skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And you think that a couple vloggers are the cause of this bad press???

No, but they did proceed the recent normal in poor Chinese reporting. I think their first viral video was on Chinese ghost cities 4 years ago? And people have been linking their hot takes ever since. You often see this in conjunction with "lol my Chinese wife / girlfriend / fried / coworker who grew up in China is really nice and smart but when it comes to issues of China they're so brainwashed". But two white expats who lived in China briefly, in situations that are fairly atypical even by expat standards, of course _their_ assessments are accurate reflections of reality.

I don't even know where to start breaking down all your questions. The answer to almost all of them is, it's complicated. There has been an increase in garbage reporting by western MSM since the tradewar. Geopolitical conditions are different now and biased Sinophobic agenda driven pieces are everywhere to the point where a Chinese person familiar with living under censorship is surprised that manufactured consent by a free 5th estate + low information readers is almost indistinguishable from state propaganda. It doesn't help that foreign reporting in Asian bureaus are full of folks with limited regional language and cultural proficiency and sexpats.

>The garbage China pulls on the rest of the world is overwhelming.

This doesn't strike me as the opinion of someone who lauds hearing "multiple sides to an argument".
Sounds like ball lightning.
Google will post list of employee rights at HQ as part of legal settlement
Anyone can claim anything. What state do you live in?

Lucky for us, there are published guidelines for which plans did not qualify.
"We just don't know enough to explain what we think we observed" -- this is literally what UFO means.
People are dying over healthcare, not over facebook.
If it occurs in nature, and interacts with nature, why would it be supernatural? Why does “supernatural” have to be the first answer we think of when we face a baffling unknown?
Your prior plan was part of what made care more expensive for sick people.
Almost the exact same situation with a music app when I was in high school. It would record you play a piece of music and then grade how many notes you got right. It would literally just save your grade into a SQLite database that you could manipulate before uploading to your teacher.
Interesting, thank you. It makes me wonder if we'll ever find a way to make quantum computers do "easy" math as well as they do difficult math, if we'll ever have general-purpose computers that do their arithmetic and rendering on a quantum processor instead of a transistorized one. Is it even hypothetically possible for a quantum computer to do something like render a web page using less electricity than a conventional cpu?
Torn down by whom? There is a whole system of laws and companies and staff that would object to such a dictatorial move.

We agree that it’s fucked. We likely disagree on where it needs to go, and possibly on how it needs to get there.

Actionable steps to improve are what is needed, especially now that stance on healthcare regulation has become a point of political identity in the USA.

I think it will probably get worse before it gets better.

FWIW, I agree totally on the lack of information part. The current system is the worst possible setup.
It wasn't easy! I found the model I was interested in listed online by Newegg, Walmart, and CDW – but it took about 5 months to get!

Newegg and Walmart had the lowest prices but turned out to fronting for the same seller, who was running a bait-and-switch. I ordered through Newegg first – and received a different product! A big heavy LCD display. I shipped it back to them for a refund.

Then I ordered through Walmart – and again received that other product! After the seller refused to exchange or refund and stopped answering e-mails, Walmart refunded me the price – and told me to keep the LCD display, which I donated.

Finally I ordered from CDW, who shipped me the right product – but under all the cardboard and styrofoam it was packed in, the corner of the display was bent up 90 degrees! And the display wouldn't light up.

To their credit, CDW shipped a replacement unit right away. It was in perfect condition – you can watch me unbox it at https://youtu.be/o9Mu4K-ApkU – and I'm watching it right now.
Exactly, really my point should have been that you can't expect college to teach you explicit step by step knowledge for most real world problems that will require solving. The idea is that they make you solve a small set of problems and hope that you can extract a general framework for problem solving and communication. Of course there is a lot of rote memorization of reusable axioms that are taught as well.
True, that was a good thing. But it didn't address the cost side.
What I know is that before ACA, my health insurance was about $150 a month. Now it’s $650 a month. I can’t afford to subsidize other people’s bad choices and inability to pay. Health insurance should not be robbing Peter to pay Paul, we should return to an open market place.
> That is really, truly, unfair. The font size choice is quite reasonable, and makes it easily readable.

Yeah, but it's insulting. "Unlimited" is not unlimited with a fucking limit, doesn't matter how reasonable or unreasonable it is. Every time I look at an ad I gotta sit there and look for asterisks or numbers, and then find the fine print where the actual information is contained, not just the marketing wank.

How about just tell me how much your fucking thing costs in plain fucking English? Maybe I don't want to decipher your advert like it's a goddamn Captcha. $150 for Unlimited (assuming it was actually unlimited, which it's not) isn't even an unreasonable price, but when you lead with $50, and then oh by the way it's actually $150, oh and by the way it's limited, you've made what is logically a good deal now look tremendously worse for your effort of trying to "hook" me.

