skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever used an iPhone or iPad?

For apps made by Apple, like Settings or Mail.app, the dominant background colors are white and light gray.

(The App Store uses more colorful backgrounds because it is trying to sell you stuff.)

Why does Apple choose those colors? Because the typical Apple user is intimidated by computers, and those are the most calming colors.
"But except for the Arab Spring of 2011 none of these events had anything whatsoever to do with social media"

There is an argument I saw made in a documentary that the Arab Spring also had nothing to do with social media.
"The Midget."
Posted 9 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299882

Reposting my comment:

> I propose the Baby Money Index, which is the income per capita multiplied by the fertility rate squared.

It doesn't make sense to score positively for fertility rate (babies born per woman) without doing anything to consider whether those babies actually survive, especially when there's an inverse correlation between number-of-babies and infant mortality.

This mistake compounds (literally) when squaring that number as a really weird way to guess at potential grand-kids, since each of those births have to reach adulthood in order to even have a chance of reproducing.
Efficiency of Road Networks
The strangest thing I've seen was a mandatory ~5-10% charge that explicitly wasn't a tip and wouldn't go directly to workers, but instead went to the owners so that they could "provide sustainable wages to workers"

I'm not against paying reasonable wages, but that should definitely be, you know, part of the actual menu price.
The order of the movies as I understand is: Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Alien, Alien Romulus.

The technology of the ship user interfaces in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant seems much higher tech than what is presented in Alien Romulus. Alien gets a pass because it was made in 1979.

So David makes the Xenomorphs and then David uses the colonist and human embryos for further experimentation? So are the events of Alien a trap by David?
And if you're this kind of person you can absolutely crush it at certain types of non-profits and NGOs that attract people with a lot of ideas but no work ethic.

At least if you're okay with being the only person with any ambition. Personally I have to flee from those environments.
This is "make" in the sense that print(1+1) makes the computer display 2. Nobody is holding a gun to the computer and threatening to destroy it if it doesn't print 2, but it still prints 2.
Rice (flour) is a common substrate to grow mushrooms. Make sterilized/hydrated rice cake and inject some spores into it.
It doesn't have great support for Dependent Types
ma non eran da ciò le proprie penne:
se non che la mia mente fu percossa
da un fulgore in che sua voglia venne.
A l'alta fantasia qui mancò possa
ma già volgeva il mio disio e 'l velle
sì come rota ch'igualmente è mossa,
l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

----

And my own wings were far too weak for that.
But then my mind was struck by light that flashed
and, with this light, received what it had asked.
Here force failed my high fantasy
but my desire and will were moved already —
like a wheel revolving uniformly — by
the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
What makes you think you’d be good and/or like a leadership position?
The term predates usage by Kaczynski.[0]. He just happens to provide the most succinct definition of it that has been popularized in modern society.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surrogate_activity
Funny that you mention Root. I recently played this game for the first time with three other SWE friends (also their first times), and we all found the multiple sources of truth, each seeming to make the assumption that you have already read the others and occasionally referring you to them, thoroughly baffling -- to the point where we started to make joking comparisons to the kind of software documentation that has an Overview, a Quick Start, a Tutorial, an Introduction, a Beginner's Guide, a How To page, a User's Guide, a Getting Started page, a Specification, a Reference Manual... Looking at you, Maven plugins.

Then again, maybe it was just that we were all a teensy bit drunk.
I find stories about the opposite. How it was very good for the VMware company, so good that nobody ousted him, but he left for a bigger company instead.
Agreed. It seems like this has nothing to do with agents. In particular because this is well trodden territory that frameworks like Airflow have been tackling since _well_ before the recent deep learning craze.

I would say that unless agent based examples are highly compelling, it makes more sense to simply remove the agent stuff completely from the pitch, lest you be inevitably accused of taking advantage of the current AI hype for an otherwise unrelated piece of technology (that happens to be a good fit for agent based workflows - something which I haven't observed to even work very well with the best models).
> The first run through, useState() returns the default value and your code runs to completion.

Your function was still sliced into the part before and the continuation (Dispatch) after though, right? The React runtime calls that continuation immediately with the default value, so you don't notice the suspension, but control flow wise it's still React calling your code twice rather than once.
Can you explain your thinking? Why would Mars be harder to mothball?
Could oblique wings change air travel forever? [video]
There has been some research on this, establishing the presence of microbiome in the brain:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.06.527297v1
- AI auditor of Otel traces
- wealth manager advisor
- AI data engineer
to name most interesting cases without giving too much details

but also many chat bots and assistants too
The problem was that the same sort of assumption was made without any basis in reality.

If there's no "inspected and certified" then there is no officially recognized evidence that the system is accurate.
My dogs sometimes eat grass. I figure they are self medicating
oh, got it :)
Like a bizarro cousin of loop closure in SLAM— which is recognizing when you've found a different path to a place you've been before.

Except this time there is no underlying consistent world, so it would be up to the algorithm to use dead reckoning or some kind of coordinate system to recognize that you're approaching a place you've "been" before, and incorporate whatever you found there into the new scenes it produces.
I think it does look much nicer than the other examples of this nature that I've seen.

