skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we'll also have to see how things shake out in terms of office cultures post-covid, as I think there might be some attitude changes around partial work-from-home. I don't think my current employer would be likely to go all-remote, but I could maybe see them going to hot desks with less-than-100% seating capacity on the expectation that most people only come into the office a couple days a week, and the economics of this kind of pricing definitely shift if it's not a daily expense.
"Email campaign management tool" = spam tool

Sorry.
You refuse to conform to conventions because you're independent-minded. As a business owner, to what extent would you allow your workers to be nonconformist?

By the way, I belong to the right upper quadrant, and I cannot answer my own question without being hypocritical.
> In particular, could you show how my reasoning is faulty?

I'll give two:

- you believe things to be true that you have no way of knowing are true.

- you seem to believe you can predict the future.
Any obvious idea is done on the Internet ..... can you direct me to where this is already implemented?

I have no doubt someone will start aggregating newsletters into summary pages featuring latest posts, with navigation by topic. And if they do that then no doubt they will also seek advertising revenue.

Probably it will be substack themselves.
you sure it's not china? because some wannabe fascists like yourself seem to be taking one sentence of a point and purposefully ignoring the rest, to spread propaganda and anger.

in america, practicing the first amendment does not give you free reign to break other laws. which is why i said the crowd is told to dispurse for breaking the law - such as walking in the middle of the road blocking cars from moving.

you wanting to break laws and make life harder for other people does not make your fake point exist. enjoy your rubber bullet in the eye.
BitWarden for less "important" things like gaming, streaming, store, and forum logins. Things that would be more of an inconvenience if it were to be hacked.

For more important things I use KeePass and keep it all offline.
Free TON 0.25.0 SDK release is out
The rotorcraft used for the Bin Laden raid weren't standard Black hawks.

The modifications probably required huge trade-offs in cost/performance and might still not be quiet enough for daily use in urban/residential areas.
popcount is the basis for a whole family of bitwise operations that are very slow without.

rotate is essential to modern crypto ciphers and efficient hashes.
> most transformative technology since the light bulb

Assuming it doesn't require huge energies like 1MW/lb. If it did, it would be incredible for space travel, but fairly useless and incredibly inefficient for anyones every day life.
Losing the ability to rent PC games when I was about 8 rocked my world. I'll never forget the last game I ever rented, SimTown. Going to that rental store was almost as exciting as walking through a computer expo.
To paraphrase Bostrom, there is a lot of interest here, regardless of the the ground truth of UFO phenomena.

This perspective is a good one: what would a slow-drip/evolving story be good for? What might its objectives be?

That is a useful question, regardless of whether we ever get ground truth.

To wit: our government has a very long (now 70 year) history of exploiting UFO reporting for various ends and for murky reasons.

Recommended sober account: https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Sw...

De rigeur disclosure: I am related to one of the authors :)

--

A different angle: one of the more interesting perspectives on UFO phenomena comes form Jacque Vallée, VC and real-life model for Lacombe, the civilian expert played by François Truffaut in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

He has hypothesized that whatever the ultimate nature of UFO phenomena, it is consistent with a very slow period (think Long Now-scale) inoculation/inculcation of–for lack of a better word–contact.

Between humanity and what exactly he does not claim to have any answer.
Wouldn’t people just unsubscribe?
Isn't this just "cost of doing business" for a company of Amazon's size? Like sure, this does happen but at what rate?
It seems counter to the fundamentals of science culture that the director just kind of gets 10% of the time without need for approval.

Can anyone cast some light on this?
I don't disagree with this at all. That is how it should work and that is apparently how it is working.
An elite group of scientists tried to warn Trump against lockdowns in March
Hilly terrain with ice and snow. How do you get to work in a snow-storm? Possible in a car, but something else in an "air taxi".
Surely there must be some price index that uses a basket including these additional important "goods"... does anybody know of one?

I think items like housing and transportation costs are used by some regions when calculating the cost of living that determines the "poverty line" for aid programs. So there's probably already a well-vetted process for looking up some of those price points. Then it's just a matter of aggregating them and tracking that value over time...
I loved my cube. <3
> If it was a foreign military's advanced aircraft, this is them admitting that, yep, your stealth/whatever technology works great, and we are baffled by it.

