skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole story is complete nonsense. First off, if the US military was in possession of such technology they would NEVER submit a patent for it. Why would they publish the technology to enable others (foreign governments and entities) to easily copy it? The US Government doesn't need to protect themselves from not being able to use the technology if it was real anyways. The federal government of the United States has the "right to use patented inventions without permission"[1].

So yeah, perhaps someone working for the Navy wants to try to patent it so they can make some money from the technology. Well, it is very likely such technology would be top secret classified and any individuals working on it would find themselves in deep trouble for publishing anything, including patents, related to their work.

If this story is true, at least the part about some patent trying to explain the UFO's that have been in the news more of late then it is likely a psyops piece/work and/or is a means to try to quell concerns that there are in fact extraterrestrials visiting earth or things the U.S. government (and others) can't explain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_...
When I was at school, the fights were either behind the school building or sometimes in front of it, but usually not inside. So installing microphones and cameras inside won't change anything. The bully will just say to a student: "Let's talk after school, if you are not a chicken".
If the manager does evaluations based on others opinions. Run don't walk
This is 1000% wrong.

You wrote: "We can cancel this contract and quit paying you money at any time."

That is an incorrect statement. The link below tells you how a DoD contract can be canceled.

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfar...

If you meet your SoW, you will get paid. The FAR is very, very clear on this issue.

1) All of my resources are committed to the gov and I am not an idiot.

2) This is simply not true. It doesn't matter what flavor of contract you have: time and materials, cost plus fixed fee, etc. You have milestones and deliverables that are defined by your SoW. If you don't meet the milestones, you will not get paid. There is no incentive to "do nothing and wait for the last month of the contract"

3) This is an especially idiotic statement. These are called ECPs, which are a contract mod, which if there are enough of, the contract can get re-competited. Adding ECPs is a very, very bad idea.

You clearly have no idea what you are posting about wrt to gov contracts

Source: I own a small R&D company that works for the DoD and IC
His sentence was very light.

That you have consequences to crime outside the judicial system... again, is something everyone has.

It applies the same to the guy selling a little weed on the side who loses his day job when he gets busted as it does to the CIO who does a little insider trading on the side and loses his day job when busted. Everyone loses their job when busted. Especially when the crime is related to betraying the hand that feeds you.

There's absolutely zero reason to bring up the loss of job as punishment, unless you are trying to subtly defend the sentencing without actually having to take up that position explicitly with clear arguments.
If the fundamentals aren't there, then prospective homebuyers can simply keep renting and saving while they wait for the market to rationalize. You wouldn't want to be a long term buyer in a market that you believe is experiencing a speculative bubble. The people locking you out of it are (perversely) doing you a favor, by saving you from being one of their "greater fools."

I suspect that capping supply in the face of immense demand is what makes urban housing such a great investment. If we allowed enough supply growth to make urban housing markets underperform equity markets (while still rising!) much of that capital would lose interest. You speculate on things that are going up, after all.
Or just use digits of pi; most people have at least 10 digits memorized, some have 20+ memorized. There's also a formula you can memorize for calculating the nth digit of pi, so you have infinite random numbers without memorizing an esoteric algorithm with a bazillion corner cases.

That said, I still thought this was an interesting article and I loved the animated bar graphs.
As far as I can tell it simply kills larger cells like bacteria and deactivates plant/fungus spores. It is not cooking the food.

I would not think it could do much, beyond maybe introducing more micro-plastics (the deck mentioned vacuum packaging food before being pressurized).
You're still conflating two things: what gets decided at a federal level, and how. How big that category is doesn't matter. It's utterly irrelevant. What matters is that, when those decision points do occur, letting the minority prevail would be worse.

> I find most democratic decisions illegitimate

Ah, the political equivalent of solipsism. Sorry, but this isn't the forum to address such fundamental fallacies. Hard pass.
I work with DICOM pretty regularly and it's cool to see new implementations of parsers popping up. I've recently been toying with an implementation in rust with a goal of eventually compiling to web assembly. I've not learned golang but exploring this implementation is a fun experience since having recently been digging into the dicom standard.
The article dismisses the various theories ("Illuminati", etc) about the film by pointing out that powerful people in fact have fairly sordid affairs rather than satanic/black mass/ritualistic events.

It's worth pointing out that Sydney Pollack's character uses this same exact argument in the film (in the billiard scene). "We fucked her brains out, the end." Clearly, that was not what was happening in the movie, and that wasn't the point of the movie either.

