skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>- UK refusal to fire on the craft is absurd because rubber bullets, simunitions, and less-than-lethal rounds are more than capable of destabilizing the hull and structure of the craft... while inflicting no damage on distant landed craft or personnel. (I wouldn't expect HN to know this, tbh)

I think the only naive person here is you.

Firstly rubber bullets like those used for crowd control are fired form either a special barrel break or from a 40mm underbarell attachment (grenade launcher).

These are disks made out of steel covered with a thick layer of rubber and they are inaccurate as fuck, you will not hit a man sized target even at 50 yards with them yet alone a drone.

The other option is various shotgun polymer slugs which have a slightly better accuracy but still hitting a drone size target is nearly impossible.

You’re best bet is birdshot it then again you are limited with range.

However you still have the issue that the police isn’t trained nor equipped to fire at drones and until they can be achieved they have no option.

And even if you train those policemen to effectively hit drones those drones aren’t easily accessible and fly out of reach.

The previous incident last week which also shutdown the airport had a drone at 10,000 feet, but even a few 100’s of feet would put the drone outside of the range of anything that you could plausibly use at an airport.

That said since these drones only have a short loitering time and even if they are shot down the police still needs to investigate and clear the area to ensure that there are not other drones and to collect any evidence and statements you don’t gain anything by shooting them down the airspace would still be locked down for just as long.

So when your decision is to try to shoot drones you likely can’t hit to cut their loitering time by 5-10 min at best while potentially endangering the field or people or to wait for them to fly back to their owner in the hopes of catching them it’s not a hard decision at all and doesn’t show any level of incompetence on the behalf of the British police.

P.S. in every case effectively the shutdown came after the drones have left the area already, they are only there for a few minutes the airport is huge by the time the police can even get close they are gone but then order is then issued to ensure that there are no more drones in the area.

Unless we will start putting on phalanx installations every couple of 100’s or yards around the perimeter of the airport there is no kinetic way to shoot these things down.
You should make a parent comment out of this because this puts the whole thing in a new light
>It ruined the safe guard of using the time tested tool of fact checking and having credible sources of information

The same fact-checking that got Nixon and buried McGovern, or elected Raegan twice, or George Bush of CIA and Iran-Contra fame, or the war mongering Clinton and Bush Jr., or the more-of-the-same Obama?
These are just the ones that come to mind right now: oakland county, providence, dupage, king, fairfax, essex, norfolk, san bernardino, los angeles, orange, spokane, sedgwick, sonoma, fresno, queens, cook, wayne, almeda, sacramento, san francisco, oklahoma... Don’t ask why these are the ones that come to mind, but I would bet I know 70-80% from books and movies, the rest from news articles.
>> On Disbelieving Atrocities

>> Arthur Koestler (Jan. 1944)

I wondered if the author is the Arthur Koestler, but Wikipedia tells me he was born in 1905, so if I read the following sentence correctly (i.e. meaning that the writer is 62 at the time of writing, in 1944), then the piece was written by another author of the same name, because the best-known Arthur Koestler was 39 in 1944:

>> "I know" that, the average statistical age being about 65, I may reasonably expect to live no more than another 2.7 years, (...)

And yet, a cursory search on the internet suggests the well-known Arthur Koestler was, indeed the writer of the piece. What gives?
If a company like IBM or Amazon were to adopt slack, would that potentially require Slack to ban things? Both have government contracts, and could potentially export sensitive software to Iran this way accidentally.
It is far from clear, which is why I am pointing out that some folklorists think it does not come from folk tradition.

Regarding Basile, see long argument starting from page 75 in this book: http://www.academia.edu/19594654/A_FAIRY_TALE_NEW_HISTORY_Ru...

Chapter 4:

The Two Inventors of Fairy Tale Tradition

Giambattista Basile (1634–1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)
Scientists Find a Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression
Not sure I agree entirely. A guy with a shotgun in a helicopter could of done it, both of which were available at Gatwick. The shot looses velocity quite rapidly so wouldn't do much damage on the ground. I guess you'd have to hope the drone didn't land on anything much.

Londoners mostly got though the Blitz ok with a million houses destroyed or damaged by bombs. We can handle the risk of a crappy drone crashing in someones garden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#No_collapse_of_moral...
Sadly lot of leaders have led their nation to genocide and suppresion of minority cultures. Hitler was not unique even in that aspect. US had a pretty genocidal tendency towards native americans, for example.

What was unique in Nazi germany was the industrialized efficiency with which the horror of genocide was implemented. IBM:s machines played a no small part in that.

