skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're ALL bullshit and there's a technical reason why.

Your rube goldberg contraption that you put together for your borderline-fradulent pitch deck is NOT an assembly-line nor is it a product anyone's gonna buy. Why?

Because cosine similarity search mathematically sucks a* , large context windows, while better, are nowhere close to being fast and practical ( maybe with a small exception of the generic sounding 1M context summaries you now get from gemini flash 2.0 exp ) . You probably don't have any kind of CI/CD setup, no testing at all zero, no benchmarking of accuracy, you probably can't even get lm_eval installed in the first place so no troubleshooting methodoloy, no formal iteration pipeline, you're not putting out a new model every 2 weeks and iterating upon, and YOU at this point probably can't find your own way to your own fkin toilet seat without Cursor's GPS showing your where it is and then writing a whole factory just to open the toilet seat.

You look at the youtube demos and it's just another investor slop to be sold to other sloppy investors. I even asked on uncle Elons twitter if anyone had a demo of agents doing anything in real life, and after 1/4million views the only thing that even worked AT ALL were spambots and Pliny's agent making a sh*tcoin. https://x.com/nisten/status/1808522547169763448

People cook something at home and immediately get delusional thinking they now have an assembly line that's just going to print money... have you ever actually looked at an industrial pasta-maker machine. Do YOU have the skills to make that? I'm sorry but no ammount of shrooms and microdosed-meth pills is gonna get you that.

Agents do not exist yet, they will sooner or later, but right now they're a concept more along the lines of scammy ledger-backed dbs.

You can always prove me wrong with a real life demonstration of an automated tool doing a complex ammount of steps that you'd normally expect an average-ish worker to do for you on a RELIABLE rate basis. I.E. Doing your taxes like your accountant or 10 year old hopefully does.
Maps showing sunrise times across the US and state-by-state
Better late than never, I have 3 of their bulbs in the house, and not being able to integrate with HA prevented me from buying more (at least before Matter was announced).

I've been using them with Google Home, so the lights weren't automated with HA. I'll try the integration out.
A massive unmentioned bullet point in this rant is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Stuff is literally designed to stop working while also being financially unrealistic to even salvage and sell for parts.
Go's Weird Little Iterators
> EU does nothing

HN: aha look at these losers they never do anything

> EU does thing

HN: aha look at these losers they're doing something we already did
> So we know that WaitForSingleObject is where the majority of CPU time should be spent during normal operation, and we can dismiss anything that appears in this first list as not the source of the problem.

This heuristic might have worked this time but I don't think it's great in general. System functions can be used for many different purposes and even the same use might be fine in one place and a bug in another. For example the game could have been unintentionally vsyncing many times during the loading process, i.e. to update a progress bar. And no, that's not a purely hypothetical scenario.
Do you mean via irresponsible energy policies or something else?
> Worse are the meeting summaries

These can be quite _funny_, sometimes, but they're certainly not useful, yeah.
Breaking things isn't ideal, but it's not the worst. What's truly problematic is when everything appears to be functioning perfectly, while underlying issues go unnoticed—exactly the situation in this story.
It's the Land Rover of home automation systems.

(Very capable, but also making programmers out of home owners since 2012)

edit: I was referring to a sticker that I’ve seen often on enthusiasts' forum posts 'Land Rover - Proudly turning owners into mechanics since 1948'.

The old school Defender is a very capable off road vehicle, but its need for regular unscheduled maintenance is legendary.

Greetings from a Toyota HZJ80 driver :)
I Think Nextcloud Is Shit
yeah, once (one meal) per week.
IMO there is no advantage to having "community" notes taken of a meeting: I take my own notes about decisions made in the meeting that I care about, and items I need to take care of. Therefore, every meeting I'm in has notes taken, though no one else is even aware (unless they are taking their own, which I assume many are). I think this is relatively common (since I can't see how one can function in most knowledge work without some version of this) so I would assume that you probably are in meetings where notes are taken, even if you never see them.
Where did you get the idea that "LLM connected to tools" is the one true meaning of the term agents?

(I'm not trying to be accusatory here, just trying to understand how these opinions spread.)
Google has certainly gone downhill, but after trying to use Perplexity a couple months ago after a friend espoused how great it was, I quickly gave up on it. I was mostly using it to figure out specific technical terms related to architecture. Google was feeding me so much SEO'ed crap from random construction companies that just repeated the same stuff.

At first Perplexity seemed great, even providing links to the the sources it was drawing its answers from. But after the fifth or so time of not finding the terms it was claiming as real in any of its cited sources, I gave up. And the sources it was citing weren't even particularly good, just the same ones Google was surfacing.

