skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance, in customer service, an RL agent might discover that sometimes asking a clarifying question early in the conversation, even when seemingly obvious, leads to much better resolution rates. This isn’t something we would typically program into a wrapper, but the agent found this pattern through extensive trial and error. The key is having enough computational power to run these experiments and learn from them.

I am working on a gpt wrapper in customer support. I’ve focused on letting the LMs do what they do best, which is writing responses using context. The human is responsible for managing the context instead. That part is a much harder problem than RL folks expect it to be. How does your AI agent know all the nuance of a business? How does it know you switched your policy on returns? You’d have to have a human sign off on all replies to customer inquiries. But then, why not make an actual UI at that point instead of an “agent” chatbox.

Games are simple, we know all the rules. Like chess. Deepmind can train on 50 million games. But we don’t know all the rules in customer support. Are you going to let an AI agent train itself on 50 million customer interactions and be happy with it sucking for the first 20 million?
>We’ve already onboarded a few companies....with other standout folks and supercharge your network.

As soon as I read 'onboarded', and 'supercharge your network', I gave up (being young[er], I guess).
We built Soonly (https://soonly.com) for doing exactly this! Build meaningful friendships with simple text reminders.

It’s amazing how much value compounds from simply and consistently investing in your relationships over the course of your life.
Sharing here so people can enjoy it too. I've created a GitHub repository packed with 44 different tutorials on how to create AI agents. It is sorted by level and use case. Most are LangGraph-based, but some use Sworm and CrewAI. About half of them are submissions from teams during a hackathon I ran with LangChain. The repository got over 9K stars in a few months, and it is all for knowledge sharing. Hope you'll enjoy.
My hobby project languages of choice these days are Kotlin multiplatform and Go, not JS, but there are multiple things I've worked on over the past year that I would have open sourced in the past but won't now because I'm not interested in freely helping with the big LLM slurp.

I'm not ideologically against LLMs as a technology or the usage of them, but I do believe there is an inherent unfairness in the way a small set of companies have freely hoovered up all of this work meant to enhance the public commons (often using the most toxic and anti-social web crawling robots imaginable) while handwaving away what I believe are important copyright considerations.

I'd rather just not release my own source code anymore than help them continue to do that.
All things being equal it does, although the mix that divers breathe is tuned to account for higher partial pressures to avoid Oxygen toxicity. Even then I believe the pressure still leads to higher saturation of all gasses, oxygen included.
My brother wrote an essay on how to work with "stupid" people (which starts with recognizing they're not stupid).

https://jasoncrawford.org/how-to-work-with-stupid-people
If we have the luxury of assuming the hardest parts of the problem are already solved, then sure! The rest is trivial.
Unix-nature loves malicious argument and code injection vulnerabilities, while C brings its own set of issues such as buffer overflows.
I would like to say this as unambiguously as possible. You either have a skill issue, or you are deliberately solving problems other than the thing you actually want to solve, which you do not mention.
This has been illegal in America for almost two decades.
Or just use git over https. And heck, if that's such a big problem, switch to a vcs that you can properly manage
Mandatory XKCD.[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1234/
Sure, 273.15K ± something.
Suppose I want to do this with my laptop, and dump my drive to the cloud (say accessible via SSH) to reinstall another operating system overwriting it. It's likely that the new operating system won't touch most of the blocks in my drive, so when restoring after having passed the boundary I don't want to transfer those unchanged blocks. Is there a good tool to do that easily?
how to flush all this shit away?
so they will have to learn to swim.
People need a book on how to make a friend?

Sorry, this is never going to work...
LinkedIn has become Facebook Pro.
Now check housing prices over that time.
The problem with the belay test as it exists today is that it tests whether you know all the peculiarities of each gym's beliefs around things like the exact order your hands should move when taking slack, whether tails on figure 8s are important (if so, how long, and what kind of knot may or must terminate them), whether the length of the belay loop matters, and so on. These things change seemingly on a whim and aren't always motivated by good evidence.

I learned to belay at Vertical World in 2005 and would fail Vertical World's belay test today, for multiple reasons, if I used the same method they themselves taught me!

Meanwhile, as you point out, no test can determine whether or not a person will be paying attention during an actual climb.
Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship
So now we can CoreBoot these boards?
I feel like any LinkedIn alternative is doomed to end the same way. Because most of its problems come from corporate culture itself.
What you describe has echoes of allowing api lookups and such during an interview. Or if it's ide or repl only, or something like whiteboarding.

You see the process and the questions they ask and evaluate how they distill the responses. The more you let the candidate use sources, the closer it is to day-to-day work.

A somewhat similar equivalent to yesterday's copying and pasting a Stack Overflow or w3 schools solution is blindly copying and pasting a chat response from a quick and vague prompt.

