skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Code-Free AI Agents in Minutes
Here’s a quick demo of a team of agents that I build without a single line of code:

The team is:
root: Fetches 3 top stories from HackerNews
researcher: Picks one story and creates a content plan for the writer
writer: Writes a blog post
critic: Provides feedback on the blog post
The writer and critic engage in a multi-round dialogue, exchanging feedback and blog post iterations. Once complete, everything is saved to an .md file.

It took me less than a couple of minutes to assemble this team from scratch, and this is just a tip of the iceberg.

This example doesn’t use any reasoning frameworks like React or Reflexion, but it's easy to implement any of these frameworks and experiment with different ideas. I’ve implemented frameworks like React, Reflexion, and Self-discovery in just minutes without any coding.

The platform supports complex interactions between agents. You can specify who communicates with whom and let the LLM decide how to manage the process of agent intercommunication. What you can build is limited only by your imagination.

Think of the platform as an OS where the LLM acts as the processor. It includes system functions for working with files, a vector database, a code interpreter, and many other native functions controlled through natural language instructions. Our focus is on simplicity and accessibility for everyone. The platform is written in Rust and will be open-sourced soon.

Feel free to challenge me in the comments on what use case do you want me to build next.
A groupof Bay Area condo and apartment owners discuss that they don’t understand leaf blowers. Good thread.
Splitter length is very strictly regulated, as is every part of the stock car. There have been big penalties for much more subtle infractions, especially in the last few seasons with the current car design.
Using Rust Macros for Custom VTables
iCloud Photo Library: All Your Photos Are Belong to Us (2016)
Timestamp? I’ve watched the video twice now and read the whole article and can’t find one mention of it. The closest is one statement of “it keeps all that force still there”, which is vague, definitely not the same thing as CFM, and sounds like the sort of statement that’s compatible with the aforementioned nozzle lines.
I walked past a shop in Yokohama selling things like this in their new boxes once. Then never saw it open again. It was like a time slip.
Richard Gill, who is cited in this article, has a website with a lot of information about the Lucy Letby case:

https://gill1109.com
new era for reading experience. awesome
You should be able to calculate it out by telling the user to press a button and after this, not rotating the camera away.

Right?

Might just not be practical at all.

On the other hand, shouldn't the earth rotate fast enough to figure this out in a short timeframe while the photographer starts looking through the finder?
From the study:

"It should be remarked that, in the majority of the cases, people adopting plant-based diets are more prone to engage in healthy lifestyles that include regular physical activity, reduction/avoidance of sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol and tobacco, that, in association with previously mentioned modification of diet [62], lead to the reduction of the risk of ischemic heart disease and related mortality, and, to a lesser extent, of other CVDs."

"It has also been described that vegetarians, in addition to reduced meat intake, ate less refined grains, added fats, sweets, snacks foods, and caloric beverages than did nonvegetarians and had increased consumption of a wide variety of plant foods [65]. "
It's plenty visible right where it is to people who don't have odd hangups about "accessibility".
Could you give us the name this magical walkie talkie app please?
How would this work when raising a kid? It's not just about making a collection of cells, kids need a lot of attention and affection to develop healthily.
All the usecases we see. Take a look at perplexity optimising short internet research. If I get this mostly right its fine enough, saved my 30 minutes of mindless clicking and reading - even if some errors are there.
NASCAR is not meant to be logical, it's meant to be an exciting spectacle. Just look at the "lucky dog" rule: it allows the first of the lapped drivers to be put in the main lap during a yellow. The goal is to create a race within the race for this spot.

In effect, you can win a race while having traveled 1 or 2 laps less than the others if you benefited from the lucky dog rule once or twice.
~1 GB built into the browser is a lot better than ~1 GB being stored by several websites/apps.

It is a bit of a concern for low-powered devices and mobile, though.
Many of those solutions rely on Flutter platform channels (ie. serialization) which may not suit high performance use cases.

