MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wyager | 2025-07-03 04:11:43+00:00
> you should never be using prompting to add guardrails like this in the first place

This "should", whether or not it is good advice, is certainly divorced from the reality of how people are using AIs

> you need actual restrictions in place not magical incantations

What do you mean "actual restrictions"? There are a ton of different mechanisms by which you can restrict an AI, all of which have failure modes. I'm not sure which of them would qualify as "actual".

If you can get your AI to obey the prompt with N 9s of reliability, that's pretty good for guardrails
by withinrafael | 2025-07-03 04:12:29+00:00
The simpler version is that Microsoft Authenticator--a mobile app that provides 2FA--is discontinuing its password autofill feature and the passwords stored/used with that will be wiped in August unless action is taken, as has been communicated for a while now.

More information: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/changes-...
by sedatk | 2025-07-03 04:12:35+00:00
This is very bold because passkeys haven't been the smoothest ride so far. There are many inconsistencies in implementations among platforms. For example, many websites use passkeys as an alternative sign-in option, and let you keep your password login. So, you remain susceptible to phishing despite having a passkey on your account. Recovery flows are inconsistent too.

I applaud Microsoft because a big player had to go all-in into passwordless authentication. I'm sure it won't be painless, but it might push others to adopt the approach eventually.
Show HN: Track your favorite music, movies, shows, games, books and more
by Andrew8581 | 2025-07-03 04:12:39+00:00
Hey - I'm one of the developers working on Calendia, a mobile app which helps you keep track of all the media that you're interested in and receive notifications about releases.

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3. Push notifications when content you follow is announced or released. You can also configure which types of media you receive notifications for.

4. Home screen containing upcoming and trending movies, TV shows, video games, books, albums, and artists.

5. Import artists from your Apple Music library and public Spotify playlists.

Let us know if you have any feedback! Happy to answer any questions as well :)
by ivape | 2025-07-03 04:13:13+00:00
If I told you many 14 year olds were making very similar offensive jokes at lunch in high school

A picture is worth a thousand words. Me saying your mom is so fat that _______ in the lunchroom is different than me saying your mom is so fat in cinematic video format that can go locally viral (your whole school). This is the first time in my life I'm going to say this is not a history is echoing situation. This is a we have entirely gone to the next level, forget what you think you know.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-03 04:14:03+00:00
Case in point.

I purchased a small electronic device from Japan recently. The language can be changed to English, but it’s a bit of a process.

Google’s AI just copied a Reddit comment that itself was probably AI generated. It made up instructions that are completely wrong.

I had to find an actual human written web page.

The problem is with more and more AI sloop, less humans will be motivated to write. AGI at least the first generation is going to be an extremely confident entity that refuses to be wrong.

Eventually someone is going to lose a billion dollars trusting it, and it’ll set back AI by 20 years. The biggest issue with AI is it must be right.

It’s impossible for anything to always be right since it’s impossible to know everything.
by joeblubaugh | 2025-07-03 04:14:32+00:00
And people complain about Apple being paternalistic.

If you’re already saving passwords in an app, you’re being more secure than most users. A forced move to passkeys seems nuts when not all systems support them yet.

I’m also still concerned that passkeys seems more likely to fail the average user when they break or lose a device, compared to a decent password.
by kmoser | 2025-07-03 04:15:07+00:00
> In meditation, I was relieved of the burden of being moved by the Spirit to speak and say something spiritually profound.

I find it interesting that the author felt pressure to be moved to speak. In the eight years I attended a Quaker school and attended thousands of meetings for worship, I never felt that vibe. Whenever there was any discussion about the expectations of behavior in a meeting (such discussion usually being done offline, i.e. not during the actual meeting), it was always quite clear that not only was speaking completely voluntary, but also you were free to say whatever moved you, as long as it was suitable for the entire group; there was no need to be "spiritually profound," whatever that means.

