skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can point to another example that demonstrates that this can still be done: Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the editors of the ActivityPub standard, and Bryan Newbold, who works on BlueSky's AT Protocol discussing at length the philosophy, terminology and the pros and cons of the various social media protocols emerging at the moment:

[1] https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

[2] https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t

[3] https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
Even then my first thought would be “military” or “idiot with a plane license” before worrying about “attack of the flying saucers”.

I worry more about things I can’t see…
And for a more video-focused example, a camera application can set up a GStreamer pipeline where the source is a PipeWire node (from libcamera or v4l2) and the sink is the preview renderer embedded in the application. This is what GNOME Snapshot does for example.
My employer cannot hire H-1Bs.

You must be a US citizen to work for my company. No "US Persons" (visa holders) or foreigners allowed.

You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance. You don't have to get one if you don't want to as there is usually plenty of uncleared work to go around, but you have to be eligible in case that goes away and we need to put you in for a clearance.

We cannot find qualified applicants.

I've had this conversation many times on HN so here are some preemptive responses:

No, we don't make weapons for the military. Well, we do but not my part of the company. The most harmful thing the products I build do is quantify in precise detail how climate change is dooming us all.

No, our positions aren't ghost positions.

Yes, we are willing to train someone who is motivated. We won't re-teach linear algebra to a developer applicant but we will pay a tech writer to go to school nights/weekends to get a degree in engineering (me, I did that).

Yes, we have extensive high school and college work-study/internships and participants make $72k/yr. with full benefits for the duration of the program. That pipeline is actually successful.

No, you can't work remotely. You (even programmers!) have to touch the things we build in order to build them and nobody has an ISO certified clean room in their house.

Yes, we pay well.

No, we don't pay as much as Meta. We build components for satellites that have been sold to space agencies and purchased by various departments/ministries of the environment, not your personal information to advertisers-- one party has more money to spend than the other.

We have shortages in mech/EE/Aero, shortages in software, and critical shortages in engineering technicians.

One issue is that we expect programmers to remember linear algebra and have more than the ability to shovel frameworks on top of each other until a phone app comes out the other side.
On Android it is a pretty normal experience, I haven't found any bugs yet.
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Is there a way, without jailbreaking, to use that spare iPhone at home, powered on and connected to the internet, to run/host some server software?
That wasn't and has nothing to do with the question asked.
> If you don't have a dreidel, you can instead use a four-sided die, but for the authentic experience you should wait eight seconds before looking at your roll.

This made me literally laugh out loud. There is no better way to describe waiting for the dreidel.
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dealing with them in any other way is literally not economical to me if it takes more than like a quarter of a second of time.
Glad to hear it! If you see places where you feel there should be more educational scaffolding, just let me know.
I don't see how the real mode emulation on the 80386 (VM86) fails to meet the standard of the Popek and Goldberg definition. IA-32, yes, that took a while, but VM86 allowed 8086 (real mode) tasks to run as if they were running authentically in real mode while the 386 was in protected mode, and had all the features P&G describe in their definition. It runs natively, it runs with equivalent performance, and there's a VMM trapping privileged instructions to either emulate or arbitrate system resources. It's the full deal!
With solid motors lower in the atmosphere with high velocity it's often optimal to delay second stage ignition so that your sustainer motor isn't working against as much atmosphere. So, kinda Max-Q issues, but for performance reasons.
I mean, I can think of a lot of things businesses could greatly benefit and grow from, but would have to do without if it came with $200,000/yr price tag.

IMO this is not about wether a business can do without X. Most businesses can do without a lot of things, just more poorly. IMO this is about finding the right balance between the benefits and drawbacks of hiring foreign specialized workers.
In 70 years, articles will talk about the strange drone invasion only for it to be discovered that planes and drones were always in the air, but people just never bothered to look up until everyone started talking about it.
I think the vast majority of people are just astonishingly suggestible. That combined with a dash of main character syndrome and horrid sleep patterns and you’ve got millions driving home from work in the dark, ready to immediately assume that whatever is out their windshield is what they heard about on the radio that morning.
Did they edit it or something? The version I see has only one paragraph about cows. And it is only there to explain that it isn’t the version going around in cows (But I did have to use the archive link shared here—normally I don’t like those, but curiosity about a potential public health issue overrode my principles).
It's the same question. What decides when a long process and comment period is required and when it isn't? Why does this agency have such variable performance when it comes to similar rulings?
Ranked by salary is an alternative I've heard.
fwiw Matrix does do this, although making the OIDC IdP track the right target homeserver might need a bit of config.
I've heard that Twitter's (AKA X's) LLM (Grok) is really, really good at this sort of thing (in part because it has recent access to Twitter's data).
> I haven't seen Anora so I'll give you that one

It was literally the first movie in that list.

