MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vineyardmike | 2025-05-30 05:06:45+00:00
> I feel like our culture has a strong anti-golf bias

Golf, generally, is pretty expensive. It's like minimum $50 for an outing, you need equipment, correct clothes, etc. Some places require membership, often priced intentionally exclusively. It's pretty natural for something exclusionary to get a negative cultural bias.

Oh, and it is a terrible resource hog. You can't fit many people on a golf course at any given time without disrupting gameplay, and all that grass requires a lot of water and maintenance.

> any reason to spend a couple hours outside with my friends sounds amazing

This is, of course, available in many forms that don't involve hitting balls with sticks, but also there are many varieties of ball+stick that satisfy this.

Golfing is an artificial competitive activity that exists in an artificial and manicured version of nature. There is nothing wrong with it if you like the activity, but you can just go for a hike or stroll in a park if you want to be with friends outside.
by kcaseg | 2025-05-30 05:07:30+00:00
Reminds me of this “AI study” on climate change

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.39798G2

It is not the “minor citation errors” what are the most worrying, but rather the fact that LLMs aim to please you, even if you really believe your prompt was neutral (which I doubt when it comes to Kennedy and vaccines for example).
by rendall | 2025-05-30 05:09:06+00:00
Alzheimer’s isn’t a prion disease, but it does show prion-like behavior. Misfolded proteins like amyloid-beta and tau can spread within the brain similarly to prions, but unlike true prion diseases (e.g. CJD), Alzheimer’s isn’t infectious and isn’t caused by prions. It's a distinct neurodegenerative disorder with overlapping mechanisms, not classification.
by DevDesmond | 2025-05-30 05:09:09+00:00
From my experience, (and to borrow terminology from a HN thread not long ago), I've found that once a chat goes bad, your context is "poisoned"; It's auto completing from previous text that is nonsense, so, further text generation from there exist in the world of nonexistent nonsense as well. It's much better to edit your message and try again.

I also think that language matters - An Emacs function is much more esoteric than say, JavaScript, Python, or Java. If I ever find myself looking for help with something that's not in the standard library, I like provide extra context, such as examples from the documentation.
by agarren | 2025-05-30 05:10:34+00:00
I’ve used them for probably the better part of a decade. I’ve never had any issues, they’re pretty inexpensive, they e-file by default and you get a notification when state and fed are accepted. The wizard is easy to follow and explanations are available. They have bells and whistles like audit protection, that seem reasonable but that I’ve largely avoided.

The name might seem a little sketchy, but it’s a legit service. I don’t know about “free” - I’ve always ended up paying to file at least one of state or federal, I don’t recall, but not pricy.

(Edit - looking closer, I’ve been using them since 2007. Wow, time flies. Great service, no complaints.)
by ost-ing | 2025-05-30 05:11:56+00:00
Everyone can use these tools to deepen knowledge and enhance output.

But, there is a difference between using LLMs and relying on LLMs. The hype is geared toward this idea that we can rely on these tools to do all the work for us, we can fire everyone, but its bollocks.

It becomes an increasingly ridiculous proposition as the work becomes more specialized indepth, cross functional, regulated and critical.

You can use it to help at any level of complexity, but nobody is going to vibe code a flight control system.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-05-30 05:12:27+00:00
Tolerance for error of an average human is higher than one expects. It’s a cultural problem that’s getting more prominent in the West, because people genuinely start looking down on education. I have over-educated family members who are firm set on “my children don’t have to study hard, I’m sure they’ll smart enough to make big money at the end” idea.
by RandallBrown | 2025-05-30 05:14:53+00:00
I like to tell people I was a professional ActionScript developer at Microsoft. This was during peak Silverlight days.

I was working on the MyFordTouch system and the UI was written in Flash by a contractor, then handed off to Microsoft to fix the bugs. It was a nightmare to work with and flash in a car worked about as well as you'd expect it to in 2012 (badly).
by jljljl | 2025-05-30 05:15:10+00:00
Direct File was rolled out gradually as a pilot program. It was also only available for taxpayers in 12 states.

