skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tic Tac thing is insane. As far as I understand, its evidence was:

- At least two radar systems (boat and then plane) registering it

- At least two IR/thermal imaging systems (the two planes') registering it

- At least four eye-witnesses registering something when looking for it (two people on each plane, seeing something large near the water's surface with the Tic Tac coming out and flying around)

- The ship radar registering it again, later, at a location it told the planes to go as procedure (but the planes didn't see it when they got there)

That's not bad. But here are the two extremes of interpretation:

1. Alien visitors are real, and it was an alien craft

2. By a probabilistic lottery, all of these systems happened to fail at the same time (the radar was defective; the IR was defective; the humans' brains were defective, sharing a hallucination), and there was absolutely nothing

I actually think #2 is likelier than #1, which is pretty hilarious. #1 is such a fantastic assertion, especially with our not seeing aliens in space (leading to the Fermi paradox), firmly outside the bounds of our experience. Extremely unlikely combinations of ordinary things happening (tech failure, hallucinations) is within our experience though.

And with there being room inbetween for "maybe there was a whale surfacing at the same time", "maybe it's elite government tech", etc., I have to err on the alien visitor-skeptic side.
It is a tactic within itself to report on your own operations as "something unidentified that moves in ways we don't understand" just in case it is seen by the naked eye.
My first thought was no no no no no.

But I'm warming up to it. ultimately, if 70 years from now they decide to restore it to its original form, that's always an option. But the original roof is gone, whatever is put there now is modern. I'd rather it be clear what is old and what is new, than trying to pretend the new is old. At least if it can be done well, and if the pictures are accurate, that seems to be the case.
How about whatever they do, wait 100 years before starting construction just to make sure the fashion of 2019 really is as timeless as it will need to be for the next 1000 years. There's no hurry. It took hundreds of years to build the original.
There is definitely something very odd about French culture at the moment, as this has become a left vs. right political issue. As it was burning, I caught a reporter say that they'd overheard people in a case saying "good, let it burn," that "isn't France anymore." I thought this was odd, but has since proven to be emblematic of the prevailing opinion.

“We mustn’t say to ourselves, by dogmatism, that we must absolutely redo the cathedral as it was. We won’t decide to do something modern or something new just for the sake of it."

- French culture minister Franck Riester

Macron himself has decided to hold an architecture competition to redesign something "even more beautiful," which belongs to all of France/the world. Attempting to preserve the cathedral is now actually an explicitly conservative position.

“Before proclaiming ourselves builders, let us recognize first that we are inheritors. Notre-Dame de Paris does not belong to us. We are the first to see it burn: Our only duty is to restore her."

- Right-wing candidate for the Republican Party François-Xavier Bellamy

Now, I'm by no means a traditionalist or conservative, but there is something very off-putting about the attitude of those attempting to reimagine the structure. I think the thing that bothers me the most is that it's just another skin-deep tribalist gesture of identity, that we must visually reimagine a Catholic icon, because it's important that it belong to "everyone, everywhere." But that's precisely the problem, because it already DID. Notre Dame has been a global icon for hundreds and hundreds of years. I'm neither French nor Catholic, and have always been in complete awe of that structure. Who is looking for Angkor Wat to be reimagined in a modern style for the sake of global identity? Nobody, because Angkor Wat is a part of our global identity exactly as it is.

I had a friend share something on Facebook that absolutely blew my mind. It effectively stated that "if you think the Notre Dame burning is bad, you have no idea what Muslims have gone through by seeing ISIS destroying Assyrian artifacts." I thought that this was an absolutely insane position to take. Those Assyrian artifacts were priceless to all of humanity. I am exactly as devastated at the loss of Assyrian artifacts as I am with the burning of the Notre Dame, even more-so because it was done intentionally, but I can't help but feel that the people who are ostensibly attempting to take a globalist perspective are revealing to the rest of us that they have been internally nationalizing cultural achievements this whole time.
For what it's worth, the (initial) mechanism for disabling add-ons (your 1) has been present since before Firefox 1.0. It was designed to quickly deactivate any malicious add-on as soon as it was detected, before it had a chance to do too much damage. In my books, that's a good thing.

Here, the mechanism that kicked in was the protection against add-ons that could have been signed with stolen credentials, which would make them clearly malicious.