How about just tell me what it costs, you know, like you're an honest seller of a product and I'm a grown fucking man who you have an ounce of respect for?
I've used earlier versions of Descript and felt it was a little too early. I liked the transcription and text editing capabilities but making fine tuned edits was not as easy as a DAW. I'm looking forward to giving this new version a try.

The feature where you can write text to generate your own voice sounds both super cool and terrifying.
I probably just didn't understand the HUD but to me the tic-tac video I saw behaved a lot like dust in my camera lens. It seemed almost perfectly stationary within the field of view, and that kind of artifact will of course "travel" at impossible speeds and accelerate in impossible ways.
Good call.

I was already firmly invested in Java, another good choice.

Another common choice was Ruby, probably not so good.
Statically typed
It means admitting that in some situations strongly typed is a better way to write code.
Shor factoring for RSA works by period finding, which is all modern PK crypto discrete log. Read the wiki page.

I wrote a decently cited paper summarizing all this when I worked in quantum computing research around 2005, on arxiv. Track it down if you’re interested. I’ve followed the field for decades, giving talks once in a while on it. So I do know a bit of the details.

The computational power of QC is very well studied. It is certain that it cannot crack certain (most) problems any faster than a classical computer. Thus algorithms not isomorphic to the few problems QC is better at are just as secure on both classical and quantum computers. There is consensus on this - there is no question about it.

>all modern PK crypto [that is actually in use today]

NTRU is an IEEE standard, and is in wolfSSL, which is on many platforms. NTRU is also used in many commercial products from chat to relays.

Other non DLP methods are also used in commercial products and standards.
I have found my phone on Cricket (owned by AT&T) is surprisingly usable after data cap is reached and you are throttled.

Like, email and even google maps, no problem. Facebook perfectly usable although with some lag. I didn't bother trying to watch videos.

I have been curious if the usability of "throttled" speeds differs between carriers.
This wasn't beheading video. It was verbal propaganda. Their monthly magazine, more or less.
I think Lazar is 100% fraud. Consider how "he doesn't like the attention" (quoting from his Netflix documentary) from the UFO stuff while accepting every interview and selling Area 51 merch on his website, United Nuclear. He is profiting from the attention. Also zero records of his claimed degrees, can't even name a prof from his alleged alma maters. Any university degree leads to a paper trail a mile long. He should have a notebook, a transcript, ID card, receipt from a campus bookstore, or something.
Not true. Even the bronze plans cover doctor visits with just copays, no deductible to be met. Copays count towards deductibles.

Now when you need hospital services, surgery, emergency, yes the deductible is formidable. After that they cover at some amount, 80% typically.

So the notion you have to pay $12k first is a blatant lie.

The bronze plans are akin to what low end employers used to/still offer. It’s better than nothing, for example in the scenarios listed in the article, max out of pocket would be their total liability, probably about $12k as you noted.

None of this is good, but it’s better than plans literally designed to scam people. That’s what the “short term healthcare” being proffered is. Scams.
The freedom to speak your mind is also the freedom for others to criticize what your mind says.

People can circle their wagons around RMS and attempt to delegitimize anyone who takes issue with his behavior and opinions as merely an angry mob if they want, but their right to express that issue is as valid as his.
Absolutely. And we should have just gone to a single-payer system. Instead we have this useless compromise that further transfers wealth from the middle class to the rich. I don't want what I had back, but I don't want what we have now either.
Could this also be a result of low literacy rates?
I am doing 22 years old
depends on what you call winning. Java will continue be to be used for boring enterprise applications, which are basically glorified CRUDs with pretty HTML GUI.

Meanwhile, interesting stuff is being done on Python, Julia and R and Rust , if you also include system programming.
Of course they do, but they also have safeguards in place that prevent access without alerting auditors and eventually the repo owner.
> The Python implementations (which used Cython for a few tiny performance critical sections) ended up running much, much faster than the C++ projects (which were written by very veteran C++ engineers at the time). More than that, they were easier to test, easier to modify

I’m honestly really surprised. Can you provide some more detail as to how Python was beneficial for these?
Let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that your description actually describes an artificial object that has actually been observed -- what aspect of quantum mechanics explains it? Invoking QM as an explanation of something you can't explain is not a correct use of the term, unless it actually does provide an explanation, and the same goes for all the other terms.
But does it? A change like this is going to result in years of legal cases. The uncertainty means that investing in new designs is more risky as the companies doesn’t know what emissions standards they are aiming for.
Nothing’s stopping TVs from hopping on unencrypted networks.
I live in Ohio. I had this plan from 2003 to 2014. I paid a bunch of stuff out-of-pocket over the years. I also saved a lot of money in my HSA and paid off debts. Had I been paying the kind of premiums I paid from 2014 to date all those years I would have far less net worth.
Consider seeking mental health care, think about your life and if there are other signs that you need help.
Some scripting languages having types, like TypeScript for instance.
Nope. I purchased a dumb tv from Sam's Club in June of this year. It's a 4k 55 inch vizio. Cost me all of $300.

