skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, people will see what they want to see. I just asked out of curiosity. I don't care to be validated as an experiencer or as a skeptic. I happen to live on this planet and saw something strange that my knowledge of nature or astronomy could not explain. I don't know what I saw, I'm gonna leave it at that. My original question has been answered, other people in this community have seen 'odd moving orbs' and no one knows what they are.
something something smallest uninteresting number...
I work for a startup in DC, we have 6 random holidays in august because people weren't taking enough vacation -- I guess that's an anti-pattern with unlimited PTO ;).

There are good eggs in the US. People overwhelmingly write to complain on the Internet.
Various system-on-a-chip devices with built-in TLS/CDMA support have been available for years. The only reason TVs/etc still ask for local WiFi access is using the cellular networks requires negotiating some sort of contract. Left unregulated, they will eventually move to cellular. we already see this happening with cars; cheaper devices are only a matter of time.
Do you have the ad supported version?
That's impossible due to the way assymetric encryption works. It would help to indicate to the user, and maybe allow searching/grouping by certificate hash to transcend domain names
Or just configure your WiFi to use something like AdGuard (https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html) and then every device that connects to your WiFi will block ads.

I have a Sony TV that I absolutely love but the built in Android TV will have a row of ads on the main screen. I configured my WiFi to use AdGuard DNS and now they have just disappeared. The Android TV is bit faster too.
Based on playing your game, it seems you need to sync:

4 bits per object - Reload / capacity status (This is mostly visual for other player's ships)

2 bits - number of people manning module

Damage (4 bit?)

Location (x y), current orders (move, direction, orbit) per Ship

For bullets:

Bullet / missile location, velocity / goal.

Most ships have 20-200 modules? So one packet (~400 bytes) per ship? Plus a "Ship came into visual range" packet with ship layout data.

All the little people, treat them like a client-side effect. Completely predicted for other people's ships. Run the same logic on both based on the network synced capacity status.

Either change your model to predict X time to move resource from A .. B (carried by a person) or have each client claim time spent. It is highly unlikely that a player will observe another player's ship and say "But that person just carried X to Y but the levels didn't move!" So it's a case of each client saying "My ship's module's levels (based on crew) are currently XYZ" and the server / other client going "Hmmm, yep, seems feasible. OK"

It can be done, it's not impossible. Just work - it's a design choice.

I would argue that as long as the ship (as a whole) is controllable but still fully customizable people won't worry about faithful sync of other player's ships. And they will only care about accurate people in the ONE ship they are currently editing (fully zoomed in, no roof).
Yeah and in the car video on https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/, they have the car driving on the wrong side of a barricade on a bus only lane. :(
Don't worry, Switzerland is still attractive for many reasons as a stable, competitive, well connected financial center.

I think a lot of people don't realize that bank account privacy is just 1 of 20 distinctive qualities of Swiss institutions and regulatory structure.

Switzerland is attractive because its not just shell companies and PO boxes, compared to other nations that try to offer similar nominal regulations. Instead it has a vibrant regulatory system with competition amongst each state and no expensive federal government. As an example Google pays the same as it does in Silicon Valley, with employees being only subject state level tax. The state of Zug is a fintech hub with an income tax rate of 7%. Territorial only. The Swiss franc is currently pegged 1:1 with USD, having ditched Euro peg almost 5 years ago.

The regulators and public sector representatives are very accessible because everything happens at the sparsely populated state level, and they all operate under the swiss brand which includes access to the global financial system.

Switzerland is better thought of as a loose collection of sovereign states with a small national government. The concept may seem familiar but recognize how small all of Switzerland is and that has factored into why the national government never grew arbitrarily large to maintain cohesion and assume its own intrusive identity, and why direct representation has been possible there for almost 200 years (they did represenative democracy before that, like the US, but figured out how to remove it since the flaws were obvious and they're smaller)

Outside of finance and regulatory structure, Americans may also find the vibrant gun culture and visible military to be refreshing and familiar. A stark contrast to the ideals and vocal opinions that neighboring Europeans would have about guns as soon as they find out you're American, possibly unaware of what Switzerland offers and has offered for a very long time.
You'd definitely lose that bet.
> technical beauty is not the only metric measured by businesses.

technical beauty is not the only^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M a metric measured by businesses.
That or it could be sending only a fingerprint (still a privacy issue, but less severe)
>At the age of 18, it was: 1) make $50k a year doing something I’ve been doing for ten years every day, know how to do well and love

Many self-taught developers in the industry share this story. They didn't go to college, but they did invest thousands of hours into learning before entering the job market. Very different story than your typical bootcamp/udemy student, or a typical college freshman for that matter.
It feels dishonest to me honestly. Snopes has had some fact checking mistakes that they have silently deleted. I wish publications would own up to it when they make a mistake. Retractions are dying, instead stories just get 404ed.

This reminds of when Salon published an article which was criticized for being too sympathetic to pedophilia, and when called out on it, simply deleted it and pretended they never published it. Salon has since started actively thwarting archiving services.

[1]: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/833835031328124928
I've never understood why people make this argument, or what they think it proves.

Yes, the term "neo-nazi" is sometimes misapplied. That misapplication doesn't mean that neo-nazis don't exist, or that the term has no meaning. If the term didn't have an established, commonly agreed upon meaning that referred to a specific ideology and movement in the real world, then there would be no reason to quibble about its misuse, because calling someone a neo-nazi would be as meaningless as calling them a flarndingle.
You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigating takes a bit to load.

The top couple percent of T-Mobile USA users use over 50GB of data a month, mostly on unlimited plans without hard throttles. An "unlimited" plan that hard throttles at 22GB of usage is decietful given this context, hence all other carriers not using hard throttles on Unlimited plans.

All 4 major US carriers would brand this plan as a 22GB plan with no overages.
Yes, I'd say so. I'm gonna accept it as a mystery and leave it at that. It's not of critical importance for me to find out what I saw to be honest, I'm just curious about it.
The truly evil people are those who are completely convinced they have the moral high ground when nothing could be further from the truth. You, for example.
It doesn't have to, the fact it observes communication without due process violates the constitution. Full stop.
This phenomenon is the Rust Evangelism Strike Force (same as/similar to rust jerk?).

I like rust. I think it may be able to obsolete many/most uses of C some day. But I will concede that folks go overboard w this sometimes.
More prisoners means more jobs for prison guards which means negotiating leverage for higher pay, better working conditions, and better job security. If there were significantly fewer prisoners, there would be layoffs of prison guards, which would very much be against the interests of the union.
Yeah, I watched Spider-Man:Far From Home as well.

Seriously though, the pilots reported visual sighting as well. Projecting a hologram is one thing, projecting one while flying at 800km/hr is another.
Use adblock on your router.
There were two of them next to each other. Is that common at all?

Does 'formation flying' involve craft flying around in random non-linear fashion?

There was a bunch of us and we discussed it for awhile, aircraft is the first thing we jumped to...
I've heard about this before. Which manufacturer? Although I'm never buying a smart TV, it's interesting to maintain a mental blacklist of vendors.
I really enjoyed this account of the technical aspects of LIGO

The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves – Rana Adhikari of LIGO

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-challenges-of-mea...
Non content information is content. Meta data can be used as a serious invasion of privacy. This semantic dance violates the spirit of the law.
Is the iPhone 11 Pro Worth It?
"There probably was a real object -- since one was sighted but it was a drone with the advanced jamming equipment (that they didn't want to accidentally get shot down)."
https://youtu.be/MMiKyfd6hA0
> Reddit is just as much of a profit driven company as Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure why you’d think otherwise.

Because, among other things, they don't show annoying ad formats and don't demand real names and phone numbers from their users.
> There were two of them next to each other. Is that common at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_flying

That you're asking that question really makes it hard to credit the claim that you successfully ruled out "all the logical possibilities".

edit: You edited in some additional, so:

> Does 'formation flying' involve craft flying around in random non-linear fashion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfight

A distantly seen dogfight at night would involve afterburners (bright lights! and they'd wink on/off during maneuvering, when they're turned on/off, or when the plane turns to face towards you instead of away from you) and rapid random non-linear movements as described.
"Let Google Fi enhance your network. Get more privacy and more security. Your mobile and Wi-Fi data is sent through Google Fi's Virtual Private Network (VPN). Get fewer connection interruptions by automatically connecting to mobile data when Wi-Fi is poor. appears in the status bar when the VPN is active. The Google Fi VPN increases data usage by about 10%. You can turn this off in Fi Network Tools in the Google Fi app."
You don’t need upstream support for all features; you can often implement them in older SVG techniques with namespaced extra data to help with editing. That’s how text wrapping has worked in Inkscape historically, though 1.0 is introducing support for the actual defined SVG functionality.

Not everything is possible this way; mesh gradients can’t be emulated in vectors, for example—though you could effectively implement a canvas-backed renderer for it to polyfill it; but a lot of functionality can be implemented without upstream support.
Ask HN: Resources to Learn About the Telecommunications Industry?
I'm a college student interested in the telecommunications industry, both the technical and business aspects. Any resources/pointers in this field would be very helpful.
> gigabit with a 1 TB data cap and only 90 Mb/s upload

Do you actually get that throughput or is it bullshit and you get 1/50 that rate? Post some real stats based on your own personal benchmarking which we can verify. Thanks.
The Future of U.S. Military Doctrine Will Be Decided by Technology
if you scroll up you can see jedberg (one of the original founders of Reddit) saying how these days it seems most people know what A* is even if they don't have a CS degree. I didn't :). Just wikipedia'ed it, and sure, I've seen this kind of thing before but I've never had to actually use a shortest distance algorithm. So I'd fail jedberg's interview (even though reddit uses my software, at least they were some years ago :) )
Who cares about Mastodon? Lemmy is ActivityPub compliant, just like PeerTube, write.as, Pleroma, rustodon, PixelFed and the other wonderful AP projects out there.

These platforms do not fracture the Fediverse FYI, you can follow cross-platform & cross-site like normal.
This doesn’t seem shocking? People can map virtual environments seated with controllers just fine. Further, people paralyzed from the waste down manage to map environments just fine without walking
The idea that there is some doctor who will employ the latest and greatest of medical research to take care of me is at odds, to say the least, with my experience in the healthcare system.
“Our mission is to incubate a humane dynamic medium
whose full power is accessible to all people.” Kind of ironic when they don’t even release the source code. I guess by all people they mean people who stop by Oakland for a couple hours.
Dolby Spectral Recording (SR)
Let's just say that at that attitude and height, it's an unusual configuration.
> Yeah, I watched Spider-Man:Far From Home as well.

I haven't; what was in the movie?

> Projecting a hologram is one thing, projecting one while flying at 800km/hr is another.

Like I was saying: short-throw laser projectors (or rather, in this case, long-throw projectors, but same diff, tech-wise.) Have a missile vanguard blow through the airspace first, making the air turbulent and perhaps "doping" it with some dyes so that the vapor-trail blends back into the sky. Then fly out your penaids, have them assume static positions around the diffractive "canvas", and then start throwing emissions at the "canvas." Reorient some lasers a tiny little bit, and now it looks like you've got something glowy accelerating at Mach 6 along your "canvas." But it's not a violation of the laws of physics—it's just light (and RF, and IR, and...)

But my real argument wasn't meant to be a constructive proof about what properties penaids should be able to have. My point was that, given the tech that's cheap enough for any nation on earth to put into each and every counter-missile, if certain nations (ahem) want to retain air supremacy, they're going to want to develop something that can fool that sensor tech. The result would be the EW equivalent of a "deepfake": a decoy that fools cameras better than our eyes, feeding AI more discriminant than our brains. What hope do we humans have of telling such a decoy apart from a real UFO?
Honestly, I wish I could switch my non-ad-supported Kindle Oasis to a mode where the lock screen would cycle book recommendations. The normal cover is a bit boring.
> Is this casual sexism helpful to anyone, men or women?

It communicates the author's perspective to the reader, and that may be useful to them if they believe (correctly?) that such a statement will bring them favour.

Personally, I dislike it and hold a dim view of it; but I can't speak for others.
I don't think that you understand what I said... I don't mean that IP addresses have anything to do with physical space. I only mean it in the sense that IPv6 supposedly solved a problem and we need the same thing to happen to storage space.
This is only true if you think that the Firefox demographic is skewed towards 32 bit computers.
No, for a huge number of reasons - not least of which being timing (the cruise missile is in early development now, and these videos are 5+ years old) performance (cruise missiles can't do what the objects in the video did, even if nuclear powered - nuclear power is more an endurance feature anyways) lack of fallout (unshielded directly cooled reactors produce quite a few interesting isotopes) and location (why would the Russians fly a missile like that anywhere near the US?).
I know people hate on Upwork/Freelancer but they are a good platform but you have to look at it like starting your career again.

Start with low prices. Turn over projects and you'll find regular work and be able to put up prices.

You can't expect to step in at a high rate as an unknown. Also stay on the platform. They do take their cut but look at it like advertising. If you build up volume and quality reviews there is loads of reasonable paying work there.
That’s a bit like saying if I can’t identify a bird I can’t be sure it’s not an ostrich, even if it’s in a tree and flies away. The things in that list have certain properties which can allow them to be ruled out when trying to identify a UFO. Whether that was possible with the information in this particular case and was done correctly might be up for debate, but it is certainly possible to do so in the general sense.
I've been to Dynamicland a few times, and from what I saw, it is not designed to build "robust large-scale systems". It's exploring a different side of computing.

Things that get in the way of robustness: state is based on the physical world. You knock something over, the state has changed. To change the state, you need to move a physical object, which typically means you need a human to do it; the programs can't change state officially. They get around this by storing state anyway, which leads to some weird behavior at times. They've experimented with using magnets to have the system be able to change the physical state, but it's a hard limitation to get around. Also, you want to make a backup of the data? No can do, because we don't have a way to clone physical objects.

