skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product Market Fit for AI Conversation Facilitator
We are developing an original language model that improves people’s satisfaction and engagement from chatting with others. Our model excels at warming conversations between strangers and keeping them warm by guiding/generating any user text to be context-relevant, mutually relatable, and cordial. In addition, it would offload any work in starting and maintaining conversation that people feel pressured to do.

We are testing product market fit for various use cases and where to first integrate it. There are 2 overarching use cases we can fulfill:
1. Facilitating conversation and breaking ice between consumers who want to meet new people and build meaningful relationships
2. Improving communication capabilities for businesses to enhance various business operations like sales, support, etc.
We plan to initially integrate our technology as extensions for various communication tools to enable either use case.

Hence, I have created 2 surveys that target 2 types of businesses:
1. Businesses that help consumers build meaningful relationships with eachother: https://forms.gle/ZJULnJXEgmgmZ89M9
2. Businesses that need communication support for various operations they have: https://forms.gle/BbgQdLJpcCddAUne7

If your business fits into one of these categories, I’d really really appreciate it if you could fill out the appropriate survey for your business. Please also feel free to comment additional suggestions for where I can leverage my technology.

Thanks!
Hi, I'm the maintainer for the VSCode F# support. Rider support for F# is great, that team is very engaged, and I'd strongly consider it if

* you have mixed C#/F# projects in a solution (C# and F# support in VSCode can't communicate today)

* you use Rider for other technology

* you want paid support for your editor tools

* you prefer IDE-style experiences rather than editor/
extension-style experiences

* you want to take advantage of Rider features like their accelerated build caching
Pictures of old Chinese lions:
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=63099308d1ada3ea&rlz=1...

Careful, some of them are the St Mark's Square lion. Which the metal came from China but the origin of the artwork seems unclear.
I would say outsourcing the development side. How much does he see cost effective for MVP?
Or using your laptop could get you embroiled in a lawsuit with that very employer regarding IP. You could cause yourself a lot of headache if someone gets upset that the code you work on leaves the building every day.
I think if people try a spam musubi first (a Hawaiian staple), they'll be more inclined to try other forms of spam.
Yup it’s pretty crazy how quickly it’s changing now. Kelsey Hightower brought over a small army of startup/tech influencers last week when he quit Twitter, and I agree the astronomy community in particular is shockingly robust. Casually got to congratulate someone on their JWST image the other day, and the JWST itself has an active account. And so many astrophotographers!

If you’re interested in such things, make sure to scroll through the “feeds” and sub to a few relevant ones. There’s also a “starter packs” feature allowing aggregators to suggest people to follow. As of now the social science spaces are a little quiet in comparison to tech, politics, and astronomy, but I have hope they’ll grow.

As Twitter becomes more and more monocultural, the exodus of academics will only accelerate, IMHO. I mean, they have NPR on Bluesky! Can’t beat that.
Not so much 'Clarify meaning of "superset of Python"' as 'Remove references to "superset of Python"'
They're both forms (perfect passive particle in particular) of the latin verb "video". So they both mean "having been seen". The difference is in gender. visa = feminine; visum = neuter; visus = masculine.
Yes, that is what it was.

Microsoft had continued to evolve it. And a few components from Visual Studio Windows were ported over to be common. But Visual Studio Mac was 100% rebranded Xamarin Studio which of course was just an evolution of MonoDevelop.
Buy frozen vegetables, salmon (20€/kg), bio eggs and milk at 1.25 to 2€/L. Add some bread from the baker, whole grain noodles, oats for breakfast and maybe get cheese every once in a while. Vegetable oil, nut oil and whole nuts complete what you need. Spices are bought in bunch and mixed up at home. For some greens you can have mint and herbs on any windowsill for <2€.

I don't eat out, never eat processed food, cook all myself and have a hard time (germany) hitting 150€ a month, so 5€ a day is totally doable. Don't get me wrong, it's hard to know what you can buy, but Stiftung Warentest is your friend and a book about medical nutrition at university level will make sure you don't buy from advertisement.
Well, yes and no.