I have an alternative explanation that also matches with history. They know what it is but don't want to tell the public. They can also feed bad information to adversaries like China and Russia who may interpret this is over confidence in their technologies.

Here's a simple analogy. My cat is really dumb and will step right in front of me in the middle of the night when it is dark because she thinks I can see her (because she can see me). So at night I over exaggerate my inability to see in the dark. Now she thinks she is super sneaky (she's not) but also gets out of my way at night.

All wars (especially cold wars, like the one we're in) are about information control. There is lots of propaganda, misdirection, lying, etc. An adversary having over confidence in their technology means that they will use it with that confidence. Think about WW2 and when the Enigma encryption was broken by Turing's team. They didn't reveal that they broke the encryption and let some people be attacked and prevented others (this led to some of the big foundations in game theory as well).

Now we know this is a possibility, so do the Russians and Chinese. But the pentagon could also be telling the truth. These videos could also be complete fabrications or lucky shots that are natural phenomena that fool instruments. If Russia has the tech and doesn't tell the Chinese and the Chinese think we don't know what it is then China gets more afraid of Russia (and vise versa). Because sometimes the pentagon says the truth, sometimes they lie, sometimes they misdirect. By doing all of these it makes it very difficult to tell which is happening, and that is exactly the point. So my alternative is just a potential alternative that needs to be added to your list. There's also a bunch more, complicating matters even more. This is an information campaign.

The simple and likely answer is that it isn't aliens.

There's also strange examples, like how this video[0] is actually a weapon and Dustin became a semi-knowing participant (and you could gather that others are unknowing participants in information campaigns).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE

Edit: I wanted to add another alternative. The military knows what it is and aren't trying to trick Russia and China, but garner support for weapons development from the public and politicians. "We don't know what this is but we do know it is spying on us" is a great way to get people to freak out and throw money at the problem. Or they don't know and it still has the same result.
Thousandths of an inch is not quite as precise as 100ths of a mm though they are at the same order of magnitude and top machinists using temperature corrections and all kinds of trickery can do better than that. Reproducibly.

Measuring with such high degrees of precision is easier than manufacturing by a very large margin. There are calibrated standards that fit in your pocket quite easily. Even ye olde feeler gauge was pretty precise if you were careful with it.
> Just like insurance, the less times I use my refund, the lower rate I pay per month.

Huh, what insurance works like that? If you pay a rate based on how much you used it, you might as well pay for the thing you're having the insurance pay for. I get that such an insurance will catch outliers still (saving you from a big boo-boo) but that's the only kind of thing insurances are for: big boo-boos (chance events that cost you disproportionately much compared to how much reducing the risk of them to zero would cost, like surgery or your house burning down). If you use it for frivolous stuff like, say, covering for a $10 meal, imagine the overhead, the management costs of all those claims, the arbitration, and the little you get out of it unless you order at a shitty restaurant and get unlucky nearly every time because you travel a lot for work and don't know the good places around -- oh wait, in your model that means you pay more anyway and it's not worth it, so every subscriber is really only lining the manager's pockets.

Just eat mediocre food for once or order elsewhere if the food is actually inedible. The lack of repeat custom is surely worth more to a restaurant than refunding those ten dollars you're sour about.
Newegg! Usually it's pretty close to competitive with Amazon for electronics.
Do you have examples of the backlash to this essay? Were there any actual consequences to expressing his opinion, or did people just express their own opinions about his?
> I mean, how else do you describe that other than clever?

Connected.
>DJI Android GO 4 application security analysis

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/dji-android-go-4-a...

>DJI Privacy Analysis Validation

https://blog.grimm-co.com/2020/07/dji-privacy-analysis-valid...
I don't think children now would have the trust enough to cooperate.
As 7nm schedule continues slipping, Intel contemplates 3rd-party fabs
> If the full hundred hours was such a huge risk, why not take, like, 5-10 photos first to see if you get much of anything? Seems like they would have been able to know pretty early on whether it was going to be worth it.

This has been answered already but just to pull some threads together - the suggestion to take a few exposures first and see what comes out is precisely backwards. They already knew, going into it, that what they were looking for was at the limits of sensitivity, so nothing would show up until they accumulated enough observing time.

