MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Genego | 2025-10-04 04:47:03+00:00
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by j_bum | 2025-10-04 04:47:30+00:00
Would you be willing to point me to a primer of how I can get started with building agents?

This week I experimented with building a simple planner/reviewer “agentic” iterative pipeline to automate an analysis workflow.

It was effectively me dipping my toes into this field, and I am so floored to learn more. But I’m unsure of where to start, since everything seems so fast paced.

I’m also unsure of how to experiment, since APIs rack up fees pretty quickly. Maybe local models?
by hjkl0 | 2025-10-04 04:48:38+00:00
The war in Gaza did not save a single Israeli’s life. Hundreds of Israeli are dead because of it though, many through accidents and friendly fire.

So it’s not about prioritizing lives, it’s about prioritizing ideologies.

And the pervasive ideology in Israel is that Palestinians are not people, and therefore our children, the IDF soldiers who daily target them, are not war criminals.
by Retric | 2025-10-04 04:48:49+00:00
Rationality isn’t an option because it’s wrong. There’s literally zero reason to invest any time into models using it whatsoever when the opportunity to look for something that actually works exists.

You don’t need to read people’s minds to predict their behavior at sufficient granularity to be useful. Economics is blessed with plenty of opportunities to collect high quality real world data without needing to conduct arbitrary experiments.

How much gas will this specific gas station sell on date X. Build whatever models you want at whatever scale is relevant and they face the brutal truth of a knowable answer to judge them. That’s how science progresses not arbitrary assumptions to make modeling easier.
by neilv | 2025-10-04 04:50:04+00:00
> The smart thing would have been to do #1. [Talk to a lawyer on how to avoid assisting a crime] [...] Here's what Singh did instead: he asked for a personal meeting with Bankman-Fried and confronted him about the missing funds.

If you're not sure something illegal is happening, you could do both. The lawyer might tell you what questions to get answered, to inform what you do next.

(But don't do talk to anyone at the company if you think there is any risk that they will try to neutralize you as a weak link. "The coverup is worse than the crime" happens in organizations with shitty people, and you might have just discovered an especially shitty person.)

As an engineer, I once told a company that it was about to accidentally do something that I suspected was seriously illegal. They were able to prevent it from happening, in time. Problem solved, no wrongdoing occurred, and no one had to quit, nor go to federal prison.

Longer ago, I once told an organization about some bad things, using the appropriate internal channels. And then I had to keep going up the chain of command, when each level would suppress it, and sometimes even retaliate. Which was a rare opportunity to realize that an organization had infected its org chart with a high degree of shittiness. I'm now a big fan of people consulting a lawyer.

On another occasion, not necessarily "illegal" was averted, but at least "big liability" was. I had reverse-engineered a customer's security-related protocol, for an integration, and found a grave vulnerability. (Critical info that must be inside the cryptographic signature envelope, was outside of it, meaning that an attacker could replay a captured message later, with changed data.) To interoperate with the customer's system, I'd need to implement the security thing in an unambiguously wrong and insecure way. So I told the appropriate person on my end, and thankfully they handled it well, and figured out how to break the news to the customer.

That time, to be sure the appropriate person understood the severity, I mentioned that, in a different engineering field (including one in the application domain), I would "lose my license or go to jail" for implementing that.

Occasionally, I briefly muse that our field could use the obligations and authority of Professional Engineers. But moments later, I realize that our field went too long without that, and I can't imagine that being implemented with integrity at this point.
by Genego | 2025-10-04 04:50:07+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Full‑stack Python & Django developer (AI Focus)

Location: Thailand (UTC+7, outside Bangkok) Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Django, Python, Postgres, Redis, Celery, HTMX, Tailwind, React/Vue (selective), REST APIs, Docker AI / LLM: Retrieval pipelines, RAG quality evaluation (embedding hygiene + chunk strategy), agent / workflow orchestration (AG2/Autogen, LangChain, LlamaIndex), multi‑agent simulation (1k+ convo batches), structured output validation, forecasting & scenario sims, eval harnesses, TinyTroupe, Oasis, MLFlow, AutoML Résumé/CV: https://edwin.genego.io/ Email: edwin@genego.io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwin-genego/

Sr. Software Engineer & Web-developer focused on Python frameworks. Comfortable operating across backend, performance, light UI integration and AI feature enablement. I build & evolve production Django platforms while layering in practical LLM capabilities (retrieval, agents, workflow automation) without triggering risky rewrites. Current personal R&D: multi‑agent interaction sims to forecast failure modes; retrieval evaluation harnesses; lightweight agent tool routing. Looking for fractional or project-based work (2–6 week focused cycles or ongoing) where I can consolidate scattered scripts/services, ship measurable automation, and harden reliability surfaces while keeping iteration momentum high.

