MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbsks | 2025-04-29 19:45:10+00:00
> Why not require two or three reviews if they are so helpful at finding mistakes?

For secure software, e.g. ASIL-D, you will absolutely have a minimum 2 reviewers. And that’s just for the development branch. Merging to a release branch requires additional sign offs from the release manager, safety manager, and QA.

By design the process slows down “velocity”, but it definitely increases code quality and reduces bugs.
by quantadev | 2025-04-29 19:45:42+00:00
Not be contrarian, but if the next word prediction happens to be someone's name or a place or something discussed multiple places in the book then often, yes, a knowledge of the full plot of the book is "required" just to predict the next word, as you get to the middle or end of a book.

For example you could never fill in the last chapter of any good book without having knowledge of every previous chapter. Not highly detailed knowledge, but still knowledge.
by jakubmazanec | 2025-04-29 19:45:49+00:00
Awfully early? We have "useful" LLMs for almost three years. Where is the productivity increase? Also, your example is not very relevant. 1) Would you pay the professional if you couldn't find the answer yourself? 2) If search engines were still useful (I'm assuming you googled first), wouldn't they be able to find the official calculator too?
by happy_dog1 | 2025-04-29 19:45:50+00:00
This April 3rd Pew research study is some fairly interesting reading:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-p...

They find that the general public is overall much more skeptical that AI will benefit anyone, much more likely to view it as harmful and much less excited about its potential than "AI experts". A majority of Americans are more concerned than excited. There is interestingly a large gender gap between men and women -- women are much less likely to view AI favorably, to use it frequently or to be excited about its potential than men.

There is some research to suggest that consumers are less likely to buy a product and less likely to trust it (less "emotional trust") when AI is used prominently to market it:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

So I think the data suggests that while there is excitement around AI, overall consumers are much less excited about AI than people in the industry think and that it may actually impact their buying decisions negatively. Will this gap go away over time? I don't know. For any of you working in tech at the time, was there a similar gap in perceptions around the Internet back in the days of the dot com bubble?

The other problem as pointed out is that MANY things are labeled as AI, ranging from logistic regression to chatbots, and probably there is more enthusiasm around some of these things than others.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-29 19:46:02+00:00
Why is this silly? If you're selling something, sales tax (or in other parts of the world, VAT or GST) will be owed[1]. Different places will have different levels of commerce and budgetary requirements, and sales taxes are one of the ways they can fill their coffers. Allowing for local jurisdictions to set their own tax rates is part of the federal system of government; indeed in the U.S. it is arguable that a national sales tax rate a la Europe would be unconstitutional.

And why should we eliminate sales taxes, etc. for online sales? Isn't the whole point of software that it makes it trivial to handle multiple sales taxes?

[1] Sales tax, VAT, etc. are taxes on the buyer but are collected by the seller as a matter of administrative convenience. Use tax / reverse charge covers the situations where a non-local seller doesn't collect the tax, but compliance was so low in the first several decades of e-commerce that every government around the world decided to expand sales tax compliance for online sales to non-local sellers.
by tehjoker | 2025-04-29 19:46:04+00:00
The largest technology companies are headquartered in USA and have extensive ties with the US state??? I don't understand how you can think Europe, Africa, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are unable to develop comparable technology, it's simply that the market opportunities are gobbled up by behemoths grown where the internet was invented backed by US diplomacy.

Anyways, you can read more here: https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...
by kccqzy | 2025-04-29 19:46:11+00:00
This is a blind spot. Generally speaking the devs are comparatively well off people and they don't live paycheck-to-paycheck. So by default devs won't even conceive of the difficulties of people who are in fact living paycheck-to-paycheck and have little buffer in their bank accounts. That's the blind spot. They won't know this is a problem unless a good PM tells them about it. Ultimately it is the job of the PM to tell the devs how important (or not) it is to do these optimizations, and how important (or not) it is to test with low-end devices with little RAM or free disk space.
by TZubiri | 2025-04-29 19:46:17+00:00
Can't you use a Debit Card?

