skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question -- I was waiting for someone to ask this!

Their product and launch is super cool. It's incredible how much it's able to do by just relying on tool use + micro agents + screen shots + coordinates to interact with websites.

There are a couple of thoughts here:

(1) Will their competitors wait around and not build something similar? Will xAI / Gemini / OpenAI / Mistral / MetaAI teams wait around? Probably not. This is likely a huge part of the future, and one company will not "take it all"

(2) How is value actually derived from these systems? Is a demo + cool usable product enough? Likely not. Most people actually want their workflow automated. For personal use-cases, this might be enough.. but enterprises likely want something more complex

(3) Will this be optimized for Claude only? What if you want to run this with your own open source LLMs? Or you want to point this at the best model on the market all the time? Will you get that flexibility through a solution provided by a big player? Likely not -- Anthropic has incentive to get you to use Claude under the hood

The last point is the one that gives me hope. Our open source users are able to pick their favourite model to run on. You're not locked into Cluade. You can run it on Gemini / GPT-4O or open source ones such as Llama 3.2.
This is a very cool video. I am interested in making a dynamic notes app with user defined types and cutomizable flows. This is partly done already in Roam, AnyType... if you include the plugin system. But it seems like there is a lot of history.

Nevertheless, I am more optimistic about such a product. The key issue is building composable interfaces to which plugins can glue in.

Piracy is not such a big problem as one can give the product free of charge to users and charge for hosting or charge commercial businesses for whom piracy is not a risk worth taking.

If anything, the business implication of a ubiquitous workflow interaction is its threat to the ads model (users dont visit social media sites but read in data via apis). The ad model might need to be replaced by something like micropayments to content creators, but that is a distant issue.
Python stdlib conveniently supports both byte strings and Unicode strings, even for regexps. Ther is no need to migrate to any other language.
In Bay Area of all places we should really be demanding that the software running on these devices are open-sourced so we can have the confidence that this isn't used to monitor/surveil people in general

Even China's Supreme People's Court in 2021 banned the public use of facial recognition technology
I made the suggestion! "if it compiles, it type checks". Rust's type system is much more sophisticated than that of C++ and Python, and that is the difference you're gesturing at.

Also, no, the Rust compiler will happily pass code which will crash your program, all it takes is an out of bounds array access. That's the kind of puffery many of us are tired of. The "if it compiles, it works" slogan is, bluntly, wrong.
Nevermind that if this were put to some kind of national popular vote it would pass overwhelmingly.
Does anyone know the real backstory here? I'm thinking that Nestlé HQ (presumably in Switzerland) might have had rather limited control over (or even visibility into) their on-paper subsidiaries in Nazi-controlled countries.
People too often conflagrate performance of a plateform vs the games you can get on that platform. The Nintendo 3DS was released about the same time as the Vita. It and the "new 3DS" that came after it were huge for Nintendo, despite the hardware being far from state of the art (unless you count the 3D display that was more a gimmick than anything). You can say the same thing about the Switch. One of the Vita's biggest problems was Sony itself. Proprietary & expensive memory cards plus poor corporate support doomed the platform.

I have a hacked Vita Slim and it is wonderful. The size is great, the controls are great, and the homebrew scene is incredible. It really holds up.
I wish they would allow opt-out for people who have a subscription active on one of the other Jetbrains products.
There is no public dataset of EHRs of this size.
The legal reasons is the sanctions against Russia for their illegal war of aggression. All of Russia and all who live within its borders are responsible for these actions.
$180 for a dubious SSD drive? Maybe pass on USB Club
Apple's Card Was Confusing
Nothing -- we use DataDog for our cloud telemetry and haven't built a great way to separate dependencies between cloud and open source
That sounds nearly indistinguishable from the caliber of bottom-barrel discussion that happens on Twitter/X. Not to say it's justifiable on either platform, but I can't really recall any threads on Twitter promoting high-value content over funny reactionary gobbledygook.
> Your manager...“I don’t [know how it goes]. I went to business school.”

There's the problem.

Organizations whose leaders aren't able to discern your actual value are going to be miserable places to work. You play their games or baffle them with BS. But you don't get to attain any sort of authentic actualization.

...

Take my pessimistic commentary with a grain of salt. I'm job searching at the moment for a software manager role and the opportunity landscape is a wasteland of b2b insurance widget companies, usury companies, and AI dead-ends. If you want to build things that help real people, you may have to DIY.
"My friend Ozy said that Infinite Jest was a really good book for reading in a dysentery ward."

I made the mistake of trying to read Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey when I had covid last. I never finished it, and when I try to read it now it reminds too much of how awful I felt.
Sickle cell isn’t affected by social matters, unlike body fat.
Last time I played around with React Native was probably around when it first launched, there was no Expo then, and I haven't used React Native since so I don't even know what Expo is.

