MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9x39 | 2025-04-25 18:16:26+00:00
It cuts both ways. I've struggled to get things like backups or multifactor authentication approved without being able to point to some force like regulation or insurance providers that can dislodge executives' inertia.

My mental model at this point says that if there's a cost to some important improvement, the politics and incentives today are such that a typical executive will only do the bare minimum required by law or some equivalent force, and not a dollar more.
by smj-edison | 2025-04-25 18:16:29+00:00
I'm really struggling to understand your argument, are you trying to argue in short-term or long-term trends? I'm trying to argue that in aggregate, life is getting better for people, while also awknowledging that there's not an equal distribution. For example, food has decreased in price 4x since 1900 in real terms[1]. I don't see how that's not more affordable.

> You skated right past the need for a smartphone.

Hmm? Like when I said "Another cost is it's pretty much impossible to do anything without a smartphone and internet"?

> a good Uber Eats driver can make about $13 to $16 an hour

Source? That doesn't line up with what I found.

> A performance, mind, that is subject to dozens of factors entirely outside the control of the driver.

This is just FUD if you haven't cited your sources on average/median/distribution of pay in whatever area.

You have a very good point on liability issues though.

> The solution is I think quite simple here

Thus increasing prices of rides, causing users to stop using the service, further shrinking pay? Uber just started being profitable after dumping billions of dollars in subsidies, on top of bad pay. If you make them full-time employees, you may just shut off the one source of income they have.

Uber won because they offered a superior service to taxis. I'm not going to open the can of worms of their predatory behavior, but there was still a significant part that was a better service.

Again, I am planning on helping these people, I think they should be helped, but you really need to think through what could happen if you force a company to become insolvent.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/long-term-prices-food?foc...
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-04-25 18:16:34+00:00
You always hear these sayings and then when you look at acceptance rates in Canadian higher-ed you find that there just aren't that many highly selective schools. Brock isn't an outlier at all; compared to a school like Stanford, for example, literally every Canadian school is wildly more accepting. People just apply to less schools at once (less culture of moving for school) and the schools have far more clear grade requirements --- if you meet them then you have like a 95% chance of getting accepted. There is no insane competitive application process like in the US and no one cares about what school you went to for undergraduate.

It is funny how every school has a saying like that for rivals, though.
by Me1000 | 2025-04-25 18:16:43+00:00
Yet it's interesting how we put the blame and punishment on the people being taken advantage of, and not the employers who are exploiting them. If both parties are breaking the law shouldn't we at the very least ensure that the business owner who is exploiting any number of workers is held to the same standard as an undocumented person whose only crime was not having the proper paperwork?
by mediaman | 2025-04-25 18:16:47+00:00
Great read. One of the interesting insights from it is how difficult good application of AI is.

A lot of companies are just "deploying a chatbot" and some of the results from this study show that this doesn't work very well. My experience is similar: deploying simple chatbots to the enterprise doesn't do a lot.

For things to get better, two things are required, neither of which are easy:

- Integration into existing systems. You have to build data lakes or similar system that allow the AI to use data and information broadly across an enterprise. For example, for an AI tool to be useful in accounting, it's going to need high quality data access to the company's POs, issued invoices, receivers, GL data, vendor invoices, and so on. But many systems are old, have dodgy or nonexistent APIs, and data is held in various bureaucratic fiefdoms. This work is hard and doesn't scale that well.

- Knowledge of specific workflows. It's better when these tools are built with specific workflows in mind that are designed around specific peoples' jobs. This can start looking less like pure AI and more like a mix of traditional software with some AI capabilities. My experience is that I sell software as "AI solutions," but often I feel a lot of the value created is because it's replacing bad processes (either terrible older software, or attempting to do collaborative work via spreadsheet), and the AI tastefully sprinkled throughout may not be the primary value driver.

Knowledge of specific workflows also requires really good product design. High empathy, ability to understand what's not being said, ability to understand how to create an overall process value stream from many different peoples' narrower viewpoints, etc. This is also hard.

Moreover, this is deceiving because for some types of work (coding, ideating around marketing copy) you really don't need that much scaffolding at all because the capabilities are latent in the AI, and layering stuff on top mostly gets in the way.

My experience is that this type of work is a narrow slice of the total amount of work to be done, though, which is why I'd agree with the overall direction this study is suggesting that creating actual measurable major economic value with AI is going to be a long-term slog, and that we'll probably gradually stop calling it AI in the process as we attenuate to it and it starts being used as a tool within software processes.
by jkh1 | 2025-04-25 18:17:32+00:00
In my field, trying to reproduce results or conclusions from papers happens on a regular basis especially when the outcome matters for projects in the lab. However, whatever the outcome, it can't be published because either it confirms the previous results and so isn't new or it doesn't and no journal wants to publish negative results. The reproducibility attempts are generally discussed at conferences in the corridors between sessions or at the bar in the evening. This is part of how a scientific consensus is formed in a community.
Show HN: GS-Calc – A modern spreadsheet with Python integration
by jpiech | 2025-04-25 18:17:45+00:00
Process large (e.g. 4GB+) data sets in a spreadsheet.

