skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've completed the draft of Part 1 of my online book "Automated Agents: How effective chatbots work"

I'm writing about my experience building a chatbot at a startup as engineer #1. It started as a blog post, but I had so much more to say. This is the information I wish I had before getting started. A lot of information on the web is about building a wrapper around LLMs, this is one that we built ourselves and were able to resolve millions of customer issues with.

You can follow along on github: https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book
Turtle graphics is one of the "batteries" included with Python; I used Python with the turtle library to introduce my nephew to some of the basics of programming a few years ago. Even got to show him function definitions by first coding each instance of a repeated part of the picture separately, and then saying "Now this is what programmers call 'refactoring'" and then pulling the repeated bit out into a function with different call sites and parameters.

He was excited enough about it to want to learn about robotics and aspire to be a programmer for Mars rovers and the like.
> At this point, an x86 Android image will be better and more reliable. Somewhat just as fast.

I'm pretty sure the overhead for something like Windows Subsystem Android is a few percentage points max, assuming the video card supports the proper OpenGL subsystem (so doesn't require software fallbacks). In fact, given that most x86 laptop CPUs and GPUs offer much more performance than most phone ARM chips, it's basically a moot point. The big problem is finding packages built universally or specifically for x86 (not sure what the status is for WSA on Windows ARM, but that could be an option too).

I'm still waiting for the day Linux offers something similar. Or FreeBSD does something similar to their Linux ABI compatibility.

Edit: looks like WSA is being ended in early 2025:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

Due to not being able to integrate a store and make revenuue:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/here...

What a shame.
I think this is an important enough quality that betrays that there are no two minds here creating 1+1=3.

One cheap trick to overcome this uncanny valley may be to actually use two separate LLMs or two separate contexts / channels to generate the conversations and take "turns" to generate the followup responses and even interruptions if warranted.

Might mimic a human conversation more closely.
That’s shockingly high.
As somebody that has been literate for decades, I can’t even fathom how you would survive. Or if that’s taken care of, how would you entertain yourself?
Criticism: This is going to suck. Too much of my time, that is. This is super cool, thank you for doing this!
I wonder to what extent the questions on this test indicate deep knowledge of the many subjects covered, vs. just following precisely those facts taught in the year's curriculum. Clearly students were expected to memorize a lot of different things by rote, but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't much beyond what's covered by these questions.
At least in Finnish I’ve seen some, not often but they are there.
Thank you. Can you please elaborate? I think your question will help me think this through again.

I came to the file versioning conclusion after speaking to a few folks in this space who I want to help.

The common issues that kept coming up are around organization and accountability. In existing systems like Finder/File Explorer (and G Drive, One Drive, other cloud storage) we are prompted to Keep/Replace files. In some existing SaaS these folks use, it has neither versioning nor keep/replace prompts. It just uploads the same file name again and confuses users.

When users upload a new version of a file, with some new changes, people often rename arbitrarily, or accidentally replace, and it is hard to enforce process.

Using versioning will help them stay organized (tidier workspace), show them what changes and who made them, and finally help them trace back if need be.

These are files dealing with designs, permits, drafts, etc. Mostly PDFs, but sometimes doc or excel files as well.
sent you mail,
I would love to be associated with this project. I was looking for a solution for some time, at least one which allows to restrict the content from the main youtube. Youtube kids app they have is a joke.
I know multiple instances where even with reciprocity agreements/treaties (if approved in USA/Europe by that jurisdiction's authority bodies it is auto approved in the other) Europe will still fail approval. I have not ran into the USA doing the same. Europe has a history of using it's authority bodies to pick European winners.
We spent an unfortunatley long time blaming fat people for being fat, which lead to an underinvestment in metabolic research. We're in the early stages of breaking this puzzle and it's fascinating. (No. I maintain a healthy weight to a fault, forgetting to eat if I miss exercise and gaining little weight irrespective of diet.)
You actually don't have to rebuild anything in Factorio. That's your personal decision.
I cant access the github repo for some reason
I think that the person was talking about image generation models.

Even the best of existing image generation models often spell words hilariously wrong when asked to generate an image containing text.
I am working on a couple of things.

- An open version of strongDM/teleport for privileged access management. I am currently testing it out in my org and plan to release the source soon.
- I also run a free HTTPS and TCP tunnel which gets a few users daily (https://webrelay.dev)
Yes, but I think that it can stand as an answer to the OP regardless of the techniques status as useful for particular domains
Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to get it right
I mean, theoretically...
100,000 Einsteins in your basement would be amazing. You'd have major breakthroughs in many fields. But at some point the gains will be marginal. All the problems solvable by shear intellectual labor will run dry, and you'll be blocked on everything else.
I'm hacking away on something I've built recently to improve the native "Publish to Web" feature from Google Docs.