Since everything could just be a hallucination, I was wasting even more time using it than Google. And even when Perplexity isn't hallucinating, I still can't just how trustworthy its sources are without clicking on them, which is another huge problem with searches like that. The context the information is presented in matters as much as the information itself.
Modeling microstructures: new OSS code improves safety and performance of manu
So you never work in teams with other people again?
Or the person you're replying to is overly generalizing a very large diverse community after extrapolating a few bad experiences.
Lasers and Feelings Roleplaying Game
Design docs are great for high-level orientation. If you are laying out all your code structure around it, you are doing it wrong. It's great to use the for what patterns will be used (using a facade pattern for example). It gives eng's a guide to how to implement at a high level and it should identify points of non-functional requirements; speed requirements, monitoring, security, etc. Throwaway code doesn't even touch on that. It should also put in scope some of the architecturally significant decisions that need to be made. While throwaway/prototype code can address some of that, it doesn't always identify it and talk about _why_ it is important.

In short, doing both is the best thing you can do and you should scope your design docs correctly.
TL;DR: https://www.perplexity.ai and it's not better
Advanced Essay
There is a very simple and obvious definition: it's agentic if it uses tool calls to accomplish a task.

This is the only one that makes sense. People want to conflate it with their random vague conceptions of AGI or ASI or make some kind of vague requirement for a certain level of autonomy, but that doesn't make sense.

An agent is an agent and an autonomous agent is an autonomous agent, but a fully autonomous agent is a fully autonomous agent. An AGI is an AGI but an ASI is an ASI.

Somehow using words and qualifiers to mean different specific things is controversial.

The only thing I will say to complicate it though is if you have a workflow and none of the steps give the system an option to select from more than one tool call, then I would suggest that should be called an LLM workflow and not an agent. Because you removed the agency by not giving it more than one option of action to select from.
This realization is what I see as the key difference between a junior developer and a senior developer. It's kind of fascinating that a junior developer became a founder. This kind of real-world learning experience is awesome and is one of the advantages to working for a startup - you simply grow faster.
The web plus Windows 95 were a major force bringing both new people into computing and pushing upgrades: the rapid pace of new standards displacing old technology in use rather than picking up a slice at the top of the market and slowly expanding share in use didn't really start until then.
Many of the best engineers that I have worked with over the years have a discerning constitution which seems to innately allow them to identify high quality software, which is essentially a matter of taste.

The problem is that this disposition is not the norm for a technician, which is why I tend to prefer hiring and training engineers that are artistic, creative, and obsessive.
Are people really balancing load based on simple cpu utilization for non-trivial services? That seems really surprising to me, but they present it as the current best practice?
> Ask it questions about accounting, other domains it knows

Be very careful here if you're using it for anything important! LLMs are quite good at answering questions about accounting in ways which are superficially convincing-looking, yet also complete nonsense. "But the magic robot told me it was okay" will not fly in a tax audit, say.
SQL is the best tool for this
They estimate what load will be in the future too.
What about this is a surprising result? Optimize as directly as possible for load balancing the thing(s) that matter most to your users (e.g. latency), not the thing that indirectly correlates to the thing(s) that matter (CPU Utilization). I've been making this exact argument at work for a while.

Funny to read this article today, just after myself and two others at work also just saved the company we work at far more than our combined expected lifetime gross earnings with a single (different) optimization.
Of course, and they're still working hard at it: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00217...

With allies like that....
I used to think Perplexity was terrible, then I fixed my settings and I love it.

Key settings to adjust:

* Always use "Pro mode" searches

* Set the model to 3.5 sonnet in settings

Once you do those two things, you'll have a good time and after a week you'll dread going back to google.
Love that. Reminds me of a time I was asked to build a "machine learning algorithm" driven recommendation system... and eventually I realized that delivering a recommendation system based on one big BM25 search query was fine, and the people asking for it to use "machine learning" didn't actually understand or care about the difference.
>What do you mean by that?

Varied and novel to the programmer. If you're doing the same thing day in and day out it probably isn't much use. If you're like many programmers and you're jumping between libraries and languages and platforms and APIs and domains and spheres, it's immensely helpful.

>doing mainstream, well-trodden work for which a company’s/project’s/domain’s inside knowledge isn’t needed

A core disconnect in this discussion is that many people seem to be arguing from the position of "I tried to generate whole solutions with these tools and it failed, so it's useless".

