MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ankit219 | 2025-07-23 20:29:32+00:00
The very premise of the article is that tasks are needed for humans to learn and maintain skills. Learning should happen independently, it is a tautological argument that since human wont learn with agents which can do more, we should not have agents which can do more. While this is a broad and complex topic (i will share a longer blog that i am yet to fully write), I think people underestimate the cognitive load it takes to go to the higher level pattern and hence learning should happen not on the task but before the task.

We are in the middle of peer vs pair sort of abstraction. Is the peer reliable enough to be delegated the task? If not, the pair design pattern should be complementary to human skill set. I sensed the frustration with ai agents came from being not fully reliable. That means a human in the loop is absolutely needed, and if there is a human, dont have ai being good at what human can do, instead it be good assistant by doing things human would need. I agree on that part, though if reliability is ironed out, for most of my tasks, i am happy ai can do the whole thing. Other frustrations stem from memory or lack of(in research), hallucinations and overconfidence, lack of situational awareness (somehow situational awareness is what agents market themselves on). If these are fixed, treating agents as a pair vs treating agents as a peer might tilt more towards the peer side.
by mrangle | 2025-07-23 20:30:02+00:00
So you want to work from home with top pay, top benefits, control over your assignments, control over Ai competition, and control over CEO salary. And you're couching this as the reasonable ask of oppressed labor and want to organize over it. Do I have that right? Last, I assume that the labor pool should be as large as possible.

The CEO pay issue is agitprop nonsense. It's purely political without proved mooring to worker interests. It's predicated on the same fallacy that more taxes will mean more appreciably more social benefits for the poor. Instead, the money gets routed everywhere else. The only metric that matters for workers is their own pay. You have no idea if higher CEO pay isn't linked to comparably higher worker pay, not less. No worker in their right mind would spite-lower CEO pay just to have their own be static or decline.
by Lerc | 2025-07-23 20:30:25+00:00
I recently found his videos also. It's one of those things that gets my mind bubbling with ideas for things I want to make, never enough time to do them all though (and this breadboard beside me is asking for attention)

It does make me wonder about the algorithm, Quite a lot of things I find on Youtube turn up on HN a week or two later. I'm not sure if this is an indicator of the effectiveness or failure of the algorithm. It is definitely succeeding in finding videos popular with some people and showing it to more who might share that interest. The question is, are the things I (and consequently many others of similar interests) see the best of all there is, or a subset of the excellent videos out there that happen to get noticed.

I sometimes find channels that are years old with a goldmine of good information. That suggests that there is more good stuff out there than what I see. Were they just unlucky that I didn't see them before? Am I lucky to be seeing them now? It also might be that it is not luck but the algorithm has arbitrarily decided that the video has some special factor that requires promotion or that I have passed some arbitrary threshold of perceived character development that makes me supposedly now interested in such things.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-23 20:31:15+00:00
You must be a liar or willfully ignorant to say that after the entirety of 2019-2021 happened. The efficacy of vaccines in general and specifically of the various Covid-19 vaccines have been talked about ad nauseam. No even merely scientifically literate person has said that the Covid-19 vaccines (or any vaccine for that matter) are 100% effective.

It's so weird how people will close their eyes for basic science to virtue signal to their group. I sincerely hope you open your mind and prevent your virtue signaling from killing you (or anyone you know) in the next pandemic.
by kmeisthax | 2025-07-23 20:31:22+00:00
My impression was that there was some kind of optimization in LLVM that relied on being able to assume values were never undef[0], which is why undefined memory access was always illegal in Rust[1].

Putting that aside, a deliberate "read uninitialized memory with bounded UB" primitive like freeze would only work for types where all possible bit patterns are valid. So no freezing chars[2], references, or sum types. And any transparent wrapper type that has invariants - like, say, slices, vecs, strs, and/or range-restricted integer types - would see them utterly broken when frozen. I suppose you could define some operation to "validate" the underlying bit pattern, but I'm not sure if that would defeat the point of reading uninitialized memory.