Plug: native Swift platform channel implementation which I’ve been working on lately. https://github.com/PADL/FlutterSwift
Its sad that these are even a thing. Is the world so repressed that consenting adults can't be known to be having sex?

In a more progressive world, we might do the opposite -- "pro-sex" beds for adults that are healthy, in great shape and have made good life choices to get to the Olympics. Many countries are realizing a potentially declining birth rate. Maybe we should encourage well adjusted young people to be hooking up.
Prisma language server update adds in-editor advertisements
Opened my editor this morning to be greeted by a notification being abused to show an advertisement for Prisma's paid services.

I get it, money is no longer free and VCs want returns, so we've all gotta make a buck, but this is a breach of trust.

I really hate the idea that we're going to need adblock for our editors…
Cool! That works surprisingly well. But how do you click while using this? Clicking on the trackpad doesn't work, when it's tracking my head.
Don Pettit, NASA's Oldest Active Astronaut, Is Going Back to Space
Not cops, no metaphors here. Some security companies make the trainee shoot a pig in the head. Lots of people, no matter the training, just can't kill a living being.
https://darlean.io. Not really low code, but it greatly reduces the amount of code you have to write for backend applications and simplifies deployment.
I too am a Tidyverse shill. Hadley Wickham truly did an amazing job designing the whole ecosystem and API. I personally haven't encountered another API that has given me the same feeling of mastery and empowerment - just the correct blend of expressiveness, cohesion and ease of use.

Of course this is partly attributed to R's great DSL capabilities and making documentation first class. But I've definitely seen terrible APIs in R too.

Wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience with another ecosystem? (Regarding API design)
And Turks use French for that.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34684761 February 6, 2023 — 1978 points, 317 comments
Most cameras these days--other than the low end and the very high end--have IBIS (In-Body Image Stabilization) built in, and then stabilization built into the longer lenses (typically > 100mm). In higher-end/more recent cameras that both IBIS and lens stabilization can work together to improve how effectively the system works. I don't know if it's true of universally, but the recent cameras in Nikon's ecosystem which I'm familiar with use a 5-axis IBIS unit. A quick search suggests the K-1ii and some other Pentax cameras also moved to 5-axis IBIS--probably one of the reasons most brands are claiming 5+ stops in-body these days.

OM-1, formerly Olympus, does has some very cool tricks using the tiny micro 4/3s sensor combined with a sick IBIS unit allowing hand-held astrophotography that the larger companies haven't bothered with.
So, you don’t have a large maple next to your drive way, do you?

If I didn’t have a leaf blower, my driveway would be solid ice in the winter, mud in the spring and fall, and dust in the summer.
(In real use probably a gigabit or so)
> (...) the cardboard frames are reportedly designed to collapse under such a weight [of two people].

I'm not sure how much of a deterrent that is, as turns out sex can be had on many surfaces and even standing up.
You mean like "Jonathan Haidt’s new book 'The Anxious Generation' blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous."? (The subtitle of the article.)

The poster upthread is demanding specifics that are contained in the very article they're asking for specifics from.
Assuming perfect monogamy: Person A could be in a relationship for 1/3 of their adult life (freeing up 2/3 for others). Person B could be in a relationship for none. Person A might not qualify for whatever threshold of loneliness.
> Now, who defines "addictive" using which aspect?

Addictive is whatever that creates a dependence that doesn't allow you to function correctly and productively, because it produces a natural reward.

In this case, design patterns that promote and provoke addictions, like gamification, attention grabbing, etc. that kids don't have tools to be aware of, need to be regulated. In fact, sugar content regulation in foodstuff have shown to be very effective at reducing obesity on kids. It's not a "ban", it's a regulation.
Great Idea!!!, congratulations.
I use mine (electric) to blow leaves from the street and sidewalk back onto my grass so that I can mulch them with the lawn mower. I also use it to blow debris back onto the grass-free perennials area around my tree to get free mulch. I'm weird, but it's really handy for that. The entire reason I own a lawn mower and a leaf blower is because I couldn't find a lawn care crew that would mulch everything in place - everyone around here wants to take your leaves away and then bring in artificially dyed mulch (and charge you for it).