Everything is well-trodden. One of the commentators in here, who declares themselves a unique snowflake where these tools are useless, does "sockets with encryption and messaging", which is some of the most well-trodden ground in this domain. Everything is glue. Everything is a lot of relatively simple things strung together. And for all of those, portions are helped and accelerated with these tools.
I would recommend you take a peak outside your window and see what the USA government is doing to it's people and the peoples all around the world.
>I am so interested in this submission (based on the title), but that's such a big wall of text, even the LOTR trilogy looks more manageable

I came here before clicking the link and was all set to be like "just read it" but it really does seem designed to be as unreadable as possible, both the layout and colors and the writing itself. I'm sure he's probably writing for an existing audience, but even the writing doesn't seem to be design to draw the reader in or be particularly accessible for people who aren't already primed to read it.
Are Land Rovers extra hackable? Will be in need of a new car in a few years and that would help o.0
Because of mass-market economics, it makes (almost) no difference to the vendor whether the TV is smart or not. So just buy a smart-TV and don't connect it to the internet. It's that simple. Oh, and also, don't forget to live in the EU so you can refuse those contracts that add mandatory data collection.

I have documented how you can use an LG TV and disable its obnoxious "Hi LG" feature without giving it internet access: https://social.treehouse.systems/@Aissen/111267905868798609
What is MIoT that is mentioned? I know IoT is internet of things.
It's fantastic - I read very little book length non-fiction (because I largely read books in bed to relax, 10k+ word essays or entire documentation sites are a different matter), but it was gripping, thoughtful, beautiful, and so, so much worth it.

It made enough of an impression on a subset of the users that I believe the free-to-access cyber1 system is still going and has (just) enough people on it to retain some of the social aspects.
Similarly, stopping an alarm in another room/on another device doesn’t seem possible without Siri having to ask back about the device/room, and the user having to affirm it. That back and forth takes an unnerving couple of seconds. You can’t just say “Stop the alarm in $room/on $device”. It gets worse when the device you talk to is simultaneously playing back something, because then you first have to stop that playback in order for Siri to not misapply the “stop” command intended for the alarm.
Trump to announce $100B SoftBank investment in the US
Actually, no, it is rational in this context. And until we realize that, and vote to ensure companies can't get to that point, this kind of business will keep happening. I will say it very clearly, companies do not care about people, they only care about money. That means rational moves all relate to money, not to the welfare of people and that is the point. We want to get mad and we want to be happy this happened because healthcare really is evil, but change will only happen when we attack the real problem, us. We keep acting irrationally. We keep voting in ways that are clearly not in our self interest. We keep believing that a company will act irrationally and do something 'good' that looses them money. Until we deeply understand that companies have zero interest in the outcomes of people unless they can make money off that outcome then this will keep happening.
speaker identification will be the next breakthrough in AI transcription. Correctly identifying speakers greatly improves the end user's perceived quality of the final transcription product.
AI chatbots as search interfaces will only exacerbate the current issues with google search. What I personally need is a search engine that actually returns me the documents containing my search term and respects the search operators I provide.
A Color for Every Day
Really cool! thanks for sharing.
> Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race...

Sometimes it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
How is that different from hiring a caregiver?
All currencies are built on trust. The reason the wildcat banking era failed was lack of trust. The reason various national currencies failed was never about resources, but lack of trust in the government behind the currency. The USD has been a very strong currency because it's backed by a stable government with a strong economy and has a stoutly independent central bank, which has built up enormous trust as a custodian of the currency.

I grant that the rhetoric of Bitcoin is about energy usage, but it doesn't work that way in practice. The most obvious use is the rise of Ethereum and its shift to proof of stake rather than proof of work. But there's plenty of other evidence. David Rosenthal has some good evidence there, like:

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/10/it-was-ten-years-ago-today.htm...

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/05/sufficiently-decentralized.htm...
They are apparently pro police but anti-FBI, which is basically the Federal Level police force in charge of finding corruption in politicians.

The problem here is it feels like Police for thee but not for me.
Builds character. Delayed gratification.

That and developers often conflate knowing how to construct UIs with how to design UIs. When lynx was first built, the difference in speed probably wasn’t that noticeable and people didn’t have the same expectations for responsiveness, so it didn’t matter, though times quickly changed.

I don’t know about that project specifically, but based on my experience trying to do design work in developer-controlled projects, maintainers and core users often convince themselves that some terrible user-hostile counter-intuitive UI— focused on graphically representing the API to the back end rather than using abstractions to solve the problems users actually want to solve— is the proper UI approach and if it doesn’t fit your use case, the problem is either you or your use case.
I expected a community open source project from the title, but reading the docs led me to the same conclusion: The website is about convincing you to buy one while discouraging you from attempting to build one.

It looks like a fun project. I don’t want to discount what has been designed and built. It is confusing to start reading about the project and discover that it’s more of a business than a community project while simultaneously being unavailable for purchase. The person who built it commented on HN that they’re focused on a 3rd different fan project right now, which brings the future of this project into question.