Load GB/32 million-row files in seconds and use them without any crashes using up to about 500GB RAM.

Load/edit in-place/split/merge/clean CSV/text files with up to 32 million rows and 1 million columns.

Use your Python functions as UDF formulas that can return to GS-Calc images and entire CSV files.

Use a set of statistical pivot data functions.

Solver functions virtually without limits for the number of variables.

Create and display all popular chart types with millions of data points instantly.

Suggestions for improvements are welcome (and often implemented quite quickly).
by pieisgood | 2025-04-25 18:18:31+00:00
I had always envisioned an institute for reproducibility & Peer review. It would be a federally funded institute that would require Phd candidate participation as an additional requirement to receive your degree. Really it wouldn't be a single place but office or team at each university where proper equipment was available and perhaps similar conditions for reproducing specific research. Of course the feasibility of this is pretty low.
by orbital-decay | 2025-04-25 18:19:05+00:00
Due to it being electric or due to the specific design? EVs are generally much easier to design for water crossings. I actually drove an electric motorcycle across a river fully submerged, which it wasn't even designed for (had to do a thorough check afterwards but it was completely fine). This is not even remotely possible with the bike I normally ride (Africa Twin).
Crux – a new structure for human knowledge
by willstepp | 2025-04-25 18:19:38+00:00
The internet was supposed to make humanity wiser. Instead, we built systems that prioritize recency over relevance, reward reaction over reflection, and fragment ideas from their origins.

I believe we need more than better platforms — we need a fundamentally different architecture for digital thought.

CRUX is a new structure for human knowledge: A living ecosystem where ideas grow, connect, and preserve their lineage. It’s built on three core relationships:

Gate (lineage)

Growth (evolution)

Garden (impact)

Together they form a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of meaning — not just content.

Full write-up here: https://garden.crux

If this vision resonates with you — as a builder, thinker, writer, or explorer — I’d love to collaborate.

keeper@crux.garden
by Bender | 2025-04-25 18:19:39+00:00
It does increase mating as I pull together many packs and teach them to get along with one another. I break up their sparring when it gets too aggressive to preserve their eyes. I even know what music will increase mating when the females are in heat but I can not explain why they like it. We lost a great deal of deer in the last few years and especially two years ago due to incredible snowfall. If anything I have restored some of the population. If it gets out of hand the game department will issue more tags or move some of them to other parts of the state that most of the deer died from starvation. I have also kept them off the highway for the most part. When I first started there are on average 20 dead deer just along my stretch of highway. Now there is 1 every other year.

They are still very much afraid of humans with myself being the exception. If someone gets near their feeding area other than me they will scatter. They all come to me and then go back to the mountains far away from all humans except the hunters. Some of the older bucks even know to get up to 10,000+ feet where there is no food but also mostly no hunters whereas the rest of them go to 9500 feet and get picked off first by bow hunters then firearm and also by predatory animals mostly mountain lions.

Something else that often comes up is the increased rate of getting CWD. This is true however they would all be exposed regardless as they all end up on shared paths eventually as the prions are highly resilient to break-down in nature. It was detected in a town near me and I expect a portion of one of the sub-genome to get it and one of the sub-genome to be immune. I am testing a theory on tightening cell junctions on what scientists mistakenly named the blood brain barrier by reducing inflammatory food intake and only time will tell if that reduces the impact at all.
by Duwensatzaj | 2025-04-25 18:19:50+00:00
>* Very few people demonize gun ownership. They just want some laws preventing criminals from owning guns.

Don't gaslight us. Democrats have been pushing civilian disarmament HARD recently.

Restricted magazine sizes, requiring all transfers to go through a FFL, basic features bans, permits to purchase, restricting ammo purchases to FFLs raising prices, and now repeated attempts at semi-auto bans.

This isn't focused on criminals, it's trying to discourage firearm ownership in general. When states ban the federal government marksmanship program from shipping firearms to civilians AFTER they have already been background checked by a federal agency it's clear there is no attempt to stop criminals.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-04-25 18:19:52+00:00
Might it be because the federal government simply did not need to exercise much authority over the states? As a non-expert I am curious. I am continually amazed by how much authority is delegated to the states and local jurisdictions in the United States (e.g. matters of marriage, property, voting, etc.). As I understand even citizenship was handled by local courts up until very recently.
by jaxtracks | 2025-04-25 18:20:21+00:00
Interesting study! Far too early in the adoption lifecycle for any conclusions I think, especially given that the data is from Denmark which tends to be have a far less hype-driven business culture than the US going by my bit of experience working in both. Anecdotally, I've seen a couple of AI hiring freezes in the states (some from LLM integrations I've built) that I'm fairly sure will be reversed when management gets a more realistic sense of capabilities, and my general sense is that the Danes I've worked with would be far less likely to overestimate the value of these tools.
by taeric | 2025-04-25 18:20:23+00:00
Funny, as I was seeing a lot of people try and push that the gender of language is fully separate from gender of sex. The idea being that there was no real connection between them. I always find this a tough conversation because of how English is not a heavily gendered language. I have no idea how much gender actually enters thinking in the languages that we say are gendered.