Essentially I'm grabbing the document's content and re-rendering it with a full-page background colour and better mobile support.

Link: https://voltdocs.com
Thanks, that fixed the resolution issue! I also had to give it access to the dbus system socket and wayland for it to work. Wasn't sure how to do that but the flatseal app made it easy.
> Making Bluetooth 10% more energy efficient in the next few revisions is a terrible example because you absolutely cannot just tackle that by yourself. Not because it's technically hard, but because it's actually a people problem in disguise!

I know a person who 2x'ed BTLE transfer speeds by herself by coming up with a new protocol to talk to iPhones w/o the need for one of Apple's security chips.

Sufficient brainpower can do amazing things.
I am building a kanji learning webapp (soon to be a PWA) using open dictionary data, indexeddb, and vue.

https://shodoku.app/

It is almost feature complete, but good enough for my private use, as I’m using it my self to study kanji. I have maybe a three or four more weekends until it is completely finished, with dark-mode, data backups, input by radicals, etc.
Why the Creator of One of the First Lie Detectors Lived to Regret His Invention
So, like NAT punching? A rendezvous server for both the parties to communicate so they can establish a connection?
My dumb guy take on it: suppose we build a human-level AGI and it turns out to be limited by compute and memory. Those being limiting factors don’t seem at all far-fetched to me; it seems unlikely that the first real-time AGI will be mostly idling its CPUs. So then wait 18 months and run that same program on a machine that’s this year’s model plus a Moore’s Law doubling. You’ve probably got ASI. Right?
It may be contrived, but it still highlights the key difference.

Even if sneeze was a word that you were taught once in school and hadn't used for 30 years, you would still likely get close to the correct spelling from the sound (sneaze, snease, sneeze), and seeing the misspelling also helps with recall and to self correct.

This is the "virtual circle" of speaking/listening -> reading -> writing -> referred to by the author, which is not possible with Chinese.

It's true that there are some weird non-phonetic English words that PhDs would likely misspell, but it's not 100% of the language and you still could at least make an attempt.

It's possible to just write Chinese in phonetic form (e.g. pinyin), which bypasses this issue, but you have a secondary problem, which is the extremely narrow range of syllables (~400 * 4/5 tones = 1600-2000), resulting in quite ambiguous text.
Are you getting offended on behalf of an "AI"? Seriously mate?
Unrelated to the technical merits (but perhaps inline with justmedep's observation [0]), but the name can be contentious.

I see no explanation of the name on the site in the documentation, but there would be two origins that come to mind immediately:

- The japanese (romanized) spell of "bloomer", the garment, which is a well known cultural artifact, also famous in the manga/anime circles. It was removed from public school decades ago and stays in public's consciousness as an attire to wear mainly for porn, gravures etc.

- the DragonBall character named after the garment.

None of these two feel right in a corporate setting, and while a project name isn't everything, there's a myriad of other similar pojects out there with more recognition so the competition is tough.

It could enough for it to be only ever seriously checked in companies that are already past the point they care about any public image.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967064&goto=item%3Fid...
Im sorry you didn’t catch the underlying meaning of my statement. Anybody unable to form an opinion on their own I don’t wish they have the ability to vote.
Letters by Oliver Sacks review
I was thinking more of the situation where you have two services running in an HA configuration. It seems that the only way to make this work would be to share the database file on NFS (but I can see downsides with that as well since this only really approximates a file system). I think a single replica service backed by cluster attached storage would generally work ok. I guess that is what most people are doing.
One thing I would like to see is an algorithm based on expressed rather than revealed preferences.

De-jargoned, that means clicking the like button means I want to see more things like that, and the dislike button means I don't want to see things like that. If I watched something all the way through, but clicked the dislike button, that means I don't want to see things that produced a similar response from people who tend to react the way I do.

This kind of algorithm is not going to increase watch time over the short term, and might not over the long term either, which makes it unlikely to be adopted by any for-profit service.
Someone built this! https://railforless.us
The Balkans of 112 years ago did not look like the Balkans of today (for starters, Serbia no longer borders Turkey), and countries' spelling changes over time. For example, Turkey now desires that English-speaking people use Türkiye instead.

But maybe it's too much to ask of modern Americans to understand that spellings of proper nouns can and do change over time.
It didn't occur to me to ask; I was staying in a youth hostel that was something like $20/night (maybe less). In any case, the way the USARail pass worked, you had to reserve individual tickets to each destination you wanted to travel to. (You could reserve them spontaneously, which is what I did.) Since I didn't have a ticket at the time to a particular destination (just a generic USARail pass), technically they weren't at fault for failing to fulfill a particular obligation.
It depends, but it's not uncommon to completely forget the entire character. If you sort of remember it, then the muscle memory in your hands often helps to finish the character correctly once you start, at least that's what I've found and heard from others.
Lots of press are declining to endorse. This is a trend.

