MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-30 04:50:45+00:00
Coders may want to look at translators for an idea of what might happen.

Translation software has been around for a couple of decades. It was pretty shitty. But about 10 years ago it started to get to the point where it could translate relatively accurately. However, it couldn't produce text that sounded like it was written by a human. A good translator (and there are plenty of bad ones) could easy outperform a machine. Their jobs were "safe".

I speak several languages quite well and used to do freelance translation work. I noticed that as the software got better, you'd start to see companies who instead of paying you to translate wanted to pay you less to "edit" or "proofread" a document pre-translated by machine. I never accepted such work because sometimes it took almost as much work as translating it from scratch, and secondly, I didn't want to do work where the focus wasn't on quality. But I saw the software steadily improving, and this was before ChatGPT, and I realized the writing was on the wall. So I decided not to become dependent on that for an income stream, and moved away from it.

When LLMs came out, and they now produce text that sounded like it was written by a native speaker (in major languages). Sure, it's not going to win any literary awards, but the vast vast majority of translation work out there is commercial, not literature.

Several things have happened: 1) there's very little translation work available compared to before, because now you can pay only a few people to double-check machine-generated translations (that are fairly good to start with); 2) many companies aren't using humans at all as the translations are "good enough" and a few mistakes won't matter that much; 3) the work that is available is high-volume and uninteresting, no longer a creative challenge (which is why I did it in the first place); 4) downward pressure on translation rates (which are typically per word), and 5) very talented translators (who are more like writers/artists) are still in demand for literary works or highly creative work (i.e., major marketing campaign), so the top 1% translators still have their jobs. Also more niche language pairs for which LLMs aren't trained will be safe.

It will continue to exist as a profession, but diminishing, until it'll eventually be a fraction of what it was 10 or 15 years ago.

(This is specifically translating written documents, not live interpreting which isn't affected by this trend, or at least not much.)
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-05-30 04:52:10+00:00
That's a common enough take, and I think there's some truth to it, but I think it's overly simplistic. I think there is certainly a motivation that such scams target, but I don't know if "greed" is necessarily the right word. Some of it is not necessarily knowing what is or isn't realistic, given the stories that we hear on the news. Some of it is feeling stuck, and trying to go out on a branch, and picking the wrong one. Not all of these cases are immoral, or at least not the same level of immoral.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-30 04:54:34+00:00
They need to be male only spaces because introducing women to the space fundamentally changes the social dynamic among the men, especially the single men

I have seen this ever since the moment me and my friends hit puberty in high school, to this very day. When a group of men is hanging out they are more relaxed. The moment a woman is in the space the vibe changes

I cannot be the only person who has noticed this
by Veserv | 2025-05-30 04:54:55+00:00
Wow, still just making up random nonsense instead of taking responsibility for your false statements.

The video footage in the report was not a "update". That is the original video footage of the tests that was released at the same time as the report that Fred had, but chose not to, access before making false claims; just like you had that opportunity right now. The error in the written report that Fred was referencing is that the contents of Table 1 recorded a slightly higher "Speed at Impact" than what actually occurred. The value originally reported was most likely the speed at disengagement, but has since been rectified to report the correct number. In no way shape or form does that invalidate the video footage unless you are a mindless Tesla drone spreading the smear.

The video you claim is the "original" was a TV advertisement, not a test. As you might be aware, advertisements are meant to be evocative, not precisely accurate and usually contain edited video footage. Or do you also believe that Red Bull actually gives you wings? Accuracy is for the tests, raw footage, and report that were released simultaneously and which clearly demonstrate the stated claims.

For that matter, if the video were clearly false and defamatory as you claim, why has Tesla not followed up on their Cease and Desist letter from 2 years ago [1]? Tesla sent a letter claiming the videos were false and defamatory using Fred's article as evidence and would sue to get them taken down. Then Fred posted that he realized FSD was engaged and it has been crickets from Tesla since then. I think you should trust Tesla's lawyers here and stop digging your hole.

I am done here. If you have any self-respect, retract your false statements and rethink your position instead of performing charity for the richest person in the world by smearing whistleblowers.

[1] https://dawnproject.com/dan-odowds-response-to-teslas-cease-...
by hakfoo | 2025-05-30 04:55:35+00:00
At mine we ended up with two very comparable webapp products due to an acquisition.

One is built as a monorepo and we have a shared dev server where each user can run their own copies in a home directory.

The other is built as a collection of Docker containers that devs run locally. Nobody from the monorepo team likes dealing with it. Resyncing requires a much more elaborate Git process than a single fetch and pull. A simple task can spawn five merge requests to digest. We have loads of extra effort just making the QA team is in the same place as devs.

