MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perihelions | 2025-05-01 16:30:37+00:00
Some related past threads,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759130 ("A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers (theconversation.com)" — 38 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35423290 ("Chemist Rafael Luque suspended without pay for thirteen years (elpais.com)" — 120 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759862 ("Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine (deevybee.blogspot.com)" — 33 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614 ("Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science (nature.com)" — 259 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137980 ("A dubious writing style emerging in science (arxiv.org)" — 40 comments)
by bcrosby95 | 2025-05-01 16:30:42+00:00
The law isn't some objective truth. Reckless endangerment, harassment, etc. don't have every form of those outlined. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck.

If the people involved don't have the brain cells to figure this out, maybe Apple should employ smarter people, because it's about to cost them a lot. And I don't even necessarily mean the UI people - anything would go through legal. I have contracted for companies that have had legal judgements similar to, but not exactly, like this, and they erred on the side of caution. Everything went through legal. And yes, that can mean not doing stuff your competitor does because you stepped too far over the line. Oh well, you fucked up big time and now you have a magnifying glass on you.

But Apple is too stupid or too bold to have an ounce of sense here.

The idea that people can follow laws based upon 'feelings' but billion dollar corporations can't is ridiculous. Fuck them, they 100% knew what they were doing.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-01 16:30:59+00:00
I don't know anything about Vance's book. I don't understand why people keep pointing to Musk or Vance as if I must be some devout follower or corrupted by same. Even when I was an actual communist in philosophy, as a youngin way before I knew about Musk or Vance, I held the belief that the nazis had a lot of the qualities of the intermediary institutions Marx advocated for. Ludwig Von Mises wrote about it decades ago when he escaped their continental reach.

I'm under no illusion Nazis meet the wet definition of communism, which IIRC when distilled down to just the 'water' without impurities doesn't even have a central government.
by SomethingNew71 | 2025-05-01 16:31:20+00:00
There has been an immense push to modernize the Vanguard site and the underlying architecture. This has been an enormous effort over multiple years. Since Vanguard was always a "no-branches" company, it's always been web-based. So, as a result, much of the site was built at the "bleeding edge of the time" but they are now in a position where that needs to be fully modernized.

Vanguard's architecture is enormous, but they are getting closer and closer to fully modernizing the site and retiring legacy completely. Its something that has been happening and will continue to happen over the next few years.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 16:31:22+00:00
I think maybe you should go back to first principles.

Why does a share of a company have any value? Well, if you buy 10% of the stock of widget co, you presumably get 10% of it's earnings, be that through dividends, share buy backs, etc. It's stock price will reflect that. It also reflects the future potential growth.

For some companies, (utilities, etc) there isn't much future growth so the price is mostly a function of it's ability to pay out dividends. For a tech startup, they're not paying out dividends any time soon and the price reflects it's potential to someday be BigCo with massive earnings and massive dividends.

There will always be active investors trying to beat the market, and they aid in price discovery.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-01 16:31:33+00:00
The vast majority of US workers live in jurisdictions with higher minimum wages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_states_by_minimum_w...

In the biggest state with just the federal minimum wage, Texas, individual income percentile of $20k per year ($10 per hour/40 hour work weeks/50 weeks per year) is 20th percentile. That will capture all the part time workers too, so it seems the lowest priced labor in most US labor markets is disjoint from the federal US minimum wage.

https://dqydj.com/scripts/cps/2024_income_calculators/2024_i...
by drysine | 2025-05-01 16:31:35+00:00
I looked at the article.

There are two "sources":

"Yuriy Belousov, who heads the war crimes department at the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, said that forensic examination found “numerous signs of torture and ill-treatment… including abrasions and hemorrhages on various parts of the body, a broken rib and possible traces of electric shock.”

...

Roshchyna’s colleagues at Ukrainska Pravda said her body was returned from Russia with missing organs. Citing members of the investigating team who handled her remains, they said the brain, eyeballs and part of the trachea, or windpipe, were missing, in what they said could have been an attempt by Russia to disguise the cause of death. "

Can you tell me why the head of the war crimes department talks about a broken rib but says nothing about "missing organs"? Quite odd, isn't it? Have you thought about it before asking if I condemn "the mutilation" of that woman?
by libraryatnight | 2025-05-01 16:31:38+00:00
Dude you ain't kidding. Security is all SaaS sales now and chasing corporate buzzwords, it's not security they're selling, it's insurance and the ability to outsource blame when you get popped.