They also work for blowing snow off the sidewalk if the snow is still fluffy.
I would bet this will lead to more of the sex.
You can also charge for minimum usage
Those numbers are arbitrary and fictional, and the more relevant made-up quantity would be the variance rather than the mean. It doesn't really matter if the "average user" saves time over 10,000 queries. I am much more concerned about the numerous edge cases, especially if those cases might be "edge fields" like animal cognition (see below).

In my experience it takes quite a bit longer to falsify GPT-4's incorrect answers than it does to a Google search and get the right answer. It might take 30 seconds to check a correct answer (jump to the relevant paragraph and check), but 30 minutes to determine where an incorrect answer actually went wrong (you have to read the whole paper in close detail, and maybe even relevant citations). More specifically, it is somewhat quick to falsify something if it is directly contradicted by the text. It is much harder to falsify unsupported generalizations or summaries.

As a specific example, I recently asked GPT for information on arithmetic abilities in amphibians. It made up a study - that was easy to check - but it also made up a bunch of results without citing specific studies. That was not easy to check[1]: each paragraph of text GPT generated needed to be cross-checked with Google Scholar to try and find a relevant paper. It turned out that everything GPT said, over 1000 words of output, was contradicted by actual published research. But I had to read three papers to figure that out. I would have been much better off with Google Scholar. But I am concerned that a large minority of cynical, lazy people will say "90% is good enough, I don't want to read all these papers and nobody's gonna check the citations anyway" and further drag down the reliability of published research.

[1] This was a test of GPT. If I were actually using it for work, obviously I would have stopped at the fake citation.
If you use an acronym/initialism, spend the 4 extra seconds to type out the full thing the first time, I beg.

MUMS = Melbourne University Maths + Stats Society.

AGM = Annual General Meeting

Anyways, there is almost nothing about Cicada 3301 in this article, and certainly no connections made between the people behind Cicada 3301 and the people who made the puzzle hunt at Melbourne Uni.

In fact, the word Cicada only appears 3 times in the article: once in the title, and then twice when referring to the insect and not the group.
You are saying that sarcastically but that actually is very little. Compare the advancements from the 1,000 year prior, even just by the Greeks in Mathematics (Pythagoras, Euclid, Diophantus etc.) science (Aristotle), philosophy (Plato, many others) technology (Archimedes, killed by a Roman soldier) and astronomy. None of the things you mention are really hard problems. The fact is that the Romans were anti-intellectual and only cared about building which is not that hard. Also the Romans did not invent cheese or wine. Compare also with the Babylonians. Compare also the advancements made from 1200 in Europe.
Germany, and it went nowhere.

shocker
Xcode does support Swift Packages.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/swift-packag...
What's the point of all that exercising if you can't use it to get some action in the city of love? (no sarcasm).
I prefer F#/F* syntax, but I had to go with Ada/SPARK2014 for the safety-related control systems I am trying to verify formally and use for high-integrity applications. Rust is making some inroads with AdaCore and Ferrous Systems partnering on providing formal verification tools for Rust like they do for Ada/SPARK2014, but Rust still doesn't have a published standard like C, Common Lisp, Prolog, Fortran, COBOL, etc. Plus the legacy is immense for Ada and SPARK2014.
Right but indexing text is, like, you already have the text…
"it inevitably explodes"

Sums this whole thing up quite nicely, I'd say.
Wouldn't letting the leaves to decompose be better for the soil instead of constantly removing them? I mean, the tree supposedly uses the nutrients from the soil to grow those leaves, and if you keep removing them away, at some point the tree will simply starve and die, right?
Novel idea: move these mattresses onto the floor?
Honestly, I wish media would be pushing the idea that plant-based diets are healthier. Instead, all I see in the media is advertisements for meat and dairy products. Doctors tell me that "oh maybe it's because you're vegan?" whenever there is ever anything wrong with me, like say, a cavity at the dentist.