If nothing else, there's huge simplification from "I can access your copy of the code base and see the same error you're seeing" without trying to screenshare or remote-desktop.
by creer | 2025-05-30 04:55:46+00:00
Never? There are companies that don't tell which team you will work with, or even what you will do. From what I hear, this is such a minority that they stand out. But it's true that Google's example might make this more common as we go. Most companies still try to interview for a good match with the team you will work with. Meaning, interviewing with them.

(To be fair and for background, Google did not invent this - but perhaps pushed it much further than it was before. For example some variations of this at Wall Street firms in the 70s?)
by energywut | 2025-05-30 04:55:59+00:00
> It seems that this software is only to be used by those on the left side of the political spectrum

Democrats aren't on the left side of the political spectrum, but it appears they can use this software. (Yes, they are called the left in the US, but the mainstream positions of the Democratic party are globally center or center-right.)

But also, I would argue that modern leftist parties tend to be less interested in human rights violations and more interested in taking care of everyone (even if that means taking wealth away from the wealthy, which many would consider violative but probably isn't "contempt for human rights")
by pmc3 | 2025-05-30 04:57:32+00:00
Not only are they legal, many male only city clubs exist today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gentlemen%27s_clubs_in...

Male-only country clubs also exist although are slightly more controversial and less common, such as Burning Tree, Garden City, Butler National, Augusta National (until the last ~10 years), Pine Valley (until the last few years).

The unfortunate reality for most of us is that these places are among the most desirable and hardest clubs to be accepted to in the world - and we probably wouldn't get in.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-30 04:57:42+00:00
> To respond to your edit, consider that you're basically doing a version of the trolley problem where you have the choice to redirect the track from killing one person, to killing two, but you get a million bucks for doing so.

No, this is definitely not right.

Consider first the non-repeated case. There are two possibilities:

1. You do not press the button. Nothing changes about the world.

2. You press the button and donate $1 million to a humanitarian organization. A random person dies, but the humanitarian organization uses the money to save an average of 5 others.

Option 1 is like not pulling the lever, thereby letting the trolley run over 5 people. Option 2 is like pulling the lever, thereby saving 5 people, but letting the trolley run over another.

(From this, the repeated case trivially follows.)

However, as you allude to, the button problem has a third option: press the button and keep the $1 million. This is so cartoonishly diabolical that only a sociopath would do it. If this was how most people acted, nobody would ever help anybody else, we would all be looking for opportunities to stab each other in the back, and we would most likely not even have developed such a nebulous concept as ‘morality’.

This is what I alluded to with my remark about cynics: the cynic is negative, and therefore, thinks that everyone else is negative too. However, this reveals more about the cynic than it does about humanity (at least, I hope so; I am an optimist who likes to have faith in humanity).

> And no, religious people are obviously not immune from this, but with a fixed set of values rationalization becomes far more farcical than without. The Bible's position on homicide, let alone for personal gain, is unambiguous. A person without any set of fixed values, by contrast, will have no problem justifying and rationalizing even the most egregious acts, so long as the reward is seen as desirable enough.

Many, many wars were and are fought for religious reasons. The Christian Church itself has famously fought multiple religious wars (IIUC, so has the Islamic prophet). Considering this, I really don’t think religion gets to take the high ground when it comes to ‘having fixed values’.
by john-mark | 2025-05-30 04:57:55+00:00
If you’re doing GraphRAG in the style of Microsoft’s original model , where the graph is inferred dynamically by the LLM and used primarily for retrieval or reasoning , then Neo4j is often overkill in my opinion. Not to mention its performance issues and toxic attitude to open source.

Lightweight, in-memory alternatives like NetworkX or even plain Python dictionaries are typically faster to set up, easier to integrate, and better suited to ephemeral, prompt driven graph reasoning.

Here are some other options : NetworkX

LlamaIndex’s KnowledgeGraphIndex

LangChain with in-memory Python structures, Lets you model entities and relationships as dictionaries or lists, making it easy to traverse or query on demand.

https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/index_structs/...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/moving-to-grap...

https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag
by wredcoll | 2025-05-30 04:57:56+00:00
Just to add some context, there is right now two similarly named systems:

E-file: which is essentially just an api end point for accepting digitized tax returns and is what all the major (paid) tax software uses.

Direct file: a web based version of the 1040 irs forms which will, when filled out, submit the forms electronically.

=== Edit: there are actually three, the third is Free Fillable Forms, which is what I'm actually talking about here ===

Note that when I say "version of the forms" I mean that quite literally. The interface is as close as html can come to looking like a printed 1040 form and about 1 tiny step up from filling out a pdf version.

The forms will occasionally do math for you: some of the fields are marked as the sum of a set of fields and those will automatically do the addition for you, but that's the limit of the automation.

