skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can nowhere near afford them, but I love most everything about Vacheron Constantin except for that godawful, cheap, brash font they use for their logo. The font on this piece is fine, their overall design and language is great, I'm glad a company like VC pushes the technological limits and industry forward, but that Helvetica-lookin font is visual fingernails-on-a-chalkboard.
Neelcamp – Making Parenting Easier
Neelcamp is a marketplace where parents can search and book the safest, most affordable, and enriching after-school and summer camp programs for their children.

Key features and capabilities

Marketplace: Parents can filter programs, book directly, and make payments online.

SAAS: Providers get tools for registration, payment processing, scheduling, and communication with parents.
This is a word play - in the watch world “complication” means “feature”, and this watch has 41 features, which requires tricky design decisions and high precision to house everything in a case that is still wearable.

Something to be proud of, for sure.
What exactly do think the Federal Budget is? Discretionary budgeting within USAID is a tiny, tiny amount. Even the items they cherry picked as being wasteful, many were from the State Department (Ambassadors has some discretionary funds to support the local arts.)

Congress decides how taxes are spent, not the Executive Branch, and certainly not the accountable to no-one DOGE.

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-trump-musk-misinfor...
Hi there (I work on a2a) - A2A works at a different level than MCP. We are working with partners on very specific customer problems. Customers are building individual agents in different frameworks OR are purchasing agents from multiple vendors. Those agents are isolated and do not share tools, or memory, or context.

For example, most companies have an internal directory and internal private APIs and tools. They can build an agent to help complete internal tasks. However, they also may purchase an "HR Agent" or "Travel Assistant Agent" or "Tax Preparation Agent" or "Facilities Control Agent". These agents aren't sharing their private APIs and data with each other.

It's also difficult to model these agents as structured tools. For example, a "Tax Preparation Agent" may need to evaluate many different options and ask for specific different documents and information based on an individual users needs. Modeling this as 100s of tools isn't practical. That's where we see A2A helping. Talk to an agent as an agent.

This lets a user talk to only their company agent and then have that agent work with the HR Agent or Travel Booking Agent to complete complex tasks.
I don't recommend using it, there's unfortunately a bug where your notes will not save randomly and just disappear between sessions. Which for a note taking feature basically makes it usuable.
You can find discussions about the bug on steam ex https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/6679490218977...
Fair; so my arguments becomes "until you need anything barely interactive such as zooming in".
"I also feel like calling the LLMs "Robots" is needlessly confusing. "AI" or "Agent" would have been more fitting."

They are just computer programs.

Why on earth is IT so bereft of creativity that it needs to invoke "robot". Robot is derived from a Czech word for forced labour or even slave. These things don't go "diddly diddly deep" like Twiggy, nor whatever R2D2 beeps. They are certainly not physical, which is attribute one for a "robot" (it's a thing not a non thing).

If you replace the word robot with the word wankery, the article really starts to make sense. When you encounter various declensions and conjugations and so on, be careful to keep it real.
who's to say your data is coming from multiple streams? You can propagate any updates you need to make in the application to a single stream (like SSE or a long-lived response) in place of a WebSocket. your http responses can just be always 204 if all they're doing is handling updates and pushing events to aforementioned single stream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%E2%80%93query_separati...
I guess it depends on your definition of "long period" but high end Quartz movements can achieve ±1 second per year by using a high frequency, thermally compensated oscillator. Movements with atomic radio control can do even better than that of course, though that's arguably cheating since the heavy lifting happens in a standards lab somewhere rather than on your wrist.
> I had countless people legitimately say that having humans have to sift through gore and CSAM is a Good Thing because it gives them jobs, which AI is taking away.

Link even a single example of someone explicitly saying this and I would be astounded
There are dozens (maybe even hundreds) of human cultures that existed at the time Homer was writing, or when Gilgamesh was written, that also have no equivalent.

The idea that any roughly equivalent human culture will develop the same things is clearly wrong. Just look at the plough - for centuries or even millenia, humans outside of what is now China had ploughs but failed to gain the insight to improve it in the way it was improved in China. Once trade exposed them to the Chinese plough, it was more or less universally adopted within decades.

While multiple (re)invention may be common, it is not universal. Just because culture A manages to find is way to cultural/technological innovation doesn't imply that culture B will, even if the two cultures are very similar.
Open WebUI[1] for a ChatGPT type experience locally hosted. Very impressive set of features and development velocity - so much so Qwen team using it now rather than building their own [2]

1. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

2. https://chat.qwen.ai/
I wrote a subsystem the other day that used websockets for a server to distribute video conversion tasks.