My favorite example of this used to be my kids talking about our chickens. Trying to get them to use feminine pronouns for the animals is basically a losing game. That cats are still coded as primarily female, despite us never having a female cat; is largely evidence to me that something else is going on there.

I'm curious if you have reading on the last point. Can't promise to get to it soon, but I am interested in the ideas.
by pcwalton | 2025-04-25 18:20:55+00:00
Note that if you change the code to this you have the same issue:

int g(int n) { int arr[3], i = 0; arr[n] = 5; return i; }

Without "exploiting UB" it's incorrect to optimize this to "return 0", because of the possibility that i was allocated right after arr and n == 3.
by b0dhimind | 2025-04-25 18:21:01+00:00
He rambles too much... I tried to TLDR with AI transcript:

Within the LPO which staff was cut and why would it have this effect ChatGPT said:

In the context of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), staff reductions have primarily impacted business services roles, including administrative and support positions. For instance, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) laid off approximately 50 employees in the U.S. and U.K., mainly in business services, as part of a restructuring to manage costs and align with practice demand . Reuters

These cuts are often driven by a combination of factors:

Cost Management: Firms aim to reduce overhead by outsourcing routine tasks to regions with lower labor costs, thereby achieving significant savings . LPO&Law Technological Advancements: The adoption of AI and automation in legal processes allows firms to handle tasks like document review and data entry more efficiently, reducing the need for certain support roles . Press Release Distribution Operational Efficiency: By outsourcing non-core activities, firms can focus internal resources on strategic initiatives and client engagement, enhancing overall competitiveness . iBridge LLC+1iBridge LLC+1

While these measures can lead to improved efficiency and cost savings, they may also result in increased workloads for remaining staff and potential challenges in maintaining service quality if not managed carefully.
by trhway | 2025-04-25 18:21:05+00:00
> Imagine an undocumented immigrant who commits a serious crime, like murder. ..... wind up living free in another country

Check out that Russian guy, a director at NVIDIA at the time, so i'd guess pretty legal immigrant, who had a DUI deadly crash on I-85 in summer 2020, and for almost 3 years his lawyers were filing piles of various defenses like for example "statute of limitations" just few month after the crash, etc., and he disappeared later in 2022, with a guy with the same name, age, face, etc. surfacing in Russia as a director of AI at a large Russian bank.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/one-dead-driver-ar...
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-04-25 18:21:21+00:00
The insurance people are not a part of the company, so I'm not sure who would be offended.

I wouldn't be mean about it. I'm imagining adding a line to the email such as:

> (Yes, I know this is annoying, but it's required by our insurance company.)

What is the insurance company going to do, jack up our rates because we accurately stated what their policy was?
by meta_ai_x | 2025-04-25 18:21:26+00:00
It's incredibly hard to model complex non-linear systems. So, while I applaud the researchers to provide some data points, these things provide ZERO value for current/future decision making.

Chatbots were absolute garbage before chatGPT, while post chatGPT everything changed. So, there is going to be a tipping point event on labor market effects and past single variable "data analysis" will not provide anything to predict the event or it's effects
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-25 18:21:54+00:00
It is legal in all 50 states to organize a militia, it is illegal in all 50 states to do certain things as a militia including (the exact rules vary by state) things like participating in civil disorder, planning to participate in civil disorder, training for sabotage or guerilla warfare, etc.

Of course, since the purpose being suggested here is literally the purported urgent need to engage in armed rebellion against federal authorities, the concern that organizing a militia for that purpose would be constrained by merely "organizing a militia" being illegal is a bit odd. Waging war against the federal government, or conspiring to do so, is--even if one argues that it is morally justified by the government violating its Constitutional constraints--both clearly illegal and likely to be subject to the absolute maximum sanction. The legality of organizing a militia in general hardly makes a difference, either to the legal or practical risk anyone undertaking such a venture would face.
by maciej_pacula | 2025-04-25 18:22:24+00:00
On the data analysis side, I think making version control both mandatory and automatic would go a long way.

One issue is that internal science within a company/lab can move incredibly fast -- assays, protocols, datasets and algorithms change often. People tend to lose track of what data, what parameters, and what code they used to arrive at a particular figure or conclusion. Inevitably, some of those end up being published.

