skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Apple Watch was compatible with Android, just not as smooth to use. This is eye opening.

At the same time, though I agree Apple Watch has the best sleep tracking (and I work in the sleep space), the difference in sleep tracking compared to others probably isn't big enough to justify jumping through all these hoops, unless, like the author, you enjoy doing this sort of thing.

The Whoop sleep tracking is quite good, but a rather expensive (I think) subscription just to get data about a health function you have very little direct influence over.

The Xaoimi Bands are inexpensive, and from what I understand, also have good sleep tracking.

I also just came across this https://cardiomood.com/, which seems to be like a non-subscription, but rather expensive Whoop.
Movie reviews are amongst the most subjective things, how do you define “verify” and “accuracy”?
New Technology Is Taking Package Tracking Past Scanning
If you crash then you've handed them a denial of service vulnerability.
It's difficult to convince others and leadership when a free, well-understood and time tested alternative exists. At least, not without a big reason.
I think it's called democracy or something.
As far as I'm concerned, we solved binary formats with ASN.1 and its various encodings. Everything afterwards has been NIH, ignorance, and square wheel reinvention.
It’s a slowdown in tech recruitment, so it is fair for citizens to think for themselves first. There are quite a lot of candidates that can fulfill most of the roles, and it has bad optics when the government tries to prioritize others.

Disclaimer: I don’t live in the states, but I can understand the frustration.
Bari Weiss is a right-wing grifter. Nothing she publishes in her "Free Press" should be trusted, and Substack is still a Nazi bar.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-we...
> maybe those are targeting drones and the rocket missed. but then why are they dripping?

They're balloons carrying flares for target practice. You can see lots of falling embers in https://youtu.be/XHDXk9THJZM?si=CKSBB3AuslBizXxh&t=179 from a military flare.

> if they're flares why does the second one seem to fly away when the first is struck?

Because that's the maneuvering target drone (something like a QF-16, probably; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...) that's dropping the flares.

> maybe thats just a commercial drone modified to be super bright. But why fly it there, as a hoax?

Asked and answered. We live in a world where "flashlight enthusiast" is a real niche thing; "bright drone" is not an implausible thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/
You don't ignore it. You track errors. What you don't do is crash the server for all users, giving an attacker an easy way to DoS you.
Re: longevity, ITP didn't find any significant impact from metformin. Afaik they're the most rigorous testers of this sort of thing, so that's pretty significant to me.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27312235/
The reality is US is a tech powerhouse, many successful companies have been started by former h1b holders and US tech workers are highest paid in the world (even PPP adjusted). What you're hearing is not the reality - it's just vibes.
It’s really simple test. Dig into unemployment numbers for skill shortages. If your industry only has an acceptable level of unemployment filings, then it qualifies as an industry eligible for H1B. Within the industry, each company would interview you on SV style data structures and algorithms. If you don’t make the interview, you are not qualified. The foreigner who could pass such a qualifying test would then get the job and visa is an accessory here.
I think you missed some of the most important bits at the end:

> But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. (1 Tim 3, ESV)

For good or for bad, Judeo Christian morality was always rooted in a fear of God. As the belief in God has warped and wained away from biblical moorings, we shouldn't be surprised that morality has gone with it. To such an extent that, seemingly, moral character has very little impact when evaluating leaders, as long as other ideological boxes are checked.

On the other hand, given the context of this writing, it seems that these kinds of people are always present... in all times and all cultures. So maybe there isn't so much uniquely bad about our current times? I don't know, just wondering out loud.
This seems unlikely but possible. Metformin is widely prescribed worldwide and as far as I know, no correlation has been shown. Granted, what its prescribed for - diabetes and prediabetes - are themselves risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases.
Intel 18A Process Node Clocks an Abysmal 10% Yield
Apart from the fact that conspiracies also do exist. Before serious reporting was done, people would've called you a crackpot for talking about half the things that the CIA got up to under Allen Dulles, such as with Operation Gladio, MKUltra, PBSuccess, Propaganda Due, etc., or mass surveillance under the NSA and GCHQ.
For a real-world test of this, I just tried it with this document featured in this other submission today about OCR:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443022

My message from that discussion:

Out of curiosity, I tried submitting the first 200 pages of the PDF he used to my new tool that I also submitted today to Show HN, ( fixmydocuments.com ), and it generated the following without any further interaction besides submitting the PDF file:

https://fixmydocuments.com/api/hosted/m-moires-de-saint-simo...