Get a new CISO? You'll probably be buying the software from the last company he worked with and spending the next 3 years installing it all over just in time for them to declare mission accomplished you are secure and move on to the next square in the C-suite game of Life these dudes play. Then there's the people beneath them who want to be them mucking up the system playing get to the c-suite and not 'secure the company' or 'build good things'

Oh and if you've gone public your core business is probably on auto pilot with some gremlins keeping it running while your execs placate shareholders with layoffs and introducing AI.

People who actually want to do things, help people, and understand why the work needs done and is worth doing (the work that is anyway) are burnt the fuck out.
by ndiddy | 2025-05-01 16:31:43+00:00
The difference is how compliance is handled for cloud providers. Complying with the AGPL requires releasing the source code for the program you're hosting as a service. Complying with the SSPL requires releasing the source code for "all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software" under the terms of the SSPL. This is effectively impossible for any cloud provider to comply with (it would require a massive engineering effort to rewrite every single piece of software used to convey the service), which is why the OSI didn't approve it as an open source license.
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-01 16:31:50+00:00
I think this goes back to cultural expectations to some extent. In some cultures the response to that is, "Your parents probably had full-time jobs and then they raised you on top of it, and part of the cycle of life is 'paying that back' when they're old and sick." Granted smaller and more diffuse family units make that harder, but part of it is just the lack of a sense of filial debt to the people who bore and raised you.
by chimpanzee | 2025-05-01 16:31:54+00:00
The presence of the single dot determines how to read the grapheme, ie which specific letter of the alphabet it is.

A missing dot over the “i” in the Latin alphabet is unambiguously a mistake (depending on the font or script style). But if you missed the horizontal crossbar within the letter “t”, you would read it as an “l”. For example, confusing “mate” as “male”.
by mcg_ab_sec | 2025-05-01 16:31:54+00:00
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by pessimizer | 2025-05-01 16:32:01+00:00
According to the US, whose movements originated the May Day holiday, it's officially "Law Day," which is the day we celebrate obedience to the law (I assume by not celebrating May Day.)

The Voice of America is the only media outlet I've ever heard actually celebrating Law Day. An old job of mine had a poster on the wall for Law Day that VoA had actually printed and given away for some reason.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 16:32:22+00:00
> It does seem that who you wanted to be was just you plus a bunch of stuff

My knee jerk reaction to this was "how can anyone be anything but 'just who they are'". I think I get what you mean though. Many people dream much bigger than what they are actually capable of accomplishing. Maybe that was my real advantage. I've always been pretty grounded, and I've never really dreamed bigger than I could accomplish.

It may be that by not dreaming big I'm not reaching the absolute fullest potential I could, but it also means I accomplish many of the things I set out to do which is also a good feeling

I'm a firm believer in building strong foundations before reaching for the stars, and I guess my path somewhat embodies that

> I guess most people think of who they want to become personality-wise but maybe it's just me

Again I sort of think a lot of this boils down to people not having a good sense of their own capabilities. If your goals and your capabilities aren't aligned, you're very likely to crash out imo
by wnevets | 2025-05-01 16:32:23+00:00
they just out source the in person parts

> It turns out there is a burgeoning sub-industry of college-aged males of Asian ancestry who cannot wait to get paid for participating in these schemes. There are Discord channels all around the world just for this. They make a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for allowing their identity to be misused or participating in the scheme. That way, they can interview in person or take drug tests if the job requires that.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/our-interview-of-a-north-korean-fak...
by tchalla | 2025-05-01 16:32:31+00:00
It wasn’t even satire. It was based on this opinion from WSJ

> Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? > I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316...
by sadiq | 2025-05-01 16:32:59+00:00
This is good though it's not clear whether these papers will appear in the PMC Open Access subset (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/openftlist/) and be bulk downloadable.

I've been doing some work with colleagues at Cambridge and Imperial over the last year on using LLMs to improve evidence synthesis, primarily trying to find papers on the effectiveness of certain Conservation interventions. It's becoming clear that you really need to move beyond screening papers only by title and abstract - there's often information buried deep within papers that can only be found with access to full text. My colleague Anil Madhavapeddy has written a bit about our adventures in trying to ingest full-text academic papers: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/uk-national-data-lib
by sleepyguy | 2025-05-01 16:33:01+00:00
>I mean it: Find a way to compete. You're good enough; you don't need government protection. You're brilliant, fast moving, hard working.

