skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think LLM's plugin architecture is a better bet for supporting model providers than the way LiteLLM does it.

The problem with LiteLLM's approach is that every model provider needs to be added to the core library - in https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/tree/main/litellm/llms - and then shipped as a new release.

LLM uses plugins because then there's no need to sync new providers with the core tool. When a new Gemini feature comes out I ship a new release of https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini - no need for a release of core.

I can wake up one morning and LLM grew support for a bunch of new models overnight because someone else released a plugin.

I'm not saying "LLM is better than LiteLLM" here - LiteLLM is a great library with a whole lot more contributors than LLM, and it's also been fully focused on being a great Python library - LLM has also had more effort invested in the CLI aspect than the Python library aspect so far.

I am confident that a plugin system is a better way to solve this problem generally though.
I suspect that the Ace would have failed quickly in the market, at least as an end-user machine, even if it had matched the ZX Spectrum for graphics and memory. It was extremely difficult to corrupt memory in BASIC unless one got too eager with POKE; but every memory set in Forth is basically a POKE.

Might have been a popular hobbyist machine, though.
Why DOGE is dismantling the CFPB
A new vacuum can alert you to incoming text messages. Why?
The cross-region replication I’ve seen for S3 (including the link you’ve provided) is fundamentally different from a dual-region GCS bucket. AWS is providing a way to automatically copy objects between distinct buckets, while GCS is providing a single bucket that spans multiple regions.

It’s much, much easier to code against a dual-region GCS bucket because the bucket namespace and object metadata are strongly consistent across regions.
I'm sure many people have equated "typing code faster" with velocity, productivity, and execution speed. But I am not doing it.

I'm saying that given N developers, if they all type code faster, you get more code. From the linked text: "Will this translate into a net increase of actual value or just an accumulation of slop and technical debt? Regardless of the answer, there will be more raw code."

The argument I'm making is based on more volume of code. Not on quality, value, etc. of whatever that code is doing.

On your point about nobody having thought "my problem is that can't type fast enough". The problem "shit, I'd know what I want, I'd rather spend 10 minutes typing than 1 hour" is real. An LLM allows you to say "I want a piece of code that does X" and it hydrates that into the 500 lines of code. You materialize the thing faster.

Now. Yes we can go back to your point. Was that idea good? Is the code good enough? etc. Those are valid questions, but orthogonal to my point. My point is not about the quality of outputs etc. It's about "this thing helps you churn more code, and throw it to the systems that digest code".
This should be a $4.99 app on a smartphone and/or desktop and doesn't take up any space.

Related but different better time/social management physical device for cube land would be an Arduino, a button, and an 4-7 color andon tower representing states such as:

- Working

- Lunch or errand (will return)

- Out-of-office (not returning for the day)

- Working remotely

- DND

- Open to socializing

- On vacation

And then a glossary for definitions posted prominently on the cube/office and on the intranet portal personal page. No app, no internet connectivity, no security vulnerabilities, no complexity, and <$20.
I wonder what, if any, HIPAA fines will apply to Blue Shield if they're found to have inadvertently exposed PHI.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-violation-fines/
Matheus Pedroni released a really clever plugin for doing that with LLM the other day: https://mathpn.com/posts/llm-docsmith/

You run it like this:

llm install llm-docsmith
llm docsmith ./scripts/main.py

And it uses a Python concrete syntax tree (with https://pypi.org/project/libcst/) to apply changes to just the docstrings without risk of editing any other code.
> Share the webcam link or ring them up on the telephone if we are (jokingly) going traditional.

Why not make it more convenient for them and pipe the webcam stream through a script that OCRs it on change (or on timer) and makes it available as an .ical file that others can import via a link?

Also it's 2025, you can do it fast and robust by piping it through an LLM instead, with a prompt like "turn this calendar image into an .ical file pretty please".

