skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implemented a number of enterprise Conversational AI tools for customer service back before the GenAI craze started and we used to just call it service orchestration and data/application integration. The chatbot was used to figure out what the customer wanted to do and then from there it was just about automating some business workflow. Customer wants to pay their bill, the bot needs to pull their current balance, get their payment information, process the payment. Customer wants to return a product, the bot needs to retrieve the order info, initiate an RMA, process a refund, etc. These were all well established business process that the bot would execute by making API calls or kicking off an RPA routine. The "agent" talk sounds to me like "let the LLM figure out what it needs to do and then do it" which I'm not even sure is the right approach for most enterprise use cases, it's how you get people tricking chatbots into selling them a new car for $1.
> loathe to even say it, was taking high absorption magnesium

The reason to loathe an advice that seems to work, but isn't backed by scientific study is:

The Placebo effect is real and strong.

There's no harm in subscribing to Placebo, if there's no downside, but promoting gets a little... meh. We like to be scientific when possible.
And this is just a ban from public schools in libraries. So people will still go buy the books at the local Barnes and Noble or online off Amazon.
This seems to skip over why this might be useful. I don't know either, but seeing how it literally is just an adjustable iris I'll make a wild guess and assume this is about depth of field. With the "external" iris close enough to the eye it mostly stops being a field stop (=blocking off the field of view) and starts to act like an aperture stop (=influences the aperture aka "f-stop" aka depth of field).

I assume this is the explanation because for accurate shooting you have to bring the two thingies on the gun in line with the target, but the gun is quite close to you and the target is not. Lots of depth of field allows you to reduce the amount of blur you get on either. I'm guessing this is also why their posture is always with the gun extended as far away as possible, the closer the gun is to your face, the blurrier either the gun or the target gets.

If you wear glasses you can test this yourself quite easily, punch a small hole into a piece of paper and take your glasses off. At an arm's length it's obviously a field stop, because you can only see a very narrow solid angle through the hole. If you put it basically on top of your eyelashes, it still reduces the field of view a bit, but you'll also notice how depth of field is increased.
They are legally required to know your identity and, I believe, report interest to the IRS. If they don’t check your government ID, they’ll be popular with organized crime.

Now, I’m sure banks also love that for data mining purposes but it’s not entirely without a valid reason.
It also adds a new permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps that doesn’t allow a user to permanently grant permission, but requires a weekly re-authorization.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-screen-recordin...
A few things. It makes for no distraction in the eye you’re not using, while still allowing you to have both eyes easily open with focus where you need. Keeping both eyes open vastly reduces strain on the facial/eye muscles.

Sometimes a white opaque shield is used, on the theory that allowing light through won’t have potentially negative effects on iris contraction. I can’t speak to the validity of this one.
I mean they had (O'Neil and Co.) some great, solid points.-

(And, in the days before the internet their listings were great ...)
A common practice between optometrists is to always _under_prescribe.
After all this, even in the best case (Starliner returns successfully with Butch and Suni), it’s hard to see that NASA would consider it vetted and ready for an operational (non-test) flight.

They still haven’t figured out a root cause for the thruster failures, and they won’t be getting the faulty flight hardware back to examine it. Is Boeing willing to put substantial engineering time into fixing/re-designing the thrusters, and then flying another 2-person test flight? I guess we’ll find out soon…
I'm going to say that the vast majority of homeowners are not paranoid enough when it comes to buying their home. It is a huge investment and comes with very high transaction costs yet most people seem to make the decision based solely on superficial aesthetics.
Not necessarily. I know people who are equally skilled at both, but decide to do front-end because they don't want to be on support call at night.
Apple needs more antitrust scrutiny if for no other reason than to make them reconsider the direction they're headed on third party software.
There was a HN post about this last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36737342
EVEX prefix can address XMM/YMM/ZMM registers. So you can apply the AVX512 instruction set to 128bit and 256bit registers too.
I think Playwright depends on forking the browsers to support the features they need, so that may be less stable than using a standard explicitly supported by the browsers, and/or more representative of realistic browser use.
That makes so much sense, thanks! I will update the example accordingly. But this shows that some knowledge is needed to make good use of Sankey diagrams. I should add some tutorial pages with examples to make it easier to get started
Re: 2, is there any good repo with raw C Python API that can be used as a reference for someone who is not too proficient in C? I took a look at numpy but it seems too complicated for me
They are astronauts... There is some amount of expectation that the rocket will blow up before they get in to space. Nobody wants it, but they are the best of us and they are courageous as heck.

To be completely honest, the news cycle this summer has been so wild; I kind of forgot they were up there until today. That is something that it seems like they might not have trained the astronauts for, and that's really scary. That and there might be some sort of business politics involved in the plan to get home.