[0] LLVM concept that represents uninitialized memory, among other things.

[1] I believe a few other unsafe Rust concepts are actually leaky abstractions around LLVM things

[2] Rust's char must hold valid UTF-8 and will UB if you stick surrogates in there
by _heimdall | 2025-07-23 20:31:43+00:00
This is one I don't really understand why the change would be a huge deal in context, the framing of an article as republicans sabotaging the miracle of free weather report APIs is just confusing.

If our government were massively in debt and continuing to increase the deficit, maybe I'd understand wanting to consider weather report APIs as a public good worth funding with tax dollars. We should be cutting everything we can to avoid a complete train wreck though, why would this float to the top of the list?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-23 20:31:47+00:00
Identifying and catalog law enforcement actors are not threats. Certainly, they feel threatened by the threat of current or future accountability, but that is their feeling.

https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-sections/right-to-r...

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police
by standardUser | 2025-07-23 20:32:09+00:00
Binary thinking like that is a rhetorical trick, and a lazy one, that ignores both the diversity of existing market-oriented nations and the reality that these systems are not static.

Not to mention that the American system is one of constant, frequent, and oftentimes contradictory forms of market interference, even if the manner of interference differs a bit from Western norms.
by declan_roberts | 2025-07-23 20:32:24+00:00
Both blue collar and white collar wages are being dramatically depressed via legal and illegal immigration. I have no idea why this became a right-wing talking point. This is why big business is very pro immigration.

Your employer can at any time replace you with an H1b who MUST work at the company to even stay in the country.

As soon as we can reform immigration we are going to see much higher software salaries.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-07-23 20:32:39+00:00
It probably doesn't matter so much whether it's 7.913 or 8.186, but it would be important to know the exact value for kinematics. One way to do that is to build an object very accurately, the other is to build inaccurately and then measure the result after the fact.

It's also interesting because competing actuators with strain-wave, cycloidal, or planetary gearboxes will state exactly what the ratio is. The actual gear teeth may not be spaced out perfectly around the circumference, but the number of teeth is an integer with an infinite number of zeros.
by tok1 | 2025-07-23 20:32:40+00:00
Not only that: Dovecot 2.4 will also remove the functionalities of dsync, replicator and director [1]. This is frustrating and a big loss as these enabled e.g. very simple and reliable two-node (active-active) redundant setups, which will not be possible anymore with 2.4.

I use it for years to achieve HA for personal mail servers and will now have to look for alternatives -- until then will stick with Debian Bookworm and its Dovecot 2.3.

[1] https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2....
by uzj100 | 2025-07-23 20:32:51+00:00
One thing I noticed as soon as I bought my large, offroady SUV (never having driven an SUV before) is that other traffic treated me much more respectfully. When I was in a compact sedan, traffic would swerve in front of me much more often, people would refuse to let me merge, drivers would ride my bumper, and so on. All of those things still happen, but much, much less frequently. For inattentive drivers, it's more difficult to ignore an SUV, and for angry drivers, it's more difficult to bully me around. And yeah, many of these bad drivers are in SUVs themselves, where it's easier to miss a nearby sedan.

Am I fixing the problem by driving an SUV myself? No, but I totally understand why people feel safer in them.
by 0points | 2025-07-23 20:33:16+00:00
Just wanted to add an important piece about us not living in authoritarian states...

Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel (currently funding JD Vance), is building a vast person database [1].

I believe their biggest customer is the US government, and is being used by ICE [2].

1: https://beyondthefirewall.substack.com/p/palantirs-new-maste...

2: https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-de...
by jpc0 | 2025-07-23 20:33:16+00:00
I’m going to but in here.

I think the point the article is making is to observe the patterns humans (hopefully good ones) follow to resolve issues and build paths to make that quicker.

So at first the AI does almost nothing, it observes that in general the human will search for specific logs. If it observes that behaviour enough it then, on its own or through a ticket, builds a Ui flow that enables that behaviour. So now it doesn’t search the log but offers a button to search the log with some prefilled params.