I know about 20-30 other vegans, and literally all of them are vegan for ethical or environmental reasons. None of them do it for health reasons, otherwise vegan pizza, vegan hot chocolate and vegan muffins wouldn't have been a thing.

My experience is also just anecdotal of course. And it might also be a difference in culture or country, perhaps.
Yes, it can be a real problem, that over-use. You can also fix this by using judicious aiming and throttle control and still be more efficient and easier on the exosystem vs raking.

But you must first understand the issue and want to solve it. Unfortunately, most people, even "lansdscape pros" do not understand it, or want to take the extra care to do it.

Source: my wife is extremely knowledgeable, educated, and passionate about the plant and soil ecosystems you describe, yet I was able to adjust technique to satisfy her scrutiny in a reasonably short time. You just have to get a clue and want to act on it. And yes, we've both seen more abuse done with a leaf-rake approach too. It's not the tool, it's the user, tho these blower tools make it easier to abuse at scale.
> potentially declining birth rate

None of the athletes are going there looking to conceive. The countries are probably thinking they invested in the training and their athletes will screw it up (literally) by focusing on alternative activities.

Well trained people like this can do it in positions that don't put the full weight on those beds. Might even call it part of the training. Or just put the mattress or stack a couple of blankets on the floor. The size of the beds looks similar to dorm room beds, another place famously failing to keep people apart.

I really think they went for cardboard more for the sustainability (and costs) angle but "anti-sex" gets the clicks.
The number of Stanford Juniors with 1 summer internship at a VC posting 'deep' Startup insights or advice is shocking. Like what do these kids with literally no experience running or starting anything know about companies? It's mind boggling.
Those look amazing. We have a rather long and complicated and hilly lawn and due to trees. Do you think a roomier like the 330x can handle a more complicated lawn layout?
Griselda, stop talking about these “healthy habits”. I’ve seen on YT that they are all bogus. Instead talk about these other things that I’ve been convinced are good.

Griselda: okay!
> The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler

This was one of the stories on my calculus book in college

I loved reading the brief explanations about the history of the different formulas and discoveries

In fact, reading those stories earned me a free “extra A” in class for remembering Rolle’s theorem. I only remembered it because Rolle’s story really caught my attention. After coming up with his theorem, he became a big critic of calculus, even though his theorem is one of its crucial building blocks
There is a very good documentary called Something Ventured[1].

It's really good. I think everyone into Startups must watch this. It's not second hand narration but the real VCs them selves telling the stories so I find it very reliable.

So in the documentary there is a section about VCs meeting Steve Jobs & Wozniak for the first time.

They passed on the investment saying that they were "not impressive".

One of the VCs (that refused to invest) was begged to show up at some computer conference to see how people were interacting with the Apple Computer.

The VC saw a very huge crowd of people around the Apple booth waiting for a turn to use the Apple computer.

The VC then completely changed his mind & decided to invest in Apple. When he did so, even the likes of Don Valentine now begged to enter the round.

My suspicion is that the crowd was artificial, Steve Jobs knew that if he could prove (or construct) some kind of hype around his Apple computer at the conference. It would conjure fear of missing out in the VCs or something akin to traction.

Note that everything else remained the same the product, the founders etc. He just added an ounce of hype.

[1]: https://youtu.be/7eV2L7CHCSQ?feature=shared
Indeed, I get the idea behind the name, but there is certainly a dash of irony here being that it is an LLM, who knows if it was "ethically" trained...
Demographics is a very interesting subject.

The first of many answers to your question is that there is a strong age-related effect: more younger men are lonelier, and more older women are lonelier too.

Be very wary of your source when you look into this, the subject is obviously full of red-pill content.

