skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?

The null hypothesis is not “we are alone”. Nor is it particularly relevant here.

We have a small object over a short period of time with an expensive sensor - which does not mean high quality: FLIR systems are expensive at low resolution.

The options are:

* it is a terrestrial object that we have never seen before

* it is a terrestrial object we have seen before, just not in this environment

* it is a monitoring device from another system

Instead of doing the sensible thing and saying what terrestrial things could this be and demonstrating it is not them, you have gone straight to “someone with lots of money couldn’t determine what it was, so it must be aliens”. You then go another step of evidenceless assertions: that it is here to “monitor” us. Let’s take a hypothetical position that you are correct on the first count, the object comes from an intelligent species outside of the system: what is your evidence it is sent to monitor us? Why not be a probe along the lines of the various interplanetary probes we’ve sent out? That is a one way video camera to see what’s there, with no significant advance knowledge.
Eliminate threads, queues, locks, buffer allocate & free, copying, system calls, synchronous logging, file ops, dynamic memory allocation.

Replace with huge-page mapped ring buffers, independent processes, kernel-bypass set-and-forget, buffer lap checks, file-mapped self-describing binary-formatted stats, direct-mode disk block writes, caller-provided memory.
Adjusted for $ per Mbps-month, Coloradans under the Comcast monopoly pay ~100x what you do.
> She also says a handful of families do not have the financial means, even with a three-times-appraised-value offer, to buy equivalent properties elsewhere.

I'm struggling to understand this.

Is the appraised value something totally different from the market value?
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That’s part of the mess: the US tax system isn’t the same as others’, so you now have to optimize for 2 systems.

Differing rules of what’s a short-term vs long term capital gain.

E.g.: Canada doesn’t tax capital gains on your Primary residence when you sell it, but US does.

And buying a non-US ETF can create another tax mess since you’ve now bought into a multibillion dollar trust that doesn’t file with the US gov.

The US doesn’t see your Canadian Tax-free savings account as tax free, so now you have to keep track of every transaction in there.
This also confuses me as a resident of South Bay Area...

I've been researching ISPs every once in a while to see if new ISPs are able to provide decent deals to where I live... As of right now, here seems to be my options...

- AT&T used to charge maximum 5mbps/512kbps (for like something ridiculous like 60$/month), until Sonic came around and started using their infrastructure. Now Sonic & AT&T both provide something like 75 or 50 mbps/5mbps internet (for again.. 60$/month)

- Unfortunately, Sonic only reaches me through AT&T so its basically the same.

- Comcast is what I use for 150mbps/5mbps (around 70$ a month). Recently(and currently) getting episodes of massive uncorrectables. Technician came and found that a coax connector outside was fried, and replaced it.... 5 days later, I'm still getting uncorrectables, so clearly that wasn't the only problem. Fortunately, I'm getting free 20$ every time i complain, so it's sort of worth? lol...

- I can technically request comcast for their 2Gbps, but I'm not down to spend a massive amount of money for the installation costs w/ the overpriced monthly price tag.

- Common Networks shows most promise, but they can't reach me (despite my city being listed as one of the primary areas).

Even just having symmetric 100mbps/100mbps would be a godsend to this shit ISP situation.

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Here's another pro-tip: If you make dishonest or negligent accusations about another person, such that said person suffers materially you can probably* sued for defamation.

*IANAL
> But say, people might schedule their Steam downloader to only update games in off-peak hours. And apps might have features that cache content automatically during off peak to save their users money.

This is a phone. At that stuff is set to use wifi.
You can also ask Amazon support to turn off those ads, that's what I did and don't have to deal with ads on my Kindles screen anymore.
This is of course assuming that the purported maneuvers actually happened, and I’m not the least convinced that they are.

Unfortunately I can’t find the video right now, but there was a video I watched where the guy broke down the GoFast video using the angles and speed displayed screen, and made a very convincing argument that it’s not actually moving fast, but appears to be going fast do to parallax. Instead it’s basically going wind speed — like a balloon.

Similarly, as someone linked to elsewhere in this discussion, the images showing up as glowing ovals don’t actually mean anything. Everything shows up as ovals in FLIR artifacts.

I’m thinking these are just the most mundane of mundane items, that are only bringing detected because of ironically increased sensor fidelity.
Please confirm that you want to globally eradicate Islam from public awareness. That's what you said but I'm not sure if it's what you mean.
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Arrays are vectors.
Which $30 unlimited plan? The grandfathered one with a max of 60 minutes of voice you get through walmart?

I had a family plan through t-mobile and after years of getting more expensive per month (no enterprise discount, increasing number of taxes/fees, etc) I switched to google fi and halved my bill.