For example, to compute your actual owed taxes you need a percentage to multiply by your taxable income, and that number is found by looking through a roughly 10 page table that maps income ranges in brackets of $50 to a specific number (so 0-50 is one number, 50-100 is another, and so on up to several hundred thousand).

To get this number for the form you, of course, must open the help documentation in a separate tab and scan through it looking for your bracket.

My understanding as to why it works this way is that the irs is basically doing as much as they're legally allowed to. The irs is, as far as i know, forbidden by law, from developing any kind of software that helps you file taxes (or more accurately, competes with turbotax) and this web-form doesn't quite count as breaking that law.

I'll note in passing, that as a general rule "both sides" tend to take turbotax money to hobble the irs, this specific direct file was championed and funded by democrats, opposed by republicans and the republican president trump is trying to delete it.
by Peteragain | 2025-05-30 04:59:16+00:00
Our village church has player piano bells. Only 8 (so it can't play God save the King) but most Sundays Colin plays something to wake us up. Colin restored the mechanism a few years ago. The holes are too small to pass enough vacuum (sic) to ring 27 tons of bell, to there are 2 banks of "vacuum amplifiers" .. and the vacuum head that reads the paper has a feedback loop to align it with the paper. Wow.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-30 04:59:33+00:00
> I think he (naively) just trusted them. I wish he would have trusted us instead.

Probably he trusted people who spent more time talking to him. I don't mean it as an way to blame anyone, I just think it's the way the trust mechanism is wired into the human brain, and this is why these scams work so well.

Ironically this mirrors the parent's frustration of "I wish my kid trusted me and not his dumb-ass friends".
by energywut | 2025-05-30 04:59:34+00:00
I'm as far left as you can be. I would say exactly the same thing -- people should be free to associate with who they want, and vend stuff to who they want.

I've seen this line of argument before, "You wouldn't say this if it was YOUR TEAM" and like, yeah, I would? I have a belief that people should be able to freely associate? Why would it matter if it was left groups or right groups or centrist groups?

You have to break out of this "us vs them" notion of politics, it's deeply unhealthy. Parties don't matter, politicians don't matter, policies matter. Be pro/anti- some policy. Who cares what color team has that policy?
by johnb231 | 2025-05-30 05:00:55+00:00
If Apple released x86 desktop processors with the same performance as the M series of course they would be popular.

M3 Ultra

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10919322

M4 Pro

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8786129

AMD 9950X

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12194580

Intel Ultra 9 285K

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/7609759
by gitaarik | 2025-05-30 05:01:30+00:00
Yes ok, it can generate new stuff, but it's dependent on human curated reward models to score the output to make it usable. So it still depends on human thinking, it's own "thinking" is not sufficient. And there won't be a point when human curated reward models are not needed anymore.

LLM's will make a lot of things easier for humans, because most of the thinking the humans do have been automated into the LLM. But ultimately you run into a limit where the human has to take over.
by pmc3 | 2025-05-30 05:02:33+00:00
You don't have to wish - these literally exist today, both in the US (see link below) and elsewhere. The problem is that they are expensive and hard to get in to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gentlemen%27s_clubs_in...

NYC and London are both having a bit of a renaissance of new clubs being founded, although most of them are coed.
by wredcoll | 2025-05-30 05:02:39+00:00
Just for everyone's amusement, here's one of the emails I got when I made an error filling out the forms last year:

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Dear Free File Fillable Forms Taxpayer:

Your 2023 federal tax return has been rejected due to the error(s) listed below.

Your Submission ID is: 44011101892

Get help resolving your errors by using the Error Search Tool at https://www.irs.gov/filing/individuals/free-file-fillable-fo... You must follow the search instructions to find solutions

When you have your solution(s), sign in to your Free File Fillable Forms account at https://www.freefilefillableforms.com Fix your error(s) and resubmit your return. Be sure to re-enter the direct debit date (if used) and the e-file date in the Step 2 tab of Free File Fillable Forms.

If you are unable to resolve the error(s), you can mail your tax return and your payment by April 18, 2023 to avoid penalties and interest. Here is your error(s):

Issue : Business Rule X0000-005 - The XML data has failed schema validation. cvc-pattern-valid. Value `` is not facet-valid with respect to pattern `[0-9]{9}` for type `EINType`.

The following information may help you determine the form at issue: Field/Xpath: /efile:Return[1]/efile:ReturnData[1]/efile:IRSW2[2]/efile:EmployerEIN[1]
by timewizard | 2025-05-30 05:03:11+00:00
> They're caused by dry conditions and the absence of sufficiently recent fires to have cleared out the abundance of fuel

They're made possible by that. The stacking of fuel, on it's own, does not magically create fire.

