skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we all know what this is actually commenting on, I'll answer that directly. The noise on the UFO topic has reached a massed hysteria pitch. When that happens, the overall signal to noise ratio of internet sourced sightings goes from "very poor" to "nearly invisible." I blame a lot of that on the recent congressional hearings bringing stories to the public's front of mind.

But. And I think its a very very important but, these sightings of phenomena go back decades, and just because the public at large is not a reliable reporter, does mean there are not many, many kernels of truth of an unexplained, repeated phenomena.

And otherwise you can always, always be skeptical, but at what point does skepticism stretch into denial?

IR cameras recording rocket impacts aren't mass hysteria. 2011
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1gsdwl6/full_10_minut...

^ maybe those are targeting drones and the rocket missed. but then why are they dripping?

2 days ago:
https://old.reddit.com/r/InterdimensionalNHI/comments/1hfkcg...

^ maybe those are targeting flares, and thats why they're dripping, but if they're flares why does the second one seem to fly away when the first is struck?

meanwhile 7 days ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hcfaqw/glowing_orb_f...

^ maybe thats just a commercial drone modified to be super bright. But why fly it there, as a hoax? (so, so many orb videos to repeat this logic with, you get the idea.)

If you're interested in finding more, you need to get very used to seeing lots of balloons, planes, commercial drones, planets, stars, satellites, flares, skydivers, lens flare, insects and birds and there's common examples of all of them. The ones we should be interested in are usually uniformly luminous, follow non linear flight paths, exhibit extraordinary acceleration (for which you need size to estimate distance which is tough with only one camera), and/or exhibit extraordinary altitude. Whether they're controlled by a non-human intelligence or some government, they do exist and are super interesting to watch. You're just gonna have to wade through an absolute mountain of bullshit.
Is that a bad thing? All other animals have population collapses from time to time and it redresses the balance. I don't see it as particularly catastrophic.

Of course, now this reduces to how we define catastrophe, and we obviously have a difference. But I see a halving of the human population hardly a catastrophe at all, whereas the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing.
This would be a great way to starve every industry outside of tech of H1B workers.
I use Copilot a lot for writing specs. I've come to prefer that it only writes one or two specs to start. It's a good way for me to quickly review it has the structure correct. When it throws too many at me at once, it can be harder to make broad tweaks.

As for `pytest`, I just have to remind it I'm using pytest. "Write pytests for this" is sufficient to get it to do what I want.
> As to competitive environs, we would be much less wasteful and destructive if we cooperated instead of competing.

The communist countries have some of the most polluted areas on the planet.

> There's an important difference between ambition for selfish gain and ambition to better help others.

Everybody is selfish. The beauty of the free market is it enables selfish behavior to help others. All attempts at creating selfless societies have resulted in misery and poverty.
Agreed, this feels like the kubernetes descheduler as a service or something. Wild.
You can't gauge the airspeed of an airplane from the ground. What you are observing is the ground speed, which is affected by winds. So a small Cessna flying into a heavy headwind can appear to move very, very slowly relative to the ground.
Could an expert in the field provide an overview of what is known for sure so far about this incident and one from a month or so ago?
I absolutely do want my financial institution to have an ideology which is centered around customer service rather than profit extraction. I switched to credit unions a long time ago and I will never go back.
Yeah, the game kind of drags if you do just 1 piece in the pot per player when empty. Usually when I play it with my family we do at least 2 pieces, and also work out extra gimmicks like loans with interest to players down on their luck (very Jewish I know). Still not the most thrilling of games, but fun to play every year.
I was about to recommend "Satisfaction High, Information Tenuous"
Agree ability to run also as a binary would be helpful.
Does it sound crazy? Most startups don’t understand why their product gains traction. They have less comprehension by this standard than the scientists with drugs. One of the beautiful things about knowledge is this: you don’t need knowledge of components to know the whole.
Sadly, I haven't travelled enough to know where I'd really like to be. Oh sure, I've done research, but I've travelled enough to know that what looks good on paper isn't always as good in reality.

Having said all that, the country that keeps popping up as the best for me is the Netherlands. Thing is, I've never been there. So maybe I'd hate it? The first part of the plan would be to visit, not as a tourist, but really living a day in the life as much as possible.

At this point in my life and how close I am to retirement; I'd probably just wait until I retired before emigrating. It makes it a lot easier than needing to get a job.
Ooh, I like that.

However, I think the original thinking behind the term "meme" is probably still the definitive discourse on the subject: in analogy to genes, ideas undergo natural selection for survival/reproduction and the attributes that promote this specific kind of fitness (ease of spread, satisfaction, advantage obtained by spreading) will be selected for in the course of social interaction. Qualities we might like to encourage (accuracy, completeness) will not be selected for except insofar as we can connect them back to the actual selection mechanism.

