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Show HN: Helix apply -f deploy YAML GenAI with RAG and APIs on local open models [video]
Demo starts at 50m into the video. This was a bit terrifying to record because 2am the previous night everything was totally broken after a major refactor (so that we could add external LLM support as well as local GPUs). But pressure can be a useful force :-D

We start with a stack deployed on my laptop without a GPU, pointing to together.ai so we can run open source LLMs easily without having to have access to a GPU. We show simple inference through the ChatGPT-like web interface (with users, sessions etc) and then simple drag'n'drop RAG.

Then we show some helix apps defined as yaml: Marvin the Paranoid Android (just a system prompt on top of llama3:8b), an HR app that interacts with an API, and a surprise API integration I'd done that morning with the podcast host's own OpenAPI spec for their app Screenly.

Finally, we deploy it for real on a DigitalOcean droplet for the controlplane - see https://docs.helix.ml/helix/getting-started/architecture/ - and a $0.35/h A40 on runpod.io. Armed with a real GPU, we can do image inference and fine-tuning as well as all the things described above!
You could try using Claude's Projects. You can give it examples, documentation and overall guidelines, and maybe that will enable Claude to generate the code you want. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a context window of 200k tokens, which is enough for quite a lot of context material.
I'm still on X because there is no sane way to run a tiling window manager in Wayland using proprietary Nvidia drivers. Sucks because Hyprland is pretty cool, but I am not willing to put up with whatever stupid bullshit is necessary to use it and have access to CUDA.
Hopper's involvement is not about being the one to coin the term, but about being the first to find an actual, physical computer bug. It's clear from the story the implication was not that it was the first use of the term as in that case the joke would make no sense.
>>Now that we're getting rid of centralized price controls / collusion

>give me a dossier on BlackRock's holdings in real estate, go into detail on their holdings in residential, get as much real financial from their filings and reports. Give me a markdown table and an instaml/instaql schema for the data model

* Blackrock would like a word

https://i.imgur.com/PLwQ6sa.png

https://i.imgur.com/1oAdbdC.png

https://i.imgur.com/nH0Vzf8.png

Fund TotalAssets ResidentialAssets #units

BRGIF $14.8B $10.3B 43,000+ units

BREIT $12.2B $6.5B 25,000+ units

BREIT II $8.5B $4.8B 18,000+ units
While I agree that people need to make mistakes (giving newbies room TO make those mistakes is an important part of mentorship imo), I couldn't disagree more with the idea that there's nothing to learn about architecture from a book.

A vast majority of the mistakes people make are avoidable ones stemming from ignorance. They're often missing the "why" part of architecture. "What does it mean for an architectural choice to be 'good'?" This can 100% be "book learned" and then mastered through the messy process of experience. You have to at least know the rules to play the game. Many people skip the "know" part.
Well yeah, obviously LAN and WAN are different. But they're all running over that same LAN fabric to get to the WAN. Having high-speed streaming access to files on the server is somewhat important as well (mostly while travelling).

With Cloudflare access my file server and website are available without being detectable to the ISP, though I actually do have a static IP + hosting plan through an interesting ISP called Skyway West in Canada.
Framework has you covered.
> What about things like scaling

Premature optimization for 99% of people's projects. Once you run into "scaling" issues you can always run it on a more powerful server.

Related: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1827322640685506895
I don't think Silicon Valley has really been the standard bearer for software engineering jobs in at least 5 years, I'd reckon as far as 10 years. The pandemic also has hollowed them out as well. You can find high paying software engineering jobs in plenty of low cost of living states these days. That city has very sharp problems that it is failing to solve and when given a choice, many people choose not to live/move there
An AI agent to triage the production issues caused by code generated by some other startup's generative AI bot. I fucking love tech in 2024.
Exactly. I switched from XFCE to MATE only because the former was very buggy. Except for their control panels, the differences are cosmetic.
> passing laws.

As if that's any less of a complicated technical solution.
Your comment brings up a good point (and also one of our big challenges): there is a huge diversity in the tools teams use to setup and operate their infra. Right now our platform only speaks to your cluster directly through kubectl commands. We’ll build other integrations so it can communicate with things like Elastic Search to broaden its context as needed, but we’ll have to be somewhat thoughtful in picking the highest ROI integrations to build.

Currently, we only handle the investigation piece and suggest a remediation to the on-call engineer. But to properly move into automatically applying a fix, which we hope to do at some point, we’ll need to integrate into CI/CD

As for the demo example, I agree that the issue itself isn’t the most compelling. We used it as an example since it is easy to visualize and set up for a demo. The agent is capable of investigating more complex issues we've seen in our customer's production clusters, but we're still looking for a way to better simulate these on our test environment, so if you/anyone has ideas we’d love to hear them.

