skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When reading anthropics blog on agents I basically took away that their advice is you shouldn't use them to solve most problems.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents

"For many applications, however, optimizing single LLM calls with retrieval and in-context examples is usually enough."
I'm sorry about your daughter. ... I, too, recently lost a close relative to cancer, and yes, understanding and knowing how to navigate everything involved would've helped greatly.
The Anti-Social Century
Kra-merggu slides into Jer-ishtal's apartment and exclaims "I can't see a thing."

Jer-ishtal looks on bemused, and says "open that one."

laugh track ensues

[cut to commercial for Crazy Ea-Nasir's Copper Emporium]
Again, you exemplify the exact attitude I describe. Can you point to any single decision that Thompson made that cost live and causes suffering? You can’t, but you assume there must have been some, because you start with assumption that the victim here is guilty, and only then try to find reasons why.
Most people it seems so know social media is bad for them. But people knowingly use many things that are bad for themselves.
Actually, f(0) is well-defined. If q is positive, then gcd(0,q) = q, so f(0) = 1.
I made:

* an issue, "make an ebook": https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/issue...

* an epub: https://github.com/pronoiac/operating-system-in-1000-lines/r...
The epub is mostly ok but a bit broken.
This is a lot like how I imagine a mesh net with mobile nodes working.
Would you like to enlighten us on the RELEVANT differences?

I guess he hasn't killed enough people yet? If so, what's the threshold number of people?
Dupe (57 points, 8 days ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568239
At some point Google is going to remove Manifest V2 code from Chromium, and few browser packagers will be able to maintain a fork preserving MV2 availability. Will the Linux Foundation work to address this? The announcement is light on details as to what actual projects they plan on supporting.
That sounds like something CodeBullet mighty have done!?
get a cheap laptop, move your windows dependencies onto it, keep it isolated

then your main machine can be moved to Linux

i personally just have an old ssd with windows installed on it just in case, always can boot from it if I need to (just don't like dealing with VMs)
Building generative AI applications is too hard, developers say
A business associate to who? The user?
I feel like you mean basic arithmetic, not basic algebra.
I'm sure they felt the same trying to explain certain things to their child :)
To me "Agents" sound like computer programs that interact through APIs?
I've read the titled poem before but never knew there were others in the collection.
They're all really enjoyable.

I'm not someone that has ever really appreciated or liked poetry too much in general. It's always been presented to me as esoteric word smithing by people trying to be intellectual for the sake of sounding smart.

But I really enjoy the simple and straight language in these and that they're startling funny.
> app developer having a change of heart

Yes. Two features high on my list of todos: 1) download all your data; 2) delete all data from the site.

The second is a bit more complicated, since multiple family members may have access to the same data, and may have different opinions on deleting it. I'll work it out.

Otherwise, you have only my integrity. I'm not looking to sell it, but I would love to hand this over to someone with more resources and bigger pockets. If I ever do, I would want those reassurances from them first, and I would definitely give all users fair warning, so they can pull out if they don't have the same confidence I do.
Bulgaria (and the rest of the eastern block) were cloning all kinds of computers. My first one was Pravetz 8C, which was really Apple ][/e or /c

One of our most prestiguos software/hardware companies employed people solely to pirate and translate tech.

https://sandacite.bg/%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1...

Has several examples of screenshots from Karateka, Moon Patrol, and others translated in bulgarian.

lol.
Firefox/Gecko is sadly no better now (see their despicable stance on Private Click Measurement). The only alternatives on the horizon are Ladybird and Servo, and they are both at least 2 years from prime time.
Vivaldi has “add to this folder” in every folder in the bookmark bar. I just go there and add. Also its bookmark editing menu is just better. And it can middle-click open bookmarks without closing the menu. Chrome and FF bookmarks are almost useless ui-wise.

I still migrated to FF due to MV3 but it feels real shitty in comparison, tbh. Idk how people use it beyond dead stupid use cases.

how do you organize, search, and tag your content

I create a folder hierarchy on the bookmarks bar and sometimes custom-name bookmarks that are important to find. Search through url bar.

Once in a while I go through a folder and delete impulsive bookmarks.

Basically I perceive these as a filesystem. Would be nice if they were actually mapped into $HOME/Bookmarks.
Thanks for the post!