Yes: because the language has distinct semantics for asynchrony which fundamentally* cannot be made synchronous, it is good that the language also makes that fundamental inability explicit, and inviolable.

No: the above reasoning is inherently tautological! It’s effectively arguing that it’s good that the language doesn’t have a massive inconsistency between two deeply coupled aspects of the same semantics. That is good! But it’s the kind of good you kind of have to expect, or treat as a tragic design flaw in its absence.

* There are some exceptions, but they’re generally esoteric or niche or have other important caveats.
I love cars. I love good hacks. I love cars that have been cleverly hacked, and I'd happily pay to attend a side show that was hosted in a blocked off area reserved for it.

But when a pack of sociopaths decides to block the Bay Bridge, my desire to throw them and their cars off into the bay is tempered only by my unwillingness to pollute the water.
Suika Game has the same core mechanic (and many clones) but still represents a fundamentally different game. The gameplay is not even in the same category, as it involves some kind of physical simulation.

... or did you mean that Suika Game itself wasn't the original game with the falling-circles mechanic?
It’s a product people want but it always sucks.

You expect it to be easy for a while and then rapidly progress to very hard or “can’t get here from there”. If you get into the code with your hands you probably won’t be able to edit it with the visual tool without problems,

You would think in the age of React, modern CSS and all that somebody could make something good but so far I haven’t seen it.

Another thing missing from most of these is a built in data model. For instance all the time people have something that goes through different states at different times. Maybe a student applies for school and go through various statuses (made inquiry, applied, received all letters of recommendation, …) and then various statuses as a student and then they are an alumni. Maybe this is a pallet going into a pallet reuse network or an order that is being fulfilled.

There is one right data model for handling those status changes but people keep inventing numerous wrong ones, The application builder should have an ontology built into it so it can build out both a correct data model for the application and also a world class UI based on that data model.
Congrats on the launch! I've been keeping up with you folks since you last posted (a few months ago, I believe). How does Anthropic's recent announcement of Claude's "computer use" abilities grab you? What key differentiators does Skyvern have, at this point in time ("computer use" with Claude being relatively new)?
Detecting objects by first detecting their gravitational influence has been successful in the past, see the discovery of Neptune for example.
Compare New York Metropolitan Area.[1] Involves several states. Not a governmental unit.

Metropolitan areas are usually computed by working outward until the density drops. Look at the Pearl River area in satellite imagery. It's a roughly circular high density region, and then farmland appears.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
This calls for something a bit like the ridiculous fridge innovation: the butter warmer.

‘In this environment we are paying to cool, let’s have a warming element.’
I am surprised; why is this your policy? I am sure you have a good reason, but I can't guess what it might be.

My approach is exactly the opposite: I never do anything work-related on personal hardware, nor do I ever use work machines for personal projects.
I've tried VS Code and Haystack (based on VS Code) for writing PHP and I just couldn't stand it after having used PhpStorm. Basic things like copying variables, indenting, moving lines into if statements, multiple cursors etc. just aren't intuitive in VS Code when writing PHP and a lot of the things I can do in PhpStorm with the press of a button just aren't possible.

I really hope they move PhpStorm to the same payment model as Rider so I can also use it for my own non-work projects.
I wonder though, do you expect good LSP to be available for commercial use free of charge?
Expecting ideological consistency from twelve million people seems like wishful thinking.
Amish have low cancer rate, but why?
Or triggered a host of ancient-aliens conspiracy theories after they find remains of a drone atop a 4500yo pyramid.
This is heavily tilted.

