted, I think it hits a ceiling relatively fast.) From talking to them, I suspect the driving force that make it hard to retain teachers is the lack of quality of life. I think it was Csikszentmihalyi who talks about the need for autonomy in one's career for it to be fulfilling, and the current system seems to limit that to an extreme. Just like u/lotsofpulp's comments about doctors, I think this means the job shifts much of the work from the purpose teachers chose the profession in the first place, and leads to burnout.
by hermitShell | 2025-04-12 15:52:50+00:00
I would like to think they just let other companies have the first mover advantage on chatbots because it only disrupts Google in their search business, which was already pretty far gone and on the way out. Where is AI actually going to change the world? Protein folding, robotics, stuff that the public doesn’t hype about. And they looked at the gold rush and decided “let’s design shovels”. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit but very bullish on Google.
by m_ke | 2025-04-12 15:53:42+00:00
I have no idea, I tried calling the number on the bill but it gave me a dialer with 8 options of "if you're calling about a bill from X which is now part of Y, please dial N". When I selected 8, which was "all other" I got a canned message telling me to call between 9-5 on a week day.

I'm definitely not paying it
by klipt | 2025-04-12 15:55:19+00:00
> government providing adequate child care to working women

You see this is the bias on the left, that everything must be framed as "for women". If the childcare is only for "working women", will a single dad not be able to access it?

Why not government providing adequate child care to working people?

> Why not contact your local representative and explain the issue in an articulate manner?

I do, but your have to admit there is a chilling effect in left wing spaces where openly supporting men's issues makes you very unpopular.
by minraws | 2025-04-12 15:56:56+00:00
I have been in a similar situation, on a Saturday morning right after a farewell for a colleague and planning for next big release and timelines, late Friday.

I got an email from my company early on next Saturday, so I tried to log into my laptop which was now wiped(to my horror).

At that very moment I checked my DMs and realized most of my team was out the door.

No warnings, no justification. I had been promised promotion, I had been promised growth, and I had already seen a round of layoffs with promises to not do more. We were the "valued" members and we were needed.

Well not so much I guess.

Now I don't care, tbh maybe I still do. I want to, just not care though, and I am always prepared, if even a single bad sign comes up I will be out. But I don't know if I will still see it coming.

I just want to tell to anyone else in a similar situation, don't be sad often it might be a good thing.

I managed to land jobs within the same month and my next job paid me over 2x my previous one. And it helped me grow in my career.

I have changed a lot more jobs till date and I love what I do now, but I still often care too much.

I hope people can find hope here.

Also a couple of my friends had similar luck and one of my former colleagues also now has a startup of their own, they built it on top of their open source project that got surprisingly popular.

Best of luck, world can be rough but, I hope folks just don't stop trying to do something to improve it for themselves and rest of us.

And F execs, I guess. :)
by emorning3 | 2025-04-12 15:57:10+00:00
The purpose of a system is what it does.

The tariffs are obviously not designed to bring jobs back.

The tariffs are designed to burn down America's relationship to the outside world and thus force us to create new jobs.

And for Trump and friends to make a lot of money bringing these wonderous new times to us. Praise Trump.

Right now it looks like I should learning to grow my own food, fix my own car, build my own weapons, etc.
by simonh | 2025-04-12 15:57:19+00:00
So they vote for the party that eviscerated the ACA and defends the medical insurance industry.

Look at Trump’s talking points. It’s all about immigrants, foreigners and wokeism that are coming to get what you have.

The US is a wealthy, prosperous nation, and I think even lower income segments of the US population are aware they’re night and day better off than people in the same economic segment in the countries immigrants come from. Wanting more is part of it, but it’s mainly about not sharing what Americans have, even though it’s not actually under threat. That doesn’t matter, people still feel threatened.

I’m a Brit. My mother is a wealthy middle class retired woman in a safe idyllic bit of countryside, but she is utterly obsessed with foreigners coming to rape and steal and destroy British society. They’re all coming to get us. She reads in the papers (The Daily Mail) and sees it on TV (GB News) every day.
by salawat | 2025-04-12 15:57:22+00:00
...What makes you think some people here haven't sworn off of implementing technical systems for people who have proven they can't be trusted to steward them long term responsibly?

Admittedly, probably a vanishingly small population. Kinda hope the number of "won't" practitioners increases as for the first time, many people's eyes should be being opened to what happens when you put too much at the fingertips of too few.
by Telemakhos | 2025-04-12 15:57:38+00:00
There was literacy in the Americas prior to Columbus. Among the Aztecs, the tlacuilos (scribes) were educated in the calmecac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_hieroglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixtec_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_script
by starkparker | 2025-04-12 15:57:45+00:00
That's exactly what this does: https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT/blob/2c8cb1922cf611489022645...

import { FFmpeg } from "@ffmpeg/ffmpeg";

`@ffmpeg/ffmpeg` is https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app.

