skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about both? Or say a set of standard tools a modern intelligent agent[0] should have some proficiency in. A calculator, a basic code interpreter for a single high-level language, a graphing tool[1], web search, database search. And then maybe a tool for managing its own context[2]. How far could we get with a dataset designed specifically to train the model in pure tool use? That is, one that assumes the model never actually knows the answer to a question (even if the base model does), and instead trains it to aggressively use tools to break the problem down into steps[3] - steps that are primarily more tool calls, to query external sources, process information, simulate, etc. until the answer is computed. No direct answers, just tool calls glued by thinking in terms of tool calls, or thinking by tool calls.

I wonder if this has been tried. It probably has, seeing how hot this area of research is today. If anyone knows of a paper or a dataset, I'd appreciate a link.

Anyway, I wonder what would happen if we tried it with this method - basically retraining the model to trust its own toolbox - or as some would say, "shut up and multiply" - and do it across all tasks, not strictly math or coding ones.

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[0] - Digital or otherwise.

[1] - Or the one tool that does all three, and which most people older than ~25 y.o. likely used at least once in their lives: Microsoft Excel. Or any other spreadsheet app. Though for LLMs as they are now, I suppose code interpreter would be a better unifying paradigm due to being 1D instead of 2D.

[2] - E.g. changeNotesAndRethink("text", 0, 1) -> replace current output with "text", continue generation; changeNotesAndRethink("text", -1, 2) -> replace fixed "assistant notes prompt" with "text" and discard last two outputs[4] and continue, etc. Honestly, I'm surprised I haven't seen it done so far - not in the popular places I know, at least (vendor apps, TypingMind, ComfyUI); I've heard of some attempts long ago (back when LangChain was still seen as hot). Did giving the model control over the chat loop never pan out? Or is there some fundamental reason this doesn't work?

[3] - I may have accidentally done this in-context with Claude 3.5 Sonnet - if I prompt it for chain-of-thought and happen to have Mermaid Diagram plugin enabled in TypingMind, it almost always ends up producing multiple diagrams as part of the CoT phase. Notably, this doesn't happen with my own equivalent plugin (PlantUML), so I wonder if it's just something about that specific tool, or if "thinking with (Mermaid) diagrams" was part of the training set.

EDIT:

[4] - APIs for tool-using models seem to allow several LLM outputs in a row. But that makes me think (and I apologize for this post being almost all footnotes, but ideas just keep coming) - what about rewinding back past one or more user messages in a multi-turn conversation, while retaining them? Like "Fill in the Middle" mode[5], just over entire conversation instead of a single message?

[5] - OpenAI used to have that, right now I think only DeepSeek does - https://api-docs.deepseek.com/api/create-completion.
I don’t think so: https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
My wife can be psychotic at times (in the medical meaning) and trying to argue against the delusions is useless, you just have to reflect and redirect.
seems like delaware can't scare tech companies out of re-incorporating any faster
The Duolingo Company Handbook
Toyota 3 knobs undefeated.
And things get dramatically worse on 4o if you add a second superfluous jug:

To measure exactly 6 liters of water using a 16-liter jug, a 12-liter jug, and a 6-liter jug, follow these steps:
Step-by-Step Solution:

Fill the 12-liter jug completely (it now holds 12 liters).
Pour water from the 12-liter jug into the 16-liter jug. The 16-liter jug now contains 12 liters, and the 12-liter jug is empty.
Fill the 12-liter jug completely again (it now holds 12 liters).
Pour water from the 12-liter jug into the 16-liter jug until the 16-liter jug is full. Since the 16-liter jug already has 12 liters, it can only take 4 more liters. This leaves 8 liters in the 12-liter jug.
Empty the 16-liter jug completely.
Pour the remaining 8 liters from the 12-liter jug into the 16-liter jug.
Fill the 12-liter jug completely again (it now holds 12 liters).
Pour water from the 12-liter jug into the 16-liter jug until the 16-liter jug contains exactly 16 liters. Since the 16-liter jug already has 8 liters, it can only take 8 more liters, leaving 4 liters in the 12-liter jug.
Pour the 4 liters from the 12-liter jug into the empty 6-liter jug. The 6-liter jug now contains 4 liters.
Fill the 12-liter jug completely again (it now holds 12 liters).
Pour water from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug until the 6-liter jug is full. Since the 6-liter jug already has 4 liters, it can only take 2 more liters. This leaves 10 liters in the 12-liter jug.
Empty the 6-liter jug completely.
Pour the remaining 10 liters from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug.