After futzing with silly things like file transfers and communication protocols I chucked it out and rewrote it so the client does HTTP long polling of the server and uploads its renders via hTTP POST.

So much easier.
Lost massive amount of revenue so other financial partners on the deal had to write it down substantially- is losing money a successful investment in your book?
Burp Suite Extension with MCP Server
> The best they could do was pass Dodd-Frank to prevent the next financial crisis and ACA, which the courts promptly watered down.

Why the heck are we ok with an entire wing of US politicians that even when they have total control over the government can only give us "watered down" "the best they could do" effort? And why are we ok with not holding them at least partially responsible for anything that happens when they don't have control over all parts of the government? Why do we have any faith at all that these objectively ineffectual and cowardly children are going to do anything to save us from would be dictators and mad men? If they're just going to lie back and watch the country slide into oblivion with only the mildest of protests, shouldn't we just fire them and at least save the tax money their salaries are costing us?

I've long felt the DNC's fatal flaw was that a lot of the really important issues that they're strong on are also hyper local issues that just don't connect broadly. That is, gun control might be extremely relevant and important to the NYC "high crime is killing our children" contingent, and so far down the list for the Rocky Mountain "pollution is ruining my wildlife preserves" contingent that actually gathering and holding support at a national level on those positions is extremely difficult. Combine that with a messaging and broad set of policies that despite lip service to being about "unity" is continually asking us to divide ourselves into special interest groups (and sometime even be at odds with each other). That would explain why states that are "red" on the national elections often have "blue" state level governments.

But I'm starting to wonder if the reality is no one actually believes they're capable of getting anything done at all. After all, if even their most ardent supporters believe that they can't get anything done without full control of the government, how is anyone else supposed to believe it? It's not just that the minority party is strongly disadvantaged, it's that the DNC is actually a terrible and ineffectual minority party and barely better as a majority party. God help us all if these are the people we need to rely on to fix things.
It's unauthorized commercial use. Which part of that is confusing to you?
Barbie plays prison warden and Federal agent.

Seriously what are all those doo dads attached to the rifle? A flashlight, optic sight, laser range finder, and something from the sand people from Star Wars?
I'm impressed, but with my declining eyesight I don't think I could read most of the dials, even with glasses - I can't even read the date on my Timex. I would love to see a copy of the User's Guide for this watch though.
in the B2B SAAS world these are called "features" or "integrations".

Software with the most integrations and features is usually ends up being the most preferred solution
Yes it is true.

Browsers talking to static web servers use HTTP byte ranges requests to get chunks of videos and can use the same mechanism to seek to any point in the file.

Streaming that way is fast and simple. No fancy technology required.

For MP4 to work that we you need to render it as fragmented MP4.
I love this reconstruction of green Sahara map:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cchurchili/40921572803/
Hi there (I work on a2a) - reposting from above.

We are working with partners on very specific customer problems. Customers are building individual agents in different frameworks OR are purchasing agents from multiple vendors. Those agents are isolated and do not share tools, or memory, or context.

For example, most companies have an internal directory and internal private APIs and tools. They can build an agent to help complete internal tasks. However, they also may purchase an "HR Agent" or "Travel Assistant Agent" or "Tax Preparation Agent" or "Facilities Control Agent". These agents aren't sharing their private APIs and data with each other.

It's also difficult to model these agents as structured tools. For example, a "Tax Preparation Agent" may need to evaluate many different options and ask for specific different documents and information based on an individual users needs. Modeling this as 100s of tools isn't practical. That's where we see A2A helping. Talk to an agent as an agent.

This lets a user talk to only their company agent and then have that agent work with the HR Agent or Travel Booking Agent to complete complex tasks when they cannot be modeled as tools.
This is not true. People who claimed the election was rigged were asked to back up their claims with evidence. Typically they never did, although a smaller number made an effort...but the profferred evidence was nonsensical. I am not just talking about talking heads widely quoted on TV or social media posts, I read a lot of election litigation.

I think the anti-mask people had some valid points, but they sank their own boat by ranting about 'masktards' and 'face diapers' while also demonstrating callous indifference to the large number of deaths.
Can you articulate the kinds of business problems Erlang is particularly well-suited to solve?

When you choose Erlang for a project, what kind of return on investment do you think it typically offers? Does it lead to significant cost savings or help generate more revenue in ways that other languages might not?

In situations where Erlang is chosen, what are some concrete examples of how it has demonstrably increased efficiency, reduced errors, or enabled new business opportunities that wouldn't have been as feasible with other technologies?

