iyn · HackerTrans

vor 16 Tagendiscuss

> We have multiple open-source pauseless miracles GCs right there in front of us

Can you share some links/references?

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

same — that was an unexpected little moment on HN. Honestly appreciated the answer as it caused me to stop and examine the phrase I've been using/hearing without never really thinking about it.

iyn

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

What's everyone's experience with modern PF in production? Also, not to start a holy war, but what people think about modern PF vs nftables? I've only ever used nftables (and only in fairly simple scenarios) but I've always been curious about the PF side of the world.

iyn

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Thanks, I'll reach out!

Re AIQ, I've actually built a couple of devices myself (using different sensors, plantower being the most popular one, but I've played with sensiron and others as well) but I've mostly focused on the PM monitoring.

The sockets that have strange "smell" are actually on the (inside) wall that is the building boundary (i.e. not a wall with a neighbour — these sockets don't "smell"). Still, it's a bit shocking to me that this could happen. Do you know how the humidity "got" onto your wall? How were you able to find out? I'm pretty early in my mini "investigation".

iyn

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Can you add an email to your profile, so I can reach out to learn more? I'm really into air quality and been trying to improve conditions in my apartment. You mentioned that

> Generally learn about diffusion in wall construction materials and figure out where organic material is used in your house. If organic material is next to something that limits diffusion (plastic, foam, metal, concrete, cement, paint) it is a possible point of water condensation and mold growth.

which is super interesting — I've found a couple of electrical sockets in my apartment which have a very strange smell, similar to soil/mold (I've confirmed that with other people, just to reduce the chance that I'm crazy). I'm still trying to investigate/fix the issue, and it seems that you know more about that, would love to learn from you.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, very interesting!

iyn

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Imagine reading that pre 2008 (creation of bitcoin) — what kind of crypto scam could president run?!

iyn

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Curious about the deal value/price — any clues whether it was just to make existing investors even (so say up to $30M) or are we talking some multiple? But if it's a multiple, even 2x sounds a bit crazy.

iyn

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Looks like a great change! I'll take it for a spin in a moment.

I really like the "subagent" feature in Claude Code — it's super useful to manage context in complex codebases. Here are some examples of agents that can be useful: https://github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer/tree/main/.claude/a...

Would it make sense to have a similar feature in Codex CLI? I often do "spec-driven development", which is basically a loop of:

    research -> implementation plan -> actual implementation (based on research + plan) -> validation

I have multiple subagents that I use for each phase that (based on subjective judgement) improve the output quality (vs keeping everything, every tool use etc. in the "main" context window).

Codex CLI is great and I use it often but I'd like to have more of these convenient features for managing context from CC. I'm super happy that compaction is now available, hopefully we'll get more features for managing context.

iyn

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Thanks for that context. Was your expectation/prediction about that tech that it was going to happen in say 2000s or sooner/later?

iyn

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Self-flying cars? I wonder if it's actually easier to have autonomous vehicles operating in 3D than in "2D".

iyn

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

I didn't know about these ads, thanks for sharing! Can't imagine how people reacted to that when they aired — the things they described sound so "normal" today, I wonder if it was seen as far fetched, crazy or actually expected.

iyn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Solid post, thanks for sharing. Zitron occupies his own echo chamber. I've seen some people share links to his articles with a smirk as a "proof" of how "bullshit LLMs are" — and I know for a fact that they have no understanding of LLMs or how to evaluate limitations, saying nothing about unit economics. Sadly, I don't think it's possible to reason with them.

To be clear, I do expect that the bubble will burst at some point (my bet is 2028/2029) — but that's due to dynamics between markets and new tech. The tech itself is solid, even in the current form — but when there's a lot of money to make you tend to observe repeatable social patterns that often lead to overvaluing of the stuff in question.

iyn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Does anyone know how skills relate to subagents? Seems that subagents have more capabilities (e.g. can access the internet) but seems that there's a lot of overlap.

I've asked Claude and this it answered this:

  Skills = Instructions + resources for the current Claude instance (shared context)
  Subagents = Separate AI instances with isolated contexts that can work in parallel (different context windows)
  Skills make Claude better at specific tasks. Subagents are like having multiple specialized Claudes working simultaneously on different aspects of a problem.

I imagine we can probably compose them, e.g. invoke subagents (to keep separate context) which could use some skills to in the end summarize the findings/provide output, without "polluting" the main context window.

iyn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Yeah, that's my main bottleneck too. Constantly at 90%+ RAM utilization with my 64GiB (VMs, IDEs etc.). Hoping to go with at least 128GiB (or more) once M5 Max is released.

iyn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Can you share some examples of the workflows that you had success with?

iyn

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I see the author is here — I wonder if you also handle PDFs? Quick look at the site indicates that yes, but could you tell more about it? Do you also have a custom parser/serializer? Do you allow for PDF editing?

The reason for asking, is that I've had a shower thought of building custom PDF/doc reader for myself, that would allow me to easily take notes and integrate with Anki. Been doing that in Obsidian with the pdf plugin, but it's too slow. At the same time, I've heard that PDF spec is not easy to work with, so I'm curious about your experience on that front.

iyn

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

> I didn't want to be the one to have to say it, but neither masks nor social distancing had any scientific backing at all.

This is false. Even quick search shows multiple papers from pre-covid times that show masks being effective [0][1]. There are many more studies post-covid that show that N95/FFP2/FFP3 masks actually work if you wear them correctly (most people don't know how to do this). Educate yourself before sharing lies.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21477136/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19652172/

iyn

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Actual (N95/FFP2/FFP3) masks DO work, your comment is misleading. The study you've linked says:

> Colored masks of various construction were handed out free of charge, accompanied by a range of mask-wearing promotional activities inspired by marketing research

"of various construction" is... not very specific.

If you just try to cover your face with a piece of cloth it won't work well. But if you'll use a good mask (N95/FFP2/FFP3), with proper fit [0] then you can decrease the chance of being infected (see e.g. [1])

[0] https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protectio...

[1] https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/upgrading-ppe-for-staff-...

iyn

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Do they "hijack" every debate, though? I understand that highlighting genocide support makes people uncomfortable, but it doesn't mean that it's not allowed to be mentioned. I don't think the original comment was totally off-topic.

iyn

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

You don't have to be condescending, even if you disagree or think the situation is more nuanced. I think it's important that we're able to disagree in a polite manner.

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