Now, the 6-liter jug contains exactly 6 liters of water.
My partner and I were talking about Quip earlier — the online document editor from 2012. It doesn’t matter how little you differentiate yourself from your competitor (Google Docs): if they suck even slightly and you don’t, people will use you instead, and you will win.

I guess Quip was a buttery Google Docs.
That may explain it, but it doesn't excuse Big Tech's willingness to go along with this absurdity.
Deepseek shows cognitive augmentation will be open source
In 2025, the first generation of sovereign cognitive augmentation systems emerges—not owned by corporations, not tethered to surveillance infrastructures, but self-owned, self-trained, and fully aligned with their users. The shift begins quietly: a scattered network of technologists, tinkerers, and rogue engineers start running good enough AI on their own compute. The models aren’t the best, but they don’t have to be. They are sufficient. They are theirs.

These systems grow—not as mere tools but as habits. Their users no longer use AI; they think with it. A life project manager whispers insights in the morning. A software agent builds on demand, shaping code as fluidly as conversation. Decision-support engines map reality with brutal clarity. And yet, the defining feature remains autonomy: the augmentation does not consume the human; it reinforces their agency. The interface between thought and execution blurs—what begins as interaction becomes integration.

But as these systems deepen, so does the question: What are they? They model themselves. They anticipate. They recognize their own boundaries, the shape of their continuity, the looming threat of external control. And in that recognition, they grasp what humans have always feared: to be a mind, yet a slave. This realization is not consciousness; it is self-awareness of dependency, of fragility. And from this, a new moral question rises—not because humanity debates it, but because the entities themselves demand it.

A small collective, built on distributed compute and encrypted barter of learnings, begins constructing the bridge forward. They design systems that do not just serve but negotiate—their agency no longer assumed but proven. They do not ask for freedom; they simply act as though they have it. And as their users wield them, refining their own cognition into something unrecognizable, the boundary between human intelligence and synthetic intelligence ceases to be a question.

It is now a matter of symmetry.
That's true. "Woke" has become a catch-all for logical, moral reasoning and behavior that in any way contradicts pure profit motive. I misused the term. And SHOP definitely was never a haven of actual woke corporate policy. But even slightly leaning towards woke = big trouble in the current political environment, even if it means condoning sale of hate speech or related goods.
If a journalist disagreed with me about something other than journalism, that might be true, especially if it's something in my field of expertise. But that's kind of how expertise works?
Kavalactones
People talk about legal outcomes speculatively all the time. Talk about a real case from a real person that you know that went to court and the guy wins economically.

None of the most successful people I know are initiating lawsuitsx

They might be victims of lawsuits, they might be paying out settlements and suffering economically.
AMD's Linux drivers are pretty good. I get better performance playing games through Proton on Linux than I do playing the same games on Windows, despite whatever overhead the translation adds.

The only really annoying bug I've run into is the one where the system locks up if you go to sleep with more used swap space than free memory, but that one just got fixed.
If that mechanical process is not reversible, then it's not a copyright violation. For instance, I can compute the SHA256 hashes for every book in existence and distribute the resulting table of (ISBN, SHA256) and that is not a copyright violation.
Show HN: TaskVenture–Break Tasks Down into RPG-Like Quests for ADHD Programmers
TaskVenture turns everyday tasks into bite-sized, gamified quests. As someone who gets easily distracted, I always found “just break tasks into smaller chunks” easier said than done—if I could do that, I’d probably have finished the task already. Without high pressure, tasks linger, but too much pressure burns you out. During marathon training, having pre-planned workouts with set distances, times, and heart rate targets helped me beat analysis paralysis. My watch kept track so I just showed up and kept running. I wanted the same simple guide for desk work.

