MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thu | 2025-06-02 20:39:11+00:00
I've started to learn touch typing many times, but don't use it. The main problem is that as soon as I want to touch type while working (e.g. coding), I only know the letters, but not the symbols, numbers or even uppercase letters. I think I can force keybr to add those, but they are not part of real world examples, while the words are natural enough. Is there any progressive way to introduce those just like keybr introduces 1 letter at a time ?
by westoncb | 2025-06-02 20:39:14+00:00
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by andrewmutz | 2025-06-02 20:39:16+00:00
What we are seeing with our customers is that LLM errors are a very manageable problem. End users adapt pretty quickly to the idea that AI systems aren't perfect. In many cases AI products are doing tasks that used to be done by humans and these humans were making mistakes too, so the end user is used to the idea that the task will get accomplished with some non-zero error rate.

You just need to build your products in a manner where the user has the ability to easily double check the results whenever they like. Then they can audit as they see fit, in order to get used to the accuracy level and to apply additional scrutiny to cases that are very important to their business.
by devonbleak | 2025-06-02 20:39:22+00:00
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by willempienaar | 2025-06-02 20:39:46+00:00
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by hoakiet98 | 2025-06-02 20:39:46+00:00
I would say we're much more focused on the infinite canvas and Figma-like experience. We also do not build on top of WebContainer [1], which is commercially restrictive and closed source [2].

1. https://webcontainers.io/enterprise

2. CodeSandbox is also not open source, but I'm planning on adding other providers/local container options
by leonfedden | 2025-06-02 20:39:55+00:00
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by mmaunder | 2025-06-02 20:39:56+00:00
Claude 4 in agent mode is incredible. Nothing compares. But you need to have a deep technical understanding of what you’re building and how to split it into achievable milestones and build on each one. It also helps to provide it with URLs with specs, standards, protocols, RFCs etc that are applicable and then tell it what to use from the docs.
by JeremyBarbosa | 2025-06-02 20:40:04+00:00
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by sestinj | 2025-06-02 20:40:11+00:00
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by imtringued | 2025-06-02 20:42:06+00:00
It's not more accessible than ever. If you want to make it in robotics, you're going to have to read research papers and preferably have attended as many robotics related courses during university as possible. The hobbyist scene is big, but the vast majority of robots are basically fancy toys and almost no one ever goes beyond simple PID. The problem is that robotics is clustered around industrial robots and academia with nothing in-between. Unless you have the necessary background, you will most likely be stuck scraping the surface simply because you're not aware of the most recent developments in those areas.
by whyowhy3484939 | 2025-06-02 20:42:20+00:00
Ah, I met my match it seems.

I confess I might be showing signs of unlawful thought patterns. I will correct that, fellowniusmonk. Thanks for pointing that out.

I am in the "code is not an asset, it's a liability"-camp and our recently acquired ability to swiftly defecate metric tons of it is not something I am particularly thrilled about. In fact, I find "senior" engineers using LoC as a productivity metric highly suspect - at best. I thought we passed that phase a decade or two ago. Not saying you are one, but in the spirit of talking past each other I thought it prudent to put up a good straw man.

All in all to be completely honest I find it hard to parse your original point so I concur I wasn't engaging properly. To be fair you opened with "in terms of code output" so that's what triggered me I guess.
by saghm | 2025-06-02 20:43:45+00:00
Is there a typo in the code block for the `Process` function near the end of the post? Lines 13-15 have the following loop:

while (remapVec[remapStartIndex] >= index) { // Follow the 'cycle' index = remapVec[remapStartIndex]; }

I'm not sure what that loop is supposed to be doing, but as its written it looks like it would either be skipped entirely or never terminate; after single iteration, the the two values would be equal and never change again.
by sublinear | 2025-06-02 20:43:46+00:00
> ... does anyone really want their refrigerator to automatically place orders for groceries?

Yes, actually. I also want the groceries delivered to my door using the services and stores of my choice depending on the items and prices, and for it to integrate seamlessly with my Home Assistant instance without any funny business regarding the API or needing to install yet another bullshit app I didn't ask for.