The nation of Goethe and Beethoven plunged into a total inhuman batshit insanity. Another horrible aspect of this was the ease people could go on with it - "just doing my duty and following orders". Some people did the final horror of killing, but the precursor to that was the industrial labour and logistical planning of getting the people to the slaughterhouse. The system that funneled people to their doom was absolutely chilling in it's efficiency. And it could have happened everywhere as well.
https://github.com/bitwarden/web/issues/303#issuecomment-446...
I don't really understand the lesson behind "Control the agenda" or "Be the agent of chaos".

> Use these underlying power dynamics to control the agenda

How did Stalin do this, exactly? What topic did he fight to avoid?

> If you’ve ever been an A student in a group project with a C student (or vice versa), you know this game.

Know what game?
It was a cosmetic, not a security-critical bug, so there's really no reason why it needed to be released right away.

Also "a few days" was just a guess. I noticed that it was a problem, then I noticed a few days later that the fix had been release. I don't actually know exactly how long it took to release the fix after it was committed.
> the native Japanese will eventually cease to exist

Uh, what?

After a generation, those immigrants will have children who are Japanese. Their native home will be Japan.

If your point is about ethnicity, then I don't see what the problem is. It's also ridiculous to suggest that Japanese ethnicity will cease to exist. Sure, you'd see more race mixing, but again, how is that a problem?

The US still has native American ethnicity, and that's pretty much as extreme as immigration gets - any modern immigration system is never going to have that level of disparity.

The quality of life for young people is not good in Japanese society right now, sounds like your motivation is more about preserving some notion of racial "purity" than anything that actually matters.
Pilecki was one tough dude. I always thought he got in, looked around and quickly left. But his biography describes how he participated in camp life for more than 2 years like other prisoners and with the same risk to his life.

This guy was a true hero.
>In that light, I wager many Americans would know quite a few. Norway, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Ireland surely would make the majority? Maybe even Belgium. Are we still allowed to say UK?

As names (if that). Try having them pinpoint them on a map, or say anything intelligent about them.
Goodbye to iPhone 7 and 8 in Germany
Trying to think about this some.

If the Moon was actually a giant mirror-lens thing that was the size of the Moon, but perfectly shaped to reflect and concentrate sunlight shining on it into as small an area as possible on the Earth's surface, you'd start a fire with that very easily. Probably turn a county-sized area of the crust into lava or something actually.

On the other hand, if the Moon was a perfect reflector, but a big sphere/hemisphere pointed at the sun, then it would receive a lot of high-energy radiation, but reflect it back out in every direction all over the universe. I'm not sure of the math for that offhand, but it sounds difficult to concentrate it back to something even as concentrated as direct sunlight. I suppose it would involve considering the fraction of the total solid angle the reflecting area of the Moon would shine at. Even the entire Earth's surface would be a really tiny fraction of that area, so sounds impossible to concentrate things back to fire-starting intensity.

Assuming these scenarios are basically right, then the actual Moon is a lot closer to the second than the first. So starting a fire isn't practical with any lens system you could build on Earth. Maybe you could build some massive mega-lens thing in space near the moon that concentrated enough of it back on the Earth to be near-sunlight brightness. Or just set up a more manageable sized reflector on the Moon itself, or in space, to reflect sunlight in a more concentrated way to a small area on the Earth.
I'm not saying this would have worked at Gatwick because I was not on the ground there, but GPS can be "spoofed" locally for specific vehicles.

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/features/humphreysspoofing
All is calm, all is bright
The "next generation" saves its own money and uses it as it likes, or rather indebts itself even further than the current. It's not necessary that the next generation will lead to a greater good. And regardless, most people will have children because that's just what animals do, mostly regardless of political considerations.
Sanctions aren't about stopping people who are up to no good. They're supposed to hurt the country as a whole, which mostly means hurting the innocent. The idea is that this will incentivize the country to stop doing the thing it's being sanctioned for.
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libgit2 has a "linking excemption", which is probably the only reason why Github can use it, so that's a bad example, because it isn't really GPL (it's more like LGPL).

Shipping bash as a part of macOS is not what I had in mind. (and it's funny, because macOS ships an ancient version of bash, because they don't want to touch GPL3...)

As for Amazon RDS, I thought that was SaaS? So they don't "ship" it either...

I mean the whole purpose of GPL is to make using it with closed source difficult / impossible.

And in practice, apart from the big Open Source projects, GPL is used a lot by people who don't want to give away their code for free, they just want to get people to pay for a commercial license. Which is odd, because it feels like it is totally against the spirit of the free software movement.
>It was the intervention of Twitter and 4chan.

The author has lost the plot.

>It's pretty apparent that the reason Trump won wasn't Russian intervention (note the extremely Second Wave nature of the explanation: nations playing at geopolitics).

