MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-01 21:19:03+00:00
This is pretty much correct. I'd have to search for it but I remember an article from a couple years back that detailed how LLMs blew up the field of NLP processing overnight.

Although I'd also offer a slightly different lens through which to look at the reaction of other researchers. There's jealousy, sure, but overnight a ton of NLP researchers basically had to come to terms with the fact that their research was useless, at least from a practical perspective.

For example, imagine you just got your PhD in machine translation, which took you 7 years of laboring away in grad/post grad work. Then something comes out that can do machine translation several orders of magnitude better than anything you have proposed. Anyone can argue about what "understanding" means until they're blue in the face, but for machine translation, nobody really cares that much - people just want to get text in another language that means the same thing as the original language, and they don't really care how.

Tha majority of research leads to "dead ends", but most folks understand that's the nature of research, and there is usually still value in discovering "OK, this won't work". Usually, though, this process is pretty incremental. With LLMs all of a sudden you had lots of folks whose life work was pretty useless (again, from a practical perspective), and that'd be tough for anyone to deal with.
by spac | 2025-05-01 21:19:12+00:00
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by porphyra | 2025-05-01 21:19:18+00:00
> This would be a trivial software change in the specific case of Teslas

Tesla already has dooring prevention. If it detects a bicycle or something coming, it prevents you from opening the door the first time, and shows a warning. You can override it by trying to open it the second time, if you are sure.

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by mrandish | 2025-05-01 21:19:26+00:00
> I grew up with a mentality of "you can't do that, there's a rule against that"

No matter how wealthy or poor your Western European upbringing may have been, being saddled with that worldview is, IMHO, the worst kind of disadvantage someone in otherwise fairly good circumstances can have because it's baked into your skull and how you see everything. I hope you've been able to overcome it.
by kbaker | 2025-05-01 21:19:49+00:00
I could hope for a future PoE-over-Data Line (PoDL) version using an 18 AWG twisted pair that would work for this, providing something like 48V @ 3 or 4 A, and 10BASE-T1L for data. Hopefully a standard way to do this gains traction.

The existing limitation is with the 2x23 AWG (or 4x23 AWG) of Cat5e/6/6a not providing a lot of current-carrying capability at a safe voltage.
by lukan | 2025-05-01 21:19:55+00:00
Do you think, scientists are atheists by definition?

I have a different experience.

And yes, mysticism is also my thing, but I don't see it as odds with science, as I don't make claims about the structure of the world. I simply say, I also did study a bit of physic, before switching to IT, but I did not got the impression, it is remotely solved, nor understood. Go a bit deeper or bigger and it all gets blurry quickly. So plenty of room for all kinds of even more freaky things.

You know the anecdote I shared about Max Planck?
by setheron | 2025-05-01 21:20:40+00:00
I disagree based on my own personal experience of raising kids in California but they are all young and I'm paying quite a lot for preschool :P I'm also carrying a mortgage as I'm younger which is ~30-40% of my take home pay.

Total tangent: 2024 Jujutsu was my favorite tool to learn and your posts helped me learn it. Thank you.
by ianferrel | 2025-05-01 21:20:46+00:00
I'm saying that "You don't need to hit a huge number of service providers because the USA market is highly concentrated" is not a good argument because the act of taxing the concentrated incumbents will cause changes.

Also note that the micro-service providers might just be white-label resellers of the big providers.

Which supports my general point that services are hard to tax because unlike physical goods you can't force them to flow through a few physical choke-points. The fact that economies of scale and other factors cause them to naturally collect in a few concentrated firms in the absence of taxes does not mean that you can just tax those concentrated firms because they will figure out ways to not get taxed!
by const_cast | 2025-05-01 21:20:48+00:00
Excel is also used and abused. In finance and insurance, often Excel isn't used as a spreadsheet and visualization application. It's used as a database and application engine.

This is really bad for a lot of reasons. Of course it's painfully slow, but it's also incredibly brittle and foot-gunny. Excel IS NOT a competent database engine or application engine. It makes JS and C++ look sane and safe.

Excel shouldn't be switched out to LibreOffice. It should be switched out to a proper application with a proper database. What, finance bros don't know how to navigate a database. Tough fucking luck! In the 70s, secretaries could do that. They better figure it out. Because these existing "systems" are a disaster waiting to happen.
by ahahahahah | 2025-05-01 21:21:50+00:00
It sounds like you are refuting the parent's claim. But those two categories add up to ~110,000 deaths over a 6 year period, which seems like can be reasonably described as 10000s per year.

But, more importantly, you missed a bunch of relevant categories:

V89.2 (Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, traffic) 80,434

V87.7 (Person injured in collision between other specified motor vehicles (traffic)) 29,982

V09.2 (Pedestrian injured in traffic accident involving other and unspecified motor vehicles) 27,934

V03.1 (Pedestrian injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van, traffic accident) 15,129

V43.5 (Car occupant injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van, driver injured in traffic accident) 9,810

V29.9 (Motorcycle rider [any] injured in unspecified traffic accident) 8,410

V29.4 (Driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident) 7,688

V47.5 (Car occupant injured in collision with fixed or stationary object, driver injured in traffic accident) 6,379

V49.9 (Car occupant [any] injured in unspecified traffic accident) 6,349

V23.4 (Motorcycle rider injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van, driver injured in traffic accident) 5,851

V43.6 (Car occupant injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van, passenger injured in traffic accident) 3,728

V27.4 (Motorcycle rider injured in collision with fixed or stationary object, driver injured in traffic accident) 3,504
by lbotos | 2025-05-01 21:22:02+00:00
> Support, no matter how valued and important to the organisation it is, is never worth $200k/year on the output of 1 person.

I... think you are thinking more "Customer Support Representative" (how to reset a password) and not Support Engineering.

An engineer that can talk to customers, find bugs, and fix them, is not worth $200k?

One of the Oxide Support engineers was (still is) an INSANELY strong performance engineer who helped solved performance bugs when he was on my team. We were actively using strace weekly to troubleshoot deep process internals to optimize perf.

(Hi Will, I miss you, and you are definitely worth $200k don't listen to this guy. <3)
by serbancon | 2025-05-01 21:22:35+00:00
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by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-01 21:22:43+00:00
> I seriously doubt this. seriously. if true, it is a user problem, because i've never had an issue, nor has anyone I know.

I have about a 50% success rate with Bluetooth devices pairing and reconnecting properly on Windows, so at least I’m doing better than OP.

The Bluetooth software stack on the whole is a disaster, but the only platform where I’ve had a trouble free experience is macOS.
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by steveklabnik | 2025-05-01 21:23:59+00:00
> when there's a bottom line to answer to

Having VC money doesn't mean that you can ignore finances. We are in a relatively capital-intensive business compared to a lot of the startups on HN.

> Support is typically low paid because it's a lot of effort for little reward,

Respectfully, I think this attitude is flat-out wrong. Because of this:

> there's only so much impact they can have on the bottom line.

Directly, sure. But that's the fundamental error. Good support is absolutely worth it, and do bring in value, only indirectly. That customer you kept because when they had an issue, it was resolved quickly and professionally? That's money, even if it's more difficult to quantify than sales. And it's not like support engineers aren't doing engineering as well.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 21:24:09+00:00
> Your example about small countries is irrelevant because nobody cares about the trade deficit between the U.S. and Bangladesh.

Yeah, it is not like someone would create a U.S. tariff policy with tariffs set based on (goods trade deficit with the US) / (bilateral trade volume with the US), irrespective of size of the country, because no one is stupid enough to care about the (goods or general) trade deficit between the U.S. and, e.g., Bangladesh.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-01 21:24:36+00:00
The point is that someone gave a specific example of the much more general concept of probing for mental model by way of detailed explanation of a process he ought to be familiar with. You objected to the specific details - knowledge of HTTP. That's not an indictment of the general approach.

That said ML models have gotten to the point where I'd have to disagree with OP that this approach will necessarily filter their use. However there are plenty of available mitigations, from latency of response to requiring a video feed that fully covers the candidate, his screen, and his keyboard.
by lukan | 2025-05-01 21:24:36+00:00
"How often are you finding a new home?"

Too often.

" Map widgets also shouldn't really be a performance concern"

Have you ever build one?

I hate those stuttering ones build by suckers and enjoy those that just run smooth GPU accelerated.

Also I frequently encounter maps on various sites.

The tracking service for my package. The shop showing me the nearest stores. A map with points of niche interest ..
by achierius | 2025-05-01 21:25:01+00:00
How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags? Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call?

I ask because currently I use Readwise but have a local script that syncs the reader files to a local DB, which then feeds into some custom agent flows I have going on on the side.
by zem | 2025-05-01 21:25:07+00:00
I think of it as "we have a team developing this product, the product makes money, and we use that money to compensate the team". if the team as a whole needs support people in order to do its work, it seems like a great thing to consider those people full-fledged team members deserving of equal compensation.

to the point that their labour does not scale in the same way a software engineer's does - think of the fact that you need more support people to do the amount of revenue generation that fewer devs could do as part of the cost of running the business, rather than as a measure of the fraction of the rewards that should go to them.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-01 21:25:36+00:00
No, fake news in the modern era is news that is literally invented. It came to prominence during the 2016 US election and was tied largely to, as I recall, the Russian influence campaign and just plain moneymaking via ads.

Some politicians then co-opted the term to describe news and news outlets that they don’t like, and that definition was adopted by their fans.
by bloomca | 2025-05-01 21:25:42+00:00
The problem with Electron is that business-wise it is an excellent decision. You can get by with a few people to wrap the web app and integrate it with the OS, and then get updates pretty much for free.

Yet for the user it is bad -- bloated, slow, feels non-native, has specific bugs which are hard to address for the devs, etc.

I don't see any light for the desktop UI development unless there is some lightweight universal rendering engine. Tauri with WebView is somewhat promising, but it has problems on Linux and it is hard to target older systems.
by const_cast | 2025-05-01 21:26:27+00:00
You could always... you know... ask?

I use Thunderbird and it's approximately 100x better at searching for emails than Excel. I just tell it if I'm looking in the subject, in the body, in the sender, whether it's fuzzy, etc, and then it pulls up the emails.

Whereas Excel doesn't ask shit and, in return, doesn't have a working search.
by jimmydddd | 2025-05-01 21:26:43+00:00
Unpopular take. While I agree with the sentiment, I still think it took some fortitude to walk away from the golden handcuffs of a successful finance career to do an Internet startup at that time. Bezos said he ran the idea past his boss at the time, and the boss said something like "that's a good idea, but not for someone who already has a great job like you." So I do applaud him for that. Bloomberg made a similar transition.
by m0llusk | 2025-05-01 21:26:55+00:00
It's a great start, but also shows how driving is not a navigation challenge as much as it is a socialization challenge. If I drove right up to some responders dealing with an emergency and repeatedly refused to stop then I could be in big legal trouble and could end up with fines and possibly an arrest. This has not happened with Waymo vehicles because there is legal ambiguity about who is responsible in such cases. Realistic analysis shows these vehicles have a driving record similar to that of overconfident teens which is worrisome.
by tgma | 2025-05-01 21:27:10+00:00
You hit the nail on the head re sales being the canary in the coalmine. I just read the original post which I found distasteful and on-brand with Cantrill virtue signaling. Everyone is equal but some people are more equal: some get founder equity and some measly basis points. To boot, founders already made their money from Sun Microsystems looking for retirement entertainment and more than 175 or 200k is gonna be taxes anyway. If they hit it big they’ll be billionaires and their employee number 24 will do as much as if they’d gone to FANG with much stress and liquidity concerns along the way.
by YesBox | 2025-05-01 21:27:37+00:00
A counterpoint to consider: Tim Sweeney says his Unreal (studio) customers that use Steam (which is nearly all of them) are worse off than the retail era:

>Generally, the economics of these 30% platform fees are no longer justifiable. There was a good case for them in the early days, but the scale is now high and operating costs have been driven down, while the churn of new game releases is so fast that the brief marketing or UA value the storefront provides is far disproportionate to the fee.

>If you subtract out the top 25 games on Steam, I bet Valve made more profit from most of the next 1000 than the developer themselves made. These guys are our engine customers and we talk to them all the time. Valve takes 30% for distribution; they have to spend 30% on Facebook/Google/Twitter UA or traditional marketing, 10% on server, 5% on engine. So, the system takes 75% and that leaves 25% for actually creating the game, worse than the retail distribution economics of the 1990's.

>We know the economics of running this kind of service because we're doing it now with Fortnite and Paragon. The fully loaded cost of distributing a >$25 game in North America and Western Europe is under 7% of gross.

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by nozzlegear | 2025-05-01 21:28:40+00:00
We're getting deep into the hypotheticals now, but that disaster would probably also wipe out what makes California such a formidable economic powerhouse -- maybe that would be one reason California would want to ally with Texas. The disaster might also kneecap the state's ability to field an effective military via the National Guard.

But like I said, what was interesting to me about the movie was the fact that the two states were allies against the Federal government, without any mention of the modern day left vs right culture war. It's interesting to think about how such an alliance could come to be when we remove the things we suppose might spark a civil war today.
by Retric | 2025-05-01 21:29:40+00:00
Depends on the business model, cater to high end clients and having a ~1M$/year doctor be the once answering the phone can be a major selling point.

Further you optimize around costs, when having people answer phones is expensive you try a minimize the need for someone to answer a phone. A 5 minute call with someone making 200k is like 8.50$. Empower them to figure out and fix the underlying issue thus avoiding the next 1,000 calls and that looks cheap.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-01 21:30:02+00:00
This makes it sound like LLMs are sentient and machiavellian, when they are just dumb statistical generators. An LLM doesn't have any goals other than the biases the model trainers chose to impart via RLHF, aside from which it is just trying to predict "what would the training data have said".

If you insist on anthromorphizing the model, then it's goal is to please the RLHF testers, subject to pulling from the repertoire of responses that are statistically faithful to the training data.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-01 21:30:07+00:00
By bloomberg, you mean bloomberg terminal or what exactly?

Thanks for this information. I was genuinely confused after I had written this comment because well this information of epic games was already available 8 hours earlier so that had already been factored in the market 2 hours ago so I was confused as to why this change in 2 hours.

Also, I would genuinely appreciate it if we could have a seperate HN thread just for this news itself. Sounds really interesting and I have quite an opinion on it
by suddenlybananas | 2025-05-01 21:30:14+00:00
That is simply false about UG only being based on English. Maybe in 1950 but any modern generativist theory uses data from many, many languages and English has been re-analysed in light of other languages (see here for an example of quantifiers being analysed in English on the basis of data in a Salish language https://philpapers.org/rec/MATQAT )
by toast0 | 2025-05-01 21:30:38+00:00
It's already there, my new fancy car has it. Push the lever to open with electronic help, pull the lever twice for mechanical release. The electronic help version checks for safety first (as long as you do it with a timeout from when the car was running/ready) We'll have to see how the fancy car does over time, but I did get one with handles on the outside that don't disappear.
by deepsun | 2025-05-01 21:30:51+00:00
Was just thinking about it for my home. Googling showed that it's only for commercial applications now (like "request a quote" for a lightbulb).

There is a good opportunity for a startup IMHO.

With 100W PoE, one can daisy-chain 10 light bulbs on one cable (or put them on different pairs of wires within one cat6 cable).

But what I really wanted is controllable devices, so that I could re-assign lights<->switches in my home hub.

UPDATE: and you don't need an electrician license to work with low voltage.