The article mentions Jeff Bezos, but they might have mentioned Jeffrey Epstein instead. For instance.
L.L. Bean makes most of their stuff in Maine.
Not so with Nintendo. I think I read somewhere that "if the game isn't fun with circles and squares, all the graphics in the world won't make it fun." Or something to that effect.
Firesign Theatre had fun with a routine about "breaking" an animatronic president. As the president crashes, he mutters stuff from PDP-10 jargon. "uh, Clem" is from earlier in the routine, where the park visitors were asked to say their names.

Firesign Theatre - The Breaking of the President (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5x2xBa8p0A
I mean, pretty much everything that you can compare is similar in some respects and different in others.

Of course I don't think there is no difference between a stock buyback and a fine; that would be stupid.
I don't think the dictionary definition is useful here. A market can be "free" while granting inordinate decision making power over the population to a few people - the opposite of a democracy. The prices can be here or there, but the relationship between people is what matters. Who has power and who decides how to use it?
0-9: Look at the second hand on your watch, what is the last digit?

odd/even or heads/tails: is the seconds odd or even?
A non-CA startup once tried to get me to sign a non compete for an internship. It would have forced me to resign a position at the university that was the reason they wanted to hire me in the first place. I pointed that out, and they immediately escalated to the founder, and replaced the internship contract. The old one was boilerplate that they cut and pasted from some other document.

They were pretty apologetic, actually.
It's still an unsolved problem whether or not the digits of pi are uniformly distributed.
Most people have at least 10 digits memorized? That is one bold claim
MarIQ – Q-Learning Neural Network for Mario Kart [video]
Simulating Hacker News inter arrival times with the flip of a coin
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life by Perlmutter

I have a theory that fad diets like keto, paleo, primal blueprint, low fodmap, whole 30 (of which there are numerous people claiming they have major improvements) really work because they influence the gut biome.
Depends where the private island is. There's definitely people with private islands in the Broughton archipelago, and other areas in between Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast/BC Mainland, where the assessed value of the small island + home is less than a dumpy old 2BD house in East Vancouver.

If I had $1.25m in a bank account right now I could go write a check for a crappy early 1970s vintage Vancouver Special, on a narrow lot somewhere off Fraser Street in east van, or for a 3000 sq ft craft built house on a private island with its own off grid power system. Not talking about places with their own airstrip. Islands small enough to be accessible by boat or floatplane only.
I do not care to argue the consequences of stock buybacks, because I was just referring to a commonly held opinion, not endorsing it. If you want to dispute how it works, could you please not frame it as a vague argument with me.
I wish they used regex literals.
Even though we don't have long term experience the way we do with cooking, the description of the process on Wikipedia seems to suggest that it doesn't have much in the way of chemical effects on food. I'm definitely not an expert, and this is just an initial take, but I don't really see any mechanisms that could plausibly be dangerous.

In order to illustrate what I mean by a way that something could plausibly be dangerous: My understanding is that the molecules in most plastics contain chemicals that are known to be harmful. So even if we determine that it is not possible for them to break down into harmful chemicals in the body, it was plausible that they might.

Am I maybe missing some what that this process could be harmful?
It's great for some specific cases, but it's not great if you have fixed costs to pay.
We can measure what it does. We can examine the inputs as well as the outputs.

Why are anti-science arguments from emotion/fear so common around new types of food technology? What is it about food specifically that triggers what appears to be a deep-seated fear of change in people?
Just try it out for yourself. Analyze the distribution of the first billion digits and I think you'll find they will produce a more uniform distribution than this algorithm in the article given 1 billion human responses...
Consumption based taxes are regressive and spare the wealthy who spend more on financial products, real estate, and businesses than on consumer goods.

If someone is so desperate for medical care that they'll leave their own country to come here, let's just give it to them. We're willing to "share democracy" through trillions in military spending, but this would be purely good thing. There's plenty of money to go around here.
Exactly the kind of reason that a game like factorio can be wildly popular, it's not pretty by any means, but it does what it does very well
I meant here on Hacker News. I would guess most of us here played with our TI-83s enough to know the first 10
It'd also be fair to say *BSD development is more centralized ("cathedral-like" to borrow from ESRs 1990s work) and that may have some repercussions in development speed.
Minus someone or in this case everyone looking over your shoulder the entire time while doing something that's pretty much never been done before. I don't care where you work, this is impressive.
I'm not sure that most people have memorized the first 10 digits of Pi. I know 3 for certain, any more than that and I can look them up.
Thanks for the response.

It’s primary because it’s easier and more natural.

I’m worried about seeming “unprofessional” or to a lesser extend unorthodox so I’m looking for examples and guidance.
There is a simpler solution if you do not mind leaving entropy on the table. Break the people up into groups of two without regard for their selection. If two people provide the same number, ignore them. Otherwise, output "0" if the first person's number is smaller then the second, and output "1" if the first person's number is larger.