But someone who knows how to precisely prompt or use the correct set of templates is someone with more critical thinking skills that knows when to push back or modify the suggested solution.

Knowing the small % of difference can make a big difference long term in code readability, reliability, and security.

The other big alternative to all of this is strict debugging. A debugging test or chain of thought around quickly identifying and fixing the source of problems. This is a skill whose needs will probably increase over time.
> Evolved knowledge, the group that stumbled into a pig taboo just happened to be more successful than the group without

This doesn't really track though. Because by this logic, polygamous religions would have overtaken monogamous ones. Or religions like Jainism and Buddhism would have not lasted as long as they did. Religions are not solely evolutionary, nor are the customs and traditions of cultures over time. They aren't genetic traits that evolutionary theory applies to them.

Also consider, nothing about Judaism is disadvantageous by your logic but it has become a small minority religion largely as a result of persecution over the ages. There's not an evolutionary aspect there.
This is the Q1 data release: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/euclid-q1-data-release
This paper gives an overview: https://pubs.euclid-ec.org/public/coordinated_release/aussel...
See figure 4 for an overview of the data processing.

The “non-quick” Data Release 1 is planned for October 2026: https://euclid.caltech.edu/page/data-release-timeline
Eh, it's a great tool, but I'm still interested in understanding the world rather than proudly being incurious of it.
Finally - but it will make Claude even better for coding
After how many slaps in your face will you raise your hands? Europe tried peace with Russia and Russia invaded country after country over the past decades. Where would you draw the line?
you realise that something's not just clickbait because you don't understand it? Huione is a behemoth in the laundering-sphere; it's intrinsically linked to Cambodian scam compounds, as well as handling every single step of the wash process in-house. These guys don't just receive the stolen funds, but they link international clients with mules across literally thousands of Telegram groups before converting said currency into the Hui-one coin and then onto Tether. All of this is done within Hui-one's infrastructure.

If you'd bothered to do just one iota of research into any of the topics covered in the article, you may have stumbled across chainanalysis' report on them from last year. Elliptic, also mentioned, have done comprehensive reports on them. Lazarus Group, who recently stole around a billion from Bybit, frequently move funds through these guys, so did Conti, and many of the other big cyber-threat groups.

To your point around it being a huge cost to the scammers, that's a given. Effective laundering is expensive because organised crime groups are most vulnerable at this particular stage of the fraud. A massive decentralised network of groups that can match criminals to a steady flow of international bank accounts that can handle fraudulent funds is pricless.
I think alot of the fastest moving and innovative companies right now are generating most code with ai. the ones who ignore this will be left behind
Protograph: A collection of graphic representation of various protocols
> Europe should stop its mad self-destruction and descent into totalitarianism (stated by Vance on several occasions).

If your source is Vance, I would suggest you question it.

Most of the world is currently looking and worrying at the US becoming an oligarchy. Who is talking about "Europe descending into totalitarianism"? The sentence does not even make much sense, as Europe is not a country. I'm not even sure if Vance is aware of it.

When you genuinely think that everybody else is wrong and you are right, maybe it's time to take a step back.
Reminded me of this clip :-p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLWLysI2LSE
> justify the additional complexity of a distributed architecture

Was your system built in a vacuum? I have to go back about 10 years for a system where we could choose for it not to be distributed (i.e. succeed or fail based on how well it handled messaging between partners)
> It's like cheaters in school who use AI software and other tools. It would be less work to just study.

It's not about the amount of work. If it were about the amount of work then ADHD would hardly exist.
That's such a great project! But I'd love to see a proper VST with it, that allows voice mixing. The power of organs lays in the analog voice mixing (not simple on off, and not one voice exclusively)
The intent was to indicate that part of your problem might lie in what you believe and how that impacts the effect of any placebo.

I have no desire or need to prove anything on the internet. I provided enough information for a motivated person to determine what was said and apply it themselves.
> Is that really true 120 years ago? We have a lot of hindsight bias, but things really weren’t amazing for the average person in the US even one hundred years ago.

I didn't say they were. I said they had better jobs to go to than working in the fields. I'm not saying their lives were better than ours are now. Obviously not.
The bitter lesson would suggest eventually the LM agent will train itself, brute force, on something and extract the context itself. Perhaps it will scrape all your policy documents and figure out which ones are most recently dated.
In fairness, we did get r/LinkedInLunatics out of LinkedIn, and I thoroughly enjoy that.
I had high hopes for the recent Homeworld 3 "reboot" of the series but apparently they butchered it
If it means they sell more iPhones it might not really be a loss. If it keeps competitors on their back foot it might not be a loss. If it keeps Hollywood sweet such that that only the bad guys in movies have Android phones it might not be a loss.