https://edwin.genego.io/
by trinsic2 | 2025-10-04 04:52:24+00:00
I know this is 4 days past, but wanted to let you know I recently stumbled upon Hanna Arendt's work while working on a video Essay for the TV series andor and man what a eye opener it is about these subjects. I havent read the book yet, but I listed to the youtube writing group talk on it from https://hac.bard.edu/
by jack_h | 2025-10-04 04:53:07+00:00
I want to highlight your point because you're correct and this is something that a lot of people don't understand about economic systems. We exist in a resource constrained system. There are finite medical workers, finite time, finite medicine, finite medical facilities, finite medical equipment, and just finite resources in general. There will always be shortages and surpluses in such a system as resource allocation is never perfect. If you have a shortage you must ration supply through some mechanism. It can be by prices, by queue, by need, by lot, by status, or countless other mechanisms or combinations of mechanisms but you must ration regardless. This will lead to people dying under certain conditions who may not have died if some other rationing mechanism was used, but if a different rationing mechanism was used then a different set of people would have died. The only thing that can be done is to select the system that allocates resources more efficiently than other systems to minimize this failure mode. This whole idea of "statistical murder" would just lead to the banning of medical care entirely as no system has perfect allocation at all times, although some are certainly worse than others.

Plus I have no idea what the word "statistical" even means in this context...
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-10-04 04:53:23+00:00
I'm really glad to see this post is not flagged. Have things finally gotten to the point where Hacker News realizes we're not in Kansas anymore? This is literally a political enemies list, and these so-called enemies are completely normal politicians, most fairly centrist, who believe in the rule of law and our Constitution. This is insane. What are we going to do about this, folks?
by Herodotus38 | 2025-10-04 04:54:18+00:00
Not directly since we all have it. It’s a bit confusing from the article but basically they discovered an antibiotic which can target a narrower spectrum than before which will minimize messing up your natural flora and allow drug resistant enterobacter (e coli is a main species, but not the only one) to be over represented. There is an association with ibd and. microbiomes that have e coli over-represented. And there are some subtypes of e coli that appear to be associated, see:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29141957/
by shelled | 2025-10-04 04:54:34+00:00
Hey - "Shame" is somewhat stronger than what I would have said but I also had similar feelings considering it was from DHH's company. And not just for outdated Electron, but for shipping Electron in the first place. For some reason I always felt DHH will write native apps for his company :)

I have absolutely lost hope from Dropbox and I am actively looking for a replacement.

BitWarden using Electron is just unfortunate and it is sluggish.

What happened to 1Password (don't use it, never did) and their Apple only-great-native-software trope I used to hear? Cost cutting?

Electron is the reason I am still using Overcast and not Pocket Casts even though it's FOSS.

Proton Mail - this app is such a mess!

Simplenote - moved away long back! When did Electron come into it? It was native, wasn't it?
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-04 04:56:32+00:00
From what I can find here in Norway the CPU would be $3800, mobo around $2000, and one stick of 64 GB 6400 MHz registered ECC runs about $530, so about $6400 for the full 768 GB. Couldn't find any kits for those.

So just those components would be just over $12k.

That's just from regular consumer shops, and includes 25% VAT. Without the VAT it's about $9800.

Problem for consumers is that a just about all the shops that sells such and you might get a deal from would be geared towards companies, and not interested in deal with consumers due to consumer protection laws.
by antonvs | 2025-10-04 04:58:22+00:00
Someone replied to the above comment and then deleted their comment. Since I went to the trouble of writing a reply, I’m posting it for other people who may not realize this. Starting with a partial quote of the deleted comment:

> “No one has a crystal ball. […] it wasn't clear in 1896 or even 1996.”

It was clear long before 1996. I personally was aware of it as being essentially settled science by 1992, but I was far from on the leading edge of that, and my knowledge came from mainstream media. But the problem was that there was huge and even funded resistance to accepting it.

Just for example, Time Magazine published articles about anthropogenic global warming as early as 1939, the year after Guy Callendar published a paper titled “The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature.”

Time covered the subject several times after that, in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s, eventually publishing an issue entitled “Planet of the Year: Endangered Earth” in 1989. Here’s a quote from that issue (https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,956...):

> “According to computer projections, the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere could drive up the planet's average temperature 3 degrees F to 9 degrees F by the middle of the next century. That could cause the oceans to rise by several feet, flooding coastal areas and ruining huge tracts of farmland through salinization. Changing weather patterns could make huge areas infertile or uninhabitable, touching off refugee movements unprecedented in history.”

