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NegativeLatency··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Possibly you know this but there are pruning techniques to get a good yield of also good tasting apples
NegativeLatency··on Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer
So the planner just forgets stuff eventually?
NegativeLatency··on Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer
How do you manage context?

Not a gotcha, just trying to understand how your setup works

NegativeLatency··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
You might not need a L2 charger at home depending on driving habits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NG4hycq8n0

NegativeLatency··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Plenty of precedent to regulate harmful technology and behavior:

Cars are defacto illegal to operate in public. You must have a license to drive one.

You can’t yell fire to scare people.

You can’t buy a gun without some kind of check, or at all depending on location.

Civilians can’t operate jet engines with a variable nozzle size.

NegativeLatency··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
Could see it happening in an engineering development situation. Especially if you have a model running the show
NegativeLatency··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
Yes, there was an OpenAI trial that was using that in combination with a forum to coordinate among agents
NegativeLatency··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Also all of the mobile/embedded/resource constrained environments. Like sure my phone can run an LLM but it’s going to be bad and drain my battery.
NegativeLatency··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
I’m sure his dad had nothing to do with it and it’s just a coincidence.
NegativeLatency··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Backups in a different region?
NegativeLatency··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
I find they generally do ok, but a few lines in an AGENTS.md or manual prompting to verify stuff against current docs/source, and check for current version of software helps a lot.
NegativeLatency··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
Gets me with AWS stuff on claude all the time, fortunately there's a official amazon MCP for their docs which helps a lot, but I still have to occasionally tell it to check the docs/mcp.
NegativeLatency··on Small Programming Tricks
I think that it would be unwise to mute #engineering or whatever the main eng channel is

>I shared a trick on slack every day with the engineering team

NegativeLatency··on Small Programming Tricks
There's stuff like the "Command Pattern"/dispatching/subclasses etc that can make this nice, although it's not always a good fit.

Like imagine you have a few different classes of things A,B,C so instead of checking if the thing you're handling is an A,B,C you have like a shared interface across all and can call Thing.do_it or whatever.

Still branching conditionally but it's passing it off to language features instead of code you have to write.

NegativeLatency··on Small programming tricks
Weird personal attack, thanks.

What I'm saying is I am not a jerk and actually do care about my coworkers, however I also don't want a bunch of noise in a chat app I have to use to do my job.

NegativeLatency··on Small programming tricks
I think there's a fine line between helping your team grow and the sorta annoying self promotion I've seen people do in overly broad slack channels.

One is actually helping and the other is making yourself more visible to mgmt for promotions.

NegativeLatency··on Small programming tricks
> At a previous company, I shared a trick on slack every day with the engineering team, both technical and company-specific, and folks found them pretty useful.

I would find that annoying, however to not be seen as a jerk I wouldn't say anything.

NegativeLatency··on How much oil-market buffer is left?
If the Toyota sienna had a plugin ev option that would be really compelling for me. The electric van market is surprisingly sad. I currently only boogie board because it fits in my car.
NegativeLatency··on How much oil-market buffer is left?
An e-cargo bike is a good/cheaper/additional option if your situation allows it
NegativeLatency··on 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls
Not really, I think there’s no pigment left to magnify
NegativeLatency··on OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
Crosses fingers for a general purpose laundry folding bot
NegativeLatency··on 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls
I imagine they've done some tweaking before publishing (also appears the rock substrate has flaked off), was hoping to be able to pull some more detail out of the images with a vibe coded decorrelation stretch app I made from a post last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437

https://github.com/nburns/DecorrelationStretch

NegativeLatency··on Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer
Highly recommend this if anyone wants to think more about what engineering is: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781728280455

we built cathedrals without a detailed understanding of load calculations and material properties

NegativeLatency··on Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
How'd it turn out?
NegativeLatency··on Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
Sucks that they patented it https://patents.google.com/patent/US9338331B2/en
NegativeLatency··on Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
Personally I’d just do it
NegativeLatency··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
For the 68k computer not ai stuff
NegativeLatency··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Cool, is there any kind of community yet?
NegativeLatency··on Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
Try an LLM, either to do it directly or to guide your own explorations
NegativeLatency··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
They’d said as much explicitly and implicitly with their actions.
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