skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This tutorial is focusing on the low-level internals of how agents are implemented

We have very different definitions of what "low-level" means. Exact opposites in fact. "Low-level" means in the inner workings. Like a low-level language is assembly (some consider C low-level but this is debatable), whereas Python would be high-level.

I don't think this tutorial is "near the metal" of LLMs nor do I think it should be considering it is aimed at "Dummies". Low-level would really need to get into the inner workings of the processing, probing agents, and getting into the weeds.
Australia spans, what, 40 odd degrees of latitude.

Where I’m at in Aus it’s day light till 10pm at the summer solstice.

No sun to really speak of at the winter solstice though.
That's why economics is the dismal science - it is impossible to isolate the variables.
Simple mistake and easy to fix :)
Show HN: Claude Code vs. Aider – Comparing Two Command Line Coding Utilities
I reviewed Anthropic's newly released Claude Code and compared it to Aider. CC has a great design, and I'll be using it sometimes (especially in large code bases), but I'm sticking with Aider as my primary tool for now. If you use LLM coding tools on the command line, then I hope you'll find this useful!
Can somebody explain how the queue of tickets going into the SCOTUS counter operates? Do they decide which ticket to take? Does the white house? Does nobody decide and its just random pick or is date to file driving the timeline?

And what determines full bench or a singleton or whatever?

Because the set of things defined as "going to SCOTUS" appears to be driven on input quite hard, but the rate of work and output is completely occluded to me.

I don't see how this, or almost any other act of the WH which uses emergency powers or ignores long standing process is NOT going into the courts.
Significant synergy as SoftBank is a major telco in Japan, and Ampere has been investing heavily into telco usecases like OpenRAN.

SoftBank is basically trying to own the entire RAN modernization stack - which is becoming a big part of what will become 6G.

Interesting times.
Nice, I’m particularly excited for the tiny models.
I love this - shout out from the Southern Hemisphere though - would love to see our version of it.
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Rust traps on overflow in debug mode, and does two’s compliment overflow in release mode. You can turn the traps on in release if you wish, but the cost is deemed too expensive to do so by default, especially when bounds are always checked, so it isn’t as severe of an issue in Rust.
This.

And 211: https://211utah.org/, 888-826-9790. They also have chat and text capability. 211 is "the most comprehensive source of local resources and services in Utah."

OP, good luck.
Phony CAPTCHA checks trick targets to download malware
Call and write your Congresspeople.
Picket a Tesla dealer.
Get vaccinated.
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training
I think it would make sense to have a safety briefing tag prominently displayed on the back of the headrests so passengers can read them. With a pointer to an expanded laminated safety card in the seat back pocket. Front seat passengers can have one in the sun visor.
It's not ironic that technologists use very barebones and minimal websites with minimal automation. It's telling.

I already ditched my smartphone last month because it was 100% spam, scammers, and bots giving me notifications.

Apparently it's too much to ask to receive a well-informed and engaged society without violence and theft. So I don't take anyone at their word and even less so would trust automated data mining, tracking and profiling that seeks to guide my decision making.

Buy me a drink first SV before you crawl that far up my ass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

> The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce
This is true and is essentially a form of arbitrage. Anthropic is eating the cost of your elevated queries with their $20 flat fee subscription.

The "famously huge API token costs" you are referring to is Cline passing the Anthropic API cost through to you with no markup. You even input your own API token.
This immigration employee did decide to classify this enriched hemp as a controlled substance, yes.

This doesn’t a crazy out of line interpretation of that 3% THC rule that seems like a legal hoop-hole, but it is just of the lack of enforcement of the law by other branches of the government that makes feel this way. It means to be accidental THC not laboratory enriched THC. Which is obviously the case here.
Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
I've noticed on HN that any post involving less wholesome takes on the US admin and/or doge leadership become brigaded quite heavily with more lower quality discourse than the normal fare.

It's a really interesting phenomenon. And I'm kind of surprised the community allows it.
Apparently the same is true for the modern form of male circumcision which removes much more of the foreskin than was done prior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Judaism,_Christiani...
it is of course not about that, maga could give two shits who is happy or sad. the whole exercise is too do silly shit in public to make people “outraged” while privately commiting the greatest heist in the history of the universe :)
I mean, the whole predator/prey paradigm proves this, no? Both sides will act sneaky and use crafty mechanisms to get ahead of each other
> This is how good things turn to crap: people want to be accommodated rather than have to learn something new.