When I was younger I used to use my banking app all the time and complain when something didn't work.

Now I realize it is not THE CENTER of banking, it's just a nice to have.

Protips: You can make wires at atms, you can send your bank details and have them do a pull. You can call the payee and let them know a wire is on the way and should arrive in x business days. You'll be fine.
by brewdad | 2025-04-29 19:46:22+00:00
Can anyone recommend a solid resource for learning Tagalog?

Being a far less popular language than the standard "big boys" that most apps, web sites, books etc tend to offer, it's been a lot of false starts for me or simply feeling a bit lost when a resource throws me directly into a scene to learn dialog without having any of the foundational knowledge first.

I plan to spend a year or two (at least) in the Philippines in the not too distant future. While most Filipinos understand English, I feel like learning at least some Tagalog would go a long way in fitting in and feeling less like an outsider.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-04-29 19:46:25+00:00
Something I have been thinking about and experimenting with is the hypothesis that as I age, my neuronal mitochondria are simply producing less ATP per hour than they used to. Great health and sleep are the expected fixes, but I’m also now supplementing with enzymes and substrates for each phase of the Krebs Cycle, treating mito function like an Internal Combusikb Engine and my biochemical attempts like a Mech Engineer optimizing horsepower and efficiency.

Anecdotally (because I’m not going to syringe my brain) I am feeling a lot more enduring wakefulness and motivation than when I skip them in my morning routine.

I did a chatGPT dive to validate this but that’s not exactly a biochemical lit review.
by nearbuy | 2025-04-29 19:46:35+00:00
This is all true. Competition reduces a company's profits.

OpenAI reducing their costs isn't what hurts them. They're better off with lower costs. Their competitors getting lower cost models is what hurts them.

Absolutely some AI companies will be out-competed and fail. I don't know which one will end up on top.

But even if almost all the AI companies fail, it doesn't stop the industry as a whole from being very valuable. Whichever AI companies are left will just take over the market share of those that failed. And this eases the pressure on the surviving companies.
by 0xTJ | 2025-04-29 19:46:50+00:00
I do find it ridiculous just how big mobile applications have gotten. Why does the UPS app have to be over 100 MB? It's got maybe a couple dozen unique screens visible to the user, few image assets, and mostly just settings, and account login, text entry, and pulling results from the web. It's not unique to UPS, most of the apps on my phone are of that size magnitude (Amazon is almost a quarter gigabyte with data), it was just a convenient choice because of how simple the app seems.

That being said, the oddest-to-me thing in this article is a bank call center not being open 24/7.
by camtarn | 2025-04-29 19:47:04+00:00
> This speaker is 300 feet away from its output through X meters of copper; figure out my additional latency offset for me.

0.3 microseconds. The period of a wave at 20kHz (very roughly the highest pitch we can hear) is 50 microseconds. So - more or less insignificant.

Cable latency is basically never an issue for audio. Latency due to speed of sound in air is what you see techs at stadiums and performance halls tuning.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-29 19:47:08+00:00
I agree that Intel is now reaping precisely what they've sowed. But if making money is the goal, buying an ARM architectural license would have put Intel in an early grave. The rest of the industry agrees - nobody without direct leverage over Softbank is able turn a profit designing and shipping ARM hardware.

I understand how Mac users would argue that sacrificing ARM to Moloch makes great PCs. But it also hamstrings the rest of the industry, prevents direct competition, slows down ARM proliferation and accelerates the development of foreign replacements like RISC-V. As a fan of ARM, I cannot say I'm happy with the stewardship Softbank exercises over the IP.
by 01100011 | 2025-04-29 19:47:25+00:00
I don't expect this to go over well but...

... it's not like our best and brightest devs are the ones working on web and phone apps, especially boring ones like yet-another-banking app.