Here's a start: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8579390/
DupeGuru is quite good at finding near duplicates, you should check it out
Just a shoutout how beautiful and powerful terminal editors can be if you invest some time to know the keybindings. There are some very powerful configurations and you don't need to invest that much time for configuration if you don't want to.

Currently, if you like visuals and want super fast experience, one easy (my favorite) setup is to install neovim, nvchad.com and (as extra neovide.dev)
Gene therapy repairs damaged disc in mice
Of course they can leave. Not just that, everybody can leave for any reason whatsoever, including being bored of the project.

But if you're leaving because of abuse, you're both letting the troll win and potentialy opening yourself to more abuse.

If you're sufficiently enraged by trolls, you may overreact, and start supporting policies that are more damaging than the trolling itself, like supporting surveillance or forcing KYC on everything.

Let me qualify this by saying that I support reporting people for abuse to the authorities if that's a thing where you live, but I don't support asking for more surveillance just to catch trolls.

I see this pattern every day, on every level: "I'm being victimized and something needs to be done about it". I hope that people will think about what "something" is and make sure it's not making things even worse.
Yes, Polars does extremely well in popular data manipulation benchmarks.
Yeah it was already mirrored pretty quickly. I expect enough people are now running cronjobs to archive whitelists of HF pages and auto-cloning anything that gets pushed out.
Ok? Does that change the legality of what I described? I don't think so. And that is what I talked about. Raising their prices to cover the recall would not be illegal. Maybe it would be bad business for them, maybe not. I haven't said anything about that.

> Why oh why do I have to read this on HN again and again?

This is unnecessarily confrontational.
They say nothing other than I just have to file a formal complaint which requires legal representation. I don’t want to waste my money on something that won’t happen anyways.
A twin futon mattress atop a cardboard frame, to prevent orgies? I'm no Olympic athlete, but I'm pretty sure you can drag a bunch of mattresses into a room, discard the cardboard, and have a rollicking fuckpile.

Lesson learned in grad school: bed frames are a long term solution to moisture accumulating in mattresses to prevent molding. Mattresses work just fine on the floor. Never had an orgy, but I did have a spouse and we never had a problem with the bed.
yeah, that'll totally stop them :/
Except it is not.

They claim a 2db reduction overall.

Then they say that is 37% the noise. But it is not.

Human hearing isn’t linear with power.

2db is not the human perceived volume.

The article isn’t light on details - it’s bullshit.
This is a famously debunked fake news. Expected nothing less from the nypost but a bit more from hacker news. Most fun source: https://twitter.com/McClenaghanRhys/status/14165677689382912...
genius idea, congrats!!
Even with regular beds, I've always said "there's more room on the floor"
Microsoft asks some China staff to relocate amid Sino-US tensions
Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
It depends on your lab/institution, and sub field, but I think Python is more common in bioinformatics than R nowadays. I prefer R - and personally developed many of the most widely used Bioinformatics packages in R, but have mostly shifted my lab to Python because of more extensive library options. Most of the big institutions - like large sequencing facilities are using Python. If you’re hiring teams of software engineers to make professional quality tools, it’s a lot easier to recruit for Python.
God forbid people of similar interests meet each other in the real world and have sex.
Are leaf blowers only a North American thing? When I grew up in Germany I hardly ever saw one. When I moved to the US they were everywhere. Not sure if they became popular around that time or if it's just more common in the US. When and where I grew up everyone also took care of their own garden, so I suspect that played a role as well
Here’s where the broken link from the first paragraph should go (I’m pretty sure):

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-do-bromine
I have had the twin battery Makita model for several years now. It’s a fabulous tool, basically functions how you describe I believe. Puts out a max of 61db on high. Expensive, but we already have makita tools, and it made a hated chore essentially not exist because its so convenient, fast and easy.
Haven't you heard? Naughty content is an existential threat now and a reason for regulation! </sarcasm>

More seriously it is a fucking bucket of crabs out there. "If I'm not having a good time you can't either!" is a growing attitude of idiots.