I think it's not a bad result, and any minor imperfections could be revised easily in the markdown. My feature to turn the document into presentation slides got a bit confused because of the French language, so some slides ended up getting translated into English. But again, it wouldn't be hard to revise the slide contents using ChatGPT or Claude to make them all either French or English:

https://fixmydocuments.com/api/hosted/m-moires-de-saint-simo...
M: "Bye!"

LL: "Bye"

M: "See you soon!"

LL: "Have a good day!"

on and on and on.

Try telling ChatGPT voice to stop listening...
Most Logitech devices have settings for particular parameters that are not covered by generic drivers. E.g on my MX Master, I can set what events the buttons (it has 6) will generate. My K810 has borked function keys (they trigger special events instead of just being good old F1). You can switch these back to standard function using software.
Edit: typos
Sonar to Acquire Tidelift, Scaling Open Source Maintainer Support
It's completely rational just inverted -- Our understanding of biology is based on testing hypotheses of how drugs work, mostly. Some of the best practical understanding comes from "phase 4 clinical trials" i.e. those performed informally by the market
Math problems usually have one right/wrong answer. Many interview 'challenges' have multiple ways of doing something correctly. Without necessarily knowing any more about the context of a problem beyond a few sentences, you work with what you've been given. You can deliver a working solution but if it's not the way they were expecting... you're out of the running.
Moana 2
https://archive.is/xhJvc
This. 1000x This.

I watch people navigate code in VSCode and I want to pull my hair out. Things that I don’t even think about are hard and/or require just falling back to search.

And before “there is a plugin for that”, I’m sure there is. I’m sure you can configure VSCode to be just as powerful as IDEA but the rank and file using it aren’t doing that work to install and configure a bunch of plugins. So, on average, VSCode doesn’t hold a candle to an IDEA.

With Aider I skip a lot of the copy/pasting but I’d still copy/paste to the browser before I left IDEA.
> The communist countries have some of the most polluted areas on the planet.

They were not cooperating, my friend, they were manifesting a ruling class that was above the law and pillaged the land for personal gain and sometimes even for the state.

> Everybody is selfish.

We are only as selfish as we choose to be, likewise our sense of ethics is only as developed as the virtues we embrace. Yes, we begin life selfish and most of our cultures are selfishly oriented towards others, but these are all the result of the citizens' choices. And, yes, our beliefs are chosen as well, and are as adaptable as we like.

> The beauty of the free market is it enables selfish behavior to help others.

I would say, rather, that the free market is good at letting people act selfishly, for either good or ill. That's why I like my capitalism with fetters, plenty of fetters. But, yeah, capitalism that doesn't destroy the powerless is the best path forward.

> All attempts at creating selfless societies have resulted in misery and poverty.

No, most humans that say they're creating selfless societies are really just grifters who want to be the new royalty. Selfishness always results in misery on some level, for some person or persons.

We can develop systems that reward those who innovate and improve our life on Earth, without jeopardizing our environment and the peace among people. We could choose that, my friend. The problem is that most people don't care enough about others to be generous.

We could each choose to learn how to be virtuous and then dedicate ourselves to helping implement a compassionate, sensible, and sustainable world society.

All that's holding us back is our unwillingness to admit we each have the ability to be a part of the solution, as opposed to our currently sadass status quo.
I'd absolutely love to love this.

Using dbt at $JOB, and building a custom dbt adapter for our legacy data repos, I've slowly developed a difficult relationship dbt's internals and externals. Struggling with the way it (python) handles concurrency, threading, timeouts with long running (4hr+ jobs), and the like. Not to mention inconsistencies with the way it handles Jinja in config files vs SQL files. Also it's lack of ingestion handling and VSCode/editor support, which it seems like Bruin considers very well!
Since starting poking around on the inside of dbt I've felt like Go or Rust would be a far more suitable platform for a pipeline building tool, and this looks to be going in a great direction, so congrats on the launch and best of luck with your cloud offering.

That being said, I tried starting the example bruin pipeline with duckdb on a current data project, and I'm having no luck getting the connection to appear with `bruin connections list` so nothing will run. So looks like I'm going to have to stick with dbt for now. Might be worth adding some more documentation around the .bruin.yml file; dbt has great documentation listing the purpose and layout of each file in the folder which is very helpful when trying to set things up.
Evolution just pushes straight to master.
Remembers me the “Java for Everything” blog post: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everythin...

Also, thank you for sharing! I do appreciate Java and I’m glad to see it can be used for scripting nowadays.
The consumption of which itself is driven by an unscientific scare about animal fat.
Tariffs on visas?
The government of the people exists to benefit the people. Ideally.
Booking fees for events are probably especially a large proportion and annoying.
I like it.