But then there's the fundamental problem of management never allocating enough time for fixing things, doing them right the first time, or constraining features to result in an achievable goal especially given the resources they're usually working with.
by karel-3d | 2025-04-29 19:47:30+00:00
When shit hits the fan, HSBC has a physical office where you can go and solve your problems. Wave some cash around, show your ID, whatever.

Good luck solving any actual problems with Revolut. Once they randomly locked my account and it was impossible to get any actual help or talk to a real person who had any insight or authority (and then it magically unlocked few days later). I will never give any bigger amount to Revolut again.
by JambalayaJimbo | 2025-04-29 19:47:46+00:00
>requires more mental energy to plan your route

It’s unarguable that driving requires more mental energy. Which is exactly why we have licensing, sobriety requirements, age floors and limits, etc.

Route planning itself is a mostly solved problem for an average pedestrian in any developed city. You type in your destination in maps and go.

Cars are only freedom to able bodied people of a certain financial means and age. Or when you live rurally. To everyone else in a city, they make it harder to get around.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-29 19:48:01+00:00
Not the OP, but:

"They spoke the same language" ... not exactly, the Spartans spoke Doric, while the Athenians Attic. (Interestingly, there is a few Doric speakers left [0].) While those languages were related, their mutual intelligibility was limited. Instead of "Greek" as a single language, you need to treat it as a family of languages, like "Slavic".

"shared the same literature" ... famously, the Spartans weren't much into culture and art, and they left barely any written records of their own. Even the contemporaries commented on just how boring Sparta was in all regards.

If we delve deeper into ideas about how a good citizen looked like, or how law worked, the differences between Sparta and Athens are significant, if not outright massive.

While those two cities weren't entirely alien to each other, had some ties, same gods, and occassionally fought on the same side in a big war, there was indeed a huge political and cultural distance between them. I would compare it to Poland vs. Russia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakonian_language
by 3np | 2025-04-29 19:48:13+00:00
Because an accepted answer to that specific question is invariably a link/reference that the asker could have searched for (and posted if they think it's useful for the discussion) themselves directly, instead of putting that burden on the rest of us and amortizing everyone's attention. It's entitled and lazy.

Alternative example: "I wondered what the rules actually say about web search and it is indeed not allowed: (link)"
by Alex-Programs | 2025-04-29 19:48:53+00:00
Thanks! I'm glad people like it; I'm hopeless at marketing it to Language Learners:tm:, but programmers seem to love it and it's nice to get some positive feedback.

DeepL is actually pretty limited in what it supports. Unless I've missed a new language, Nuenki supports all of DeepL's languages.

Some of the additional ones are supported via Claude only and, where permitting, Groq. Groq is far faster than Claude; in languages that DeepL supports, DeepL handles visible text and Claude handles text that you haven't scrolled to yet. Claude-only languages are a bit of a worse experience.

It's pretty easy for me to add a language. It's all stored in a centralised toml file, which happens to be open source - https://github.com/Alex-Programs/nuenki-languages/blob/maste... - and it's about a 20 minute job to add a language, test it, etc. Then it's about half an hour and 5 USD to benchmark whether Llama is any good at it, and if so enable Groq and make the experience a bit more pleasant. I'm currently working on improving the translation quality benchmark (https://nuenki.app/blog/the_best_translator_is_a_hybrid_tran...), because people seem to like it and there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.

That 20 minute number is without updating the big language cloud on the website, which is a bit finicky; iirc I haven't added Vietnamese to it yet.

If anyone here has any requests, I'd gladly add them!
by ksec | 2025-04-29 19:48:56+00:00
>But several comments intrigued me:

>>I wonder What happened if you put fake EXIF information and asking it to do the same. ( We are deliberately misleading the LLM )

Yay. That was me [1] which was actually downvoted for most of its time. But Thank You for testing out my theory.

What I realised over the years is that comments do get read by people and do shape other people's thought.

