skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the "learning progress bar", I implemented something vaguely similar in software that I wrote awhile ago[1], although it was within the context of a single set of tasks, not for multiple sets over time.

IIRC, the length of time each discreet operation takes is measured, and as the queue of operations is processed, the software keeps track of the minimum, maximum, average, and median time to complete an operation. I played around with various ways of using that to generate an estimate for the remaining operations to complete. I think I settled on taking the larger of the median and average, using that as value A, using the maximum as value B, multiplying both A and B by the number of remaining operations, then dividing both by the number of processing threads, and giving the estimate as "about [A]-[B] remaining."

One could do that in a GUI with a "fuzzy progress bar", or one with 2-3 coloured segments or something (one for worst-case estimate, one for average/median, and one for minimum).

[1] https://www.beneaththewaves.net/Software/The_Mirrors_Surface...
Pretty funny though that google couldn’t recognize its own name as well as the other engine!
> So now now I am a reluctant Android user, because I find it only slightly less invasive than iOS.

That's surprising, I'd say Android is many times more invasive than iOS. iOS tends to lean towards on-device features where Android will happily send excessive amounts of your data to their servers to make "neat" features work.
the really sad being that with all the talks of AI taking over humanity a seemingly a simple task of reading printed text is so far behind..seems ML/AI has many years to really make big leaps.
That, or had some cannonicalization algorithm/lookup table on top of the model. Should be able to attempt to map them to roman characters if wanted.
>being in a group of people who are all in it together."

All in what together?

Groups need goals, some sense of purpose..
It's not a question of being "elite" although based on known intel I think they are, But a question of organization and resources government backed teams exhibit. Even a team of noobs if backed by a government can at least rent botnets and have backup plans to adopt to quickly.
Could've been an insect in the camera.
I'm more curious to know what percentage of Netflix subscribers are reliant upon a cable-based ISP (Comcast, WoW, etc) for their service.
I don't think that's what they are. It's merely one of the things they're used for.
My brother is in the Navy, and lots of his friends are pilots.. those guys are jokesters, and I could absolutely see them pulling a prank along the lines of "oh my, thats a UFO! oh, its a smudge of cream cheese on the display."
Excellent, thank you for this research! So the correct headline would be more like,

> BWM sells 28,040 electric cars, plus ~72,000 hybrids in sales year.
I'll answer here but it's relevant to most comments I got.
True, we can have friendships which are not in meatspace as someone said here. And it's also true that even people you don't meet much could be meaningful friends.
It's also true that Facebook presents it's self as a social network for connecting with our friends and this.might be seen as a failure in that respect.
All that said, Facebook is a product, as a user you have the responsibility to use it wisely considering it's obvious limititations (i.e. nothing is perfect).
If we consider we (the users) and Facebook to be in a customer-provider relationship , then they failed. But not morally, just professionaly, meaning, they provided a not perfect product.
I just dont think we as users are Facebook's customers, we are the product.
Even if we were, I still think the overall responsibility for our relationship with our friends is ours.
I think what irked me the most was the use of this Facebook-algorithms-hurts-society template when it really isn't appropriate. No algorithms wouldn't change the outcome of this event. Without Facebook OP would still don't know about her friend's condition in real time,ormaybe at all.
Usually this template is used to show effects of Facebook's algorithms on society that would never have happened if not for it's algorithms tuned for profit.
If anything, this mindset that finds blame in Facebook s algorithms for an unfortunate but non novel event, is a much more interesting social effect.
Meaning, the total natural delgation of responsibility to a company that uses you as product is pretty mind-blowing.
Sure, if your profit margins were 50% on EU revenues, it wouldn’t be a big deal to pay 2% of the max fine. Or if your startup doesn’t have revenues, you could get off scot free.

But most profitable businesses are going to have profit margins in the 10-20% range, and that fine is considerable. And if the EU applies it to the last 5 years revenues, they could wipe out a years profit.

For example, Apple probably has close to $100B in annual EU revenue, $2B is a huge incentive to invest in doing this right. But if your EU business is $1M, $20,000 is probably a fraction of your cost of implementation.

The law would have been far better if it specifically limited fine levels by size of company. IE < 1M in sales, 1M to 10M, 10M-100M, 100M-1B, 1B+.
For those interested in other "legitimate" UFO sightings, I'd recommend "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" by Leslie Kean [1]. The author is an investigative journalist who sets out to interview observers of relatively well-documented UFO encounters, and ends up speaking mostly with military pilots from around the world. It's a good read, and is even-handed and well written, especially considering the genre.