The Japanese conviction rate is high, but this is largely in part because the authorities are extremely reluctant to try cases unless they have a slam-dunk case. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

Scholars say the biggest reason for Japan's very high conviction rate is the
country's low prosecution rate and the way Japan calculates its conviction rate
is different from other countries. According to them, Japanese
prosecutors only pursue cases that are likely to result in convictions, and not
many others. According to Professor Ryo Ogiso of Chuo University,
prosecutors defer prosecution in 60% of the cases they receive, and conclude the
remaining 30% or so of cases in summary trials. This summary trial is a trial
procedure in which cases involving a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less are examined
on the basis of documents submitted by the public prosecutor without a formal
trial if there is no objection from the suspect. Only about 8% of cases are
actually prosecuted, and this low prosecution rate is the reason for Japan's
high conviction rate.

Also worth noting that, when evaluated equally, the US justice system has a similarly high rate:

According to Bruce Aronson of New York University School of Law, Japan's conviction rate is
misleading because it is the rate at which defendants admit guilt in the cases they are
charged with. According to him, if the method of calculating the conviction rate in Japan is
applied to the United States, the conviction rate of federal defendants in the United States
in 2018 was also over 99%. According to him, when there is a discussion about Japan, it
is easy to misunderstand because people quickly rely on broad cultural generalizations and
stereotypes.

None of which is to say that there aren't serious problems with the Japanese justice system (or the US one, for that matter).
Ask HN: Which Is the Best AI Tool for Programmatic SEO
> Metallurgy may be a key part of how the city could sustain itself at such a high altitude. The mountains are rich in iron ore and have dense juniper forests, which could be burned to fuel the smelting process. The researchers have also uncovered coins from across modern-day Uzbekistan, Maksudov says, suggesting the city may have been a hub for trade. It doesn’t appear to have been strictly a mining settlement, either—at Tashbulak, a cemetery contains the remains of women, elderly people and infants.

>

> “We have realized that this was a large urban center, which was integrated into the Silk Road network and dragged the Silk Road caravans toward mountains ... because they had their own products to offer,” Maksudov says.

Checking, did anyone else get to this part of the article and think "Yes, this shall be my anthropological model for dwarves in my D&D game"?
>It's not a job, or even a fun hobby

However, some might imagine it to be virtuous.
Apple will let everyone set new default phone and messaging apps with iOS 18.2
This is as useful as saying that seat belts do not make you safer because people still die in crashes. Containers are not perfect but if you’re starting from the conventional position where you’re one wrong package install away from an attacker having arbitrary access to your account and data, they’re a significant immediate improvement and a good foundation for further improvement.
It means you can use them as a hobbiest or a student. For example, you can now use Rider as the IDE on an Open Source project.

If you are writing code that you are going to be paid for, you are supposed to pay.

Of course, they know a lot of small devs will use it that should not. But few of them would have paid anyway and this creates a much greater pool of buyers when those devs get jobs or achieve commercial success.

I am a Rider fan so this is exciting.
I’d say a large part of that is quickly dissolving —- they had less than 2M users at the time, and now have over 13M. I’m no Matt Iglesias fan and I don’t expect him to ever be given a warm welcome by any zoomer-dominated space, but obviously threats are an easy no-go.

Hopefully they get a handle on that; a reputation for lax moderation re:violence could easily deflate their sudden hype.
Dark matter models have different amounts and distributions of it for each galaxy we care to look at, so there is no predictive power, similar to how they had to add new epicycles to explain the motion of every new planet they observed.
Apple storage is indeed undersized.

But most of us work around this with a $2.99/mth iCloud+ subscription which gets us 200GB storage on the cloud. Not a deal but a trivial enough cost to not worry about running out of storage.

As a non pro user, this is perfectly ok for storing all of my 33k photos since 2007.
Can you post examples in other languages where this would be easier?
Will there be any penalty for this?
I agree that those are bad examples in this context, but the underlying problem is real.

As a trade community, developers have come to treat open source projects as commercial vendors that they simply don't have to pay for -- they place support and roadmap demands on maintainers and regularly whip themselves up into a fury of frustrated entitlement when maintainers don't abide by those demands.