Another tweak: Low Information Extra Satisfying
> 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.

In general you can't, but surely it's not that big a deal if ChatGPT offers an inaccurate summary of a movie you're about to use to kill time on a flight? I suppose it becomes important if, e.g., you're relying on it to tell you whether a movie is appropriate for children, but, if you're just asking it whether a movie is worth watching, that's a question that doesn't have an objective, factual answer anyway, so a hallucinated answer is probably about as useful as that of a not-previously-known reviewer.
Although there is one part of my brain which tells me I and other people are rational beings, my own behavior tells me otherwise. Why else would I eat a candy when I rationally know I don’t need it?

For people interested, I can highly recommend Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal. It tells many interesting stories about social interactions between apes that look surprisingly human. By the way, did you know that apes pick their nose, just like humans?
Also, working Linux software to pair new devices with unifying receivers is great to have.
It doesn't quite work that way. H-1B employees need to have above average compensation or their field. This is part of the application process.
Work starts on giant airship factory site
Haha, I thought this looked like an awesome idea, then I looked through the supported services and realized I already don't use any of them anymore!
This feels like it was written as a satire based on the screenplay of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Why so uncharitable? You could at least consider the possibility that their understanding of the situation is better than yours.

There are supposedly two climate-related threats from living on the coast: sea level rise and storm risk. Sea level rise is so trivial that many Pacific islands have been getting bigger, not smaller as was predicted, and it's a very steady rate of change. That leaves storm risk. NOAA is a group of people with a long history of scientific scandals who owe much of their funding to their claims about climate risk, but let's see what they say about living on the coast:

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

> "it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human-caused increases in greenhouse gases have caused a change in past Atlantic basin hurricane activity that is outside the range of natural variability"

Mankind has been emitting CO2 for 150+ years but there's no data showing it's made the weather worse.

So, all claims that living on the coast is a bad idea are based 100% on modelling predictions. Given they've been diverging over time and divergence has got worse instead of better, the opposite of what should be happening, reasonable people can certainly conclude it's OK to ignore them when considering property prices.
Same reason people hearing moose or coyotes think they're about to get attacked by a skin walker: ignorance and being primed by social medias
> I dont understand how you are connecting it to the question of H1-B visas and if local benefits to industrial expertise outweigh the downward pressure from labor competition.

Because what you are calling "local benefits to industrial expertise" is ultimately realized in the form of returns on capital.

Whether these benefits outweigh the costs is an open question.

When the tech industry's growth was very talent constrained as it was in the last few decades, arguably opening labor competition had the effect of increasing overall growth (mainly through new production invention). The list of immigrant technologists who have created new technologies and products - and jobs as a result - could probably fill an encyclopedia.

It's unknown whether that type of growth - the kind that creates more and better jobs - will continue, especially given recent developments in AI.

If the benefits going forward are largely going to be based on massive increases in labor efficiency, then it's not as clear that the benefits (mostly to capital) outweigh the costs (mostly to labor). Most business models in AI are predicated on replacing people, who are expensive, not making more or better goods. Sure, we'll get some neat robots along the way that actually make stuff, but that will likely be a small fraction of the money to be made.

Or perhaps we are at the dawn of a new era of technology which will make more and better jobs. We'll see.
the seed oil thing is so funny to me because, like, yeah. also, no.

it's actually true. they cause serious inflammation which aggravates serious downstream health problems. like, you shouldn't be eating seed oils in any large quantity that you would get from regularly eating deep fried foods

oh but wait, eating foods with beef tallow and other saturated fats also causes health problems. except, those problems only show up when you eat large quantities of them, such as if you were regularly eating deep fried foods

so what if it wasn't the seed oils that were the problem for many people, but rather, consuming lots of seed oil - as you might find if you ate a lot of deep fried food?

what if it's not the seed oils that are causing you to get fat and feel like shit all the time? what if it's the quantity of fats that you're consuming? and, what if not eating seed oils is actually an easy an effective way to avoid eating deep fried foods as a second order effect?

that'd be crazy. better just jump on the new fad diet.
I meant that some of the code reminds me of enterprise python. The kicker is that code that works > pretty code. People here act as if ugly code is somehow lesser just because it’s ugly. Meanwhile there’s a lot of ugly code making millions of dollars.

Didn’t mean to bash your project. Sorry if it came across that way.
Why does the article devote so many paragraphs to bird flu in cows when the patient contracted it from birds and it's not the strain prevalent in dairy herds?
At least here in California, the state collects the sales tax on behalf of all the local jurisdictions, so they publish and update them all simultaneously (twice a year) and in the same format.
Because the talent is already here or will be here (on h1b/o1). It's common complaint I hear from people doing offshore consultancies type of businesses that their best workers leave for US $$$ paycheck.
Had to use bullshitremover dot com for this one. This is the translation:

> Blah blah, AI is the future, trust it, crypto, governance, auditing, safer AI.
Happy to learn more about what you have in mind, there's a couple different things here it seems?

