MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by byoung2 | 2025-07-07 17:46:07+00:00
An app like an AI resume customizer based on job description will quickly devolve into a million clones. Something with a network and a first-mover advantage would have some staying power even if people clone it. For example an app where you post a job description and it sets up an AI voice agent as a virtual employee ready to be onboarded. once you have thousands of of virtual employees with company email addresses and attending zoom meetings, it will be hard for clones to break into that vertical
by lawlessone | 2025-07-07 17:46:07+00:00
I'm just speculating. But people in US in general drive a lot further for everything.

Most of shops i visit , other family members, my job , parks etc are all within about 5km of me.

The longest drive i do to visit a family member is 90km, every few months.

Anytime i've visited the US even going to the nearest shop seemed like a very long drive.

So if all other things are equal, theres just more opportunity for accidents.
by OneOffAsk | 2025-07-07 17:46:11+00:00
Yes, exactly. The demo of Gemini's Diffusion model [0] was really eye-opening to me in this regard. Since then, I've been convinced the future of lots of software engineering is basically UX and SQA: describe the desired states, have an LLM fill in the gaps based on its understanding of human intent, and unit test it to verify. Like most engineering fields, we'll have an empirical understanding of systems as opposed to the analytical understanding of code we have today. I'd argue most complex software is already only approximately understood even before LLMs. I doubt the quality of software will go up (in fact the opposite), but I think this work will scale much better and be much, much more boring.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/
by jasonlotito | 2025-07-07 17:46:16+00:00
> Downloading a document is fine as long as it is not shared outside?

I've fixed your question so that it accurately represents what I said and doesn't put words in my mouth.

If I click on a link and download a document, is that illegal?

I do not know if the person has the right to distribute it or not. IANAL, but when people were getting sued by the RIAA years back, it was never about downloading, but also distribution.

As I said, IANAL, but feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that downloading a document from the internet is not illegal.
by graypegg | 2025-07-07 17:46:38+00:00
I know it’s trite to just say “you aren’t holding it right!” when it comes to JIRA, but I do think there’s a sensible tool underneath layers of self-inflicted pain. (Self = Atlassian and its users)

User stories, when they’re actually a real problem a real user would need solved, are fine. If you start there, and figuring out how to solve that problem is open to anyone on the team, and you keep the complexity to a minimum (aka, just todo/inprogress/done statuses, and you only try to solve the problem in the story) it’s totally cromulent…

…for start ups who need to ship yesterday and have money to burn.

So IMO not like, the best way to do work, but to do something as fast as possible with people motivated by the problems you’re solving, I like it.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-07-07 17:46:50+00:00
People are offered far less than that to work on oil rigs or truck in remote alaska. Long work shifts too where you live in company housing for some time between getting to see your family. The jobs are pretty well compensated and people end up taking the deal to do rather dangerous pipeline associated work in the middle of nowhere. I’m sure people can be persuaded to teach public school in the desert for the right price.
by ArtRoomMockups | 2025-07-07 17:47:02+00:00
Hey HN,

I come from a business background, but I’ve always been more of a builder than a talker. Over the past few months, I finally carved out time to play around with modern tools – and to see if I could actually ship something useful.

The result is Bulk QR Code Generator – a simple tool to generate hundreds of customizable QR codes at once, built with the help of AI.

A few years ago, I ran into a very real and annoying pain point: I needed to generate a long list of QR codes, each with a specific URL, filename, brand color, and logo overlay. At the time, nothing quite fit the bill without lots of repetitive manual work or clunky tooling. That memory stuck with me – and this project became a great excuse to finally build the tool I wish I’d had.

Here’s what I used: • ChatGPT (with the VS Code Operator feature): This was like pair programming with an incredibly patient expert. I used it constantly – from figuring out logic to debugging layout bugs I didn’t yet understand. • GitHub: For versioning and learning how to manage a real repo. • Vercel: Ridiculously smooth deployment – highly recommend for fellow first-timers.

The core idea isn’t groundbreaking, but for me this was all about learning to bring something to life from scratch. It’s my first time stitching together a working stack on my own – and honestly, it’s been a blast.

Would love feedback from the HN crowd – technical, product-related, or otherwise. And if you’ve also jumped into coding with AI as your guide, I’d be especially curious to hear your experience.

Thanks for reading – and for being a community that’s quietly helped me through a lot of this just by lurking!
by pests | 2025-07-07 17:47:16+00:00
From a quick search it seems this was a Presidential Memorandum not an Executive Action.

“Executive orders are generally more formal, require publication in the Federal Register, and must cite the President's legal authority, while memoranda are less formal, may not be published, and do not always require a justification of authority.”

These sometimes get called executive orders, like some memos that trump has signed in the last few months were called executive orders by the news and online.

They are essentially the same though. Memos carry legal weight and can direct agencies to carry out specific actions.
by ubercow13 | 2025-07-07 17:47:28+00:00
>Dyson hand dryers are very fast, but as a result, they fling water everywhere

Isn't that the whole point of them? Instead of imparting enough heat energy to evaporate all of the water on your hands, they just push it off which is much faster and more energy efficient. How would they work better than regular dryers without doing that?
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-07 17:47:47+00:00
The video seems to be an animated retelling of a 2021 blog post, so I'll just link to the post itself:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PZtsoaoSLpKjjbMqM/the-case-f...

There's some extra commentary from the reviewers of earlier drafts here:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AyfDnnAdjG7HHeD3d/miri-comme...

I've skimmed both of these - this is some substantial and pretty insightful reading (though 2021 was ages ago - especially now that AI safety stopped being a purely theoretical field). However, as of now, I can't really see the connections between the points being discussed there, and anything you tried to explain or communicate. Could you spell out the connection for us please?
by GoRudy | 2025-07-07 17:47:49+00:00
the reason G/O failed was due to leadership. Full Stop.

the audience that was assembled was actually impressive and the PE money was used correctly to build an interesting portfolio of sites.

From there it was an operational disaster. All the important sites they had have been acquired by better run companies which confirms that the underlying assets were pretty good, they just needed to be run by someone else.

On good authority here's a good example: They have one of the top car blogs in the world, and had zero dedicated auto ad sellers. Anyone who knows auto in advertising knows you need people in LA and Detroit full time on the agencies and OEMs.
by bumby | 2025-07-07 17:49:14+00:00
I think you make a good point, but there is some irony in pointing out the distinction between colloquial and legal use of the term “stealing” while also misusing the term “piracy” to describe legal matters.

It would be more clear if you stick to either legal or colloquial variants, instead of switching back and forth. (Tbf, the judge in this case also used the term “piracy” colloquially).
by IshKebab | 2025-07-07 17:49:42+00:00
I used to work for Dyson and I think this is quite off in many ways.

* The industrial design of Dyson products is generally great. I don't think they poke you or anything like that. They even have nice affordances like all the things you can use being red. Contrast that with my terrible Shark where everything is black. Took me a good few seconds to find the bin release button. It also has an atrocious UX - a slow on/off button instead of a trigger, and an amazingly useless "smart power" feature that just varies the power almost completely randomly as you vacuum.

When I worked there all the vacuum guys were worried about Shark because their pickup is apparently better. They needn't have worried because their UX is so abysmal. Although I guess in fairness Which doesn't know UX exists.

* Some of the criticisms of the tech are valid, e.g. the hand dryers spraying water everywhere (they easily erode painted walls and now they generally install them only on tiles). But those are just flaws of the tech, they don't negate the fact that the hand dryers are much better than the standard cheap ones. He quotes the claimed hand drying time for a cheapo dryer as being close to an air blade but anyone that has ever used one knows how much of a lie that is. The washing machines did damage clothes but apparently the main reason they stopped making them was a manufacturing issue with the drum.

* I don't think anyone really believes that James Dyson is personally inventing all Dyson products now. That doesn't mean he has no influence. When I worked there (about 10 years ago tbf) he still had huge influence over the designs, especially the ones he cared about.

The one thing that is true is that Dyson won't make anything that isn't patentable because James Dyson dislikes his products being cloned so much. So even though though could make really good versions of normal products, they don't.

Also they are way too expensive. Though in fairness my shitty Shark was expensive too.

Don't buy a Shark.
by obirunda | 2025-07-07 17:49:47+00:00
This is called being obtuse. Also, this illustrates my ambiguity point further, your workflow is not clearly described and only further muddled with every subsequent equivocation you've made.

Also, are you actually using agents or just chatting with a bot and copy-pasting snippets? If you write requirements and let the agent toil, to eventually pass the tests you wrote, that's what I assume you're doing... Oh wait, are you also asking the agents to write the tests?

Here is the thing, if you wrote the code or had the LLM do it for you, who is reviewing it? If you are reviewing it, how is that eliminating actual cognitive load? If you're not reviewing it, and just taking the all tests passed as the threshold into production or worse yet, you have an agent code review it for you, then I'm actually suggesting incompetence.

Now, if you are thoroughly reviewing everything and writing your own tests, then congrats you're not incompetent. But if you're suggesting this is somehow reducing cognitive load, maybe that's true for you, in a "your truth" kind of way. If you simply prefer code reviewing as opposed to code writing have it your way.

I'm not sure you're joining the crowd that says this process makes them 100x more productive in coding tasks, I find that dubious and hilarious.
by drewbeck | 2025-07-07 17:50:06+00:00
The author wishes for a specific workflow that is neither determined nor prevented by Figma. Our tools shape us, yes, but it’s the organization and leadership that actually has the power to create the workflow the author wants, not the tool.

