MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edunteman | 2025-10-01 22:57:46+00:00
I've got a blog on this from the launch of Muscle Mem, which should paint a better picture https://erikdunteman.com/blog/muscle-mem

Computer use agents (as an RPA alternative) is the easiest example to reach to: UIs change but not often, so the "trajectory" of click and key entry tool calls is mostly fixed over time and worth feeding to the agent as a canned trajectory. I discuss the flaws of computer use and RPA in the blog above.

A counterexample is coding agents: it's a deeply user-interractive workflow reading from a codebase that's evolving. So the set of things the model is inferencing on is always different, and trajectories are never repeated.

Hope this helps
by bobbinson | 2025-10-01 22:57:46+00:00
Not quite 80, but the same premise http://theuserismymom.com/

There is also so much more to designing for low tech literate than spacing. The accessibility guidelines focus so much on UI and being able to see what is there, but don’t focus enough on understanding what can be done with the website/app. Making sure your buttons actually look like buttons is a decent start but knowing that you can press a button, what it will do as the action, and being able to undo it and go back are so so valuable to helping them learn how to engage with sites.
by munificent | 2025-10-01 22:58:02+00:00
I used to be very into photography before Instagram and smartphones inundated the world with easy acceptably good photos.

I was into DJing when that meant buying vinyl and mastering the difficult art of beatmatching by ear before CDJs made acquiring music trivial and automated beatmatching made mixing easy.

I was a game developer during the time when casual smartphone games came and ate so much time and attention that players had less time available for other games.

I got into making music when that meant fighting with big, slow, complex hardware synthesizers, then watched anyone with a laptop (including me) be able to do all of that a hundred times more easily, and now I watch AI auto-generate passable background music.

Time and time again, I've seen this same process play out.

Many of the deepest joys in my life involved putting deep time and care into making something to share with others. That feels increasingly out of step with the culture at large.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 22:58:02+00:00
Yeah: We've seen some AI-related companies/CEOs acting as if they are heroes deeply conflicted by the ramifications of their own superpowers, inviting us to imagine their product might be too awesome for mere mortal hands, and agonizing over how they might make bajillions of dollars for savvy investors that [BUY] [BUY] [BUY] today... but at what figurative cost!?

*clutches pearls, faints onto nearby divan*
by brikym | 2025-10-01 22:58:20+00:00
It's because of stupid tribalism and hysterical non-thinking. When I was there 10 years ago it was really common to see the 'Atomkraft? - Nein Danke' stickers in public places. I guess when the position is held by a majority, that created an environment where people, especially policy makers, did not want to challenge it for they'll get excluded for wrong-think.

It is only changing because an even stronger fear (Putin) took hold.
by csfritz | 2025-10-01 22:58:50+00:00
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by gruez | 2025-10-01 22:59:15+00:00
>At least one Republican Senator has made the plan to stop attacking pedophiles explicit:

>I mean, yeah he probably flubbed his words, but let's also be honest in that most likely what happened was [...]

So not explicit? The whole point of something being "explicit" is that the point can be conveyed through straightforward reading of what was said, not vague implications through "dogwhistling" or "what he must have meant was...".
by naasking | 2025-10-01 22:59:24+00:00
> No, they're making predictions about the future. If AGI requires 30 years of compute improvements as you say, then it's not reality, it's a forecast contingent on those 30 years of development continuing unimpeded.

The idea that you can develop "good" information technology without enabling the creation of "bad" information technology is pure fantasy, and if your idea is actually that we could halt the progress of information technology wholesale, then that's laughable, sorry to say. Hence the inevitability.

> As for "oppressive regime", we already do this for nuclear and biotech, and most people find it quite palatable!

You mean we do this for raw materials that have inherent scarcity because they are somewhat rare, difficult to mine, and difficult to refine? And you think this natural scarcity is somehow comparable to natural abundance that follows from digital information that can be trivially copied at perfect fidelity?

Furthermore, you've misunderstood what was meant by "oppressive regime". The same technologies that allow us to email each other, make family photo albums and forecast the weather or the stock market are what also enable AI. There is no way in which to suppress AI without also suppressing these other benign uses that everyone enjoys and that enable considerable productivity. This is not comparable to the technology and raw materials for nuclear weapons.

> We've had the knowledge for both for decades, yet basement nukes and basement human clones aren't happening.