In the book, two things stood out to me. First, there are a quite a few UFO sightings that are corroborated by non-human sensor data (mostly radar and video). Second, the narrative paints a picture where US government officials are much more secretive than any other nation, by far. Within that context, the releases of the last few weeks are even more surprising.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in a modern, not-too-X-files-like take on UFO phenomena.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8287034-ufos
As a native mobile dev, I found myself unable to adopt it because I need and/or want direct access to the native platform capabilities, most especially when it comes to building GUIs. Write-once tends not to work so well when users are able to tell behavior, framerate, appearance, … differences in a split second and when optimal UX was my purpose in writing mobile apps in the first place. In the same way, learn-once is more of a marketing term than a reality, since platforms implicitly differ.
You can make a good argument that before agriculture, people lived in a "steady state" hunter gatherer society for at least hundreds of thousands of years, to which they were extremely well adapted adapted evolutionarily.

Let's repeat that because it's important and counterintuitive: Those conditions were ideal for us because our species changed to fit the conditions.

What's happened since is a crazy rollercoaster ride of life conditions changin much faster than evolution has any chance of keeping up with, and premodern society in the sense of preindustrial can in no way be presumed to be ideal.
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Others have said this but it's probably worth re-iterating. When the military call something a UFO, they mean it literally. It's an unidentified flying object i.e. an object moving through the air that they can't identify.

It's a popular culture thing that this term is used to mean "of extraterrestrial origin".

So, is it a UFO? Absolutely, pretty much by definition until someone identifies it.

Is it of extraterrestrial origin? Almost definitely not. It just doesn't make sense that there are aliens hurtling around and occasionally buzzing rural folk in Alabama, and the occasional fighter pilot, for larks. They might be doing that but it's much more likely that they're not.

This is, of course, entirely unrelated to the question of whether or not there is extraterrestrial life (probably) and extraterrestrial civilisation (no idea).
I’m open minded to what you’re saying, and I agree that dismissing alien contact due to popular zeitgeist is silly.

But here’s my problem with what you’re saying: where did they come from then, and how did they get here? Why do we not have any evidence of their planet in any reasonable distance from Earth? Given what we understand about modern physics, we have three conclusions we can arrive at:

1. We fundamentally misunderstand physics, in particular the central concept that the speed of light is a hard speed limit on motion, and aliens are capable of arriving here faster than light,

2. The aliens have technology capable of arriving here from so distant a home world that they are either inconceivably long lived or else their entire society existed on a transport vessel for generations and generations,

3. Sightings of UFO are examples of popular hysteria, and aliens are not, and have never been anywhere near Earth.

Given the available evidence, Occam’s Razor suggests #3. I understand that reports from distributed and disconnected sources can be encouraging, but realistically speaking it still presents insufficiently extraordinary evidence to me to abandon possibility #3.
> ...there are still plenty of bugs...

Yeah, well, that sounds like incomplete to me. Will it beat GNU Hurd to market?

Perl 6 shipped so anything's possible.
It always seems like this before the big dawn. Rev-share is a decently big carrot. ;-)
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I have mixed feelings about that.

On the one hand, I agree that Apple nixing flash support on iOS seemed manipulative, unnecessary, and disingenuous at the time. It's part of a pattern of behavior from Apple I greatly dislike (unnecessarily failing to support standards under claims that doing so is superior--I say this as someone who happily owns Apple devices, as well as other companies'). It seemed premature.

On the other hand, the demise of Flash seemed obvious in the long run, with all the other standards and alternatives that were developing, and problems with the platform that never seemed to be addressed well. It seems like there's been a number of pieces out there lately eulogizing Flash, and although I understand its appeal, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for the idea that its demise was unanticipated. Even if Apple hadn't disabled Flash, the same outcome probably would have occurred. It just would have happened more gradually, with a more natural transition (which is important and why I have mixed feelings about all of this).
Literally yes, but when the UFO hunters go out, there's a fairly implicit 'Alien' in front, or at least 'Secret military'.

