skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the key limitations of even state-of-the-art LLMs is that their coherence and usefulness tend to degrade as the context window grows. When tackling complex workflows, such as customer support automation or code review pipelines - breaking the process into smaller, well-defined tasks allows the model to operate with more relevant and focused context at each step, improving reliability.

Additionally, in self-hosted environments, using an agent-based approach can be more cost-effective. Simpler or less computationally intensive tasks can be offloaded to smaller models, which not only reduces costs but also improves response times.

That being said, this approach is most effective when dealing with structured workflows that can be logically decomposed. In more open-ended tasks, such as "build me an app," the results can be inconsistent unless the task is well-scoped or has extensive precedent (e.g., generating a simple Pong clone). In such cases, additional oversight and iterative refinement are often necessary.
What is it that you think this EO says? The first Trump administration went all the way to the Supreme Court to establish that he could coerce ALJs. There are already extensive internal checks on FTC, SEC, and FCC --- places where to exercise independent power those agencies still need the cooperation of DOJ.

There's a clear norms violation happening here, but I don't see the power grab everybody else is seeing. These are powers the Presidency already had.
The approximately a million dollars a year that it costs to run another copy.
Again, it's industry consensus that W7 is the best version of Windows. That, at least, is indisputably objective.
I'd rather have gridlock than Hitler.
Lying and blaming Ukraine for starting the war and taking sides with Russia puts blood on his hands.

That an aggressor nation can walk into another country's sovereign territory and annex it with the blessing of a sitting US president is a disgrace.
I don't get it either. Watching implementations on YouTube etc it primarily it feels like a load of verbiage trying to carve out a sub-industry, but the meat on the bone just seems to be defining discreet units of AI actions that can be chained into workflows that interact with non-ai services.
Actually, for me, this is both not and a little surprising. Not surprising because confirms that attractiveness in males is actually important to women (as a puny example of a man, have known this all my adult life, haha). But also it's a little surprising because (if remember correctly) there have been studies showing that success is supposed to be an important factor in how a woman views a man's attractiveness, that the more successful they are, the more attractive the man seems and vice versa. This makes biological sense, because a more successful man would mean more access to resources and status (And maybe not surprisingly, the reverse is not true, where men are evaluating woman's attractiveness. Success has little impact on attractiveness). Yeah, would think intelligence in men would have made a bigger impact...

...Although, attractiveness is of course tied to success as well, with more attractive people tending to be more successful than less, so maybe women are also picking up on this as well?
Well, yes, that's how the system works: a determined President can, in fact, grab as much power as the Supreme Court will allow. That's literally what the Supreme Court is there for.
No I'm not, I'm saying that if you want to compare a group to 1930s Germany you should look at the people who defended the Oct 7 attacks and who are against free speech
Hopefully not, besides quantum physics simulations the only problems they solve are the ones that should remain unsolved if we're to trust the integrity of existing systems.

As soon as the first practical quantum computer is made available, so much recorded TLS encrypted data is gonna get turned into plain text, probably destroying millions of people's lives. I hope everyone working in quantum research is aware of what their work is leading towards, they're not much better than arms manufacturers working on the next nuke.
>paint a very concerning picture

Donald Trump is trying to be dictator. He has been doing all but wearing a sign around his neck saying so for a long time. Please don't act surprised. It is not the time for quotes or being shocked at his actions.
I've built microscopes intended to be installed inside workcells similar to what companies like Transcriptic built (https://www.transcriptic.com/). So my scope could be automated by the workcell automation components (robot arms, motors, conveyors, etc).

When I demo'd my scope (which is similar to a 3d printer, using low-cost steppers and other hobbyist-grade components) the CEO gave me feedback which was very educational. They couldn't build a system that used my style of components because a failure due to a component would bring the whole system down and require an expensive service call (along with expensive downtime for the user). Instead, their mech engineer would select extremely high quality components that had a very low probability of failure to minimize service calls and other expensive outages.

Unfortunately, the cost curve for reliability not pretty, to reduce mechanical failures to close to zero costs close to infinity dollars.

One of the reasons Google's book scanning was so scalable was their choice to build fairly simple, cheap, easy to maintain machines, and then build a lot of them, and train the scanning individuals to work with those machines quirks. Just like their clusters, they tolerate a much higher failure rate and build all sorts of engineering solutions where other groups would just buy 1 expensive device with a service contract.
> Finally, it is not sufficient to have an army of parachute ninjas large or smart to drop into all the agencies in the executive branch. Many institutions of power are outside the government proper. Ninjas will have to land on the roofs of these buildings too—mainly journalism, academia and social media.

The author is quoting Yarvin's substack here.