I honestly dont think looking up online is cheating. May be in terms of the game. But in real life situation which is most of the time it is absolutely the right thing to do. The chains of thought is scary. I still dont know anything about how AI works other than old garbage in, garbage out. But CoT is definitely something else. Even though the author said it is sometimes doing needless work, but in terms of computing resources I am not even sure if it matters as long as it is accurate. And it is another proof that may be, just may be AI taking over the world is much closer than I imagined.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803985
by npteljes | 2025-04-29 19:49:12+00:00
I also rarely have many things open, but now I have a bunch, and it's very useful to have them in group (in Edge). I am working on three services at once, because we need a change that impacts all three, and they depend on each other as well. I have my ticket open, and its parent ticket as well for context. I have the pull request, the build pipeline, and the deployment settings open for each service. I have an AI open, an API reference open, and I have 1-2 random internet searches open. All in all, this is 14-15 tabs.

I can imagine that other people who have different contexts, and some web apps like mail, im and socials, that can easily make use of tab groups. Grouping and coloring them makes it really easy to not get lost in the bunch that is open at the same time.
by davidvgilmore | 2025-04-29 19:49:26+00:00
HN Community: We had this clause in our Terms and Conditions: "you will not (and will not enable others to) use the AI Features: (e) for the development of any service or other offering that competes with or replicates the Services.”

That clause was boilerplate our lawyers included, and it doesn't reflect how we operate or what we intend to enforce. I should have caught it, but I missed it.

The terms and conditions are now updated to not include a anti-competition clause.
by 418tpot | 2025-04-29 19:49:52+00:00
I agree this is the ideal situation, but as it stands CAHSR is planned to terminate at union station in LA, quite far from LAX. Ideally LA metro or metrolink would build a direct connection between union station and LAX, but that hasn't begun to be planned and unfortunately it's very difficult to get transit built in LA. For instance the Sepulveda line— one of the most important lines for LA— is at risk of being killed because ticket master's ex-CEO doesn't want a train line running under his house.
by leeab | 2025-04-29 19:50:07+00:00
One of the reasons we went down the self-hosted route is to ensure that your data remains on your servers. Since our architecture allows for separation between where our control plane lives vs where GPU workloads run, we can definitely host the control plane portion for you. Then you just need to run our agent only on your GPU cluster. Shoot me an email: lee at neurox.com and we can discuss!
by asadotzler | 2025-04-29 19:50:32+00:00
What I'm seeing is marked decrease in standards and quality everywhere I see LLMs (and diffusion models, any of the transformer-based stuff.)

Sometimes that decrease in quality is matched by an increase in reach / access, and so the benefits can outweigh the costs. Think about language translation in web browsers and even smart spectacles, for example. Language translation has been around forever but generally limited to popular books or small-scale proprietary content because it was expensive to use mult-lingual humans to do that work.

Now even my near-zero readership blog can be translated from English to Portuguese (or most other widely used languages) for a reader in Brazil with near-zero cost/effort for that user. The quality isn't as good as human translation, often losing nuance and style and sometimes even with blatant inaccuracies, but the increased access offered by language translation software makes the lower standard acceptable for lots of use cases.

I wouldn't depend on machine translation for critical financial, healthcare, or legal use cases, though I might start there to get the gist, but for my day-to-day reading on the web, it's pretty amazing.

Software at scale is different than individuals engaging in leisure activities. A loss of nuance and occasional catastrophic failures in a piece of software with hundreds of millions or billions of users could have devastating impacts.
by happytoexplain | 2025-04-29 19:50:40+00:00
Use cases are hypothetical scenarios worth getting mad over. They are THE things we should give a shit about. When somebody on my team suggests something that's user-hostile in 1% of cases because they don't give a shit, I'm not going to just say, "well, I better not have negative emotions". That's how we get the garbage world.
by pjoshi30 | 2025-04-29 19:50:59+00:00
In a typical LLM application, the output from the LLM can be either from the context provided to the LLM or from the LLM's pre-trained data or from the data that the LLM was fine-tuned with. LLM's can provide incorrect results from all of these different sources of data. This is popularly known as "LLM hallucinations".

