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wanderingmind··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Corporations are people under the current SCOTUS interpretation. Which means they have the same rights under the US Constitution, so this should be struck down in no time in the courts. Another nothing burger likely to end up just manipulating the equity market and the derivative markets in the short term for large investors to capitalize.
wanderingmind··on Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
For anyone looking for basic information of financial statements in business, the assumptions and estimates that go into it, I recommend Financial Intelligence by Joe Knight and Karen Berman. It helped me understand how much fuzziness happens in financial statements and how they can affect a business operation
wanderingmind··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
1. Build AI voice agents for telephony, for personal use and maybe build for one other person

2. Make one cool toy from scratch with my kid using esp32

3. Reduce snacking and junk food to 1 day a week

4. Learn to tumble turn in swimming

wanderingmind··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
The jury pronounces the sentence. What do you think sways the jurors - legalese complexity or straight up morality?
wanderingmind··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The fundamental change we need is to make corporations pay taxes on revenue (top line) and not on profits (bottom line). It's simple, easy to track and in par with income tax of regular people.
wanderingmind··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
Can someone explain what's technically better in the recent embedding models. Has there been a big change in their architecture or is it lighter on memory or can handle longer context because of improved training?
wanderingmind··on So you wanna build a local RAG?
Care to explain more? I understand the prompt might not be used for training, but how about sanitizing the PII from tracking or logging or memory bugs in these serverless functions
wanderingmind··on AI World Clocks
The more I look at it, the more I realise the reason for cognitive overload I feel when using LLMs for coding. Same prompt to same model for a pretty straight forward task produces such wildly different outputs. Now, imagine how wildly different the code outputs when trying to generate two different logical functions. The casings are different, commenting is different, no semantic continuity. Now maybe if I give detailed prompts and ask it to follow, it might follow, but from my experience prompt adherence is not so great as well. I am at the stage where I just use LLMs as auto correct, rather than using it for any generation.
wanderingmind··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia. However, I love my Debian+ i3 too much to give it up. Using it through chrome is not easy especially to chat. So, I install it as appomage through appman and it works beautifully well that I can automatically update as well.
wanderingmind··on Tell HN: Azure outage
From mandatory voting to preferential voting, australia seems to have figured out what this works best for democracy.
wanderingmind··on Boring is what we wanted
Sorry for the nit, but it's compounding improvement, not additive. Its 25% after 3 years and 45% after 5
wanderingmind··on Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?
There was a paper that tried to integrate NER (Named Entity Recognition) with whisper to one shot for similar situation, not sure what is the current status

[1] https://github.com/aiola-lab/whisper-ner

wanderingmind··on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
Dumb question from someone who uses old cars without OTA, how can cars get OTA if you don't pay for any internet subscription? Can't you say I don't want to pay for any internet costs when buying the car? Also ensure you don't connect the car to wifi. Isn't that suffice?
wanderingmind··on Effective context engineering for AI agents
Otel meaning open Telemetry? Do they have special capability for tracking agents?
wanderingmind··on I only use Google Sheets
That looks like a great usecase. Would you be able to write about the architecture. A lot of us would love to be able to do things like this in Sheets, I'm personally trying to integrate a forecast estimate into Sheets
wanderingmind··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Dumb question maybe. Can the users in Europe raise a GDPR request to extract all their data from Slack? I realise it's not easy to port the data to other platforms yet, but atleast you have a copy of the data
wanderingmind··on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
This consistent with Gall's law, that says complex systems that work can only be achieved by building complexity over simple systems. Complex systems built from scratch do not work. So build the simplest system that works and then keep adding complexity to it based on requirements
wanderingmind··on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Why should we start fine tuning gemma when it is so bad. Why not instead focus the fine-tuning efforts on Qwen, when it starts off with much, much better outputs?
wanderingmind··on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Maybe I'm using it wrong, but when I try to use the full precision FP16 model, load it into chatter UI and ask a simple question,

"write me a template to make a cold call to a potential lead",

It throws me absolute rubbish. On the other hand, Qwen 0.6B Q8 quantized model nails the answer for the same question.

Qwen 0.6B is smaller than gemma full precision. The execution is a tad slow but not by much. I'm not sure why I need to pick a gemma over qwen.

wanderingmind··on Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text
Thank you. Having it to operate a proxy server that other apps can connect to is really useful.
wanderingmind··on Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text
Thank you for taking the time to build something and share it. However what is the advantage of using this over whisper.cpp stream that can also do real time conversion?

https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/tree/master/examples...

wanderingmind··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
I'm surprised no one mentioned NewPipe, the best YouTube App. A few other apps I use Feeder - RSS App Fedilab - For Mastodon
wanderingmind··on How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers
One thing I wished YouTube had like Twitter was to see what other channels the channels you like to subscribe. This way you are not held hostage by YouTube recommendation, which is definitely not in favor of the viewers
wanderingmind··on Uv: Running a script with dependencies
As a tangent, one issue I face is how to force cursor to use uv over pip. I have placed it in rules and also explicitly add a rules.yml file in every agent conversation. It still tries to push through pip 4 out of 10 times. Any recommendations on best practice to force cursor to use uv will make a significant dent in productivity
wanderingmind··on To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
One thing that I feel that is discussed less is, what are the high level constraints and levers that can be set to enable a group of programmers to become a better programmers. For example, how much impact does architecture have? bug tracing, choice of language, tools. People handwave and say that one is better than another because of <reason 1>, <reason 2>, but to be able to explain how each of this choice impacts the code in a semi-rigorous way by explaining all the way of how it impacts individual code components and their interaction (as a graph or a tree) would be immensely helpful. If anyone knows of resources like that, please let us know
wanderingmind··on Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones
I understand this is targetted towarda devwlopers, bur Can someone explain why should I go through this complex install process instead of just using ChatterUI? It can handle same GGUF format and works great with Gemma and Qwen. What kind of usecases am I missing?
wanderingmind··on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
My usecase is to extract CSV or other data files from websites pertaining to water. For example here is the historical reservoir level data in South Australia[1]. Extracting the data was a big pain (at least for me with minimal front end experience). If downloading this can be automated with agents, I'm definitely giving it a shot.

[1] https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/reservoir-volumes-2018

wanderingmind··on Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
Maybe they should make the paper accessible to the public. Taking public grants to do research but not providing the paper to the public is shameful.
wanderingmind··on Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
Cuckatoos also know how to open wheelie bins to raid rubbish. Now they can have all the water and food they need. Mischevious scoundrels.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-07-23/cockatoos-ope...

wanderingmind··on I started a little math club in Bangalore
Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support
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