/s, but only a little :). I've honestly thought of doing that for real, except with a feed of my laptop screen, to sync availability (busy/free) info from my work calendar to my family one, because it's way easier than trying to argue the point with corporate IT.

(I've changed jobs since then, and now I'm using a lazy hack on top of some random Fastmail-friendly cloud app.)
I can see that you are just focused on racist talking points about immigration and any discussion here will be very unproductive and just a wast of our bandwidth.
I wonder if that's because of the two different ways you can spit: without windup ("tuf" sound) and with windup / breathing in ("hff-tuf" sound).
Garfield Minus Garfield has the same bleak sense of desolation as Goya's "The Dog". Just wonderful.
Dumber than median*
Are you fucking kidding me? You get interrupted reading this shit by a pop up asking you for your information?
The issue is that the other side is actual fascism. There is significantly-above-zero threat that the "reward" America will get for getting the Democrats to "learn their lesson" is that they never get to usefully vote for a candidate again.

I would have preferred if the GOP hadn't put actual fascism on the table so that people had meaningful choice over policy (and, indeed, had Trump lost, perhaps it would be the GOP who would've learned their lesson that Americans won't tolerate fascism). But since they did, and America chose the GOP choice, we're now in a situation where the best we can hope for in 2028 is a vote to reject fascism instead of something better.

I don't think that gets us pointed in the right direction, sadly.

(In the larger sphere, the problem is people thinking all they can or should do is vote for President. There's a whole four years and several Congress and state elections in which to do something effective towards desired outcomes, but Americans get very drilled-down on the President only, to their detriment. Half the reason Congress is so sclerotic is most Americans can't be bothered to know who their Congressional reps are, let alone what they stand for).
Worse, he complained bitterly about Biden admin doing what he's actually doing. If you believe that some policy is bad, you should not do it. Nobody is forcing you to implement a bad or evil policy.

Monumental hypocrisy.
How much do you value your time? $250 / week is $13,000 a year, well into the poverty range.
There was at least one podcast featuring both Rogan and Lex. This would result in an hours-long podcast of pure silence.
Do professions really get destroyed? Or does the world just change?

I used to get paid to do OCR on tax forms. I used n gram models, BERT,etc and it took weeks to get the forms right. Now you can do it in seconds with an api.

I wouldn’t say the profession got destroyed. I just work with different tools now. Instead of running ngrams, I’m testing different apis or embedding models.

The old job doesn’t exist anymore, in many ways I am the classic example of losing your job to AI-but I wouldn’t say it destroyed the profession. People just use different tools today to get intelligence from PDFs.
My favorite egregious accent snafu was The Wind and the Lion where he was supposed to be Moroccan tribal leader.

Second favorite was the mad barking which was supposed to be Japanese in Rising Sun.
> People made the same argument about Cameras vs Painting.

I remember that from a couple of years ago, when Stable Diffusion came out. There was a lot of talk about "art" and "AI" and someone posted a collection of articles / interviews / opinion pieces about this exact same thing - painting vs. cameras.
The problem is that "weird CPUs and embedded systems" are not mainstream platforms, nor do they have a lot of money behind them (particularly for open source development). Hence, there is little motivation and/or resources for anyone to develop a new backend for LLVM when a mature GCC backend already exists. Moreover, the LLVM developers are weary to accept new backends for niche platforms when there is no guarantee that they will be maintained in the future.
I seem to recall someone posting a ridiculously fast utf-8 validator here based on SIMD instructions. Nothing is free but some things can be dirt cheap.
Chasing the Unified Messaging Dream
Seeing the creativity most people employ, that is for selfish loopholes and inconsiderate behaviour, I am a little wary of empowering them.
Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations
I am always fascinated how people get ideas as creative as this.

I didn't know I needed this, but now that you shared it—I NEEDED IT!
> How do you define barks(X) (what about whimpers, growls? What about a dog that doesn't bark?)? How do you handle breeds that look very different (Chihuahua vs. Great Dane)? How do you handle seeing only part of the animal? How do you represent the overall visual gestalt? The number of rules and exceptions quickly becomes vast and brittle.

This is the dimensionality mentioned in the adjacent post, and it's true of a probabilistic approach as well: an LLM trained on descriptions of dogs is going to hallucinate when an otherwise sensible query about dogs doesn't match its training. As others have said more elegantly than I will, this points to a pretty different cognitive model than humans have; human beings can (and do) give up on a task.

(I feel like I've had to say this a few times in threads now: none of this is to imply that Cyc was a success or would have worked.)
Anywhere Cache and Rapid Storage share some infrastructure inside of GCS and both are good solutions for improving GCS performance, but Anywhere Cache is an SSD cache in front of the normal buckets while Rapid Storage is a new type of bucket.

(I work on Google storage)
Tangentially related, but very important to me and hopefully helpful to others here: I have sleep apnea. So do most of the men in my family. Though I am overweight, I haven't always been, but I have always had the condition, as have they. For those who don't know, sleep apnea is a condition where you stop breathing in your sleep, wake up slightly to fix that and start breathing again, and then fall back asleep. It sounds like choking in your sleep. In my case, I was doing this more than 70 times an hour - often multiple times a minute! My blood oxygen was as low as 67% - a threshold that would have me on a ventilator, were it happening in a hospital.

Until I got my apnea treated, I never slept well. I had not had a really good night's sleep in years, and I hadn't had a great night's sleep as an adult probably ever. In school - decades ago - I fell asleep in class regularly and napped every day. Despite this, I have been successful, but I can't help but wonder who I'd be if I hadn't had that problem. What's worse, because you do not actually sleep, whatever happens during sleep that repairs your body doesn't really happen. Sleep apnea massively increases your risk for heart disease, stroke, and many other serious conditions.

Sleep apnea is treated with CPAP - continuous positive airway pressure - from a machine that sits on your bedside. You wear a mask like Bane and it forces air into your throat and opens it, making it easier to breathe. CPAP is not a cure, because it doesn't fix the underlying anatomical issue, but properly calibrated it results in complete remission. I now sleep normally. From a sleep perspective, I feel amazing, better than I have in years. For the first time in my life, I can rely on feeling good in the morning if I get enough hours of sleep in. Even four hours on the CPAP is better than eight or nine hours without it. (Also, over time, your brain becomes conditioned that CPAP = sleep, and you zonk out within minutes of putting it on.)

It is costly and time consuming, yes, and CPAP machines are a huge lifestyle adjustment. But good lord, is it worth it. I have never felt or slept better. In the years since my diagnosis I have not slept a single night without my CPAP and I don't think I ever will again, unless some magical cure comes out.

If you have struggled with insomnia, snoring, or feeling wakeful after sleep, I beg you to get a sleep study and look into whether apnea, or another similar condition, could be the cause.
We were doing a lot better before we started pointing out skin color on everything. Some of my favorite shows growing up were In Living Color, Family Matters, etc.. Also Star Trek where they just ignored skin color.
Communist philosophy is somewhat anti-authoritarian. It's literally about putting the everyday people in power. It's often anti-democratic though. You have to turn to Nordic socialism if you want to bring democracy in, which was developed basically as a direct result of Stalin insisting that Soviet communism was the only communism, and you could either join their (violent, awful) communism or die.

Except, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all wrote about how important it was to be self critical, how important it was to stay grounded in reality, to make reality drive your decision making and goals.

And then they all purposely and aggressively built themselves cults of personality with the express purpose of being just garden variety dictators. They surrounded themselves with boring "Yes men" by murdering anyone who pointed out the clear contradiction between their writing/philosophy/"theory" and reality.

There's a grand canyon between what they all wrote about, and what they clearly did. The closest they ever came was Mao being like "Whoops, a lot of people died, maybe it's partially my fault" but that sure didn't dissuade him, or make him change direction.

Meanwhile their hundreds of millions of insane, murderous followers had no qualms about such a contradiction, such a destruction of reality, because they had been so poorly treated for so long in the old system that all they really cared about was tearing it down (gee, sound familiar?).

A Cult of personality is toxic to functionality. It's toxic to any progress. It's toxic to productivity and success. It's toxic to competence. It's toxic to reality.
The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Revised April 9 Tariffs
I wouldn't buy this because of the price tag but I love the industrial design of this thing! I wish there were more things like this (albeit more practical) that I would like to upgrade my desk with.
"No bad actor was involved"

I see two but whatever
I've been in a place where making that say "busy" when Visual Studio had the focus would be really useful... Except (cough) certain people in the culture would find it insulting.

It makes me wonder... How do you push on the "I can interrupt anyone at any time for any reason" attitude? I had a lot of trouble pushing on it in a previous workplace.
I’ve been waiting for this release.
You also seem to have changed the price, to be $60 more expensive.

That’s a shame. The current price is what I’d immediately pay, if I was getting two.

I’m sad this isn’t in the price range I’m willing to pay. I guess I’ll just build my own.
I wonder how such a rare article was discovered.
How would support look like in this situation? Honest question I simply don't know
What about Rogan vs Lex where it's just them shooting probing questions back and forth and exchanging vaguely related anecdotes?
Something that I find delightful about this project is that Jim Davis approves of it!

From Wikipedia: "Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the project, and an official Garfield book (also called Garfield Minus Garfield) was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis."
There's nothing my blame or praise will do that the coming economic collapse won't.

And in the American system, where We the People consent to be governed by a government that derives its power from those people... Where else would the blame lie?
The earliest ones are from 2008.

So, at least for the vast majority of these: manual.
It's not a redirect. It's an actual A record on the domain for local.example.com -> 127.0.0.1

Then we just have an entry for local.example.com in our vhosts and bam everything works as expected. No need to mess with /etc/hosts
There’s no course to learn the niche skills and nuances of this trade; Alessandro accompanied and apprenticed with Renato and other experts for about 3 years, learning through firsthand experience how to assess each form.

“The particularity of this profession to me is that it’s like it was 2 years ago, and it’s a skill that’s handed down from dev to dev. You go around with the most expert, most experienced BERTitori, and you watch and listen to them, and slowly they start to give you the keyboard. You try with them next to you, piano piano, and gradually, you begin to do more on your own,” explained Stocchi. “It’s a big responsibility, you have to be really capable of doing it, you can’t damage the forms.”
I regularly have this on in the background while working. The music is good and I can tune in and out of it without losing focus
It's not wrong. 110V is more likely to cause fibrillation. Fibrillation isn't the only way AC can kill you so which is more dangerous is more debatable.

The problem is that the risk of death is so low for both that people's perceptions are skewed. Everybody has been shocked by their household voltage a bunch of times, so they think it's no big deal. Until it isn't.
What is the latest/greatest
when it comes to voice models? Orpheus is what people have the most success with?

I only concentrate on the WebRTC side, not aware of all the offerings.
When was this implemented? I remember when people used to have to manually flatten nested enums in order to save space
Tim Ferriss minus Tim has long been a dream of mine

After discovering Dwarkesh, Lex and Rogan have struck me as tragic waste. At worst a laundromat for psychopathic distortions, and at best a lazy unguided exhibition of the guest’s choosing.
Ask HN: Laptops with a touch screen are terrible?
Is it just me or are laptops with a touch screen terrible? I like a touch screen and I love a laptop respectively but the combination feels extremely discordant and prone to accidental clicks and errors. Am I just old and stuck in my ways? Just wondering if anyone has additional thoughts on this topic?
He is referencing delta 9, which has a lot of the same similarities as what we refer to colloquially as "weed".

Delta 9 is much different physiologically and psychologically and can induce this abhorrent behaviors.

Also in the mid to early 2000's over 50.3% of US adults (Pew Research Center) had tried cannabis, I can assure you someone in your "circle" has smoked in their life.
George Bell, Once Named the Tallest Person in the U.S., Dies at 67
Indeed they do. The hardest bugfix I ever had to do (which I go back to whenever interviews ask that question) was a timezone bug that was going to ruin the iOS 7 on-stage reveal. It only reproduced in customer builds and customer hardware, which we could not debug or get root on. Anyway we traced it to a confluence of rare conditions in a date-math C file that had not been modified since 1987, and was in a completely different style from everything else in the OS. The edge-iest of edge cases.

It was hard because of the debugging blindness, not so much date-math itself. We had to do hardware-level things.
It's overfitting.

Some people say they find LLMs very helpful for coding, some people say they are incredibly bad.

I often see people wondering if the some coding task is performed well or not because of availability of code examples in the training data. It's way worse than that. It's overfitting to diffs it was trained on.

"In other words, the model learns to predict plausible changes to code from examples of changes made to code by human programmers."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896
> show me one person who's first mental image is a travois when they read vehicle.

I expect most wouldn't have the familiarity required to have that specific mental image, but perhaps something equally primitive? It is not like they would think there was a 22,000-year-old Lamborghini.
Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?
You be direct. When people come to you and interpret you, say “I am currently working on something else, but I will come find you when I’m free”. Most people eventually pick up that IM’ing first wastes less of their time.

If you constantly give them your attention immediately, you are telling them that’s how it should work.
It seems like a big part of the advantage is that you won't get distracted by your phone like you would with an app
> When that goal is achieved, what then are humans "for"? Humans need purpose, and we are going to be in a position where we don't serve any purpose. I am worried about what will become of us after we have made ourselves obsolete.

Read some philosophy. People have been wrestling with this question forever.

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

In the end, all we have is each other. Volunteer, help others.
This is cool! Curious what front-end tooling you've used for the landing page?
I started putting emoji's in my bash scripts.

gitk broke! Can't parse emojis

I want emojis in my code. They are a superior form of communication (non-linear)
BrowseComp: A Benchmark for Browsing Agents
I'm sorry you had a tough time GTM'ing
Maybe it was an allergic reaction to the mold inhibitor? Vegetarian rennet and animal rennet are both chymosin.
> if Earth had two suns and rarely had periods of darkness, you wonder if maybe there would have been more evolutionary pressure to find another way.

Cats sleep during the day without any issues. So the amount of light seems to not matter.

By the way I wonder do their ear sleep or not because they still wake up easily if there is some suspicious sound.
I think the most surprising thing about it is that it's good. Not just good as a curiosity, but actually good, in ways and to a degree that would be pretty hard to replicate if you set out to create it from scratch, without existing Garfield strips to lean on.
It's absolutely nuts to me that US cities (like in Sunset in SF with 50 foot wide roads) accommodate giant fire trucks in addition to both sides having street parking (and driveways and garages!) instead of having narrower roads with smaller trucks (like in Netherlands and Japan, which were discussed in that video).

NJB also has a video※ about Japan's tiny streets (relative to USA) that elaborates on how a single factory (street width) can improve so much about a place.

※ - https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U
Trump's tariffs 'pause' could help Nintendo ship more Switch 2s
Interesting macOS framework for app authentication. It's a lightweight solution for password security, but I'd like to see more about the encryption method behind the scenes. Biometric auth is a nice touch. Could be great for indie devs wanting to add simple protection layers.
Regarding point number 11 (AlphaFold3 vs Vina, Gnina, etc.), see my rebuttal here (I'm the author of Vina): https://olegtrott.substack.com/p/are-alphafolds-new-results-...

Gnina is Vina with its results re-scored by a NN, so the exact same concerns apply.

I'm very optimistic about AI, for the record. It's just that in this particular case, the comparison was flawed. It's the old regurgitation vs generalization confusion: We need a method that generalizes to completely novel drug candidates, but the evaluation was done on a dataset that tends to be repetitive.