Is your blog intentionally blocked from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
Reminds me of Nothing But Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iiGqBfyLaw

Feels like a depth optical illusion - the meaning can change based on perspective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_illusion

Also reminds me of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot
“God created the natural numbers, all else is the work of man.”
Well, you can use it for everything. I've used it for in memory hash tables, trees, etc. To be clear, for those who may not understand, the "interpretation" in these "millibenchmarks" for something as simple as an allocator is not like Python or Bash or something slow. It could literally be "mmap a binary file of integers and either all/free the binary numbers". So, yeah, there might be some CPU pipeline overhead in unpredictable branches and you might still want to try to measure that, but beyond that there is basically no work and any real workload might have one-ish hard to predict branch leading to allocator operations. So, even unadjusted for overhead it's not so bad. And it keeps your measurements fast so you can get statistically many of them even if there is an "inner min loop" to try to isolate the best case or something. (Well, at least if what you are measuring is fast.) The downside/tradeoff is just lack of fidelity to interaction effects in the full application like resource competition/branch predictor disruption/etc.

You could probably set up a https://github.com/c-blake/nio file for it (or other) if you wanted to be systematic. A problem with the "text-newline" part of the "unix philosophy" is that it incurs a lot of unneeded binary->ascii->binary cycles that's actually more programming work as well as more CPU work, and it's really fairly orthogonal to the rest of the Unix ideas.

EDIT reply to parent EDIT

> benchmarking some workload is good enough

Fair enough, except that "good enough" is sort of "famous last words" if anyone is reviewing your work. :-) :-) Some will complain you only did Intel not AMD or not ARM or not xyz or Apple Silicon or whatever other zillion variables. Something is always better than nothing, though. It should be thought of more like a Bayesian thing - "no surprise for untested situations" or maybe "confidence in proportion to evidence/experience".

FWIW, I thought your big advice to 8dcc was pretty decent.
So you are brazenly violating the UBO license in addition to the trademark? Way to go building trust with the community.
I think he’s awful too; I’m more interested in Paul Graham reposting blatant alt-right grift media outlet Babylon Bee
For me the time for version control is the moment you have an analysis that you're ready to share with other people.

The methodology for those need to be recorded and tracked so others can review what you did and use that to help decide if they can trust your results or not.
Most self-hosted services I've seen all use Docker, which have nothing to do with your OS or cloud provider.

The biggest hurdle for me is being too lazy to setup proper DR/backups.
Not really. MyChart (which is provided by Epic) is a way for doctors and clinics to communicate with patients. Although you could give you doctor access to your information on Kate's App, that's not the purpose, and they probably don't want it.
> To avoid this problem, the scientists surgically implanted mice with electrodes and fiber optic filaments. Although the rodents are tethered to a set of cables, they can fall asleep normally while researchers track blood volume, electrical activity, and chemical levels and use light transmitted through the fiber optic lines to activate certain groups of neurons.

I detest this kind of medical research. It's horrific barbarity.

If the output is important enough for this kind of activity to take place, then it's important enough for humans to volunteer to be the subjects. If nobody volunteers then it isn't that important after all. Leave other species out of it.
Another mechanism I am looking to implement as a web extension is this: all my duckduckgo searches are also ran against a local save of my bookmarks, and get displayed on the side. atleast i think it will help me
I agree in general, but I think perhaps the founder of the site we are discussing on reposting right wing grift media is worthy of discussion. I’ll let dang decide.
This information is all in the U.S. I haven't looked at international issues. I'll need to put it on my list.
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In this case it's nuanced to me ... it's definitely not black and white as..

- Brian Thompson is/was not the head CEO of United Healthcare... was he just pushing along the agenda that Andrew Witty and the board devised? Further as noted Im not a sheep to follow any Internet/social media/political narrative as we have seen time and again that narratives are made up and or blown up.

- The murderer is totally crazy (he had no business with United Healthcare) and an idiot (killed Thompson not Witty).

- If the murderer wasnt young and attractive but old and unattractive 2 months later society wouldnt continue to be hiding behind their keyboards cheering a murderer on or seeing headlines "P. Diddy is Mad Not Getting Same Love in Prison." All of this brings to the forefront a SICK part of humanity which is does not promote a civil and polite society which is what Im for above all else!
Im an engineer. I see no reason why LLMs shouldn't already today replace most people in sales /s
Soon we'll have LLMs rewriting answers en masse for..... reasons?
But when the founder sells and remains working they generally get a good income.
I characterize capitalists as folks who consistently and enthusiastically put the needs of an organization before the needs of people. You can call them businessmen if you like. My personal favorite is bootlicker.
This poem is one of the few I've ever read that gives me physical chills. I've read it before of course, but not the rest of the work in the PDF- which was also excellent. Thanks for posting.
> Do any communist nations respect copyright to the life-in-prison-for-violation degree that we in the US do?

