MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saurik | 2025-04-06 21:20:32+00:00
I find your definition of "insulting" really confusing, as pretty much all "white collar jobs" are "I sit on my butt all day and think lazily about things with very little pressure" jobs. They push paper and write reports on things, maybe doing some annoying math at times, but the entire concept of a "high pressure" job with "consequences for error" seems entirely at odds with white collar, and I'd personally have expected people who actually do something important on a daily basis (unlike, for example, me) might would find being categorized as "white collar" insulting?
by solardev | 2025-04-06 21:20:46+00:00
IMO those are different use cases. If that sender or Google itself were to disappear, hopefully the messages would just disappear too. It's better that they become inaccessible rather than public.

Long term archival is a different use case altogether, especially of encrypted materials. It's questionable whether any provider or medium can survive over the long term, so it's better to use an encryption system where you hold the keys and the encrypted data can be migrated to any sort of storage or provider over the years.
by StressedDev | 2025-04-06 21:21:16+00:00
Probably because there are services (AKA web services, software listening on a network port, etc.) out there which accept arbitrary Parquet files. This seems like a safe assumption given lots of organizations use micro-services or cloud venders use the same software on the same machine to process requests from different customers. This is a bad bug and if you use the affected code, you should update immediately.
by bri3d | 2025-04-06 21:21:35+00:00
To the sibling comment’s point, I suppose it’s not weird in the Java ecosystem. The parquet-java project has a design where it deserializes Parquet fields into Java representations grabbed from _other_ projects rather than either having some kind of canonical self-representation in memory or acting as just an abstract codec. So, one of the most common things to do is apparently to use the “Avro” flavored serdes to get generic records in memory (note that the actual Avro serialization format is not involved with doing that; parquet-java just uses the classes from Avro as the in memory representations and deserializes Parquet into them). The whole approach seems a bit goofy; I’d expect the library to work as some kind of abstracted codec interface (requiring the in-memory representations to host Parquet, rather than the other way around - like how pandas hosts fastparquet in Python land) or provide a canonical object representation. Instead, it’s this in between where it has a grab bag of converters that transform Parquet to and from random object types pulled from elsewhere in the Java ecosystem.
by MegaButts | 2025-04-06 21:21:39+00:00
There are times it just generates complete nonsense that has nothing to do with what I said, but it's certainly not most of the time. I do not know how often, but I'd say it's definitely under 10% and almost certainly under 5% that the above happens.

Sure, LLMs are incredibly impressive from a technical standpoint. But they're so fucking stupid I hate using them.

> This is not necessarily useful but it's quite impressive.

I think we mostly agree on this. Cheers.
by mrcwinn | 2025-04-06 21:21:39+00:00
>Someone recently made the point to me that the recent rise in low-code and AI-based tooling is likely going to separate out the platforms that solve tough problems

Former design assets marketplace CEO here. Wrong ^. Low-code gives you the tools to create a website. Great. Distribution is what disrupts. Platforms won because they aggregate traffic. When you break up the platform, you diffuse the traffic along with it.

The exception is sometimes there are whales: dominant content creators that win most of the clicks. If you're interested in a lot of people winning, I'm not sure that's really all that better or different from a platform.
by ajross | 2025-04-06 21:21:45+00:00
While the technology may be advantageous, it seems weird to write a whole article about it without mentioning the obvious solution: Just Heat The Battery. It's true that many early EVs (and most non-Teslas even today) don't ship with battery thermal management. But they won't be getting new battery chemistry either.

This is one of those Great New Technology items that smells like a failure simply because it's not competing with the thing the designers think it is. It's not enough for this to beat a cold battery with a performance delta ("5x", per the article) that would justify its additional cost. It has to beat a battery with a garden variety heat pump attached, which is a much (much) lower cost barrier.
by TomasBM | 2025-04-06 21:22:43+00:00
Perhaps it's not just about the 'shelf life' of a book, but also the language and style they use. The more archaic the language, and the more distant the style that the author's use, the harder it is for me to focus on the book.

Perhaps it would be useful to have expertly abridged and modernized versions of (e)books, with interpreter's notes for each change.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-06 21:23:23+00:00
> isn't "Jail the President for doing Presidential stuff" a bit charitable?

One of our Presidents, against the will of Congress and in an era where the right to levy war on the part of Congress was far more closely tied to troop deployment (because we weren't yet in the era of Pax Americana with permanent overseas bases on every continent, much less the post-9/11 era of massive power delegation to the Executive), moved our Naval assets away from the Atlantic coast toward Europe and basically tried to hide it from Congress. It would have been extremely impeachable... But then we ended up in a World War soon after. A war we, conveniently, already had our Atlantic assets positioned to fight, over the previous desires of an isolationist American representative legislature.