Funny, this sounds more like an explanation for how we get stuck with crap and aren't able to move on to better interfaces.
Meshes are editable. Are Gaussian splats?
Huh? Forms do this all the time: fill out all of section A for identifying information and section B-1 for a new application or B-2 for a renewal. Append schedule F if you will be frobnicating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I’d model that with sum types any day of the week.
Facebook is a walled garden; it requires you to sign up before viewing most content. Quora, Instagram, and Pinterest are the same way.

> Another word is "walled gardens", and again, walled gardens are popular because unwalled gardens become slums.

Gardens are not walled off for the benefit of the users; they are instead walled off to benefit the network’s owners. There are three chief factors motivating owners to walk in their networks: Preventing rivals from scraping content or user data, encouraging users to sign up so that their activity can be monetized, and keeping content platform exclusive (most platforms will penalize content that has a competing platform’s watermarks on it).
Perhaps swearing at the LLM actually produces worse results?

Not sure if you’re being figurative, but if what you wrote in your first comment is indicative of the tone with which you prompt the LLM, then I’m not surprised you get terrible results. Swearing at the model doesn’t help it produce better code. The model isn’t going to be intimidated by you or worried about losing their job—which I bet your junior engineers are.

Ultimately, prompting LLMs is simply a matter of writing well. Some people seem to write prompts like flippant Slack messages, expecting the LLM to somehow have a dialogue with you to clarify your poorly-framed, half-assed requirement statements. That’s just not how they work. Specify what you actually want and they can execute on that. Why do you expect the LLM to read your mind and know the shape of nginx logs vs nginx-ingress logs? Why not provide an example in the prompt?

It’s odd—I go out of my way to “treat” the LLMs with respect, and find myself feeling an emotional reaction when others write to them with lots of negativity. Not sure what to make of that.
That's fair, for better or worse, I'm not going to spend my time proving it was hard.
I ran into this with cursor a lot. It would keep redoing changes that I explicitly told it I didn’t want. I was coding a game and it would assume things like the players gold should increment at a rate of 5 per tick, then keep putting it back when I said remove it!
Codegen is an MCP client that you can trigger via Slack: codegen.com
Thats crazy.

But maybe you guys need to adopt the inter suburban mindset.

Those charges are what an Australian in NSW would expect to pay for a long distance rail service. Something with food service. I remember paying 120 bucks for a Casino to Newcastle years ago.

But the NSW intersuburbans run on the same ticketing and pricing system as the suburban lines. Newcastle, which seems to be roughly the same distance from Sydney as Derby is from London, costs like 6 - 12 bucks. Walk on walk off, like any other train.

The biggest issue they have is that the new rolling stock is garbage. The older trains were costing too much to maintain but they were quite comfortable for 12 bucks.

Brisbane to Gympie is pretty cheap too tbh. Same deal, slightly different schedule but run as an intersuburban rather than another rail class.
> If you're doing something that is a) very well understood and b) affects the safety of the public, then this is where engineering tends to be heavily regulated.

No, not really. Regulation is a risk management tool. You regulate activities with a recognized risk to society in general and stakeholders in particular. Consequently, you have fields where it is obligatory to have paid inspectors to verify safety and quality based on the existing standards and guidelines, and even the bulk of the design process consists in running safety verifications to prove a project is safe and reliable based on standardized procedures.

This type of care for safety and reliability is not observed in software development circles. Faults and failures in general do not have a critical impact on society as a whole. The subject of testing and verifications, unlike in real engineering fields, is somehow a hotly contested debate. The primary implication of a fault or failure is downtime, whose only concerned party is the service operator. The only resources wasted addressing faults and failures are man*hour from people already on payroll. This leads to what would represent, in real engineering fields, critical process failures that could cause a project to fail and even cost lives.

As it is software development, critical failures are acceptable and tolerated. A major crash at worst costs some engineer some time to sort out and recover. Seeing a rocket explode can bankrupt some companies and end peoples careers.

It's mind numbingly stupid to extend software development principles and practices to real engineering fields. The resources spent are not the same, nor are the implications of failure. Stakes are much higher, and naturally so is scrutiny and consequences.
You can glue it with home assistant right now, but it’s not a simple docker compose. Piper TTS and Kokoro were the main 2 voice engines people are using.

Orpheus would be great to get wired up. I’m wondering how well their smallest model will run and if it will be fast enough for realtime
No it is why malicious research designed to mislead is useless. This research was done with the goal of reaching a particular conclusion, clearly. You can do that with any subject.
I agree, that's how I feel exactly about both forums. My cleverness-on-HN remark was auto-referring to my cheeky vow-of-silence comment, which I felt proud of while writing and then a little stupid about while posting ;)
> Vogtle actual costs are already competitive with actual renewables costs

No. At $160/MWh? Maybe competitive with renewable costs 15 years ago. Most certainly not with renewable cost now (and those still trend down).

