skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For accuracy, it's a 100 page guide to technical writing, followed by a 50 page sample rulebook for Stardew Valley implementing all the ideas :)
The work is never just "the work" (2022)
Yeah, and they ought to be told to stuff it. I don't know why they deserve all the pandering that they get.
We have been developing an AI-powered documentation framework that automates generating user-facing documentation. We’ve designed a Notion-like user interface for editing content while maintaining support for MDX.

We would love your feedback on this and any additional features you would like to see.

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To be fair they haven’t launched they are showing progress and laying out the vision.

What previous work are you referring to?
BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems
Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents
I think graph is a wrong abstraction for building AI agents. Just look at how incredibly hard it is to make routing using LangGraph - conditional edges are a mess.

I built Laminar Flow to solve a common frustration with traditional workflow engines - the rigid need to predefine all node connections. Instead of static DAGs, Flow uses a dynamic task queue system that lets workflows evolve at runtime.

Flow is built on 3 core principles:

* Concurrent Execution - Tasks run in parallel automatically

* Dynamic Scheduling - Tasks can schedule new tasks at runtime

* Smart Dependencies - Tasks can await results from previous operations

All tasks share a thread-safe context for state management.

This architecture makes it surprisingly simple to implement complex patterns like map-reduce, streaming results, cycles, and self-modifying workflows. Perfect for AI agents that need to make runtime decisions about their next actions.

Flow is lightweight, elegantly written and has zero dependencies for the engine.

Behind the scenes it's a ThreadPoolExecutor, which is more than enough to handle concurrent execution considering majority of AI workflows are IO bound.

To make it possible to wait for the completion of previous tasks, I just added semaphore for the state value. Once the state is set, one permit is released for the semaphore.

The project also comes with built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation for debugging and state reconstruction.

Give it a try here -> https://github.com/lmnr-ai/flow. Just do pip install lmnr-flow. (or uv add lmnr-flow). More examples are in the readme.

Looking forward to feedback from the HN community! Especially interested in hearing about your use cases for dynamic workflows.

Couple of things on the roadmap, so contributions are welcome!

* Async function support

* TS port

* Some consensus on how to handle task ids when the same tasks is spawned multiple times
> Dante is clearly writing in the expectation that his intended audience of learned men will know these references and understand their relevance,

We just replaced the Bible and Homeric texts with Star Wars and marvel. Everybody at the time would know the biblical allusions even if they were illiterate.

> many conditions that nowadays are routinely cured or prevented would have been inevitably fatal; not all of the souls in the Comedy who died in their thirties and forties

Are they confusing average lifespan for typical lifespan? Isn’t this contradicted by the later paragraph in the same article?
I mean, I think second is still "one of the first?" And, no offense to this project, but I don't know of it being used in a real industrial setting, whereas AlphaChip was used in TPU.
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See https://github.com/Isaac-Flath/anki and https://github.com/aeamaea/APL_Anki_Decks
I think board games on the more complex end are running into the fact that they're goddamn near impossible to teach, or to learn well enough to teach, without watching a demonstration or playing a couple demo rounds. A book alone is simply not sufficient without, as the linked PDF complains about, something like the effort of studying a textbook, probably with the game-pieces right alongside and working through fake play as you go so that any of it makes sense.

Attempts to translate that into extensive game walkthroughs in manuals (not quick examples of play to demonstrate a rule, which are sometimes nice) are horribly misguided. Just include a damn QR code that points to a YouTube video. Give it an entire page to make it more likely the players find it, that'll still be less space than a walkthrough.