For passionate volunteers and part-time contributors, this dynamic is unsustainable and we've seen a continuously growing trend of maintainers burning out from the way they and their projects have come to be treated.

What we have now is not the vision of open source that many were fighting for 20 and 40 years ago. It's a bigger part of development than anyone back then could have imagined, but its mode of growth came with toxic consequences that erode the sense of camaraderie, enthusiasm, communalism, and good will that the whole effort was originally built upon.

We're on track for a collapse of open source, where mature, healthy projects figure out new ways to protect maintainers, largely by putting strict qualifiers on their licenses and making less and less stuff truly Free and Open.
I think the content-centric model you are describing has been alive and thriving since at least the late 70s in Emacs.
SBC Case Builder – a parametric case generator for SBC
You could say the same for Russia. But on the other hand, maybe they were despots all along?
As a Lakota Sioux Indian myself, I can confirm that in the past the relationship between the Sioux and the Apache was oftentimes rocky when their paths intersected.

Sometimes it's better to let sleeping dogs lie.
Are these rideshare drivers supposed to be coordinating with one another? Surely, they have been using out-of-band communications to discover and exchange information with other drivers. It doesn't seem like it would be in Uber/Lyft's best interest to help drivers coordinate or communicate, like at all. But any driver who doesn't, would probably be at a disadvantage.
It seems a bit odd that people in the control group also got $50/month, while the treatment group received $1000/month. I would be interested in a slightly different experiment:

* Make multiple treatment groups; for example in which individuals would receive $1000/month, $200/month, and $50/month each, respectively.

* somehow create a control group who would not receive anything. Yes, it would be tough, but it seems important.

* Get participants from (say) the lowest income decile. Or at least be very careful to note the pre-treatment income of participants and their family, then correlate the results with the pre-treatment income.

The goal would be to understand the benefit-versus-amount tradeoff. Further, are there significant benefits that come from $50/month? If there are, then it would be much easier to fund. I don't think policy peeps should shy away from such less ambitious projects, even if it isn't called an "income"
They require completely different levels of viewing patterns and complexity. It’s such a reductionist take.
> Why would race matter?

Because social matter
For comparison, here's a talk about Overwatch's netcode: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw

Overwatch has a long time-to-kill, interesting to compare tradeoffs.
Oh. Very cool. Thanks for the heads up.
I believe the JetBrains equivalent of VSCode is Fleet, which is already free. In other words, their code editor.
> My understanding is that “visum” means “that which has been seen” in Latin. What does “visa” mean then?

Basically the same thing, from the same root verb “vidēre”; vīsum is “that which has been seen” (noun), vīsa is “which has been seen” (adjective), from which English and some other languages have derived a noun “visa” as a shortening of the modern Latin “charta vīsa” (“paper/document which has been seen”) possibly through a french intermediary before English (different sources I’ve seen disagree on this.)
You mean the TLS issue called out or something else?

I wasn't trying to recommend may specifically of course. Or are you saying that stackful coroutines must have soundness issues due to missing language features to make it safe?
Security research on Private Cloud Compute
Perhaps, other than the "ruining perfectly good popcorn" part.
Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule
Dave’s channel on YouTube (just called Continuous Delivery I think) is also really good.
Is this the real start of processed food and the obesity crisis?
Measuring fluid volume in cups has always been irritating to me. Even worse is measuring flour or other non-liquid ingredients.

What’s wrong with grams?
Hasn't there been speculation/study along the lines of Alzheimer's being a form of diabetes?
Not impressed with your AI experience? It's not the model. It's the data
I don't really know why they need this when a lot of these sideshows are advertised on social media in advance.
I suspect JB know most of their revenue comes from corporate licenses (I‘m guessing), so this shouldn‘t cut their bottom line significantly, while simultaneously giving them a foot in the door of potential new customers. Get them hooked for private / OS projects, then sell them commercial licenses.
> If any client requests /wp-admin, flag their IP ASN as bot.

