MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-05-04 02:55:52+00:00
If you know they've got an infection then I agree that's a problem and medical ethics would suggest treating it with antibiotics if available. But, they didn't know she had an infection.

You're assuming (and indeed US medicine seems to assume this everywhere) that since there don't usually seem to be major negative side effects from antibiotics they're harmless. However we are now confident they're not - lots of interesting things live inside us and whether or not they can cope with antibiotics varies, we're an ecosystem and so this intervention is a massive change to that ecosystem, and while it will usually be justifiable if we know there's an infection if we don't know that's now a gamble.
by autoexec | 2025-05-04 02:56:59+00:00
Scammers and thieves are using data brokers more and more all the time. They already buy up lists of rich elderly people, lists of people with dementia, and lists of people with low IQs or poor educations who are often easier to trick out of their cash.

Most criminals breaking into houses aren't buying up targeted lists of likely victims from data brokers yet, but it's effective so you should expect that the number of criminals turning to those resources will only increase.
by wisty | 2025-05-04 02:57:21+00:00
Teacher here. The problem with the continental philosophical approach of teacher theory is that often teachers can even agree on what things like the ZPD is.

Some teachers will use the ZPD to defend giving students work that is challenging.

Some teachers will use the ZPD to defend giving students work that is not challenging.

(Yes, obviously it's about finding some optimal point, but aside from the existence of some kind of optimal point of challenge there's not going to be any agreement).

Vyvotsky had some opinions, but virtually no-one reads his work, just summaries from the text book or picks up the term from papers that cite him (did the author of the paper even read his work? does it matter?).

It's just, like, words, and words don't mean anything in continental philosophical fields. They're just noises you make to gather the sound of a consensus among people who actually disagree. No surprise that any decent articles on teacher concepts come from scientists (e.g. psychologists) more often than teaching theorists.
by tirtha | 2025-05-04 02:57:22+00:00
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by tom_m | 2025-05-04 02:57:22+00:00
Definitely. When computers came out, jobs increased. When the Internet became widely used, jobs increased. AI is simply another tool.

The sad part is, do you think we'll see this productivity gain as an opportunity to stop the culture of over working? I don't think so. I think people will expect more from others because of AI.

If AI makes employees twice as efficient, do you think companies will decrease working hours or cut their employment in half? I don't think so. It's human nature to want more. If 2 is good, 4 is surely better.

So instead of reducing employment, companies will keep the same number of employees because that's already factored into their budget. Now they get more output to better compete with their competitors. To reduce staff would be to be at a disadvantage.

So why do we hear stories about people being let go? AI is currently a scapegoat for companies that were operating inefficiently and over-hired. It was already going to happen. AI just gave some of these larger tech companies a really good excuse. They weren't exactly going to admit their make a mistake and over-hired, now were they? Nope. AI was the perfect excuse.

As all things, it's cyclical. Hiring will go up again. AI boom will bust. On to the next thing. One thing is for certain though, we all now have a fancy new calculator.
by hwillis | 2025-05-04 02:57:24+00:00
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

> Our main finding is that AI chatbots have had minimal impact on adopters’ economic outcomes. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings, hours, and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, with confidence intervals ruling out average effects larger than 1%. At the occupation level, estimates are similarly close to zero, generally excluding changes greater than 6%.
by hwillis | 2025-05-04 02:58:16+00:00
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

> Our main finding is that AI chatbots have had minimal impact on adopters’ economic outcomes. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings, hours, and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, with confidence intervals ruling out average effects larger than 1%. At the occupation level, estimates are similarly close to zero, generally excluding changes greater than 6%.
by ViktorRay | 2025-05-04 02:58:53+00:00
It's neat how this magazine printed the essay along with the responses of people to it. Many of those response letters are quite biting (in a good way).

Sometimes I feel disheartedned when I see harsh internet comments in response to an essay. For example, sometimes Paul Graham posts essays and people on Hacker News post blistering biting responses. I guess we should remember the letters that people used to send to magazine essays like this and remember that sometimes these harsh responses are par for the course when writing essays...
by hwillis | 2025-05-04 02:58:57+00:00
It does not.

> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

> Our main finding is that AI chatbots have had minimal impact on adopters’ economic outcomes. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings, hours, and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, with confidence intervals ruling out average effects larger than 1%. At the occupation level, estimates are similarly close to zero, generally excluding changes greater than 6%.
by hwillis | 2025-05-04 03:00:00+00:00
> Indeed, the reported productivity benefits were modest in the study. Users reported average time savings of just 2.8 percent of work hours (about an hour per week).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

> Our main finding is that AI chatbots have had minimal impact on adopters’ economic outcomes. Difference-in-differences estimates for earnings, hours, and wages are all precisely estimated zeros, with confidence intervals ruling out average effects larger than 1%. At the occupation level, estimates are similarly close to zero, generally excluding changes greater than 6%.
by OJFord | 2025-05-04 03:01:29+00:00
There's concern of resistance taken seriously for sure, but it's not like people are making out here - I had fluclox prescribed after an online consultation in Jan (for probable cellulitis) - they don't give it out like candy, but when it's indicated...

Maybe they tried something broad spectrum here, and what was necessary (and required the sequencing to know what it actually was) was something more targeted.
by gameman144 | 2025-05-04 03:03:10+00:00
> If you’re asking if it would incentivize us to be more careful when introducing additional interactive functionality on a page, and how that functionality impacted performance and page speed, I expect it would.

Not quite, I wasn't trying to make a bigger point about is/ought dynamics here, I was more curious specifically about the Google Maps example and other instances like it from a technical perspective.

Currently on the web, it's very easy to design a web page where you only pay for what you use -- if I start up a feature, it loads the script that runs that feature; if I don't start it up, it never loads.

It sounds like in the model proposed above where all scripts are loaded on page-load, I as a user face a clearly worse experience either by A.) losing useful features such as Street View, or B.) paying to load the scripts for those features even when I don't use them.
by mmooss | 2025-05-04 03:03:17+00:00
They also get that way by inheriting wealth, by buying favorable laws and regulations, by anticompetitive practices (we've seen a few in the IT sector), and by other problematic behavior.

I agree that free markets are great in principle but your comments seem dogmatic - all free markets and only free markets. The conversation would be much more interesting if it was about the nuances.
by Analemma_ | 2025-05-04 03:03:33+00:00
This is silly. To a first approximation, zero percent of the opposition to minimum wage increases comes from a principled stance of "I support taxation, even high taxation, but I am opposed to the government interfering in private labor market contracts"; 100% of it is from "they're taking my money!". There is no reason to expect any less opposition from the much, much larger amount of wealth redistribution which would be required by UBI.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-04 03:04:06+00:00
You were comparing amount of energy between human labor and a barrel of oil? That's such a baffling metric that neither they nor I realized that's what you meant. It's not like you can replace a human with a solar panel, but if you could that would be astoundingly impressive and not diminished toward "horribly unproductive" by the fact that the solar panel is delivering more watts to do the same thing.
by hliyan | 2025-05-04 03:04:43+00:00
I've been thinking similarly. Bertrand Russell once said: "there are two types of work. One, moving objects on or close to the surface of the Earth. Two, telling other people to do so". Most of us work in buildings that don't actually manufacture, process or anything. Instead, we process information that describes manufacturing and transport. Or we create information for people to consume when they are not working (entertainment). Only a small faction of human beings are actually producing things that are necessary for physiological survival. Rest of us are at best, helping them optimize that process, or at worst, leeching off of them in the name of "management" of their work.
by RandomBacon | 2025-05-04 03:05:10+00:00
U.S. ATC here. I don't think you know what you're talking about: the union is doing nothing for our salaries. The union has no say on where new graduates get placed.

Our union is a joke. They send emails saying they're "monitoring the situation" instead of talking with the media stating our case for better working conditions.

Our salaries have not kept up with the industry. Do not use this to try to push an anti-union agenda.
by zwaps | 2025-05-04 03:05:22+00:00
If your last sentence were true, you’d prefer a world where hyperscalers do not fork and close source a FOSS project but the FOSS project continues on to thrive

With copyleft being effectively banned in most companies, it means that there is no viable FOSS business model.

Reality is that for now, many FOSS contributors do it for free in their spare time. Comically critical pieces of infrastructure rely on such goodwill development. But as cozy salaries decline and job security does, less people will have time to work for free. We will have less Foss, less innovation, less new viable projects compared to if there were no hyperscalers.

How does this advancing the public good?
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-04 03:06:47+00:00
Your perspective is a common myth, as in business ones reputation and integrity ultimately determine the formalized credibility of your firm. This is true with consumers, supply chains, customs bond subprograms, and your partners.

i.e. people can only lie, cheat, and steal from people for a finite amount of time. It ultimately leads to competitive disadvantage, and repercussions.

In general many VC/Angle "investors" were just predatory loan scams, that could ultimately destroy the founders firm. Warning signs often include proposals to table personal assets, share dilution scams, equity siphon holes, and stock market IPO legal cons.

Using debt to grow is generally a bad long-term strategy, and positive cash flow is always king at any scale. If the firm can't make sales, than growth is just a fools errand.