The fact that we continued to essentially ignore the issue for decades after that was a blunder. It has nothing to do with “not knowing enough about complex dynamic environments.” Anyone who genuinely believes that has most likely been strongly influenced by the oil industry propaganda on the subject.
by devman0 | 2025-10-04 04:59:17+00:00
Just because an imprinter was used doesn't mean the transaction was necessarily "offline". Depending on merchant's policy, the cashier would call their processor, give them some transaction details and receive an auth code for the transaction which would be written on the imprinted ticket, thus authorizing the transaction at the POS just the same way it's done today (except with humans and phones, instead of an electronic handshake).
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-04 05:00:39+00:00
As opposed to the first source you posted which is the text of a sky news interview with Hillel Neuer

From wiki "Neuer was selected as one of the "top 100 most influential Jewish people in the world" by Israeli newspaper Maariv,[9] and by the Algemeiner Journal in 2017. He is an outspoken defender of Israel[10][11] and critic of the UN's human rights councils' actions.[12]"

So he's not pushing a pro-Israel view? How can you dismiss one source with claims of bias by providing a source that is also bias but of the opposing view?

I want to point out that I don't think sources should be ignored merely due to bias. You do though so I await your defense
by signatoremo | 2025-10-04 05:03:42+00:00
You may not like their message, but the style can be found in practically any public communication from any corporation. Read a layoff announcement from Novo Nordisk as an example [1]. No difference.

This is what I don’t like about HN, manufactured outrage when one dislikes the messenger. No substance whatsoever.

When users are given such a powerful tool like Sora, there will naturally be conflicts. If one makes a video putting a naked girl in a sacred Buddhist temple in Bangkok, how do you think Thai people will react?

This is OpenAI attempting balancing acts between conflicting interests, while trying to make money.

[1]-https://www.novonordisk.com/content/nncorp/global/en/news-an...
by palmotea | 2025-10-04 05:04:57+00:00
> Okay, but why would we die on the vine? Wouldn’t we just… make a parallel economy without the AGI? The world works today without AGI.

Because you need things they want. Like why would they spare the electricity to heat your home, when it could go to "better" use powering a few dozen GPUs serving a billionaire? Why would they spare the land for you to grow food, when they could use it to build ziggurats dedicated to their power (or whatever else is their whim)?

The market sends the scarce resources to those with the most money.
by 9x39 | 2025-10-04 05:05:28+00:00
I actually agree with you that LLMs are so rigid and shallow as even a typical person appears as an ocean to them in a conversation.

I just think Stallman is this broken-clock purist that offered no specific practical advice in this case. I’d be more interested in what he thinks in LLMs one-shotting humans with their tokens (LLM psychopathy?) as they come on the scene worldwide.
by riffraff | 2025-10-04 05:08:20+00:00
Definitely cultural: Italy has a big tradition of merchants evading taxes, and there have been multiple steps over the year to mandate card payments cause those imply the merchant will pay taxes.

So if you are a law abiding citizen you can easily be pissed off that you get to pay taxes and they don't.

For a few years "we don't take card" was widely interpreted as a strong indicator the merchant would evade taxes, and "I won't go there anymore" was a common reaction from some people. These days it's technically illegal and yet you will still find _some_ shops that only want cash.
by card_zero | 2025-10-04 05:08:57+00:00
What are they replicating? Patented things, copyrighted things? Or groceries? Do they want to replicate things? In Star Trek, they travel light, wear uniforms, and have few personal possessions, because they're on a ship, in the navy. That's why everything has to be digital and everybody stuffs their life inside a phonecorder and drinks synthale. When he's back on earth, Picard has a horse. I could be wrong but I don't think he replicated it.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-04 05:09:46+00:00
Marxist analysis is essentially nonsense, though it sure feels good. Makes you tap your toes and really feel like "one of the People." But it's been bunk from the day it was penned.

Jonathan Blow took this notion to task when said that the means of production are a $200 laptop you can buy at Walmart.

What's really going on is industrial grade existential angst. "If my competitor trains a robot to do this job, they can run their factory 24x7, dramatically lowering their costs. If they do it and I don't, I can't compete. Therefore, I've got to do it or die." Rinse and repeat for call centers, web shops with "assistants," or software feature mills.

Those CEOs and CTOs are convinced that the other guy is doing it, and their business will fail if they don't. There are a few that know better.

This isn't a class struggle. It's cold-sweats-at-night fear of the future.
by minitech | 2025-10-04 05:10:29+00:00
> Further, using Rust as an example, even a project which takes 5 minutes to build cold only takes a second or two on a hot build thanks to caching of already-built artifacts.

So optimizing compile times isn’t worthwhile because we already do things to optimize compile times? Interesting take.