Of course, it turns out that the problem was an expired cert, so a bug/human error. But generally speaking, I think that 1 is good.
The other option is a maven plugin that lets you rename packages and then someone posts a list of rules on a StackOverflow question for renaming the new namespaces to the old ones: that way, no JDK distributor is distributing software that understands the old package names.
Duolingo and other apps are fine to build passive vocabulary (the words you can understand) up to some level, but the real issue for me is the lack of a real "speaking" component.

Frequent speaking practice is key to build your active vocabuary (the words you can use). It's also key to build your confidence in using a language.

Shameless plug: that's why we are making an app that really makes you speak: https://en.globers.co/
I sold my startup stake and found out that "nothing is really new anymore" couldn't be further from the truth. Not even any big amount of money. The time I gained helped me more than the money.
Perhaps the biggest 'bang for your buck' would be Javascript or Python. The former because it's everywhere, and the latter because it's almost everywhere and probably more pleasant than the former. And possibly better if you're time-constrained, because you could pick one of the areas where it's a staple.

Either way, both are quite un-windows, and un-corporate, but used all over the place. I'm suggesting them because, as someone who hasn't been part of any 'corporate' ecosystem since Delphi (to the point where even Java is 'too corporate'), I've been meaning to dip into the 'less sexy' world of Java/Delphi/C#/.Net/VB just to find out what it's like.

I'd very much like to hear your thoughts if you decide to check out this side of the fence, so by all means do so and write a blog post about it (or send me an email and perhaps we could write a dual-author post about our respective experiences someday!).
BTW, does anybody know a paper about doing some DB ops directly on disc controllers? The other day my former colleague mentioned that he come across such paper (maybe a blog post?), but we couldn't find it. It's really interesting idea and I believe it's doable, although under very specific circumstances (disc vendor specific, sectors layout aligned to DB needs, etc.).
Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control
Other examples of cards that I made and found useful during my job-hunting process: https://cards.c13u.com/browse[0]

[0] Disclaimer, I made cards.c13u.com for a class project
But is emotion bad? Emotions can be thought of as programmed biases, and we might have evolved them because they are collectively good for the species. Emotion is what caused many of the examples stated in this thread where a human made a better decision than a computer.
Because there is a big nondiscerning market of people looking for dog books.
I have the same experience after rugby matches and open water swimming — my short-term memory is shot for the next few hours, but then it recovers. I have no evidence for the long-term effects.
Just because you're capturing a bunch of data doesn't mean you're parsing it/piping it correctly.

Just ask William Binney, et al, re: 911.
You say the law is intended to target predatory unions but its actual effect targets all unions. The purpose of a system is what it does.
On Linux you should also have the option of disabling the cert signature check. Go into about:config and set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false. Just remember to set it back to true once this is fixed.
I don't know of any particular popular concrete instance, but why is it hard to believe? It's trivial to implement and would be brought to you by the same people who think serving ads for NXDOMAIN is a good idea.

https://www.dnsleaktest.com/what-is-transparent-dns-proxy.ht...
I believe they are called Opel over in EU
I always thought they didn’t eat much grass, they prefer other plants or even the bark off trees before they ate grass.
Nick Cook wrote a book in 2001 entitled The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity. It's notable because Cook was an editor for Jane's Defense Weekly, a legendary and reputable defense publication of the utmost credibility.

A few years ago in a thread similar to this I discussed[0] and dissected[1] the book. My conclusion was that Cook is mistaken, but given incidents like this, and the fact he later uncovered a black UAV program, I always wonder.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957586

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971548
Smart people are curious, hard working people have grit, and decent people have empathy. Where’s the disconnect? You feel like I’m moving the goalposts, I feel like this is just common sense. My apologies if I didn’t make my thoughts more clear.
This is an incredibly uncharitable misreading of what I said. We do have incident communication managers who were working around the clock, of course, communicating through the official channels.

The question is about why someone didn't set the priority setting in the internal Bugzilla sooner. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, that's not really what priority is for: priority is so that engineers on major projects like WebRender know what is most important to work on. It's not an effective tool for emergency responses. P1 doesn't summon on-call people. Second, everyone who was able to get it fixed was already on it. Bugzilla priorities don't make people who wouldn't otherwise be aware aware.

Unlike that of Mozilla, your issue tracker at Google for outages is private and internal-only. One of the many reasons it is private is so that people who don't know the organization's operational processes don't come in and start making incorrect assumptions based on what they find there. I think it's laudable that Mozilla works in the open so much, but comments like this one are some of the downsides of doing so.
If everyone is responsible than no one is.
Not all workers have a union. And the current trend in Hungary is to take away more and more workers rights. A law is quite toothless if it's not implemented that way.