Say what you will about reducing the federal workforce - are people really ok with this line of thinking?

The idea of running the govt in 'founder mode' sounds reasonable on paper, until you realize there are established rules that outline the roles of each branch of govt in a democracy.
We should be ok that these rules don't establish the most efficient govt, a worthy trade-off against the edge-cases.
Does this mean we are willing to live in a world with less variety of books and authors? meaning only to let those who really want to advance knowledge, and willing to do so with no monetary reward? feels like this would lead to to a slow down in knowledge production. It's not like there was a healthy and vigorous book publishing industry pre creation of copyright. We're ok with going back to that era?
On the other hand, mandatory rough surfaces on the floor of showers seem pretty reasonable.
Having a permanent bureaucracy that ignores directives from the executive only really benefits democrats (look at the Washington DC presidential vote totals). So this executive order is not a both sides thing, or about executive overreach.

Something like the REINS Act, forcing regulations to be voted on by congress, would be something that hurts both sides & prevents executive overreach.
This is not unlike saying that rape ceases to be rape when the victim stops resisting.

We have every reason to think that "ending the war" under Chief Cheeto will mean "capitulate to the aggressor," and Russia has already shown its eagerness to commit genocide against Ukraine and eradicate it culturally.

So he is indeed complicit. The unacceptable terms he wants or likely will suggest (and the unacceptable manner in which he pursues those terms, by negotiating without Ukraine's involvement) -- essentially Ukraine's surrender -- amount, by corollary, to a justification of further Russian aggression when Ukraine rejects them.
Sounds like revenge / threat / attack re Adams.
Yes and Cu and fiberglass and the resins are especially toxic too
The interstate highway in Manhattan is located much further north, between George Washington bridge and Alexander Hamilton bridge. It's far away from the congestion zone.
R is also far more popular than Lisp. According to TIOBE: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
R is #15 (1.06%), Lisp is #26 (0.54%).

So the existence of R is evidence that Lisp's syntax is a serious problem. If a language providing syntactic sugar has a significantly increased adoption rate, that suggests that the bitter pill of your syntax is a problem :-).

Language adoption is a complicated story. Many Lispers won't agree with me anyway. But I do think the poor uptake of Lisp demands an explanation. Its capabilities are strong, so that's not it. Its lack of syntactic sugar is, to me, the obvious primary cause.
Wish I was on Mars right now.
I miss how clear the sound was. Cellphones sound like absolute crap in comparison. I don't understand why.
In this poll, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-fascist-concern... , so called centrists overwhelmingly said he is.

The majority of the US population did not vote for him. Only a portion could vote, and only a portion of those voted, and out of those 49.9% voted for him.
While it seems to be true that it’s not open-source, they claim (in strong terms) that they use techniques other than reading the message to make that assessment:

https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/

They point out that the protocol’s end-to-end cryptographic guarantees are still open and in place, and verifiable as ever. As far as I can tell, they claim that they combine voluntary user spam reports and metadata signals of some sort:

> When a user clicks “Report Spam and Block”, their device sends only the phone number that initiated the conversation and a one-time anonymous message ID to the server. When accounts are repeatedly reported as spam or network traffic appears to be automated, we can issue “proof of humanity” checks to suspicious senders so they can’t send more messages until they’ve completed a challenge. For example, if you exceed a configured server-side threshold for making requests to Signal, you may need to complete a CAPTCHA within the Signal application before making more requests. This approach slows down spammers while allowing regular messages to continue to flow.

Does that seem unreasonable? Am I missing places where people have identified flaws in the protocol?
It's definitely bad that Democrats could not come up with a single candidate, and a strategy for that candidate, but held on to Biden and then presented Kamala as a saviour when she was a meh candidate at best
There's actually a documentary about the CIA's unknowing use of jazzs musicians to infiltrate African countries:

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_to_a_Coup_d'Etat

Louis Armstrong amung them...
NO and yes. The federal reserve is complex, technically a private banking cartel, but there is a lot of government control over it.
At the risk of sounding like an American stereotype, have you considered starting something like a GoFundMe to pay for the future surgery?

Also worth looking into clinical trials. Obviously not ideal to be a guinea pig, but sometimes you can find experimental treatment on these things and they won't charge you.
>What defines optimal load?

Uncomfortable but not painful, just like pretty much everything else physiology-related in life.
Completely incapable of governing is quite some hyperbole. IRA Act, CHIPs Act that got a TSM fab up in record time on American soil, Operation Warp Speed.

This kind of rhetoric really just feeds the beast.
Yes, and? That very “race to the bottom” is what drives progress. Yes, it’s much messier than having a central authority dictate everything. Such is life.