My guess: since the tax code is so complicated, they probably wanted to support the simplest and most common filing cases in the first release. Handling all the edge cases would delay the launch, and prevent them from collecting feedback. If the feedback and demand was positive for v1, they could expand the surface area in the future.

Unfortunately, it didn't last long enough
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-30 05:16:25+00:00
> Do you really develop lasting friendships on the course or in rec league sports? I just haven't had that experience and the popularity of those activities is sky rocketing (see: running clubs) while the problem doesn't seem to be getting any better.

When I did rec league sports most of the guys were there to meet women

There wasn't a men's only league
by tallowen | 2025-05-30 05:17:30+00:00
There is a bunch of code to import w2s from the SSA in this codebase - this did happen this year for direct file. That being said, big issues remain:

- Employers don't tell the federal government about state tax information and when they do, the government doesn't store that information

- W2s aren't due to the SSA at the opening of tax filing season and penalties aren't commonly enforced for submitting w2s on time.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...
by Arainach | 2025-05-30 05:17:31+00:00
Your causality is wrong. This adminstration has no interest in working with competent people. They're fired huge numbers of them, gone out of their way to make life hell for those left so they quit, and are moving faster than ever imagined possible to drive competent people in non-government jobs away from this country - by deporting them, taking away their visas, attacking them, and more.
by john-h-k | 2025-05-30 05:18:01+00:00
uops.info has latency for both (Alder Lake) at 1 cycle but throughput (lower is better)

* for add is 0.20 (ie 5 per cycle)

* for adc is 0.50 (ie 2 per cycle)

so it does seem correct.

This seems to be a consequence of `add` being available on ports 0, 1, 5, 6, & B, whereas `adc` is only available on ports 0 & 6

So yes as an individual instruction it’s no worse, but even non-dependent instructions will be worse for OoO execution (which is more realistic than viewing it as a single instruction)
by JimDabell | 2025-05-30 05:18:04+00:00
It’s not always location-agnostic, but you’re more likely to hear about location-agnostic efforts because they have further reach.

For instance Men’s Sheds are a local effort with a thousand locations in the UK:

> Men’s Sheds encourage people to come together to make, repair and repurpose, supporting projects in their local communities. Improving wellbeing, reducing loneliness and combatting social isolation.

> Research gathered by the UKMSA Health and Wellbeing Survey, 2023, suggests 96% of Men’s Shed attendees feel less lonely since joining a Shed.

— https://menssheds.org.uk

Unfortunately, sometimes you get things like this happening:

> 'We put the pressure on to join Men in Sheds'

> The 74-year-old added: "Eventually they let us in, just one morning, eventually it became all the time, and now it's 50% women, and we absolutely love it."

> When the women were allowed into the workshop, members decided to keep a quiet room with a model railway display in it, just for men.

> "We [the men] escape now and again [to the quiet room] and have a chat and weigh things up."

— https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5qd9l3094o
by danielhanchen | 2025-05-30 05:22:20+00:00
For those interested, I made some 1 bit dynamic quants at https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-GGUF

74% smaller 713GB to 185GB.

Use the magic incantation -ot ".ffn_.*_exps.=CPU" to offload MoE layers to RAM, allowing non MoEs to fit < 24GB VRAM on 16K context! The rest sits in RAM & disk.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-30 05:23:47+00:00
Agreed. There is plenty of technological progress, but so little of it is really in service to humanity or making our lives better.

Sure, AI can make us more productive (those of us it doesn't replace), but so what? That just means that my company can either a) produce more and generate more revenue, or b) produce the same with fewer employees, reducing costs. Either way, it doesn't make my life better.

The problem is that technology is for the most part, not about making our lives better. It's about finding new markets and convincing consumers to buy/use these products.

