skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>[The Campaign] received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, it holds a 65% approval rating from critics, based on 191 reviews, with an audience score of 60%.

The first thing I fact-checked, the Rotten Tomatoes scores are actually 66% and 51% respectively[1]. Probably not enough of a difference to sway any opinions, but an excellent example of the type of inaccuracy that the previous comment was referencing.

[1] - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_campaign
Been using this for years, works exactly as advertised, no issues. Thank you Solaar team for your work and dedication to this useful project!
They took a programming camp they paid for, where they were given the task to learn the language of the day. So they learned it because they were forced to, not out of curiosity or desire to improve.
This saved my butt when I lost my mouse dongle and only had an Ubuntu instance available at the time. I was able to pair my mouse to the same dongle my keyboard used and have been using the software ever since without issue. Thank you!
The system is I'm a movie nerd who knows all the best movies of the year and have seen them all.
> OpenAI is diversifying a lot, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

I'm not sure if I'd use term 'diversifying'. At least not in the sense of spreading themselves wider across more projects to reduce overall company risk (if that's what you meant).

I think that we're still very early into AI and because we're still not sure what kind of applications people will want to use in the future, it makes a lot of sense to experiment.
It's racist to prefer citizens over non-citizens though. The US government should pass laws benefiting all people of the world equally.
> The messages I parsed were ISO-8583 with ~EBCDIC~ no, BCD.

The "great" thing about most ISO 8583 implementations I've worked with (all mutually incompatible at the basic syntactic level!) is that they usually freely mix EBCDIC, ASCII, BCD, UTF-8, and hexadecimal encoding across fields.
Logitech's might be a large download, but their Windows software still seems far more optimized than Corsair's. After a few days of uptime, Corsair's processes would have nearly an hour of CPU time. Logitech's would have a couple minutes at most. I replaced all my Corsair equipment with Logitech or others after seeing that.
My point was that those companies are indeed in the top 10, and those companies also look at and hire US applicants. This was in response to the commenter’s point that they’d be surprised if 5-10% of H1Bs listing even considered US applicants.
I’m aware of that, and I tried to think that was what was happening. But the motion apart from speed was nothing like a typical plane, and the other factors led me to conclude it was a drone. When I say the FAA light patterns were off, what I mean is that it had two red lights on the outside, and two green lights on the inside. AFAIK, the only type of aircraft that might have that configuration is a trans-wing drone.
> Puppet and Chef are still broadly used

Damn, that's fucking crazy, and also really depressing at the same time.
> metformin blocks a specific part of the cell's energy-making machinery called mitochondrial complex

Keep in mind that any mitochondrial complex I inhibitor that is sufficiently strong is going to cause PSP if you take it for long enough, which is basically a fatal and untreatable version of Parkinson's disease. I haven't seen much research on this being a risk specifically for metformin, but I'd be careful about trying to use it prophylactically for longevity purposes rather than for a specific medical condition.
I get it's just an example, but are we really this far gone? Just watch a random movie and if you don't like it, pick another. This is such an extreme micro-optimization of a small experience.
I see this sentiment expressed pretty frequently, and I'm not sure what to think of it. Are fertility rates expected to dip so low that humans will simply die out? Is it that stable/declining populations will cause political instability and all-out war? Something else?

It seems to me some of our worst problems would ease up if populations declined a bit.
> There are tons of things that we decide to ignore to go on with our lives

Absolutely, we all need to filter the overwhelming amount of information we're faced with. The part that seems terrifying is that occasionally our filters can line up in such a way as to pick up what's just pure noise and escalate it into an enormous positive feedback loop.

And of course there's a whole discussion about how those filters are shaped (by the media we consume, authorities we decide to trust, direct experience) and how that's changed over time.
Oh... I agree.. I'm just shocked at the attitude.

i.e. "We don't quite know how it works... but statistically we think it will help, with these side-effects.. good luck" <gasp>
Maybe I'm more optimistic. Is it our animal nature? Or is it that science is hard, and most people don't have enough formal education in the relevant subjects to know they're out of their depth, let alone to understand these things.
I've submitted just such PRs before, usually with a comment along the line of "this hack is dumb and I do not yet understand why it is necessary, but it works now, tests prove it works, and I have more urgent things to do." Sometimes this is unacceptable but often it is just what the doctor ordered.

Of course, unlike with biology, it is usually not beyond my skills to eventually understand the whole system, but it may be beyond my time availability. With biology, the whole thing is just too complex to grok.
Possible, but if someone needs it and it works well, why not?
It might be better to say that it was a case of a collective shattered delusion, where the delusion was "my windshield normally is not pitted". In modern parlance, it was a collective "can't unsee" moment.

A delusion would imply that people were claiming their windshields were pitted and they weren't... but I'm sure they were.
> 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?