Granted, the daily meetings I attended were for the student and faculty (the vast majority of whom were not Quaker). But on the few occasions we got to attend the "real" meeting for worship on Sunday (held in the school's meeting house), I found it to have exactly the same tenor, only with fewer kids (and about 40 minutes longer).
by golergka | 2025-07-03 04:19:09+00:00
First GPT-based app I've built was in summer 2022, right after I got API access to GPT-3, and I was writing first autonomous GPT wrapper right after I got GPT-4 access in February GPT-3. It didn't have "tools" it could use, but it had memory and it was (clumsily) moving along a pre-defined chat scenario. And I'm nowhere near top AI researchers who have got to have had close access much earlier — so I have absolutely no doubt there's got to be people who have been writing exactly what we now call "agents" for 3 years straight.
by djabatt | 2025-07-03 04:19:17+00:00
I agree with your point. After working with LLMs and building apps with them for the past four years, I consider myself a veteran and perhaps an authority (to some) on the subject. I find developing programs that use LLMs both fascinating and frustrating. Nevertheless, I'm going to continue with my work and curiosities, and let the industry change the names of what I'm doing—whether it's called agent development, context engineering, or whatever comes next.
by jedberg | 2025-07-03 04:20:58+00:00
> I’m convinced most meetings are to make up for poor writing skills.

That's not entirely it. Some people just won't say something unless put in a setting where they are explicity asked for it. I've had meetings where I ask for a status, and someone says they are stuck on X, and they've been stuck on X for two days.

And I'll ask why they didn't just ask for help. They weren't comfortable asking for help. They were only ok stating the problem when asked specifically for status.

So it also creates that environment were some people are more likely to share.
by dmix | 2025-07-03 04:21:12+00:00
Revised down from previously reported projections. But the numbers are pretty neutral.

> Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.9 percent), adult women (3.9 percent), teenagers (13.4 percent), Whites (3.8 percent), Blacks (6.0 percent), Asians (3.6 percent), and Hispanics (5.1 percent) showed little or no change over the month.
by chii | 2025-07-03 04:23:02+00:00
When you can't write well, you "resort" to using a lot of body language and facial nuances in face-to-face communication, which works acceptably. Unfortunately, this doesn't translate well on zoom.

This "writing well" as a form of good communication is needed, but while in school, those same people who cannot write well also likely were complaining about learning how to write essays and such. Over time, this sort of lack of learning has resulted in poor written communication into adulthood i reckon.

And with the advent of LLM and all these chatGPT-esque bots writing for them, esp. in school, the level of literacy skill is only going to continue to drop!
by Nursie | 2025-07-03 04:23:34+00:00
What if the view is "advertising should be within the law of the country it's being displayed in and not contain fake celebrity endorsements or blatant lies"?

Because AFAICT some of the big platforms are failing at this, before we even get into content moderation.

> Throwing a lot of manpower at moderation only gets you lots of little emperors that try to enforce their own views on others.

Do you consider dang a 'little emperor'? If anything HN seems proof that communities can thrive with moderation.
by ilaksh | 2025-07-03 04:23:50+00:00
I didn't say to skip any kind of problem modeling. I just didn't emphasize it.

The goal _should_ be to avoid doing traditional software engineering or create a system that requires typical engineering to maintain.

Agents with leading edge LLMs allow smart users to have flexible systems that they can evolve by modifying instructions and tools. This requires less technical skill than visual programming.

If you are only taking advantage of the LLM to handle a few wrinkles or a little bit of natural language mapping then you aren't really taking advantage of what they can do.

Of course you can build systems with rigid workflows and sprinkling of LLM integration, but for most use cases it's probably not the right default mindset for mid-2025.

Like I said, I was originally following that approach a little ways back. But things change. Your viewpoint is about a year out of date.
by disqard | 2025-07-03 04:23:55+00:00
I think you're spot-on!

It was a first, and then the entire collection of CEOs showcased their herd mentality by jumping on that bandwagon. It's kinda like the anti-poaching collusion that happened... gosh, 10 years ago!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...

...only, this time, there's some bullshit "economic headwinds" arguments being advanced as reasons for these layoffs.

I remember experiencing actual belt-tightening in 2008-09, where it was disgraceful-but-necessary-to-save-the-company. It's nothing like that this time around.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-03 04:24:24+00:00
It's funny because things are finally coming full circle in ML.

