skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I've worked on something [1] in the space lately, and can share learnings. It generates queries, which gets fed to the application layer, and it executes them based on some deterministic controls.

Basically, if you're working with a database that has some actually useful/critical data, put an application layer in the middle that can gatekeep LLM access.

- Depending on your risk appetite, make a decision on providing a read-only URL to the thing that interfaces with the LLM.

- For maximum control over the queries, you can wrap then in functions (tools) and let the LLM only call the tools. But this takes away a lot of the power. What we've basically done is allowing the LLM to read the context progressively [2] and give it free reign over the queries.

- The said application layer can ask for approval on all of the queries. (Human in the loop). [3]

- (Optionally) If your query returns a lot of data, putting all of that through the LLM context might be expensive. You need a way to return data out of band from a query, directly to the user.

[1] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable/tree/main/data-conn...

[2] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable/blob/ec504b8593f41b...

[3] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable/tree/main/data-conn...
Whose end goal? The tenant's goal might be, as you say, to convince the landlord that the device is unreliable, and cheat on the rent agreement. If you want to cheat, as I guess some people do (otherwise there wouldn't be need for a monitor), asking if it's ok to host a party isn't a good solution.

My personal end goal is speculation. Each time a technology is discussed it's pretty automatic for me to think about what are its weaknesses and strengths, and how its behavior can be subverted or the same thing can be used in unintended ways.
My employer’s legal team threatened action after they found my personal site that contained free informational courses about the industry. The site specifically called out where information was sourced from, and linked to those publicly available places (from google/fb/etc - not my employer).

I no longer post with the real name anywhere.
This chart indicates lots of growth for OSx since at least 2009 (as their data goes back to).

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
There are still so many devs who don't want to deal with types, and they love Ruby and Python, as well as JavaScript without types.

It is quite difficult to work on large Ruby or Python projects; interfaces are not determined, and figuring out what's happening is painful.

Still, so many devs love it, and they wanna keep working with Ruby and Python in this way.

I kind of feel that experienced devs move on, and give up projects without types.
Or if raiding with permadeath sounds a little far out, a more achievable goal might be to get to level 20. Someday I'll make it.
What matters is relative to one's perspective. Nothing objectively matters.

Nobody's saying everyone is of equal value, they're saying that reducing your perception of somebody into a 2-dimensional caricature because you don't perceive value in them is the type of disgusting mental habit of somebody who either has no real friends or soon will have none.
Is there an email to apply for the junior fse? Or should I just wait for it to be posted on the website?
Maybe by 2045 AI will be sufficiently advanced to simply say "make this old game run on my new PC", and the AI will read through every line of code, pixel of textures, and make a faithful playable reproduction in seconds.

If that's the case, it really doesn't matter what technologies you use.
Idk. My son once used standard knowledge of the quantum froth / particle / anti-particle pair production in vacuum to estimate the light pressure due to that production in great voids and came up with an answer that's off from standard cosmology by just a factor of two (i.e., this explained half the acceleration of the expansion of the universe). It's pretty easy to take assumptions like this and extrapolate. It's not clear that dark energy is obviously wrong, but it's weird because the universe presumably needs energy in order to accelerate its expansion, and... where's that coming from? The standard answer is: from the light traversing the universe (especially the great voids) which loses energy as the universe accelerates its expansion. But what is the mechanism by which that happens? I've yet to see such a mechanism proposed, and that is what makes Dark Energy weird.

I would not compare DE to religion though. It's DM that's a bit of a bridge too far for me, though even there it's hard to know yet.

Also note that timescapes is only about DE not DM. I don't think you'll find an explanation for the galaxy rotation curves anomalies in GR.
It's nice to see, but the extension on top of the cURL preexisting syntax is rough to look at.

Ever since stumbling upon Hurl a while ago, I've really enjoyed how easy to read the scripts are. Anyone that partially understands web/http is able to read and tell exactly what's going on in the low -> medium complexity scripts w/o even reading the docs.
A non-engineer by definition would not be able to fix bugs.

But why does it matter that they won't be able to interpret anything? Just like with real engineers you can ask AI to provide an explanation digestible by an eloi.
Yeah, that ain't real. For something to work there's gotta be some mechanism by which it does. Bonesetting is a real thing, but second hand stories can get distorted by the ignorant. Usually towards being more dramatic. Although relocating a dislocated shoulder is pretty immediate.
> I wonder if "The Orchestra that draws no salary" was as controversial at the time as "Artisans won't complain about work-life balance" is today.

