MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sargstuff | 2025-04-26 19:46:42+00:00
> Is this a matter of domain familiarity, perceived craftsmanship, or simple cultural gatekeeping?

Likely all of the topics covered in the question. aka Takes time/money to train/become skilled in given professional area. Things that undermine that money/time/training in way that have to retrain before the professional investment paids off tend to cause issues. Legal framework hasn't caught up with changes, so difficult/more costly & time consuming to resolve issues that do happen.

'Historical' parallels abound:

--- 1800's introduction of camera / fax machine[4] vs. portrait artist; vs. history of kodak & digital camera[1]; xerox[2]/ibm & pc[3]! --- car/automation vs. blacksmith/coachman/horse related jobs; --- car/us urbanization vs. door to door sales/professional services aka house calls. Although, car delivery services paired with internet ordering/video teleconferencing kinda reinventing/rediscovering the historical door to door sales/professional services. (where covid-19 helped expidite the conversion to making use of on-line offerinngs)

More same thing, different historical context / changes in available technology:

--- Sears orignally sold by catalog / inspiring 'towns by the rail road' vs. amazon, no physial store, sells by internet/mail delivery aka no multi-physical store rent/overhead vs.phyiscal stores "free delivering with in store pickup". Perhaps at some point this concept will yet again change to something akin to send the software specs to print out non-food/food items on one's home 3d printer. --- Some what dependent on where one lives, but grocery store 'call-in', pick-up & delivery. (touching on historical sears & railroad in western US, vs. physical stores & customer proximity in eastern US.) Although, with overnight/speedy delivery, could technically overcome store geographic differences. -- aka amazon free delivery $14 month to places in alaska only reachable by air service (minimum air service flight charge before freight charge way beyond cost of 'small order'. (2015, bit dated: [0])) --- Harder to find references, but mainframe staff/administrative support vs. home pc vs. cloud services vs. mobile phone & internet/services. --- requirement of college class in philosophical logic when seeking a bachelors degree. --- computer science/information science merged into 'data science'

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[0] : https://www.adn.com/business/article/amazon-prime-eases-rura...

[1] : https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/06/leading-innovation-t...

[2] : https://inspireip.com/xerox-failure-reasons/

[3] : https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-ibm-pc-won-then-lost-the-p...

[4] : https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-th...

'electronic pixelated images' : https://artsandculture.google.com/story/phototelegraphy-inventions-that-transported-images-worldwide-museum-for-communication-berlin/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photography
by II2II | 2025-04-26 19:46:44+00:00
> It's hard to trust when it seems so fluid.

Perhaps we should trust it more because it is fluid and that fluidity is documented (see the history and talk tabs for any given article). Historically, reputable sources depended upon, to a very large degree, the authority of the author. The reader typically had little to no insight into what was generally agreed upon and where there was some debate. How the Wikipedia exposes that may be imperfect, but it is better than nothing.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-26 19:47:10+00:00
The entire interpretation of that amendment turns on this phrase:

>and subject to the jurisdiction thereof

And if you go back and read what the drafters of that amendment stated they meant on the floor of congress, they did not intend it to mean Jus soli. The idea was so ridiculous at the time that no one thought it worth writing it down. Pity. The controlling Supreme Court case spends a lot of time talking about English Common Law and what "subject to the jurisdiction of the King" meant. It is not hard to believe, at all, that the current SCOTUS may have a different interpretation than "anyone who happens to be born across this line on the map is a US citizen and is granted all rights, responsibilities, and privileges thereof".
by j45 | 2025-04-26 19:47:34+00:00
Storage is a fixed fee (space on a hard drive). It make money every month when it sits there and is used.

Bandwidth costs can seem like a lot more, but when you purchase a 10 gig fibre, you have unlimited data, up until the full speed of the 10 gig fibre, 24/7. That number in TB can be calculated.

Clouds massively mark up services. Ones that underprice can have the opposite problem.

I have heard good things about the Backblaze service itself, and appreciate the hard drive reviews they put out.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-26 19:48:07+00:00
You're describing one small part of the family of damages (in the legal sense), and that isn't how common law works. To draw from the rich vocabulary of HN, think of the opportunity cost imposed by the time wasted on preparation and the test itself, that also has value beyond the entrance fee.

Putting that aside, you don't just sue for money, you can sue for different outcomes and injunctive relief. For example you could sue to have the results released as planned.
by frozencooler | 2025-04-26 19:48:34+00:00
Perhaps it be better to consider 3.5 years as a half-life instead.

Every 42 months, half your life has or could be upturned.