From this, you have a sequence of uniformly random bits, from which you can construct a uniformly random number between 1 and 10. A simple way (although, again, likely leaving entropy on the table) is to break these bits into groups of 4; interperate them as 4 bit unsigned integers, and discard any result that is not in the range 1-10.
Small correction -- members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (of which I am one) don't have to give up on caffeine. There were some people who taught and practiced that, but that is largely in the past.

Even BYU, the church-owned school, now sells fully-caffeinated Coke on campus. This was a fairly recent development.

As well, members are encouraged to avoid any media that includes sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise negative content -- not only avoiding R-rated movies. The church teaches that people should be careful about their media choices and consume media that enlightens or edifies, not just entertains. Active members of the church definitely vary in how they interpret that, of course.

I do love your point about sacrificing some things and getting a community in return. I work as a software engineer and at the age of 25 I already have two kids. My wife and I definitely sacrifice for them, but I hope we can build a loving family that will give us social returns that are lifelong. Growing up, I had a large network of cousins and siblings that were closer to me than friends were. I know much of this is because of the influence of the church.

It is also true that being a member gives you a network of people -- people are always around to help you move in and out, they're always there every Sunday, etc. Members are assigned "ministers", two people who check up on them, are officially assigned to love them, and report back to the leadership of each ward (congregation) regularly about any problems the people they minister to may have. All this in addition to the friendships that naturally form with people you see once a week.

Sacrificing alcohol, swearing, and other things -- tithing, Sundays, a two year-mission -- seems like a small trade in comparison for the creation of relationships with people who love you and who you love in return.
The reason "no one gets fired for buying IBM" is because big players (IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc) are known quantities (so you don't need to answer questions around "why would you choose that fly-by-night company, you must have some financial interest!") and critically, if something goes wrong they're big enough to sue.

If you pick a small company and something goes wrong, they might go out of business and leave you with nothing. If they stay in business, you might try to sue them but the company isn't worth enough to make a lawsuit worthwhile. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc, they're big enough to sue. Which is kind of an insurance policy against something going wrong in the contract.
Looks like it only applies to products which do not affect national security.

>At the request of our High Tech companies, and President Xi, I agreed to allow Chinese company Huawei to buy product from them which will not impact our National Security.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11450977744023429...
Particularly if your talking about a quasi-adademic PGP community.
> won’t pay market prices for them

“Market Prices” are what the market pays (ie. what the customer thinks it is worth). I think you might be confusing it with “suggested retail price” which is what companies think their product is worth.

The customers are the "market"! So the price they pay is literally the market price!
Fun little fact: you can fit pretty much exactly all the planets in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. More precisely, the eccentricity of the Moon’s orbit is small, about 5.5%. The sum of the diameters of all the planets is a number in the interval between the lowest and highest distance between Moon and Earth, i.e. between 363k km and 405k km.
My memory of construction sites in urban Texas about 15 years ago, was that the day laborers I worked with were very nearly all African-American, and it was the skilled workers constructing the high rises who were Spanish speaking. No idea if that was representative or just the neighborhood or if it is different these days. I imagine that there is more grueling work though than cleaning up rebar and junk so I don't know what it says about stamina.
I bet that has sample bias as there’s a small amount of choice in when they reply
pleroma (and i think maybe mastodon) provide media proxy that i think work for youtube. so when one person shares a video, one instance serves it to all the other users
this will not help much as some google products use IPs (4 and 6) directly too.
I wonder how many people on HN have even seen a TI-83, I don’t think I’ve seen one since I sold mine when I finished the Danish equivalent of high school in 99. I mean, they were apparently discontinued in 2004, that’s 15 years ago.
I'd say it's fair to call the transit situation at Tegel inconvenient. You have to figure out what bus to get on, buy a ticket, haul your luggage onto a bus, haul it off, get off the bus, then walk outside and down to the subway platform. This takes 20 minutes and is uncomfortable. If the U7 went to Tegel as was planned, you'd just take the escalator to the subway platform and get on in the direction towards the city.

If you take a taxi or rent a car to Tegel, it's extremely convenient.
Well, if you put private data in your bucket and make the bucket public, that's what will happen.

A more accurate title is that this firm leaked the data, not S3 itself.
I find Google Container to be an excellent plugin to segregate my Google account from the rest of my browsing. It's not an official plugin from Mozilla, but it is forked from the Facebook container plugin.
Show HN: Gaia – AI to help create procedural quests
For a while I've been thinking about a Agent that can be interacted with during the game. This interaction could be a simple dialog or a quest. This project I'm working on aims to help the game designer to create dynamic and procedural quest or dialogues, once the Agent has some information about itself to answer the player (it's name, it's age, what it's doing...).