Yes, it was. Here's the view from Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. Nowhere else in this mechanical age does the workman create the machine which destroys him, but that’s what happens to the musician when he plays for a recording. The iceman didn’t create the refrigerator. The coachman didn’t build the automobile. But the musician plays his music into a recorder and a short time later the radio station manager comes around and says, “Sorry, Joe, we’ve got all your stuff on records, so we don’t need you anymore.” And Joe’s out of a job.[1]

This finally came to a head in an 800-day strike. The outcome was that performers started getting royalties from recordings. An unexpected side effect was the end of the big band era and the rise of the pop star.

[1] https://www.local802afm.org/allegro/articles/the-silence-was...
I thought that lambda was directly in the differential equation form?

Rμν − (1/2)*gμν*R + Λ*gμν = (8*π*G / c^4) * Tμν
'Precocious' early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
Your regular reminder that every topic of human interest is an infinitely deep fractal of complexity.
CEOs should to be held responsible
It's all just chemistry, and the chemistry is extremely conservative all the way back to the first eukaryotes. Once our kind of life figures out a way to do something it's very uncommon that the fundamental pathways change - not by any means impossible.

Cells that have novel things happen to them nearly always die. Others become cancer, which is a career-limiting move for multicellular life at least. So the process of changes to basic chemistry of life is very slow. That's why omnivores can eat almost anything and be fine with it - imagine if different branches of plants and animals had really novel things in them, like a critter with nerve gas for a circulatory fluid.

There's been some discussion of mirror bacteria lately, which have opposite chirality in all their molecules, which would be substantially problematic since we really don't have defenses against that kind of thing. That just shows the degree to which you'd have to rejigger biochemistry to get a truly whole new thing going on.
I'd hear one where somebody thought you failed at software engineering.
Traycer
This person is obviously mentally disturbed. Freedom awarded by recent lucky windfall resulted in detriment to him. It already costed him his only deep relationship with a peer and almost costed him his life.

I'm really happy that he ended up learning physics. It's probably safes activity of all mentioned given his specific brain.
Left and right control are z and / for me on this Ergodox, they do double duty as modifiers. One can do all kinds of interesting things with a custom keyboard, so arguing that "it's not a traditional keyboard" is kinda.. not what the people going for custom keyboards are about.
I don't like that my Whole Foods receipts appear in my Amazon past orders
I recently noticed that my Amazon past orders includes a record of every Whole Foods purchase, including each individual item, and the date, and store location.

I never use any kind of loyalty cards, and never tried to use an Amazon account somehow to pay at Whole Foods (like didn't they have some kind of biometric palm reader experiment recently? anyway nothing like that, I would hate that and never use it even if my store had it) just my regular local small credit union debit card which happens to be the same card I use in Amazon.

Obviously we all know that Amazon owns Whole Foods so the mechanics of how this happens is no mystery or suprise. This is not a "How could this possibly happen?"

It just strikes me as a graphical surfacing of something that was always there just not so advertised.

I just wish to say that this is wrong. No one should be ok with this.

These are two unrelated activities.

Now consider what other wide ranging businesses Amazone is or has gotten in to. They could be your pharmacy, your insurance that pays or declines to pay that pharmacy, your debit card that pays for whatever the insurance didn't, and everything else you buy anywhere, with and maybe even that receives all your income too if you happen to work for Amazon.

The technical detail that all these different entities are owned by a parent entity should not be enough to just say "oh well it's fine then".
Related ongoing thread:

The Dome (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583688 - Jan 2025 (22 comments)
Chronic Pain Can Cause a Kind of Madness. I Know This Personally.
> an oxtail soup recipe

Sounds like the model just copy pasted one from the internet, hard to get that wrong. GP could have had a bespoke recipe and list of ingredients. This particular example of yours just reconfirmed what was being said: it's only able to copy-paste existing content, and it's lost otherwise.

In my case I have huge trouble making it create useful TypeScript code for example, simply because apparently there isn't sufficient advanced TS code that is described properly.

For completeness sake, my last prompt was to create a function that could infer one parameter type but not the other. After several prompts and loops, I learned that this is just not possible in TypeScript yet.
>- You have to prepare properly. Not only bringing all the consumables you'll need for raiding, also knowing what the boss is gonna do.

But that is, regrettably, also the case for retail. You are expected to spoil the dungeons and raids for yourself by reading up on everything the bosses will do, before you first enter. Nobody has the patience to go in blind and figure out their own strategies.
And you're also expected to use addons that will tell you exactly what to do and when.