It would be great if a community effort could fork this project and work on making it easier to DIY so the community could push it forward.

EDIT: After exploring the files I’m not sure I’d even call this open source. I either can’t find some key files or they’re deliberately excluded. True open source projects would also include the CAD source, not only .STLs so others could adapt and modify the source. I think the open angle on this project is more marketing than substance.
Yes, decommissioning nuclear power plants while buying Russian oil, building pipelines to transit Russian gas even while they were invading neighboring nations.
A Chinese Internet Phrasebook
I had to disable it on my 16 Pro the other day.

My phone was freezing or rebooting at least once per day and on a whim I disabled Intelligence. Since then I've had zero problems.

I wasn't even using it much. So whatever it does in the background must have a memory leak or something.
One of the advantages Dymola had a few years ago was an extremely advanced vehicle dynamics toolbox, to the point where it is considered a standard for NASCAR [1]. This is one of the tool's originating claims to fame circa 2015-19 when I was bringing it into a previous employer in the automotive industry. For some applications that are "first class", you will have a great experience with Dymola. Where they have filled in the blanks in toolboxes, however, you are likely not a cut above other tools.

[1] https://www.claytex.com/applications/motorsport/
Sounds awesome. :D For real, the anecdote is hilarious and I find it easy to believe but also sounds cool what you are working on.
Invasion of Europe by Russia? Last time I checked, Ukraine was not in Europe any more than Russia is.
Buying Russian gas.
Show HN: Storecraft is a next-gen Commerce-As-Code back end (self-hosted)
Hi , Storecraft is a next generation Commerce As Code javascript backend.

run on any javascript platform (deno, bun, node, workers, aws-lambda, google-functions), serverless / serverful

connect to any database (mongo, sqlite, postgres, mysql, neon, turso, d1, planetscale)

use storage (local, r2, s3 compatible, google and more)

It is extensible and modular

It is event based

Boasts an official Dashboard

Well documented REST-API (can also be found in your /api/reference endpoint)
Yes it does, but even this version is not the quick "what goes around, comes around" what people casually think karma is, or what media like /r/instantkarma reinforces (albeit playfully).
I include this when considering buying something integrated.

For example Philips Hue is overpriced, but their Home Assistant integration is top tier and ultra-reliable. Contrast that with myQ garage door openers (LiftMaster, Chamberlain and Craftsman) recently breaking Home Assistant support on purpose, to essentially replace it with nothing, and they're dead to me.

So Xiaomi adding support, assuming it is reliable, definitely moves them into a better category.
you're describing Kagi
It's actually stranger than that. The legal cryptocurrencies are often worse than the ones that lack respectability. Take for example, Greyscale's Chainlink Trust. It would be hard to find a more respectable cryptocurrency investment, yet I did some analysis of it about a year ago, and concluded they were selling Chainlink to their customers at approximately 8x the price on Coinbase[1]. Chainlink isn't likely to pull an 8x an time soon, and even if it does, trust investors wouldn't see the benefit, because Greyscale can simply seize those gains. There are two one could think of this in traditional market terms:

1. You can think of Greyscale as an arbitrageur between on-chain Chainlink and trust shares, where they'll be trying to purchase Chainlink at times when the difference between on-chain Chainlink and trust Chainlink is maximized.

2. You could also think of Greyscale as being able to print "shares". They can't print shares for free (i.e. they are legally obligated to purchase on-chain Chainlink) but they control the supply part of the supply:demand ratio. They can simply purchase on-chain Chainlink when the supply:demand ratio for trust Chainlink is higher than on-chain Chainlink, which takes money from trust Chainlink investors by diluting their shares. In theory the market will trend toward rational (i.e. eventually on-chain and trust Chainlink will trend toward a value that is equal, adjusted for the value of legal integration) but until that happens Greyscale is positioned as the only player that can take advantage of that temporary irrationality.

Cryptocurrency has always been an application of caveat emptor where the caveats can be hidden in the code or the economics, or both, but with the integration into the legal system, it's now possible for cryptocurrencies with solid code and economics to scam the public with legal caveats.

The average person was always at a disadvantage with cryptocurrencies, but I fear with the addition of legal respectability, even someone like myself who can read the code and has a solid understanding of economics can no longer be sure of my crypto investments.

I'm finding lately that options trading has the same high variance (high upside potential is why I wanted into crypto investing), without a lot of the parts I don't like. Particularly, I'm doing it with my Roth IRA money so even taxes are easy.

[1] These numbers have almost certainly changed since I did this analysis--I know HNers like to correct people, but consider that before you correct me here.
In addition to being sold out; I’d like to support color.
Earlier notable thread in 2022, 518 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30679935

The title could use a [2022], as that seems the year it was originally posted.