The human likely wanted to perform that action and it has now become easier.

This reinforces good behaviour if you don’t know the steps usually followed and doesn’t pigeonhole someone into an action plan if it is unrelated.

Is this much much harder, yes it is than just building an agent that does X. But it’s a significantly better tool because it doesn’t have humans lose the ability to reason about the process. It just makes them more efficient.
by wjnc | 2025-07-23 20:33:46+00:00
Thanks for your replies. I understand the worldview. We differ on a few points of view.

Large scale farming releases hands for more specialization. Specialization leads to interdependence and (in my naïveté) peace. ‘We’ did get a very large part of the world out of poverty. That was part of my optimism. And I thought we would reach peak oil faster and go for sustainable faster (batteries are still the major future potential upside for me).

Perhaps in a ‘might have been’-scenario 9/11 and the end of the end of history (Fukuyama), plus the antisocial tech are the turning points. Haven’t thought that shift from techno optimism to political, social and cultural negativity (in me, but it seems a trend as well) through enough. The whole bitcoin shebang, the return of the 80s American Psycho capitalism and consumerism, the wars just rub me the wrong way. I might be turning hippie in my second half of life.

As a child of the 80s I’ve never felt technology reducing social interaction. But that might have been a temporal sweet spot. Massive amounts of screen time, massive amounts of outside time (friends, sports).
by shkkmo | 2025-07-23 20:33:48+00:00
I'm guessing that "organic screen" doesn't currently usually include antibody testing of CSF from a lumbar puncture since the article implies that only a limited number places do that screening currently.

> To find psychiatric patients who might benefit from immunotherapy, researchers have set up centers, roughly similar to the one at Columbia, at Baylor University Medical Center, in Texas; King’s College London; Uppsala University, in Sweden; and the University of Freiburg, in Germany, among other places. Some of the best research into the phenomenon has been conducted in Germany, where it’s more common for patients in a first episode of psychosis to have lumbar punctures to access their spinal fluid, which can reveal the presence of antibodies.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-23 20:33:52+00:00
Actually, my experience is still at the beginner level - I switched only weeks ago.

If you have 3 branches, you can create a new node that is the merge of all 3. But your question is will it keep up with the changes.

If all 3 branches are local to your machine, and have not been shared, and you edit a prior commit, then all descendants are rebased and thus that merged node will get the changes - no new merges needed.

I think your real question, though, is if one of the branches gets a new child node, can we have the merged node dynamically merge from the new child, rather than from its parent?

I honestly don't know - but I actually do have a need for this! jj has bookmarks, and you can create a merge using bookmarks, but whether the new node will autoupdate if the bookmark moves - something I'd need to experiment with.

Finally, when you have shared/pushed your code, jj will treat shared nodes as immutable, so some fancy jj stuff becomes disallowed.
by ReptileMan | 2025-07-23 20:34:03+00:00
Honestly it gets mostly tiring and boring fast. First time being in the business or first class lounges of the gulf carriers is amazing experience and you try to savor everything. 10th time - it is just - give me water, eventually drink, a fruit or a bowl of cashew and let me close my eyes for a while.

Same with flying itself. Fly business enough and it boils down to - how fast can I open the full flat bed after take off.
by jmchugh9 | 2025-07-23 20:35:08+00:00
We published "Prompt Injection 2.0: Hybrid AI Threats" on arXiv and released our Prompt Injector tool as open source.