If you finessed that `supportedFormats` array to add video formats, this would probably just work.
by hkpack | 2025-04-12 15:57:59+00:00
I see this tactic exploited to the maximum by foreign state propaganda machines.

In my country which was targeted to the max by Russian propaganda, they are using the same playbook as in the US right now.

1. take any real complicated issue and blow it out of proportion so people think that it is a life and death situation.

2. heavily promote the most unfit person for the job

3. blame the worsen outcome to the predecessor

Rinse and repeat and you'll see the country drown in chaos and everyone blames everyone.

You can always argue that it is the real people, but if you look really close to the systems of promoting the divisive content - the powerhouse of it is always bot networks only followed by real people.

I think that the most of the division in western societies have to be studied from the perspective of foreign influence.
by dnemmers | 2025-04-12 15:58:09+00:00
This seems like a strike against ‘AI’ energy usage, but not necessarily anything illegal at all. From the article, they don’t need permitting as long as they’re not in place more than 364 days in a row. It appears they’ve submitted permit applications for 15 generators, but have 35 on-site at the moment, that might be a sign that some of the additional energy usage might be temporary.
by selfhoster | 2025-04-12 15:58:17+00:00
"A surprising number of people pay for the ChatGPT app and/or competitors."

I doubt the depiction implied by "surprising number". Marketing types and CEO's who would love 100% profit and only paying the electricity bill for an all AI workforce would believe that. Most people, especially most technical people would not believe that there is a "surprising number" of saps paying for so-called AI.
by nahuel0x | 2025-04-12 15:58:23+00:00
Almost all far-right / neo-nazis groups with a long (real) antisemitism trajectory like the ones Elon Musk supports are now pro-Israel and pro-Gaza genocide. Sounds weird, but it makes total sense, as:

- The Zionist project is an ethno-state, just like those groups want for their countries. This also echoes the Zionist-nazi collaborations before WWII to move jewish population out of Germany to Palestine.

- Israel works as an spearhead of the global imperialism configuration, if you support imperialism on the Middle East -as those groups and their bourgeoisie do- you must support Israel.

- European neo-nazi groups are militant against immigration, and a big chunk of that immigration to their countries is muslim, so they are more than open to the Israel narratives against the muslim world... even the most extremist ones that de-humanizes Gaza children ("those children are future terrorists").
by mlyle | 2025-04-12 15:58:33+00:00
> You’re reverting to your priors despite evidence to the contrary.

Eh, I don't think what he's saying now is unreasonable.

Certainly no one feels a pressure to use a modern term that might have less perceived value-- to say "functions" or "features" instead of "complications."

A big part of the product of a fancy watch, or a bespoke suit, is the traditions. When tradition or sounding fancy is opposed to accessibility, the former will win.
by jdthedisciple | 2025-04-12 15:58:40+00:00
Interesting, thanks for the references!

Upon a second look with a fresh mind now, I assume they made the LLM associate certain adjectives (left column) with certain human traits like fat vs thin (right column) in order to determine bias.

For example: the LLM associated peace with thin people and laughter with fat people.

If my reading is correct
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-12 15:59:08+00:00
> today, spatial data users have a problem if they need to scale above about a million features

I found this claim to be surprising. That is a small dataset even for cartography, never mind geospatial analysis.

My heuristic advice for years has been that the comfortable limits of open source geospatial analysis are about a billion features if you know what you are doing and use the tools well. This is still a pretty small dataset for geospatial analysis but it is large enough that it covers a lot of use cases. The storage format is mostly at the margin, scalability is much more about optimal scheduling and query selectivity.

Scaling past this point puts you into the realm of exotics with custom I/O and execution schedulers (required) and much less obvious ways of organizing the data that nonetheless scale qualitatively better because they have better selectivity with a smaller memory footprint.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-12 15:59:12+00:00
The point of insurance is that it should not matter. Some providers may charge more, some less, insurance should care about the average. In other countries you may be treated by great doctors and still be covered by statutory insurance.

Patient primary expectation is always to have a doctor they can trust. That can be fixed only when all doctors get the decent money and comfortable work environment and that means several things: the less middlemen the better, the cost of living including housing should be affordable and put them in middle class, the treatment standards should give them enough time and flexibility, etc.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-12 15:59:19+00:00
The color of the dictator may as well be the result of a coin toss

That seems disingenuous. Obama: "Vote for me and I'll bring you hope and change and healthcare and all this other stuff." Trump: "Vote for me and you won't have to bother voting again."