Maurice is our base machine. We're going to open source the design and hardware so that users can change it - for example switch the gripper with something more complex or a different end-effector. Is that what you meant?

We're also working on a bigger one, which will be able to reach tabletops for example. The idea is as much to create a really powerful robot for the home as showing our brain can work in different bodies.

Ideally our software should power all kinds of robots easily but it needs a lot more training data, and right now it still plugs in standard classical robotics software for some tasks, because it can't control everything immediately. But for example, provided they give us the right interface, iRobot and other Roomba manufacturers should be able to use our AI to make their robots instantly smarter. We can also put it in Unitree dogs (go2 for example). But one thing at at time :)
Yes, I did, apologies!
Dr. Horstmann was my advisor in college, San Jose State.

I just loved his lectures, very dry sense of humor, and extremely funny.

He was just getting started writing books in the early 90s. He has this awesome way of thinking about programming, that I imparted to my own students when it came my turn to teach programming. I wish there some videos of his classes that I could go back to and share with people.

Good website also, https://horstmann.com/

The picture on the website with him in the row boat has a funny story with it. When asked why he is in a row boat, he would reply, "Students are in the row boat with me, learning to program. At some point I push them out of the boat into the eel infested lake. The ones who are clever enough to make it back to the shore will be good programmers." All of this said with a faint hint of a German accent and a sly smile.

If you happen to read this, Dr. Horstman. I made it to shore. Thanks! It has been an awesome journey!
Ask HN: How to opt out of AI training in a license?
From my (quick) search, it seems like there's no readily available license (or some sort of standard clause) to prevent an openly accessible codebase to be used for AI training.

Does anyone know of any existing repository out there that states this in their license? Any advice on how to do it?

P.S.: I’m specifically looking for how to include this restriction in a license, I kindly ask stay on topic here.

Thanks in advance!
I think any language that has a flatmap type construct would also have filter functions that would be a lot clearer to read and write...

(remove-if #'evenp '(1 2 3))

vs

(mapcan
(lambda (n) (if (evenp n) '() (list n)))
'(1 2 3))

in Common Lisp for example.

(Yes I know the original is just a contrived example that you shouldn't read too much into, but...)
It's not unscientific, there is a very direct link.

The real issue, as I see it, is that there was a huge change in pattern in availability and consumption of those fats in the last 50 years.
They were responding to a commenter suggesting it would produce completely unusable results, the question was never about whether the results produced would be redundant.

I know that any mention of fallacies, valid or otherwise, causes instinctive eye rolls, but in this instance I agree with them that this amounts to moving the goalposts.
> Google is crushing it with releases. Gemini 2.0 is great, […]

Isn't that exactly (part of) what they were saying in the comment you replied to?

> […] building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features
>Are fertility rates expected to dip so low that humans will simply die out?

In most of the western world, they dipped that high decades ago. Anything below 2.1 is sub-replacement. The US is below this (ignoring immigration, it is already shrinking). East Asia is way, way below it. China deliberately forced theirs to 1.0, but can't force it back the other direction. The Japanese population is already shrinking year-over-year. Europe's no better. Only central Africa is above replacement fertility, and they're trending downward sharply.

>Is it that stable/declining populations will cause

Declining populations cause something far worse than war. They cause fertility to drop further. It's a vicious downward spiral.

>It seems to me some of our worst problems would ease up if populations declined a bit.

They decline in a very specific way, where there are far more older people than younger. So the young have to pay more into taxes to support a bunch of old geezers who can't work. Retirement age recedes into the distance faster than you can chase it. The economy falters, infrastructure can't be maintained (let alone built new).
> What you are proposing is that Congress be allowed to abolish its own power, completely destroying the constitution.

Who cares if they had that ability? They wouldn't use it.

And even if they did, it wouldn't violate separation of powers.

And even if they did, they could make a new law that takes it back.

Of all the worries about delegation, this one seems like the least meaningful.
> Do you think we'd be better off if we excluded Musk to hire a native-born American instead in our aerospace industry?

Given where he ended up, probably.

Cheap rockets are nice, but speed-running a complete destruction of public trust, culture, and of any illusion that the country is one with rule of law for the benefit of a few insecure billionaire narcissists is a juice that wasn't worth the squeeze.