That’s how long it takes to find yourself in new job, or for a new child to become a fully talking toddler with a personality, or a long-term relationship to solidify, or a national government to turn over, or a pandemic to initialize and then resolve. That all tracks.
by j45 | 2025-04-26 19:49:28+00:00
Having your own NAS in the mix more and more is unavoidable.

On one side, the cloud is someone else's computer they will always charge more an more for it because customers have not learned the economics of cloud hosting and how profitable it is on the other end.

On the other side, a NAS is your storage computer, in a simplified home appliance form. Connect it to back up to any cloud you wish.
by dottjt | 2025-04-26 19:50:04+00:00
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. I generally hated being dragged to the friends houses of my parents. It was just needlessly boring.

On the contrary, it sometimes was okay if that friend had children. I think the issue in the modern day however, is that less people are having children, so there simply isn't the opportunity. For example, I'm the only person in my friend group who has children.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 19:50:12+00:00
You’re missing the point. Those companies are providing extremely profitable services, of which data storage is a part. Office and Workspace are lines of business with 50-60% margins.

Non-nerds are going to screw up backups without good UI. If you want to pay by the drink, like I said, use the hyperscalers.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-04-26 19:50:52+00:00
>>> The person you are today doesn’t share a single cell with the version of you from seven years ago. (This is, of course, a generalization as some cells regenerate much faster and others a little slower.)

No, that is not even remotely true. Most of the neurons in the central nervous system (the part of the body one could argue does the most of thinking) stay mostly the same from adulthood to death[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenesis
by Twirrim | 2025-04-26 19:51:23+00:00
That I know of (and is public so I'm not breaching any NDA) AWS S3[1], Azure[2], GCP[3], Backblaze[4], Facebook's storage layer uses it[5][6], and Oracle Cloud's Object Storage Platform[7].

The economies of scale mean that you really have to have something like erasure encoding in place to operate at large scale. The biggest single cost for cloud providers is the per-rack operational costs, so keeping the number of racks down is critical.

[1]https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/Summits/reinvent2022/STG203_...

[2]https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...

[3]https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/availability-durabilit...

[4]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/

[5]https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage13/workshop-prog...

[6]https://research.facebook.com/publications/a-hitchhikers-gui... they even do some interesting things with erasure encoding and HDFS

[7] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/first-pri...
by sho_hn | 2025-04-26 19:51:31+00:00
This rings super plausible to me. I dabbled a bit in hobby electronics making DIY walkers, and the more time you spend on junior stuff like that (trying to model a good response to servo load feedback that works in every situation, etc.) the more it dawns on you that what humans and other animals do with the sensor feedback they get from their limbs is so rich in "magic" and intelligence.

Figuring out physical interaction with the environment and traversal is truly one of the most stunning early achievements of life.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-26 19:51:50+00:00
This is really cute and friendly. I like it; very much in-character for the BART.

My own transit system has sort of developed two mascots. They are not as artful or clever as BART's, but they are designed with a utilitarian purpose: to demonstrate good vs. bad behavior while onboard.

https://www.valleymetro.org/blog/2019/10/quick-guide-light-r...

The characters are named "Right" and "Rong", both humanoids who are differentiated primarily by color and mood. Right, of course, does all the right things and abides by the rules, while Rong is a classic example of the scofflaw you wouldn't want sitting next to you.
by jfengel | 2025-04-26 19:52:17+00:00
He didn't just happen to win the presidency. He brought with him both houses of Congress on his coattails, and he had previously filled the Supreme Court (already heavily laden with his partisans).

He's not the one with no shame. It's tens of millions of Americans who are even now cheering this action on. Many of them on this web site.

If we have a megalomaniac idiot, it's because it reflects who we are.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 19:52:27+00:00
"How come every time I see a headline like this it's totally wrong?"

This isn't wrong. It's documented fact. Three U.S. citizen children (ages 2, 4, and 7) were deported by ICE through the New Orleans field office. A federal judge has already scheduled a hearing about this, citing a "strong suspicion" that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported "with no meaningful process."

You're doing exactly what propagandists hope for - spreading doubt about documented human rights abuses without bothering to verify the facts.

"Last time the pitch was some illegal immigrant who was covered in MS-13 tattoos wasn't MS-13."

If you're referring to a case with photoshopped tattoos, you're literally proving my point! You fell for actual fake news and are now using that to dismiss real, verified reporting from multiple sources including federal court records.

"I wouldn't be surprised if in a few days we learn neither of their parents are citizens and they're foreign nationals."

You've already decided what "truth" you want to emerge. Meanwhile, one of these American children has cancer and was deported without their medication despite ICE being notified of their urgent medical needs.

Your cynicism isn't wisdom, it's complicity. You're pre-emptively discrediting reports of government abuses against literal American children because acknowledging them might force you to confront uncomfortable truths about a system you apparently want to defend at all costs.

These aren't anonymous claims! They're documented cases with legal representation, court filings, and federal judicial review already underway. What would it take for you to actually care about American citizens losing their rights?
by randcraw | 2025-04-26 19:52:39+00:00
A great way to realize your dependence on external brains in order to think is to turn off not just your AI tools but your _network_ and THEN code, or write a document, or read a technical paper.

I realized that I can code in recently learned languages only because I can cut and paste it; in order to use that language I rely wholly on stolen code from web searches for input and error messages to detect omissions. I put very little effort into creatively thinking through the process myself.

Maybe this is why, after more than 40 years in the business, I no longer enjoy daily programming. I hate simply rehashing other people's words and ideas. So I decided it was time to quit this rat race, and I retired.

Now, if I do get back into coding, for recreation or as a free software volunteer, I'll unplug first and then code from scratch. From now on I want my brain to be fully responsible for and engaged in what I write (and read).
by readthenotes1 | 2025-04-26 19:52:58+00:00
"America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) has faced a real-terms cut of 20% since 2012. "

I would be shocked to learn that data collection, retention, analysis, and distribution costs haven't dropped by 50% or more since 2012.

(In the USA, the article does note that a real problem is some of the data is from unverified self-reported surveys and the response rate is low)
by hahaxdxd123 | 2025-04-26 19:53:39+00:00
Here's an interesting blog post on the limitations of domain randomization for OpenAI's results: https://www.alexirpan.com/2019/10/29/openai-rubiks.html

Basically the solve rate was much lower without the use of a Bluetooth sensor, and they did a bunch of other things that made the result less impressive. Still a long way to go here.
by didgetmaster | 2025-04-26 19:54:04+00:00
It is like when someone is being sued in court and claims in the press that they have turned over X thousands of pages of documents.

When you really dig into those documents you find 90%+ of them are completely irrelevant (old phone books, Chinese takeout menus, etc.) and that the few important ones that would actually shed light on the case, are missing.
by JasserInicide | 2025-04-26 19:54:07+00:00
Read about this singles dating event in Russia where they took cotton swabs swiped underneath each person's armpits and put them into little glass jars. Everyone then went around smelling each one and matched with each other based on which jar scent they liked the most. Wish I still had it. Definitely a novel if not more primal way to choose a partner.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-04-26 19:54:11+00:00
It actually matters quite a bit that they are not persons from the simple fact that LLM output cannot trivially be used as LLM training material without reducing the resulting models to eventual incoherence. There's a proof of this somewhere in the last year or two.

There isn't, today, a good filter for such input beyond that it came from a person or that it came from a probabilistic vector distance algorithm. Perhaps we'll have such qualification in the future to make the distinction in this context irrelevant.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-26 19:54:35+00:00
>the judge lied to the FBI

These were ICE "agents" with an administrative warrant. Nor did she "lie", she refused them entry to an operating courtroom -- which she was 100% right to do.

So nothing you said is accurate.

There is a 100% chance she will be completely exonerated, but of course this clown administration -- full of in-the-open criminals of the worst kind -- doesn't care about that, they just care about intimidation. Which is precisely why they brought up charges without a grand jury, which is basically unprecedented, because a grand jury would never have levied such a charge, and then arrested her in public with a perp walk with a photographer at the ready. And they know it won't stick. But because they're an administration of criminal garbage they just want to put the judiciary in its place, while supplicants and smooth-brains cheer them on.
by MoonGhost | 2025-04-26 19:54:55+00:00
Thanks, but no. It's going to be robotic arm with gripper and camera. The rest can be either Raspberry Zero (for cam, control, with net or blutooth, something big for high level). Another option, not exclusive, NVidia Jetson Nano instead of Zero. It could be Raspberry Pi 3, but I don't want to do video processing on it. All this I have, just need to put them together. Adding AGX Orin will be a big thing. That's actually the goal. With video processing and LLM all in one mobile robot. As it's hobby R/D it will be configured and reconfigured many times. That's why I don't want to do low level by hand every time.

Another interesting option is Raspberry Pico * N + Tiny PC. For control and thinking. They can be connected via wifi or blutooth.
by stefap2 | 2025-04-26 19:55:24+00:00
Good question. I still think it's unfair for these people to stay here, when legal refugees spent waiting years or decades for permission to enter often in bad conditions in refugee camps. The issue here is officials keep rounding up students on legal visas and parents who’ve lived here for years—exactly the people the article labels “families who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities.” Where are the fresh arrivals?
by gpm | 2025-04-26 19:56:09+00:00
Under common law courts don't award speculative damages - i.e. opportunity cost. If you had concrete damages, like you bought a computer just to participate in this contest, you might theoretically have a claim for the cost of the computer... that's simply not realistically the case though.