I truly think Monopoly's around the upper end of complexity that normal people can be expected to absorb and apply from a game manual—not from someone showing them the right way, or from a video—which means the vast majority of modern-era games are way past that point. I've known more people who fail to play with all parts of the Monopoly rules than I've known people who correctly play with all of them (or at least know the rules, but affirmatively reject or deliberately modify them) by a large margin. Usually it's auctioning or mortgaging they skip, either because they never read the rules and learned from someone who wasn't familiar with those parts, or because they did read the rules but deemed one or both of those parts too daunting to play and manage without having seen a demonstration of it and decided the game seems like it can run without those rules (yes, it can, but it makes it worse in some key ways—not doing auctions when someone declines to purchase a space is especially harmful, as it prolongs the game without much in the way of compensatory extra fun)

Like, sure, Risk is kinda a shitty grand strategy or area control or war game or however you want to classify it, for demonstrable, if arguable, reasons, but if your answer to that results in more complex rules than Risk... you're gonna need an explainer video, because your rule book is definitely gonna suck. Because that's a game normal people can, just barely, often figure out and run correctly just from the rule book, and yours surely won't be.
I could see Broadcom picking up x86.
The issue with the GPUs is that their transistor to performance ratio is poor. The A770 has as many transistors as about a 3070ti but only performs as well as a 3060 (3060ti on a good day).

So with that, they are outsourcing production of these chips to TSMC and using nearly cutting edge processes (battlemage is being announced tomorrow and will use either TSMC 5 or 4), and the dies are pretty large. That means they are paying for dies the size of 3080s and retaling them at prices of 3060s.
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Not to diminish Fairphone's accomplishments here, but beginning in 2025, the EU mandates five years of software updates for all phones sold in the EU.
> Do you work for the site or something?

Nope.

> You brought up the CMS. I didn’t.

Yes, again, it was to explain to you that they only say that the CMS is free, not the services because you said:

> This site is misrepresenting itself as open source and free, while simultaneously having an affiliate program and pricing page, which, as I've said, isn't free

They only said their CMS was open-source and free, not any of their other services.

> I don’t think you know what you’re even arguing about or for because none of your arguments or claims even go anywhere

I was correcting you because you said things that just aren't true:

> This site is misrepresenting itself as open source and free, while simultaneously having an affiliate program and pricing page, which, as I've said, isn't free. It's unverifiable whether or not it's open source, as you don't even download/run the software yourself: it's a web app, which is beside the point, as web apps could also be open source, but as there's no way to self-host this, let alone download it and/or run it, for free or otherwise. I think it's safe to avoid this scammy site.

Which is just not accurate at all, as I've already explained several times. You can dislike the site all you want but you don't need to slander them.
> Besides, it looks to me like many, or perhaps most, gay folks were born that way, in the same way we understand the biology of trans folks' brains likely differ in ways that are counter to "normal" sexually dimorphic structures

Interestingly, those earlier studies claiming to show that brains of the trans-identifying are atypical for their sex didn't control for sexuality, and many used exclusively homosexual cohorts.

So the findings were actually brain differences relating to homosexuality - later studies that controlled for sexuality (including same-sex and opposite-sex attracted transsexuals in the study population) couldn't replicate the earlier results relating to sexually dimorphic brain structures.

Instead, researchers found functional differences in brain regions relating to body perception, similar to what is seen in body dysmorphic disorder patients.

> (Dr. Robert Sapolsky details this in his freely available Human Behavioral Biology class at Stanford).

There is a video where he discusses this, albeit without properly citing any studies, but his description of the research is out of date. Probably it's an old recording.
Short answer: yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/01/the-bra...
Related: Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO2 from the air as a tree (21 points, 40 days ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927684
Will this enable federated learning? Petals.ml and distributed inference didn't actually work - the technical aspects of what you're doing to enable distributed training is well over my head unfortunately
What’s happening with intel wino? That seemed like their cuda ish effort.
Exploding kittens and their other games are also simple 1 or 2 rule games.

There’s not a lot of rule depth.

You couldn’t do the same with risk or kill dr lucky for instance
Intel has no GPU. Intel has no mobile processors / SOCs. These seem to be the drivers of growth nowadays. And their CPUs have hard time competing with AMD now. I'm not sure that the 3 years which Geslinger had were enough to turn the tide.
Hopefully this improves CVT viability/reliability
> It merely says you can't just say "computer got it wrong" and expect the other side to prove otherwise.

