forgingahead

Hacker News sadly jumped the shark in the mid-2010s, and went into orbit after Trump was elected the first time. Since then there's been a lot of political performers here, which has killed the quality of discussion significantly. Lobsters (https://lobste.rs/) is apparently a possible alternative, but the original HN magic has been gone a long time.

I understand the frustrations, but...we're all grown adults here right? Who DOESN'T pay for seat selection if you want or need a good one? The insurance item is ridiculous, but...again, for grown adults with families/kids, do you really fly Ryanair?

Is there a reason for wanting to run these agents on your own local machine, instead of just spinning up a VPS and scp'ing whatever specific files you want them to review, and giving it Github access to specific repos?

I feel like running it locally it just asking for trouble, YOLO mode is the way to make this whole thing incredibly efficient, but trying to somehow sandbox this locally isn't the best idea overall.

This is indeed the bizarre convo I was having with myself, having (allegedly) taken some French classes, I was racking my brain on which was the correct answer. We always used "sud", and Midi didn't seem to be south, eliminating Zuid (Since Zuid/Sud seemed similar), and yes Midi seems "mid-day", so maybe "Central" since it's the center of the day, but then there's "Centraal", so why would there be Centraal and "Brussels Middle"?!

So we winged it and got off at Zuid (since Noord felt wrong and Centraal definitely seemed wrong) and luckily it was the right one.

We did have a wonderful evening (perhaps too much so) the night before at a nice craft beer bar in Leuven which had 100 beers on tap, and it had just bought over by a nice young couple as well. So perhaps neither of us were in the right state that morning to navigate a confusing train map! Good memories.

Belgium gave me one of the more annoying train experiences when I was a younger man. I was in Leuven for a conference, and had decided to bring my then girlfriend (now wife) for a trip, after which we would take the Eurostar to London. On the ticket, it said Brussels-Midi, but after happily boarding the train, we only saw the following related options on the train map for stops:

1. Brussel-Noord

2. Brussel-Centraal

3. Brussel-Zuid

So here we were, not speaking the language, rushing for a train that we were at risk of being late for, and not having a clear idea of the actual stop to get off of.

And the people on the train? Totally unhelpful. "Eurostar"? Shrug. "Train to London?" Blank looks.

Anyway we winged it and made it, but still a damn stupid set up if you want to be welcoming to tourists (and their money).

My sense is that this has happened over the last 20-30 years as overall competence has just dropped in many of these key positions. COVID was a good example of this - lots of humming and hawing about why decisions were being made, and garbled messaging about the reasons. Basically they get angry and defensive about blaming the "peanut gallery" or "armchair experts" while not being specific, because they themselves don't know why or how something is being done, and therefore being unable to defend their own positions from solid ground.

Nice work! What hardware are you running ComfyUI on, specifically the Wan2.2 workflow? It must be expensive having a GPU running for a hobby project like this?

I truly enjoy how the naming conventions seem to follow how I did homework assignments back in the day: finalpaper-1-dec2nd, finalpaper-2-dec4th, etc etc.

Where does "Smol" come from? It's supposed to mean "Small" right? If yes then what's the etymology and reason for popular usage?

But why would you call it fringe then, if you didn't hear it yourself?

before I realized people thought he is a kook

But what is your own opinion?

What are you talking about? How does it follow that "if they don't know what to do with 130, they also don't know what to do with 70"? This is literally capital allocation, the decision was that the people laid off couldn't be deployed effectively within this particular org. But maybe they would be effective elsewhere. Don't take this stuff personally, else the working world will always be difficult.

Hilariously naive comment - "if you have money you should spend it on salaries". This is not a charity, it's a transaction, the salary is paid in exchange for revenue generating activities or supporting activities in a viable business. If the business is only doing 2.7mill in ARR, then it's entirely valid for the whole lot to get laid off.

Tekin's conclusion: "it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views."

He is going to be ultra surprised to learn what the majority thinks and how it's not what he thinks it is.

Sad, truly an end of an era. Big thanks to all maintainers!

Thanks!

Yeah, mind sharing any of the scripts? I looked at the docs briefly, looks like we need to install ALL of nemo to get access to Parakeet? Seems ultra heavy.

Wish it was on the web app as well!

The HN peanut gallery remains undefeated

System prompts are fine and all, but how useful is it really when LLMs clearly ignore prompt instructions randomly? I've had this with all the different LLMs, explicitly asking it to not do something works maybe 85-90% of the time. Sometimes they just seem "overloaded", even in a fresh chat session, so like a human would, they get confused and drop random instructions.

Perhaps I'm being mean (haven't read the full presentation) - but the winning team is made up of 2 actresses/artists, 1 social innovator, 1 designer, and 1 astrophysicist?

Love to see the Ruby implementations! Thanks for sharing.

In college, people would just put a sock on the door....

This never happens in real life....."rewriting software" is the introverted programmer's wet dream because it gives them relevance and the idea of respect. No serious business "rewrites software in something else" once they start to take off.

This sound be the top comment, and the discussion should be around why this is the case (how Congress appropriates money like this), what alternatives there could be, and what are the pros/cons of each different option. Sadly HN is no longer a place where this can happen.

Great article, thanks for taking the time to research and write it all up! Definitely learned some new things from it.

"Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low"

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...

And from the NYTimes themselves:

"‘Trust’ in the News Media Has Come to Mean Affirmation"

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/11/why-has-tru...

"Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low"

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...

And from the NYTimes themselves:

"‘Trust’ in the News Media Has Come to Mean Affirmation"

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/11/why-has-tru...

Indeed, let them eat cake!

The NYTimes has a history of fabricating and outright lying to serve their own corporate or affiliated agendas. See for eg:

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...