Example for workers rights: Currently unemployed people get benefits for some time and after that the state will employ them (see közmunka) for less than minimum wage. In practice, what happens is that some companies previously employed workers with minimum wage, let them go and re-employed them for a lower wage via the state.
This in turn creates an incentive to keep those workers in this perpetual state, because it's less desirable to employ them directly. (And no, they don't get any more money from the state or anything to match the loss of wage)
"Except S3 storage isn't actually all that cheap anymore. Amazon has literally never changed the price of S3 storage over the last decade even though storage costs have plummeted over the same time period."

I don't think that's true ... we (rsync.net) try to very roughly track (or beat) S3 for our cloud storage pricing and we've had to ratchet pricing down several times as a result.

I don't think we just imagined it ...
what is data engineering to you? You don't need a cloud provider to setup a "cluster". Look at kubernetes where you can run a "cluster" in 1 machine that will have multiple pods/services running.
Regardless of whether any of it is real, it's a win-win for TicTac!
But the point here is not about integrity, confidentiality, or availability. It is about whether you trust Mozilla, and how much trustworthy they are.

A configuration where Mozilla cannot push remote updates is neither more secure nor less secure. Mozilla is often under fire for not allowing a privacy conscious, minimal trust use case.
nowadays they seem to make it a hobby to make negative headlines at least once every quarter. I fear there will be no negative repercussions for the leadership.

Basically, the management set their own salaries, the entire work force gets a 40% yearly bonus, and they have no one from the outside to report to.

On top of all of this, the money flows regardless of what anyone is doing. (While there is a yearly loss of 10% of their users, the past deal with Verizon made them very rich, so they can go like this for years). Revenue has been only going up, despite a loss of absolute users. So this explains why they continue to do bad things even though outside observes can not understand - during the last 5 years losing users did not impact their financials in any meaningful way. While people were complaining and users leaving the product, revenue was increasing.

They do take care of their employees with lots of benefits and other stuff, so as an employee you don't want to risk all that with speaking up against your superior.

Over the years they have created a company culture where there are endless number of small teams doing irrelevant stuff, with absurd hierarchies, with some people doing no work at all. With 16 people in the upper management, there's also fragmentetion of decision making going on. It's all a bit headless.

Due to the complicated hierarchies in the company everyone is content with doing just enough to not make life harder for anyone else - suggest to change things fundamentally and actually work on delivering a great product and you will not get very far.
It can still happen without any central control. Popular culture changes. People generally don't respect churches as much as they used to. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's kids rebelling against their parents and wanting to stamp their mark on the world.
It is, in fact, an "advanced option", in about:config.
> Requests is de facto standard library.

I think a valuable discussion that could come from this is to seek to understand why it’s “de facto” standard library instead of “de jure” standard library.

I’ve heard it said that “the standard library is where popular packages go to die”, and I think that’s very true. I’m very happy that Requests isn’t part of the standard library, because that means that updates - including updates that are extremely important to maintaining the health of the library over time - are possible without an entirely separate release of cPython itself.
Just ignore the surveillance state with millions in concentration camps?
Yes, people are attracted by higher wages, but if you put up barriers preventing them from taking the job, it prevents the market from working.

The article is about a government putting up barriers preventing businesses from hiring workers. This is a regulatory barrier.
Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella?
The frustrating thing is that how comically adverse some places are to training.

One place recently passed on me for an R&D position because I had experience with Torque rather than Slurm. I have a PhD and a bunch of research experience—-it would take maybe an afternoon to figure out how to submit jobs on their system...
Not saying they don't spend big money in advertising. They certainly do, like any other premium brand. However their marketing campaigns alone are nothing extraordinary either. US governments accusation certainly helped - good advertising makes people intrigued, just look at the nationalist comments under Huawei related HN posts and try to read from a non-US POV. Not hard to come to a state that you wonder what the hack is truely going on and what really makes American feel so insecure. There must be something superior in the accused that triggered the action. This is happening as a trend, not just in Huaweis case, but in many topics related to China.
This continues to make no sense. If hypothetically a device could contain something harmful, that content could be downloaded after crossing the border. Even planes have WiFi. There is quite simply no possible way to prevent anything with a device search so why the hell are they doing it!?
Ask HN: Best ML demos/activities for middle schoolers?
This summer I'll be teaching workshops to middle schoolers across the country. What are the most engaging/interesting applications/demos/activities you've seen of machine learning/artificial intelligence that would appeal to kids?
Economics would suggest that it's purely signally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

The idea that people are hired based on skills is obviously laudable, but _how_ does one verify those skills without extensively testing them?