According to the standard legal practice of innocent-until-proven-guilty, you can, in fact, say that and expect the other side to prove otherwise. So this ruling violates one of the most fundamental principles of criminal law.
> what natural brains are trying to do

and so much more! "survive" does not acknowledge the inspirational, right?
Very much this. I'm getting 5 words per line on my phone, with about equal parts white space and text.
> We needed to move a PTZ cam based on the stage/pulpit mute states on our X32, but it is capable for way more.

PTZ - pan/tilt/zoom camera, that much I understood. The rest? Uh… can I get an ELI5 please?

Even though I’m clearly not in the target demographic, I’m eager to learn more..

Edit: ok, clicked through to GitHub, now I (kinda) got what it’s for :)
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Obviously a lot of factors are at play for SaaS pricing but that would mean it would be worth at least around 50 billion USD in market cap if it were a legitimate business. Seems highly unlikely.
So we raise energy consumption with all its side effects because of laziness.

I guess it’s 3° or more then
It is an amazing feat and can put the US on excellent footing.

But I’m not sure it is a fair comparison because the Space Shuttle also returned a crew with each launch. Starlink can afford to pay the cost of lost cargo, or diminished fuel reserves for sub-optimal launch altitude, on launch failure.

Still, I hope it continues on this excellent path and doesn’t fall into the complacency trap that skydivers have to watch for. It would be great if the Falcon 9 launches can fund the eventual completion of Starship, and that Starship goes on to become the first fully and rapidly reusable - and hopefully safest - ship.
Users of what, I wonder?

That said, I've no idea where the numbers come from, but it covers some of the possibilities.

I'm usually mixed. I pay for access to some things. I download copies of some things without paying for them. Some of the latter category are things I just want to check out (software that doesn't offer a demo/that I might mess around with once). Some are things I ostensibly pay for already (ex: movies or shows I get as part of an Amazon Prime subscription but are now frequently interrupted by advertisements). Occasionally I'm just lazy, I'll admit. Sometimes it's just quicker to torrent a movie than to hunt down the best/only place to rent it.

The one thing I won't do is pay (actual) pirates like these for access. I figure it's on me if I watch a movie I didn't pay to rent/stream/whatever. But I'm not supporting god-knows-what sketchy organization with actual money. When I spend money it'll be going to the legit rights owner.
Yes, that is the question to which neither of us has an answer. Streaming deals happen as bundles, and my understanding is the opposite of yours: the old stuff gets thrown in as a piece of the bundle to help make the catalog bigger, while new content actually sells subscriptions. In other words, the back catalog has some marginal value to the streaming service (and the studio), but it's the new releases that actually sell subscriptions.

Releases of "The Mandalorian" got people subscribing to Disney+, and new seasons of "Game of Thrones" had the same effect for HBO, for example.

In other words, a bundle of 100 movies for $10 million could be attributed as "$100k per movie," but that's almost certainly wrong. More likely, that bundle is a combination of something like $5 million for one movie, $1 million for a few others, $100k for a bigger set, and all the way down to $1000 or less for the remainder of the catalog.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City has a protagonist who is reluctant but is forced to face huge stakes, namely the fall of a city at war. Murderbot is interesting for more than its reluctance: the stakes are distinctly different and far more about introspection and self actualization.
"I propose that we all agree to ban all permanent lunar development that is visible with the naked eye from Earth"

Nimbys, now in space!
Treating wounds in pediatrics with medical grade honey: A case series
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I actually have a very glue and duck taped solution for this. But I'd love if there way a tool to auto expand the "Load more..." button present in PRs with lots of conversations/commits.

Everytime I refresh the page on a large PR I have to click through 10-12 "Load more" buttons before I can have the whole picture.
I would argue there were many good things but not well delivered. The Optane persistent memory should've been revolutionary for databases but Intel just put it out and expected people to do all the software.