We do think this has more value for engineers/teams with less expertise in k8s, but we think SREs will still find it useful
The insurance companies are already using AI to generate denials, might as well use it to appeal them too.
Because money laundering, wage theft, tax evasion, and labor violations never happen, right?

Law being on the books does not resolve the central asymmetry here. Again, their full time job is bleeding you. You getting your rights asserted comes at the expense of your time.

Hell, when was the last time you got to negotiate a EULA with $BigCorp's legal group? Odds are, never.
Indeed, and that's what the EU would be solving with a local platform. They'd be in control of that new local platform, not Telegram.
Could you put them in a .sh file and then just run `sh setup_dewey.sh`? Maybe put `&&` between them so that if one fails, it won't keep running through the script?
I agree in some sense, but spirit of the law also creates very uneven playground and leaves a lot of questions. The way I see the problem, it takes way too long for us to legislate anything. By the time something passes different levels of approval, whoever has any skin in the game might figure out a way around it.

That happens a lot with finding loopholes in housing related legislations. If there is a proposal that would hurt investors, they lobby against it for a while, buying time to figure out an alternative method, and by the time it passes, they don’t really care because they’ve circumvented it anyways.

I see why it would also suck if we fast tracked most of the legislations though.
Congrats on finishing the book! 400 pages in 5 months is insane levels of productivity. I'm very jealous!
Same. I've used XMonad forever but 90% of the time I have single applications open full screen. I use XMonad's tabs feature heavily. So in one virtual desktop I have an editor and a few terminals which I tab between, then in another virtual desktop I do the same for web browsing, and another virtual desktop for comms.
Yes, it's not the common usage, but it's still a legit meaning according to the dictionary.

But the relevant point here is, that Youtuber has a channel about building and testing Hardware. I don't know whether he has any relation to farming, but considering the content I would think his intention was a wordplay on building, not farming.
Valhalla – Where Are We? [video]
They are doing something similar in central/south american to keep livestock from getting infected with screwworms
It says 800k/400k, but all his images are 800k. The filesystem may be different, but for diskcopy 4.2, it never made a difference. ( MFS vs hfs ). I am sure that for kryoflux, it does not make a difference either.

It does not show how kryoflux assists in recovery. They can be archived, and preserved, but not recovered. ( Just try the 800k ATM disk on archive.org )
>But very few non phd therapists practice evidence based medicine

That's a good point, although people don't seem happy to acknowledge it. In my metro area, the biggest providers of mental health services are aligned with religious organizations or outright promote themselves as offering religious based therapy. It's frustratingly hard to get evidence based treatment free from religious influence.
Really goes to show how consumer hostile these companies would be if regulation wasn't holding them back.
This is a good observation but one can argue that those devoted to themselves are a subset of those devoted to the organization (to further their goals, they act as being part of the second category, since that's the most profitable)
Feels good to see someone else who can't speak Haskell but struggles their way to a working xmonad config.

I really want to just move to wayland and get it over with, but the tiling wm options are slim. I want a dynamic tiling setup, so sway isn't it. I think hyperland can do something similar but I don't want the candy associated with it. I just need the smallest overhead to throw windows into tiles.
"But if you know AceMagic, it's probably because of their Mini PCs—or because of the malware that was discovered inside of some of its Mini PCs (AceMagic has responded to this)."

Oh good grief. This is exactly the type of thing that fuels my desire to never buy any of these unknown brands. Confirmation bias or whatever you want to call it, but all of these fly by night brands you find online like Amazon just have my spidey senses tingling every time I see them. Especially with their suspiciously low prices, I'm always wondering how they'll have me paying for it in the long run.
Help them out by scheduling the email to be sent during business hours?
If your concern is privacy, moving to Chinese services is not the answer.
Show HN: Handbook for better QA in organisation(s)
After a bunch of recruitment interviews (some good, some...rough on the QA front), I realized how much variation there is in how companies approach quality. So, I started building a theoretical (and I wish soon practical) guide on GitHub for establishing a quality-first engineering culture: https://github.com/403-html/the-qa-architecture-handbook

Have an idea for something I missed? Think I'm way off base? Jump into the repo and let's discuss it.

And no, it's not for personal roadmap, for this https://roadmap.sh/qa has been created.
What you described is the work of a scamming sales team, nothing less. Blame the right people, could you?
> Land acquisition costs were so high that it precludes building anything that can offer that <USD3000 a month price tag

"The median time for securing approval to build in San Francisco is 627 days" [1]. Land-development loans cost between 8 and 12% [2]. The financing cost alone of that delay thus adds 15 to 20% to the cost of any housing in San Francisco. At the median.

