<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ChucklsTheBeard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChucklsTheBeard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:14:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ChucklsTheBeard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ChucklsTheBeard in "Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh look, yet another reason to use local inference.</p>
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<p>Static stuff and a reverse proxy to my actual services, since my hardware's all behind CGNAT.</p>
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<p>TPMS "Tire Pressure Monitoring System" is federally mandated (49 CFR § 571.138).<p>In many TPMS implementations, each tire has a sensor which broadcasts a short range signal to the ECU. Those signals include sensor identifiers (sent in the clear) so the ECU knows which tire is low.<p>Those signals can be picked up from 50m away. A set of 4 identifiers can (typically) be mapped to a specific car.</p>
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<p>> Required gated communities to be self sufficient or net producers.<p>This seems like it would have unintended consequences. Gated communities are mostly populated by richer classes, right? This could be used as an excuse to not invest in forms of power production that would benefit from larger economies of scale and produce power for everyone.</p>
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<p>I don't know what OP's intent was, but the objective reading is likely true; they have (previously) been miscalculated.<p>Louis XIV famously said "You have cost me more territory than all my enemies" when he received a more accurate map of France in 1682 (the Cassini map), showing its size was ~20% smaller than previously calculated.</p>
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<p>Efficient LLM interaction is context management. The golden rule: Nothing irrelevant in context.<p>Non-exhaustive consequences of following that rule:<p>* Each session handles one task, or at most, a few tightly coupled tasks.<p>* Emotions stay out of context; no showing frustration, no saying thanks (or at least wait until you're about to end the session)<p>* When possible, provide relevant files (or sections of files) instead of making the model search and read many irrelevant files.<p>* Keep CLAUDE.md short.<p>* Disable irrelevant tools.<p>* Revert history when the model makes mistakes. Don't make it read its mistake and fix it; fork the chat before the mistake and exclusively mention the correct action.<p>Attention is more limited than the context limits imply; stuff at the beginning of context stays high-attention for a while, stuff right at the end is always high-attention. If you're about to ask for something the model frequently forgets (eg, style), remind it that those instructions exist ("Following the style guidelines, implement feature X.")</p>
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<p>> how they came up with the life evaluation score<p><a href="https://www.worldhappiness.report/faq/" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldhappiness.report/faq/</a></p>
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<p>Denmark's been in the top 3 of the "World Happiness Report" since the report started, the rest of the Nordic countries are always near the top of the list, too. Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world 9 years running.<p>That seems like a good place to start looking.<p>(commissioned by the UN, polls are run by Gallup, report is put out by Oxford, and the editorial board is multinational and doesn't have any Nordic nationals; seems reasonably unbiased to me)</p>
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<p>Ideally it would run a web search to check questionable knowledge. Google-fu has been one of the most important SWE skills for a long time!</p>
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<p>The wind is the major problem.<p>During the ~1 week of the year where it's safest to summit, they're typically looking at 15kph winds with up to 50kph gusts. Conditions are worse for the rest of the year. It's unsafe to try to hover near the ground in those conditions, and the thinner atmosphere just compounds that problem.<p>Also, you're talking about designing a new, specialized helicopter... that's not cheap, and someone would have to pay for it. What's the commercial incentive?</p>
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<p>Remember how, for SEO purposes, every food blog has to bs a multi-page story that everyone scrolls past to get to the 10 line recipe?<p>That's training data too; that's how we got here.</p>
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<p>Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.<p>The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.</p>
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