It's like trying to put a rational value on everything in the Amazon Prime bundle, it means something different to everybody.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
You said two conflicting things. HN and reddit is average Joe speaking their mind. The problem is not the average Joe, but the influencer culture where users are incentivised to increase their numbers.
My guess is that job requirements will grow even larger, so it will be better for people who like jumping around between front-end, back-end, infrastructure, database, product, support, testing, and management duties. You'll have to resist any uncomfortable feelings of not being good at any one thing, much less mastering it. Naturally, they won't ask non-technical staff and managers to suddenly become technical and learn to code with AI.

In the grander scheme of things, what matters is if their products can still sell with AI coders making it. If not, then companies will have to pivot back to finding quality - similar to offshoring to the cheapest, getting terrible developers (not always) and a terrible product, then having to rehire the team again.

If the products do sell with AI coders, then you have to reckon with a field that doesn't care about quality or craftsmanship and decide if you can work like that, day-in-day-out.
I have difficulty debugging proc macros. If I need to output some data to aid in debugging a derive macro, the only way I could think of to make that happen was to make it panic with the data as part of the message. This feels like a very clunky way to debug.
Whoa.

Didn’t know that.
Which makes no sense, because if you have a backdoor, it opens the way for adversaries to access your data. You don't improve your national security by weakening its encryption.
Oops, sorry! Wasn’t trying to make you look bad. Just a fan of your writing.
Sounds great, even from so limited a platform. One octave is enough to have some fun with, if you're creative. Would have been nice to be able to combine the stops, but the plenum at least gives you a solid sound. You can really hear the character of the organ.
I understand many do not always have a choice, but if one did, why would they ever willing go back to a former employer?
As far as I know, invading other countries and bombing civilians is an informal requirement for friendship with the EU.

We've been friends for decades with the US, Israel, Turkey, and more, after all.

I understand Russia is a bit low in terms of amount of civilians killed, but we could make an exception for them if it avoided WWIII.
IRS nears deal with ICE to share data of undocumented immigrants
Every organisation does, whether it's a formal list or not.

Government agencies have stricter requirements than private companies when it comes to flagging people as not-for-rehire, but not even they will welcome you back if you get fired for cause.
Nope. The devil is in the details.

You're looking at the nameplate capacity. However, for solar the actual capacity factor can be anywhere from 10-25% of that. So you're looking anywhere from ~25-70GW of the average capacity. Nuclear reactors can operate at 90-95% capacity factors.

And the unsolved problem is storage. Right now, solar can partially replace natural gas and, to a lesser extent, coal.
Adding missing features. I'm pretty sure if users are searching for swimming pools they'd rather have a swimming pool with slightly bent sides than none at all.
Did it once (after a few years and major org changes). It turned out to be a great way of rediscovering why I left in the first place.
truth is like a miracle, in that it is very hard to demonstrate, and might even take generations of effort, to finaly prove and describe something that is still hard to understand ,demonstrate and believe for anyone else.
but a lie,like sin, is right there, the very worst lie can have power instantly, and unlike miracles, the most abhorant sin takes no real effort at all
Yep and that’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid.

Openspot has no algorithm, no feed, and no pressure to post daily. It’s not about creating content for engagement — it’s about helping people show their real value in a more human way than a PDF resume or a keyword-stuffed LinkedIn profile.

You don’t need to “game” anything — a short video intro, a demo of your work, or just a few lines about what you’re great at is often enough to stand out. That’s the whole point: quality signals over content farming.
It might. But it might make the founder rich en route to that doom.
NeXTSTEP forked Mach at version 2.5

Various sources state that they rebased to OSF Mach Kernel 7.3, which was based on Mach 3 and parts of Mach 4. The OSF MK ancestry of macOS XNU can still be seen in paths:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/main/osf...
I realized today while coding with cursor that AI seems to operate exactly the way I intuit it does, which is it acts like a junior engineer who works by copying existing code but doesn’t understand why. For a lot of tasks that works great, I do this a lot as a senior engineer, but I know when not to. you can’t let it run wild, because it doesn’t know when not too.
I organized a 10-day game of tag with 10 of my college friends
Totally get that — video fatigue is real, especially when it’s everywhere and often meaningless.

We’re not pushing video as a requirement — it’s just one option for people who want to show more personality or communicate things that don’t come across in text. Some folks prefer writing, some showcase projects or code — all of that works on OpenSpot.

The idea is to give people more ways to be seen for who they are, not force everyone into the same format.
The Case for AP Engineering Credit
Isn't it common to run OSes on desktop/server environment inside hypervisors? That means the OS itself can be transparently virtualized or preempted, and access to physical hardware can be transparently passed to the virtualized OSes. This can be accomplished today with minimal impact to performance on user experience.

The fact that this can be done with OS code not explicitly designed for this signals to me that there are no roadblocks to having a high-performing general purpose microkernel running our computers.
Haha well it's pretty hard to start big if you don't have the money lol. And thanks! I just want to see our machines get smarter and to get people to be open to trying more ideas. Until we actually have AGI I think it's too early to say which method is going to definitely lead us there
Remember the scene in Real Genius when the students left tape recorders instead of attending class? And then the professor did the same?

I find it ironic that school districts are grading performance with AI and using it for teaching (like Amira)
Gran Turismo 3 – Suzuki Escudo 2,147,483,647 MPH wheelie glitch
https://www.hauptwerk.com/ is paid software but has a few Schnitger organs, although not the one shown off here.
ElevenLabs' Carles Reina: Building Moats in AI
Yes, exactly. This is on an iPhone, to be clear. Maybe the control center on iPads has an equivalent software toggle? Sorry, that probably isn't very helpful.
DO you have commercially available examples of this setup? While I agree there's no technical reason this wouldn't work when doing research for our generator all the hole house generators use a transfer switch so it's either running the entire house completely disconnected from the grid or turned off and running the house from the grid. Solar didn't make sense for us given the costs and our time horizon, but it's always been something I've been interested in. A solar system with a natural gas generator backup to charge the batteries would be nice, especially for shorter outages so we wouldn't need to hear the generator running.
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I've been using AI for code for more than two years already, the auto-completion is a nice help that I'm willing to pay for, but every time I try anything that's harder than the basics it completely falls flat.

It doesn't surprise me though, most of the people working on this are the same that had been promising self-driving cars. But that proved to be quite hard, and most of them moved on to the next thing which is this. So maybe a decade from now we'll be directing AIs instead of writing code. Or maybe that will also be difficult, and people will have moved on to the next thing they will fail to replace with AI.
I recently tried something similar: first I had an in depth chat with Claude in Claude desktop about the system and its requirements and design considerations. Then I asked it to draw up a design doc and component and sequence diagrams and abstract interfaces (using MCP tools to write to files and generate the diagrams).

I reviewed. We discussed these and finetuned them. Then I asked for a spec for implementation.

I gave the spec to Claude code to implement.

The first implementation had a key problem due to a misunderstanding of a new feature in a key API that the system is building on.

After reviewing it, I updated the spec with specific API version information as well as a clarification of the new feature - about half a page of spec.

I rolled back the first implementation. Asked for the base of the project with specifics more to my liking (choice of webserver, some packages layout decisions, etc.) then asked it to implement the spec again.

I got a pretty good implementation - still reviewing and testing it.

All in all: in one weekend 6h session I got done what probably would have taken me a month or two of weekends to do.
The company that gets this right is going to be worth billions. Good luck!

I am quietly laughing at the idea that you’ll eventually start thinking of ways to scale this up, and probably start implementing AI code review to do it.
It’s not really about how the compute-intensive resources come to bear. You can draw a parallel to Moore’s law. Node advancement is one of the most expensive and cutting edge efforts by humanity today. But it’s also simultaneously true that software companies have succeeded or failed by betting for or against computers getting faster. There are famous examples of companies in the 80’s that designed software that was simply not usable on the computers on hand when the project began, but was incredible on the (much faster) computers of launch day.

The bitter lesson is very similar. In essence, when building on top of AI models, bet on the AI models getting much faster and more capable.
I've heard good things about "The Other Significant Others" by NPR's Rhaina Cohen (with the disclosure that the author is the partner of a friend of mine)

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250333025/theothersignifi...
People were claiming the Russian military buildup and troop massing did not mean they would invade right up until the day they did.
Did they have due process? No? In that case we have *no idea* what actually happened.
Why would they be more powerful than their governments? It's the government forcing them to ban (or else, the fines), the government is in a position of power here.

The people on the other hand should demand their government to do what they (the people) wan't, and yes, people should be more powerful than the government, even if it's something like a piracy dns ban.
That’s a really interesting take — and I think you're onto something. A lot of the frustration comes from signal getting drowned out by noise, especially when everyone's trying to "perform" professionally.

With OpenSpot, we decided to skip the feed entirely. Instead of trying to fix the feed, we just removed it. No likes, no endless scrolling, no performance metrics — just individual profiles curated around quality signals.

It’s not about restricting average Joe, but about giving real talent — whether loud or quiet — a space to be discovered for what they do, not how often they post.
> Though he couldn’t recall the specific hunter who gave him the biohazardous bounty, he remembered handling the raw meat and blood with his bare hands—a clear transmission risk—before cooking and eating it.

Well, of course he could perfectly recall, but he's not going to rat out his friend.