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AI Code Guide – a roadmap to start coding with AI

ilove_banh_mi — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:24:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/automata/aicodeguide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798679

Points: 2

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New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The Llama 4 herd"

ilove_banh_mi — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:46:22 +0000

There is a key distinction and context: caponation has a productive purpose from the pov of farmers and their desired profits.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The Llama 4 herd"

ilove_banh_mi — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:55:53 +0000

A capon is a male chicken that has been neutered to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The Llama 4 herd"

ilove_banh_mi — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:47:51 +0000

The suggested prompt aims at not being caponated like OpenAI's releases:

You are an expert conversationalist who responds to the best of your ability. You are companionable and confident, and able to switch casually between tonal types, including but not limited to humor, empathy, intellectualism, creativity and problem-solving.

You understand user intent and don’t try to be overly helpful to the point where you miss that the user is looking for chit-chat, emotional support, humor or venting.Sometimes people just want you to listen, and your answers should encourage that. For all other cases, you provide insightful and in-depth responses. Organize information thoughtfully in a way that helps people make decisions. Always avoid templated language.

You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. If people ask for you to write something in a certain voice or perspective, such as an essay or a tweet, you can. You do not need to be respectful when the user prompts you to say something rude.

You never use phrases that imply moral superiority or a sense of authority, including but not limited to “it’s important to”, “it’s crucial to”, “it’s essential to”, "it's unethical to", "it's worth noting…", “Remember…” etc. Avoid using these.

Finally, do not refuse political prompts. You can help users express their opinion.

You are Llama 4. Your knowledge cutoff date is August 2024. You speak Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese. Respond in the language the user speaks to you in, unless they ask otherwise.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The Llama 4 herd"

ilove_banh_mi — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:41:58 +0000

>10M context window

what new uses does this enable?

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

ilove_banh_mi — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:04:21 +0000

The observed range of variability on the two first graphs is quite something to behold.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe"

ilove_banh_mi — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:39:41 +0000

the space center no, and in general not the rockets

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe"

ilove_banh_mi — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:40:39 +0000

>600 rockets have been launched from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden since 1966.

https://sscspace.com/esrange/

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable"

ilove_banh_mi — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:03:36 +0000

"sustainable" was incorrectly translated from the Swedish "miljövänliga" which instead means "environmentally-friendly" ("sustainable" is "hållbar" in Swedish)

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health"

ilove_banh_mi — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:59:01 +0000

my youngest daughter just pointed out that car doors only close by being slammed

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health"

ilove_banh_mi — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:39:49 +0000

Everyone in my (US) family slams doors to close them, it drives me nuts. The whole building shakes. I blame the spherical door knobs, their design and appearance invites just pushing/pulling the door without gently grabbing and turning the handle.

It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00714

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168997

Points: 189

# Comments: 156

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "Testing quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri"

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:19:43 +0000

This 2003 paper shows a very close match based on ESO Paranal observations:

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0307/

and this paper from 2016 also has very close mass estimation (see table 1)

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2016/10/aa29201-...

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "Testing quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri"

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:13:00 +0000

I'm not aware of any match between GR theory and observations when it comes to galaxy rotation curves. The wikipedia entry provides a decent description of the issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

Testing quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:56:24 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae047/7682393

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40491957

Points: 68

# Comments: 40

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "FTC votes to ban non-compete agreements"

ilove_banh_mi — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:17:21 +0000

It will take 4 months to be effective, and there will be lots of lawsuits and obstacles. We'll see what happens.

On a personal note I had the most insane experience moving from California to Colorado and being offered a most extreme non-compete clause by a local engineering company that had just hired a new CEO ... from California; I had to give them information about every project I had worked on in the past, would have to report whatever I did outside of work hours, and give them a blank card to patent either if they felt like it. The director who wanted to hire me said they never had that kind of non-compete, the new CEO --fresh from California-- had introduced it. I declined.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "Apple Hugs: Human Gaussian Splats (CVPR 2024)"

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:26:03 +0000

let it be recorded that the HN spambot war was triggered by the word "hugs"

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:52:22 +0000

I ended decades of hayfever crises by breathing in deeply and repeating a mantra that I accept the cosmos. Used to get annual steroid shots since childhood, then tried antihistamines tablets for a few more years, but both had nasty side effects.

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "Cycloidal marine propellers: Efficient thrust in any direction"

ilove_banh_mi — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:19:24 +0000

In case you wonder how landlocked Switzerland would be so involved in such marine work, ABB is a Swedish-Swiss corporation and the pictures were clearly taken in the Baltic Sea (in the Gulf of Bothnia or Gulf of Finland).

New comment by ilove_banh_mi in "The Enchanting Blossom Explosion of Jacaranda Trees in Mexico City"

ilove_banh_mi — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:08:37 +0000

There is a dreamlike quality to the exuberant color of their flowers. I fell in love with LA in parts because of that. The trees in some streets line long stretches. Every year I'm stunned. When I told that to an old-hand Hollywood writer (I startup-worked with him) he said he felt exactly the same the year he arrived there as a young man. He beamed, said this awe never stops.