It’s generally harmless for high-visibility elections. But these endorsements are both powerful and essential for lower-visibility elections.
The small cones, you're probably right (once you factor in all of the fixed costs). But, the $5 McFlurry... definitely!
Honestly, this is where one of the old cliches of go where your heart takes you, works really well. Your heart will tell you if you need to volunteer or start a business or do something else. And you should listen to it, probe it a little bit and see why it wants that.
You noticed how you labeled the alternative to your choice as a dictator? I did.

The solution is to remove parties and make people think for themselves. But I do agree focusing on the extremists is counterproductive. That’s why I’m an independent, to forcefully remove bias.
The very next sentence is: "However, many freight railroads ignore the law because it is extremely difficult for Amtrak to enforce it, and as a result, people and the American economy suffer."

This entire page is an attempt by Amtrak to explain why the trains are always waiting for freight traffic. I've taken the train many times, and they yield to freight traffic for hours every trip.
I read it as "bulimia" – an eating disorder. It shouldn't matter, in a technical sense, but unfortunately I think people's associations with names does taint their view of the product. Cross-language issues are the most obvious, but it happens everywhere.
I doubt that they're faster than pinyin. With pinyin you can type e.g. 'wmdl' and instantly enter '我们到了'.
Grasshopper tab manager for firefox.

Currently it has 688 settings and 485 commands.

I think it's a good foundation for something great.

https://addons.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
It does have a tendacy to meander or spend too time reflecting on a topic instead of distilling the details. However the new ability to add a prompt improves this greatly.

Some instructions that worked for me:

- Specifics instead of high level

- Approach from non-critical perspective

- Dont be philosophical

- Use direct quotes often

- Focus on the details. Provide a lesson, not reflections

- Provide a 'sparknotes' style thorough understanding of the subject
No, Americans.

Europeans were the ones that drove us away using things like threats of death, actual death/murder/vigilantly sprees/burning our homes/crops, creating mass starvations, etc. all because our families were of the wrong faith or ethnic background according to the Europeans.

People that had no fall back, who had traveled across a very hostile ocean, and lost plenty of loved ones in the process, and were determined to carve out a life for themselves in a European centric world that had shown itself up to that point very much against them. Americans that were determined to keep that government power/tyranny of the majority that had been used to murder/opress/expel them in check.

American's had/have a much different attitude than 'European'. There's a reason many of us think of it as a pretty museum not a place to emulate. Europe didn't want us. Funny how Europe is so quick to forget this bit of our 'common' bond.
Ask HN: Looking for Feedback on a Guide
Looking for some fresh eyes to take a look at this guide, its the first part of a series for building an AI Podcast using a framework that I author.
I'd steer clear from comparing countries based on Functional Illiteracy because the US is the only country that officially uses that definition and consistently collects data about this - which is good, because it is a forcing function for us to worker harder at solving functional illiteracy as well.

That said, Germany's functional illiteracy rate is estimated to be comparable to the US [0]

It's a similar story with PISA as well - most other countries use it as a dick measuring contest by testing at gifted schools, but the NCES tries to randomize PISA testing in order to actually benchmark subnational performance and identify laggards.

[0] - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-31821-001
https://www.voxtodo.com
App that generates subtasks from high level tasks. Useful for chunking which is a concept of breaking down highly complex tasks into their atomic bits. Made this for my HS Junior son who has a medical diagnosis of ADHD
The whole idea sounds pretty insane really. Who's going to pay hundreds of dollars for a battery-powered kettle just so they can save 1-2 minutes of time (and less if you're just making enough boiling water for 1 cup). I use a little 100V (900W I think, according to the label) kettle to make tea, either 1 or 2 cups at a time, and while it's certainly not as speedy as those EU/UK market kettles, and a bit slower than a US kettle, it's fast enough.

A battery-powered one might save me 1 minute of time at best, but will cost probably at least 5-10x as much for the kettle, it'll be MUCH larger than my current kettle (that battery pack and power electronics needs space) which is a problem with my tiny kitchen, and I have to worry about how long the battery will last and how to dispose of it later and if I can even replace it.