No, for many reasons, the primary one is that "victimless" crime is a lot more common there, and a lot more necessary for survival / decent living conditions.

Things like stealing from your employer, slacking off as much as possible, copyright infringement, smuggling prohibited goods, selling alcohol / cigarettes without the required permits, nepotism, bribery etc were a lot more widespread in the communism days.

If you were building a house, it wouldn't be too unusual to get your bricks from a friend who worked at a construction site, your furniture from a friend who worked at a furniture factory, and so on. Most people lived like that, and skirting the law in that way wasn't really viewed as immoral by anybody.

We had a proverb saying something the lines of "no matter if you're standing around or lying down, you're still getting your salary." This was how most people approached life back then.

Re: copyright infringement specifically, most of the IP being copied was from western nations, which we weren't on particularly friendly terms with, so there was very little reason to do anything about it. You'd be helping the enemy economically for no gain for you (as we were incapable of producing any IP that the west wanted).

> How much was IP enforcement a driver of the west’s war on socialism and the Cold War?

IP enforcement, not much at all, national security and copying technology for military purposes were much larger concerns.
Android internal storage backup with Termux (and ssh daemon and rsync):

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access

and apps I use the internal Google mechanism.
Yes (although practically speaking it’s very unlikely that Grover will ever break AES-128), but that’s still a brute force attack and still subject to the physical limits mentioned in the Schneier quote. Whereas attacks on RSA like the number field sieve or Shor’s algorithm are much more efficient than brute force. (Which is why you need such big keys for RSA in the first place).
"I feel that convincing people to pay monthly/yearly for something that has minimal monthly recurring expenditure/investment from the provider (unlike utilities, streaming services, etc.) is one of the biggest cons of the modern era.

I have Office 2010 on an old computer."

Statement #1 will trigger a stream of HN replies that ignore statement #2 and attempt to justify the price increase from $0 in 2010 to whatever Microsoft is charging today. It is anyone's guess why this happens.

The old computer is the author's personal computer, not one owned by an employer with a "Professional/Enterprise" license. This is clear from the final sentence of the comment.

The author is not the only recreational user who still has an old computer with Office 2010 (I have some other past versions of Office as well) and is aware of the con.
Google, too: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-.... Google's internal meme/activist site, Memegen, must be losing its mind right now.
I was too.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
Previous dead man's switch discussions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Updating the software is certainly a pain. I switched to Linux than went back to Android. Can't say I noticed any hardware defects other than the usual delicateness of mobile devices, but I am generally careful with my devices (the only person I know who doesn't fray Apple's inadequate cales...), so it hasn't mattered as much as the simple fact the Gemini doesn't have a lot of utility with my aging eyes. I really need at least 12".
Monk and Robot is such a wonderful series. I have often wondered about the "now what" part of living in a hypothetical utopia, and Chambers explores that existential question really thoughtfully.
If you can do research on a mid tier consumer card then more power to you. I'm specifically referencing the people who are complaining that the specs on consumer video game GPUs are not good for ML work. Like theres just no reasonable expectation that they will be.
Yes, elsewhere in this thread people were complaining about how Canadian government PDFs only work in Acrobat Reader on Windows and what a PITA that is.
So it's clear you don't know anything about Andreas, why he started SerenityOS or why it's even called SerenityOS, but yet still have the false confidence to assume to know what he thinks - knowing nothing about anything. Thanks for wasting everyone's time.
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I did. Glad to know you saw it.
What's your definition of slave? Are you saying that they are slaves no matter what? What would make them not slaves?

Are you opposed to all punishments of any sort?
Exactly. In order to say a thought *wasn’t spontaneous* would mean that you thought something BEFORE you thought it.
Is it somehow related to this?