I would guess they are pre-generating the world from the image, not generating it on the go as it runs reasonably well, but doesn't this really limit world size?

I noticed some solid geometry that is accidentally transparent.

The stuff behind the camera looks pretty good, which is presumably fully generated, so if they can make it so you can actually move around more, and with similar quality it could be interesting.

I do wish the examples had a full screen button, the view is tiny..
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I got a similar sense, especially the section where they talked about needing to build trust before trying to change things. I do volunteer photography, and feel the same way as this article any time I do a shoot for a small organization that has never gotten good photos for their business before. It's super rewarding, but a completely different thing than my dayjob managing a solid team of engineers.
That is very cool…and your alias is hard for me to decipher
Why does it matter to you?

Unless you received assurances otherwise, trying different things every week seems like the default expectation for a big company.
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For me Agent is essentially a decision making machine. I had many iterations on the software around building agents and Flow is the culmination of all of the learnings.

For some reason some LLM specific examples just slipped of my mind because I really wanted to show the barebone nature of this engine and how powerful it is despite its simplicity.

But you also right, it's general enough that you can build any task based system or rebuild complex system with task architecture with Flow.

Signal is clear, add more agent specific examples.
> most nuts from sub-Saharan countries like Côte d'Ivoire get exported to VN for processing

Wow, that is crazy to think about. Exporting from one developing country to another -- on the other side of the planet, no less! Why can't Côte d'Ivoire do the processing themselves? That sounds like a great business opportunity. GDP per capita is about 30% lower in Côte d'Ivoire, so labour costs might also be cheaper.
RTO causes more senior, more skilled, and women workers to leave, and open jobs were slower to fill. Based on 3 million LinkedIn employees for S&P500 companies.
> People good at consensus games resent that, and want to cut capitalism to prevent it.

I'm not sure what "cut capitalism" means in this context. It feels like an out-of-place statement, ascribing some sort of intent beyond the framed meta.

Consensus seekers like to maximize their personal benefits, which is capitalism of a different kind. Consensus, even in this situation, doesn't always result in a different decision than what the outcome seekers are after. When there's alignment, everyone wins (in a sort of Nash equilibrium). This is what makes meetings so useful. The momentum is always toward the maxima.
I am old enough to remember when AMD was nowhere, and Intel was the only game in town for both consumer and server chips, laptop and desktop. I think it was 2011.

Then 2013 rolled around and I built a desktop with an AMD processor, because it was dirt cheap. I remember people saying that they were excited and looking forward to the upcoming AMD architectures and roadmap. I couldn't understand how AMD could possibly have come from behind to beat Intel.

Realistically, you just need to come up with a good roadmap, get good people, get the resources, execute.

Roadmap is good, people - not so sure about this one, resources - seem a little low, execution - seems hampered by too many cooks. If Intel broke up into smaller companies and their new leading edge chip design group had 500 good people, I honestly think they would have a better shot. So I think we are seeing what makes the most sense, Intel must die and let the phoenixes rise from the ashes.

Fast forward to 2024/2025, and remember, anything is possible if AMD beat 2011 Intel.
Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program
focus isn't an issue because they're both (basically) at infinity. fov isn't an issue because a satellite is much smaller than a galaxy
>It encourages people to think they made some huge insightful breakthroughs, and that they have some new undisputed understanding of reality, when in reality they just have a superficial knowledge of someone else's idea. Which sometimes is amplified by someone repeating someone else's ideas. Yet they refuse to either acknowledge or question it.

This could also describe a mediocre student reading a mediocre physics textbook.

I'm not sure consumption of propaganda is qualitatively different from consumption of non-propaganda.
Can you remember any examples of the rules questions that came up?
> (Also, if you wanna go even more meta, there isn't even a widely agreed upon definition for what a word even is in linguistics!)

To be even more precise, there are several competing definitions of what "word" should mean that don't always agree. E.g. if you go by the criterion "word" = lexeme (dictionary unit), then something like "kick the bucket" would be a "word".
I wrote Haskell for a couple years and I _never_ figured out the indentation rules. The haskell people seemed confused that it was even possible to find it confusing

and then there’s “do” notation. I has three people tell me “it’s just a simple mechanical transformation from lambdas” oh yeah? how? they couldn’t explain that either
What do you mean by "bias in sample size"? Low sample size reduces your statistical power, but if the effect size is huge (as described in the article) you don't need much statistical power to be confident in your answer.

There is no serious evidence that detracking has a positive impact. There is a lot of evidence that it harms students.
Relatively yes, but F# also happens to be faster than other FP languages and has access to a vast ecosystem unlike Haxe. I doubt the public looking at FP languages would appreciate Go :)

F# includes an optimizer that performs e.g. lambda inlining. Then, .NET compiles the assemblies themselves to a final application, be it native executable or otherwise, so I feel like relative compiler slowness is not a dealbreaker. It is also relatively quick at starting for executing F# script files with `dotnet fsi` (I'm happy that F# is included in standard .NET SDK, much different to e.g. Clojure or Scala), it's slower to start than Python or Elixir shell but I can live with that.

