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canadiantim commented on Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction    · Posted by u/sidmanchkanti21
canadiantim · 8 hours ago
Can you increase correctness by giving examples to the model? And key terms or nouns expected?
canadiantim commented on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling   bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/haunter
thomassmith65 · 3 days ago
I've never heard anything about a change to British spelling. Sounds like nonsense.

Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades. The opposition party is starting to fall apart (two members defected, which means Carney's party is one seat away from a majority).

Whole thing sounds like an attempt to manufacture an 'Obama beige suit' moment.

canadiantim · 3 days ago
Trudeau was more popular at his start, but we saw where that led us…
canadiantim commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
lacker · 6 days ago
I'm not sure if I have the right mental model for a "skill". It's basically a context-management tool? Like a skill is a brief description of something, and if the model decides it wants the skill based on that description, then it pulls in the rest of whatever amorphous stuff the skill has, scripts, documents, what have you. Is this the right way to think about it?
canadiantim · 6 days ago
I think it’s also important to think of skills in the context of tasks, so when you want an agent to perform a specialized task, then this is the context, the resources and scripts it needs to perform the task.
canadiantim commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
canadiantim · 6 days ago
Can or should skills be used for managing the documentation of dependencies in a project and the expertise in them?

I’ve been playing with doing this but kind of doesn’t feel the most natural fit.

canadiantim commented on Scientists link sugar substitute sorbitol to liver disease in zebrafish   scitechdaily.com/scientis... · Posted by u/mraniki
canadiantim · 12 days ago
That’s why I always feed my zebrafish real sugar
canadiantim commented on Django 6   docs.djangoproject.com/en... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
alberth · 14 days ago
One proxy might be to look at the upvote counts for each of their respective latest release HN posts.

Eg, this post has ~50 (though only posted an hour ago)

Rails 8 had ~550

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766515

canadiantim · 14 days ago
It’s amazing how much rails devs feel the need to denigrate Django, feels like an inferiority complex.
canadiantim commented on Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil   scienceclock.com/microbe-... · Posted by u/ashishgupta2209
bilekas · 16 days ago
> True, it is deliberately misleading.

It's not misleading, this article has nothing to do with finding life on Mars.

> If humans ever build bases on Mars, they will need systems that can provide oxygen without constant resupply from Earth

Have you READ the article ? Or just misinterpreted the title and then commented ?

canadiantim · 15 days ago
It is misleading. The title suggests they found a microbe on mars: "Researchers Find Microbe... from Martian Soil". They did not.
canadiantim commented on Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil   scienceclock.com/microbe-... · Posted by u/ashishgupta2209
canadiantim · 16 days ago
Lame title. Life wasn’t found on mars they just cultured a microbe on soil from mars.
canadiantim commented on The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types   iankduncan.com/engineerin... · Posted by u/birdculture
fellowniusmonk · 19 days ago
CRDTs are something you still have to write by hand, I finished creating a custom sequence based CRDT engine about 2 months ago (inspired by diamond types) and it was hilarious to ask Ai for assistance.

It's interesting when you are working on something that:

1. Is essentially a logic problem.

2. That LLMs aren't trained on.

3. That can have dense character sequences when testing.

4. To see how completely useless an LLM is outside of pre-trained areas.

There needs to be some blackbox test based on pure but niche logic to see if an LLM model is capable of understanding and even noticing exposure to new logics.

canadiantim · 19 days ago
What about just using something like Loro?
canadiantim commented on Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data   xda-developers.com/your-u... · Posted by u/amichail
canadiantim · 24 days ago
What is the best way to store data for a long time then?

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