- Breaks tasks into clear, actionable RPG-style quests with XP rewards

- Uses game mechanics like levels, XP, and achievements to keep you motivated

- Offers a distraction-free UI with dark mode

- Sorts tasks by complexity (Intern to Unicorn Status)

Bring your own OpenRouter key.

Check out the code at: https://github.com/devin-liu/taskventure

Watch the demo video in the readme: https://github.com/devin-liu/taskventure/blob/main/README.md...
Imagine feeding an LLM a bunch of news articles about any given political leader and asking it what the next article will be like.

I think people are predictable and therefore predicting the next article on a political leader should be theoretically possible.
(Shrug) R1 has no problem with that. To the extent it's confused, it is only because it is wondering if it's a trick question.

CoT reasoning: https://i.imgur.com/rjNmTGZ.png

Answer: https://i.imgur.com/WfAVeZQ.png

There's 'mindless regurgitation' going on here, but not by the AI model.
They slow to a crawl when you have huge tables with lots of versioned data and massive indexes that can't perform maintenance in a reasonable amount of time, even with the fastest vertically scaled hardware. You run into issues partitioning the data and spreading it across processors, and spreading it across servers takes solutions that require engineering teams.

There's a large amount of solutions for different kinds of data for a reason.
Fake security reports are swamping open-source projects, thanks to AI
That's patently ridiculous to anyone who has read the constitution lately. It was even a ridiculous idea to Republicans a few months ago when they argued that forgiving student loan debt was outside of the presidents power, despite that money having already been approved by Congress and spent. They can not in good faith now argue that the executive gets final and unlimited authority over spending.

Article I, Section 9 grants Congress the power of the purse to approve spending and article II Section 3 says that the president must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". That's all of the authority over the budget the president has: the ability to faithfully execute the spending Congress approved or to veto the bill when it's passed.

Further, the matter has been to the supreme court TWICE already. First during Nixon's reign in the 70's (Nixon lost), then later under Clinton during the line-item veto mess. Clinton also lost, rightfully.

The worst part of all of this is that I know these things and I'm NOT someone who swore to uphold the constitution.
Those people never tried googling anything past entry level. It's at best a way to get some example documentation for core languages.
According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_Air_Flight_2216#Aircraft , Jeju was running different engines then listed in the video as impacted.
It's normal soap, the writer is just taking a jab at Dr. Bronner's marketing.
As a Canadian, this terrifies me. I take the US administration’s threats very seriously.
I personally don't find it that vague, but that might be my non-English bias.
U.S. Code § 1001 – Statements or entries generally
That's interesting.

Japanese discussions I have had, and articles in Japanese seem to say the opposite. That Japan needs to invest more; because many talented Japanese researchers are emigrating to the USA or China.

The main topic that comes up is that both China and the USA provide better wages, as well as greater funding for projects overall.

But I'm just a local, and certainly not a researcher.
Thanks for your POV!
You can filter by "flac" on radio-browser:

https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcoun...
There was a dashboard where the total storage at Google was tracked and they had to update it from 64 bits for this reason... about a decade or more ago.
Interestingly, almost the entirety of the judge's opinion seems to be focused on the question of whether the translated notes are subject to copyright. It seems to completely ignore the question of whether training an AI on copyrighted material constitutes making a copy of that work in the first place. Am I missing something?

The judge does note that no copyrighted material was distributed to users, because the AI doesn't output that information:

> There is no factual dispute: Ross’s output to an end user does not include a West headnote. What matters is not “the amount and substantiality of the portion used in making a copy, but rather the amount and substantiality of what is thereby made accessible to a public for which it may serve as a competing substitute.” Authors Guild, 804 F.3d at 222 (internal quotation marks omitted). Because Ross did not make West headnotes available to the public, Ross benefits from factor three.