This is the real reason we don't have nice things. The implementation is always botched by businesses who don't do a thorough job and finish their product. There's clearly a huge chasm between what the customer and the IoT business would consider an MVP. Do it right or don't do it at all.
by Grosvenor | 2025-06-02 20:44:02+00:00
/\ /\/\ _|/\|_ |______| |\/\/| \|/\/\| .''`/: :\''. \`'. | || / : : \ || |\ ||| || / o j _\||__/__\||_\_||/___ |___________________| | | | | | | ~~~~~~|~~|~~~|~~~|~~~|~~|~~~~~~

SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist, I'm looking for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it."[1] type problems.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset (LLMs+KB, OR+ML, etc). I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, and things I'm not allowed to talk about.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, and more. I've also done some more interesting work including vehicle route planning in constrained environments.

Get in touch. Even if you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.

[1] Yup. Done that. A few times.
by mikemcg0 | 2025-06-02 20:44:11+00:00
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by LWIRVoltage | 2025-06-02 20:44:24+00:00
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by dawnofdusk | 2025-06-02 20:44:36+00:00
Typing fast is an underrated skill for developers. A lot of the value added by various intelligent tab completion and LLMs is easily replicated by typing variable and function names at 100+ wpm.

Not a fan, however, of the desire to disparage the "right" way of doing things that's done in this blog. I type the "proper" way, home row and all, and can reach 150+wpm with high accuracy. So, based on this evidence, you're wrong and would be better off having learned the proper technique...

is an argument which I could make, and the evidence would be true, but it doesn't sound extremely convincing, does it?
by JohnBooty | 2025-06-02 20:44:38+00:00
As I'm imagining it the NPC LLMs would be trained exclusively on the in-game lore as well as given system prompts to shape what they can and cannot say at any given moment.

something like

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"You are Bob the Farmer. You grow rutabegas in the Kingdom of Foo. You are a cautious, fearful man. Several years ago your home was pillaged by King Foo and your family was taken. [blah blah blah several more paragraphs of biographical information]

Your primary motivation is to get your family back and keep the farm going so that you don't starve.

Last week you saw a mysterious group of figures in the woods who appeared to be headless. This is bothering you, along with the stress of your missing family. You wish a band of strong warriors could investigate, especially if they have a necromancer among them.

You may discuss any of the general world knowledge in background_lore.txt

You know nothing about the following topics: [[insert list of plot points that haven't happened yet or are unknown to him]] and will become confused, fearful, and slightly belligerent when asked about them."

---

You could of course update the system prompts for each character as the events of the game progress.

It would be a lot of work to keep these system prompts updated and relevant, for every character, as game events progress, but I think some of this could be handled by some kind of inheritance system.

Suppose "Bob" lives in "Town A", which is in "Kingdom B." You could probably define a lot of things at the Town/Kingdom level. Like suppose "Kingdom B" is plagued by orcs, but "Town A" is kind of a citadel that is safe against orcs. "Bob"'s system prompt could inherit a lot of concerns and knowledge from "Town A" and "Kingdom B"... the system would not have to be strictly hierarchical either.
by snowwrestler | 2025-06-02 20:44:39+00:00
The animals behave like animals at the beginning of the movie, but differently by the end. That’s clearly a choice by the filmmakers.

I think Flow is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years, in part because of how it chooses to depart from reality.

I think it also helped that I saw it in a theater which I find far more immersive than watching at home.
by Grosvenor | 2025-06-02 20:44:43+00:00
/\ /\/\ _|/\|_ |______| |\/\/| \|/\/\| .''`/: :\''. \`'. | || / : : \ || |\ ||| || / o j _\||__/__\||_\_||/___ |___________________| | | | | | | ~~~~~~|~~|~~~|~~~|~~~|~~|~~~~~~

SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist, I'm looking for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it."[1] type problems.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset (LLMs+KB, OR+ML, etc). I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, and things I'm not allowed to talk about.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, and more. I've also done some more interesting work including vehicle route planning in constrained environments.