Key findings from the research: - Modern prompt injection attacks now combine with traditional web vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF) to create hybrid threats - Traditional security controls (WAFs, input sanitization) fail against AI-enhanced attacks - Agentic AI systems create new attack surfaces - New taxonomy for prompt injections

Open Source Tool: - Prompt Injector v1 now available under Apache 2.0 license - Desktop app for testing AI systems against prompt injection attacks - Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Grok, and Ollama models - 150+ payloads - GitHub: https://github.com/preambleai/prompt-injector

Background: We first discovered prompt injection vulnerabilities in GPT-3 back in May 2022 and responsibly disclosed to OpenAI. This new research shows how the threat landscape has evolved with agentic AI systems.
by sleepyams | 2025-07-23 20:35:19+00:00
This is a pretty amazing setup! I think in 2025 I would definitely prefer something like this. However, I think back in "the day" part of what made LAN parties fun was that everyone's PC was so individualized. I remember all of my high school friends and I coming of age and building our PCs. I helped a lot of my friends build their PCs and we all chose different things (such as the amount of RGB LEDs, which I thought were tacky...). I remember a friend of a friend had a water cooling system and I was so excited about checking it out. Also, things like the desktop wallpaper you chose, etc, contributed to this. There was something very magical about it all. Lugging our PCs to each others houses was a real labor of love.
by codetrotter | 2025-07-23 20:35:39+00:00
> What, specifically, makes you think it has something to do with the time leading up to 1900 CE rather than 1900 BCE

Normally when someone says "1900" they are referring to 1900 AD. Unless BCE had already been mentioned, which here it had not. And if they were referring to 1900 BCE they normally would specifically say 1900 BCE. That's why.

And furthermore, the parent comment above the one talking about "pre-1900" was talking about modern passports. Why would anyone immediately jump from modern passports to 1900 BCE? That don't make no sense at all. Jumping to 1900 AD however, that does make sense. You see?
by input_sh | 2025-07-23 20:35:46+00:00
For context, this is something AccuWeather in particular lobbied for for decades. This was their goal in particular.

In 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...

> In the wake of the bill's introduction, Santorum was accused of political impropriety and influence peddling because Joel Myers, the head of Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather and one of Santorum's constituents, was also a Santorum campaign contributor.

In 2017, when Berry Myers (AKA the CEO of AccuWeather) was nominated to head the NOAA, but was never confirmed into the position (due to the series of sexual misconduct at the company), ultimately withdrewing his nomination two years later.

Right now, when Neil Jacobs (long time vocal proponent of comercialising weather data who maintained a social media profile called "The Greatest Hoax" in reference to climate change) and Taylor Jordan (a lobbyist for many weather companies, including AccuWeather of course) got appointed into the position of overseeing NOAA.
by sershe | 2025-07-23 20:36:27+00:00
I found the biggest estimate from a paper as a reference for "catastrophic"/"humanity is done for"/... comments. The more likely estimates are much lower.

What do you mean by going back slightly less, in terms of measures to take?

Sure, on the merit this particular action was dumb. But on the net I think fossil fuels are for the time being a net positive and non-replacement phase out would be worse than the amount of warming it prevents, not slightly less bad; especially in the developing world.

And, because like in so many political issues, nuanced positions aren't really popular (as these we're all gonna die comments illustrate), if having to choose between two flavors of uncompromising shouting I'm going to go with the fossil fuel camp on this issue. Although I d personally prefer more of both plus carbon tax etc for the shift.

But my original comment was just trying to put catastrophising into perspective,"following the science" ;)
by nickff | 2025-07-23 20:36:36+00:00
Where is all this money going to come from? Labor is already the largest expense for most companies, and executive compensation is only a very small proportion of it. If the companies are have all their profits taken away (in the form of increased worker pay), their capital will vanish as well (either invested elsewhere or spent by the former investors on assets & services), and they won't be able to operate.
by dakial1 | 2025-07-23 20:36:58+00:00
"Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech and American Values AI systems will play a profound role in how we educate our children, do our jobs, and consume media. It is essential that these systems be built from the ground up with freedom of speech and expression in mind, and that U.S. government policy does not interfere with that objective. We must ensure that free speech flourishes in the era of AI and that AI procured by the Federal government objectively reflects truth rather than social engineering agendas."