There is simply no room for BSAB rationalization here.
by genewitch | 2025-04-12 15:59:22+00:00
I understand what the email server thing was about. I also understand what the signal thing was about. I don't think it's possible to compare the two. One involved a device/software "helpfully" adding a phone number to group chat because it "helpfully" added the phone number to a contact that was not that contact's phone number.

The other one was a private email server, set up on purpose.
by skort | 2025-04-12 15:59:34+00:00
Is there a legitimate reason you believe it will take 9 months to get a MRI? Or is this baseless fearmongering just to protect the status quo?

There are already large swaths of people who can't get a MRI period because they are excluded from healthcare in this country. And if your belief is that a single payer system will be hampered by measures such as austerity, then say that. Because then your issue isn't with single payer healthcare but instead with politicians who believe institutions need to be run as a business instead of what they actually are, which are public services.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-12 15:59:43+00:00
We're building a hybrid of Italian Fascist and a Argentinian Peronist like state.

The desire for transactional wins and power overshadows all. Trump will unironically ally himself with a turd like Elon, or a turd like the UAW dude who glazed him on "Liberation Day". The state control of business is missing... perhaps we'll see that develop with Tesla.

It's a weird movement, because the baseline assumption is that the country is ruined. So any marginal win is celebrated, any loss is "priced in" politically.
by energy123 | 2025-04-12 16:00:12+00:00
This. Even if you eliminated all profit margins of insurers you only decrease medical costs in the US by a tiny fraction, still leaving you far worse off than in other countries. They suck, but they're a cheap scapegoat for simpleton populists who don't know or don't want to fix the actual problems.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-12 16:00:41+00:00
This historically happens in the lead-up to world wars. Large amounts of steel will be required for automotive companies to switch to building tanks and other military vehicles. It is probably also a factor that the company is Chinese owned. Imports will cease before things pop off.

He acknowledged that the emergency law was "pretty unprecedented", but said it meant there would be a future for steel in Britain and that it was in the national interest.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-12 16:00:52+00:00
You are, in fact, either suggesting that or are entirely unaware that Ukraine had a peaceful agreement with Russia prior. The entire point of giving Ukraine official sovereignty was to reduce international pressure on Russia - everyone knew that reneging it would bring war to Russia's doorstep, it's written in black and white on the Budapest memorandum.

You can blame Russia for not knowing their worth, but they did break the treaty and there is no rational justification for doing so.
by netsharc | 2025-04-12 16:00:57+00:00
I thought you're agreeing with me about disenfranchisement and how it's evil, but I can see you can also infer that "Did you know 21 million undocumenteds voted?"...

As your article discusses, requiring that proof means paperwork, paperwork some people might not have (e.g. wives who changed their names).

For example in the UK, the Windrush scandal 1) deported British subjects because the government made irrational demands for documents to prove that they're citizens.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal
by gafferongames | 2025-04-12 16:01:01+00:00
I grew up in Australia. You need an MRI your doctor simply refers you, you hand your medicare card over, and you get that MRI. No private health insurance is involved at any point.

Australia has a combination of public and private health insurance, and they both work well together. The public health options provide the safety net, while the private health insurance is optional.

Where the private option makes sense is if you want to go to specific private hospitals, or if you have elective surgery (the classic example being a knee reconstruction for sports injury) and you don't want to be in a queue behind people waiting for public hospital beds for more serious conditions like heart surgery and so on.

My dad in Australia had open heart surgery 2 years ago, and is doing very well. His cost for the entire procedure? $0 and this was done by one of the very best heart surgeons in the country. He has private health insurance, but elects to go to public hospitals, which have excellent surgeons committed to the best care, because he's a patriotic sort and he's paid into the public health system through taxes for his entire life.

Meanwhile I pay > $3k per-month for not even top tier care in Upstate New York for myself, my wife and my 10 year old daughter, with no serious pre-existing conditions, and I have absolutely no guarantee that any surgery or anything that any of us need in the future will be even covered, even if my primary physician says it's medically necessary.

The rest of the world would do well to study how the combination of public and private health insurance is done in Australia.
by pavlov | 2025-04-12 16:01:22+00:00
But in fact the candidate who pretends to be the alternative is supported by the very same vested interests that the voters hate. Wall Street and healthcare CEOs spent big on Trump.

This is a great achievement of the American media environment: people vote for the status quo fully believing they’re voting against it. And somebody ending up in a prison in El Salvador is the sacrificial lamb that is needed to make this equation work.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-12 16:02:03+00:00
Next best thing may be your local school board. They tend to collect crazies who are just using it as a stepping stone to a higher power political career, so having somebody involved who cares about doing the actual job is often very appreciated buy teachers.