But another commentator wrote "yet another SaaS with questionable payment tiers" about Expo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937886) which makes me already not want to use it if I ever touch React Native again. Not sure why a SaaS would be involved at all in this process.
> Don't see why it's "amazing" for the US

Because you're paying US income taxes while consuming next to no US government services or infrastructure.

> But in scenario (B) you're spending money in Japan

Anyone who lives and works in Japan spends money in Japan. What's great about that? Most of those people also pay taxes.

> basically you're directly injecting US money (your US salary) into the Japanese economy

Japan might say: if this US company doesn't mind someone working from Japan and paying them an American salary, why not a person who already lives there and pays taxes there? That's obviously better than someone new who doesn't pay taxes there.
Lets face it pair programming via teams is the new privat office on the open floor.No AI needed?
It can't tell you if the style rules are compatible with each other, if they'll conflict, if the cascade will force an effect you didn't intend the current snippet to produce. I am sure you're going to tell me that CSS is bad because it allows that kind of problem...

Good, means I’m almost there! All true.

but that's how visual design works!

That’s how CSS works, not visual design. It mixes all together and you can’t even design a generic container because its customization will affect the inner content containing that type of a container. And all its custom margins will fight with its own margins-as-a-child. And you can’t properly outline it in-parent without reserving space in advance and dealing with shattered layout, or using half-baked “outline:”. This only worked for a non-recursive text. It was designed for text.

I have worked as a designer many years ago btw. Corel draw, pagemaker, autocad, etc. I could place elements, group them, place two groups by distance between centers of their main content groups, stick them to arbitrarily angled guidelines. I wasn’t the autocad guy (more corel + vba) but I’ve seen how people work with it. CSS is like a $0.5 paper doll dress-up toy compared to these industrial CNCs. It’s not a pinnacle of design, it’s below mediocre at best.

There are alternatives like constraints, alignments and so on that could be simply included into CSS next. But the stubborn sandcastle-model obsessed committee can’t add more than one practical thing per decade, because everyone will migrate asap. Their reasoning makes sense sometimes, but don’t try to put css on a pedestal, it’s a heavy tradeoff, not a win.
Always. I set myself a once-monthly task to summarize, but never seem to do it.

Part of the problem is that the current/recent tasks easily push out finished ones, and I think that's pretty normal for humans. (Heck, we're even wired to forget things when we pass through doorways. [0])

Then the things you do recall well--a harrowing tale of tracking and slaying an amazingly evil bug--are hard to translate into resume-form that will mostly be consumed by non-developers. You fixed X and then the effect on the bottom-line is... Uh... Hopefully happier customers? By some kind of amount?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect
Well, these code assistant AI models won’t train themselves…
>The track doesn't have cross traffic that has to stop and wait.

Is that.. something the people participating want?

I kind of figured it was about doing cool shit with your car, but is it more about pissing other people off?
I like this as a possible honey trap. Any company/industry that signs up to fight this is pretty much a self own admission they behave this way.

Not one person fighting this is a surprise
I think the foundation was setup for the lifeboat per the article.
The score is tied to your age and is relative to the whole population of that age, IIRC. It’s been a long time since I took the paid test. So today’s 100 is, say, 130 fifty years ago. I think there were 4 age groups.
This is arguing that we have not sanctioned murderous evil actions in the past therefore we must not do so now or ever after. It's a pretty bad argument.
Caltrans already has cameras on the Bay Bridge anyone can look at: https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm

They could probably just have someone watch those for cars drifting in circles. Obviously this isn't perfect, but there's definitely other solutions.
That doesn't make sense to me at all. When you delegate heavy workloads to native view engines, both rendering and interfacing with native media/sdp will undoubtly be faster. The only issue i can see is if you install a lot of web only npm packages which has to go through the translation layer.

That's not what react native is for. Its for building native applications with a react-like syntax for the views. To me it seems like you used hammer to put in screws, no?
I'm not sure if you're following what I am saying. The same body fat percentage leads to different health outcomes for members of different races in aggregate because of different genetic predispositions. Someone of one race with BMI X is likely to have a different risk profile than someone of a different race with BMI X no matter what X is, high or low. This is not a social matter. We're just talking about heath statistics, not aesthetics.

That's not to say there aren't social aspects to obesity as well (obviously) but that's not what we're talking about right now, and parent dragging that in is just a distraction.

From [1] in the comment you replied:

> Access to medications and surgery should be improved, in part by updating US indications for therapies to reflect race‐specific obesity thresholds and through inclusion of Asian American people of all subtypes with lower BMI values in clinical trials.
For the average user, not the enthusiast, they are going to be spending much more time proportionally interacting with the OS, because they spend much less time total per day using the device.
Yes! We're helping a few companies with this right now. This use-case actually surprised me.