That's what made me lose interest in the game. You're not the player. The addons are. You are doing the one thing they can't: Press the buttons for them. You're the input device. I hate this so much.
I mean from this sample of 2 you could just ask it repeatedly for up to 5 times restarting the counter whenever performance improves.
https://archive.ph/YxAYX
I just wish I could get FIRE at 40, any ideas?
Great question. Basically in my son's flat spacetime variant of GR massive bodies produce a gravitational attractive force whose field also slows down light -- the force produces orbits. If you think of massive particles as standing waves then gravity only slows down light and it happens that you can refract both, light and massive particles, with refraction of standing waves (massive particles) yielding behavior that resembles Newtonian gravity.
Tomatoes Were Considered Sinful – Until the Salem Tomato Trial of 1820 (2019)
The comment you responded to was just saying that the alphabet was inherited from Rome, not the language
Europe here. It is sad to see the results of the EEUU healthcare system. I still do not get why people do not vote for a more rationale and public service. I guess the EEUU media have brainwashed their people into thinking that a private health system is better. People do not see the problem until it affects them ... until it is too late...
Thanks a lot for digging this up, the outcome of introducing royalties is very interesting.
I understand this as a business move, but given that he’s openly gay I think he’s donating to a group that wants to remove his rights.
Linguistically English works nothing like Latin
To the Act, the entire Internet is an information service. Sorry! 1996 sucked ass.
The CEO is primarily responsible to [maximize profits for] shareholders, not necessarily to benefit patients. If shareholders wish for better care to be provided to patients, I’m sure they would be happy to accept a lower rate of return on their investment.
Classic has essentially been "solved." The main barrier back in 2004 was not difficulty, but knowledge, organization, and tooling. Modern "retail" WoW is orders-of-magnitude more difficult to offset those improvements.

Guilds have enough resources and player skill to greatly limit the possiblity of unexpected chaos.
That’s what it means. The field is pretty transparent about it. It’s often poorly conveyed in pop science, but that’s how it goes.
Little to do with age or boredom. He is like that in most concerts since he was 20.

It's not being an "entertainer", as his is not Mick Jagger's song and dance style
I've always seen a problem with the idea of the great filter: why do we think the filter is one thing or one discrete barrier?

Why couldn't there be a very large number of low-probability filters and/or a continuous probability of failure spread across billions of years? Add them all up and the cumulative effect would be the same as a single great filter, but there would not be one single primary hurdle that needs to be cleared.

This and the Fermi paradox itself are really just speculations. We have only one data point, which makes it impossible to say anything definitive.
There is no excuse for insurance fraud like this. C-Suite and board of directors must be held criminally liable much like drug overlords are held criminally liable.
But if you're talking about domains in the programmer's example, you'd have to do the same for the cello player's example.

So in that case it would be that the cello player could seamlessly (without training) change between genres for example, which clearly isn't true.
I mean, it does not sound like a new theory. Some non-uniform numerical model could have predicted it. PhD Students test various things at lab computers.

I do not deserve your irony
Ioannidis paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.14.618366v1
Oh okay, system is working as intended and there are no problems!
I mean I don't know if I would say the land is just abandoned. Some farmland that people let go back to forest can also have the trees harvested from it periodically so its still productive in another way. The land can still be valuable.
Ed25519 has been recommended over RSA for many years, post-quantum stuff is recent. RSA should only be used to support old protocols like webpki certificates.
Are you saying the shareholders should be held responsible then? Isn't taking responsibility the reason that the CEO is being paid by them?
Space is called space for a reason. I feel like even scientifically knowledgeable people have a hard time wrapping their heads around just how much space is out there.

Here's a good place to start:

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

Signals diminish with the square of distance. SETI would never hear anything from other stars unless it was broadcast with insanely high transmit power or was directed right at us (and still very powerful). Nobody would do that unless they knew someone was here actively listening.

https://briankoberlein.com/blog/et-phone-home/

So for example, to reach the Centauri system (the nearest star) with a signal as powerful as the signal Voyager sends to Earth would require a transmit power of over 100 megawatts at a minimum. That's just the nearest star. It gets exponentially harder as you go further out. For more distant stars you're talking gigawatts or terawatts or beyond.

Even barring concerns about attracting attention, why dedicate that kind of resources to operate an interstellar border blaster if you don't even have a reason to think anyone's listening, and if you won't get a reply for hundreds or thousands of years?
Plus, the jumo from zebrafish to mice is a lot larger than the jump from mice to humans. If it still functions across that large of a jump then it's very likely it'll also work in humans.
Given that he's a CEO, he's donating to a group that wants to cut his taxes and remove all regulation from his business.