Not hiring mediocre talent is a key part of management.
Biology is a result of billions of years of constant evolutionary struggle on a planetary scale, without rhyme or reason, very much not intelligently designed. Whatever random mutation worked, worked.

We the IT people love to complain about esoteric interplay of hardware, OS, apps and network. There is a lot more phenomena in constant interplay even in mere amoebas, not to speak of human bodies.

Not to mention that you just cannot put breakpoints into a living organism and read its current status on screen.

I find it positively crazy that we know something about biology at all. The intrinsic obstacles are just so much higher than in software.
I may have misinterpreted what you are saying. When I read this

> there is no evidence of anything in the Bible

I interpreted it as you saying "Nothing in the bible has corroborating evidence". Not "the bible is not evidence for anything".

The bible mentions the sun and we have corroborating evidence that the sun does indeed exist. The bible's mention of the sun alone isn't evidence for it's existence.

That said, the bible does provide some soft evidence. Like I mentioned, the fact that Jesus probably existed isn't in that the bible says he existed, but rather the fact that the bible makes errors in his history likely to cover up well known facts about him at the time.

An example of 2 figures that likely didn't exist in the bible are Moses and Abraham.
Right, the thing you're currently freaked out about is ecological damage. Got it.

And it's worse than it's ever been. Before, it's not like we were pumping sulphur into the air until it rained acid, or lead from gasoline into the air where everybody breathed it, or CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, or pumping so much pollution into rivers that they literally caught fire. No, this is the worst, right now.

/s

Look, there are serious environmental things going on. Plastic particulates. Forever chemicals. Estrogenoids. CO2. There's a lot that's real, serious, and is having real, damaging effects. I don't want to minimize that.

At the same time, you seem to be hyper-fixated on one thing. You seem to be an example of what the article is talking about.
The nature and severity of climate change risks to other species is something I can be sad about, without it being also a risk to us.

Likewise in reverse, there are ways a nuclear war could be relatively good for almost every species except humans, our livestock, and our pets.

Given the trends on renewables, I think we're going to solve the climate… but also a whole bunch of seemingly unrelated trends start implying silly things starting in the early 2030s, so expect something else to become a problem soon enough.
What's the alternative? Never develop or deliver a life-improving medication until we can fully understand it from first principles? Gonna be waiting a long time IMO.
The subreddit /r/njdrones is sooo off the rails right now. It started out as "I think this is a drone, maybe military?" to classifying different drones as energy "orbs" and "mimics" that only look like airplanes when photographed.
Flip phone user here. This is amazing!
> not like typing, which is largely automatic; conscious decisions per second.

That’s kind of a cop out - at what point do very quick conscious decisions become “automatic.”
Sometimes there is a theory, but it’s also possible for a drug to help in other (unrelated) ways as well.
We have an openai account for the company, so I mainly use gpt4o or 4o mini with supermaven and cline. I think Claude 3.5 works even better.
2x 1080Ti, ~25t/s
When is that prosperity coming to the US? It seems that it's been leaving the US for the past decades and life is harder and harder and the American Dream is hardest to attain in decades.
> surely sending a torrent of unnecessary telemetry data back to Logitech

To give Logitech some credit, there's an off switch for "diagnostic data" right there in the settings.
Corvus Robotics (YC S18) is hiring a Head of Software to help inventory drones
https://app.dover.com/apply/269adc8b-72b8-46d3-85b9-3a15ea90...

tl;dr - hiring someone to lead all customer-facing software: displaying & optimizing millions of pieces of inventory tracked by our drones with a beautiful user experience.

We’re the founders of Corvus Robotics. We’ve built the world’s first fully autonomous drones that help warehouses track inventory. No human pilots, no location stickers, no localization beacons, fully onboard real-time autonomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-gO7dCocV8

We have product-market fit. Dozens of Global 2000-sized companies use our drones every day, across the US, to track millions of pieces of inventory. Our customers are expanding and growing quickly.

You:

- Experienced IC SWE, probably with GraphQL, Node, Postgres, React experience.

- Have experience with, or at least curiosity in, WMS / supply chain software, and high ambition. Like, what does the ideal AI-first inventory tracking of the world’s physical economy look like in the future?