Ah yes, a nation pouring an immense amount of resources into propaganda targeting a specific subsection of american society and having close contact with the currently elected administration definitely wasn't the reason they got elected.

Let's Correct the Record (don't spritz all over your keyboard HN):

Russia abused Twitter/Facebook. But Twitter and Facebook aren't _the_ reason he got elected though. Facebook and the like are useful tools because you can post anything and have it reach a large, "odd"/targeted audience. But without that audience, without that sounding board, the information is nothing. Facebook and Twitter, and all the other social media platforms have significant design flaws with their raison d'etre: the spread of information across some social graph.

Assuming that the social graph is comprised of rational actors is a question that keeps getting begged in these discussions. There is no evidence for this being the case and all the evidence against that assumption. So we should correct for it. Just like the existing media platforms do (well, with the exception of one notable media giant who loves abusing that fact who's had a hand in creating the absurd situation we find ourselves in today).

We need to fix the problems we know about. That's all. It wouldn't hurt to remember why the media is structured the way it currently is (or was). In any system that gets re-implemented, there is always a duplication of efforts and lessons learned. These New Media systems will be no different.

The U.S. had a useful law for dealing with the problems of "today." And it's sad to say we've basically created problems where there never needed to be. Time to re implement the Fairness Doctrine -- across the board.

>But the core of the "brain-force economy" is politically retarded - it has a low political IQ and has not achieved political self-consciousness. The old smokestack barons and trade union leaders who dominated during the second wave are still running rings around you guys in Washington."

It's not so much as a new wave, but a new class of citizens who desperately need to become actively engaged in the political process. And understanding that the systems they're creating has lead to new power structures and information conduits, and with power comes responsibility. A responsibility to ensure the consumers of their platform are not unduly influenced by incorrect, false, and misleading information (Facebook tried doing this but was lambasted by the right, can't imagine why). A responsibility to support good governance and to support policies that provide a continued foundation for a functioning, healthy, productive, peaceful society.

The situation we're in isn't a technological problem. It's a social one.
The this I refer to is "the principle of etendue"

Great principle. I agree with it, and think that most of the people offering objections here do as well. Our question is whether it's it's being applied correctly in this case. For me, the sticking point is whether surface temperature can be used as a proxy for the brightness we care about.

BTW, what's your obsession with Munroe?

I have none. He's a great explainer, probably occasionally gets details wrong, and (so far as I can tell) is a positive force for spreading scientific understanding. My "obsession" seems to be that I have poor tolerance for overly broad smackdowns of critics. If you are going to tell someone else that they are wrong (as opposed to Munroe who is trying to explain what he believes is true) I think you have a higher obligation to get all the details right. I presume I'm sensitive to it because I'm often on the receiving end.

How about you? Why does it bother you so much that some people say that Munroe's argument is logically flawed?
>I don't see how the internet has made Spencer any more relevant than the Nazis Geraldo used to have on his show in the 80s.

Talk shows are a controlled medium. The "nazis" that appeared on them were usually actors hired to make a TV show. The few real "nazis" they conned into appearing on the shows were heavily censored and the TV audience only got to hear the parts of what they had to say that the producers wanted them to hear. The internet allows them to bypass the editors and censors and have their words heard directly. This is a very big difference to people who are afraid of those words, so they want to stop it.
Have you tried Meson? It's also a breath of fresh air after CMake, but while Bazel is a "corporate" build system (wants to take everything over, assumes one consistent environment), Meson is a "very Unix" build system, it aims for portability, configurability and reproducibility.
IDK at some point you should be investing in a sippy-cup
What percentage of people outside the US will know the name or location of more than a few US states? I'd bet it's extraordinarily low. I'd bet less than 1% of the world's adult population can name more than six US states. My experience has been, educated people I know from Europe struggle to do a lot better than that. Point them out on a map? Forget about it beyond the obvious or famous ones like California, Florida, Alaska (near Russia), Hawaii (island), Texas (they know it's big and in the middle), maybe NY, and a select few others. US states have the population and economies of European nations. Americans are unfairly criticized for supposedly not being able to name or locate a lot of other countries. The rest of the world can't name or locate US states either. Why? Because it doesn't matter to their lives. A few of my friends from Romania didn't know where Crimea was, because it wasn't something that mattered to them previously until the conflict. Ask someone from Bulgaria or Belarus which state is Alabama, they generally won't know because it doesn't make much sense for them to learn that.
Only accuracy.
The mirror test for animals reflects the limits of human cognition – Quartz
Please, HN has infested itself with wrongthink. They don't care about the rules anymore, they just blindly downvote anything (or in the cases of the admins, just hellban you.)