Class interest above all.
Yes. That's why the copyright license to record a composition is called a "mechanical license".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license
Sure, we have to think outside the box to solve some of those problems. Or we need more data (and tech to gather it with). Or both. Thinking outside the box means differing from the standard consensus. Differing from the standard consensus causes controversy. Some wildly outside the box thinking will be not even wrong.
Yes, I don’t question the usefulness of the project by any means. To be frank, I’m personally very interested in it—I studied celestial mechanics at university many years ago and am still curious about simulations.

The graph on the chart I shared suggests that the peak of contributions was a couple of years ago, with occasional changes since then. This doesn’t make much sense to me, as the rendering quality looks great (at least in the videos—I’ll try the software a bit later), and it’s head and shoulders above what the scientific community is currently using.
The comma operator does exist, of course, but I've never heard of the comma in the context of C variable declarations being described as an operator, nor does a web search on "comma type operator" return any results. It doesn't behave like an operator (it does not return a result). You might argue that in some sense it "returns a type", but this is C: types are not objects in the language, and in any case the preceding declaration would also be held to "return a type". No, it's just a separator in C.

Yes, some people recommend one declaration per line. It's generally a defensive habit, needed if you use spacing which doesn't reflect the grammar of the language. It's the C programming equivalent of double-knotting shoe-laces to stop them coming undone rather than recognising that the bow has been tied with a granny knot rather than a reef knot.

I do concede that if I had multiple complex declarations like int *f(), (*g)(); I would separate them on to different lines, but there is no need for that with easily read declarations such as int *a, b;.
Hope you are no longer with that employer. That's aggressive action from them about free information.
What is EEUU?
>My point was just that all things aren’t equal when judging individuals

They're not, but for comparing one should only account for things that are different because of being rich vs poor. Having an incurrable disease is not that, as it can perfectly well happen to both rich and poor (and the rich would get better treatment for it anyway, and it wont cost them their house or savings).
It's almost like profits shouldn't be part of the equation when we are talking about humans lives and health.

Noone should enrich themselves on others not getting the health care they need, and those who do it today are morally bankrupt -- and society should fight back.
> I like the first iteration most. It’s not “beginner code”, it’s simple.

Yes, thank you. And honestly, I work with a wide range of experience levels, the first solution is what I expect from the most experienced: it readably and precisely solves the stated problem with a minimum of fuss.
Marketing my app while driving for Uber
Not to mention that “this isn’t how optics works!”

The optical properties of a material caused by its inhomogeneity doesn’t change if you look at it from further away!

I.e.: frosted glass will look frosted from any distance other than “extremely close”. The same applies to wavey or otherwise non-flat transparent or translucent materials.

The same ought to apply to the lumpiness of spacetime caused by galaxies — it shouldn’t matter if you “zoom out”, the bumps and troughs are still there, bending light the same way!

I thought this was obvious, it’s something that occurred to me at least a decade ago!

I can’t believe astrophysicists just hand-waved this away, when it clearly can’t be ignored.
Good call. I remember pretty clearly fighting with the spell checker on that one and I think it managed to change it when I wasn't looking. It's fixed!
I see you seem to hold the notion that voters are rational beings. As long as you think that way, election results will never make sense to you
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I dunno, I have active hobby projects that go weeks to months without commits. Sometimes you need to experiment with things for a while to get a feel for whether or not it should be committed. Sometimes you need to take a break.

The bullshit amounts of churn-for-the-sake-of-it in the JavaScript ecosystem aren't normal.
Ask HN: Who's using agents for work?
I really like Anthropic's definition [1] of what an agent is.

> Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths.

> Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks.

I use coding agents heavily for UI / CRUD APIs based work. I think they're a really good use case of productionising an agent which needs contextual enrichment and can self-correct.

There are a lot of companies building vertical domain specific agents. It's unclear what their actual value delivery is beyond the marketing copy.

But is there anyone building things for their own use / internal company usage? If so, what are you using it for?
In Mexico that's the US, so maybe the poster is from Spain.

The doubling of the letters (e.g., "EE." for "Estados" and "UU." for "Unidos") follows a convention in Spanish where plural abbreviations are indicated by duplicating the letters. The correct form would be "EE. UU." This practice aligns with historical Latin abbreviations (e.g., "SS." for "Sancti" (plural) or "S." for "Sanctus" (singular)).
+1 on recommending the Mom Test, it's one of the most important books I've read.

I'd say in addition to entrepreneurs, it's an important book for product teams / product engineers to understand what the Mom Test teaches, and tune the filter on asking the right questions to get the highest signal, and ensure the solution closely matches the value prop for the customer. Then sales and marketing get a whole lot easier when you've asked the right questions and solved the right problems.