That President never came under question of whether he should be jailed for putting Americans in harm's way when we were not involved in the European conflict (yet), and Congress had no intention of involving the country (yet). The things Trump did in office were far less risky to life and limb. I'm not implying they were correct or just things; I'm saying that when we talk about whether the other branches should be able to jail the President for malfeasance in-office, this is the realm of decisions and standards we're talking about.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-06 21:23:38+00:00
Also, if you live in the city (including suburbs), your neighbors are likely to get pretty annoyed by the sound of hammering metal. Welding makes noise too, but a lot less of it. That's the main reason why I haven't gotten into blacksmithing even though I think I would really enjoy it. I just don't think it'd go over well with the neighbors.
by maccard | 2025-04-06 21:23:41+00:00
All of this can be true, and has nothing to do with them having a business model.

> NVDA will crash when the AI bubble implodes, > making money, nor will they > They have already hit limiting returns in LLM improvements after staggering investments > and it is clear are nowhere near general intelligence.

These are all assumptions and opinions, and have nothing to do with whether or not they have a business model. You mightn't like their business model, but they do have one.
by timestep | 2025-04-06 21:23:53+00:00
Generally Gumroad itself is an amazing idea. It's challenging to push out products, and any platform that helps empower people to just try is a win.

I'm not sure about how the open-source element of this is supposed to work, but if it ends up with more people building things, creating and contributing, while making a dollar, that's a good thing.
by davidw | 2025-04-06 21:24:29+00:00
> Looking at it another way, the cuts are actually decreasing overall efficiency since they're cutting things that deliver decent benefits given that they only cost a small fraction of federal spending.

And especially when they're targeting the IRS. What use is it cutting 1% if you lose 10% of your revenue because you don't have the resources to pursue outright cheats or lawyered-up people.
by Fogest | 2025-04-06 21:25:13+00:00
Anytime I am searching for my live TV PPV "linux iso" streams I always pull up Yandex. Same goes for pretty much anything piracy. Even sometimes searching for research/stats that are more "controversial" are often down-ranked in Google and hard to find. Unfortunately there is a lot of political bias I've noticed more and more often in Google Search results, and resorting to Yandex sometimes results in better results.

I personally am a Kagi subscriber as well as find Google's search results in general to be terrible. Censorship/political bias/blogspam/terrible AI results are all the big factors for me switching away from using them much at all.
by narrator | 2025-04-06 21:25:16+00:00
Deepseek is super bad at personal advice. I can tell it was trained on an oddly stodgy data set. It gives advice that would suit a hyper conservative world view. Like IBM 1950s middle management training course level advice.

Gemma is by far the best at giving advice and planning ones days and life priorities. Not sure how to benchmark that.
by solardev | 2025-04-06 21:26:07+00:00
It depends a lot on the government in question too. In the US very few people would trust the government to handle something like this. The certificate authority system is run by big tech companies and nonprofits, for example, not the government.

Trusting the government as a peer makes sense for government sites, but for anything else, it just makes censorship way too easy.

Even among businesses, we normally trust the middleman (the credit card issuer, and their protections and chargebacks) over the government. If a business screws over a regular consumer, the government isn't really going to do anything.

Maybe you have a more civilized society and functional government where you live. We don't.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-06 21:26:27+00:00
No, it's not. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of many people who get ginned up about this. Debt is the most powerful tool of a nation.

The US is a sovereign, the sovereign. The country can borrow until the faith and credit in our ability to pay is lost. There's no such thing as bankruptcy, you can default or print money.

The US is rocketing towards depression. Slowing down the velocity of money is the single worst thing you can do for an economy. We're implementing the largest tax increase in history, taking away pensioner benefits, and pushing the cost of healthcare up, nuking consumer demand. There's no adults keeping Trump away from doing stupid shit -- he'll set off an economic death spiral.
by joshfee | 2025-04-06 21:27:30+00:00
The problem with enforcing "freedom of speech" on private parties is that it essentially the same as infringing the speech of that private party.

The only issue I have is when companies can play both sides and in one breath claim they're neutral for the purpose of section 230 protection, and then in the next breath take part in censorship because it's better for business.

Pick a lane, either lane, but you shouldn't get it both ways
by bigfatkitten | 2025-04-06 21:27:40+00:00
> The E2E problem has already been solved long time ago. We used to have Thunderbird with an OpenPGP extension and GPG keys.

It was never really solved, PGP email is a usability disaster.

Client support (especially on mobile) is limited. Headers, including the subject line remain in cleartext. Users forget to click the "encrypt email" button and so messages go out in the clear; sometimes in reply, and so the entire conversation is exposed. Key exchange with new recipients is tedious to do securely.

Not to mention the extra issues caused by HTML in message bodies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you...
by timewizard | 2025-04-06 21:28:18+00:00
> Why prefix with "Right now"?

I'm probably just a bit older than you might assume.

> and only marginally lower for the 25 years before that.

Really I was doing a bad job of highlighting this problem:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S

> has changed much more substantially during that time (lower).

The burden has shifted /more/ onto individual tax payers and less from business and excise taxes was the particular point I was driving at. It suggests more clearly who actually got those "lower" taxes and why our linked graphs paint a bad future.
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-04-06 21:29:19+00:00
This may have hit the nail on the head about the weaknesses of LLM's.

They're going to regurgitate something not so much based on facts, but based on things that are accessible as perceived facts. Those might be right, but they might be wrong also; and no one can tell without doing the hard work of checking original sources. Many of what are considered accepted facts, and also accessible to LLM harvesting, are at best derived facts, often mediated by motivated individuals, and published to accessible sources by "people with an interest".

The weightings used by any AI should be based on the facts, and not the compounded volume of derived, "mediated", or "directed" facts - simply, because they're not really facts; they're reports.

It all seems like dumber, lazier search engine stuff. Honestly, what do I know about Paul Newman? But, Joanne Woodward and others who knew and worked with him should be weighted as being, at least, slightly more credible that others; no matter how many text patterns "catch the match" flow.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-04-06 21:30:09+00:00
You know the trump admin is doing this on purpose, right? They are ideologically fixated on the idea that there are vast numbers of people stealing 'their money' via disallowed social security, somehow. There's claims of finding vast numbers of fraudulent accounts via the more idiotic than usual doge, then somehow no details.

They are destroying our us govt infrastructure and bureaucracy on purpose. They are also very close to giving themselves another 6 trillion in tax cuts, focused on the wealthy. Please, this is much more than being 'unprofessional' and 'not listening to their user base'.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-06 21:30:16+00:00
Sure, you can reframe it to leave out Israeli news sources.

There is ample footage online of fighting between the two, and Hamas fighters don't wear uniforms. Which fits with Hamas fighting right out of the guerilla warfare playbook.

So it can be reframed as "How do you reconcile Israel killing innocent civilians with the fact the the main way to tell if they are innocent is whether or not they had a gun in their hands when killed?"
by josephg | 2025-04-06 21:31:24+00:00
The recent postgresql sql injection bug was similar. It happened because nobody was checking if a UTF8 string was valid. Postgres’s protections against sql injection assumed that whatever software passed it a query string had already checked that the string was valid UTF8 - but in some languages, this check was never being performed.

This sort of bug is still possible in rust. (Although this particular bug is probably impossible - since safe rust checks UTF8 string validity at the point of creation).

This is one article about it - there was a better write up somewhere but I can’t find it now: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2025/02/13/cve-2025-1094-po...

Rust’s static memory protection does still protect you against most RCE bugs. Most is not all. But that’s still a massive reduction in security vulnerabilities compared to C or C++.
by robocat | 2025-04-06 21:32:15+00:00
> and slightly increasing the profit margin is for him worth more then a some people dying

The same argument likely applies to you (assuming you are in a wealthy nation) so you are likely just as ruthless::

We could all slightly decrease our disposable incomes (spent on shit we don't need) and increase the life expectancy or QoL for someone in a poor country.

Me too: I spent thousands on a holiday (profit for my soul) and I didn't give the money to a worthy charity. I'm no fan of Musk, but I think there's better arguments for dumping on him if you really need to do that.
by jurschreuder | 2025-04-06 21:33:02+00:00
People in China could not open a url sent in Gmail. I happened to be in China, I tried to open the webpage and it worked, no firewall.

I hovered on the link in Gmail and Chrome told me left bottom it was just that exact url.

But when I opened the url it got blocked by the great firewall.

Why? Any link in Gmail secretly gets replaced by a link to Google that tracks you and then redirects you to the original link.

The most obnoxious thing about this I think is that Chrome shows the original link.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-06 21:33:43+00:00
Sure I'd agree there. I can get behind Republican/Democrat labels when people are trying to broad brush describe US politics.

The left/right split doesn't make sense here (as you said). Liberal/conservative really doesn't fit either, the waters have gotten too muddied and many arguments I've seen made that should fit under a liberal banner get categorized as Libertarian or even Anarchist.
by Jovial9423 | 2025-04-06 21:33:53+00:00
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by addaon | 2025-04-06 21:34:19+00:00
Use it for what? If your goal is understanding… probably don’t. If you’re trying to produce a document for an audience that doesn’t really care and will just use an LLM to summarize it without any fact checking, then give the minimal prompting to get the token count you need. This is where LLMs excel —- sequences of tokens that are plausible use of human languages where the cost for verifying if they have semantic value exceeds five or ten minutes.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-04-06 21:34:41+00:00
These models are not reliable sources of information. They are either out of date, subject to hallucination, or just plain wrong for a variety of reasons. They are untrustworthy to ask facts like this.

I appreciate your consideration of a subjective question and how you explained it and understand these nuances. But please - do not trust chatgpt etc. I continue to be frustrated at the endless people claiming something is true from chatgpt. I support the conclusions of this author.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-06 21:34:58+00:00
> Weirdly, Russian based companies have less a problem with the free speech the USA kicks us offline for.

Yes, Russia, a place always known for enabling free and unrestricted speech.

You’re not seeing some deep commitment to free speech. You’re seeing a company in a foreign country not prioritizing matters that apply to another country around the world.

Don’t confuse one for the other.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-06 21:34:58+00:00
> Try to come up with a way to prove humans aren't stochastic parrots

Look around you

Look at Skyscrapers. Rocket ships. Agriculture.

If you want to make a claim that humans are nothing more than stochastic parrots then you need to explain where all of this came from. What were we parroting?

Meanwhile all that LLMs do is parrot things that humans created
by givinguflac | 2025-04-06 21:35:07+00:00
Heat pumps struggle to do much at the temperature range the article proposes.

Edit: downvote me all you want, I was responding specifically to “It has to beat a battery with a garden variety heat pump attached” of which EV heat pumps are not garden variety heat pumps, which do struggle at those temperatures. Didn’t think I had to be so pedantic.
by smahs | 2025-04-06 21:35:21+00:00
Gemma 3 4B (QAT quant): Yes, Paul Newman was indeed known to have struggled with alcohol throughout his life. While he maintained a public image of a charming, clean-cut star, he privately battled alcoholism for many years. He sought treatment in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was reportedly very open about his struggles and the importance of seeking help.
by trod1234 | 2025-04-06 21:36:14+00:00
Isn't the naive one hopeless since those systems require perfect measurement, and economic interactions are lagging, the calculations are ordinal, and mathematical systems fail because you can't relabel? (i.e. fails a function test so you end up trying to compare unrelated mathematical objects within differing systems).

Even statistics is fully thrown out with the islands of regularity.

The stochastic nature, lack of measure-ability, and multiple hidden underlying states (value is subjective) require any model to solve chaos somehow.

https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2024/islands-of-reg...
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-06 21:36:25+00:00
Other countries are issuing travel advisories for the US and I know at least two Canadians who have said that not only are they not buying anything made in the US, but everyone they know has declared they will be crossing the border - both because of the danger but also as part of their boycotting the states. Lawful border crossings between the US and Canada have plunged. Canadian tourism is a significant part of the economy, though the effect won't really be felt until summertime.

I don't blame them in the slightest for either.

The tariff situation is a disaster that will only further increase the tax burden and cost of living on the poor and middle class. For rich people, a 30-50% increase in their grocery costs is barely a drop in the bucket of their budget they won't feel beyond getting annoyed.

The low income energy assistance program LIHEAP just got shut down, not even with any notice so states can try to spool up something. If this had happened a month or two ago we'd be seeing news stories about seniors freezing to death in the midwest and northeast. Soon we're going to see hyperthemia stories. In some areas AC isn't a luxury, it's a necessity as much as heating is in the cold winter states, if not more so. You can't "bundle up" from the heat.

For a large swath of America, this will mean people going hungry. And turning to property crime to try to make ends meet....or to get into jail where conditions might really suck, but at least their most basic needs are (kind of) being met.
by lolinder | 2025-04-06 21:36:40+00:00
A more precise conclusion would be: "This shows that US based companies will actively self-censor to avoid getting sued for copyright infringement. Russian-based companies don't have to respect US copyright law, so they have no legal obligation to remove infringing content."

Yes, copyright infringement is not protected speech in the US and you can be held civilly liable for it. Yes, adversarial countries don't enforce each others' laws. So yes, Yandex is a good place for finding pirated works. But that hardly makes it a bastion of "free speech", it just means that they don't have the same legal risks as Google does.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-06 21:37:20+00:00
The irony of these statements is Harris’ father is an actual Marxist who doesn’t speak to his daughter partially because she is an ideological opposite.

I feel like either -

A) people hurling Karl Marx around have never actually read and considered his writings

B) they are being intellectually dishonest and creating the pretext for ideological oppression

Or, mostly likely c) all of the above

I am sad our future has taken this turn into darkly oppressive dystopia. I still think we can save things and get back to a world where all political views hash out compromise, but I fear we aren’t going in the right direction with no clear leader of right minded cooperation emerging from the cacophony. I mourn that my daughter will live in the world the conservative right is constructing for her generation - one that rolls back everything my grandparents generation gifted to me.