- Obviously, you extensively use AI-enabled tools as a force multiplier.
i guess it's technically true that you can go to the movie theater, buy a ticket, and then get back in line to refund the ticket and leave, but this seems like an odd thing to do.

whereas buying a ticket in advance online, and then later refunding it (but losing the convenience fee), is common. "peace of mind knowing your spot is reserved" is what i mean by an option on the seat.

now maybe i'm in fact wrong and all convenience fees are exactly passing through the credit card/fandango fees etc., but in practice it sure looks like an option.
> There is a shortage of applicants willing to work at what companies want to
pay

If you want the best candidates, it makes sense to have a wider pool of recruitment.
Why aren't they doing that now though?
Yes, I finally decided not to renew my über-cheap JetBrains subscription in January and shift to VSCode + Copilot with Claude, then tested Cursor and dropped Copilot. Cursor is still a bit frustrating and gets trapped in circular reasoning a lot, but its features are good, like creating files.
WTF is "aspiration porn"? What is it with people being so salty about Apple and going out of their way to paint them in as malicious a light as possible?
Sorry just have to pop in and say that the DPI scaling makes the concept of "resolution of the window" much more complicated since you have some logical resolution and then the actual rendering resolution and two may not necessarily map 1:1 if DPI scaling is in effect.
If everyone is paying the cash-price, you'll get reimbursed up to whatever your policy says, and you'll be responsible for the rest.

So no networks, but just like current vehicle coverage, the policy's estimation of the cost and what someone is trying to charge may not align.
Added in the FAQ, thank you!
If you think ww3 might come (seems reasonably likely, esp starting with Korea), most of the action will be in the Northern Hemi. So maybe Uruguay.
Well then, that is where we differ because I am much more concerned about other species.
That's exactly what the attacker wants you to do after their exploit runs: ignore the warning signs.
Thank you! I didn't feel any disrespect :)

I was always curious how things worked when I saw announcements on HN. So happy to share to satiate the next generations curiosity :)
You might also want to look at scala and ammonite [1]

[1] https://ammonite.io/#ScalaScripts
I'll personally equip our team with EMP weapons when that happens
Actually writing code is a small part of what I do in the IDE. So I'm not keen on jumping ship to a whole new editor and lose all the IDE stuff. But I do think IDEs need to step up. The editors will get the IDE features slowly (or be able to work around some of them, like how an IDE can know your database layout and help you write sql, the AI helpers can make educated guesses as well and get close), so the IDEs don't have a big moat.
Syphilis had its roots in the Americas, archaeological bone study suggests
That is absolutely what these kinds of Visas are NOT supposed to be addressing.
Witch!!!
That's sarcasm I think.

You missed the point, they are programmed to respond, they must respond. So we can't judge their intelligence on whether or not they stop responding at the appropriate time. That is not something the model has agency over.

If AGI comes, it will not be able to exceed software and hardware limits it is running within (although, in science fiction fashion, it might find some clever tricks within its limits).
It's the same with neurology. We pretend we understand how the brain works, but much of what we are understanding is our current conceptual knowledge, so it's theoretical.

We work with Phase-targeted auditory stimulation to enhance deep sleep (https://affectablesleep.com). We know we can stimulate the brain during sleep and measure the increase in electrical activity which is the result of increased synchronous firing of neurons, but the reason why we are able to create this result is just a theory. However, the behaviour itself is consistent, and replicated.
South Korea will introduce AI-based school textbooks in 2025
Since I graduated college last year and started working full time as a software engineer this year, I’ve been trying to navigate the financial world and set myself up for financial success. I feel like I’ve been able to get into a good place with just reading and napkin math, but this looks like the perfect tool to get away from semi-qualitative to quantitative decisions. Will be checking out!!!!
I'm not a cheerleader of China by any means but the attitude you have towards China is scary. Why does the US have to control the world in order to be safe?
The veterinary world has a specific term for a condition they can’t diagnose, and I appreciate the intellectual honesty behind that.
what parts do you enjoy now ?

I do agree that new ecosystems (js for instance) makes you miss some of the old big languages development feel. less churn
This is a cool exploration. The post mentioned the health aspects, yet mostly goes over basic app integrations.

I’m curious about how well the health features translate over to the android phone. Is it mostly just to track health metrics locally on the Apple Watch, or is there any sort of “export/sync to android phone” for health?

I’ve been really curious about other open source (or at least reversed engineered) devices like the Colmi, and while I’m still an Apple consumer, prefer to track and keep things locally and private to myself with my own apps and scripts.
> Your whitelist will end up looking like "All of Azure, GCP, AWS, and CloudFlare, plus some one-offs"...

Why?
https://archive.is/oeua0
CDC press release

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html
I was surprised at how easy college was in India when I saw the coursework.
Not really, O-1 is essentially a visa to bring a specific person to the US. While H1B is a wide net (yes, visa given to a specific person, not what I'm saying).

o-1 is to bring Albert Einstein and h1b is to bring some physicist that matches criteria.

As in, O-1 is person-focused, while H1B is role-focused.
Those particular cases have benefited by the shortcomings of the USA actually. I know some big tech companies send workers who weren't able to secure US immigration specifically to offices in Canada, the UK or the EU. For example Meta and Google [1][2].

One can expect the company then grows an interest in developing full engineering teams in these sites. One can also expect some people might simply decide to not come back to the USA.

With the general rise of China's tech scene, recently there's been a trend by which the USA doesn't retain Chinese international students and they instead opt to return home. One has to imagine the very, very long immigration process they have to go to has to do with this [4].