I never realized how important it is to track invoices in Europe (where VAT needs to be closely tracked), and a large % of vendors require you to log into their portal to fetch them
Put if your MR is just one line of code and it took you two weeks, you still have the same problem.
Is Capacitor a viable solution yet? I saw this tweet saying "it just works" for porting a webapp on NextJS: https://x.com/marc_louvion/status/1836023560462360746
> Anyone with knowledge who can expand this or explain what exactly is "arbitrary", "capricious" or "abuse of discretion"?

I'm a lawyer. Here's a summary from Perplexity.ai, which comports well with my general understanding:

The U.S. Supreme Court defines "arbitrary and capricious" in the context of administrative-agency action primarily through the standards set forth in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). According to the APA, a court must invalidate agency actions that are found to be "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law" 1 3 4.

The arbitrary and capricious standard is applied when reviewing an agency's decision-making process and involves several key considerations:

Consideration of Relevant Factors: An agency action is deemed arbitrary and capricious if the agency has relied on factors that Congress did not intend it to consider, failed to consider an important aspect of the problem, or offered an explanation for its decision that runs counter to the evidence before the agency 2 3.

Rational Connection: The agency must demonstrate a rational connection between the facts found and the choices made. This requires a satisfactory explanation for its action based on consideration of relevant data 6.

Consistency and Reasoning: The decision should not be based on seriously flawed reasoning or be inconsistent with prior actions unless adequately explained. The agency must also respond to relevant arguments or comments during the decision-making process 6.

Zone of Reasonableness: Recent interpretations by the Supreme Court have introduced the concept of a "zone of reasonableness," where agency actions are upheld if they fall within a reasonable range of decisions based on the agency's expertise 4.
I have built a React Native app in the past. Nowadays I would go for Kotlin Multiplatform. It is already the primary language on Android and now it is possible to create native binaries on iOS. With Compose multiplatform it also has the ability to also share UI code with a declarative syntax on multiple platforms.

I think React Native was the go to place in the past but it has been surpassed now.
I post to a standup channel in Slack every day. I say something substantial most days and almost always give ticket numbers there. We also have a weekly Google Doc for IT work which I usually updated based on my Slack standups.

I have Python scripts which can read out Slack, Google Docs, and Jira. So given a few minutes I can always generate text that shows I worked on a huge number of tickets and did a lot of work.
It's a very serious video, which adds to the comedy of it.
The REFInd Boot Manager
I'll just be honest, I don't like Zed at all. I much preferred Atom when it was a thing, and I mostly use Zed begrudgingly because the other graphical editors tend to get sluggish.

My preferred IDE was what Jetbrains had before with IDEA - you could plug in basic support for the languages you want and edit as you go. I don't want to set up a superheavy environment with all the bells and whistles, I want Intellisense and tree-sitter in a relatively zippy interface. That was what Jetbrains offered before, and it's what I can't have anymore.
Same experience just different time lines.
Please list the countries that have been "destroyed" by NATO specifically.
No? Most modern apps these days _are_ just web apps. Why does it need the overhead architecture of running full standalone applications when a web clip works just as well? Plus there's no need for updating.

The problem at the time was multifaceted. The devices couldn't handle it, the network couldn't handle it, and webkit was still relatively limited. But it did work. https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/03/remembering-apples-sweet-solu...
I don't really disagree with anything in this post, but it's a bit sad. I understand the "why" of the scenario, but it will never not be frustrating to me when I have to "prove" that I'm creating value because I didn't tailor my work to optimize for whatever system the company is using.

Like, I just want to solve problems with code, I hate that I also have to constantly advertise how smart and useful I am because managers are so myopic that they can't figure out if I'm valuable.

It brings out the worst in people; you get people holding meetings about stuff that could be summarized in an email in order to give the illusion of working hard. Pages and pages of documents that will never be read are created because if you don't create them then it's hard to say you were doing stuff. Hundreds of tickets pile up in Jira that will never get done because you need to give the appearance that you're actively important in the improvement of the product(s).

I get it, it's the world we live in, but I don't have to like it.
If you want to actually solve the problem, start prosecuting the people who are causing it. Everything else is performative and pointless.
That's really too bad, and not fair to the Russian developers. More 'collateral damage' from the NATO-Russia conflict.
Something Awful: The Internet Makes You Stupid.
The tracks have noise and pollution restrictions, track days aren’t available year-round, and many/most events require the vehicle to have passed a safety inspection. These severely limit the number of personal vehicles that qualify for doing these activities safely, and as there’s no other unsafe or lower-cost method for doing these things, they end up on the streets.