How do you compete when Corporations have a silent policy that disqualifies you? Can an American Citizen/Grad apply for an H1B? Corporations have gamed the system at the expense of Americans and graduates. They hire cheap slave labor that has now even become too expensive for them, hence the effort to open offshore Dev sweatshops.
by traceroute66 | 2025-05-01 16:33:02+00:00
> I started putting some money away each month

To be honest, the positive of your story is less Vanguard, more this. You probably benefited more from old-fashioned compounding than Vanguard itself.

Too many people, sadly, don't put some money away each month.

They spend, and then they spend some more on credit, spending beyond their means.

Yes, of course, there will always be people who genuinely live paycheck to paycheck due to whatever reason.

But for people with a stable, reasonably well-paid job, its almost criminal not to put some money away each month.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-01 16:33:04+00:00
In this case, good for the developer is good for the user. As users, we get 1) tons more of those (since they’re easier to build, with one codebase that runs on literally every modern computing device, from phones to tables to laptops) 2) without being locked into a walled garden 3) fairly securely (heavily sandboxed, unlike desktop apps).

The sheer number of cool things that got posted on HN in recent years leveraging these APIs.
by LagaV | 2025-05-01 16:33:12+00:00
I use RSS since ages. I would categorize the usefulness in two dimensions:

A) News feed consumption in a more structured way, avoiding shifting placements of articles on websites, layout nightmares, ....

B) Follow blogs and other once in a while publications.

At least for A) I hope to get / find some AI support that helps to consume the "firehose". I have subscribed to multiple news outlets that typically have significant overlap in their coverage.

I'm thinking about:

- Duplicate removal from the RSS feed. Same article (slightly modified) published multiple times or intentionally republished at a different time (typical on e.g Business Insider).

- Aggregate (list together) all articles to a certain topic, that are more or less similar, so getting away from sorting (only) by feed to more by topic. I realized a while back, that it's easier for me to consume "similar" stuff than constantly switching dimensions. For me I have my feed groups sep. by language. It was too hard to have articles in a wild language mix order.

- Better distinguish between "Hot topic" vs. "Isolated, but valuable pieces".

- Self defined "Summary function" for articles I'm currently reading to get to the core of the news.
by johnklos | 2025-05-01 16:33:29+00:00
Imagine explaining this to someome in 1995:

"In thirty years our computers will have sixteen threads of execution at 4.5 GHz each, with 4 IPC or better, along with 16 gigabytes of memory that can move data at 50 gigabytes a second. Practically everyone will have solid state storage that loads and saves at more than a gigabyte per second. Many computers will have GPUs capable of beating the fastest supercomputers in the 1995 world, and most of that capacity will be used for little more than just pushing pixels to a monitor."

"Wow! I bet Microsoft Word will load instantly!"

"No. It'll take longer to load than Word 5.1 takes to load on an Amiga with an '060 accelerator running ShapeShifter. It'll be so slow that Microsoft decides to load key parts of Office when the system boots, but only if you have more RAM than can be directly accessed by a 32 bit processor."

It's something you'd expect from a snarky article from The Register or from me, if you know me, but I think both El Reg and I wouldn't've quite gotten the full extent of it.
by quantadev | 2025-05-01 16:33:32+00:00
If everyone was relying on Google, then that should come to an end. Browsers got WAY too bloated anyway, and frankly I think we can dramatically simplify the web too.

There should be some kind of open-source consortium that is in control of web standards, and then some open-source kernel for all Web Browsers to share, just like there are independent versions of Linux all sharing a common core.

So it's a good thing if Google loses control. I'm all for it. They have too much power.
by antirez | 2025-05-01 16:33:39+00:00
RMS was enough of a genius to understand the potential of open source software, and basically gave us, with GPL and his evangelism (and his code! plenty of it), and the free software movement, the software world we are living now. AGPL reflects the fact that he understood before everybody else that something was happening with software as a service.

I love the BSD license, but now who says that AGPL is a cancer is making a big favor to the few huge companies that want to abuse the original dream that spawned modern and open software. Times changes, the best license to use change with times.
by ahoog42 | 2025-05-01 16:33:40+00:00
Jonathan Sawday’s 2023 book “Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence.” [1] explores this phenomenon as well across multiple mediums.

It also won the Modern Language Association's top award — the James Russell Lowell Prize for the most outstanding book published in 2023.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/book/46695
by Zambyte | 2025-05-01 16:33:43+00:00
> Can’t you decode a QR code and then paste it over?

Yes, but that is intentionally rejected by the Signal app.