They say productivity has doubled in the past 40 years. Are we either 1) working half as many hours as we did then; or 2) earning twice as much (inflation-adjusted) as we did then? If not, then what has the increased productivity earned us?
by specproc | 2025-05-30 05:24:43+00:00
I really value forums and worry about the impact LLMs are having on them.

Stackoverflow has its flaws for sure, but I've learned a hell of a lot watching smart people argue it out in a thread.

Actual learning: the pros and cons of different approaches. Even the downvoted answers tell you something often.

Asking an LLM gets you a single response from a median stackoverflow commenter. Sure, they're infinitely patient and responsive, but can never beat a few grizzled smart arses trying to one-up each other.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-05-30 05:24:54+00:00
Assuming I am reading this Census table correctly, 2023 Table A-2 [0] says 76% of the US has a household income under $150k. So as an initial deployment, covering 3/4 of the country as the first filter is not terrible.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2024/demo/income-poverty/...
by anovikov | 2025-05-30 05:24:59+00:00
Reason of most scams is the absurd level of trust existing in Western countries.

When i first saw Upwork where hours were paid by the tracker in a guaranteed manner and people SIGNED for it, i knew West was doomed. I still find it hard to believe people can be that easy to dupe.

Level of trust in the Western societies needs to be radically reduced through government propaganda, church and other channels. The world has become global. Westerners are now a small minority in an ocean of people where the manner of relationship that will be seen as sociopathic in the West, is the everyday norm and always have been. If they won't adapt, they will cease to exist. The cozy world where one could trust another because they all shared fear of God and had a reputation to lose, is gone.
by 1718627440 | 2025-05-30 05:26:33+00:00
But doesn't reward for "**C" means that "C" is in the training data?

I am not sure if that is an accurate model, but if you think of it as a vectorspace, sure you can generate a lot of vectors from some set of basevectors, but you can never generate a new basevector from others, since they are linearly independent, so there are a bunch of new vectors you can never generate.
by homebrewer | 2025-05-30 05:26:54+00:00
Well, they're pretty comparable in many parts of the world (and I despise cryptocurrency, btw). Despite what you might think, the current US administration is far from the worst compared to what some of us live under. Americans simply lack a proper "zero point" to be able to properly gauge this.

I place exactly zero trust in what our administration says, because they've lied about the country's economic situation and what they're planning to do about it four times during my lifetime, and several more times during our parents' lifetimes. Our savings were cut in half (or more) several times because of this, and so much of it was lost, the total amount of time wasted working for effectively free is in the decades now.

There's really no reliable way of saving money long-term here, unless you scrounge enough to buy real estate or something else that is unlikely to be devalued to 30% of its original value with a stroke of a pen.

I can imagine why some people would resort to cryptocurrency and extracting money out of the country asap.
by staplung | 2025-05-30 05:27:38+00:00
I'm not saying they didn't. It's just that the title here says "WH releases health report written by LLM" but the article it links to does not claim that. The headline from the article is about the fake citations.

Also, I could imagine that the report, whether drafted by human or not, could have been pasted into an LLM with a prompt like "make this sound more authoritative" and the LLM dutifully added some "citations" because, what's more authoritative looking than citations?
by kweingar | 2025-05-30 05:28:54+00:00
(I deleted a less productive comment.)

I do use these tools though! I spent some time with AI. I have coworkers who are more heads-down working on their projects and not tinkering with agents, and they're doing fine. I have coworkers who are on the absolute bleeding edge of AI tools, and they're doing fine. When the tooling matures and the churn lessens and the temperature of the discourse is lowered, I'm confident that we will all be doing great things. I just think that the "anybody not using and optimizing Codex or Claude Code today is not gonna make it" attitude is misguided. I could probably wring out some more utility from these tools if I spent more time with them, but I'd rather spend most of my professional development time working on subject matter expertise. I want to deeply understand my domain, and I trust that AI use will (mostly) become relatively easier to pick up and less of a differentiator as time goes on
by hresvelgr | 2025-05-30 05:29:32+00:00
While I believe there is scant value in being a critic, a good point is nevertheless made: it should be made by practicing artists.