> The source of the fire is not particularly relevant

Of course it is. We're talking about liability and costs. It's extremely relevant.

> caused tomorrow by a lightning strike.

Then no one should live in California at all. Lightning can strike anywhere. Yet we have a precise map of where all our infrastructure is. Just because one category of risk is difficult to manage does it give you a free pass to ignore others that are easier.

> homeowners have more political power than the electric utility

Do you honestly expect this wouldn't be the _norm_? Why shouldn't it be? You really want to live in a state where a utility has more political power than you? And supposing they did, are you suggesting that would be better than the current outcome?

> who built their homes in an inadvisable place.

Take a look at the map of the lightning fires from 2020. Show me which people were in an "inadvisable place." We're talking about millions of people here representing billions of dollars of economic activity.

Do we want to measure risk realistically? Or are you just enjoying some bizarre modern schadenfreude of watching someone's life burn to the ground because you don't like the plot of land they were on? What about those who inherited that land and home?

It's a weird form of inhumanity that exists here.
by agarren | 2025-05-30 05:03:45+00:00
That doesn’t seem very likely from my reading. It sounds like it’s not unheard of for prion-diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob to take a while to destroy a person. The poor lady fta apparently had a genetic component that contributed to the latency. Brutal. Inducing dormancy in this and similar cases would effectively present a treatment, if not a cure, to an hereto untreatable, uncurable disease.

> … the woman first visited doctors with tremors and trouble balancing. As is often the case, once symptoms started, her condition rapidly worsened. She was hospitalized … and several days into her stay, she fell into a coma that she would never awaken from.

In other news, apparently hgh used to be extracted from cadavers. Wtlf.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-30 05:04:00+00:00
Anecdotally, when I lived in Victoria BC (a very lefty city) this did actually happen at events I went to more than once. I didn't go to events much so unless I just was unlucky to witness this sort of thing more than once, it was frequent

For what it is worth, I didn't think the complainers went out of their way just to complain, they did have a genuine interest in the events. They just also liked to complain about the demographics and steer the groups towards things that would make us "more inclusive"

It always ended the same way: the group mostly dissolved
by geraneum | 2025-05-30 05:04:58+00:00
> But that already happened to lots of industries and lots of people, we never cared before about them

We did. Why do you think labor laws, unions, etc. exist? Why do you think communism was appealing as an idea in the beginning to many? Whether the effects were good or bad or enough or not, that’s a different question. But these changes have demonstrably, grave consequences.
by addaon | 2025-05-30 05:04:58+00:00
> Aside: Why 13 bits instead of 12? For our purposes, we’re going to ignore the carries in the most significant limb, allowing numbers to wrap when they overflow past 2256 - 1 (just like how unsigned addition works in C with normal size integer types). As a result, we can assign 52 bits to the most significant limb and ignore the fact that it will run out of room for carries before the other limbs do.

Why not give the top limb 64 bits and the other four limbs 48 bits each, then? You can accumulate more additions before normalization, you can take advantage of word alignment during splitting and normalization if your instruction set has anything useful there, and your overflow properties are identical, no?
by eesmith | 2025-05-30 05:05:58+00:00
In the US? Absolutely. Private clubs have a broad ability to discriminate.

For an example of gender discrimination at private golf clubs:

https://www.golflink.com/lifestyle/no-women-past-rock-chicag... lists Old Elm, Bob O'Link, Butler National, and Black Sheep Golf Club as four Chicago area male-only golf clubs.

> Perhaps no club makes its restriction more apparent than Black Sheep. At the end of the club’s lengthy driveway sits a large rock and the internal slogan amongst members is, “No Women Past the Rock.”

https://forums.golfwrx.com/topic/2013806-black-sheep-golf-cl... has a comment from last year verifying that gender restriction. I have not verified the others.
by keiferski | 2025-05-30 05:06:35+00:00
This idea appears every once in awhile, as it’s obviously a major issue in modern life.

The interesting thing though is how the solution is always location-agnostic. By that I mean it’s never really about a specific cafe or restaurant or soccer field, it’s always an app or service that organizes people to show up in various places.

I bring this up because if you look at places that had lively social activities a few decades or a century ago, they were almost always a specific place.

The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals. The bar that everyone stops by after work twice a week. These are stationary physical locations that don’t require pre-planning, schedules, apps, or anything else.
by valleyer | 2025-05-30 05:06:44+00:00
> If there is a single enduring truth to at least American airline demand, it’s that most consumers will pick the cheapest ticket. Almost nothing else matters, when it comes time to pay for it, to almost all of the flying public.

Perhaps that's because all the U.S. airlines have engaged in such a race to the bottom on quality that there's no other distinguishing factor. I'd happily pay more for a more pleasant experience, but no one offers it.