You tried making a counter example and the first part of it was already wrong.

That’s the point. Not that it _cant_ give good answers, but whether it does or not is a crap shoot.

Now to analyze how correct it was we need to verify each movie it gave…
It’d be faster just to read the movie descriptions.
Exactly right. One way to know the Sabbath is moral rather than ceremonial is the Sabbath was established in Genesis 2:1-3. That means the Sabbath pre-dates the Law, and even pre-dates sin. So Adam and Eve would have kept the Sabbath before the Fall, and so would have all their posterity if they had never fallen.

As confirmation of that idea, Exodus 20:11 states that the reason God gives the fourth commandment is because the Sabbath is a creation ordinance, and by implication is therefore moral.

I hope that helps! God bless.
I remember that Try Galaxy was previously called iTest.
These are the fun, but token advantages of diversity in this specific context. There are lots of advantages and disadvantages to diversity - because it is an extremely generic term. I have first hand experience of teams completely losing all the original members, who were extremely talented and all born in the US, because they hired such a huge number of people who were from a different culture (India, in this case). It had nothing to do with racism - they just had nothing in common. It was fun to talk about their different religious celebrations and so on, but they were emotionally aliens. They were reasonably smart, yet there was zero intellectual spark in conversations between the two groups. They were just too different to thrive with each other. Different culturally, ideologically, intellectually, emotionally. Different in methods of communication, in treatment of the business hierarchy, in assumptions and expectations. We can blame the business for making an incompatible team, but the compatibility parameters were too tied to culture and race. It's hard to account for that without essentially being racist.
Huh? There are US citizens of all sorts of ethnic/racial backgrounds.

Preferring US citizens over outsourcing is patriotic, not racist. It's also being a good corporate citizen - supporting the country/people you are gaining your profits from.
Tell me you've never worked on a huge production codebase without telling me you've never worked on a huge production codebase. Sometimes you need to fix a problem and you just don't have days to spend finding out the root cause.
You can buy satellite pictures of almost anywhere on earth with pretty good definition and so I deduce that the US government with almost 100 StarShield satellites plus who knows how many ones with huge cameras probably can almost livestream any place on earth GTA top view style. So shouldn't be hard to see what it is and where it came from unless cloud cover is bad.
Various solutions for (incentivizing) energy efficiency:

- https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/24h

- "First open-source global energy system model"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333285

- There aren't intraday electricity prices in most markets in the United States. (You must have intraday electricity prices to be an EU Member State, by comparison.). Wouldn't intraday prices incentivize energy storage solutions and energy efficiency?

- "Ask HN: Does mounting servers parallel with the temperature gradient trap heat?" (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033210

- "Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820952

- "New HPE fanless cooling achieves a 90% reduction in cooling power consumption" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106715

- "Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376406

- "Three New Supercomputers Reach Top of Green500 List" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473656

/? costed opcodes (smart contracts, eWASM,)
> The problem with Java since Java 8

I agree with the sentiment, but I'd move up to a version with type inference at least. I have nothing against static types and in fact in a vacuum I prefer them, but the particular brand of OO and "weak" generics that Java and C# have feels like filling forms in triplicate. "var" alleviates that significantly.
Being competent in one thing doesn't make you competent in everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Each of the videos you linked to have extremely plausible, fairly mundane explanations other than "aliens". That fits the pattern. That you find them compelling as evidence of extraterrestrials is not a great sign.

> When the video gets too good you can blame it on computer generated graphics.