But seeing as this is from the military, it makes it more implicit that it's alien.
Tools like Flash made it easy for beginners to make a giant mess. Tools like React and Angular make it easy for experts to make a giant mess.
I have done a few flash to HTML5 conversions without source code, and the method I've gone with is just to use the flash as a guide and write the HTML5 app from scratch. You end up with cleaner, more maintainable code that way than if you were to throw it into a converter and try to sort out what comes out, and it can end up taking the same amount of time as trying to fix whatever the converter came up with in the end. Do you have any links to the flash products? Might be worth putting what you have in a GitHub repo and see who can contribute. Maybe try https://www.codetriage.com/ as well. If you end up doing either, let me know and I'll try to help :)
Sure, when the service and games are decommissioned it would make sense. But Konami is still churning these games out every 9 months to a year.
I’m surprised by these results being so poor because many of these reading tasks are so easy for human readers. And it seems so much more straightforward than stuff like face recognition and self driving cars!
That is why Haxe and OpenFl are getting so much attention and using flash develop. http://www.flashdevelop.org/

It basically just an open source alternative to Flash at this point.
Could also be a genuine error like a fly on the lens or a bug in the viewfinder software.
> Peel back the social conditioning and reconsider the likelihood of this given all the reports.

Well, for starters, it would require an extraordinary number of people to keep such a secret [1], so not really as probable as you may think. But it's still fun to think about.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/math-formula-charts-the...
One way to make yourself feel superior to others is to adopt a level of pedantry that only you yourself can meet your own standard. If you then assume everyone around you is ignorant you are not as smart as you think.

git porcelain is a CLI. I am well aware that it is only a subset of git's CLI.
Yeah, and that's exactly my point. Okay, I'll act like an owner. Make me an owner.
> I'm sure Congress has seen the original, and it's pretty startling that they still think the object is a legit UFO

This is just conjecture though. Its pretty difficult for us to have a meaningful discussion about whether Congresses reaction is noteworthy without knowing for sure what they did or didn't see.

Based on what we have to work with, I'm not seeing anything noteworthy here besides some ATC/pilot folks conversation looking at a black smudge on a grainy sky. I guess unless we got to see the original video, its impossible to tell, really.

> They intentionally degrade the quality of to avoid giving competitors data.

Do we know this for sure? Is there a source for that?
I like your solution, but indeed, this is not feasible if your want all your friends and your grand ma to leave WA :)

I'd also suggest Riot/Matrix along those lines.
I don't see how it maximizes competitiveness. Even in a perfectly split district, the primary generally has to play towards the base, and it's easier to get more members of your base to vote than to convert someone from the other party. The bipartisan attempt to neutralize other parties helps with that, it's easier for a Republican to turn a Libertarian voter to their side than a Democrat voter.
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There's nothing that's not physically possible here, just bottlenecked by G forces limitations on human passengers. Given the fact that drone technology testing was extremely popular at the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just experimental drone testing.
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Going 80 mph in a 30-mph-limited curve is the immediate cause of the disaster.

Apparently positive train control (PTC) was installed for that track, and would have prevented the disaster -- but it was not enabled. That gets us one step closer to a root cause.
>This article bugs me because they don't clearly identify the author. There is a Doug Pearson...

In the article, the author's name at the top is actually a link to a short bio[1] which seems like it has enough information to identify him.

[1]https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/DougPearson/1021383/
Aka, BPD? Can you elaborate?
I would suggest taking a look at the Purism Librem 5. Not because of whatever its own software stack will end up being, but because it'll help provide a basis for developing more FOSS software for phones. HiDPI support in Linux became polished and viable shortly after a couple of companies arranged for desktop developers to get a few of the first-generation Chromebook Pixel devices, with a 2560x1440 screen. And similarly, I expect support for the mobile touch experience and phone capabilities to drastically improve when developers have a device to work with.
That's a thermal camera, so I'm a little bit doubtful it's a bug, plus there were apparently multiple witnesses and computers there.
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There is a very deep soviet science-fiction novel by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic. It is relatively unknown in western world, which is very sad since in Russia it is considered one of the pinnacles of Soviet-Russian science fiction works. The plot is as follows:

One day, several strange zones appeared in the world, on a line that extends to a star Deneb. The brave 'stalkers' found all sorts of strange and miraculous objects there - artefacts (some people will remember a popular russian game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with similar things): they can kill and they can cure, but what we do know that the civilization that left them exists on an unfathomable scientific level to us and we can not even start to comprehend them, these objects are like magic to us.

And these strange zones, these strange objects were just a waste to this civilization. They just traveled through the cosmos and did not even notice us when they dumped them, like we, humans, do not notice ants that crawl under our feet while we take a picnic near a road.
A problem is not everyone wants to wait half an hour for every charge on a long distance trip. If I'm driving 12 hours, I want to get to my destination with minimal interruption. Having to wait 30+ minutes for each of the 2+ refuelings would be a pain and add a considerable amount of time to the already lengthy trip. I'd avoid that pain point if that's the choice.
EU is one of my best hopes when it comes to privacy and really wish they start going after tech behemoths. I have given up on US authorities doing anything to reign them in. And policies in other significant countries (eg. China) would be even worse for user privacy.
These videos make clear a suggestion I've seen elsewhere:

Put security cameras at ground level, facing up. Perps are almost always hooded or hatted.