We built a model that can identify hallucinations from both a closed-book (internal data that was "learnt" by the LLM as part of the pre-training or fine-tuning process) and an open-book setting (data explicitly provided to the LLM as part of its context). The model is able to provide phrase level attribution. We open sourced the model (available on HuggingFace) and a new benchmark dataset that can be used to check how well any Judge performs on the hallucination detection task.

Try the Google Collab notebook linked in the model card.
by pxoe | 2025-04-29 19:51:15+00:00
It's probably not broken but just works that way. Profiles are separate in more ways. Syncing all profiles could be counterproductive and unwanted. (for example, profiles which might just belong to different people - though it may be unlikely on a same pc but nonetheless. or syncing profiles that are intentionally kept separate, like work and personal stuff). It's not how it worked before in firefox, and it's not how it works on chrome or other browsers, and it's probably not in users expectations, when they expect separate things to be actually separate. (which seems to utterly confuse people who mix up container tabs and profiles functionality.) Conversely, why should someone remember, or rather, suddenly find out, that every profile in some firefox install is syncing to a same account, even though it is "intended" to be a separate, brand new, start from scratch kinda thing?
by bradley13 | 2025-04-29 19:51:37+00:00
Add in the issue of change for the sake of change. I'm older, and wear hearing aids. Today, there was an app update that added nothing new, but it did rearrange the GUI. It's not better, it's just different.

Being a techie, it's no problem for me. But: how many nontechnical, elderly people are going to be lost?

Stupid management? New UI designer wanting to prove themselves? Don't know, don't care - I played dumb and sent in a confused complaint.
by dustingetz | 2025-04-29 19:51:40+00:00
it’s a tech culture war, devs are gaslighting the business sucking down incredible salaries while reporting that the jira ticket is delayed by tech debt, the business is gaslighting the devs with the inept technology leadership, stupid HR games (my wife’s workplace dragged everybody in for fucking friendship bracelet day), secret DEI policies while paying high performers the same as negative performers because they can’t tell the difference.

These two groups hate each other and AI promises holy grail to both parties - devs can more easily learn the 1000th tech stack in between yoga classes while pretending to work, the business dreams of finally firing all the devs and keeping all that money for themselves. And neither group has a clue how this dream will be fulfilled, but they want to believe because computers can now talk, so enter the entrepreneurs and VCs to gaslight everyone involved with fake stories of how 35% of LOC at Google was coded by AI (erm, accepted IDE autocomplete), laughing all the way to the bank while they vacuum up all that dumb money, poor befuddled executives that roleplayed their way into an 8 figure budget responsibility by being tall white men with blue eyes
by wongarsu | 2025-04-29 19:52:12+00:00
I kind of get k8s and can live with i18n (at least it's a long word). But a11y just shouldn't exist. "Oh look, it looks like ally, what a cute play on words". Yeah, but for a dumb joke and 9 saved keystrokes you literally made the word accessibility less accessible. That's exactly the opposite of what accessibility is about
by freemanjiang | 2025-04-29 19:52:22+00:00
Thank you for the kind words! Yeah, I think it gets a lot more complicated once you start dealing with speaker hardware. It pretty much only works for the device's native speaker at the moment.

The instant you start having wireless speakers (eg. bluetooth) or any sort of significant delay between commanding playback and the actual sound coming out, the latency becomes audible.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-29 19:52:40+00:00
This is something I struggle with a bit as a dev

I am pretty well off now but I come from a pretty poor background. I used to have to drive a cheque to my landlord's office when rent was due, during university in the late 2000s

I thought a lot of my fellow devs would be from similar backgrounds, but that is not the case at all mostly. I find a lot of my coworkers come from white collar families, or relatively well off immigrant families and I am the outlier coming from a very blue collar family

It is very common for me to have a very different perspective on things than my coworkers.

Economic background shapes us so much more than people realize