Edit: I guess if I'd done any research myself before asking, I might've found this: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-us...
What type of consequences do you imagine the court could put in place?
Okay, but won’t whatever cultural forces caused your job to be 9-5 (or whatever) under standard time eventually cause it to drift to 10-6 under +1 offset time, and then you haven’t gained anything?

Sure, probably. But how does that help me today? Of course I'm not literally just talking about myself per-se, but I expect that line of thought is how most people would view this. Who wants to wait a couple of years[1] for schedule drift to allow them to live a normal life?

[1]: would it actually be that long? I have no idea, TBH. But from a risk aversion viewpoint, one would probably prefer to already known scenario that optimizes for available sunlight after work.
Does this imply that the logging doesn't happen until all the items have been processed though? If I'm processing a list of 10M items, I have to store up 10M*${num log statements} messages until the whole thing is done?
You expect us to follow rules against pointing a loaded weapon toward people we don't intent to kill?

Sounds like a bunch of woke DEI shit to me!
Yes, that is our assumption. reposting from above:

We are working with partners on very specific customer problems. Customers are building individual agents in different frameworks OR are purchasing agents from multiple vendors. Those agents are isolated and do not share tools, or memory, or context.

For example, most companies have an internal directory and internal private APIs and tools. They can build an agent to help complete internal tasks. However, they also may purchase an "HR Agent" or "Travel Assistant Agent" or "Tax Preparation Agent" or "Facilities Control Agent". These agents aren't sharing their private APIs and data with each other.

It's also difficult to model these agents as structured tools. For example, a "Tax Preparation Agent" may need to evaluate many different options and ask for specific different documents and information based on an individual users needs. Modeling this as 100s of tools isn't practical. That's where we see A2A helping. Talk to an agent as an agent.

This lets a user talk to only their company agent and then have that agent work with the HR Agent or Travel Booking Agent to complete complex tasks when they cannot be modeled as tools.
Affinity Photo. It has an inexpensive perpetual license, and supports all the use-cases I previously needed Photoshop for.
The world needs more of these "you might not need" articles.

Too many technology fads make things needlessly complicated, and complexity makes systems unreliable.

You might not need Kubernetes

You might not need The Cloud

You might not need more than SQLite

...and so on.
Most “EU overregulation” is just consumer regs being painted in a bad light for American consumers, so the Us govt won’t imitate it.

EU banning most forms of GMOs was once considered wild over regulation.
The problem with HTTP2 is that the server-push aspect was tacked on top of an existing protocol as an afterthought. Also, because HTTP is a resource transfer protocol, it adds a whole bunch of overheads like request and response headings which aren't always necessary but add to processing time. The primary purpose of HTTP2 was to allow servers to preemptively push files/resources to clients to avoid round-trip latency; to reduce the reliance on script bundles.

WebSockets is a simpler protocol built from the ground up for bidirectional communication. It provides a lot more control over the flow of data as everything passes over a single connection which has a single lifecycle. It makes it a lot easier to manage state and to recover cleanly from a lost connection when you only have one logical connection. It makes it easier to process messages in a specific order and to do serial processing of messages. Having just one connection also greatly simplifies things in terms of authentication and access control.

I considered the possibility of switching the transport to HTTP2 for https://socketcluster.io/ years ago, but it's a fundamentally more complex protocol which adds unnecessary overheads and introduces new security challenges so it wasn't worth it.
In this attack, the compiler is not a reproducible artifact? Or does backdooring use another technique?
Given society provided little or no compensation for prior such cases of disruption

That's going to be hard for you to justify in the long run, I think. Virtually everybody who ever lost a job to technology ended up better off for it.
> the benefits have not been touched and would take an act of Congress to change

There’s a lot of things that are supposed to take an act of Congress to change.
Can someone provide a brief clarification about build reproducibility in general?

The stated aim is that when you compile the same source, environment, and instructions the end result is bit identical.

There is, however; hardware specific optimizations that will naturally negate this stated aim, and I don't see how there's any way to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I understand why having a reproducible build is needed on a lot of fronts, but the stated requirements don't seem to be in line with the realities.

At its most basic, there is hardware, where the hardware may advertise features it doesn't have, or doesn't perform the same instructions in the same way, and other nuances that break determinism as a property, and that naturally taints the entire stack since computers rely heavily on emergent design.

This is often hidden in layers of abstraction and/or may be separated into pieces that are architecture dependent vs independent (freestanding), but it remains there.