This was also a good opportunity to write down a small workflow to use F# interactive to quickly build small native console applications thanks to FSharpPacker:

https://gist.github.com/neon-sunset/028937d82f2adaa6c1b93899...

In the example, the sample program calculates SHA256 hashes for all files matching the pattern at a specific path. On my M1 Pro MBP it does so at up to 4GB/s while consuming 5-10 MiB of RAM.
Why doesn’t NVIDIA buy intel? They have the cash and they have the pairing (M chips being NVIDIA and intel’s biggest competitors now). It would be an AMD/ATI move, and maybe NVIDIA could do its own M CPU competitor with…whatever intel can help with.
There are a lot more low performing organizations than high performing ones. Even organizations usually perceived as high performing tend to have a few high performing teams surrounded by oceans of mediocrity.
I don’t think you understand. Per your other comment:

> it is cost of doing business and you can’t pass that shit off to customers

What do you think prices are? They are the costs to the business plus some profit margin. Visa is passing their costs down to their customers too.

Businesses are completely within their right to pass the CC charges on to customers. It becomes the customers’ cost of doing business with their preferred method of payment.
I'm not sure how a business in the US can possibly survive like this these days, with so many Americans having dietary restrictions and food allergies. It's so bad that, here in Japan, some restaurants are now posting signs (in English) outside warning foreign tourists that they can't serve them if they have any dietary restrictions or allergies.
>A black hole cosmology (also called Schwarzschild cosmology or black hole cosmological model) is a cosmological model in which the observable universe is the interior of a black hole. Such models were originally proposed by theoretical physicist Raj Kumar Pathria, and concurrently by mathematician I. J. Good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology
The latest edition even comes with token ring wraiths.
When it exactly fits your problem, yes. But it's not like you can't express that model in Rust (in a more cumbersome way) when you need to.
Great idea. Would use (flew 140 segments the year before Covid).

One piece of feedback:

I asked for a "flight from LAX to..." and it recommended flights from SNA and ONT (two other airports in the Greater Los Angeles area). These airports are easily 1.5 - 2 hours away from LAX at commute times.

I suggest that, if the user requests a specific airport (as indicated by an IATA code), you limit responses to that airport code by default, rather than broadening the search to a region.

If I had asked for a "flight from Los Angeles to..." I would not have been surprised by the current behavior (and probably would have appreciated it.)
I don't know how fair the benchmark is, but beating Tantivy by that margin is impressive to say the least.

Any plan to make it run on WASM? I wanted to add this feature to Tantivy a few years ago but they weren't interested, and I had to fall back to a JavaScript search engine that was much slower.
Unfortunate naming coincidence which is confusing. Couldn't we just call those unary and binary operators rather?
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"poor beans": This is the first time that I heard that Starbucks has poor beans. Can you explain more? To be clear: I am not here to shill for Starbucks.

Also: What do you say about Italians drinking a cappuccino or macchiato (expresso shot with a splash of steamed milk)? From what I have seen while traveling in Italy, most Italians drink coffee at small coffee shops. Or French people drinking cafe latte?
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Of course, but it's only the biggest possible sofa for a certain size hallway
>or because the chef's tastebuds are shot

A lot of professional chefs do indeed have faulty tastebuds, because they're smokers.
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> an academic student of heresy

And I’m a talking porcupine. Your anti-religious screed is pretentious nonsense.
Unless you can define and measure expected business value and risk, walk away and let someone else spend money and take the risk on a mostly hype- and FOMO-driven fad. If LLMs ever actually deliver real business value we'll all have time to integrate them.
You mean a hospital next door to an ammonium nitrate godown and 23andMe will be rejected by the same actuaries?
I think Zuckerberg is still alive and well aware of the current landscape.
Its probably my least favorite of all of her books but I liked the approach to describing an additional dimension. And the idea of the alien translators grown in human bodies and the development of a species/culture
I'm similar, with the exception of Starbucks. I just can't stand it. But that makes it easy to avoid.
I'll agree about the weird Haskell indentation rules.

But do notation really is just syntactic sugar for a chain of >> and >>= applications (plus "fail" for invalid pattern matches). It's not usually pretty or understandable to write it that way, but it's a very simple translation. If the people you talked to couldn't explain it to you, I think they maybe didn't understand it well themselves.
Solid feedback.

To keep the demo light, it doesn't have full functionality but being specific on airports vs cities is part of the live beta.

NYC is another example w/ EWR. Can say "NYC" or specify "JFK or LaGuardia". DC too for people wanting to avoid the drive w/ BWI.

Happy to share access. Feel free to shoot me an email (attila@).
I guess never underestimate the whales of a game. Reminds me of how virtual real estate in Linden Labs metaverse game of Second Life has sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Just absurd.
They’re not meant to be niche languages. They’re meant to be general purpose languages. They’re trying to use functional programming to achieve a high degree of correctness with short, readable programs.
The Defenestrations of Prague
what does that have to do with purity?
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I checked and I don't think so. Artificial Condition includes "blending in" as someone of "indeterminate" gender named "Eden" with longer-than-short hair and longer-than-normal eyebrows, which seems to be a careful non-gendered description.
Bullish or bearish on rust in the kernel?