There’s no tool that designers can use that will force organizations to adopt this preferred workflow.

The tools shape us, undeniably, but the agency lies with us. Blaming the tool misses the true story of who has the power to make the world you want.

And as a designer who has to contend with a design system and building consistent UI … this vision of sketch→code→ iterate is beautiful but does not work at scale. Is every feature meant to be a greenfield new idea maximizing my creativity? No. That’s not the job. The job is to create consistent elegant interfaces, and reusing components and tokens and utilizing auto layout is absolutely critical to ensure this. (Okay, I did it before Figma but it took 5x as long and was very difficult to mantain!)
by Voultapher | 2025-07-07 17:50:08+00:00
CO2 is a red herring.

> What are you basing this on?

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can-modernity-last/ worth a read, goes into much more detail than I can.

Your comment implies that one can simply disconnect the factors that affect human livability and other life livability. As you predict yourself biodiversity will - is - going down. Extinction rates are at more than 1000x the baseline. Humans are part of the complex systems that makes up the community of life. What do you base your claim on that we can simply define us into another category and avoid the myriad causes that makes life miserable to the point of extinction for countless other species?
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-07 17:50:14+00:00
It could go either way. Depends very much on what kind of errors LLMs make.

Type safe languages in theory should do well, because you get feedback on hallucinated APIs very fast. But if the LLM generally writes code that compiles, unless the compiler is very fast you might get out-run by an LLM just spitting out JavaScript at high speed, because it's faster to run the tests than wait for the compile.

The sweet spot is probably JIT compiled type safe languages. Java, Kotlin, TypeScript. The type systems can find enough bugs to be worth it, but you don't have to wait too long to get test results either.
by lawlessone | 2025-07-07 17:50:26+00:00
> underlying LLMs was like using works to train any person to read and write

I don't think humans learn via backprop or in rounds/batches, our learning is more "online".

If I input text into an LLM it doesn't learn from that unless the creators consciously include that data in the next round of teaching their model.

Humans also don't require samples of every text in history to learn to read and write well.

Hunter S Thompson didn't need to ingest the Harry Potter books to write.
by storgendibal | 2025-07-07 17:50:38+00:00
> Superintelligence is not around the corner. OpenAI knows this and is trying to become a hyperscaler / Mag7 company with the foothold they've established and the capital that they've raised.

+1 to this. I've often wondered why OpenAI is exploring so many different product ideas if they think AGI/ASI is less than a handful of years away. If you truly believe that, you would put all your resources behind that to increase the probability / pull-in the timelines even more. However, if you internally realized that AGI/ASI is much farther away, but that there is a technology overhang with lots of products possible on existing LLM tech, then you would build up a large applications effort with ambitions to join the Mag7.
by charcircuit | 2025-07-07 17:50:45+00:00
Yes, quoting the following section:

Stallman places great importance on the words and labels people use to talk about the world, including the relationship between software and freedom. He asks people to say free software and GNU/Linux, and to avoid the terms intellectual property and piracy (in relation to copying not approved by the publisher). One of his criteria for giving an interview to a journalist is that the journalist agrees to use his terminology throughout the article.
by j_w | 2025-07-07 17:50:48+00:00
We're talking about a summary judgement issued that has not yet been appealed. That doesn't make it "settled."

If by "what is stored and the manner which it is stored" is intended to signal model weights, I'm not sure what the argument is? The four factors of copyright in no way mention a storage medium for data, lossless or loss-y.

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

In my opinion, this will likely see a supreme court ruling by the end of the decade.
by genewitch | 2025-07-07 17:51:01+00:00
LCSW requirements in Louisiana:

Complete 5760 hours of clinical experience Complete 3840 hours of supervised clinical experience Complete 96 hours of BACS supervision Take the LCSW test ($260) Pay the application fee to LASWBE ($100) Complete 20 hours of continuing education yearly

And first you have to get the MSW master's degree, and test to become licensed, and have professional insurance.

That 96 hours "BACS" is ~$100 per hour, max 1 hour per week, and has to be completed in <4 years.

The "slapshot" education is because all this is "soft science" - the real education is in on-the-job training. hence requiring over 5000 hours of clinical experience.

I also have stuff to say about other comments, but suffice to say "neither your experience, nor your cohort's experience, are universal".

Feeding patient files and clinical notes into a training set violates so many ethical and legal rules; but barring that, you gotta train those 8000+ hours worth, for each cohort, in each geographical or political region. What works in Louisiana may not be as effective in DTLA or SEATAC. What works in emergency mental health situations won't work on someone burnt out from work, or experiencing compassion fatigue. Being a mental health professional in a hospital environment is different than in a clinical environment is different than in private practice. That's what the 8000 hours of training trains, for the environment it will be used in.