It seems that everywhere free speech is mentioned today, the intent is to do the exactly opposite....
by forrestthewoods | 2025-07-23 20:38:10+00:00
> Showing me the unique characters is awesome. Git sucks after getting used to it.

I regularly jump around commit hashes. However 99.9% of the time a commit hash is printed I am not going to go to it. So it’s pure noise 99.9% of the time. And the absolute most it can save me when it isn’t noise is a few keystrokes. Not a good design imho.
by benreesman | 2025-07-23 20:38:10+00:00
Eh, I'm not sure how gimmicky it is. Without knowing how it's used, maybe the use of the network itself is just for fun, and nothing wrong with doing computer stuff for fun!

But the networking chops to set something like this up are super practical. My current project has forced me to go from "i know how to use sockets in serious applications" to "i run GCE instance snapshots unmodified in a kernel-level TAP web of lies with tricky DNS overlaid to migrate complex workloads that can't go down to bare metal instances colocated in weird places". This is a pretty radical shift in perspective for a historical "network stuff, got it" guy like me.

In the words of that guy from the 10x programmer meme video: "cloud edge is a hype!" The cloud is terrible in 2025: arthritic Xeon SKUs no one wants marked up 10000%, FinOps is like a casino that knows the whales need to neither win too much nor lose too much: they have active calls to action when the grift is so insane that they know you'll eventually do the books and churn out forever. The security theatre around IAM and shit is like going to the DMV, it's a whole thing to make an S3 bucket now.

There are bright spots: fly is the perfect tool for a busy admin who needs to keep an eye on a bunch of prompt engineers with docker and confidence, but for the most part?

Going back to bare metal is just a strict upgrade, and once you do that, knowledge like the knowledge these folks have from operating this thing? It becomes a whole new set of superpowers over and above standard out of the box networking. Standard networking is great when it meets your needs, but if it's all you know, you don't realize how big on an appetite your business has for wizard stuff.
by 0x457 | 2025-07-23 20:38:32+00:00
Please don't think of this as moving the goal post, but back to maps and GPS: you're still doing the navigation (i.e. actual change in direction), just doing it with different tools.

The last time I dealt with integrals by hand or not was before node.js was announced (just a point in time).

Sure, you can probably forget a mental skill from lack of practicing it, but in my personal experience it takes A LOT longer than for a motor skill.

Again, you're still writing code, but with a different tool.
by dgfitz | 2025-07-23 20:39:07+00:00
Not at all against the idea, thinking about it from the other perspective: people would just use leave, or WFH, or take LWOP for the teacher aspect to take care of their kids. Or form a commune where one parent takes care of ~10 kids and everyone else goes to work.

Elderly care, yes that would probably be more effective. However, I can see a scenario where people would pass away from a lack of care even if for a few days. This opens up a whole new can of worms.
by lubujackson | 2025-07-23 20:39:45+00:00
Take a group of people. Divide them into two groups. Tell half of them they are victims of injustice and the other half that they are privileged and owe the other half something.

When has this ever produced anything positive? For either side?

We do this from preschool on up, and it has only made everything worse. Bring back the "melting pot" concept, please. Underline our similarities and shared goals. Both political parties are weakening our unity as much as they can.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-23 20:40:08+00:00
It's a weird goal to me. Like, what's their end game here? Offer to manipulate the AI responses for ad money? Product placement in the summaries? I would hope those placements have to be disclosed as advertising, and it would immediately break trust in anything their AI outputs so surely that would only continue to harm them in the long run, no?

~57% of their revenue is from search advertising. How do they plan on replacing that?
by uzj100 | 2025-07-23 20:40:13+00:00
For a while, women in cars were more vulnerable than men in cars, in part because crash test dummies were sized to typical male proportions, and cars are built to pass crash tests rather than be as safe as possible for all occupants while still passing crash tests. This sometimes led to things like airbags being placed in locations that worked great for average height men but not as well for average height women.

I don't know if it's fair to say that women in cars are just as vulnerable as men in cars, the same goes for the pedestrian argument.