We're all sort of engineers here, given the choice, suppose Boeing thought they could land you next week or you would wait until 2025 and ride a Dragon down. Which would you pick?
At my company we finally got rid of the last of our react projects so we are now 100% Laravel.

It’s so much simpler to only have one major tool to stay on top of rather than adding npm, react and webpack plus all the rest.

We still do a load of front end work, but it’s html, tailwind and vanilla JS.

Are any others looking to do this to?

Surely you’re better off if you’re sticking to 100% rails/django/laravel?
This is an impressive post showing some nice investigative work that isolates a pain point and produces a performant work-around.

However, the conclusion is debatable. Not everyone has this problem. Not everyone would benefit from the same solution.

Sure, if your data can be loaded, manipulated, and summarized outside of Python land, then lazy object creation is a good way to go. But then you're giving up all of the Python tooling that likely drove you to Python in the first place.

Most of the Python ecosystem from sets and dicts to the standard library is focused on manipulating native Python objects. While the syntax supports method calls to data encapsulated elsewhere, it can be costly to constantly "box and unbox" data to move back and forth between the two worlds.
This is the reason why I believe Fair Core [0] is superior to open core, because the former eventually open sources everything, while the latter never open sources the useful parts. That's actually one of the main reasons I relicensed to the FCL from the ELv2 [1].

[0]: https://fcl.dev

[1]: https://keygen.sh/blog/keygen-is-now-fair-source/
The talk was on-point. I fully agree with the points and also feel the need for a better
state management solution.

The library has an interesting approach that might work, but I have some reservations:

1. subscribing with the using keyword feels scary as I don't have a conceptual model of what's going on. Why isn't useEffect enough here?

2. As I understand, stores can be initialised with props, but how would I go about passing dynamic values into the store? For instance, what if I want to pass a react-router search param into the StoreProvider whenever it changes?

3. an issue that I have with all state management solutions is that, when you wan't to integrate with another state-manager like react-query, you need to fall back to hooks as the lowest-common denominator. Maybe it would help if Signals supported Observables in addition to promises, so that we can build a

4. related to 2 and 3, I often hold my state in the url or in local storage. A universal state management solution would need to integrate with these external sources. Otherwise, much of the derived state will be computed in the components rather than the stores.
Nope, there's a few different philosophies at work, and I've seen both in the US.

On the one hand, you hire and assign work to domain specialists. You don't expect a DBA or backend senior to be able to explain the box model in CSS or how to make a custom model accessible to screen readers, and you don't expect an FE senior to diagnose why an index isn't performing well or whether a particular model should be backed by a polymorphic table.

It's possible to do both, but you're going to be paying senior rates to get junior work except in rare cases.

On the other hand, there's the philosophy that good engineers can apply learnings from one domain to another, and therefore a senior is a fungible resource. If someone is a senior Django dev, they can pick up rails pretty quickly. Surely it can't be that hard to pick up some flavor of JS.

Personally, I'm in the former camp- true full-stack is a unicorn, and the closest ones still need a solid donation from someone else.

I've never been employed as a full stack developer, and though my current company keeps hinting that they want me to go that way, I've been successful at pushing back.
> Assuming the Starliner can be on autopilot

Apparently it can't. Idk if it's missing software, or missing hardware, though I'm gleaning from other comments here that it's software (thus presumably fixable).
The government requested that, but not its people. Apparently it was a branding exercise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913
The Salt Lake Tribune has an article [1] on this. If you want more on Utah, see the Tribune's articles on [2] the divide between Mormon and non-Mormons in the state, and [3] how long people in the state will have access to abortion.

[1] https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/08/02/utah-book-b...

[2] https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/08/07/how-utahs-lds-vs-...

[3] https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/08/05/how-long-wil...
Green, but especially brown, also protects photosensitive contents (eg beer).
Every day we march closer and closer to a neutered IOS walled garden on OSX and it makes me sad because I otherwise love OSX.
> And then there's the Haskell guys running around saying you can't do functional programming unless you've written a dissertation on category theory.

I mean, I know you're trying to be funny and edgy, but because there's a risk of people taking you seriously, no, the Haskell community doesn't expect users to know category theory (there's only a fairly small niche (but vocal) of Haskellers that's into category theory) and most of the top Haskell luminaries (SPJ amongst them) wouldn't claim to know category theory at all.
After all of their technical failures, and known cultural problems leading to them, I am astonished Boeing has the nerve to insist it is safe. Seems like they are betting the whole space business farm on astronauts not dying on the way down.
I don't understand the business model. I guess the goal is to be acquired by AWS/GCP/Azure etc?
Thanks! That's comforting.
> The register file size makes sense, I didn't think they were that much of the die on those processors

https://i.imgur.com/WdMPX8S.jpeg

According to this, Zen4s FP register file is almost as big as its FP execution units. It's a pretty sizable chunk of silicon.
The total failure of this product and all similar products like it.