Add the risk of not getting approved and the cost of the lawyers and lobbyists and I wouldn't be surprised if these officials bump real estate costs by 50%.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-hou...

[2] https://eyeonhousing.org/2023/05/rates-on-development-and-co...
I tend to agree (gut feeling) that the claim holds true in tourism. But I wouldn't compare that to a software service, where people typically don't do evaluations and rate services on a completely different level.
Even the slightest level of effort to be involved as a citizen would be a good start.
I agree that it’s very frustrating, but law is a language game between opposing parties. There is always going to be willful misinterpretation, because, well, sometimes people want incompatible things. If you add a spirit of the law TLDR, you’ll need a spirit of the spirit of the law, and so on.
I don't think many of the folks you refer to with cut their teeth on anything but Windows or Mac windowing environments.

I started my serious interactions with graphical computing in a debate about twm vs. vtwm vs. tvtwm vs. ctwm and what-not in the late 80s, early 90s. How do I want my applications arranged? Spatially? or by topic? Do I want indicators like "You have mail!" to be glued to my viewport, or in a particular virtual or topical location? blah blah blah.

You can make a case that it was time wasted to think about those things. But the folks who grew in MS Windows feel to me like a crowd unaware that they're wearing manacles, "unable to imagine" why someone would want to take them off.

I don't know how to succinctly communicate how much mental effort is consumed just arranging displays, on the occasions I need to work in a more mainstream windowing environment. It's a mental tax, and you're just used to paying it.
> The win of nice clean window separation, without giving up significant percentage of my display space to window decoration, is -profound-.

What does this have to do with a tiling window manager? I'd expect the app decides how to display window decoration, not the window manager. In fact I can confirm that right now since Chrome has different window decoration than say TextEdit. Also, scrollbars, macOS has them invisible by default so they don't take any space.

As for 2-up. Both Windows and Mac have shortcuts for that case
Where the theoretical max speed for Wifi 7 is something ludicrous, if I can only get 800 Mibps actual speed I'm not going to cry that hard. Wifi 6's max speed is also stupid fast compared to most consumer Internet connections.
It seems awfully paranoid to leap from “the protocol isn’t totally clear” to “do they think I believe everything on the internet?!”.

Read the bottle. Put it on. If you’re in an area prone to Lyme disease it’ll be far worse than any tiny degree of poison from bug spray.
This isn't right. O_NONBLOCK doesn't mean the pipe doesn't stall, it just means you get an immediate errno and don't block on the syscall in the kernel waiting and this is specific to the file description, for which a pipe has 2 independent ones. Setting O_NONBLOCK on the writer does not affect the reader.
If it did, this would break a ton of common use cases where pipelined programs are designed to not even know what is on the other side.

Not sure what printf has to do with, it isn't designed to be used with a non-block writer (but that only concerns one side). How will the reader being non-block change the semantics of the writer? It doesn't.

You can't set O_NONBLOCK on a pipe fd you expect to use with stdio, but that isn't unique to pipes. Whether the reader is O_NONBLOCK will not affect you if you're pushing the writer with printf/stdio.

(This is also a reason why I balk a bit when people refer to O_NONBLOCK as "async IO", it isn't the same and leads to this confusion)
It‘s a tradeoff: a real PaaS is more managed, fault tolerant, and scalable, Dokku is much less expensive, especially with multiple projects.

One server scales vertically and can serve a good number of projects and users. Huge spikes eg. due to attacks, lead to outages instead of runaway bills.
I want to love KDE, I really do, but I've grown to love gnome and os x's ability to have close, min, max buttons down in the toolbar for apps as that saves a significant amount of screen real estate. I tried out kde plasma for a while and just couldn't get past it.

Having said that, I did discover kde connect while using that, and I love that app! It's so nice for putting audio books on my phone and controlling playback
So both are exchanging trash. /s
Cops are using AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
I tried a pre-defined i3 with manjaro and I absolutely hated the experience. Tiling wms are very opinionated, and having it pre-installed means the typical ~/.config files are put elsewhere, with someone else's opinions, color schemes, etc.

It takes longer to undo it than to start fresh.
Can you share some details? I would unironically _love_ to see mosquitos made extinct, but I have no idea how that would affect the broader ecosystem and food chain.
This, 100%. An app that tells you the dryer is done is huge step down from a chime you can just hear. It makes the dryer more expensive, more difficult to use, and adds a whole separate piece of software (the app) that has nothing to do with drying clothes.