You seem awfully confident about declaring the non-existence of something that's inherently underground and thus difficult to measure.

But let's make the comparison of AI to cloning more apt: how confident would you be that cloning won't happen once the knowledge of how to construct artificial wombs is discovered? Now reconsider those probabilities about if such wombs also easy to construct with readily available materials. That's the reality of information technology.
by adamkeys | 2025-10-01 23:00:34+00:00
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by HiyaRecruiting | 2025-10-01 23:00:57+00:00
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by snkfr | 2025-10-01 23:02:03+00:00
Upside (upside.tech)| Data Engineering, ML Engineering, Full Stack, Data Analyst | ONSITE in San Francisco | Full Time

We're hiring for experienced senior/staff equivalent engineers across the stack.

Our team is doing some very interesting work on automated structured knowledge graph assembly, looking for anyone with prior experience working with large scale semi/unstructured datasets, applied NLP&ML background, or otherwise just a strong builder who wants to join something early.

See roles here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/upside-tech

You can also email jonas [at] upside.tech and include hn in the subject if you think you're the right fit to contribute but don't see a matching role listed.
by layer8 | 2025-10-01 23:02:37+00:00
To chime in to this discussion, I suppose there is a disagreement of what functional programming means exactly. For some it means Haskell or equivalent, for you it seems to be much laxer. Functional-programming evangelists tend to be on the stricter side, though.

When programming with “functional core with imperative shell”, is that functional programming overall? In the projects I work, functional-style parts are commonly bookended by imperative parts both outwards and inwards. The inward parts are things like database calls, file I/O, OS state, or other remote service calls. The art lies in keeping as much code free from side-effects as possible, but it’s rarely only the “shell” that is imperative.

Regarding functional (de)composition and proper structuring, that was very much a thing in imperative programming from fairly early on. That’s not specific to a functional style.

I suspect that it depends on the context in which people first learn about it whether they associate it with functional programming or not.

And I think that a lot of the aversion to functional programming advocacy comes from advocates demonizing anything imperative, while in reality a mix of both is appropriate.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-01 23:03:02+00:00
One could argue however that the Apple TV box also spies on you. It is just more limited in its ability to be malicious because it does not have a microphone or a camera. But it is still a problem because Apple, like Google, has fingers in many pies (phones, email, file storage, watches, smart devices) and can build very detailed profiles of individuals.
by crote | 2025-10-01 23:03:53+00:00
Solar and wind are extremely reliable, because they are distributed. Unlike large-scalec fossil or nuclear, a single plant going offline isn't a big deal.

Solar and wind are quite predictable - it's just weather forecasting. We have a pretty good idea what it is going to produce 7 days from now - we just can't control it.

Solar and wind can provide rotational mass. Existing installations just aren't engineered for it, because grid following makes more sense in a fossil-heavy grid. If extra inertia is needed, batteries are the perfect source for it, as it can instantly scale from -100 to +100 to soak up excess or fill in shortages. Or we can just install a bunch of flywheels, no big deal.
by munk-a | 2025-10-01 23:03:54+00:00
Neurological medicines are extremely complex - while massively increased appetite isn't a usual side effect of meds like Methylphenidate it can cause eating disorders in the other direction due to an inability to perceive fullness and I have a close friend who suffered through this.

Having had other close experiences for the med balancing for someone with bpd and a complex host of other disorders - most of the times neurological med families are just trialed until one sticks and the specific efficacy and side effects of each can vary wildly from person to person. Brains are really complex and we don't really have an understanding of the method of action (specifically - why the med works - what it is changing in brain chemistry and why that has the impact we observe) of most neurological meds.

We even still struggle to comprehend specific biological markers linked to certain disorders - probably in part due to the fact that we're categorizing those disorders by wide swathes of symptoms.
by nee1r | 2025-10-01 23:04:16+00:00
We did want more pictures!! Recently bought a Sony A7III to capture more fun moments like this.

We're working on pretraining computer action models from the ground up—hence the pretraining data cluster. We're a public benefit corp because we think its important for AGI to built in the public's interest + are planning on automating a lot of the work done on computers!
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-01 23:04:27+00:00
Ah, I was only thinking of Plato's theory of forms, not Aristotle's, but it makes sense it would be more about something taking on a form in Aristotle, since he was much more concerned with biology than Plato, whose forms are more timeless.