This is also a side effect of cuts to street traffic motorcycle police staffing, with limited resources allocated elsewhere and funding starved due to seized-up local politics and police mistreatment of citizens. People sometimes now just disregard red lights in the Bay Area as the chances of a traffic cop seeing them do so are so close to zero as to make it a safe bet.

I generally loathe the idea of increasing policing but it’s either that or automated camera enforcement with plate readers, since we can’t trust ourselves to be sensible about it.
> Device could deliver bedside blood test results in an hour

could. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
>There was no ban on home computers

Surprising, was there no opposition to russian occupation in Serbia? In Poland there was a strict ban on personal ownership of typewriters, fax machines, copiers, printers, radio transmitters, modems and computers (3 year prison term minimum). CIA was smuggling those to Poland with the help of Church https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/18/world/reagan-and-pope-rep...

>The report in Time adds many new details, particularly the role of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Roman Catholic Church in opening networks across which telephones, fax machines, printing presses, photocopiers, computers and intelligence information moved to Solidarity.

Personal possession anecdote from book "High-tech behind the Iron Curtain. Electronics, computers and control systems in the Polish People's Republic" ("High-tech za żelazną kurtyną. Elektronika, komputery i systemy sterowania w PRL" 978-83-8098-094-5)

>In 1984, "Informatyka" magazine, involved in the dissemination of these machines, reported on the adventures of Mr. Przemysław, who received in April [...] a package from his brother in Toronto, containing the VIC-20 microcomputer, power supply, cassette recorder, a set of cassettes for television games and English language manual and connecting cables. The Customs Office in Gdynia refused to issue an import license, stating that it could issue [...] only if the computer was necessary for the citizen's professional or scientific work

It slowly got better in second half of the 80s. COCOM relaxed import sanctions in 1984 on low end 8bit gaming machines:

"New Media Behind the Iron Curtain: Cultural History of Video, Microcomputers and Satellite Television in Communist Poland" https://research.utu.fi/converis/getfile?id=51338894&portal=...

>The breakthrough in the domestication of computers in Poland took place
in the mid-1980s, most likely between 1984 and 1986. In the global context, this
might have been relatively late, but in the context of the Eastern bloc it seems that
Poland was within the norm. There are two main reasons behind this chronology: one international, one local. Firstly, on an international level, the embargo on 8-bit technology was relaxed in 1984. Computers had been at the heart of the
CoCom debate since the mid-1970s, but – as Mastanduno reports – it was not
until July 1984 that the embargo on the most popular 8-bit microcomputers was
removed, even though at the same time new restrictions were introduced regarding various telecommunications software and solutions.

In 1985 you could finally legally buy 8bit Atari in Pewex - chain of special shops established to siphon western currency out of the black market.

>Secondly, on a local level, as Kluska reports, in the autumn of 1984, the “[Polish] customs office
ceased to make it difficult for citizens to import microcomputer equipment.”
They expected IQ to continue increasing because it has been continuously increasing.

(I think it used to be a rule on HN to read the article before commenting).
Your company has been captured. It's over -- if you are quietly competent you will either have your coworkers and technical managers create a shield around you or you will find yourself outcompeted by developers who spend all of their time creating proof of work instead of doing work, and creating heavily documented CRUD apps with predictable milestones rather than challenging work where the solution is not known.

Join them if you can; dumb down your work and focus on predictable things rather than interesting work. Try to move closer to a profit center instead of a cost center because you'll get proof in the pudding there. And start quietly sending out resumes.

If you have a good manager who understands your contribution and can deal with the politics and constant demands for progress reports from do-nothing middle managers who need to send progress reports to their managers then you can probably do well until they get pushed out.
> Nevermind that if this were put to some kind of national popular vote it would pass overwhelmingly.

But it's typical of big industry groups to try to block any kind of regulatory- or legislative action that inhibits them from doing what they want.
Unlike every person born before me and every person born after me—all of whom insist their childhood was the zenith—my childhood was actually the zenith
Except that data says you're wrong. As a classic example, look at (1) the effects of adding iodine to salt and its impact on IQ, and (2) the withdrawal of leaded gasoline and it's impact on IQ.

And in general, IQ goes up as nutrition goes up (to a point). It's hard to be smart if you're calorie-reduced.

That said, is IQ important? To an extent, yes. In general a higher IQ means someone can hold more things in their head, which means they can handle more complexity.

Is it important? It depends. I would rather have a high-IQ doctor than a low-IQ doctor, for sure. I would rather have a high-IQ network engineer than a low-IQ network engineer.
That algorithm requires using the same coin for both tosses.
It's wild to think WW2 indirectly killed people a decade later by making them fat. When you hear about surplus materiel killing people, food isn't what comes to mind.
Wasn't that just because Threes was a paid iPhone-only app and 2048 was a free near-clone?