Edit- my bad, it was a Hitachi. The vizio tv I have was purchased last year. However both are dumb, they have no internet capabilities at all
With Instagram contributing to a decline in young adult mental health[1] perhaps Facebook should be taxed so their profit margins drop down to similar levels as health companies.

[1]https://time.com/4793331/instagram-social-media-mental-healt...
can you be more specific about these practices?
Does the fact that people might die create an obligation to run your business like a charity?

What even is your moral theory? That a company that makes 6% profits saving lives is evil, but a company that makes 40% profits and doesn't save any lives in the process is not evil? Apple makes laptops that, for the price of a single one, could save someone in Africa from malaria. The opportunity cost of every MacBook Pro is a death in Africa. If there is an affirmative obligation to save lives, how evil is Apple?

This is an incoherent--but extremely common--ideology. It would be one thing if these people followed their ideas to the logical conclusion. It's evil for anyone to make more than 6% profits because that money could be spent saving lives. But it makes no sense to impose that moral obligation on a selected group.
> , which have been W3C standards since 1997 and 2008, respectively.

While RDF forms a graph, it is not a general graph model. In particular, two things that are enabled by graph databases (having data in the node itself, and associating data with edge) are not directly possible and need tricks such as relationship reification.

On the social side, the sectarism and bikeshedding tendencies of the community can be another turn off.
> I don't know, the video didn't show me that the objects traveled at any speed

That’s because you’re watching a YouTube video that was filmed on a potato, instead of actually, y’know, being there.
>This is economic bullying by a country that right now happens to be in a position (having strong military, influence and their currency being the reserve one) to be able to get away with it.

I wonder if this is the kind of stuff that pushes EU politicians forward with their notions that they cannot rely on the US?
The Mississippi Bubble came first, don't you know?

https://rose.ai/dashboard/daily.observations.20190918.the.mi...
Saudis couldn’t stop attack on oil facilities, even with top US defenses
My apologies in advance to any Stone Age Tribesmen in the audience or those otherwise triggered by this analogy:

Meanwhile on Totally Isolated Uncontacted Stone Age tribe of 1940s Hacker News:

Chief's Spear Chucking brigade confirms through song and ritual dance reenacment that they actually saw a thing flying through the air that looked like a very large bird, but appeared to be made of some form of advanced stone technology and had unusual round things on it that the great elders who first came up with breaking rocks to make them into sharp things imagine could be used, in the far distant future, to move large loads around with relative ease compared to current methods.

Posters on Stone Age Tribe Hacker News say that this is actually a trick by monkey spirit, a large bird, or possibly some sort of advanced flying machine that great elder came up with that's made from bird feathers and shiny rocks that he's not telling us about, the idea that other people besides our little tribe could be inhabiting the earth being completely ludicrous.
I mean, queries against an AST is sort of standard security tooling; the difference appears to be that Semmle (1) properly assigns types in C/C++ and (2) exports that query language. (1) makes sense to me; (2) I don't know how much better I'd get than just hand-writing tree walkers.
I'd go one step further, I would accept the existence of both typed and non-typed "runtime" versions of Python (i.e. a run-time flag or program argument). Writing a quick script? Reach for the non-typed version. Writing production software? We ought to make sure we're type checking. Default to non-typed to stop beginners breaking their code.

The same with something like JIT vs compiling, I don't want to find out that some edge case a quadrillion loops in has some simple error a compiler could have found.
Even if it was literally a space craft from another world, nothing suggests the fields of nuclear or quantum science are necessary for a craft we know nothing about.
I looked at that book, but I was worried about the Gtk part, the book is now a few years old, is the Gtk stuff still relevant? My worry is that Gtk seems to always be coming out with new versions and its hard to know whats still relevant and good.

Is that a valid concern or not?
The other systems are provably as secure on quantum computers as they are on classical computers. Quantum complexity classes are well mapped out, and it s known certain things cannot b one faster on quantum. Related to crypto, only systems reducible to DLP (well, technically Hidden Subgroup Problem but only for certain groups) are affected. This has the rigor of mathematical proof: it’s not handwaving.

And many systems do not reduce to this.
Give you some hint: According to Godel theorem, a system in higher order is necessary to judge the truth in current system. So self claim the story is true implied the story teller (i.e. the author of the news) is not quite intellegent and maybe very naive to mix fact and belief.

I totally respect your strong belief about the story. But don't enforce others accept your personal opion by imply your personal belief is truth. It's quite insulting.
Same thing I'm doing at 21. Working and hoping my life works out in a way I'm satisfied with.
Java is still where the excitement is. Also a few people would use Python for serious production facing applications.