That said, "meme" really doesn't quite put as sharp of a point on the problem as "LIES."
New inference engine claims to serve multiple LLMs in true parallel on one GPU
These details are already available in the in flight entertainment interface
How do people come to find these drugs then? If you don't have a theory about how something works, what would make you test whether it works?
"such people" are all of us.
I wonder what your investors would think if they found out you can't manage and need to 'hope you find suitable talent' and that you are incapable of growing it?
Jetbrains is still the leader in all of the small details that make navigating and working a code base easy.

Copy and paste workflow is a minor slowdown, but nothing compared to things like smart links in terminal, auto detection of run configurations, etc, etc.
The article mentions Metformin's use in preventing Long Covid. More info on that from Eric Topol's blog: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/preventing-long-covid

The original study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4375620
It's also clear that some more recent reports are trolls flying their Costco drones around. Amazingly, as documented on the news and YouTube, there are now people flying their personal drones at night in an effort to find and follow the 'original' drones (!) I assume they are now all following each other around, creating new reports of "Mysterious Drone Swarm Sighted". :-)

Of course, not all "Lights in the Sky" are airplanes, helicopters, drones, stars, satellites or reflections of ground-based lights. There was an interesting sighting in Arizona two weeks ago analyzed and explained by the indefatigable Mick West (2 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V00KT4PCd-0.
The antitrust hurdles Nissan, Honda may face on merger talks
I would have preferred for a multi-billion dollar company to use the H1-B program as intended and to pay an American wage to someone living and working in America.
You can write a prompt stating how tests should be writen in your project. It goes on some .vscode file. It's consulted anytime it's writing a test, even in a conversation. I state where my factory fixtures are to be found.
That's wrong. There is no need to ever fly humans on unproven rockets. NASA has historically done it that way for non-technical reasons. For instance, the Shuttle could have been designed for unmanned operations, but that would have pissed off the astronauts by undermining their claim to necessity, and that was important to NASA at an organizational level because astronauts get NASA funding by keeping the public interested. And so they designed the Shuttle such that people must be on it. Then they started using the Shuttle to simply launch commercial satellites. Why would you ever put seven human lives on the line to launch a satellite, when you can just as well do that without endangering anybody? It was completely senseless risk and they thankfully stopped doing that after Challenger. Just because you can find people willing to go to space for any reason doesn't mean the government should be funding such pointless idiocy.
Sorry bro, human biology is infinitely more complex than your CRUD app.
Parents idea is better.
Those descriptions are less detailed than the information you will see on basically any streaming interface and yet it still manages to not being very good. For example, no person who had actually seen Anora would describe it as "a compelling drama about the life of a sex worker in Coney Island".
Looks like this is using GPT-4 and has no knowledge after January 2022.

'
As of my knowledge cutoff in January 2022, the last movie I have information on is "Spider-Man: No Way Home", which was released in theaters in December 2021. It was one of the most highly anticipated films of that year, marking a major event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the Spider-Man franchise.
'
Well they didn't ask for pytest tests. I wonder if AIs are like bored developers, doing the minimum necessary to complete the task instead of going the extra mile and make things better. Perhaps that will be the differentiator in the future. Or they just need to adjust the pre-prompt.
That's narcissism.

The thing with narcissists is that they're extremely confident. People love confident leaders, even if they're terrible in every other way.

As the recent US election has shown, it's not what you say - but how you say it, that counts.

Hell, you see this with startups, too. When a founder appears extremely passionate and enthusiastic, pitching something as if they're at the top of the world, investors are willing to suspend their disbelief.

One can get away with lots of things, if you're just confident enough.
> Many low level things are basically packed C-structs with this type of protocol.

Not really: C structs notably don't have variable-length fields, but ISO 8583 very much does.

To add insult to injury, it does not offer a standard way to determine field lengths. This means that in order to ignore a given field, you'll need to be able to parse it (at least at the highest level)!

Even ASN.1, not exactly the easiest format to deal with, is one step up from that (in a TLV structure, you can always skip unknown types by just skipping "length" bytes).
To me, lack of history is a feature, not a bug.

Document your shit in proper places.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. -- Winston Churchill
So who knows much about banana pi and using that to build a router. What firmware? Are there better hardware options? Anything user-friendly enough to compare with consumer grade uis for routers? Anything else that should be being asked in this space?

https://www.banana-pi.org/
The process for approving a new drug essentially requires proving that they are safe and also have sufficient efficacy, and usually also that the balance of the two (aka benefit:risk) is an improvement over a reasonable existing comparator.