Most if not all of the beneficial properties of reproducible builds rely on the environment being limited to a deterministic scope, and the reality is manufacturers ensure these things remain in a stochastic scope.
Very good point. While I think we could do away with the syntactic shorthand, definitely would want to keep some function/method around with the capabilities.
A quick look at their website suggests it's probably several hundred thousand dollars.

edit a look at their Wikipedia article, tens of millions seems more likely, if they even sell one.
Thanks so much, Peter, for writing this up. I think it adds a lot to the record about what exactly happened with the Cell. And, as with Larrabee, I have to wonder, what would an alternative universe look like if Sony had executed well? Or is the idea so ill-fated that no Cell-like many-core design could ever succeed?
Are watches going to be tariffed?
I am aware of some US citizens being deported by mistake under previous administrations, but there was a general consensus that those were genuine mistakes, examples of negligence rather than policy: https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citiz...

However the current administration is explicitly considering the idea of deliberately deporting citizens: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-bl...
Hi there - I work on a2a. Thanks for the reaction - lots of good points here. We really do see a2a as different and complementary to MCP. I personally am working on both and see them in very different contexts.

I see MCP as vital when building an agent. An agent is an LLM with data, resources, tools, and services. However, our customers are building or purchasing agents from other providers - e.g. purchasing "HR Agent", "Bank Account Agent", "Photo Editor Agent", etc. All of these agents are closed systems and have access to private data, APIs, etc. There needs to be a way for my agent to work with these other agents when a tool is not enough.

Other comments you have are spot on - the current specification and samples are early. We are working on many more advanced examples and official SDKs and client/servers. We're working with partners, other Google teams, and framework providers to turn this into a stable standard. We're doing it in the open - so there are things that are missing because (a) its early and (b) we want partners and the community to bring features to the table.

tldr - this is NOT done. We want your feedback and sincerely appreciate it!
I agree that we're all in it together, but we're not all subsidizing each other. Some states are highly dependent on Federal funds, others are not. CA for example contributes tens of billions more than it takes from the Federal government, enough to cover the entire state budget of one of the worst in that regard, Kentucky... more than 5X.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...

I'm not sure why talking about the wisdom of living in a fire corridor or flood plain is somehow taboo, especially when the people paying are generally not the people living in those places. Even setting climate change aside it's an issue, as we see in places like coastal Florida, or communities in and around LA when fires come.

Just sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "Everyone has to live somewhere" as though the country is full to capacity is really unhelpful.
That makes sense. The juxtaposition isn't just OP, though: Blue Prince is an extremely highly-rated game by critics (https://www.metacritic.com/game/blue-prince/critic-reviews/), and will likely be one of the three highest-rated games this year, but has 80% positive reviews on Steam at time of writing, which is very low. On Steam it isn't even in the top 3 on its single day of release.

I'm not exactly sure what leads to such a dramatic disconnect. Maybe game reviewers just value different things than the general population.
Subscriptionware is cancer. They deserve all the hate they get.
I kinda agree here, many threads look lose. Even the attach arms look outta place.
SSE is great. Most things with websockets would be fine with SSE.

Also I don't see it being much easier here than a few primitives and learning about generator functions if you haven't had experience with them. I appreciate the helper, but the API is pretty reasonable as-is IMO
Consider the following two statements (a) and (b):

- (a) If we don't contain AI, it will go FOOM and kill all the humans. All intelligent life on Earth will be dead forever, except precisely one survivor -- the AI.

- (b) If we don't fix our political system, the world will suffer terrible poverty and tyranny for the next thousand years.

If you truly believe (a) and (b) are both true, there's a good argument to be made that it is better to dedicate your life to fixing problem (a). Even if we're doomed for poverty and tyranny, even if the survivors have to eke out a miserable post-apocalyptic existence for hundreds of years until we again produce enough resources that the light of civilization and freedom returns -- having some hope that eventually mankind will flourish again is better than a complete extermination of humanity with no possibility of coming back.

Personally I'm skeptical (a) is true but I can't definitively refute it. Some people might say that implies I ought to assign a non-zero probability to (a), which in turn applies I ought to dedicate my life to stopping AI. But that borders on Pascal's Wager-type logic, which I don't accept. (Why Pascal's Wager is irrational is quite an interesting question, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader.)
A smartwatch is going to be much more complicated than this. Millions and millions if lines of code is not simple.
I’ve read that cocoa processing involves drying the pods in the open air. Heavy metals in dust from nearby mines covers the surface of the pods, which are later ground up along with the cocoa.

The solution here seems simple enough: Don’t dry the pods in the open air. But the farmers don’t have a lot of extra money lying around that they can use to address this, and the market is (currently at least) still buying.