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-diplomats-cuba-suffe...
I'm running 123B parameter Mistral Large with no issues. Larger models will run, too, but slowly. I wish Ollama had support for speculative decoding.
He hasn't been involved with YC or HN for many years, as far as I know. But 'dumb shit people tweet' is a bad HN topic either way. Graham (and just about everybody) has retweeted far dumber shit than that. You'd need a separate site just to talk about dumb shit people tweet. Or use the site where they twote it.
This seems like an interesting way to approach this problem. obviously this is different for everyone, but do you find a chronological approach useful? also do you manually edit the webpage? if you have some code thats helping you manage your system itll be cool if you can share it. I like the approach here, and making it a webpage makes it super easy to do some of the other things i wanted as well
A first step is to no longer eat meat for pleasure or for recreation. If needed, just eat it for nutrition.

Could you imagine if the whole world took this incremental step?
Honestly this. I agree the registrar can be shitbag; but having a method to request token access but also blocking the OP here even though he claims he never actually had real data on his site, but was planning on using the legally-requested-token to populate it in the future? That smells of half the story i think.

My guess being OP was probably running the service for months under-the-radar via scraping prior, and they didn't notice him until he requested the token to help clean up his data. Else they punished him before* he actually did anything wrong? yea, just smells.
Jesus, this would have been nice for my computability and optimisation class. A shame I had to upload it a few days ago. This would have come in handy
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Housing Costs Drive Levels of Homelessness
In this case it's nuanced to me ... it's definitely not black and white as..

- Brian Thompson was not the head CEO of United Healthcare... was he just pushing along the agenda that Andrew Witty and the board devised? Further as noted Im not a sheep to follow any Internet/social media/political narrative as we have seen time and again that narratives are made up and or blown up. I agree our healthcare system needs to be better, but are Americans ready to pay same taxes as Europeans (doubtful to me).

- The murderer is totally crazy (he had no business with United Healthcare) and an idiot (killed Thompson not Witty).

- If the murderer wasnt young and attractive but old and unattractive 2 months later society wouldnt continue to be hiding behind their keyboards cheering a murderer on or seeing headlines "P. Diddy is Mad Not Getting Same Love in Prison." All of this brings to the forefront a primal/SICK part of humanity which does not promote a civil and polite society.
Yes. Moreso for 2020 and 2012.
I have spent a lot of time trying to understand how we ended up with SQL. Best I can determine, we got SQL because it isn't relational, it is tablational. Tables are a lot easier than relations to understand for the layman, and they successfully pushed for what they were comfortable with, even if to the chagrin of technical people.
Thank God, i have company.
I used to think I had early onset dementia.
This specific user has been suspended multiple times on different sites of the SE network. I don't know exactly how often.
Somewhat related but here's my take on super intelligence or AGI. I have worked with CNN,GNN and other old school AI methods, but don't have the resources to build a real SOT LLM, but I do use and tinker with LLM's occasionally.

If AGI or SI(super intelligence)/is possible, and that is an if...I don't think LLM's are going to be this silver bullet solution Just as we have in the real world of people who are dedicated to a single task in their field like a lawyer or construction workers or doctors and brain surgeons, I see the current best path forward as being a "mixture of experts". We know LLM's are pretty good for what iv seen some refer to as NLP problems, where the model input is the tokenized string input. However I would argue an LLM will never built a trained model like stockfish or deepseek. Certain model types seem to be suited to certain issues/types of problems or inputs. True AGI or SI would stop trying to be a grand master of everything but rather know what best method/model should be applied to a given problem. We still do not know if it is possible to combine the knowledge of different types of neural networks like LLMs, convolutional neural networks, and deep learning...and while its certainly worth exploring, it is foolish to throw all hope on a single solution approach. I think the first step would be to create a new type of model where given a problem of any type. It knows the best method to solve it. And it doesn't rely on itself but rather the mixture of agents or experts. And they don't even have to be LLMs. They could be anything.

Where this really would explode is, if the AI was able to identify a problem that it can't solve and invent or come up with a new approach, multiple approaches, because we don't have to be the ones who develop every expert.
A lot of newer[0] US domestic market manual transmission cars do, in fact, have an interlock that prevents the starter motor from getting power without the clutch pedal also being depressed. Of particular note, my 1984 Ford Bronco II, 1991 Mitsubishi Galant, and 2004 Honda Accord all had such an interlock.

0: This is basically everything after the three-on-the-tree/four-on-the-floor era. I have yet to drive anything with an overdrive gear that didn't require popping the clutch to crank the starter.