There are plenty of drugs I can think of (even relatively modern, specialised drugs) for which we kinda understand some parts of the mechanism of action, but not other parts.

Also, given how difficult and competitive developing new drugs is, the incentive is to do the minimum (as above) for approval in the shortest time possible.
This is obviously valid, but it's definitely more common in a language like Python to just dump data inside a dict. In a dynamic language it's a far more flexible structure, it's the equivalent of HashMap<? extends CanBeHashed, LiterallyWhatever>, which is obviously a double edged sword when it comes to consuming the API. Luckily more rigid structures are becoming more popular at the API boundary.
Humans can label the data
Im all for crippling tech advancements in other countries. It’s wrong when we do it by bullying and abusing our powers. Instead we should have the foresight to attract their best talent. This we don’t do as much like we used to before the Bush years.
> Any particular reason you stopped working on it?

I wasn't seeing a viable path to meaningful revenue. It looks like you may have (or are approaching) cracking that - awesome!!

> but I like the way you show deltas in table cells

That was mainly to convince myself that the higher level plan actually worked. I really needed to see the details and breakdown for my own sake.

> There are a few customizable tables you can view in PL too (e.g. Chart Options > Table View)

I haven't used PL before but I'll sign up today and check it out!
I hear you. There was something special about the old days when programming was all about taking your time, thinking through every step, and truly understanding what you were building. I miss the days of punching cards — there was a certain simplicity to it. You’d write your code, feed it into the machine, and if it broke, it was your fault. There was no hiding behind tests or CI/CD pipelines, no auto-fixes or layers of abstraction. It was just you and the machine, and every bug was a lesson you had to learn the hard way. The feedback loop was slow, but it was real.

Now, everything feels automated, fast, and often a bit too dumb. Sure, it’s easier, but it’s lost that raw connection to the work. We’ve abstracted away so much that it’s hard to feel like we’re truly engineering something anymore — it’s more like patching together random components and hoping it holds. I think we lost something when we all started staring at screens all day and disconnected from the hands-on nature of building. There's a lot of slop now, and while some people thrive on that, it’s not for everyone.
A lecture series by The Teaching Company called "The New Testament" taught by Bart Ehrman is an enjoyable academic introduction to the history of Early Christianity.

I also recommend another lecture series called "From Jesus to Christianity" by The Modern Scholar taught by Thomas F. Madden.
Only in the context of H1B does anyone conceive of tech workers as having a binary condition called "qualified." In white-collar jobs worth having, impact scales essentially infinitely with skill. You aren't looking for people who are merely capable of some baseline, you are looking for the best. The world is much bigger than America, so even if Americans are very good, many of the best are still foreigners.
Erm they can. They are looking at passport numbers now.
Every ten years or so there's a new batch of evidence that eating a lot of something has some health effects for some folks. Then a minority turns it into a morality cult against the thing and the media picks it up as "you woudn't guess what common food could be killing you"

And then ten years later new evidence for that thing comes out that's like "maybe not so bad after all!" and a new set of backlash morality. These things are politically affiliated now too if they can be depending on who picks up which evidence first.

Each decade people get bored and find something new to be upset about.

"gluten" is definitely way down these days and "seed oils" haven't yet hit their peak.
Only available on expensive models. Seat heating and washing are the key features.
It is difficult to explain nuance to little kids, so when they grow up, they need to review the rules. Hopefully not from the perspective of "rules are inconvenient", but rather "what was this rule actually trying to achieve, and how much that applies to this situation?".
Indeed, you are part of the grand American tradition of reveling in ignorance.
We almost eliminated those here in California until they chickened out and exempted restaurants.
The simple solution is for the government to put a tax on the visa. For each H1-B the company does, they pay the government an additional $200,000 per year (or some other large, arbitrary sum). If they really need them that badly, they'll pay up. What I think happens is that they discover they don't need them quite so much.
Great! Now show me a system that can verify that list for accuracy as well. Not to be flippant, but this is the complaint. You can't approach outputs uncritically. And no I don't want it to be as unreliable as a person who also forgets how English or basic knowledge works at random intervals.
Acceptable UX maybe, but the gap between Sonnet 3.5 and open models isn’t worth it. I know people are going to pitch qwen coder 72b, but it’s still a long way off on benchmarks and my time matters more.
"App usability and performance typically benefit greatly from using the native platform they’re running on"

I know this has always been the design dogma but is there any research to back this up? It's a _plausible_ dogma of course!

To be honest I don't see the distinction between apps and games. I am usually irritated if the software I'm using has different UI on different platforms. I realize it's possible most users don't use three or four operating systems daily.