Some tips for those trying to minimize bandwidth:
1) tell google phones to backup pictures/videos on wifi
2) preload maps for any cities you visit more than monthly
3) get a podcast app (if you listen) that preloads them when
on wifi
4) get youtube red ($10 a month) for no ads, downloadable youtube
videos, and downloading your top 500 songs.

With the above, even when traveling quite a bit I average 1-2GB a month. I generally use nav every time I drive just to get the traffic info/warnings.
As a late-teen, I see many ads from the FDA against e-cigarettes, but I'm not sure how effective they are. However, these are not on TV but on Facebook.
I don't understand your criticism. If the TV were given close to free and then subsidized by ads, sure. But I'm paying >$500 for the TV, why should I get ads too?
I live in the rural part of this county. We don’t get access to this service, so we rely on a small locally operated WISP for internet at our house.

I was chatting with this guy recently and he mentioned that getting bandwidth in between Denver and Fort Collins (Greeley, CO) is now insanely expensive. He thinks it correlates with this move by the city and they bought up a whole lot of data to backhaul down to Denver. As a result, his costs have increased a good bit.

I currently pay $79/Mo for 5/2mbps. I inquired about getting more of a 50/10 plan and he’s now quoted $250/mo. Ouch. According to him, he has to buy additional bandwidth in order to upgrade my speeds (some other neighbors have also inquired). I don’t think he’s pulling a fast one on me- he’s a neighbor and German and extremely serious at all times ;).
I feel like a lot of commenters on here must first be hearing of this or have not even looked into the tic-tac case even a small amount.

You have a top gun pilot and his WSO on record saying they saw it visually along with a huge underwater craft. It moved in ways that nothing using conventional propulsion can. Hovering for example is extremely difficult, made all the harder with no wings, blades or visible exhaust.

Long form interview:
Part1: https://youtu.be/3L-XG1F_S7I
Part2: https://youtu.be/f7XJD_54aNk

There are about 20+ interviews with him on cnn, Fox News, Boston herald, ny times, etc and he will be on joe Rogan soon.

I get the objections to the FLIR video or radar pings, but if you think it’s a new jet or misdirection you have to say he and his WSO and many others are liars or confused by our own tech. Our own tech means we have something well beyond standard jet engines and fighter jet tech.

There are plenty more videos with even more details like the tic tacs (there were many of them on radar) moving 20000+ mph, dropping in from 80000ft to close to the deck. The details of the carrier fleet redirecting the jets to the position of the tic-tac is very interesting as it wasn’t at their training position...until it showed up their later. The FLIR video is from another pilot who went after it, after captain fravor landed.
It should be reminded that UFO means "unidentified flying object" not that it's totally unexplainable. Just that there wasn't enough to go on to figure out what they were at the time.
I feel like you didn't read and try to understand my last comment. You're certainly not pointing out any flaws in its logic.
Fascism was pretty much never considered socialist by much of anyone outside of the Nazi flavor trying to coopt the label, and the American Right engaging in revisionism in the last couple decades.
Atoms don’t work in that kind of a field, let alone molecules. Nothing wants to go across field lines, just along them.
I wouldn't describe the weird thing I've seen in the exact same way, but I understand the feeling of seeing something you can't explain as a skeptic and being shaken by it. I'd have happily just doubted my sanity altogether and left it at that if my husband hadn't been right there seeing the same thing and reacting the same way.
I dunno, after having had a front row seat to more than one vaginal birth I'd say that it's implausible to suggest that microbes aren't being transferred (via "vagina juice" and the proverbial "microbial organ", i.e. poop) from mother to baby. Also, having dabbled in microbial ecology in my professional life, I'd say that it's unlikely that said microbial transfer is inconsequential for the gut health of the baby. Doctors don't know everything, and I'd venture that effectively no research on the effects of a cesarian on the baby's gut health was done before the procedure became widespread.
Where's the privacy amendment again? Asking for a friend.
Were you able to get any footage?

Yeah, we are both in the same place. I want to be a rational as possible but I also want to believe we are not alone in the universe. This is as human of a feeling as I know, right?
>but a good chunk of the population does not want either

The largest Freenode channels I'm on like #node.js and #javascript have about 10 regulars max, myself included. It's pretty much dead for any purpose other than hanging out with a handful of curmudgeons feeding off a corpse out of habit.

Doesn't seem like "a good chunk" to me. IRC lacks the only feature I really care about in a chat network: new people to talk to, users.

I wonder how many HNers who praise IRC only like the idea of it but don't even use it these days, either.

And I haven't even heard HNers bring up usenet outside of downloading free shit so I know that's especially dead wrt this thread as a decentralized Reddit.