The corollary here is the unfortunate fact that as soon as everyone got a camera in their pocket, aliens stopped landing in random cornfields to say hi to lonely farmers.
Most people are missing the fact that there’s a whole immigration economy on the other end, it’s not a passive storefront (that was banned in the 19th century). People want to immigrate, but the people who are best at immigrating aren’t necessarily best at their job.
Then you should support this rule change:

> Finally, the rule strengthens program integrity by codifying USCIS’ authority to conduct inspections and impose penalties for failure to comply; requiring that the employer must establish that it has a bona fide position in a specialty occupation available for the worker as of the requested start date; clarifies that the Labor Condition Application must support and properly correspond with the H-1B petition; and requires that the petitioner have a legal presence and be subject to legal processes in court in the United States.
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> 100% of the ones I looked into have been debunked, helicopters, planes, out of focus stars, fireworks

A lot of videos are bunk, I have seen at least one video that is certainly drones.

> At night you have absolutely no way to tell

I agree, but I’ve seen plenty of other aircraft at night and it appeared to be much closer than any of those. And you can get a rough guess based on apparent size of the lights, though of course that’s extremely rough unless you know the size of the aircraft.

> My $300 dji can accomplish that, it's not a chinese super weapon nor an alien craft

I know, I never claimed it was aliens or a Chinese super weapon, I claimed they were drones. It’s almost certain that they are military drones, and if I had to guess they’re searching for something that would cause real mass hysteria if told to the public.

> That's the definition of media induced mass hysteria, you notice a lot of weird things when you look at things you usually don't bother looking at. People in Los Angeles freaked the fuck out when they saw the milky way during an electricity outage in 1994

That certainly occurs, what I meant is more that I felt an odd sensation having the news cycle and what I observed collide, in the sense that it didn’t feel quite real. I would normally notice at an aircraft that appeared to be as close as it was, and I would definitely pay more attention to it when I noticed the lights and movement pattern, regardless of the news cycle. It actually took me a second to connect the two.

People in LA freaking out because they saw the Milky Way is normal, people noticed something new and reacted to it. I would wager that more people responded with awe than with freaking out, but they weren’t as interesting to the media. Regardless of whether they were freaked out or not (and I wasn’t freaked out so much as it was freaky), they still saw something real.
Thanks for adding this - I feel like people who can't understand why populism is at it's peak misunderstand this.

Walmart is a U.S. company that historically did well, but I don't see why anyone would care unless you buy their stock or live in Bentonville.

People don't care about macro indicators that lump the 1% and the 99% together.
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Expected utility, just like anything else. It's why our ancestors ate willow tree bark (aspirin), for instance.
Honestly insane how much racist rhetoric I’m reading online (and surprisingly now HN) regarding this news...

I suppose 2025 is starting early.

edit: case in point, downvoted for simply saying I’m noticing a lot of racism from the (you know who) crowd - as all the comments against this are often followed with “trump will fix this” or “your country needs birth control” or “india shouldn’t be allowed to get visas”
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My Amish neighbors are allowed to use telephones. I wonder what they’ll think of this.
> The mayors and governor should not be dumb enough to stake their reputations on this when the null hypothesis of "mass hysteria" is easier and safer.

I think they played this exactly right: Most people will never accept a null result (or something close to it, like "there were a couple of weird drones, but mostly it was people newly looking up at the night sky") or even follow this news story long enough for the actual resolution to matter. The only thing they'll remember was their mayor or governor staying silent when they were scared/angry vs. shouting at the feds to let them shoot down some drones.

> Also NJ police report the anomalous drones give off no heat signature like normal drones:

The only thing we can conclude from this is that the NJ police wasn't able to detect a heat signature, but not whether there really wasn't one.
I can't wait for IntelliJ to get where Cursor appears to be. Being able to combine a great IDE with project-level AI coding will be a huge leap forward.
I’m a few years from 50 and while Google has deteriorated my Google fu and ability to see signals through the noise still serves me well enough and is my comfort zone.

When I dabble with chatgpt it always feels like I’m playing with a toy as I don’t really have a use case I’m taking to it. I’ve used a few websites creators and code generators which have been useful but also I don’t think they saved me much time overall. Web design, graphic design, etc and creative stuff are things I suck creating so it gives me a new power and is easy to iterate on. Otherwise, I’ve not found much actual value from it yet.