> build times are vastly better than the 25 year timeline you're calling a "best case scenario" here

That timeline is for finishing one plant at currently speed, and then planning and finishing a ton of new reactors within 5 year buildtimes directly after. But I see zero confidence that this is actually realistic, not even from the the companies that just finished building Vogtle...
Did you made this site?
Nope, it’s not that. I’ve seen this behavior with a worn cable and a brand new device.
Wonder if one could use muography to detect passing submarines
Increasing rental taxes will actually lower housing purchase prices in capacity constrained markets. In such markets, landlords are already demanding the maximum amount their renters can bare. By increasing taxes, the total rent paid by the renters doesn’t increase, but the amount going to the landlords decrease - driving down the price of housing stock. Politicians should be advocating for raising rental taxes, instead they’ve been captured by the rent seeking landlords who fund their campaigns.
That's a lot of words to rant at someone performing the most basic principles of capitalism, which is voting with their wallet.
It also includes "Somaliland" which apparently is only somewhat recognized by China.
I'd agree that sometimes privacy can be orthogonal to the manufacturer's interests, but that sounds like a complete conspiracy theory that doesn't pass Occam's razor.

What benefit would phone manufacturers have from their devices being trackable via Bluetooth, or if it's not themselves, who is paying them for it?

Also, I'd love to see an answer to my original question: How exactly do you track a stock iPhone or Pixel with Bluetooth enabled? Neither transmit a persistent identifier, and none of the technologies linked change anything about that. They require explicit cooperation of an app on the device side, which is gated behind a prompt on both iOS and Android.

Your last link actually suggests the opposite: Bluetooth beacons allow apps to position themselves more accurately indoors and then do with that information whatever they want – if you grant that permission in the first place.
The blocking function at the moment is apparently that they still want some fishing rights and free movement for their younger people (up to 30) for this 150B.

The larger 1T budget doesn't seem to have those restrictions, so perhaps the UK will be allowed to play in that group. For the time being, given that a lot of European arms are at least partly UK-designed, it's going to be a bit murky. I presume that's where the 65% thing comes in.
> Uh, clearly you don’t know the history of the space race? Or any wartime project ever?

Comparing the tradeoffs if war with the tradeoffs of running a business is absurd. I can't put to words how silly this comparison is.
I guess technically I mean more of a fitness tracker watch. Having connectivity to my phone isn't important because I can't take my phone into the places I can't take my current smart watch. I have a Garmin Vivoactive 5 that I used to wear, but having to take it off before going to certain meetings got to be such a hassle that I just got myself a Casio 593 to just not have to worry about it.

A nice bedside dock in which I could mount the watch and have it sync data at that point would round the whole thing out.
TBH, politics is and should be taken elsewhere because it is much more important than most of what we discuss here and therefore could easily crowd out everything else.
The harder bit is the streaming response format - that's changed a bunch, and my tool supports both streaming and non-streaming for both Python sync and async IO - so there are four different cases I need to consider.
Luxury cars are much cheaper than they were. Any new car today would have been a luxury car a couple of decades ago.
The two broad things I see are that academia has for years been claimed to be an extreme-left wing indoctrination complex, increasingly broadly targeted as things like climate change denial became Republican loyalty tests, and medicine became a special focus as anti-vaccination became a core belief. This works as a political ad telling people that they’re really hurting their enemies.

The other big goal is probably financial: they really want to give rich people tax cuts, and there’s no way to do that without cutting social programs like Medicaid which even their voters want left untouched. They appear to be continuing to claim that there is so much waste and fraud that they’ll be able to pay for it by cutting that, and hoping that people will be distracted until it’s too late. Based on the 2017 version, I’m expecting some kind of time-delay where the tax cuts kick in immediately but cuts aren’t forced until after some very “optimistic” growth predictions fail to materialize.
>If you want to see the US rapidly lose its place in the tech world over the next decade, this is a great way to go about it.

Too late, unless DOGE is stopped now and Trump is impeached, the US will lose its lead in tech and health (pharma) and many other industries. Pure and simple. Already the smartest of the smart are leaving the US for Europe and probably China.

If this is allowed to continue, in 6 months to a year, the US will be isolated and a third rate economy. All it will have is a first class war machine, which will not bode well for the world.
That's all wonderful, but we still had 107K people die of OD last year. In part because Biden let everyone in from Mexico.
>“Please provide a password protected attachment that provides your full name, your dates of employment (including date of termination), and one other identifying factor such as date of birth or social security number,” the message reads. “Please, to the extent that it is available, attach any termination notice.”