So it always makes me chuckle to see "yeah, well, some people like it like that!" which is apparently virtually nobody. Or it's like how my two friends and I loved the failed, abandoned supermall in my hometown because the three of us could longboard down its parking garage.
I lazily made my own little private server a couple days ago implementing this concept by stitching a usenet server to a web login/account portal.
After the 2009 financial crisis and the regulatory requirements which followed the major international Swiss banks were forced to split their retail and investment business into separate entities at about the same time they also started restructuring some other things I am pretty sure they saw this coming after FATCA / MIFID because they have all since split their Swiss business from their international business at least legally (separate legal entities under one brand and holding corp etc.)
This makes sense, unfortunately. The e-cigarette industry is $1B+ and much of their base from teens, they can claim to be innocent by not marketing to them. However, with flavors like bubble gum and cotton candy, it is easy to see why teens are attracted to e-cigarettes.
The API would bypass ads on the page?

I feel like this would have the same sort of friction that RSS had.

Which is to say, it could certainly still work.
from their FAQ:

If you use more than 15 GB of data in a cycle on the Fi Flexible plan or more than 22 GB in a cycle on the Fi Unlimited plan (less than 1% of individual Fi users as of Jan. 2018), you'll experience slower speeds (256 kbps) above those respective data thresholds until your next billing cycle begins.

If you need significant amounts of high speed data, you can opt to pay $10/GB for the data you use past the data threshold for your plan in a given cycle (15GB for Flexible or 22GB for Unlimited).

These data thresholds are based on individual data usage, not group data usage.
Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.
Such a mess that lawyers got exempted from a bunch of money transfer reporting regulations.

I get the need for lawyer-client confidentiality if you’re on trial for murder.

You don’t need it if you’re buying property.
Why? You binge several seasons of TV through your phone. You exceed 22GB... you click on youtube/netflix/whatever and it... works.

If you keep asking for data... they keep sending it. Sounds unlimited to me.
> how do you make sure browser clients are talking to the right api backend version?

We version the URL itself.

> How do you force them to upgrade or rollback?

We don't use it often but we can embed an "obsolete" tag into the HTTP/AJAX response header which a global AJAX hook (jQuery) will read and bring up a prompt/force a page reload. We use it infrequently but it was added for just such an occasion.

It is a bad user experience but it is a useful tool.
Some mother can't, shaming them doesn't help, but the harsh reality is kids will still come out worse off without breast feeding with current technology, irrelevant if the mother is capable or not.

It's a line between causing hurt for something unavoidable and promoting something important for when it can be avoided.

Public campaigns use shame, the crossover is unavoidable, you can only try to reduce it for when it's not constructive, hence the shame of shaming campaign we are discussing here but it crosses over into the important original shame campaign.

Create baby formula that's better than breast milk and we can tech our way out of the whole issue.
Indeed, the reality is that people will leave their phones on intentionally or unintentionally so engineering within aerospace has to, and does, take this into consideration. There's reasons the rule exists, but it doesn't put you at increased risk.
Not OP but I was just looking through their repo and I've done something similar in the past for a different application. We both used Blender for generating the rendered synthetic data. Blender has a really simple python API that was originally made for simple scripts but you can run it in a headless mode. You start with a base scene that has all of your objects and use the api to randomly generate samples and render them out to a file.
I was among the first in Boulder CO to have gigabit internet installed circa 2014. Don’t think it ever moved further north than us.
"All horses are animals, but not all animals are horses." The Boomers are all being blamed for the actions of some of their members.

The Boomer Generation is concurrent in time with Corporatism. It's Corporatism and its Boomer CEOs and lobbyists which are the causing the problem, not the rank and file Boomers.

But in the end, all Boomers will be blamed. The same as all Germans of the relevant generation were blamed for being Nazis.
Unfortunately not. I share your sentiment; that "something bigger than us" feeling seems to nag at us.
So how many other people were with you and saw the 6 spheres? Did you all see the same thing? Did anyone try to range any of them the 2nd time?
> I'm taking this thread as an opportunity to pay Comcast a review

No thank you, we're good without that!
Btw -- everyone should see the new documentary Chasing Einstein! I just got out of the theater and was BLOWN AWAY.
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My own two cents worth on Elm.

I've worked with many languages, beginning with Fortran in my student days that I had to punch my own cards, then doing Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lisp, Scheme, some Haskell, not necessarily in that order. I've never had more fun and felt more productive than with Elm. The ability to do "extreme refactoring" and come out on the other side with everything working is liberating, exhilarating, and makes code maintainable and growable over the long term.

Been using it now for three years.
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Weird. My first thought reading that even men! parenthetical was not that the author actually had a dim view of men.

If the parenthetical read "even women!" that would not be perceived as a minute poke at the female ego. Commentary would be at least an order of magnitude louder/more inflamed. You know damn well there would never be an "even women!" parenthetical by any author who cared about their career.