10-15 years ago the challenge in ML/PR was "feature engineering", the careful crafting of rules that would define features in the data which would draw the attention of the ML algorithm.

Then deep learning came along and it solved the issue of feature engineering; just throw massive amounts of data at the problem and the ML algorithms can discern the features automatically, without having to craft them by hand.

Now we've gone as far as we can with massive data, and the problem seems to be that it's difficult to bring out the relevent details when there's so much data. Hence "context engineering", a manual, heuristic-heavy processes guided by trial and error and intuition. More an art than science. Pretty much the same thing that "feature engineering" was.
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-03 04:25:41+00:00
It takes less than five minutes for a person to learn how to click on links. They're a different color and underlined. It's obvious they are special. Despite "UX" being a discipline that actually exists, we've actually gone backwards on usability in that nobody can figure out what's clickable these days. For example... all those greyed-out pipe-delimitted links at the top of this comment. Despite its ubiquity for about 15 years now, at least once a month I have to teach someone that the ubiquitous three line "hamburger" menu is clickable.
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by papabili | 2025-07-03 04:25:55+00:00
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by _wire_ | 2025-07-03 04:26:11+00:00
I don't see any paradox.

There are so many variables it's difficult to generalize without stipulations.

For example, if routes are known to close, some traffic may cease due to perception of lost opportunity, where lowered utilization inproves transit for the remainder.

Imagine the effects of broadcasting a notice of closure without actually closing paths? If transit times improve, does this count as paradoxical?

Depending on the scheduling of intersections, opening up new paths may degenerate efficiency at crossings leading to aggregate decrease in flow (scheduling turbulance).

There's an assumption of shared endpoints (sources and destinations) maybe partial en route. Consider that completely independent paths can't affect each other by definition. If they did, that would be paradoxical, but better to suspect hidden contention.

Imagine opening up all area within an arbitrary boundary between source and destination, so the road capacity expands arbitrarily, what is stipulated about the paths chosen? At the most open and free is it Brownian? Under such analysis, what is the meaning of travel?

It seems to me that early traffic modeling may not have considered orders of effects from first principles and found some edge cases which are surprising only at first order analysis.

If it truly were paradoxical then new road capacity would have ever been built, as every road would further impede transit!

What about too much choice? Travelers never fully embark because they have to many options and can't decide?

Is there a degree of transit speed which erodes any distinction between source and destination? (Instantaneous transport booths)

How time efficient should transit be?

There are surely many more ways of looking at this
by eigen | 2025-07-03 04:26:14+00:00
> The numbers have been so consistently wrong in the same direction.

summary of mean revision for seasonally adjusted numbers, since 2003 are

2nd-1st: 8

3rd-2nd: 2

1st-3rd: 10

but 2025 has been consistently, so far, be negative revisions. Dec 2024 has some positive revisions but 2023-2024 on the whole was negative while 2017-2022 were on the whole positive revision. so I dont think that there is data to support consistently wrong in one direction.

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm
by EliotHerbst | 2025-07-03 04:26:47+00:00
You’re right, a competent interviewer can likely suss out that a person is cheating - but it can depend on the type of interview and role. This can help erase any doubt, as if you are not familiar with what is being discussed, it is hard to differentiate this type of question. We found that some of our existing interviews for roles like technical support could be “cheated” using Cluely to some degree, when asking questions about solving example support issues which might have troubleshooting steps in an LLMs training set and if the interviewee is someone who is loosely familiar and presenting as being more familiar with the topics.

Before these sort of tools [Cluely], there wasn’t a good way that I'm aware of to cheat on this type of question and respond without any interruption or pause in the conversation.

In real support situations, the tool is not useful as you could pass a major hallucination on to a customer, of course.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-07-03 04:26:53+00:00
Whereas if you removed the "click here" tags and associated text, you'd be left with:

> See our latest news, request a catalog. The latest board minutes. Product documentation. If you have any comments about our web site, email us, or call. If you were confused by this, let us know it met your expectations. See how many people have visited our internet web site.