[1]: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Does-Meta-relocate-you-to-Can...

[2]: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-difficult-to-relocate-from-the-G...

[3]: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-29/The-return-wave-Why-80...

[4]: https://www.statista.com/chart/16528/long-wait-times-for-gre...
Letting in a lot of smart people benefits the citizens of the United States, that's why I said it's a win-win. Do you think we'd be better off if we excluded Musk to hire a native-born American instead in our aerospace industry?

Just going back in time, do you think the US would be better off if we'd excluded Irish immigrants? Italians? Germans? If blocking immigration somehow benefits native-born citizens, you'd logically have to think our population should have stayed the same as it was when we broke away from Britain. We'd be about the size of say Colombia, maybe with a bit higher GPD
This is a great write up on how to accomplish this, I hope someday Apple just allows the Apple Watch to work standalone.

Having said that, the Apple Watch is the primary reason I switched to the iPhone (and Apple ecosystem with it). I have been using the watch with cellular since April 2019 and I only take my phone with me on the rarest of occasions (usually for events that I want to snap pics or video or if I’m taking a day trip or on holiday). I’ve even taken just the watch on small holidays/trips by keeping my iPhone fully charged but on Wi-Fi to get all notifications.

Once I got used to the workflow I never looked back. I noticed I was more focused at work, at social events, dinners either the wife and family or friends while being more social and attentive, and noticed a huge overall improvement in mood and well being. Part of this is due to more focus on health and fitness and the Apple Watch certainly helped me stay motivated.

Since 2019 I’ve lost 25lbs, gained some muscle mass, I now compete in friendly running races and I’ve lowered my blood pressure. The Apple Watch truly is the most important gadget I’ve ever purchased and owned.
Visa is valid for 6y, entry visa for 3. You decide to visit Europe in year 4, you have to travel to southeast Asia or South America to renew your entry visa before you can get back to work? Sounds stupid.

Another incredibly stupid thing of the American system is the fact that your spouse cannot work while you're subject to it.
Social network algorithms tend to promote nasty people and their polarizing comments, so for a person which lives online, their belief that humans are getting nastier is colored by their everyday interactions.

It is good that gentle people still exist and may, in fact, be very numerous, but is it still as good if their ability to contribute to societal norms is diminished?
Well, see, if human population plunges enough, then there wont be the society that favors low fertility. There also won't be birth control pills.

I mean, there also won't be industrialization, or western civilization, or democracy, or electricity, or antibiotics, or a bunch of other stuff we think is good. But if human population crashes in the way you describe, yes it will rebound - just from far lower than you wish.
I think they punish companies to a considerable degree. It's just that since legal costs on both sides are non-trivial, not much makes it to the harmed consumers.
Thank you, yes there's a lot of positive that can come out of this technology, and it needs to be developed with the help of everyone in order to get there
Very cool! Are you planning on building out (or offering direction on) 'base machines'? Would love to see a plug and play hardware infrastructure, where plopping in a new brain/etc for development purposes is a thing.
Show HN: netcat over Cloudflare Warp
This plan won't work without a few pro 'wrestling' cameos.
Pardon my ignorance but why would you need an app to manage keyboards and mice in the first place? Aren't they supported out of the box by generic drivers?
You're the second person in this thread to make this point, what are you using it for? I find the difference is basically negligible (in the sense that both get the busywork right and both fail at anything complicated)
Concur. Dropped Copilot for Cursor and then tried Windsurf. Windsurf is the keeper for me.
I have to agree here. I've had multiple TP-Link routers and all of them had regular random dropouts that would require reboots. They may work if you have 5 devices connected, but they are simply unreliable with even a moderate amount of devices and traffic. TP-Link is on my list of, "Not worth it at any price."
> ignoring the mass of solid video

100% of the ones I looked into have been debunked, helicopters, planes, out of focus stars, fireworks, &c.

> (seemed a few hundred feet up at most)

At night you have absolutely no way to tell

> And most damningly it didn’t make any noise audible from the ground, something not even stealth bombers can accomplish.

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

> Honestly, it kind of freaked me out having some previously abstract news-cycle object just floating ominously down the road across from me.

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
In the case of metformin, the direct line is from guanidine in french lilac being used since the middle ages for diabetes. Guanidine is effective, but long term liver toxic.

Once actual chemistry broke open our ability to analyze that drug, related chemicals could be synthesized and studied, which led to biguanidines, of which metformin is one, which were tested in animals.

Many drugs are found this way by looking at chemicals related to ones we already know about, and then testing on animals and humans. Self testing of new drugs by researchers used to be very common.

How did folk medicine come to know the effects of guanidine? Dunno.
I don’t get it. Why would decreasing the function of mitochondria be a good thing? Can anyone explain?