Python didn't even reach the fame Perl had in the 80s to mid 2000s.

Python is for beginner programmers, who absolutely don't want to learn anything new at all.
Nixon was so complicated... A unrepentant sociopath that would pretty much do anything for power, yet he created the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Title IX, Consumer Product Safety and OSHA. He also signed SALT and AMB, got rid of the draft, initiated lowering the voting age to 18, ended the Vietnam war (well, after illegally helping prolong it to get elected), took the U.S. off the gold standard, opened relations to China, and took on organized crime. In addition, he also pushed the idea if a negative income tax, which was basically UBI.

In today's world, he can be considered the most productive "Democratic" president after FDR. Too bad he was legitimately nuts.
> I'm sure they know what those words mean on a surface level.

I don't think he has any idea what they mean beyond "sciencey stuff."

Looking at an impossibly advanced aircraft and assuming it's based on "extreme advances in quantum mechanics and nuclear science" makes as much sense as saying it's based on "extreme advances in organic chemistry and software design." No one with any grasp of engineering would jump straight to these fields that are not, so far as we know, associated in any way with aerospace propulsion. He's just grabbing the coolest science buzzwords he knows to make himself sound serious and professional.
I’m not sure what your analogy is getting at. Many typed languages are compiled. A lot of them are faster than interpreted languages—also, because they are typed, they could be referred to as fortified.
Have any of them been prosecuted for breaking NDA? Is it possible that they were told to "break NDA" and "come clean" to obfuscate the truth?
Huh, why is that? I am in one of the affected states
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The whole element 115 thing is even more damning. It’s clear that he just made something up and then when we discovered the 115 element he said it vindicated him. But the element 115 we discovered has a half life of .65 seconds.
If the government tried to keep this secret, they did a really piss poor job of it. Anyone spending any reasonable amount of time researching on the UFO phenomenon - admittedly a painful task as it tends to attract the worse kooks, I'm talking about somewhat legitimate authors and reports here - knows that there is something real happening there.

I doubt any explanation is as simple as "aliens from somewhere else" though, and I definitely don't think the "government" knows any more about what exactly it is that we do, but I also doubt it tries to keep it a secret deliberately.
The difference between a purported nation-state backed subversion of supply chain and manufacturing lines, and poor security in the firmware of the BMC, is still night and day though, and still not what the original article claimed.
Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference [pdf]
Multi-citizenship is a very strange concept anyway. Sure you can check the boxes and countries A and B consider you a citizen, but it's bizarre to me that one nation would let you swear loyalty to another without revoking your citizenship. The naturalization oath of allegiance, at least the American one, is very explicit about conflicts of interest like that but we've just sort of chosen not to enforce those parts of it.
That depends. If you bet on JSP, good luck.
If you've shift to data or infrastructure, you're in good shape.
There are lots of Apache projects[0] that are innovative and relevant today.

[0] https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language#Java
artists and farmers have lived like that for centuries. i dont think it s so uncommon that we have to start warning people about it
Can't wait for the bubble to burst... Wherever you look, there are generic overvalued companies
The term we’re probably reaching for is interpreted vs. compiled. Typescript is a compiled language, it compiles to JavaScript, with a variant now targeting WASM.
How do you know that the 72% of rest are also using CBD products as needed, but they simply never need them?

This is dumb.
My "moral theory" is you can't claim market rates to a hostage.
I'm a R&D scientist in private industry, and so I don't write commercial software, but have used programming as a tool throughout my career. For me, betting on Python meant migrating almost all of my technical work to Python based tools.

Oddly enough it started at home. I was a long time Visual Basic programmer, but I decided to try Linux on my home computer, and needed a way to write simple programs. Going a step further, I decided that I wanted my tools to be open source and platform independent. After evaluating a few tools, I settled on Python and started playing with it. I tried out things like Maxima and Octave as well.

A few months later, a big crisis landed in my lap at work, and I decided to use Python to develop the solution. I was amazed by how productive it seemed to be, and I decided to sweep more projects towards the event horizon of Python.

I've also climbed aboard the "reproducible science" movement. Though I don't publish my work, reproducibility is just as much of a problem within a closed setting. Jupyter notebooks have made it much easier for me to dredge up an old project and figure out what I did, months or even years later.
Seen visually means they saw it with their eyes. Yes there exist "sensor bugs" in human vision but multiple observers with same report suffering from "visual sensor bugs" is probabilistically absurd.

Assuming those reports are credible, which I see no immediate reason to doubt, the most plausible explanation must include technology that is far more advanced than anything we have or can imagine having today or in the next few decades.
Two mundane phenomena to investigate: the first part sounds like an issue with optics and/or software; I assume attempting to range something involves moving optical elements. Your description does read a bit like attempting autofocus with a damaged lens system. As for diamonds, this does sound like a kaleidoscope, which again suggests broken optics.