So it's weird for you to take what little commentary there is and shoehorn it into 'minute poke at the male ego'. Honestly I paid way more attention to it due to your comment, otherwise it would have just slid out of my awareness.
They're also posing for a picture.
"Boeing events are fascinating, for sufficiently large values of boring"
>It’s a funny fear, because today, being in the US vs. some other developed country takes about 7-8 years off your life.

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

When accounting for all sexes, US sits at 79.3 years and the top country sits at 83.7 years. Where is this "7-8 years" coming from?
Looking at almost any car, even in recent years, you will see blanks for features that may or may not be present, that need buttons if they are there. They may be more obvious on some cars than others, but even luxury cars have them.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Don't make tomorrow's problem today's complexity.

Get rid of any configuration options that no one uses. These things get passed around in flags sometimes to deep levels and can make logic complicated. Don't add a configuration option until you are sitting at someone's desk and see they need it and why. Only add the bare minimum. Same for APIs, buttons, and features.
Could iPad Pro be a better computer than MacBook 2019?
Automatic uploads of photos and videos, some youtube music, some streaming, some hotspotting. Didnt realize but washington post seem to be downloading a lot too.

I am on corporate phone plan, and probably more than half of my data is work related videos and photos (robotics, people love videos lol).
I just set up a 40 acre property with WiFI coverage throughout using all Ubiquiti gear. Even put up some solar powered APs. Finding the right products wasn’t too bad, though it leaves some to be desired.

Their forums are pretty good and there’s tons of information on there for any conceivable project.

I’m very happy with all the gear, especially the Rocket 5AC Prism Gen2 with a 60 degree sector antenna. Holy cow those are powerful!
This happened all the time during the Cold War, and probing air and sea defenses is something that every military does on regular basis.
How do you explain the pilots who said they saw it visually for 5 minutes?
States can regulate products without running afoul of interstate commerce rules. The key is for the regulations to not depend on the origin of the product. What gets you in trouble under the interstate commerce rules is trying to disadvantage out of states manufacturers relative to in states ones.

It is perfectly fine under the interstate commerce rules for California rules and Ohio rules and Texas rules for a given product to make it so that a manufacturer can't make a single product that works in all three states.

As long as someone who decides that they wants to make products that meets California rules can make those products in Ohio or Texas, and someone who wants to make products for the Ohio market can make them in California and Texas, and so on, that's fine.
No, AWS sucks, GCP is awesome as is. We only run on GCP now and would never go back.

#BoycottBezos
We have Airbus and Embraers flying around in the US every day. And that's just from my limited knowledge of airplanes.
> [...] the publisher's marketing strategy is nothing special.

So true! I'm self publishing for this reason—the 10% of profits as royalty just doesn't make sense... I mean I get it that developmental editing, copy editing, cover design, typesetting and other pre-publication services are useful add ons, but still not worth the publisher's 80% cut.

In one thing mainstream publisher have going for them is the reputation, especially in the academic space (textbooks). Seeing that a book was "vetted" by a serious publisher gets you some immediate respect from the reader—something self-published authors have to earn on their own.

Like you say though, the author's "platform" is the key thing, and who better than the author themselves to build that?
Whenever I see “UFOs are real!” or “it must be a UFO!” I immediately in my head think, of course if it’s flying and you don’t know what it is, it’s an Unidentified Flying Object, why wouldn’t that be real??

So what I’ve done is accepted the fact that usually what people mean is an UNIDENTIFIABLE Flying Object, and it makes me feel a little bit better...
Looking forward to the day (I think) when we all know what's out there.

Intelligent life that is too far away to ever encounter us.
GM dumped health care for striking workers. That poured gas on fire, expert says
It would be interesting to set up a crowd sourced, and maybe crowd hosted, reporting system for sightings like this. It could help track larger movements, (puts on tinfoil) with their accuracy verified by how quickly the service is taken down/flooded/infiltrated.
People aren't arguing that racism and misogyny are moral, they're arguing that if you allow any censorship at all, then someone must be appointed censor, and you may not agree with that someone. The only way to be sure that your ideas can be freely expressed is to allow everyone, no matter how immoral, to freely express their ideas.
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So the big deal about quantum computers is how they're really fast at solving certain very specific problems, but I've never seen numbers about how much better at solving those problems they are than conventional computers. I realize they work on completely different principles but it should be hypothetically possible to make a normal computer solve the same problem even if it were to take a decade to do what a quantum computer can do in a microsecond.

So, how much faster are they? A million times faster? A trillion? A googol times faster?
There is plenty of differences among which 1/ we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc) which allows us to be resilient to website updates 2/ we offer a simple UI that automates data selection and structuration and 3/ we are available on Windows and MacOS =)