Side note, does anyone know how effective it is to shame, through the media, local law enforcement into actually acting on surveillance videos like these? It boggles my mind that LE, presented with video evidence and an identity, would decline to press charges.
If we grant that they need PCT, and it is installed but not enabled on this track, who is to blame?
That's only yet another reason to try and spin off a more user-friendly web, and burn the current thing to the ground.
"Don't start, or acquire, anything new. Instead, find the value in what you already own or what you’ve already started.

Improve skills rather than learning new ones. Consume media you’ve already stockpiled instead of acquiring more."
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It seems his examples include logos and such. Some of those services could be tuned for OCRing books and documents, which should be the bulk of OCR use cases in commercial applications. Since there's usually a trade-off between flexibility vs. accuracy, I wouldn't be surprised to see inverted results w/ a different dataset. Might be worth doing the test.
This is much, much more than a credit score, and it is disingenuous to claim otherwise.

FTA:

“Friends matter, too. The fifth category is interpersonal relationships. What does their choice of online friends and their interactions say about the person being assessed? Sharing what Sesame Credit refers to as "positive energy" online, nice messages about the government or how well the country's economy is doing, will make your score go up.”
I really think where Haxe is going for Web development will actually fill this place. The game engines like Godot and unity have made game development easy for beginners. I think With WebAssembly we will have higher level languages that will make web development easier for people starting.

https://haxe.org/use-cases/web/
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Is the revision opt in (express permission required, by default you do not agree)? Or is it opt out (by default you agree, unless you expressly refuse)?

In the U.S. terms of service are usually the latter. You'll get a notification of revised terms, and you can refuse. But as a consequence every company I'm aware of will then terminate service. Examples include insurance, banks, and (perhaps infamously) iTunes which had more revisions than the average number of needles on a pine tree.

Yes you can send them a note saying you do not agree to their new terms, and they'll send you a note your account is closed.
While this argument is valid and fine, I think it has mostly played out. Previous language design choices that consciously ignored multithreading were made in the mid-late 90s when the future of consumer SMP was unclear. Now it is clear that multi-core is and will be an important component in everything -- we have quad-core phones, dual-core cameras, etc.

While an application may be fine without good/native support for parallelism in most cases, it's really nice to be using a language that allows you to bolt it on easily when it turns out that you _do_ need it. At this point, it's a language feature that's not worth leaving on the table without compelling rationale.

Arguably, the class of high-level dynamic languages that were on the rise in the mid-00s (Python, Ruby) lost a lot of steam to newcomers like Swift and Go due to the language designers' hesitation around embracing parallelism. Crystal should not repeat that mistake.
exactly..Google is doing a decent job but others are really poor.
My only issue with this - and I can’t figure a way out - is that this was a program launched in secrecy, funded with soft money, officially shut down five years ago but by all accounts has continued to operate in the dark... yet we get all this info, military videos, and more from individuals that participated in said program all in public and without extreme anonymity, etc such that would be typical in such a case.

I just don’t see why if we had a “confirmed” ufo sighting on military video that was a product of such a program, would we really discussing this in such a manner?
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I believe with France's current laws, and the incoming EU GDPR, you must provide the opt-out as the same manner as the agreement was made.

If that means you clicked an "I agree" button, then you must be able to easily find a page where you click, "I no longer agree".
I don't disagree but there needs to be a balance at some point - if there hasn't been one before where the four-acre ranches used to sit why can't there be one now? Surely someone should be able to notice that adding more condominiums downtown and near-downtown isn't going to help the city's traffic and congestion go away?
Things do change, but they must change for the better - not for the worse...and not only for locals - people who are moving in will notice it and that will de-value Austin's USPs ( incl. the cool city vibe)
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> No congressional district can span more than 1 partial city and/or county.

State legislatures control the definition of administrative subdivisions of the state just as much as they do Congressional districts, so that rule does nothing. A state that is really committed to gerrymandering will just move city and county lines when it redistricts.

A smarter but still corrupt state legislature that wants to gerrymander without disrupting functional local government will make “city” and “county” names of ceremonial subdivisions used for limited purposes, so that redrawing their lines doesn't have much practical effect, and adopt a different set of subdivisions with overlapping lines for most functional local government purposes (“urbanizations” and “parishes”, perhaps.)
There are additional reasonable explanations. Unknown rare physical phenomena for example Ball lightning.
Just to be clear, you’re talking about GUIs for applications rather than games?