There are blenders being sold that act like they "don't know how" to make a smoothie unless you have an app and a recipe subscription. There's a whirring blade in the bottom of a bowl. You throw stuff in and turn it on. It doesn't need a recipe, much less an app to give you one!

The same goes for internet lightbulbs and other stuff. If you are running a huge hotel, sure, you need computerized property management. But for most folks, having the internet (with all its software and UI baggage) is a big minus in most products.
Retro Cracking and Art Underground
I've been looking for something like this. Could you tell me which phone this is?
Cave lions went extinct 13,000 years ago, and it’s generally thought that was due to change in climate, not humans.
Lay Your Own Sod
Since the vast majority of Americans are on health insurance plans provided to them by their employers as part of their compensation, fighting insurance claim denials is morally equivalent to fixing payroll or expense report errors.
Framework is 4:2.666.
The experiments trying to do that failed
>That would instantly lead to the EU having to double their spending

Not going to happen. This will result in partitioning of Ukraine and non-aligned status of it. It is a satisfactory outcome for everyone in the West in such circumstances. That war is already lost by everyone except EU, so whatever is American strategy there, it won’t do much harm.
It's a neat concept, but after 2 rounds I have almost no idea what is going on. It doesn't help that I apparently know nothing at all about LoTR or The Beatles, so my answers are basically all, "I have no idea."

Unfortunately I think if you made this into a fun multiplayer game, you would just have reinvented Among Us.
You're trying to be clever about guns, but a less car-centric or car-dependent society generally has lower mortality from automobiles.
In short, it's because of Epstein. Gate's is a filthy person and Buffett ain't cool with disgusting humans.
Open source doesn't imply "everyone can contribute" at all. The most famous example is perhaps SQLite, which is fully open source (even in the public domain) but contributions are not welcome.
> Have you paid attention to the percentage of wages required for a unit nationally? In your area?

Roommates.
It's silly in English too. Perhaps some British readers might be familiar with the name and its history/origins, but for most English readers, I suspect, it just sounds a bit silly, like he has a very tall butt.
Taxes on vacant rental units means they'll be sold sooner, and increases the odds they'll be sold to an occupant instead of a speculator. I am a capitalist above basically anything else but that sounds great to me (and I already own a home and will likely never move again).

> Almost everyone I know who purchases houses/apartments to rent them would get out of the business if vacancies were taxed

Yes, you've successfully articulated the point. In an actual free market where supply can be added easily with minimal headache, buying an asset to rent it back is perfectly fine. In something like the housing marketing, buying a home specifically to rent it out is bad whether it's one unit or one thousand because supply is already artificially constrained. The end of that line is BlackRock buying up thousands of homes and materially hurting Americans. The fact that some random person with a few million in inheritance can make money in the interim is irrelevant.

> but a lot of houses would also go out of circulation, because these people often buy distressed homes that banks won't give a loan on - and they renovate them, bring them up to code, etc.

It's pretty easily to exclude vacant homes with open permits that are actively being renovated or with 203(k) loans, or to provide revenue-neutral tax breaks. This is a legitimate criticism but it means you address the criticism, it doesn't mean the original goal is bad or impossible.

> There are ways to do this that may not be popular. The main one would be to remove fixed interest mortgages.

We should definitely remove fixed-interest mortgages for non-owner occupied purchases.
Time to make the move to OTel with an Observability backend like https://www.kloudmate.com (or any other APM of choice) and get most of the stuff done for a fraction. The big Dog has dictated terms for far too long.
> labor violations

The NLRB will work to represent your interests. They are doing their job. Go to them if you have a dispute to resolve.
That seems unusable on a plane? Yea, you can use it in tablet mode but you can't work unless you extend the monitor out of your seat area right?
Secret sauce is not a technical one, but rather organizational. Pushing back against product/marketing/management to timely address the tech debt is vital for a product quality. As opposed to always sprinting to implement new features.
My Pixel 6 Pro just started making a sound anytime I take a screenshot. There's no way to turn it off[0].

I don't care about the de-Googling as much but I'm considering wiping to something freer, maybe Lineage OS. How destructive is that going to be?

[0] It doesn't do it when I take a picture with the camera (mCameraSoundForced=false) and I'm in a country where that would be unnecessary anyway.
Tree mortality may lead to carbon tipping point in the Amazon by 2050s
> When they hack the server they can read the life of 900,000,000 telegram users. It's that simple.

[Edit: undo blunder]

I have now come to realize (based on [1]) that Telegram's platform was not secure by default, nullifying my arguments here. This discussion has also led me to question the viability of one of my own projects, as it, too, encrypts at disadvantageous points in the pipeline. Hmmm. Sorry for my mistakes here!

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
How about the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis?