skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about the actual communication here. Does each plane have a satellite uplink or something? If they do, I would expect that they would be configured to use Norways military satellite comms network. I'm not sure how or why that network would be able to contact Lockheed. So are there multiple communications systems? What portion of them are military and what portion, if any, transit the public Internet? Lockheed might own their own communication satellites, I'm not sure, but I really don't think they have carte blanche to use the US military communications networks for their own products. Details might be sensitive or classified so I'll probably just be kept wondering, but the mechanics of the actual physical communication of data aren't clear to me.
Why do you want to know my address?
There is always going to be major flux as new architectures are evolved until they are stable. If this was hidden, there would have been little input from outside Microsoft.

While there have been legitimate problems with this process - for example, the explicit ‘go live’ given by Microsoft before things were truly stable, there was a choice made to develop in public and the net result (sorry) seems positive to me.
Sounds strange, total healthcare spendings in Germany looks like a typical developed country and are much cheaper than USA's:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat...
Perhaps a bit more balanced (both in language use as content-wise) treatment of the same topic can be found at the Ancient History Encyclopedia:

https://www.ancient.eu/Medieval_Hygiene/
This is a really good point too, especially when considered the whole 99% rule or what not. Tech community sites like Hacker News, and web dev sites like Smashing Magazine or CSS Tricks or what not have a large audience of lurkers that keep up to date with everything mentioned there yet don't spend their time posting about it on social media. Hell, I'd say I'm in the same boat there too. Read a lot of these kinds of sites and blog articles, but generally don't talk about 'em online much.

Of course that's not to say being in it for the paycheck is necessarily a bad thing. Not everyone needs to be 'passionate' about their job to do well in it, and if say, my doctor or surgeon is good at what they do, I don't really care if they spend all their free time talking medical issues on social media or posting on Hospital News or what not.
>It may sound like science fiction, but I think we need to replace the web browser with an intelligent agent which can "scan" content for us and only show us what is new, interesting, non-toxic, etc.

Your cure is worse than the disease.

At the moment, I can choose to use AMP or not, can choose to use Javascript or not, and can choose to publish whatever I like to the web, and whomever wants to can read it.

Your solution would appear to require me to only publish static documents which are "new, interesting, non-toxic, etc," under some arbitrary and proprietary guidelines, because that's all people would (or should) be allowed to see.

No thank you. I'd rather have freedom from all of the gatekeepers of web culture, be they FAANG or contrarian hackers.
Is it any easier on any other platform? Genuinely asking.
The problem is that my fellow IT people define "only used internally" to mean "only used by employees" instead of "only useful to someone physically at our office."

Protect your VPN with SSO and then protect your service with the same SSO is incredibly common and perfectly demonstrates, in my view, the stupidity of VPNs.

The VPN added NOTHING to your your authentication or authorization.

If you're going to fully check a users credentials at the VPN where users are in a totally untrusted domain and fully check them again at the service then clearly your internal network is also being considered an untrusted domain -- which I think should be the case -- but then all the VPN does is move users from one untrusted domain to another. Why is the VPN there?

I think offices would actually be more secure if services like this were only accessible externally (doesn't have to be literally, just philosophically no reason to route out and back in your WAN). Instead of connecting to a VPN and having access to the internal network where there's probably a lot of surface area exposed the external only model means that you're only connected to the single service you authenticated to.
We aren’t talking about two IT companies.

Norway and US are allies that’s how Norway is comfortable to host most of its government data on AWS for instance, or to use US made products everywhere. But for obvious reasons there is always a limit when it comes to sensitive data.

I’m sure they do all sorts of intelligent cooperation and data sharing on demand. But we are talking about military and this is not on demand data sharing.

Do you expect US military to accept sharing the same type of data back to its allies for the same reasons? Norway’s military is simply asking for a way to filter these data.

There are data that they never want to share (e.g. secret missions), and there are sensitive data that they want to always filter.
> Criminals could observe people and car movements in entire neighborhoods to better target burglaries and carjackings. The genie is pretty much out of the bottle.

It can't be understated how much impact this, and drones, will have on home invasion crimes. And they will have surveillance ops on standby to help them successfully navigate out of police chases when the need arises.
Seems weird that you have to do it to stay employed. If you're a middle school science teacher for several years, why would they fire you for not getting an additional credential just because you've been in the job for a certain amount of time, when they've been allowing you to do the job without it?
In fact public baths in Europe were closed in a futile attempt to curb contagion during the Great Plague, during the 14th century. From there on, bathing was frown upon as being dangerous and even unhealthy.

For instance in the late 1500, Henri IV from France was writing letters to his prime minister Sully to pray him not to bathe so often (uncommonly for the time, Sully used to have a weekly bath) because it would destroy his health and be a huge loss to France to lose such a valuable man.
People advertise contact lenses as a fashion thing. "No ugly glasses." But the biggest benefit of contact lenses is IMO "no pincushion/barrel distortion". Especially if you need different correction for each eye, it can make a big difference. I think a lot of people who wear glasses don't know you can avoid the distortion with contact lenses.
Interestingly it’s “the 13th Century” there (and in the url).

Probably atlasobscura silently changed(/fixed?) it: https://web.archive.org/web/20160830171522/https://www.atlas... vs https://web.archive.org/web/20160901120029/https://www.atlas...
Thank you for wondering out loud, your thoughts have been noted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM16aiSSpFk A Defense of 24 FPS
I can agree with you. I worked in the company that also use Confluence. The search is a nightmare... also linking of articles and folders, I didn't like that at all.
When Charlemagne went to Rome for his coronation, only maybe 20000 inhabitants remained. To reach the Pope's dwellings, you had to ride for miles across the immense ruins of a former million-people city, a sight that stroke deeply the Franks.
I remember "Verified By Visa" which would send you to a site that looked like it was drawn by a crayon. It shocks me how financial institutions often make web sites that look like a parody of a phishing site. For instance, my credit union had an online banking service which used the name "myvaultsentry.com" which just seemed liked something a high school hacker would think up.

It is strange because operationally Visa is good at what they do, and they put a huge amount of effort and expense into developing a brand, but for legacy organizations (academia too) the web seems to be made of kryptonite.
Yeah, there's definitely an element of unintentional gatekeeping in many communities/fields, especially given how many 'popular' or 'famous' creators only seem to mention other popular or famous creators. Often made worse by their tendency to not look for the original source of an article or news post, and to end up retweeting or sharing the aggregated version from some popular site or creator.
TL;DR - Too sciency, let's include Feminism and inclusion.
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> ...actual "engineers" tend to pick the most boring possible technology to do something. Because it probably works.

That's because decent engineers understand that their job is not tech but business - tech is only a means to an end, and that end is to help business thrive.

I've been in the opposite situation of a bad dev pushing every big-data tech he took a fancy to, and the management not being clue-ful enough to understand where it was leading them. Big data frameworks are expensive in every way, and become heavy negative cost if the data is not big.
My favorite ones are the data science and AI video tutorials (actually meant for kids) @ https://www.Pathway.ai
They are beautiful, grow absolutely huge at maturity, and produce lovely (enormous) bluish-purple flowers. The leaves are comically huge, and the seed casings form a sort of organic baby rattle. It's wild.
Like the ones they just announced?
If Sweden can develop fighter airplanes, why can’t Norway?
Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)
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I would have to disagree, because there's a logical fallacy in your reasoning here. I agree with your point that in addition to fixing a bug, there's also the need to test, document, take account of maintainability, performance and coding standards and to do a lot more work that isn't quite so visible. And some of that burden is pushed onto the reviewers, testers and integrators of that work.

However, none of this is a justification for making the contribution process baroque and opaque.

I have noticed over the last 20 years or so that as a general rule the bigger the project, and the more closed the development process, the more baroque and opaque the contribution process is. Larger projects with more management layers seem to accrete unnecessary complexity and process, and generally behave in a more insular manner than smaller projects. I don't think things have to be this way. But I do think that keeping the processes simple, accessible and visible is important and that projects need to spend some effort upon keeping their projects open to external contributions. It's all too easy to adopt processes which work internally but deter and confound external contributions, and I think that should be something which project managers should be aware of and try to avoid doing out of short-term convenience.
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Worse, some of these 'creators' did not actually create the software they pretend to have created.

Usually they control the conference circuit by donations and are able to de-platform people who would tell the truth.

It always pays off to look at the git history, which few people do.
I give you one advice that can save you a lot of time and the effort. Find the business partner who understands Sales. You are developer which is great, but you wouldn't want to invest your time to learn the Sales. And you can bet it would take a time.
Some good coverage on DVD-RAM & caddys from technology connections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecH3OU0R4ls [DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxt5A0KJ9nw [Early CD-ROM Drives: Why Did They Require a Caddy?]
Blockchain: What the Hell Is a Merkle Tree?
It looks like it's back up! It's working for me now.
There are lots of good solutions and ideas for solving these problems, my concern is our ability to implementing them well, quickly, at human scale, is another thing all together.
The Building an Indie Business Podcast – How I Learn New Skills
Sure, but in the case that the "simple trick" didn't work and someone end up with something catastrophic (e.g. missed fracture that resulted in chronic disability), who do you think they sue? Yes, the guy who tried to do right by you by saving you money. In medicine, no good deed goes unpunished.
It's silly to say that the person who spent decades scheming his way to to the top that list at the expenses of an entire industry, is not "seeing the value in that competition”. He just mellowed out when he got old and his wife convinced him.
Individual trees don’t need that much space or even light. You regularly see them planted in sidewalks for example.

Further, they evolved to grow in forests when even small openings showed up in the canopy.
One thing I recall reading about actual totalitarian police states is that, sure, there's a cost imposed by the existence of the state itself, but that the lion's share of the problems caused by the system were due to bad actors, of which there were legion, but all of them had top-down supervision, meaning they couldn't just run around causing problems, the integrity of the system had to be preserved.

The people had no power, but the actual people with power had an interest in maintaining order. Things mostly sucked, but at least the 'trains ran on time', i.e. people could learn to understand and operate within the system.

Rule of law and liberal democracy ultimately means that the bad actors in society have bottom-up supervision to go along with the top-down. Bad actors aren't just watched by the police anymore, and it's not just the police that has the capacity to watch or decide who a bad actor is. And the federalism of power means that power bases spring up that are ultimately more powerful than the government when they pool their weight.

It was never about rights or privacy. It was always about who gets to decide what rules a society lives by. If the police are acquiring more power, then the people can acquire surveillance tools themselves so they can watch the watchers.

Bad cops think that body cameras are harshing their mellow? Just think what happens when some froggy judge decides to rule that it's nigh time police departments need to make their every official act available and searchable.

I bet they'll be jumping at the bit to start wanting to properly define universal privacy rights then.
You don’t have that in the US???
The Tragedy of UCS-2
Sweden and Switzerland don't fly Eurofighter jets. They are also not members of NATO so I'm not surprised that they can only get NATO IFF codes under restrictions.

No idea what is going on with Austria.

EDIT: Austria isn't a member of NATO.
Early Animal Evolution: A Morphologist's View (review article)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190638
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The whole marketing aspect behind AMP is that its fast. This is the narrative that has sucked most publishers in. It is also not true (to the degree you think).

I run a leaderboard of major news publishes (mostly English language based ones). It relies on WebPageTest.org and tests about 60+ articles pages nightly on 3G and 'Fast 3G' speeds. The myth that you cannot have a fast web page AND have ads on it is a myth. Several organizations do it and do it well (DotDash dominates the board with their sites).

https://webperf.xyz/

Before I hit API limits on WPT I was also testing against the AMP version of the page too. The speed differences between the regular page load and the AMP page load was often very similar. I recall in some cases (Quartz, Guardian, NYT) that regular pages loaded faster than AMP.

That aside, assuming a regular web page took 10 seconds to load (a top 10 article) you would expect that the AMP page would be faster, say down to 2 or 3 seconds in Load Time in order to make the effort of having yet another template/format to support and to justify the effort to re-implement analytics, pay-wall, and ads?

Very often it was the a saving of only a second or two. It all adds up, but as someone who works with resource strapped publishes thats not worth the resources. Thats especially true when I could have spent all that time optimizing our regular pages instead of this other project.

Why do people think AMP is faster? Pre-caching by Google.