Elaborating on both points, as a practicing artist, paying attention to what you like is important as it shapes your tastes. Critique is useful only insofar as it allows one to create more of what perfectly embodies one's taste, whatever that may be. To be a public critic is to believe one's taste is superior. In my opinion, the only important taste is one's own to one, and should be cultivated by unabashedly following what you find intriguing.

If you're not a practicing artist, like what you like earnestly. Plenty will bemoan the state of the art crumbling, but there's a reason people still enjoy the greats of old to this day. What's good will persist.
by mortos | 2025-05-30 05:30:07+00:00
The IRS provides a list of free filing websites: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

I believe they may even pay these companies to offer the service.

Free Tax USA doesn't have an income limit, and may be the only one, so I've used them for at least 5 years. They charge $10 for state filing, so I use CalFile instead.

My tax situation is pretty simple and they've filled my needs. The only issue I've had is with exempting Treasury bills from state tax but I don't file state with them anyway so maybe I missed something.
by comex | 2025-05-30 05:30:30+00:00
Anthropic had a slip-up like this recently with a legal filing (totally unrelated to the report, just a similar example of bad citations). After being challenged by a judge, they said:

> A Latham & Watkins associate located that article as potential additional support for Ms. Chen’s testimony using a Google search. The article exists [...]

> [...] I asked Claude.ai to provide a properly formatted legal citation for that source using the link to the correct article. Unfortunately, although providing the correct publication title, publication year, and link to the provided source, the returned citation included an inaccurate title and incorrect authors.

Anthropic could be lying, but apparently the link is indeed correct, so the account seems plausible.

However, the current situation is less understandable. The article says that "some correctly cited papers were inaccurately summarized", which suggests that AI either was used for the report itself, or at least was told to add citations without the author's input, which would be far more irresponsible than what Anthropic did. The apparently completely hallucinated "paper on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs" also doesn't look good.

The article also mentions that "[a]n early copy of the report shared with reporters did not include citations", which does support the theory that citations were added after the fact (whether or not AI was also used for the report itself).

Source for Anthropic testimony: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...
by ipdashc | 2025-05-30 05:32:21+00:00
I got a similar one!

Issue : Business Rule IND-031-04 - `PrimaryPriorYearPIN` or `PrimaryPriorYearAGIAmt` in the Return Header must match the e-File database. If you are unable to provide a valid `PrimaryPriorYearPIN` or `PrimaryPriorYearAGIAmt`, then you may instead provide an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) to electronically file your return. An IP PIN may not be used if you are filing Form 9465 standalone. If you wish to get an IP PIN and you don`t already have an account on IRS.gov, then you must register to validate your identity. Please visit www.irs.gov/getanippin for further information and resubmit your return. The following information may help you determine the form at issue: Field/Xpath: /efile:Return/efile:ReturnHeader/efile:Filer/efile:PrimarySSN

Got a bit of a kick out of it. Feels weird to see inside the "implementation layer" of sorts for the IRS, of all things.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-30 05:32:35+00:00
Yeah, guess so, but we like garbage these days in the industry; nextjs, prisma, npm, react, ts, js, tailwind, babel, the list of inefficient and badly written shite goes on and on; as a commercial person it's impossible to avoid that though as shadcn is the only thing 'the youth' makes apps with now.
by petesergeant | 2025-05-30 05:34:27+00:00
My mother is exceptionally vigilant, which is great, but her partner ... I've never met anyone who gets targeted so much, or who needs it spelling out to him so much that he doesn't really have $2m in a crypto wallet somewhere he forgot about that a helpful person can send him. I think it's a fixed personality trait. If they split up, and doesn't have her watching him like a hawk, I worry he's toast.
by Waterluvian | 2025-05-30 05:36:11+00:00
A high trust society is actually a good trait, not a bad one. It’s rather easy, lazy even, for a culture to devolve into a low trust minima. That’s basically the default state that people have endeavoured to evolve out of.