Which imho is not any better, and arguably worse.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-03 04:27:06+00:00
I find browsing around the map in remote Canada pretty interesting, especially the number of named settlements for which there appear to be absolutely no information or satellite evidence they exist. Take Roggan River: there’s a Wikipedia page claiming it’s a small village, and it’s on Google Maps, but there’s nothing identifiably there, and there’s no further information I can find online. The map is littered with these.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-03 04:27:14+00:00
I find myself using the slomo more often. So often, that one can also say always.

Somehow, the sleeping pill creators are more and more professional in their doings and not so soporific anymore. The tools become more and more sophisticated, making it a click to pimp up one's thumbs & videos.

I can't watch such contemporary videos on normal speed already, not to speak of 1.5 or double fast - I don't have ADHS and am used to concentrate and pay attention. Call me slow brain.
by specproc | 2025-07-03 04:27:41+00:00
The American comment was admittedly flippant, but the point remains that you cannot construct morality on edge cases.

Violence is abhorrent. Frequency is relevant because one can base one's life and actions on principles of nonviolence, and deal with such extreme situations in the unlikely event they ever come up.

It's a dumb playground question, like would I cheat on my wife if $FAMOUS_HOTTIE came on to me.

One can live one's life by not being violent, by not working in violent industries, by not owning weapons, by seeking and promoting solutions that do not involve violence in one's community and national politics. This is a morally correct life.

Sure, one day, someone might try and kill my child. I hope it never happens, and I hope that situation could be resolved without anyone dying.

But say, somewhere in this long tail, I killed to defend, I don't believe that would invalidate how I've lived the rest of my life.

Only extremists create their principles from extreme cases.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-03 04:28:36+00:00
This isn't exactly a new idea or even an unpopular one. Ask 10 people what Linux "should" be and you'll get 10 wildly different answers. I guarantee that if any one person were given infinite time, money, and energy to make their ideal Linux distro, a significant portion of the Linux userbase would HATE it, because there are always tradeoffs in engineering, you can't have it all, and many features are mutually-exclusive.

That said, I do agree that this particular tradeoff is underutilized. I'm not that old, all things considered, and I remember when Red Hat Linux versions were single digits, without a decimal. I was introduced to a very different Linux back then than exists today. Back then, Linux was essentially open-source Unix, copying the Unix world as much as possible, and focusing on usability for Unix nerds. It was great! For me, that is. Today, desktop Linux seems to have reached a Xeno's Paradox where Ubuntu et al. keep adding fancy new features (apparently Ubuntu has a "wellbeing panel" where you can set up screen time reminders - cool!) but each update makes less of an impact on feature parity or polish with Windows/Mac (to say nothing of market share).

I've been told to "try FreeBSD" and things like that, but people who say that don't really understand how monolithic the FOSS OS world is. FreeBSD is using the same components Linux does, just ten years out of date.
by nobody9999 | 2025-07-03 04:28:46+00:00
>Consider yourself lucky that you've never had to call the cops as a victim. People forget that cops also save lives.

I have. Several times. In the latter two cases (burglaries at my home and my brother's home -- one in NYC and the other in the Bay Area), the police were spectacularly inept and completely useless.

In the first case, the police arrested the perpetrators more by happenstance than design, despite the fact that these kids (all except the 22 year-old ringleader were 16 or younger) had been committing similar crimes for months.

As the old saw goes, "I don't hate the police, I just feel better when they're not around."
by jedberg | 2025-07-03 04:29:02+00:00
You're right, and I edited my comment accordingly, but I asked Google and got this interesting AI response, so I guess a lot of people on the internet make the same mistake, since AI just echos its training data:

The term "Continental United States" (CONUS) generally refers to the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. It encompasses the landmass of the United States located on the North American continent. While sometimes confused with the "contiguous United States," which also refers to the 48 states, "continental" specifically emphasizes the geographical location on the continent.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-03 04:29:34+00:00
Well, I assume the lowest-budget way to deal with a corpse in ancient Egypt is to toss it into the Nile.

More generally, if what you're looking at is a cemetery for the poor, there should be a lot of remains, and there shouldn't be much in the way of decoration. If someone carved a tomb for the remains to be in ("The body was interred in a ceramic pot within a rock-cut tomb"), that already disqualifies them from being poor.