Making a product cheaper to produce without affecting what people care about (or, equivalently, improving the performance without increasing the cost) is what drives productivity growth, and the relentless competitive pressure to do so is what produced the modern world. It’s not fun or easy, and yes, sitting on your ass would be easier. Oh well!
https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html

"Aider now has experimental support for using two models to complete each coding task:

An Architect model is asked to describe how to solve the coding problem.

An Editor model is given the Architect’s solution and asked to produce specific code editing instructions to apply those changes to existing source files.

Splitting up “code reasoning” and “code editing” in this manner has produced SOTA results on aider’s code editing benchmark. Using o1-preview as the Architect with either DeepSeek or o1-mini as the Editor produced the SOTA score of 85%. Using the Architect/Editor approach also significantly improved the benchmark scores of many models, compared to their previous “solo” baseline scores (striped bars)."

In particular, recent discord chat suggests that o3m is the most effective architect and Claude Sonnet is the most effective code editor.
We meet the protesters who want to ban AGI before it even exists
Here is an idea: increase tax on properties worth more than 2M.
Or maybe increase income tax for people who make more than 500k a year?
Emergencies must be renewed annually by the President. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12170:

> The order was first declared on 14 November 1979 (EO 12170). At least 11 executive orders were based on this emergency state. The emergency, which was renewed in 2023 for the 44th time, is the "oldest existing state of emergency."
Except making a decent modem is indeed harder than start of art CPU. People loves to shit on Qualcomm but dont appreciate that amount of work involved.
I don't need high school level ideas, though. If people do, that's good for them, but I haven't met any. And if the quality of the ideas is going to improve in future years, that's good too, but also not demonstrated here.
FWIW I've heard even more vocal resistance to a taxpayer-funded straight-to-Mars mission. Artemis isn't without it's detractors, but on a relative scale it might simply be in the crosshairs for being too feasible.
> I think because of that very error - it’s not advocating that, but it’s so easy to think you must always be like that, when reading articles like this.

I've met hundreds of co-workers and literally none of them has ever advocated for an unbalanced work-life balance, except in the case of over-balancing towards life (that is, neglecting very reasonable duties at work, that are relied upon by others).

I've also read hundreds of thousands of HN comments, and very, very few of them advocate for a bad work-life balance or spending all of your time and energy at your job, being vastly outnumbered by comments calling for balance.

I don't see any evidence that "it’s so easy to think you must always be like that, when reading articles like this" - especially because only someone lacking basic critical thinking skills will think that a description of what something is, is advocating for doing that thing.
One time I heard someone say that people used to fall in love over the phone, but they don’t anymore.

I think it’s basically true.
Thanks for being such a part of joy for my wife and three children and how satisfying it was to witness and share in.
BRILLANT SPECTRE finds your joke in bad taste (/s)
Is that the cellphone itself or the environment where the phone is used?
Surely the title should indicate somewhere that this is about selecting partners (which I find to be a terribly dull topic).
Modularity. We could put all code in a single function, it is possible, but we prefer to organize it differently to make it easier to develop and reason about. Agents are similar
> While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term; developing trustworthy, open source AI to ensure technical and product relevance in the mid term; and creating online fundraising campaigns that will draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run

Not focusing on Firefox is what brought it to its state today, so what should Mozilla do? Focus even less on Firefox and instead on ads, AI and begging. Insane.

EDIT: As an aside, it looks like Mozilla's VC fund invested in the funding round[0] of one of the former board members[1] of mozilla.ai which is kinda weird.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/credo-ai-series-b--...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-i...
> I am independent and not a Democrat or a Republican because they are two sides of the same coin.

The only sense in which this is true: the GOP are fascist, racist authoritarians who have waged a decades-long war on the middle and lower class; the Democrats aren't.

If you think the Democrats and GOP are equally bad, you're out of your mind.
And social status?

Hypergamy (marrying up) is a thing in many cultures.

And then there's always the good ol' standby - sense of humour.
Then why did the administration not do that?

Because they cancelled congestion pricing with reasons different from yours.
It’s not your imagination, political articles that are normally flagged are being unflagged manually by dang. He discussed this recently.
here are links to additional discussions from the time of the change:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/mandatory-pin-is-signal-...

One of the few articles that talked about it at the time:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...