The success of wearables doesn't mean people are looking to replace their phone -- these are all phone accessories. This AI pin would have been more successful as a phone accessory than a stand-alone device.

People already have to or want to carry their phone around; they are not looking for separate phone-replacement device. They want something that compliments their phone, not replaces it.
LifeTrac (Open Source Tractor)
Found this by researching the author of this TED Talk. Quite inspirational

https://youtu.be/04PmEJaYKd0?si=h8VlzBLKQ0TzRdFp
PEP means "post-exposure prophylaxis"; PrEP means "pre-exposure prophylaxis". You take PrEP regularly (if you know you're at risk due to sexual habits etc whatever), but only take PEP in response to a specific possible-exposure event (and not already on PrEP). You want pre-exposure instead of post-exposure because post-exposure is very hard on your body and makes you feel sick.
> In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized.

Will Right Click > Open still work? That is how I currently bypass this issue with unsigned applications.
Admittedly I have no idea what an "online floor plan aggregator" is, but I don't see why any of Matterport's commercial property management customers would want to put in the far greater amount of work this requires of them rather than just throwing some money at Matterport to come out and scan it?
People have stayed longer, and apparently managed to enjoy it.
The best alternative is Aluminium oxynitride, a bulletproof transparent ceramic.

It's kind of expensive, though.

Would you buy a lifetime glass for 500$?
What makes this attractive to me is the ‘database branching’ functionality and simple setup for it.

Managing databases locally and in CI isn’t much fun when dealing with migrations, so the fact you can trivially work with a copy in a branch, or deploy preview builds in PRs with their own DB branch, is a great innovation.

I mean, sure you could slap something similar together with some scripts, but having it out of the box is good dev ex.
My keyboard doesn't have a Ü
Any chance you’d move to using Intel for your content servers in the foreseeable future?

Or this further cements the use of AMD?
They do sometimes share pre-publication drafts. Seems premature to put out an article with almost nothing in it. The information in the article lacks any sort of detail or even a logic basis for tying the points together. Plenty of policians make claims on a topic related to a bill that go farther than the actual bill that passes. So while one person has an interpretation the other members of congress can have different interpretations when passing the bill. That's why the preamble and the bill's contents are so important. Perhaps even the notes from the debate. But just a statement outside of those contexts? Bit of a stretch without seeing the research.
I remember the episode where a space capsule flew over the island. They wrote SOS in big letters, but somehow Gilligan managed to mess things up and it became SOL. Of course one of the astronauts was named Sol and saw his name on the island as a tribute...
Apple uses hardware encryption on iPhone and famously told th FBI to pound sand when ordered to break it.
What kind of Mickey Mouse bank do you use that requires you to jump through hoops to send money to Australian or German businesses as if their were third-world countries? Is this common in the US?
Capp Street is the center of the issue - so much so that permanent bollards have been added to cut down on customers circling the blocks looking for people selling themselves.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/barricaded-capp-street-park...
That’s not how salaries work though. Supply and demand.
That's not an umlaut, that's a Ü. It's just a normal letter in Turkish, unlike in German where the umlaut is a vowel modifier.
This is my second post here (the first was in a different section and about a week ago). I consulted with the moderators here before both posts. Their opinion both times was that this is not spam. I know that in a week this has helped more than a thousand people solve exactly the problem that I ran into before. I really want to understand why this seemed like spam to you.
Also, as people have a life expectancy in the order of 100 years (75 perhaps?), there is a pretty good chance you will experience a 1:100 year event at some point in your life. Also a lot of infrastructure is built for 50-100 year life (or is still used after 100 years, even though it was designed for less).

The 1:100 year safety level should thus be considered a bare minimum for high impact events. In the Netherlands water infrastructure is designed to withstand the 1:10.000 year storm for catastrophic events, and e.g. 1:1.000 year storm for high impact events.

But even with higher safety standards, it is key to design not only for the current climate, but for the future climate over the design life of whatever you are building. Extrapolating 1:10.000 year events from 30 years of observations might seem sketchy already, but with all the uncertainties in climate change predictions is a bit of a stretch.
In fact there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...
Doesn't anyone on HN use Vivaldi? Or does this news apply to them as well?
> why the strong resistance to frontend work?

I am bad at it. So they get an under-performing employee with low morale and I get complaints about my work.

> It can be helpful for a career if you don't have to frequently tell people "I can't do that", vs, "it's not my strong suit but I can pitch in"

I usually do the latter, but then in December I thought I'd better make sure, reasoning that things go better the clearer I am ahead of time. That was the first time I tried saying, "Seriously, I can't do that kind of work." This time I got nothing but that kind of work.
I said this in a subthread:

> I think Playwright depends on forking the browsers to support the features they need, so that may be less stable than using a standard explicitly supported by the browsers, and/or more representative of realistic browser use.