"Plus all the egress savings of not shipping chromium with every download"

I'm not sure what this refers to. Creating a custom UI does not require embedding a browser runtime - it's the most silly thing to do IMO.
You can still provide your Passkey password though to some scam. A centralized storage of your passwords.
The problem is the convention is not always clear or consistent. When it breaks, it can be very difficult to debug.

In most cases, we're talking about trivial amount of extra code. Things like a handful of config lines at the top of a class.
> A supposed shortage of qualified US applicants for tech jobs, especially software developers, doesn't jibe with the huge numbers of US developers currently looking for work, including highly experienced older workers suffering from age discrimination.

While I tend to agree, this is a bit of a straw man.

You can have tons of people looking for work who aren't qualified for the job - which is (I think) the FAANG argument.

It's not like FAANG is paying less than what most unemployed techies are looking to make.
Great comeback, except you completely ignore the point (its purpose is not meant to be a backdoor) and attack him for... being an American?

Instead of telling everyone else to check their privilege, maybe check your expectations. The world doesn't owe anyone anything. Claiming your desires are everyone else's problem is a deeply self-centered way to view the world.
Sounds like a good product if people are willing to pay so much for it...
The difference these days seems to be that the frequency of the hysterical events has gone up. One every other month, rather than every other year.

What happens to a society that has been desensitized to mass-hysteria, where no single event can evoke a reaction? Is it a horseshoe, where we're so vigilant that nothing fazes us anymore? Do we lose our humanity in the process?
100% disagree with this take, the flexibility in controlling the prompt leads to QwenCoder2.5-32b outperforming gpt-o1 and claude sonnet 3.5 for nearly everything that I use it for (true for Gemma-27b and llama3.3-70b, though in this context I'm almost always using the former).
A specialist model that's specifically prompted to do the correct thing will outperform a SOTA generic model with a one size fits all system prompt. This is why small autocomplete models can very obviously outperform larger models at that specific task.
I am speaking 100% from experience and ignoring all benchmarks in forming this view btw, so maybe it's just my specific situation.

Also, in general I don't find the difference between SOTA models and local models to be that significant in the real world even when used in the exact same way.
A national government functions as a labor union on a national scale.
> Your comment made me lol. And it’s very rare for that to happen to me via reading text.

If anyone else reading this is in a place like you've described, try 1900hotdog.com
Sure. However the implications if your stupid sass app [0] fails or not is not in the same league (IMHO) as messing with humans biology.

[0]: Yes there may be medical sass apps that are more serious
Nice, congrats!

Interesting decision, to put the self hostable version behind the lifetime plan. The strategy i see most of the time for self hosting is a free and open source 'community edition'.

May i ask how you prevent piracy?
...other than... you know... the entire point of the H1B visa program... is to get talent the US DOESN'T already have ...
Read the RAISE Act if you think that the incoming administration is going to be easier on legal migrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act
Wow:

void main(String[] args) {
println("Hello world");
}

I just saved that as "hello.java" and ran it (using OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 23.0.1) which I happened to have on my Mac already) like this:

java --enable-preview hello.java

This is SO MUCH less crufty than the old "public static void main(String[] args)" thing. I always felt that was a terrible introduction to programming, when Hello World included a whole chunk of boilerplate and a class that didn't need to exist.
This type of response is called moving the goal post. When someone responds to one claim, the claim is changed to something different which was not part of the original argument. This is debating in bad faith.
I agree. I think it also would have been better to explicitly name "collections" as unique from "items".

GooseCollection is more meaningful than Geese (or Gooses).
> “It becomes a pretty glaring problem when you have ultra-rich individuals layering loopholes on top of loopholes to dodge both the NIIT and Medicare taxes,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, in a statement.

Those evil ultra rich! How can they get away with this?…

> Behind closed doors, Democratic leaders hashed out a compromise that carved active business owners out of the tax.
Linus works from home, he could do that from anywhere.
Sure, as long LLC that you have set up generates enough revenue to pay your salary.

I'm not sure you understand how this works.
It's not doing great, but it's not really losing, either.

It is successfully using its nuclear arsenal to deter aid for the country it's invading. A lot of materiel is sent, but its uses are limited. A massive attack on the capital would be entirely justified, and is well within their capability, but is forbidden for fear of escalating to nuclear weapons.

Because of that, they are continuing to prosecute the war, and making minor gains. They cannot continue that forever, but in another month, their target is likely to be hamstrung even further. They may yet win, or negotiate a peace that they can pass off as a win (which would include Ukraine never joining NATO).

People may not have that immediate fear of nuclear war that characterized the 50s through the 80s. But the threat is in play, and it's being kept out of daily discourse only because the US refuses to challenge it.