Paul Graham is probably the most incompetent discussion site admin I've ever come across, and the rules currently set in place just reinforce that.
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> Kochanek–Bartels spline

YMMV, but the problem I have is that it generally makes ugly shapes unless you are very skilled/practiced with it and very careful about twiddling parameters, because the control parameters are based on the implementation details of the mathematical tool rather than directly on features of human perception.

There’s basically a mismatch between human-centered goals and the mathematical model of those.

As an analogy, you might think of it like trying to learn how to dance vs. learning how to make a puppet dance by manipulating a control bar with your fingers to pull on its strings. The latter involves more indirection, which makes it harder for novices to get approximately their desired result.

For anyone unfamiliar with this tool, see the image in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochanek%E2%80%93Bartels_splin...
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Smells like chicken.
It's not a narrative, it's a forecast. It reflects a belief that divinely inspired human intelligence will win over evil. MLK was an activist, not a historian. If justice was the same as history, we wouldn't have a word for justice.
We did not set out to evaluate every single password management product. We set out to evaluate the products which where enough "in the ballpark" of what our company needed that there was a chance we would end up using them.

There was never any chance that we would use a product which required every user to set up their own cross-device synchronization. Turnkey synchronization across devices as a first-class feature is a hard requirement for us.

Also, as far as I can tell, Enpass doesn't support sharing credentials between users, another hard requirement for us.

The family of password managers like KeePass and Enpass have their place, but they aren't good solutions to password management for businesses.
Cannot wireless carriers just install keyboard monitoring trojans to capture and/or block your messages before they even get into Signal ?
>that the presence of hate-spewing and minority-oppressing fascists is not wanted.

But the bulk of the people being targeted are none of those things. What the average person is seeing is that anyone who dares to state a fact that far left ideologues don't like gets attacked and called racist. And if twitter doesn't censor them, twitter gets attacked too, and called "a haven for white supremacists and nazis". In reality, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are wanted, it is only a small group of vocal objectors that insist they are unwanted.

>The fascists are free to find other platforms, no one is censoring them.

The former does not support the latter. People moving to an uncensored platform does not mean the censored platform is not censored.
They're actually different people in most cases. It's just that you probably lump everyone together that is far from you on the political spectrum. Don't worry, most people do the same as you, and in the process nuance is lost and stupid decisions are made.
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If you're having nihilistic thoughts, Notes from the Underground is a must. Idiot is good if you have a Jesus complex. :)
> It is very difficult and often impossible to pop someone else's bubble, so we should all work hard on popping our own.

Huh? they won't listen to reason, so I should do what, exactly?
The article is from SCMP, a newspaper in Hong Kong. It's unclear what the source of the information is and it's very unlikely that the SCMP has the same information that the FBI has (as stated in the affidavit [1], the evidence in the affidavit "is intended to show merely that there is sufficient probable cause for the requested warrant").

As the Department of Justice statement [2] says:

> A criminal complaint is merely an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

There will be a court case where the FBI will lay out all the evidence they have and the jury will decide whether or not the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that he is guilty.

The court case has not happened yet so it doesn't make sense to jump to conclusions without hearing the evidence first.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1122851/downl...
[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-comm...
Good call. Well, if humans ever happen to create such a simulator themselves, will they effectively become God?
Also: Estados Unidos Mexicanos
It seems to me that yourself miss a couple of points:

- the drones were flying high. Show me any sharpshooter that can shot down a highly agile and impredictible target at 200m high. Clay pigeons are shot at 60m on a very predictable trajectory, and even that requires a lot of skill and training.

- drones flying on preprogrammed path are impossible to intercept electronically, with the exception of GPS spoofing. Even that is difficult, never mind deploying GPS spoofers around the airport

- it would make the airplane operations impossible, so can't fly while the GPS spoofers are running, and when they're not running, there is drone flying

- the complexity of keeping drones in the air for long times (replacing batteries, field repairs, having spare parts) is not to be underestimated. This suggests a planned operation
Free speech (expression is not in the Constitution) is not predicated on consent. If sex is a protected act of expression, than so is any kind of physical assault.
Cool trick :)
This is also the current level of so badly named AI (IF/ELSE)
The same fact-checking system that got Nixon impeached, that revealed the Iran contra controversy, and the one that lead to one of the largest protests against a war in American history (the Iraq war protests).

You took events that transpired and then placed the blame on the system that allowed us to correct for these events in the first place (or at least attempt to). I'm sorry your criteria for a functioning and healthy media system is one that A) Never makes mistakes B) Can preemptively stop government officials from doing bad things.

I'd be interested to see you expound on the statements you made.
This has been reposted multiple times - - is there any danger of trojans or other nasties since this website based in China ?