Sounds brutal. A whole ISP typically is a single ASN and any of their subscribers can be running bots while others don't - isn't this so?
Is there an alternative that isn't as salty? Every time I've tried it (which is only a couple of times) I've found it incredibly salty :/
I was speaking loosely and lumped "run forever with no progress" and "crash the program" into the same space; my apologies for the lack of clarity.

A more precise way to say it is "regular functions either return or we're in a bad place (or we're in a very special circumstance, like 'this program burns cycles on purpose because the scheduler requires something to be running')." For async functions, failure to progress to a returnable state is expected behavior, so the whole system needs to be built around allowing computational progress while waiting for the state to change to where the return can occur.
The analemma graph shape happens because you're adding sinusoids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

See also, https://www.gaisma.com/en/ for some really good interactive sunlight graphs.
Gavin Menzies would've had a field day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1434:_The_Year_a...
First the artists changed over and now the academics.

What's weird is that PBS isn't on Bluesky (yet) because didn't Musk start to treat them very toxicly and label them "state-affiliated" (which is ridiculous).

I'd really like PBS SpaceTime on Bluesky, there is an unofficial bot but the real thing for interaction would be great.
Three papers analyzed 1200+ US Return to Office policies, all presented at the Stanford conference this week. Summary findings:

A) RTOs have no impact on future profits or stock returns
B) RTOs are more likely after poor historic profits and stock returns
C) RTOs are more likely in companies with older, male CEOs
D) RTOs are more likely for companies in large cities with cheap office space
E) RTOs lead to the exit of employees, particularly more tenured employees
F) RTOs lead to reductions in employee sentiment (e.g. on Glassdoor)

Collectively, they appear to be some mix of:
1) Driven by CEO personal views - CEO age and gender matter a lot
2) Policies to reverse/bury bad news - they happen after results turn bad
3) Headcount reductions/delayering - employees quit, particularly managers
I used to feel that way, but over time I've come to realize that for the vast majority of code pulling stuff out so you have only one level of nesting and only one pass/fail decision makes it easier to understand years later. I'm sure the compiler inlines a lot of stuff I pulled out.

The exceptions to this are situations where you need to do a bunch of sequential steps and cases where you are looping on stuff in higher dimensions.

I have gotten to the point that I consider a comment about the code to be a sign of trouble. (Comments about what the code is interacting with are a different matter.)
But Doctor, I am Mitt Romney
I think it's a mistake to believe that it requires more than average intelligence to con a great number of people.

The reason the world mostly works is because we all mostly trust each other. A relative handful of assholes and bullies will easily find ways to take advantage of that trust, but that doesn't make them intelligent.
The two are quite unrelated. Michelson-Morley was looking for a difference in the speed of light reaching the Earth from the Sun depending on the direction of motion of the Earh. Gravitational waves are not related to that in any way.
Underrated? It's objectively terrible for you.
Is it though? In a hypothetical JS with the possibility of, say, “decoloring” async functions—e.g. by optionally blocking on their resolved return value—the situation that function coloring helps… ceases to exist as a situation in need of helping in the first place.

That would be broadly unappealing where single threaded, cooperative concurrency is a baseline assumption! But it’s more fair to say it’s a trade off, and it’s also fair to recognize the things made impossible by a trade off.
I think some of Rider is written in C# vs all Java for IDEA. Could that be it?
Oh that's awesome!

I'm a huge fan of the JetBrains IDEs - the way it understands code relieves so much mental overhead when tracing through my code, finding usages, refactoring, etc. It's one of the rare pieces of software I actually enjoy using. I just can't justify the cost for personal use for the amount I use it, and the fact that I've never really monetized a side project.

Super happy they're making this move. I think there's good logic to getting people hooked with free personal use so they can convince their company to buy licenses for everyone at work.
ShotSpotter has been a lot more politically controversial than Siri in a law enforcement context, so there is probably a very conscious reason besides condescension for the choice of description.