(And for Safari/WebKit to support it as well, but I'm not holding my breath for that one.)
Though I hope Playwright will adopt BiDi at some point as well, as its testing features and API are really nice.
Probably the widest accepted definition of the term open source is https://opensource.org/osd
Online platforms warned over disorder violence risk
Actually, sadly enough, a big portion of the people who buy those bags (or similarly luxury items that have fine non-luxury equivalents) don’t have the money to.

Often, people buy these things because it makes them feel better, in that they feel they’ve earned the right to have something nice.

And that is one of the reasons that people tend to make decisions that don’t get them out of poverty. Because sometimes feeling spendy makes people happy, in the short term.

It’s why you see so many lower-middle class people driving around in a used/leased Lexus or BMW. It isn’t that a Ford or Mazda wouldn’t suffice.

Moreover, if you can get it for free, with points, that feel like they cost you nothing? Hell yeah.

(This is also why the Marlboro/Parliament catalogs which made people collect UPC codes for various items were so popular. Nobody needed that junk. But a duffel bag and a laptop for nothing but these random barcodes I’ve collected?! Hell yeah, I’m rich!)
Beowulf Clusters Make Supercomputing Accessible (2020)
If you negotiate it before being hired, and you get hired, it's a real stupid move for managers to expect you to do the job that you explicitly made it clear you don't want to do / can't do. It's so easy to not hire someone, I really don't understand hiring people who hate and are not good at the job you want them to do.
Stuck Rocket IPA w/ mostly Apollo and Atlas hops, but a bit of a Cluster addition at flame out...and, this time, no Challenger or Columbia
And Starship is already putting in some work for the lunar lander variant of the Starship. Sure, launching humans from the moon has different requirements and contingency plans than launching them from earth, but having a lunar lander ready in ~2027 is going to make it a lot easier to then human-rate it for earth-based launches.
I've used this on my pi400. For somebody who just wants to try out an Amiga It "just works", and comes with a bunch of bundled software and everything already configured.

You still have to purchase the Kickstart ROMs from AmigaForever from Cloanto (or acquire them some other way) to use it.
Presumably, equanimity is a selection criterion for astronauts.
That's a square trade.

I'll keep my nefarious behavior on this side of mass murder, and FBI doesn't read my documents.
I’m not convinced because I can run pellets over a surface by hand and not scratch it, yet a shot blast will strip paint off easily.

Same substances with different processes produce different results.
Worst part for me about Go is how exceptions are usually basically handled the way that they would be with a Result<T> in Rust, but without an actual Result<T> type. That and how nulls are handled, feels like the worst of both worlds.
Utah geothermal project hits a milestone, pumping water through deep granite
This is very cool.

I turned on all the types of crime and a weird set of diagonal darker regions appeared in the avenues. Either this is some weird artifact of the geocoding or there's some really strange magnetic fields or something affecting crime.
>Yeah but if you show up for your scheduled shifts and are on time, sober, don't steal, and are moderately competent, they won't

If labor history in any place where firing is at will should have taught anyone anything, it's that many, many companies, for all kinds of stupid, greedy or sometimes necessary internal reasons do indeed often fire employees in droves despite their rigorously showing up for their scheduled shifts, sober, honest, and competent...

What cloud landscape do you live in?
One sad part of the GenAI wave happening right now is that we're past the golden age of open APIs.

It's hard to read data with widespread anti-abuse checks (CAPTCHAs), lack of open-format data (RSS support being spotty), and restricted APIs (ex: Twitter API). Companies have all the incentives to prevent bot use, and select for human eyeballs.

If we had a Yahoo Pipes sort of golden age, GenAI agents would have a vaster playground to play in, and would be more useful for us.

Consider building an agent for choosing what to do on weekends for a group of friends. The agent would need to keep state for past activities (X, Y, and Z went upstate to Storm King last week) and users' preferences (ex: liking dosas or Calder, dietary restrictions). This part is easy enough - you could just keep a notebook that's passed as context. Older context gets simply deleted or condensed into high level points.

But would it be easy for the agent to:

1) Look up nearby restaurants and events? (Perhaps Resy/OpenTable allow listing restaurants, but it's likely they have tons of anti-abuse tech. Is there even a place where you could see a list of public events - Google pays a third-party for this feed.)

2) Actuate on behalf of the user? (Do Resy and OpenTable allow authority delegation so the agent could book restaurants for users? There's no standard way to do this across venue types - concerts, museums, cooking classes. Is it realistic for agents to click through these sites on their own?)
My cat did this when my dog passed. The day it happened, she went to every spot our dog slept and cried. It was heartbreaking tbh