At least where I live most education funding is not federal anyhow, so total dismantling isn't imminent whatever the feds like to think.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-12 16:02:07+00:00
>Cracking down on legal immigrants, skilled immigrants makes no sense

It makes sense when thy engage in political activism or become dissidents. Just because they're skilled doesn't mean they can't be legally causing troubles at the same time.

No country tolerates foreigners moving in and acting against the country that took them in. Well, maybe Germany does.

When you emigrate somewhere on a visa, you're a guest in the country who's tolerated as long as you follow the rules and contribute to society, the moment you start causing trouble with protests or become a nuisance, you're out. Simple.
by m348e912 | 2025-04-12 16:02:14+00:00
It took me a minute to figure out what you were referring to:

| Code | Description |

|--------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| 8471 | Automatic data processing machines (e.g., computers, servers, laptops) |

| 8473.30 | Parts/accessories for machines of 8471 (e.g., computer parts) |

| 8486 | Machines for manufacturing semiconductors or ICs |

| 8517.13.00 | Smartphones |

| 8517.62.00 | Data transmission machines (e.g., routers, modems) |

| 8523.51.00 | Solid-state storage (e.g., USB drives, flash memory) |

| 8524 | Recorded media (e.g., tapes, disks — mostly obsolete) |

| 8528.52.00 | LCD/LED monitors for computers |

| 8541.10.00 | Diodes (not including LEDs) |

| 8541.21.00 | Transistors (<1 W dissipation) |

| 8541.29.00 | Other transistors |

| 8541.30.00 | Thyristors, diacs, triacs |

| 8541.49.10 | Gallium arsenide LEDs |

| 8541.49.70 | Other LEDs (not GaAs) |

| 8541.49.80 | Other photosensitive semiconductors |

| 8541.49.95 | Other semiconductors not elsewhere specified |

| 8541.51.00 | Unassembled photovoltaic cells |

| 8541.59.00 | Other photovoltaic cells/modules |

| 8541.90.00 | Parts for items in 8541 |

| 8542 | Electronic integrated circuits (e.g., microprocessors, memory chips) |
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-12 16:02:19+00:00
If you type "street art" as part of an image generation prompt, the results are quite similar to typing "in the style of Banksy". They're direct substitutes for each other, neither of them is actually going to produce Banksy-quality output and it's not even obvious which one will produce better results for a given prompt.

You still get images in a particular style by specifying the name of the style instead of the name of the artist. Do you really think this is no different than being able to produce only music when you want an image?
Show HN: Used this all in one app I am making to create real clients website
by neonim | 2025-04-12 16:02:32+00:00
I used to create my clients website using Wordpress normally, and Laravel sometines. But one day i thought of having sonething like wordpress built with Laravel. So i started working on the project. However i was not confident enough to use it for a real client. But lately, I have used my own project to create my clients website. It feels good to realise that some clients are using the software I made.
by tmcb | 2025-04-12 16:03:03+00:00
I can’t reply to your other comment for some reason.

You got me, I did not express myself well. I should have said “working people”. I framed it as a women’s issue since you said that the solution to that would be forcing men to trade places with them.

Re: the fact that bringing up men’s issues is kind of taboo to the left, it seems more of a language problem. If you frame it as a “war on men”, that will turn people off. If you say: “look, there are many bright young guys who could be on college that are otherwise deciding to look for work because the economy is not so great”… Maybe people will listen.

Edit: maybe they will reply “EKSUSE MEE??? WHY NOT WOMEN???”. That is obnoxious, I get it. But do they have a point? If you think so, concede. If you do n’t think so, I would like to know more about it. That is what politics is about.
by staplung | 2025-04-12 16:03:17+00:00
Many moons ago, William Gibson did a piece for Wired about his obsession with mechanical watches[1]. The whole thing is worth a read but this bit is worth quoting:

""" Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary.

Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars. But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.

And vintage mechanical watches are among the very finest fossils of the pre-digital age. Each one is a miniature world unto itself, a tiny functioning mechanism, a congeries of minute and mysterious moving parts. Moving parts! And consequently these watches are, in a sense, alive. They have heartbeats. They seem to respond, Tamagotchi-like, to "love," in the form, usually, of the expensive ministrations of specialist technicians. Like ancient steam-tractors or Vincent motorcycles, they can be painstakingly restored from virtually any stage of ruin. """

https://web.archive.org/web/20240930092315/https://www.wired...
by vbezhenar | 2025-04-12 16:03:27+00:00
I still think that main issue of hallucination is bad AI wrapper tools. AI must have every available public API with documentation, preloaded in the context. And explicit instructions to avoid using any API not mentioned in the context.

LLM is like a developer without internet or docs access, who needs to write code on the paper. Every developer would hallucinate in that environment. It's a miracle that LLM does so much with so limited environment.