I'm seeing the same thing now with Intel QAT / IAA / DSA. Only niche software support. Only AWS seems to have it and those "bare metal" machines don't even have local NVMe.

About 10 years ago Intel Research was publishing a lot of great research but no software for the users.

Contrast it with Nvidia and their amazing software stack and support for their hardware.
> With this logic, Apple should have also stayed with making Macs when it had financial troubles in in 1999, since that's its focus, not venture into making stupid stuff like Mp3 players and phones, everyone knows that's the core focus of Sony and Nokia who will rules those markets forever.

You’re off by a few years. Jobs axed any project not related to the Mac when he came back in 1997, so they actually did what you say they did not. The iPod project started around 1999-2000 when Apple was in a massive growth phase after the iMac and the G3 and then G4 desktops.

Also, in the alternate reality where the iPod did not massively succeed, it would very likely have been killed or remain as a hobby like the Apple TV. Apple might not be as huge as they are now, but the Mac was doing great at the time.
Goodbye Make and Shell, Hello Python?
I don't know why everybody is talking nicely of him and being boohoo.

The guy thumped religious stuff on his twitter, didn't acknowledge competition, didn't reform company culture and was left in the dust.

Intel is better off without him.
A lot of the problems with Horizon are incredibly dumb. Mistakes that anyone with two brain cells to rub together would recognize.
Apple accused of snooping on workers' iPhones in new lawsuit
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Real-Time Simulated Tectonics
Feel you on the entry-level features making people worried that Apple is prosumer-izing their baby. I worry about that sometimes.

Yes, Max is amazing. Thanks for sharing your instruments! Sidewinder looks particularly cool.

I also got into building in there for a while (& still do sometimes), though not specifically M4L: https://github.com/flats/max-instruments. Even wrote a couple of externals back in the day.

What I _really_ want is some sort of a hybrid between a DAW and something like Csound—fully graphical but also fully scriptable/automatable. Live w/ M4L is _kinda_ close, but we’re not quite there yet…
If you look at per-trip statistics, trains are six times safer than flying. Per-mile, planes always do much better. Cars just honestly suck for safety, cost, and externalities.
Wow. If true, that would be fascinating.

We know that non-brain microbiomes can influence behavior. What might something in brain tissue itself do?
Ask HN: What do you do to counter stigma with working in tech?
I’ve worked in tech for over a decade now. Not super long but I’ve been out in the world a lot more than most while being your typical SV engineer. Seed to IPO - done it all. It’s, by far, the lowest status white collar profession I know of - no matter how you spin it. If you live in a major city in the US, you will get thrown down the gutter as soon as you mention it.

What do you do to counter this? It’s to the point where it is an active detractor to me making social success in many circles. I live in NYC now and finance is king here. If I had done medicine or law - it wouldn’t be bad either. I’d switch professions but it’s far too late.

To be clear, I have dozens of friends and do well socially but it’s still a stigma I have to overcome way more than most. I have to actively convince people that I’m not autistic, an incel, or some other (somewhat justified) nonsense that’s associated with tech workers.

A lot of my peers - including ones in tech - have decided to just completely lie about what they do. It seems like that’s the best way for them to get by in the world. The social stigma for being in tech especially in a place like NYC is extremely harsh. Some of you might not experience this because you don’t go out anymore or only go to tech centered communities but it’s very real.
Already done. There’s a link on the homepage to the GitHub, and you can just add a new markdown file in the rules folder. It auto deploys on merge to master.
Ending the Welfare State Is Not the End of the World
Pretty sure all parts of our bodies are riddled with viruses and fungi, and maybe bacteria too if we look hard enough.

They'll just be in low concentrations so they're hard to detect.
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Yes, integration in complex legacy systems is always challenging.
As a small startup, we are concentrating on core search technology to make search faster and to make the most of available server infrastructure.
As SeekStorm is open-source, system integrators can take it from there.