Please read the README, take a look at the example and see if this project is somewhat helpful.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/gaia
The long run effects of adoption on personality attributes and IQ is indistinguishable from zero. People are as like their biological siblings whether they ever meet them or not, and as like their adoptive siblings as any random stranger. Outside major abuse and genetic contributions parents have limited effects on adult outcomes.

If the worst parents working more does to children is a less happy childhood on average that’s a hard choice to condemn. Normal people send their children to child warehousing facilities where they’re taught to sit down, shut up and do as they’re told while subjected to busywork, boredom, ranking and the ennui of meaninglessness for over a decade instead of letting them grow and play and they don’t get judged much for it.
Overriding and Implementing Loops in Jenkins X Pipelines
Kubrick films often have amazing optical illusions of the "once you see it, you can't unsee it" form. In EWS, it's the mask on the pillow. Watch the film enough and you'll suddenly realize what Bill really sees when he walks in that room: he sees his wife sleeping with another man (the mask is the other man). Somehow the way the wife and the mask are positioned, you can "see" the entire outline of the other man, even though he's nothing but a mask. And now, you'll never see Eyes Wide Shut as the same movie ever again :)
Where would you use the functionality of converting DICOM into protocol buffers?
Wouldn't it be the sorry saps who buy real Rolexes putting themselves in debt? The guys buying fake ones are the smart ones, getting status without paying the full price.
> If you don't want to prioritise your kids over your job... don't have kids.

Having kids while prioritizing job over direct care and attention to them has been an accepted (and often expected) pattern for men for centuries. (And for much of that time for upper and often middle class [0] women, too, though their primary vocations weren't “jobs” in the usual sense.)

Should it be surprising or any worse that when women are sole or co-equal breadwinners, that the same is often true of women with jobs?

[0] “middle class” in the sense of the petit bourgeoisie, not the other common modern American usage, where it refers to the middle income segment which is almost entirely within the working class.
Can someone who upvoted this explain why? I'm physical having difficulty reading the googlebooks blurry text (and zooming isn't doing enough to mitigate that) and would love to know why this made it to the front page.

Is there maybe a copy of this text on a plain webpage anywhere that I can read instead?
I am not the CEO of Boeing. Why do you think I care if he is executed or imprisoned? I'm just saying that it's impossible to extract the value that someone destroys by being a bad leader, from that leader, because shit that breaks is usually far too big.

If it was possible to get good results by executing executives who fail, wouldn't it follow that some country would have already tried it and been eating our lunch by now? Wait a second, there is a country that comes to mind...
Thank you for the kind words! Re the book form: it is a possibility once I'm done writing the series. And thanks for taking the time to read the articles.
Wouldn’t that mean fertility drugs were probably involved? Anyways, I guess he really likes kids, which is a bit surprising.
What is "shitty" about this schedule?

It focuses on keeping employees longer, which is the main goal of this vesting schedule in the first place.
> Ideally we want to preserve as much of the initial distribution (i.e. do as little chopping and changing) as possible.

I was thinking through the post that this sounds like a straightforward problem and it is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5953133/86433

Except the introduction of an "ideally" optimization condition turns it from a straightforward transform into something requiring a linear programming solver. I wonder if the resultant algorithm is actually any simpler though...
they didn't mention it because if they did, they would need to be a member of the openid foundation and pay the 15k$.
Except this presentation explicitly states that they don't really know what it does to proteins, only that the changes are "complex".

And you can turn your argument around. Why everytime "science" is involved, the immediate presumption is that it's safe, especially when it's done for profit and when we know you can pay to get whatever "science" you want. Remember the many studies funded by the food industry that showed that sugar is perfectly safe and that fat is the dangerous thing?
Like many things, it's a product of reviewing a lot of materiel and researching what other folks write on a subject.

In some senses, it's all trivia if you're not making movies, but it can be fun.

There are plenty of textbooks out on the subject, and about any college textbook can give you an overview of the technical stuff and the general history.

Personally, I've read a lot about film criticism and made some movies. Both taught me a lot. I was writing a book for a PhD in literature that focused heavily on film as literature, and took a bunch of graduate classes discussing it. I also made a lot of short films and worked on other peoples' films as well.

Both of those paths can teach you a whole lot about film, depending on what you're interested in.

But that's no different than any other thing that people might know about. I know a lot about web-oriented programming tools, because I have to do it every day. It's just the product of reading a lot of books and daily practical application.

Film just has fewer obvious daily practical applications.