MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-06-02 17:35:56+00:00
> Too many workers are overworked and underpaid.

The inherit friction means that some workers will sometimes be overworked and/or underpaid, but workers do not remain in overworked/underpaid situations for long. Given the real-world constraints, the exact right number of people are in that situation, not "too many".

> the answer isn't to give them more responsibilities (without a commensurate bump in pay). The answer is to pay your workers properly.

If the workers show up, you know you are paying them properly. That's not the issue here.

Trouble is, at some point you run out of things to buy. Those who continue to seek more money beyond that do so because they are able to leverage it to increase their social value. — But, in the case of the person in article, they were still failing to establish social value even with more money than they knew what to do with. Even more money than that wouldn't have helped them. They needed to find a new situation that was able to allow them to find the social value they were after.
by zerojames | 2025-06-02 17:36:03+00:00
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by diggan | 2025-06-02 17:36:05+00:00
> Can you imagine if Excel worked like this?

I mean, why would I imagine that? Who would want that? It's like the argument against legal marijuana, and someone replies "But would you like your pilot to be high when flying?!". Right tool for the right job, clearly when you want 100% certainty then LLMs aren't the tool for that. Just because they're useful for some things don't mean we have to replace everything with them.

> Also, each try costs money!

I guess you're using some paid API? Try a different way then. I mostly use the web UI from OpenAI, or Codex lately, or ran locally with my own agent using local weights, neither is "each try costs money" more than writing data to my SSD is costing me money.

It's not a holy grail some people paint it, and not sure we're across the "productivity threshold" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160664) yet, but it's worth trying it out probably before jumping to conclusions. But no one is forcing you either, YMMV and all that.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-02 17:36:07+00:00
> increased familiarity with the tooling you use

In general I agree, but sometimes you want something that you haven't done in years but vaguely remember.

~20 years ago I worked with ffmpeg and vlc extensively in an IPTV project. It took me months to RTFM, implement stuff, test and so on. Documentation was king, and really the only thing I could use. Old-school. But after that project I moved on.

In 2018 I worked on a ML - CV project. I knew vlc / ffmpeg could do everything that I needed, but I had forgotten most of everything by then. So I googled/so/random-blogs, plus a bit of RTFM where things didn't match. But it still took a few days to cobble together the thing I needed.

Now I just ask, and the perfect one-liner pops-up, I run it, check that it does what I need it to, and go on my merry way. Verification is much faster than context changing, searching, reading, understanding, testing it out, using a work-around for the features that ffmpeg supports but not that python wrapper, and so on.
by jsheard | 2025-06-02 17:36:09+00:00
> It's used a ton by LLMs for some reason despite being rarely used by real people.

The popular theory is that it's due to English-language RLHF tasks being outsourced to Nigeria, where "delve" is used relatively often.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/18/delve/
by questerzen | 2025-06-02 17:36:29+00:00
My sequential constraint solver (no backtracking) also found 24,976,511 games it could solve without backtracking or using more than one constraint at a time.

To get an idea of the speed difference between solving sequentially vs solving using backtracking, on my 10 year old MacBook Pro running on a single core, solving all 28,781,820 possible distinct games: - sequential solver: ~75s to either solve or abandon each problem - backtracking solver: ~175s (2.3x) to find every solution for every problem

The backtracking solver is unfairly disadvantaged in this comparison as it takes more time to solve the difficult games requiring backtracking and those with multiple solutions - for example the game {1, 1, 1, 1, 1 | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1} has 120 solutions that need to be found, but the sequential solver abandons its attempt after making no progress on its first pass through the constraints.

For the 25,309,575 uniquely determined games only, the gap in performance is a bit narrower: - sequential solver: ~60s - backtracking solver: ~120s (2.0x)

The recursive backtracking solver was a far simpler program to write though!

Incidentally, to generate a database of all possible games took ~35s and finding all solutions for all of the games by looking them up took ~20s in total.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-02 17:36:46+00:00
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by rossdavidh | 2025-06-02 17:37:13+00:00
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by munificent | 2025-06-02 17:37:20+00:00
The choice of words here also didn't resonate with me.

I think the distinction the author is really getting at is whether the business views you as fungible.

My couch is useful and provides value. It would be hard to relax in my living room without it. But if I had to pack up and move across the country, I'd probably ditch the couch and buy a new one when I got there. It's useful and valuable, but also replaceable.

I don't play it much these days, so my bass guitar arguably isn't very useful or valuable. But I've had it 20 years and have a lot of important memories attached to it. If I have to move, I'm not selling it and buying a new one.

Maybe another way to state it is whether you have more value to the company than your replacement cost.
by rossdavidh | 2025-06-02 17:37:26+00:00
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by Prunkton | 2025-06-02 17:38:10+00:00
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by bhouston | 2025-06-02 17:38:20+00:00
Are cpaps that widely used to have that significant of an effect?

For CPAP to be primarily responsible, we would need a very sizeable portion of the population to be using them, but I think the numbers are less than 3% right?

From the article as to the effect size:

“For example, in the US, among people aged 81 to 85, 25.1% of those born between 1890–1913 had dementia, compared to 15.5% of those born between 1939–1943,”

I'm not saying that CPAPs don't contribute, but they are not likely the main contributors.
by schindlabua | 2025-06-02 17:38:34+00:00
I think you're supposed to let the AI write the bad python code and then do the refactoring yourself. No way I'm letting the AI make changes to 150 files with tons of cross-concerns when I don't even fully understand it all myself unless I dig into the code.

That being said copilot and chatgpt have been a 40% productivity boost at least. I just write types that are as tightly fitting as possible, and segregate code based on what side effects are going to happen, stub a few function heads and let the LLM fill in the gaps. I'm so much faster at coding than I was 2-3 years ago. It's like I'm designing the codebase more than writing it.
by noughtme | 2025-06-02 17:38:45+00:00
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by hoakiet98 | 2025-06-02 17:39:09+00:00
> In Preview mode, I can't scroll. Works fine in Design mode.

It's actually attempting to scroll the inner web page in Preview mode. Perhaps this is not a great/obvious form factor since we've had others be confused about this. I think showing a scroll bar in design mode or animate when overscrolled in Preview mode to show it's attempting to scroll could help.

> Is there pricing information anywhere? I did not see any.

There's no rate limit or pricing for the web beta at the moment but for the desktop app the pricing is shown in-app. We have a WIP pricing page that you can find in code but needs some work before we release it.

> I can't seem to actually see any element's code; all I have is a basic layout.tsx file

This seems wrong, I will take a look. The code should be highlighted in the editor when you click on an element. It's possible that it put all the code in layout.tsx but there should be a page.tsx in there.
by dang | 2025-06-02 17:39:13+00:00
I did a s/Vanta/you/ on this comment as part of trying to reduce the offtopic noise about the name. (More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161041 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161144.)

I hope that's ok with you! The alternative would be to move it under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161021, but it's a really nice comment so I don't want to do that.
by owebmaster | 2025-06-02 17:39:31+00:00
> Why did you not have these pains with other tech?

You don't need a new layer between database -> backend -> frontend

So GraphQL became a backend-for-frontend layer that needs maintaince. The team knowing GraphQL or not is not what causes this, but definitely makes it worse as they use the tool, which is quite complex, wrongly.

NextJS is the "evolution" (or more like growth? as a tumor) of this backend-for-frontend approach, glued with the mentioned RSC in this post. Great recipe to fight accidental complexity all days and nights.
by ysavir | 2025-06-02 17:40:03+00:00
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by Ukv | 2025-06-02 17:40:06+00:00
> they are trying to gaslight the general public into thinking that a deterministic world is compatible with moral responsibility

To my understanding:

1. We have something that we've come to call moral responsibility. If I punch someone, I'm considered morally responsible for that action and may be punished for doing so. Seems to me a useful social construct to discourage behavior detrimental to a collaborative society

2. We have a world that is, to all evidence we've observed so far, consistent with both deterministic and non-deterministic interpretations of physics. True that Copenhagen interpretation is the most prevalent and is non-deterministic - but I'd argue that's at least in part because it makes the math simpler opposed to physicists necessarily believing that a split between classical observers and quantum systems, with random collapses when the two interact, is actually how the universe works

If tomorrow new experiments somehow validated Everett's interpretation, that the whole universe is just one big quantum system evolving according to the Schrödinger equation, would it mean we've been wrong this whole time to talk about our moral responsibility? Would we have to upend laws based on supposedly realizing that we don't actually have moral responsibility? Personally, I don't see why it should have any real bearing on the concept of moral responsibility - or really anything in day-to-day life (else our observations wouldn't have been consistent with both interpretations for so long).
by munificent | 2025-06-02 17:40:07+00:00
This is true, but it's worth taking a step up a meta level.

People who don't believe they deserve to have their boundaries respected also don't tend to do things that will garner them the power that enables them to do so.

The amount of power we have is not at all fixed. It can be changed by our choices and is meaningful mostly relative to the power of the people around us, and we also have a lot of choice around who those people are.

In short, people who want their boundaries respected tend to work to avoid getting into situations where they aren't able to enforce them.
by diggan | 2025-06-02 17:40:14+00:00
> The big question is: is it useful enough to justify the cost when the VC subsidies go away?

I won't claim local LLMs as nearly as good as various top models behind paid subscriptions/APIs, but I'm certain I'd be able find a way (for me) of working with them well enough, if the entire paid/hosted ecosystem disappeared over night. Even with models released today.

I think the VC subsidies probably "make stuff happen" faster, and without it we'd see slower progress, but I don't think 100% of the ecosystem would disappear even if 100% of VC funding disappeared. We're bound for another AI winter at one point, and some will surely survive even that :)
by jmccarthy | 2025-06-02 17:40:23+00:00
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by johnea | 2025-06-02 17:40:42+00:00
So, shouldn't this be flagged?

Any article that offends the sensitivities of the wing-nut mode of the highly bi-modal community is immediately flagged. Such as the recent article by the resident of Sri Lanka during it's civil war.

https://indi.ca/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121939

But somehow, traditional warfare news seems totally fine, despite the fact that this has nothing to do with tech, or vulture capital.

There really needs to be an "unflag" link for posts, to allow both sides of the "flag vs don't flag" debate to be represented.
by hoakiet98 | 2025-06-02 17:41:08+00:00
There are a lot of Figma plugins to do that. Anima or Builder.io (not builder.ai) is one I've used before. I'd like to add a simple plugin for us to use if we ever have the capacity.

- https://www.animaapp.com/figma

- https://www.builder.io/c/docs/builder-figma-plugin
by alexopran | 2025-06-02 17:41:46+00:00
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by cardine | 2025-06-02 17:41:49+00:00
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by ptx2 | 2025-06-02 17:42:17+00:00
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