Injunctive relief for not publishing known to be incorrect test rankings? Not likely.

A FOI request might get you access to the rankings if you really cared... I'm not quite sure what the contours of FIPPA (roughly equivalent to America's FOIA) is with regards to our universities but I believe it generally applies to them. At the same time it could easily fall within privacy limitations.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-26 19:56:47+00:00
> When people deign to respond, partisanship clouds their answers. This is a particular problem in America. Just before the presidential election 42% of Democrats believed that the economy was getting better, whereas just 6% of Republicans did. Today 6% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans respond in the same manner. Surveys find that Americans’ expectations of inflation are rising. The trend is worrying, but how meaningful is it? After all, Democrats’ expectations are soaring well above those of Republicans.

That one is a complex thing, partially because realities and expectations are in a mismatch. Republican and far-right allied media have been consistently pushing the narrative of Biden being incompetent and dragging the economy down, and now push that the economy is gonna skyrocket Just Next Day thanks to Trump's tariffs.

A second part is that "is the economy good or bad" is a very broad question. Democrats under Biden/Harris pushed for months that "the economy is good" and backed that by unemployment numbers, stock index charts and godknowswhat - all while millions of people faced the awful reality of exploding rents and, in the end, exploding egg prices as well, and the Democrats never cared to address this mismatch of realities: both statements were true, but only from a dedicated point of view. No wonder people were fed up with what they deemed to be outright lies when their reality completely crashed with the reported reality.

And it's just the same here in Europe, most importantly in Germany. On paper, our companies are still making billions of dollars in profit... but laying off people by the thousands. On paper, we're one of the richest economies in the entire world... but our housing markets are virtually dead with barely anyone able to afford to move, our infrastructure is literally collapsing (just in the last few months, a bridge in Dresden outright collapsed, and another bridge in Berlin was caught to be on the verge of immediate destruction). And again, the far-right populists are the only ones profiting politically.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 19:57:11+00:00
Your "more supply equals lower wages" argument is demolished by top economic research. A recent NBER study calculated that "immigration, thanks to native-immigrant complementarity and college skill content of immigrants, had a positive and significant effect between +1.7 to +2.6% on wages of less educated native workers" between 2000-2019.

The economy isn't zero-sum. As Milton Friedman noted, "most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another." Immigrants create demand for housing, food, education, entertainment, and specialized services that natives often provide.

Historical evidence consistently disproves the fallacy: When women entered the workforce, it didn't cause massive job losses among men. When segregation was abolished, Black workers didn't cause mass unemployment among whites. The vast majority of Americans descend from immigrants who contributed to economic growth.

Research on H-1B visas shows that firms that get immigrant labor end up "hiring more tech workers and paying them more, because they become more efficient and sometimes scale up." In fact, studies show each H-1B worker creates approximately 1.83 jobs for native-born Americans.

The UK's Migration Advisory Committee, after reviewing studies from 2003-2018, concluded that "immigration had little or no impact on average employment or unemployment of existing workers" and "little impact on average wages."

The overwhelming consensus among economists is that immigration grows the economic pie rather than merely redistributing slices. That's why America's most immigrant-rich cities consistently have the highest wages, not the lowest.

PLEASE, I am begging you. Spend 15 minutes reading actual economic research before posting confidently incorrect Econ 101 oversimplifications. The "immigrants take our jobs" fallacy has been debunked by virtually every reputable economic study for the past 30 years. This isn't some fringe academic view. It's the overwhelming consensus of actual economists who study this for a living. Your intuition about "more workers = lower wages" seems logical but falls apart when tested against actual economic data. The real world is more complex than a supply-and-demand graph from an introductory textbook.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-26 19:57:20+00:00
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an...

> In an average year in B.C., large trucks are involved in less than one percent of all crashes – but they’re involved in nearly 20 percent of fatal crashes.

If you exclude motorcycle fatalities (which is usually only the motorcycle rider is seriously hurt, and that is a known risk they take) the numbers get even worse for commercial trucking.
by avalys | 2025-04-26 19:58:07+00:00
The discourse around this thing is hilarious. For years people have been saying “I just want a small, simple truck with no frills and a reasonable price.”

Now, one is finally available, and all the commentary is “Oh, I’m in the target market for this, but I just need them to add:”

- more room for passengers - more payload - an infotainment screen for nav - more room in the bed - more towing capacity - screens in the seats for kids - an app to “manage” it

Guess what! This is why the best-selling vehicles are large trucks, because they give the most people what they want.

Everyone wants a small and cheap and simple car with all the comforts of big and expensive cars. Reality doesn’t work that way!