Thanks for the Parmenides poem. It seems much more straightforward than the various commentaries and analyses I've seen written about it.

VIII.16: ἔστιν ἢ οὐκ ἔστιν· :: It is or it is not

Very nearly "to be or not to be"...
by pizlonator | 2025-10-01 23:04:29+00:00
> Making C memory-safe doesn't make the semantics of all UB defined or appropriate.

Fil-C largely gets rid of UB.

There are exceptions left but they’re all fixable.

The only reasons why C has UB are:

- lack of memory safety (Fil-C fixes this)

- policy (Fil-C mostly fixes this but there are still a small number of remaining issues, which I intend to fix).

Fil-C is super comprehensive in how it fixes C. I bet it’s more comprehensive than you’d expect.

The reason not to use Fil-C in safety critical systems is that some operations have varying cost and there’s a GC. The GC is concurrent so you might be able to make it suitable for safety critical hard realtime stuff; it would just be a lot of work and probably not worth it. Rust is better than Fil-C for hard real time stuff for that reason.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-01 23:04:35+00:00
First I thought this was an old Aprils Fools post like the 'bring your gun to work day' posts back in the day. This is going to really make it hard to IT who are trying to enforce their company's contract mandated 'you can't charge AI work as billable work' clauses too. I would expect a push to the survey tool that identified all Microsoft subscription tokens on a person's equipment and narcing on those who do this. It feels like we're in the desperation zone here.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-01 23:04:43+00:00
> The goal of politics in the office is not to do “the right thing”. It’s to stay in alignment with the people who control your paycheck and to make sure you can keep exchanging money for labor when time comes to her another job.

I fully agree with this after attempting to ‘do the right thing’ and getting nowhere. I don’t have all of the information the decision makers have, so I may not have the full picture. Even if it’s a bad decision, it’s out of my hands. Now I do what Colin Powell advised: “disagree and commit”. You can’t win every battle, so you’ll have to accept certain decisions and move on, and accomplish your goals regardless.
by lizagub | 2025-10-01 23:04:55+00:00
We built this for ourselves out of the frustration of filling out constant fields to generate quotes

At the time we were a 3 person team and were using GPT to generate quotes, but the pdf was not consistent and memory leaky. But the problem was that we would get inbound, and had to make some calls with customer, understand what they need and send a quote. So we would paste either the email or summary into a custom gpt and would save time on extraction and generation -- but it grew too much and and inconsistent. (We did initially reduce our quotes from /hour to /minutes --> so QuotePPM went up 10x) :)

So we built this, initially with its own chat, but decided it was too much and have reduced it down to it's bare bones -- copy paste your product sku excel, use built in cart, add address and logo and choose from 4 LOTR templates and pdf it.

The idea is to do this for invoice and PO as well, as I have not seen many tools that just do these three, and do it cleanly -- they are always buried deep within "Quickbooks, or archaics like it" -- stripe has good invoice, but no PO or Quote.

Here's a quick vid https://quotemachine.cc/app/showmehow -- it's no login -- see if it helps you.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-01 23:05:27+00:00
My apologies for the deletion, I didn't like the way I phrased it the first time because what I wrote was too ambiguous and didn't cover the nuances of mid-term rule changes.

That said, I don't see how "would have to change the Senate rules which currently require 60 votes" is ambiguous. The "which" is clearly referring to "change the Senate rules". You just misspoke and I can't be expected to read entirely out of tree replies that you make six minutes before my second comment (which was well after my first deleted comment).
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-01 23:05:53+00:00
> there are security measures connected to citizenship and vehicle registration

Which in practice means there are Jewish-only roads.

> Jews are not allowed in Area A, though.

It's the Israeli government that bans Israelis from entering Area A. The Palestinians don't ban Jews from entering. I personally know Jewish people who have visited Area A.

> Not really, it responded to several attacks against it.

Israel has launched unprovoked attacks on Iran, Syria and most recently Qatar. Qatar has no intentions at all of destroying Israel, and Syria barely even has a government.

> "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty" is not nearly as problematic as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab".