Things that get in the way of scaling: all programs are running in a global shared space. Every program can write anywhere to the display or generate audio etc. It's pretty cool! You can run a program that overwrites all output with rainbows. Even more, every program has access to every other program. There's no security. For example you can put a program down on the table and point it at another program to change the second program's code. Cool stuff!

All of this goes against the things we are taught about modularity and scaling and security.

There's a lot of magical stuff going on at Dynamicland but I think it's not a way to create "software" as we think of it. It's a type of computing that isn't easy to do now. It's kind of like comparing a smartphone to a crystal radio kit. The smartphone does a lot of amazing things, and it does it at scale, but the crystal radio kit lets you and your friends tinker and make new things. Apples and oranges.

Dynamicland makes me think of Morpheus's line, "Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
I agree that would have prevented a lot of misunderstandings but Navy operates this way all the time. They prefer a somewhat "blinded" subject.
Why was this flagged? It is a detailed New York Times article by a respected aviation journalist. Its opinionated reporting but I was looking forward to the Hacker News discussion.
... And both of these can be done after releasing into EA.
> common short passwords were owned.

> What's funny about the additional restrictions (you must use 2 upper, 2 lower, etc.) is that they [...] decreasing actual security against this kind of attack.

Not necessarily - the additional restrictions might prevent even more common short passwords from being used by the users, thus making it harder for both the user and the attacker.

(If the bank says you can't use "Password" as your password, then yes, the attacker only needs to check 62^8 - 1 passwords instead of 62^8, making it insignificantly "easier" for the attacker, but at the same time a lot of people must switch from "Password" to something else, making it much harder for the attacker).

EDIT to add: Having said that, what you propose (at least 16 chars, no other restrictions) makes perfect sense (maybe introduce a maximum of 32k chars).
It was the ~~Russians!~~ Chinese!
Oh FFS I just learned this was a thing, I can't even trust my cables anymore.
This is aggressive and unnecessary language.
> The solution is to make license plate collection expensive again - allow people to install license plate covers that people can manually lift to read the plate and automatically retract when the car is started.

The public at large would never go for any proposal of removing the requirement for two-ton murder weapons and get-away rides to show identifying marks at all times.
A degree only matters if you have zero experience, which could be supplemented by personal projects or open source contributions.
Or someone just screwed up the human side of it.
So the driver has no recourse when a malicious actor does that? I'm assuming the driver pays for the extra time.

That sounds a lot like theft to me.
>All 4 major US carriers would brand this plan as a 22GB plan with no overages.

What are you smoking? Every one of Verizon's plans that have caps identical to this are "unlimited"

https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/
NGC as on, Northrop Grumman ? (404) not found@
Strange. I checked again and it works.
It will not happen. It's just a meme. 2 people are already arrested, thousands of people are not stupid enough to raid an American military base.
I would take his explanation with a hefty grain of salt...
> It's currently in-vogue to be scared of and hate nazi's. For some reason though that sentiment never took root against communists.

Er, what now?

It really took root against communists (and socialists), even those of both of the those groups that weren't Leninists, in the US almost immediately after the Russian Revolution and only started to fade a bit after the fall of the Soviet Union 70+ years later, and even now a full century later it has significant, though less, pull in the US.
Teen E-Cigarette Use Doubles Since 2017
Procedure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_to_know
The Peregrine - the way the author describes nature and the beauty and focus of everyday life is awe-inspiring.
No, iirc they've tested two of them and both failed
Ever take a picture of the beautiful moon with that snazzy phone ?

Turns out like crap. I doubt even the best camera phone could catch meaningful video of an object at 20k ft
So when I copy a UK website from to my browser cache, I’m subject to UK jurisdiction? That makes no sense.
Bingo! They could "sunset" Fi on a whim when they get bored. Plus Google's poor record of customer service or rather AI Bot customer service - is what will keep away me from trying it.
Yeah, how dare they, you barely got out of there with your life...

Seriously, the melodrama people treat their privacy with is frequently astounding.
Right, because making things illegal works!

Illegality has a proven track record in stopping the perpetration of malware, computer break-ins, massive sharing of copyrighted files ...
I worked in a Facebook building with 2000 engineers, and that's not even our biggest office.
Lots of very practical & critically useful things can come out the foundational science & engineering required for this sort of research. Just look at the practical applications of various technologies developed to get the Large Hadron Collider up and running. [0]

[0] https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society
I did something similar with the family PC a while ago- we had a wireless keyboard, and after convincing my parents to type in the password from the living room, I asked them to "log it in" from their bedroom. Notepad saved the day, and for some reason, very soon after that all the parental restrictions disappeared on my account.

I still hate Vista, though.
The bulk of your argument seems to boil down to "video calls on TV, much wow". This is not brilliant, or new. My kids were doing that on the Wii U in 2012. Probably at least a third of all conference rooms in America are equipped to do that.