If it makes you much more efficient in your job, like it does for professional software devs, many of HN users, then i think you’re more apt to be excited by the tech
I've used Skyetel before, they were pretty cheap and the service is great!
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I did and should have given credit above for the voice, it's very good. I meant to comment on the verbosity of what was being said, not the quality of the TTS itself.
House sharing is a problem with the numbers of people that FAANG wants to employ in West Coast communities that aren't having it, not with their identities. When people making $300-500k can't have their own houses, the problem is not money.
Evidence of cannibalism. Yummy
I don’t take issue with the point of your last sentence, but rather the framing that “animal” is somehow a negative thing. Humans are animals, there’s no separate animal nature. We are animals, full stop. The scientific method is a skill we have developed to be more objective about complicated phenomena. Depth of knowledge and education certainly help an individual reason more carefully about cause and effect in various domains, but scientists and other highly educated people share the same set of biological behaviors as everyone else.
What is your definition of qualified.
Mostly enormous libraries of compounds.

You take a cell culture model for the disease and see if the compounds affect the cells.

Then try it in animals, then humans.

Repeat this process until you have good safe drugs for all of the diseases.
Generics in Java and C# are _vastly_ different.

.NET has true generics with full type information and struct type parameter monomorphization which works the same way generics do in Rust.

Edit: C# does have type inference for generics, just not the full HM one. It is also quite more capable for lambdas which is a bit frustrating because it does not resolve nested generics otherwise. I miss it - F# does it the way it always should have been.

There are many other differences small and big that arise from the way Java does generics and the fact that primitives can't participate - you will never see `IntStream` kind of workarounds in C#. Some libraries abuse and misuse generics for no profit (looking at you Azure SDK), but it's not as widespread. Shallow generic types are always inferred from arguments.
“This call is being recorded for quality and training purposes” truly has a new meaning.
I’ve been on an H1B before, a long time back. Most companies do not want to deal with your immigration issues. Bigger enterprises have the resources. But the moment you get smaller, there isn’t a whole lot of patience or energy for that.

As an H1B I May have made marginally less than my peers who were not immigrationally challenged. But as promotions picked up I think that wasn’t an issue anymore.

The one thing I still have though is I’m never the squeaky wheel. Getting laid off on an H1B is brutal. So your tolerance for corporate bs and workplace toxicity is quite high.
Do you expect the first iteration of every product to be perfect?
I don’t understand how people underestimate it so badly when we have so much history we are taught that demonstrates it. History makes it abundantly clear that it is a regular occurrence for large groups of people to collectively believe things for which there is little evidence, and furthermore, to take extreme actions based on such beliefs.

This applies to you too, reader. Many would read the above and fully agree with it, but fail to apply it to themselves and the groups they identify with. It is even more important to critically consider your own beliefs than the beliefs of others.
Is it possible to run BPi on any hardware? If TP-Link is banned, I'd think that many other Chinese-based manufacturers may also be on the chopping block.
It's always difficult to notice features you don't know are missing.

I'm a near-exclusive user of VSCode (or Codium, at home) and like to think of myself as moderately advanced. I continually update my configurations and plugins to make my workflow easier and often see my peers stumble on operations that are effortless for me. It's hard to explain to them what they're missing until they watch me code. So now I'm curious about watching some typical Jetbrains workflows.
I built a basic licensing system. But in the future I want to make that more robust, and then open the aperture wider so folks don't have to be on the one-time-payment plan.

I think it's tough to prevent 100% of piracy, but hopefully there aren't too many people out there keen to install cracked/pirated financial planning software and plug in their info.
I think it's implicit that a switch has to be on/off. Do you mean opt-in rather than opt-out?
It’s quite easy to set up cgit, laminar and gitolite to self host.
If the facts don't match reality you've gone to all the effort for nothing--people aren't going to do it. And if hard cases make bad law the legislature should do it's job and fix the law!
> I’m not sure what world other people live in

> I’ve been building an app

Most people live in a world where they don’t build their own ebook software. I think you actually do know this.
They were responding to a comment that suggested that this was a category where the only thing you would get is unintelligible gibberish.

You don't even seem to be disputing the actual results here, just gesturing towards a kind of philosophy class exercise of whether we can ever "really" verify its accuracy. I see Wittgenstein's name increasingly tossed around in these parts (a good thing!), so I'll just note that one of the reasons he's hailed as one of the great philosophers of the 20th century is because he felt these puzzles about "really" knowing were frivolous.

I don't think I agree that what's needed here is some new and extra process of verification. I think the same usual quality control criteria that are already being used are good enough in this case.