What about projects for which hot builds take significantly longer than a few seconds? That’s what I assumed everyone was already talking about. It’s certainly the kind of case that I most care about when it comes to iteration speed.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-04 05:10:30+00:00
> What happened to 1Password (don't use it, never did) and their Apple only-great-native-software trope I used to hear? Cost cutting?

They started chasing B2B/corporate, and as part of that switched their desktop app over to Electron and replaced the old UI of 7 with a generic flat blobby SaaS type design. They lost their botique app shop feel and now blend in with the usual greasy SaaS fare.
by noduerme | 2025-10-04 05:12:02+00:00
Wow... depositing more than $1k would trigger AML. That's incredible. In the US it's not uncommon for contractors to pull $10k cash at the end of a week to pay their workers. Some of that may be due to tax evasion or, just as likely, the workers being in the country illegally. I suppose this is another major reason cash is still "tolerated" in the US, because the casual labor market depends so heavily on undocumented workers. No one besides a few ultra-nationalists would really want to enforce such a thing, as it would drive up construction costs. And the nationalists are paranoid and stock up on cash and gold themselves.

Honestly, that system sounds a bit Orwellian. But also, does that mean that you have to pay a bank transfer fee every time you buy anything?
by exe34 | 2025-10-04 05:12:59+00:00
honestly the times I was on a proper telescope, I was shitting myself making sure I made the most of the time going down my list of targets and not getting something wrong and pointing at the wrong star or getting the wrong setting. that and the daemon that had to be restarted every half an hour or so because it crashed. I did not have the energy or time for philosophy. I guess that's the difference between the phd student and the professor haha!
by ls612 | 2025-10-04 05:14:09+00:00
"Newtonian mechanics isn't an option because it is wrong. There’s literally zero reason to invest any time into models using it whatsoever when the opportunity to look for something that actually works exists."

Do you see the issue here when I frame it this way? The core microeconomic assumption of people having preferences which are complete, reflexive and transitive (these are formal mathematical definitions! They don't require a whole lot to hold!) has been incredibly useful in the 20th and 21st centuries much like understanding Newtonian mechanics was in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Besides this, you are still not engaging with the philosophy of science point that I am making. Because of the fact that humans have this pesky thing called free will, unless we impose some assumptions on their thinking nothing we study about causality in the behavior of humans is falsifiable. Maybe you eat because you feel hungry. Maybe you eat because you worship bread as a god. I fundamentally can't say either way without making assumptions that you likely find unobjectionable.
by moggers123 | 2025-10-04 05:14:52+00:00
I just don't really know where the ecosystem is going with async these days. I see a lot of changes in the language, many of which seem more complex than are typical for the justification, some of which have broader utility but generally wouldn't be done if it weren't for them being necessary for async... A hydra of complexity and honestly, where does it end? When will async be "solved"? What will the language look like when it is? Is it really all justified? Did we know that the road would be this long when we started it? For me, you could resolve this complexity by just letting me flip a switch and have things operate in a really basic blocking mode with no state machine or runtime and I'll sling this stuff on a thread if I have to, the way I used to. My use cases never needed this. I can get by just fine solving the circumstances I would need something like this with a purpose build mechanism, not a language native feature trying to solve all the different flavors of asynchronous problems I have + a million I don't.

of course... Its obviously not as simple as "just give me a way to turn it off", but more importantly, I just don't see this concern being addressed by the Powers That Be. Am I just not looking hard enough? Did I miss the rust blog post titled "hey - so you didn't want to use async but the libraries that you did want to use ship with async so you're up shit creek.. Here's what our plan for that is"?

I'm sorry. I generally lurk because I don't consider myself up to the caliber of others on this website, but nonetheless the few posts I make do end up being about async because it does make me feel quite hopeless at times. Hopefully someone can look passed my ignorance/incompetence/selfishness/immaturity and tell me its all going to be okay.
by petre | 2025-10-04 05:15:12+00:00
Huskies excell in organising a pack of usually smaller dogs. Otherwise they're more of a domesticated wolf than a dog. Also a rodent and bird killing machine, cat chasers when not kept in check. That's anytime they're further than a leash length from their owner.

I like them, but would probably never own one unless I'll ever own and regulary use a dog sled.
by riffraff | 2025-10-04 05:15:49+00:00
What do you think happens to the cash at the end of the day?

Managing cash has costs too, they're just harder to quantify: you have to ferry it to a bank, you have increased risk of theft, fraud, and robberies, you need extra time to actually check the register etc.

And then you risk losing business if you don't offer card payments because it's just more convenient for most customers (you may like wise lose some if you don't take cash, but that's a vanishing market).