> Or will it take a USB camera as an addon for this temporary need?

See:

> USB cameras are arbitrarily blocked too, I tried.

The only way to use Signal and pair it with other devices is to use a different app without these arbitrary restrictions like Molly.
by jlarocco | 2025-05-01 16:33:48+00:00
Because an entire generation of developers and their managers believe the hardware is so fast there's no point trying to optimize the software.

Besides, the only thing that matters is getting tickets "done" before the arbitrary sprint deadline in 2 weeks, so best not to spend any extra time cleaning up or optimizing the first thing that works. You can't think about performance until the sprint dedicated to performance.
by allears | 2025-05-01 16:34:19+00:00
Anecdotal evidence from myself: Although I've been using Word for many decades, I've never had much "muscle memory" in terms of accessing features. It was always a case of learning which pulldown menu held the required function.

When the accursed ribbon came along, "discoverability" went out the window. Functions were grouped according to some strange MS logic I could never understand, and it takes me twice as long to format a page as it used to. Now, I basically just use Word for text entry, and if I want an elegant format, I use a graphic design app like Illustrator.

Judging from what I've read online, you may be the only person who actually likes the ribbon.
by marcosdumay | 2025-05-01 16:34:44+00:00
Personally, I live the Office license my workplace pays for untouched, and use LibreOffice on my work Windows computer instead.

Yes, it's slow and bloated. But it's comparably faster and leaner, and it doesn't use undocumented APIs to take resources away from everything else running on the same computer and make every other thing unusable.

And yeah, calc lacks features when compared to excel. So, avoid spreadsheets for complex problems.
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-01 16:34:59+00:00
Europe also seems to more readily accept "A cold snap killed off thousands of elderly people living alone", and that's doubly true in the UK. It tends not to get covered in the US because after all it's very local news and we already barely cover major world events, but if you pay attention to country-specific news it's surprisingly grim.

Maybe it was different before 2008, but since then in the age of "austerity" I wouldn't want to be old, sick, and alone in Europe.
by brookst | 2025-05-01 16:35:05+00:00
At the very least you have to validate everything that touches redis, which means finding everything that touches redis. Internal tools and docs need to be updated.

And who knows if someone adopted post-fork features?

If this is a production system that supports the core business, hundreds of hours seems pretty reasonable. For a small operation that can afford to YOLO it, sure, it should be pretty easy.
by geysersam | 2025-05-01 16:35:32+00:00
Not sure what you mean by "relation to the underlying reality". The explanation is likely to be correlated with the underlying reason for the answer.

For example, here is a simple query:

> I put my bike in the bike stand, I removed my bike from the bike stand and biked to the beach, then I biked home, where is my bike. Answer only with the answer and no explanation

> Chatgpt: At home

> Why did you answer that?

> I answered that your bike is at home because the last action you described was biking home, which implies you took the bike with you and ended your journey there. Therefore, the bike would logically be at home now.

Do you doubt that the answer would change if I changed the query to make the final destination be "the park" instead of "home"? If you don't doubt that, what do you mean that the answer doesn't correspond to the underlying reality? The reality is the answer depends on the final destination mentioned, and that's also the explanation given by the LLM, clearly the reality and the answers are related.
by ductsurprise | 2025-05-01 16:36:11+00:00
> My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly

I'm sure there were a lot of false positives with that question.

If I was not reading HN and a few other sources I would likely hang up the phone too.

Thinking that it couldn't be a real job,... some phishing scam or hoax, asking ridiculous questions like that.

Depending on the job, it is quite likely the real talent would not be able to take the interview seriously after hearing suck a question.

Seriously weird times...
by exhilaration | 2025-05-01 16:36:14+00:00
Yeah after a disastrous remote hire I started requiring in-person 2nd round interviews. Company policy is that all future hires are hybrid only (not that we or anyone else is hiring these days...) so it just makes sense.

For developers I share my screen on MS Teams so everyone can watch, then hand them my laptop with Visual Studio. They've got 90 minutes to complete a small assignment while we look at them code - Google is allowed, so is copying and pasting from Stack Overflow, and we'll probably allow Copilot as well. The code needs to run and return the expected results. One candidate said, "this was great, it felt like real work".

For cloud admins, our Devops lead creates a new resource group, hands over his laptop, and we ask them to create a few resources and do the network and authentication to make them talk to each other. Most candidates can't do that anymore - we're finding they've become Terraform operators that don't know how the underlying technology works.