I think it’s also the kind of thing that can easily overwhelm anxious minds. The kind where “what if it’s a scam?” leads them to never taking a risk, donating to a cause, doing someone a favour.

Not that there isn’t a fight to be fought here. But waving the surrender flag on fostering a trusting society is a very weak move.
by flomo | 2025-05-30 05:36:19+00:00
I think a gracious reading here is a "boardgame type" is the sort of person you would only encounter at your friendly local game store etc. GP has a point, but I know plenty of 'high(er) status' groups include 'non-straight-acting' and 'weird lefty' guys, but they are cool guys to hang out with, and not like weirdos who slithered out of their mother's basement.

Popular people like other popular people, because that's how you throw a party.

Anyway I wish OP the best. But in the grand tradition of internet meetups, "these people are really fucking weird."
by kweingar | 2025-05-30 05:36:47+00:00
I was being sarcastic there, a bad habit of mine. There are some advantages to being an early adopter (you get to reap some of the benefits now), but it doesn't give you a permanent advantage, and the people who aren't closely following and adopting weeks-old tools aren't doomed to irrelevance.

The iPhone was an equalizer. Existing mobile devs did get a genuine head start on mobile app design, but their advantage was fleeting.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-30 05:37:00+00:00
> again, i don't want to make the claim that my beliefs are in some way better. that would be hubris, and that's a big reason why i want you to do your own research.

Well, we’re on a discussion forum, so the point is to discuss our opinions, not to claim that we’re better than another :) I think it’s unfortunate that you wouldn’t share some of your beliefs; we could have constructively criticized each other’s beliefs, and thereby sharpened our critical thinking skills. Alas.

> science and religion must be in harmony. that is, they should not contradict each other. if there is a contradiction (in any specific point) then one of them is probably wrong. to resolve that difference science needs to do more research and religion needs to get a better understanding of the claim. perhaps there is an interpretation that can explain the discrepancy.

My take is that religion is an encoding of human morality [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127397], but that the prevailing religious texts are outdated compared to our current understanding of the world.

> religion must be the cause of unity, harmony and agreement. if it is the cause of discord and hostility, if it leads to separation and creates conflict, the absence of religion would be preferable.

Agree, but I think that the correlation between religiousness and harmony is not as strong as many religious people seem to claim. I think it is hard for many religious people to imagine a-religious harmony, because religion is such a foundational part of their worldview.

> there will be a time when humanity will learn to live without meat. but today is not the time yet. that doesn't mean i'd believe that being a vegan today would be wrong, but rather that not everyone lives in a position where they can afford to give up meat because they have nothing to replace it with.

Agree, with the caveat that most HN readers are in a position to replace meat, and that eating plants directly is more efficient than feeding animals plants and eating the animals (IIUC). However, I can’t possibly claim to know whether it’s possible for every culture on Earth.

> most religions are ill-equipped to deal with the problems we are facing today. religions need to adapt and renew themselves to be able to address the questions we are having today. the return of jesus plays a critical role here.

See above.

> you should also read about all the other religions, at least the major ones, if only to get a better understanding about the different beliefs that the people in this world today are holding. it is probably not necessary to read all the holy writings of each religion, at least not unless one of them piques your interest and you want to learn more.

Agree, but I don’t think this approach precludes not believing in any of them.

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For what it’s worth, I do believe that most religions include many valid moral guidelines (‘love thy neighbor’, etc.), but I think most of them also include many infamously unproven teachings (the existence of a creator and afterlife/reincarnation).
by barry-cotter | 2025-05-30 05:37:00+00:00
Because men and women are different and have mixed and single sex spaces have radically different norms and interaction styles. Given that all respectable mixed institutions default to female interaction styles this is profoundly alienating for men.

If one has never spent any time in all male spaces or has and thinks that men are defective women, like the average male therapist or counsellor this may not be obvious.