Get in touch. Even if you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.

[1] Yup. Done that. A few times.
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by zepenglin | 2025-06-02 20:45:14+00:00
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by hoakiet98 | 2025-06-02 20:45:17+00:00
It's more to keep scope small until we feel confident about the experience.

Theoretically, we can scale to other declarative frameworks, but we'd have to implement a parser for each. We're sticking with React/Next for now since that is the majority of use cases with plans of supporting other frameworks when the experience feels good enough.

There's a comment under about Svelte support as well (which is what the initial prototype supported) and I gave a similar answer there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653
by whilenot-dev | 2025-06-02 20:45:35+00:00
Just had a quick glance, but I think I found something to add to the Objection!-section of your post:

Brave's Search API is 3$ CPM and includes Web search, Images, Videos, News, Goggles[0]. Anthropic's API is 10$ CPM for Web search (and text only?), excluding any input/output tokens from your model of choice[1], that'd be an additional 15$ CPM, assuming 1KTok per request and Claude Sonnet 4 as a good model, so ~25$ CPM.

So your default "Ratio (Search cost / LLM cost): 25.0x" seems to be more on the 0.12x side of things (Search cost / LLM cost). Mind you, I just flew over everything in 10 mins and have no experience using either API.

[0]: https://brave.com/search/api/

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/pricing#anthropic-api
by eitally | 2025-06-02 20:45:43+00:00
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by killerstorm | 2025-06-02 20:46:02+00:00
There's a thing called "prefix tuning" which is basically like a prompt but in a latent space: i.e. prompt which consists of vectors (either key and value vectors, or just input embedding vectors - like custom tokens).

Unlike regular prompts you can optimize them exactly the way you'd do fine-tuning, i.e. if you have examples you can tune your latent prompt to match them as close as possible. I guess the benefit is that you can match style more closely and it would be less artificial. Also they can be rather compact.

Another option is to keep a bunch of LoRA adapters which can be dynamically selected. They can also be very compact.
by aveao | 2025-06-02 20:46:31+00:00
Had a similar experience with a VP recently... not >3 levels up, but still. "I could visibly tell he was upset he even had to talk to me." feels close to home.

I made time during a family emergency, and attended a call on US west coast time while living in EU (was supposed to be 9PM for me but they pushed it to 10PM right before due to recruiter messing up the invite and having it off by a week).

He didn't ask any relevant questions. He didn't seem interested. He just looked like he was doing a favor to someone that asked him to give me a shot. Original call was supposed to be 1h, then after reschedule it was 30m, but he thanked me for my time after 20 minutes. Ofc I got rejected after, even though the people before had good opinions of me.

All in all, if you're doing hiring, at least try to look interested. phew.
by smeeger | 2025-06-02 20:46:33+00:00
hallucinations are essentially the only thing keeping all knowledge workers from being made permanently redundant. if that doesnt make you a little concerned then you are a fool. and the predictions of all the experts in 2010 is that what is currently happening right in front of us could never happen within a hundred years. why are the predictions of experts more reliable now? anyone who dismisses the risks is just a sorry fool
by mystraline | 2025-06-02 20:46:38+00:00
Not hard to. Go look at the wide variety of hardware that does NOT work with Home Assistant, or works tenuously through some heavily rate limited public web api.

There is a reason why for my IoT setup so far, its been primarily OpenGarage, IKEA IoT (ZigBee), and existing compute services I locally host.

Remote servers come and go. Companies come and go. If I am at the forced behest of some company to 'bless' my hardware, its not mine. And I think its fraud to even claim it a sale. Its a 'rental as long as the company wishes'.
by Suppafly | 2025-06-02 20:47:00+00:00
I read a lot, and just use FBReader on my phone. I like e-ink displays, but I read a lot more with my phone since it's always in my pocket. I imagine if I read on the kindle app, I could switch back and forth between a phone and ereader, but reading bootleg epub files doesn't give you the best options for synching between devices.