Leaving aside the fact that you distorted the Palestinian chant (which ends, "Palestine will be free"), the Israeli version is much more problematic, because Israel is actually implementing it. The Palestinians have a vague hope that all of historic Palestine will be free one day. The Israelis actually control all of historic Palestine, subject millions of people there to permanent military rule with no rights, have murdered over 60,000 Palestinians in the last two years, and are systematically stealing land in the West Bank. There's no comparison at all.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-01 23:06:08+00:00
It's not usually the standard library or dependencies that create the issues I've seen. The teams I work with producing Go tools (across multiple companies) invariably require carefully orchestrated dev environments that are nigh-unreproducible. It's 50/50 on whether I can actually build a random project first try without reading the instructions if CGO is involved, which seems to be all of them.

My experience with random rust projects is that they usually "just build", with limited exceptions like weird embedded stuff.
by kemayo | 2025-10-01 23:06:29+00:00
It's the opposite. Reconciliation lets you pass bills that only change spending/revenues, and isn't allowed to change policies which are revenue-neutral.

You might be thinking of how it's not allowed to create a deficit after 10 years, but that's traditionally done by just saying "everything here expires after 10 years" and then leaning on a later congress to extend it.

(It's a little more complicated, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_... covers it.)
by sfn42 | 2025-10-01 23:06:50+00:00
It's exactly the same thing man. 34 million people is pretty unfathomable too. One person can't truly represent all those just like one person can't truly represent 340 people. Unless of course those 340 people all self selected to follow that one person, but that's not how countries work. In all cases the members of the group choose whoever gets the most votes and everyone is never happy. The semantics of how the voting works may change but at the end of the day the people chose their president. And it just so happens the US chose a disgraceful orange clown twice.

For all their biglyness and dividedness, that's who they managed to unite behind. You can explain it however you want, to me it definitely means something and it's not a good thing.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-01 23:07:10+00:00
> I'm tired, after hundreds of years, of people still insisting "no no no, just a little more information freedom and humans will magically fix all their natural biases and magically stop acting like humans and magically stop believing what is comfortable instead of what is provably correct"

But we are fixing our natural biases over time to get to the technological civilization we have today. Our beliefs align better with reality today than 500 years ago. That's why we can build computers which we're using to talk right now, but couldn't 500 years ago. Everybody is better off compared to 500 years ago. Information sharing accelerates this process.

> What oppression has free speech demonstrably stopped?

Free speech doesn't stop oppression, it replaces violence. Oppression is in human nature, or rather, in nature in general. When two individuals that share a local region of reality have misaligned wishes, they interfere with eachother. But how they interfere matters. Free speech changes the method of interaction, but not the essence of competition.

Two perfectly rational people can agree on a shared model of reality yet not agree on what actions to take next. People, although more similar than different, have different preferences. A modern democratic society simply places the majority's wishes first and oppresses minorities non-violently. It allows open negotiation to balance these wishes without resorting to violence.

Attacking one of the essential pillars of this society doesn't stop oppression, it just risks bringing back a worse form of it.
by godelski | 2025-10-01 23:07:32+00:00
> There's a count of the times this has come up on the senate's website

I don't think I'm understanding. Are there not also more bills being voted on? There definitely seems to be high variance from here[0] but also they seem to be spending far less time in session than previously

[0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/ResumesofCongressionalAct...
by anonymars | 2025-10-01 23:07:42+00:00
There were arcane rules. For example to pass the Shuttle-to-Houson bullshit (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424822) they couldn't put money for a specific policy (move Discovery) but only set aside money for Texas to house a nonspecific vehicle, one that had flown to space. Etc.

See e.g. https://rollcall.com/2025/06/23/houston-we-still-have-a-prob...

Many of the other comments in the thread illustrate that you shouldn't trust proclamations on the internet, AI or otherwise. You don't ipso facto need 60 votes to pass every bill through the Senate. The reconciliation bill over the summer thus passed with solely Republican support.
by gruez | 2025-10-01 23:07:47+00:00
>[2] If they were criminal cases, every accused would be constitutionally entitled to a trial by jury.

Are there any reputable law scholars that supports this argument? Otherwise this feels suspiciously close to sovereign citizens argument about how they don't need drivers licenses because they're "traveling" or whatever.

>[3] Anyone using the term 'illegal' to refer to those people is speaking out of both sides of their mouth. They want to make them sound like criminals, while denying them the constitutional protections that all accused criminals are entitled to.

What about "illegally" parked cars? Those are also civil infractions.