>The message didn’t specify how affected CISA employees should share the password for any attached files, so the implicit expectation is that employees should just include the plaintext password in their message.

I guess if you fire the guys who know how to use computers ... this is what happens.

The scale of incompetence with the Trump administration knows no end...
I think we’re mostly on the same page. An extended discussion on particulars is out of scope here, but I’ll try to clarify what I meant:

In the course of my lifetime, I have witnessed relatively little open dissent, public or private, by persons who profess to be Catholic, regarding christology and other beliefs expressed in the Nicene creed, recited during every Sunday Mass. Sure, there is some, if you have particular conversations. But I’ve never witnessed any fuming on those matters in the local or inter/national news. A huge number of folks in the pews who grew up post 1960s are very poorly catechized thanks to the multi-decade Silly Season that left many of a couple of generations of Catholics (up to today) confused at best. So in many cases, regarding christology, the sacraments, etc., people aren’t sure what a lot of it means, so they’re not in much of a position to dissent on those points (to be heretics re: those teachings), they’re just clueless.

That is in contrast to the open specific informed dissent, even rancor, public and private, around topics such as marriage and premarital sex, artificial contraception, homosexuality, abortion, IVF, and related. And that’s been going on for ~50 years now, so I assert the rampant heresies of our time are clustered around Church teaching on those matters.
Databases aren't the enemy. Databases you don't control are. I'd much rather have any structured data in a sqlite db than a quasi-bespoke format, even if that format is "plain text"
North Korea Downed by Faulty ROA
I use LLMs quite a bit (as you can see, for example, on my stream). I also consume a lot of podcasts, YouTube videos, Wikipedia articles, and books.

My personal take is LLMs and podcasts are not great for research. Wikipedia is generally outstanding for science and related topics, although it's clearly astroturfed on topics about companies and some political topics. Podcasts typically cover things very shallowly but can sometimes be useful if there's a topic well served by the interview-a-day format. YouTube has a lot of treasure but you need to be able to search and not get distracted by clickbait.

LLMs function exceptionally as next generation search engines. But their knowledge for research bottoms out very quickly unless you know a lot about the subject and are able to prompt it effectively.

For example, I asked ChatGPT o1 your question about suburbs and its answer was basically total nonsense. The third theory it mentions was white flight and the post WWII era, which can't possibly explain why suburbs exist internationally and have since ancient times. There's probably a better prompt where you define what a suburb is and why you're interested in it and otherwise give it some good parameters and it gives you some more relevant information.

BTW I more or less agree that foundational texts can be very important to read. Not always, of course, but often enough that if you read a lot you should consider it. Often I find they bring considerable clarity to a subject.
I get the isolation the contractors provide but why can't one audit the contractors?
"Codebases, docs, large corpses of internal datasets"

I still haven't seen a convincing demo of using fine-tuning to "teach" a model new information from additional documents. I'd love to see one.

(Closest I've come to that is I heard a rumor that Jane Street have fine-tuned an LLM for OCaml)
I’m really hopeful for the future of Intel’s GPU pipeline. B580 proved there is an audience for their parts.

If a C770 or C970 card can prove to be a contender like B580 is at the respective price point then people will buy them.
> And again something you can't discount here is that Eric himself has written extensively about NASA frequently carrying out/endorsing poor decisions (SLS/Artemis being the low hanging fruit there) owing much more to political pressure than pragmatic decisions about the best direction for progress.

The reason he was able to write about this was that he had sources within NASA that would tell him the inside story behind the decisions, and how much politics influenced them. Now his sources are telling him that this decision was not political. I don't have any reason to trust his previous sources but not his current ones (especially when many are the same).
Can you please elaborate on the Chinese advantage?
The surest rent control is widespread availability of affordable, ownable housing.

But that would require builders to build affordable homes, which is the same effort and lower profit than building luxury.
Just to be clear, your entire comment is the Muslim view on why Jews have these laws.

Jews don’t consider themselves evil.

Also the Torah has no view on Muslims because Islam didn’t exist yet when the Torah was written.
Is anyone in this process concerned with the actual folks impacted by HP's actions?

Any of the attorneys, the judge?
From some of the interviews i saw at B580’s launch, it seems like Intel know the shortcomings of the Alchemist and Battlemage architectures, but weren’t able to change them before launch.

Of course these are parts that have been in the works for several years now. They’ve had time to see what Nvidia and AMD are doing with their competitive products
kinda but not really in a meaningful way, at least not yet. there's some plugins for popular 3D software but it's still early days.
I assume that’s for interactive viewing only, not for generation.

> Our method takes
6.25 seconds to reconstruct one scene on a single H100 NVIDIA GPU or 15 seconds on an A100.