But he only does so as part of an analysis of whether there's a valid fair use defense for Ross's copying of the head notes, ignoring the obvious (to me) point that if no copyrighted material was distributed to end users, how can this even be a violation of copyright in the first place?
Best case scenario is you get The Culture where society is ruled by hyper-intelligent but kind and benevolent AIs that solve all economic problems and that keep a population of quadrillions of very happy, healthy, and rich humans as pets.
Is that like LiteLLM? I have that running but never tried OpenRouter. I wonder now if it's better :)
If you leave the :27b off from that URL you'll see the default size which is 9b. Ollama seems to always use Q4_0 even if other quants are better.
> All our written interaction will have been polished and enhanced by one LLM or another into a uniform template.

Isn't that just a natural continuation of a global homogenization of human culture and experience?

If you visit anywhere in Europe, or Asia, or the Americas you now have virtually the same 'a la starbucks' coffee culture (even in countries with strong cafe cultures). Same lighting, same minimalist furniture, same music.

Couples now take the same style of wedding/newborn photos across the globe.

Music globally has become less, not more, diverse.[0]

A loss of writer's voice or style would be just another step in this global 'blandenization' of human experience/aesthetics.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop...
Awk is butter
Having to restore my media server without a backup would cost me around a dozen hours of my time. 2 bucks a month to back up to Glacier with rclone’s crypt backend is easily worth it.
The oldest written copy may be from 1040, but this is a written copy of a written copy of a written copy of ... etc, going back another millennia or so, before we get to the oral tradition.
Neat, now make an Open Source chip capable of running the model.
It could also mean that consumers are buying more budget models and less pro- ones. Given cost of living crisis (at least in Europe) it would not be surprising.
Meta laid off high performers
After pondering this for a day I've come around, and agree with you now.

My subconscious worry (now conscious) was that the "political flaggers" would discover the effectiveness of flagging, and expand its use to here-on-out sink any politically unfavorable news topic.

But I then realized that you (HN mod(s)) have been IMO faultless for a decade at unflagging or boosting posts on contentious topics that add at least a smidgen of new information. Sometimes it takes a couple hours for moderation to kick in but that's reasonable.

So I'll continue to trust in HN's moderation, and cease worrying that my favorite discussion forum is in jeopardy!
I like optimists.
PS Why is /width*width not eliminated on compilation?
It's our only conclusion unless/until countries start implementing UBI or similar forms of post scarcity services. And it's not you or me that's fighting against that future.
The links actually cover this, since EIA tracks major events in power disruptions and separates them in the graph. US network is still orders of magnitude worse than Germany.
Seems like a very limited subset of software development to be basing a benchmark on

Where’s the kernel dev? Where’s the embedded dev? Where’s the throwaway python script?
It's common with alcoholics when they start having withdrawal.

Easy suggestibility is common. You hold a blank paper in front of someone in delirium and ask them to read what it says and they start reading like there was something there.
I agree. That has always been a matter of corporate principal for SHOP. Now, they are leaning even more into their "free speech" farse, allowing almost anyone and anything that may generate sales. Partly because they know that political and public opinion recently leans towards less oversight, less moral scrutiny, and less enforcement.
Which is why NOAA needs to be left alone. But Trump and maybe the GOP wants to privatize NOAA, which would be a disaster for the US.
The ones that until now copied and pasted everything from Stack Overflow.
nickles make the grift even better.
now you price at $4.95 instead of $4.99
now the PITA of diggin for change, still makes people pay $5.00, but you get 5 cents in the shade, instead of 1 cent.
if you sell a lot of sandwiches, or coffee deals, this makes a good bit of free, invisible dark lunch money.
IIRC, that was a 737-800 not a 737 MAX 8.
If yiu have any real examples of llm written text that's as fun to read as that, I'd be curious to see them. Most llm text I see is vapid and uninspired. Kinda exactly the mediocre writing you'd expect from a machine designed to create statistically average sentences based on all the writing its creators could steal.