The thing is Google (IMHO) could pre-cache regular web pages too. They don't. They don't even issue guidelines on how to make your site cache friendly, they insist on this whole specification/implementation and insist on hosting it remotely and create all sorts of barriers.
Precisely speaking "dryness" cannot be normally distributed to begin with as it is a value on a finite interval.
And yet many fully computer-generated movies today are converted to 3D in post, rather than being created in 3D in the first place. For CGI movies, doing 3D at creation time gives better results and requires zero human labor (it's just a translation of the camera's matrix), so why isn't it always done?
Guessing the implication being that Google is ultimately not "free" w/ respect to your personal data and how it is used.
Is the article actually suggesting that the brain subconsciously detects the frame rate, and then "frames" the movie to match the perceived medium? High frame rate means TV implies soap opera, low frame rate means film implies more serious, weighty content? Or am I completely misunderstanding what this "soap opera" effect is?
Some context for this paper:

https://nicholaswpapageorge.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/its-bette...
> But wow, it would be a very different scene.

Yeah, it would be a civil war with orders of magnitude more dead.

I don't understand the American fascination with guns. When have they ever been useful against the government?
AI and Neuroscience: A virtuous circle (2018)
With different definition of deployed for each constellation; Galileo has been down for weeks recently.
> but what Hong Kong would be like right now if all citizens hard arms?

The chinese are slowly removing democratic institutions away from the people. The people are rising up to protect them without guns.

Democratic norms are slowly being eroded from the US as well. Extreme gerrymandering, electoral college / popular vote, overt foreign interference, requested foreign interference, voting irregularities, voter purges, voting machine irregularities, a complicit senate, out of control corporate funding / ownership / bribery of politicians.

What are the people with guns doing? Nothing. In some cases cheering it on with claims of "if your side tries anything we are armed and ready".

Does having an armed population really protect the people from the government? Does it protect a democracy? does it protect the constituion? Or is more likely they become a paramilitary wing of a corrupt government? Just look around the world and see what happens in other countries with a heavily armed population? Then tend to form groups to have power, slowly becoming war lords, which the politicians then use a power source to keep the population in check.

Maybe an armed population made sense a few hundred years ago (maybe not though), but am going to have to see some working out to show it is still relevant today before being believed as an unquestionable truth. Some examples would be good. And before everyone shouts SWITZERLAND SWITZERLAND. If you are comparing the US population to Switzerland, I think you have more homework todo as all that shows you, there is a lot more to it than just having guns.
If America went to shit enough that people needed to take up arms to protect themselves against the government, around half of the people with guns would be on the side of the government. It would not be a battle of the people vs the state, it would be half of the people against the other half, but with only one side getting military backing (unless the miltary itself also split).
I'll quote some of Abe Dillon's comment on that video:

> This is an industry insider telling you, "No. More FPS is not more better. Adherence to 24 FPS is a deliberate choice by film makers themselves."

> Go check out a video on Adam Savage's Tested channel about kit bashing (entitled "Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Kit-Bashing and Scratch-Building!"). Listen to how he describes working with styrene. How much he loves the medium because "it hides a ton of crimes" and "there's lots of forgiveness within the process". It's kind-of the same with film. Higher FPS tends to look cheap and is less forgiving. The medium starts to work against you instead of with you. It's harder to pull off tricks like the pho-long-shot church fight in Kingsman: The Secret Service or Birdman.

In other words, they can't make 60 fps look good enough. I guess the only hope for us is some sort of deep learning motion interpolation post processing that some day might be able to generate almost perfect missing frames.
Done.

amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/spec/amphtml/
Are we paying for these codes in Sweden? Would be quite interested to learn more about this.
65,000 ft is above their jurisdiction.
The only way a protest with guns is different from a normal protest is if you're willing to use those guns. And using them usually doesn't end well for protesters more than anyone.
California: Bees drop dead around 5G towers
Depends on the success metric. If you look at the cost of the tech churn to the businesses that have to spend much more than before to achieve similar results as before, then it is not positive result to anyone but tech providers, and (young) developers that are needed to redevelop. I wonder how much will businesses tolerate this if promised efficiency gains do not materialize for most of them.
Given the current state of mobile data offering across the globe (how limited and expensive the offer is), I wouldn’t worry too much about 5G yet.
Brazil deforestation row: Space research head Galvão out