One of the many reddit posts by confused users who misunderstood the very unclear communications by Signal:
https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...
My understanding is that politicians are elected whereas bureaucrats are not.
Would that be from Iran?
The fact is that we are now years and years into hydrogen and we still have (almost) nothing to show for it. The number of electric cars and trucks vastly outnumbers the number of hydrogen cars and trucks. So the hydrogen people moved on to factories. But with the history of cars and trucks in mind, it will probably lead to nothing too. Also note that all hydrogen cars and trucks are funded by subsidies and still they one by one go out of favor. It just appears that it doesn't work. It's probably time to call it a day by now.
So pharmaceutical research is largely an engineering problem, of running experiments and synthesizing molecules as fast, cheap and accurate as possible ?
https://www.stopai.info/
>I think it's highly likely that the Democratic party will never govern the United States again.

I think they will when climate change comes knocking (I'm assuming the US will double down on carbon for some incredible short-term profit). Or at least some version of the democrats i.e. whatever is on the other side.
A better comparison is against a web framework like Next.js

Bun provides a full runtime for managing system operation writing JavaScript. Tuono is a web framework with the same API as Next.js but the server side is written in Rust.
I continue to be baffled by this kind of sentiment. I realize that today's LLM's aren't perfect. But, meanwhile, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT o3-mini-high are out there doing the jobs of multiple junior devs for just a few dollars per month.

What accounts for this massive gap in peoples' experiences using this technology?
Journalists launch legal action against Italian government over spyware claims
"We're not tolling the highway, we're just tolling the cars that come from the highway" is an obvious attempt to defeat the purpose of the rule.
* But how did something that seems as intrinsic as physical attractiveness could change in a generation (and so drastically)*

Influx of people with different genetics.

Even within the US in the 70's, there were subcultures where chest hair was not considered attractive. These subcultures tended to align fairly closely with certain ethnicities. Different people evolved to find different physical attributes attractive. Flat v curvy. Hairy v hairless. And on and on and on. These preferences concerted to evoke the different forms we see today.
Canada is prepared for the next step into the cryptonomic society
The parts of the industry that agrees with your opinion, you mean? Rather than the parts of the industry that disagreed. Such as the metrics offered by several other people on HN. Those people who also happen to be part of the industry too.

edit:

I noticed that you're not replying to my other question. Can i take it from that, that you're more interested in trolling than genuine discourse?
I went through my contacts and changed the default calling modality from phone to facetime audio for some of my frequently contacted family/friends. It's curious to me that iPhone's don't really surface the option to choose between "cellular" and "Facetime Audio" more prominently.
Protoclone, the first bipedal, musculoskeletal Android
Neither? It's however the voice is encoded over the cell network. Again, I don't understand why because there's more than enough signal to stream digital audio. It's like they haven't upgraded voice quality in 30 years despite this being an obvious market advantage.

Hell, you can still rig a physical handset to work with bluetooth + cellphone and it'll guaranteed sound terrible.

EDIT: phrasing, wording.
Middle managers look at that XKCD comic[1] and say "we need to buy out that guy in Nebraska and monetize it".

[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/
That's wild. My dentist was in that building for quite a while as well.
Modems are harder to get right than CPUs. A CPU needs to do math and work with digital data lines. A modem needs to talk to the mobile network, using radios, and a bunch of standards that were built up since the 90s.
SCOTUS bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for Trump's power grab. Its immunity-granting ruling means that it's extremely difficult to stop a President who decides to simply ignore the law.

Even if you think Trump is a "good guy" who is "doing the right thing", he's setting precedents whereby a President who is a "bad guy" could turn dictator, and then what? Literally the only option is impeachment, but the Senate has never convicted because there are enough senators who are afraid of a highly vindictive politician (and now his billionaire BBF) who __will__ go after them and whip up his base against them. If only they were more concerned about the country than their own re-election, but too few are willing to make that sacrifice.

(this couldn't be farther than the truth from all I've seen Trump do, but just entertaining the thought here)
Thanks hn community for being so smart
Link to hardware specifications provided by the manual, has good images:

https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/docs/te...
I'd say developing "evil" AI is a bad business idea. And if you really think that Mistral is not competitive then you clearly know so little about the AI landscape that it's hilarious that you think you're going to go develop some "evil" AI company.
> Tokyo has 8.9M people while LA has 3.9M people; half the number. Osaka (3rd largest) is 2.7M people while San Jose (3rd largest) is just under 1M people; again, half the number. The distance from Tokyo to Osaka is 500km, while from LA to San Jose is 550km. (In both cases, the 2nd largest city is nearby the largest.)

Paris has 2M people and Bordeaux has 1M people (sixth largest urban area in France), they are 500 km apart. How come France is able to operate a dedicated high-speed line between these cities? The third largest city on that line is Tours with 360k people or so.

California has almost the same population density as France, actually, but it's less spread out so just one line would be much more useful than a single line is in France.

Canada just announced a high-speed line project between Québec, Montreal and Toronto, by the way.
Maybe put even a few minutes of cursory research into any of those claims