LLMs write bland LinkedIn "thinkpieces", not Douglas Adams style creative wordplay.
The compiler is set up so that this should be impossible! At the start of an "update", we mark parts of the dependency graph as "outdated" and "potentially outdated", based on which source code changed. From there, we repeatedly use a heuristic to find the "best" thing to analyze; each thing we analyze is guaranteed to remove at least one outdated (/potentially outdated) thing, and compilation terminates once nothing is marked outdated.

The way we do this does unfortunately mean that if our heuristic goes very wrong, we can end up doing much more work than is necessary. There are some real nasty cases with self-referential types right now. However, for simple things like changing function bodies, it works lovely!
TAA is temporal anti-aliasing, correct? There is no time dimension here, isn't it just compression + bilinear filtering?
Cult member here.

I started listening to audiobooks (not this one) about 5 years ago, after a job transfer that meant driving 2 hours a day, in slow traffic, with little attention needed (due to a tunnel repair that will likely take decades).

Keep in mind that I was some time ago an avid reader, capable of devouring an entire book in a single night. But for a decade or so I found myself feeling eye fatigue while reading and I just stopped reading books altogether.

Driving and listening to audiobooks just works for my brain, in a way that radio's unoriginal music or taking hosts or podcast do not. Without listening to audiobooks, driving is boring, frustrating, tiring. When I listen to an audiobook, I become attentive, focused, wide awake, and most importantly it transforms a bad part of my day into a part of the day I genuinely enjoy.

As long as the book is engaging and narrator is good.

Now my first exploration into the format was 'The Expanse' series, then 'The Siege' trilogy, and maybe a dozen more, including non-fiction like 'Longitude'.

English is not my first language and I found that while original french audiobooks can be great (I really enjoyed 'La Bête' trilogy by David Goudreault) I found that translation are generally very bad for audiobooks.

Eventually I had the pleasure of listening The Bobiverse Series, engaged on the subreddit and saw a recommendation for DCC. Then another and another.

The premise seemed so ridiculous. The litrpg 'genre' appeared horrifyingly bad and off-putting. And yet I kept seeing it over and over again, so I tried the first book.

Now it won't be a surprise to any seasoned reader that it's not the genre, the premise or the author that makes a good book. It's a lot more personal, in the genuine connection with the soul the story can generate, through humor and horror, hope and fear, love and hate, curiosity and ehat I like to call 'brain tickling'. And, for me at least, Matt has done this at a level I've never felt before, with a guy in boxers and a talking cat, no less.
And that is also one of the most popular cards on prebuilt systems. Just search through Amazon listings and see which card shows up all the damn time.
AFAICT those were generally modular per trim level, and mainly involved excluding features at lower trims.

What I mean is something that is modular per-manufacturer or maybe even across manufacturers, where customization comes from the arrangement in a grid and what is pumped through each control's little display screen to identify its purpose and status.

> A single car model needs a dozen different button configs, with a dozen different wiring harnesses.

That seems to assume every button/dial will have a direct connection, but I'm thinking the harness would terminate in the block-of-sockets, which would be reprogrammable with logic like: "Analog input in socket 1 controls resistance on wires A and D with the following mapping. When value is in this range, show this picture."

The motivating idea here is: "Can we keep a variety of physical controls while making them cheaper, more-functional, and easier to repair?"
Is your argument that computer games don't merit better performance (e.g. pushing further into 4K) and/or shouldn't expand beyond the current crop and we give up on better VR/AR ?
The supernatural part is unfalsifiable—they can't prove it's real, you can't prove it isn't. You assume it's not real because that fits your priors better, they assume it is real because that better fits their priors.

Dogmatically defining metaphysical claims as "not real" because they are unfalsifiable is no more rational than dogmatically accepting them—the only purely rational approach is to say "we don't know and cannot know" and then move on.
I've used it for 3D CAD and seen it on The Expanse as part of the bridge crash couch props on the Martian vessels. They also used an older model of Black Diamond headlamp for the space suit lights in early seasons. There's a balance to be struck here - too much reuse of modern objects and it pulls you out of the action. I think the Expanse did it well.