Whereas deep into your carrier, your professional experience can act as a stronger affirmation of your skill, for that first job degrees seem to be the simplest means of signalling your quality. Its obviously going to exclude would-be great employees, but I guess on a cost-benefit level its understandable given that hiring can be a very intensive process for the employer.
What does the word “incentive” mean to you?

People do drive in London, so they have their reasons (however unreasonable they may look to you). And probably “fun” is down on the list.

Unless you think, Berra-style (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/), that nobody drives in London because it’s too congested. But in that case there would be no need for congestion zone charges to de-incentivize something that nobody was doing anyway.
How can you talk about a "lack of respect" when more than a billion euros have been raised within a day to rebuild it?
Might have been better worded about recognizing tradeoffs. But you might be missing the point a little bit. The point is NOT to try to maximize money, but to maximize time. He's very forthright that he's paying more for time; and not being payed hourly for his time.

For example, health is important, but if you're hell-bent on the cheapest living/commute option you might not have time to exercise regularly or spend time with loved-ones etc. Personally, I just went from 20m commute to 2h daily commute; so I'm strongly considering moving closer to work which will be more expensive.

> when you save
The decision should definitely not be made at the expense of healthy saving, but that varies from person to person. E.g., I am currently saving ~40% of my income, so I have plenty of cushion to buy more time.
Japan is supposedly having a wave of popularity written by elderly featuring older protagonists with the target audience being older generations.
Cert check doesn't need to connect to any url to fail. It's just the cert's only expired 20 hours ago, so this issue is currently only affecting approximately 83% of users who happen to be checking at a time of day that has already passed, over the next 4 hours that will go up to 100% (ignoring users who receive a fix before it breaks).
I don't have the grit or ability to learn differential equations or linear algebra by myself. Learning programming is easy compared to learning math or thermodynamics for example. For example, I like to read about stuff like quantum mechanics but I never bothered learning the math. In school I would been forced to learn it which would probably be useful in some contexts.
DNS either has integrity or it doesn’t. We get a response from an Authoritative server and, as a Resolver, we believe our responsibility is to return it. If we start making exceptions because of bad PR, how can you trust us to do the right thing when the stakes are even higher (e.g., nationstate pressure)?

As an aside, I used to think that when Emerson said that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” he meant that we were foolish to try and be consistent. Increasingly I wonder if instead he meant that when you’re trying to reason with people who may not have the same detailed knowledge of a problem as you, there’s an enhanced importance to being consistent. Unfortunately, most policy makers globally don’t have a detailed understanding of how technical systems like DNS work, so we think it’s especially important we be consistent.
I wrote this to scratch my own itch but mostly just for the fun of it and some people ended up using it.

https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy

This was a really simple project but tickled all my fancies: Python, low-level, networking, reverse engineering, system administration.

Just do it! Who cares if people use it?

Alternatively, contribute something to some open source project you use. I’ve done that too. Just small stuff here and there but that’ll guarantee someone uses your code if that’s what’s important to you. It only takes 39 commits to get on this page:

https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors

:-)
Well there isn't really a customer. It's the whole world judging it. The people who actually make a decision won't have a profit motive but are also responsible for satisfying all those general opinionated people everywhere.
dig @carl.archive.is archive.is A +noedns

responds 134.119.220.26

curl http://134.119.220.26 -H 'Host: archive.is' -v

responds with HTML of the site.

I'm not a dig expert, but I believe this means it works without EDNS. I think that means archive.is is specifically blocking Cloudflare's servers, not blocking all non-EDNS requests.
If you can do surya namaskar, it will help in mnay ways

or just do Bhujangasana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhujangasana
DVC: Data and models versioning for ML projects
Do the last bit, but also consider working in some cannabis.
I would argue that says more about the people speaking out in “opposition” than it does about who he really is.
How is this your takeaway from the article? Anyone moderately intelligent is capable of learning most topics traditionally taught in higher education on their own, even if they use the same learning resources that colleges typically do for the topic.

The argument of the article is very clearly that prospective employees should be judged based on skills, not degrees. It doesn't matter if higher education improves. This still holds.
> Why should an employer risk with the education of a worker that may then leave for another company?

The result is the employer retains that employee.