Journals requiring data and code for publication helps, but it's usually just one step at the end of a LONG research process. And as far as I'm aware, no one actually verifies that the code you submitted produces the figures in your paper.

It's a big reason why we started https://GoFigr.io. I think making reproducibility both real-time and automatic is key to make this situation better.
by ein0p | 2025-04-25 18:23:07+00:00
And all the drugs and treatments derived from those "studies" are going to continue to be prescribed for another couple of decades, much like they were cutting people up to "cure ulcers" long after it was proven that an antibiotic is all you really need to cure it. It took about a decade for that bulletproof, 100% reproducible study to make much of a difference in the field.
by skybrian | 2025-04-25 18:23:15+00:00
I’m not sure what your scare quotes mean, but nurses don’t work for free and traveling nurses in particular make good money.

“Forced labor” originally meant things like slave labor, but some people have it backwards.

I think anyone will agree that being able to walk away is important for negotiations. How much you’re paid has little to do with that. Having alternative job offers or the savings to do without a job for a while is more important.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 18:23:18+00:00
> if you consider illegal immigrants as people

Actually, I disagree[0].

The logic works just fine if you recognize that it is impossible to achieve 100% success rate. It is absolutely insane to me that on a website full of engineers people do not consider failure analysis when it comes to laws.

Conditioned that you have not determined someone is an illegal immigrant: _______What do you want to happen here? _________________

Wait, sorry, let me use code for the deaf

if (person.citizenStatus == illegal && person.citizenStatus in police.knowledge()) { deport(person, police) } else if (person.citizenStatus == illegal) { // What do you want to happen? // deport(person) returns error. There is no police to deport them } else if (person.citizenStatus == legal) { fullRights(person) } else if (person.citizenStatus == unknown { // Also a necessary question to answer // Do you want police randomly checking every person? That's expensive and a similar event helped create America as well as a very different Germany } else { // raise error, we shouldn't be here? }

Am I missing something? Seems like you could be completely selfish, hate illegal immigrants, AND benefit through policies of Sanctuary Cities and giving them TINs. How is that last one even an argument? It's "free" money.

EDIT:

> the bill of rights only applies to citizens

Just a note. This has been tested in courts and there's plenty of writings from the founders themselves, both of which would evidence that the rights are to everyone (the latter obviously influencing the former). It's not hard to guess why. See the "alternative solution" in my linked comment... It's about the `person.citizenStatus == unknown` case....

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796826
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 18:23:31+00:00
When my son got his first job and needed a car in a hurry to commute I helped him get his first car and in the search we wound up looking at a lot of Buicks that we liked and were at a good price and in good condition, particularly circa 2005 though we wound up with a '96 Park Avenue. It was my first experience owning an American car (title in my name for the cheaper insurance) and my own experience plus what I read indicates I probably would have done well with one of the 2005s.

My take is that at that age you don't pay that much more for the upbadged car but you're likely to find it in good condition but you get to enjoy the bling (the '96 is ahead of its time with traction control) and Buicks of that vintage have one of the best engines GM ever made.
by steve-chavez | 2025-04-25 18:23:47+00:00
Not really, the work is much reduced.

1. If your function returns a table type, you can reuse all the filters that PostgREST offers on regular tables or views [1].

2. The SQL code will be much more concise (and performant, which leads to less maintenance work) than the code of a backend programming language.

3. The need for migrations is a common complaint, but you can treat SQL as regular code and version control it. Supabase recently released some tooling [2] that helps with this.

[1]: https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/references/api/functions.h...

[2]: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/local-development/declarati...
by abakker | 2025-04-25 18:23:49+00:00
All costs are regressive to people with less ability to bear them. By making them not regressive we don't change behavior! It doesn't matter if they're regressive if the objective is to get people to not drive or to burn less gas. Shifting the cost to the rich doesn't change behavior and it doesn't reduce actual carbon. There's a lot more low-income emitters than high income ones.
by malthaus | 2025-04-25 18:24:36+00:00
i'm happy someone is considering new physical ideas/approaches at least as i find the trend in recent years of basically putting full "computers" into eurorack modules ridiculous. not just raspberry pi's behind a eurorack plate but with full configurability / user interfaces.

the release of the 4ms meta module was when i decided to be happy with what i have because it's becoming an unironic misguided circlejerk of sorts
by goatlover | 2025-04-25 18:24:38+00:00
Smoking a joint can be misdemeanor. Many people don't think it should be criminal at all. It really depends on who passes and enforces said laws. Similar to smoking a joint, crossing a border illegally is a victimless infraction. Depending on who you ask, it's not a big deal and possibly even a positive for the US, or it's the end of America, when it's the POTUS posting on his social media account.