Sure, someone could pull a meta and just violate ethics and do it anyhow, but what will they charge to use it? How will the "LLM" keep track of 45 minutes worth of notes per session? Do you have any idea how much writing is involved? treatment plans, session notes, treatment team notes, nevermind the other overheads.

LLM can barely function as an "artist" of any sort, but we want to shoehorn in mental health? c'mon.
by kordlessagain | 2025-07-07 17:51:24+00:00
After researching this a fair amount, my opinion is that consciousness/intelligence (can you have one without the other?) emerges from some sort of weird entropy exchange in domains in the brain. The theory goes that we aren't conscious, but we DO consciousness, sometimes. Maybe entropy, or the inverse of it, gives way to intelligence, somehow.

This entropy angle has real theoretical backing. Some researchers propose consciousness emerges from the brain's ability to integrate information across different scales and timeframes. This would essentially create temporary "islands of low entropy" in neural networks. Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory suggests consciousness corresponds to a system's ability to generate integrated information, which relates to how it reduces uncertainty (entropy) about its internal states. Then there is Hammeroff and Penrose, which I commented about on here years ago and got blasted for it. Meh. I'm a learner, and I learn by entertaining truths. But I always remain critical of theories until I'm sold.

I'm not selling any of this as a truth, because the fact remains we have no idea what "consciousness" is. We have a better handle on "intelligence", but as others point out, most humans aren't that intelligent. They still manage to drive to the store and feed their dogs, however.

A lot of the current leading ARC solutions use random sampling, which sorta makes sense once you start thinking about having to handle all the different types of problems. At least it seems to be helping out in paring down the decision tree.
by 827a | 2025-07-07 17:51:34+00:00
Current copyright law is not remotely sophisticated enough to make determinations on AI fair use. Whether the courts say current AI use is fair is irrelevant to the discussion most people on this side would agree with: That we need new laws. The work the AI companies stole to train on was created under a copyright regime where the expectation was that, eh, a few people would learn from and be inspired from your work, and that feels great because you're empowering other humans. Scale does not amplify Good. The regime has changed. The expectations under what kinds of use copyright protects against has fundamentally changed. The AI companies invented New Horrors that no one could have predicted, Vader altered the deal, no reasonable artist except the most forward-thinking sci-fi authors would have remotely guessed what their work would be used for, and thus could never have conciously and fairly agreed to this exchange. Very few would have agreed to it.
by plemer | 2025-07-07 17:51:56+00:00
Passive voice often adds length, impedes flow, and subtracts the useful info of who is doing something.

Examples:

* Active - concise, complete info: The manager approved the proposal.

* Passive - wordy, awkward: The proposal was approved by the manager.

* Passive - missing info: The proposal was approved. [by who?]

Most experienced writers will use active unless they have a specific reason not to, e.g., to emphasize another element of the sentence, as the third bullet's sentence emphasizes approval.

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edited for clarity, detail
by Tainnor | 2025-07-07 17:51:59+00:00
> Physics is sloppy. :) This is not a general description of a vector, where vector is an element of a general vector space. Not all vector spaces have a norm, which is required for magnitude to make any sense.

Fine, then let's be precise. An element of the vector space R^n is nothing more than a function from {1,...,n} to R. And every n-dimensional R-vector space is isomorphic to it.

How you wanna draw this in a coordinate system is up to you. It is customary to identify vectors with points on that coordinate system and then equivalently with an arrow pointing from the origin to that point. In that case the zero vector is the origin, or an arrow from the origin to itself.

It is equally customary to use vectors as displacement, i.e. a directed difference between two points. In that case, the vector that you can't actually draw because it has zero length is your zero element. Now your arrows don't have to be anchored at the origin anymore.

Both of these spaces are of course isomorphic.

If your vector space is infinite-dimensional it's of course not gonna be really possible to draw anymore.
by kaiken1987 | 2025-07-07 17:52:15+00:00
Cardo uses a similar tech for a dynamic mesh network, using Bluetooth I think, in their helmet comms. So if you are out on motorcycles or ATVs you can still talk without needing a cellular network. It makes things a lot more stable and not use any data. In these scenarios you'd struggle to talk face to face wearing helmets without some sort of comm. So if you can remove the need to buy a specialized comm device to do it, sounds great.
by nottorp | 2025-07-07 17:52:18+00:00
> Instead of optimizing for engagement and ad revenue, these systems are optimized for user utility.

Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage?

Comfort cage is better than engagement cage ofc, but maybe we should step out of it once in a while.

> During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these areas.

Curated by humans with which you didn't always agree, right?