This is really a solution in search of a problem.
My own spiking neural network in everyones favourite language to hate (JS). Purely for fun & curiosity.
And? Git is "idiot" in British parlance. I don't think software should be made to appease some false idea of corporate politeness.
A llm backend fantasy game. It uses structured output and supports Openai, Anthropic and LM Studio. Gemini support is ending, at the moment it is not working reliable.
https://github.com/HabermannR/Fantasy-Tribe-Game
ScrollHub - https://hub.scroll.pub

In <1 second get:

[x] Live website

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No signup. Just build.
you still need to be on linux-zen kernel to make this work.

I use wayland but I am interested in atl as well
For anyone wanting interesting YT videos for their kids (and not wanting to take anything away from OP's project), I highly highly recommend thekidshouldseethis.com. It's basically a curated stream of cool videos, and I would feel totally safe letting my daughter browse it alone (she never does because we usually watch them together, but the curation is that good). Videos on all sorts of topics, and good enough to be really entertaining for both kids and adults - I can spend an evening there easily. They also have a really fantastic gift guide.
> I'm still waiting for the day Linux offers something similar.

Waiting? Waydroid is several years old at this point, and you've always been able to run Android in a VM via either Google's official device emulator in the SDK or just running https://www.android-x86.org/ et al. in whatever hypervisor you prefer.
A better example than sneeze might be diarrhoea. In Chinese this is very easy - 拉肚子 - but I'm sure there are English speakers who might forget the spelling for diarrhoea if they're having a bad day.
continual learning api, attention entropy sampling API. enabling a low performing LLM to actually be able to be instructed to perform competent task instruction related capabilities.
If you're talking about Tailwind, this is nothing like that. This is a set of pre-built components, not unlike Bootstrap. You just use the components they offer, instead of having to manually code up a drop-down from scratch for each new website you create.
Many of the little generic MP3 player modules that cost next to nothing will play MP3 (obviously) and WAV, and sometimes OGG and WMA, but AAC support is relatively rare.
Any research on the effect of visual clutter in UI design/screens?
There is no such thing as a global method in Ruby
Not a chance

I can't even read it on my small phone screen and I'll be d*mned if I have to zoom in
this could be used in linux phones as well I suppose (waydroid requires linux-zen which just adds friction imo)

Though I like waydroid very much , I also really like this idea of having android apps as flatpak applications which I can install rather easily without having to configure to install a custom kernel and do 10 more different things (like maybe adding play store if app is not available) (a arm implementation if app isn't working)

lets hope that it works better than that and gives a plug n play experience
As mentioned in another comment, English has its share of words like that too. For example I'm sure diarrhoea can catch people out.

And how many people drink an espresso every day and think it has an x in it.

I knew plenty of elite students who would make classic English blunders like "expresso" or "pacifically"
Great news for Pinephone users!
This year I started subscribing to a 4-times-weekly newspaper and monthly magazine, both on paper. No tracking, no blinking ads, I can take a break from a screen, and I think I remember the content better.
I'm trying to prevent anyone from ever dropping a table in production again or executing a delete without a where clause.

https://github.com/kviklet/kviklet

Essentially a PR review flow for production access, which allows you to enforce a second pair of eyes workflow. I was always a bit scared when I was on call and had all the power in my finger tips to ruin everyone's day. I think this helps alleviate the risk of human error significantly. Also helps with compliance of course.
There's a related paper from Chen & Chuang (2008), Experience with a computer word-entry method in processing Chinese characters by fluent typists ( https://escholarship.org/content/qt2s84m9t0/qt2s84m9t0.pdf) that has an unsurprising finding: If you type with a phonology-based input method, you can more easily recall (transcribe) a character by its sound. If you type with an orthography-based input method, you can more easily recall it by sight.
Making my data extraction Saas (https://simplescraper.io) more LLM friendly.

Markdown extraction, improved Google search, workflows - search for this terms, visit the first N links, summarize etc. Big demand for (or rather, expectation of) this lately.
Very impressive work. Are you still able to proceed with operating your lab despite the injunction passed against you for theft of trade secrets? [1]

[1] https://www.sideman.com/ronald-fisher-and-ellen-leonida-achi...
Hyphanet is great but requires some basic skills and hardware for running. Using Nostr with Primal as a client works exceptionally well as a Twitter alternative. It's privacy-respecting, censorship-resistant, and truly an outstanding tool. I'm grateful it exists to counter the current wave of regulatory overreach threatening free speech, even in Western countries.
This was a rather underwhelming experience. All the typing I did seemed to just be click bait headlines and no substance.
All value comes from labor. Having access to a lot of labor (capital), much more than you can produce, puts you ahead.
To quote a wise hackernewsian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916279
I would honestly be astonished if a 4 English department PhD students who were all native speakers of English could all not spell onomatopoeia. I’d expect 2 of the 4 could in the absolute worst case.

Spelling is simply not as hard as remembering hanzi, even in English.