In my opinion, the Zuckerberg story ruined a generation of business people. =3
by mbirth | 2025-05-04 03:06:54+00:00
Same here. Started ages ago with DokuWiki and then decided to try GitHub Pages. Transferred everything over, but then wanted some kind of search. So, I’ve implemented a custom Google search. Wanted some way for visitors to leave comments, so added Disqus. And in the end it was a potpourri of different services and a whole lot of JavaScript.

A few years ago I wanted to own my data again and not depend on external services, so exported the Disqus comments and after playing around with Serendipity ended up with Wordpress.

Was able to import the comments and the Markdown pages and there are even plugins to make it publish everything in the Fediverse. Made it all work using SQLite and enabled auto-updates. It’s basically maintenance-free.
by spongebobstoes | 2025-05-04 03:07:05+00:00
Maybe for you, but not for most people. Most people have problems that are answered online, but knowledge sites are hard to navigate, and they can't solve their own problems.

A high quality bot to guide people through their poorly worded questions will be hugely helpful for a lot of people. AI is quickly getting to the point that a very high quality experience is possible.

The premise is also that the bots are what enable the people to exist. The status quo is no interactive customer service at all.
by roywiggins | 2025-05-04 03:07:49+00:00
It occurs to me that if people are executing pip over requirements.txt outputs it would work and be very helpful, but if they're giving LLM agents shell access directly probably the main problem is going to be finding a way for pipask to try to confirm that it's talking to a human and not just the LLM again (impossible in general but still)... probably out of scope though!
by dtagames | 2025-05-04 03:08:50+00:00
To put it simply, that's just not how LLMs work. They don't improve or learn anything. They just predict the next word after your prompt, then the next word after that, etc.

If you'd like a prediction about whether a paper should be accepted, you could ask an LLM but even that would be a mistake as LLM training only holds old, published papers and gives no automatic ability to evaluate new information.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-05-04 03:09:36+00:00
What does minimum wage have to do with taxation? It's not the government paying those wages, it's McDonald's, and the opposition to it comes from people who say it will result in McDonalds closing stores or replacing cashiers with touchscreens rather than paying more for employees; ie, low-value labor simply becoming unemployable rather than getting a pay boost.

There are a lot of counterarguments to a high minimum wage, some even from UBI proponents, but none of them are "they're taking my money" because that doesn't make sense in the context of a minimum wage.
by baobun | 2025-05-04 03:09:59+00:00
Guessing it's just that part of the adoption curve:

1) Less overhyped blogs/tubes by-beginners-for-beginners and overall noise means negativity that was previously buried is now more visible

2) A larger fraction of the userbase has enough experience that the downsides become reality. In particular the reality of vendor-lockin with Vercel.

3) Reactionism: The hype was (still is?) overblown in the first place and this sentiment might be behind some of what you are seeing.
by zwaps | 2025-05-04 03:11:03+00:00
I really would like to but from working in consulting I know that AGPL is banned in most companies since it’s specifics are completely diffuse and need to be hashed out in court (or are unpalatable).

In spirit the AGPL is what is needed but in practice it kills any corporate adoption sadly.

A license that singles out hyperscalers or goes by revenue is probably a better bet.

Maybe a license that is more clear canbe written, maybe not.
by Svip | 2025-05-04 03:11:03+00:00
Citroën pulled out of the North American market in the 1970s, due to US regulations that required headlights maintained a consistent height. Since their suspensions allowed them to raise and lower their height, there was no way they could be compliant without massive changes to their system. Besides, the Citroën network was not big in the US anyway, and since the DS had few facelifts in its 20 years in production, it was falling out of favour with US consumers who didn't want to be seen driving yesteryear's car.

Their build quality is fine, at least contemporarily to the rest of the market; of course today, we would find its steel pitiful. It's not without reason that people who maintain Citroëns of that era tend to replace the panels with fibreglass ones.

Additionally, as Citroën pulled out, the maintenance network in North America began to falter, as the suspension system required significant know-how. There are still a dedicated group of Citroën fans in North America (albeit small), and I met a lot of them when I drove from coast to coast (and back again) back in 2017 in a 1998 Citroën Xantia. A car that may not seem particularly interesting to Europeans (although it was the Activa V6 model), but it was extremely rare in North America.
by TeaBrain | 2025-05-04 03:12:00+00:00
>And why do you think the dollar is dominant in international trade?

The dollar isn't dominant in international trade because the domestic market is free, like the above user was referencing. The dollar has been the dominant reserve currency and currency for international trade since it overtook the pound for both of those functions in the mid 20th century, which didn't coincide with the US having a free market.

Also, I wasn't make any causal relationship in my comment, like you seem to be implying. The fact that USD is the dominant reserve currency and dominant trade currency is unquestionably more unique than having free markets, considering that the US is truly completely unique in both of these regards, while it is not nearly as unique in having a free market.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-04 03:12:28+00:00
This was so cool to go over.

It does seem to be missing a pretty significant era though? There's 802.11ad (2011) / 802.11ay (2021) / wigig.

It's mainly known for video, and is used today for VR headsets. But there's a huge variety of 802.11ad docks out there that also have USB, mostly about a decade old now! Intel's tri-band 17265 (2015) was semi popular in the day as the supporting wifi+wigig+bt host adapter, works with many of these docks. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/86451/i...

I've definitely considered buying a dock & wigig mpcie card & test driving this all! Price was way out of reach for me at the time, and I expect the performance caveats (range, speed, latency) are significant, but it could potentially genuinely help me run less cables around the office & the patio, and that would be cool. Afaik though there's no Linux support though, so I haven't tried.

Not UWB focused (but could work over IP capable UWB systems) I'd love to see more usb-ip systems emerge. It works pretty well for DIY (and kind of has for multiple decades now), but productization & standardization of flows feels hopeless, & worse, feels like anyone who knows up is likely to do the wrong thing & make something proprietary or with nasty hooks. https://usbip.sourceforge.net

And not USB specific, but pretty cool that the briefly mentioned 802.15.4 group continues to have some neat & ongoingly advancing 6-9GHz UWB work. IEEE 802.15.4ab is expected semi soon. Spark Microsystems for example recently announced an incredibly low power SR1120 transciever, good for up to 40mbps, capable of very low latency. It'd be lovely to see this used somehow for generic/universal peripheral interconnect. https://www.hackster.io/news/spark-microsystems-unveils-its-...
by Aurornis | 2025-05-04 03:13:01+00:00
> Recently had an infection that necessitated broad spectrum antibiotics and magically my digestion issues have cleared up...

There are non-absorbable antibiotics designed to target intestinal bacterial overgrowth. It’s hit or miss, though.

Unfortunately for many people, taking antibiotics can have the opposite effect where it creates or worsens gut problems. It’s not an easy or reliable solution.
by nighthawk454 | 2025-05-04 03:13:52+00:00
Interesting… from the intro the argument is that the Consumer Product Safety Commission ‘requested’ Amazon to issue recalls for products of third-party sellers due to safety hazards. Amazon complied “voluntarily”. Then CPSC wanted to treat Amazon as a distributor for third party products that are FBA (fulfilled by Amazon, using their logistics, warehousing, and distribution). Which Amazon takes issue with because third parties have the choice to opt out of that (?). Something something ‘just a marketplace’
by echelon | 2025-05-04 03:14:47+00:00
It's too bad we didn't go down the XHTML/semantic web route twenty years ago.

Strict documents, reusable types, microformats, etc. would have put search into the hands of the masses rather than kept it in Google's unique domain.

The web would have been more composible and P2P. We'd have been able to slurp first class article content, comments, contact details, factual information, addresses, etc., and built a wealth of tooling.

Google / WhatWG wanted easy to author pages (~="sloppy markup, nonstandard docs") because nobody else could "organize the web" like them if it was disorganized by default.

Once the late 2010's came to pass, Google's need for the web started to wane. They directly embed lifted facts into the search results, tried to push AMP to keep us from going to websites, etc.

Google's decisions and technologies have been designed to keep us in their funnel. Web tech has been nudged and mutated to accomplish that. It's especially easy to see when the tides change.
by hakfoo | 2025-05-04 03:14:54+00:00
People at least know "Nobody read me my rights", "I want to plead the Fifth", and "I want my lawyer" from seeing it on TV. If your arrestee-- or your jury pool-- has a higher level of awareness of common legal gotchas, they'd be able to demand a better deal. "I know you screwed up, the plea deal isn't good enough."
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-04 03:14:57+00:00
We have a house more expensive than that, an interest rate around the top of that range, live in a state with somewhat high property taxes, and had at least $4k in health care spending on top of insurance premiums (no big problems, that's just what a handful of minor kid-related issues in a year costs in the US) and still wouldn't have done better itemizing. We took the standard for 2024.

We're ~92nd percentile for household income.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-04 03:15:07+00:00
You listed two cases. One where people do treat a PR as a unit of work, and one where they don't.

I responded to the first case. Of course I ignored a claim you made about the second case. If I didn't ignore that, I would be making a strawman out of what you said, mixing up your words in a way that doesn't make sense.