In the absence of systematic effects, our signal to noise ratio improves as the square root of integration time. Think of a bucket accumulating photons - the signal accumulates in linear proportion to the integration time, while the RMS fluctuations increase as the square root of the integration time, so the signal to noise ratio improves as T/sqrt(T) = sqrt(T).

So the idea was to accumulate enough exposure that the faint galaxies would become visible at the telescope performance limits - can't get to something scientifically useful by imaging only the first few exposures. It might have made a pretty enough picture, sure, but not an informative one, compared to what we could already do from huge ground-based facilities.
Serious question, why not in the USA?
Tests :-)
Sidecar Pattern
Agreed. Asked around here a few people and "deduce" is more wide spread than "infer". A lot of people don't know the meaning of either, though, and it doesn't help that deduction's first translation is related to the mathematical operation :(

I would still suggest to go with automatic :)
I think I've expressed myself wrongly. I'm not a contractor, just a normal fulltime employee. This normally means (at least in Europe) 8h/day 5 times per week, hence 40h/week. I'm not being payed by the hour.
Hey thanks for that recommendation btw, we’re moving out to Raleigh in January and my girlfriend loves sushi. This should help us to at least get a new regular sushi place!
+1 for VS Code for general purpose dev.

I used Atom when it first came out and loved it, despite people's constant complaints about it crashing and being unstable. It just ran so smooth for me.

Then I moved VS Code so I'd be using the same editor for my personal development that I used at work. About a year ago (3 or 4 since I moved from Atom) I decided to give Atom another try, and was miserable. It crashed constantly and when it didn't crash it would run at a snail's pace.

I've installed VS code on multiple machines and haven't had any issues, despite both Atom and VS Code are Electron apps.
Speaking as someone who has recovered from ME/CFS, stress and (lack of) goals seem to have been a big factor in causing me to develop the illness, and stress seems to be a major factor for other patients as well (according to both the research, and the experiences of patients themselves).

I don't see this as blaming myself, it's just how the brain works. Chronic stress has negative effects for all mammals. Take a look at forced swimming, visible burrow, or other stress experiments. It isn't the animal's fault that it has a negative reaction (in terms of cortisol, neurotransmitters, depression, anxiety, mental/physical fatigue, or whatever) to the stressful situation. The brain has evolved to generate these responses to stress, presumably as a survival tool to help prevent the even worse effects of chronic long-term stress. The one advantage we have as humans is that we have a certain amount of control in getting out of stressful situations.
The difference is that it’s a one-off event.

Say you have a bad day at work but usually you’re awesome. This happens to be the day 20 new coworkers see you for the first time. They all tell their manager.

Do you deserve to be ostracized forever because you bombed one presentation to a vocal minority? Or should that be balanced against your amazing work on other days?

The Algorithm just sees those 20 bad reviews. It doesn’t know about your other amazing days.

In the case of a restaurant another dimension comes into play: Serving a table of 20 is a logistical nightmare compared to serving 10 tables of 2. This is why large parties usually call in advance and get a prefixed menu. The restaurant would also ensure extra staffing for that time.
Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL now supports point-in-time recovery
I didn't downvote it, but I guess it was for asking for a source for something that at least I thought was common knowledge.
A medium helicopter charter might be $1200/hour, SF to Tahoe is ~130 nm, so ~1.5 hours each way.

Of that $1200/hr, $150/hr is fuel, $50/hr is engine maintenance, and maybe $100/hr airframe maintenance. These scale linearly with time. For fixed costs, a new helicopter is ~$3 million, so figure $300k per year in depreciation, taxes, insurance, and finance costs. Add another $150k/year for pilot salary and training. If you find lots of customers and keep the helicopter busy, say 1000 hours a year, there's $450 an hour for fixed costs.

The real key to reducing costs is increasing utilization, this keeps the fixed costs reasonable. Batteries and motor will likely improve fuel+engine cost, but also hurt utilization because charging takes more time than refueling. A large network improves utilization. But building a network, with various types of demand (leisure on weekends, business commute during weekdays, cargo during off-peak periods?), is the real challenge.
It's kinda hard to tell from the article whether "negative" means one-star or, like, three-stars. Because yeah, there are quite a few people who tend to overreact to a less-than-ideal experience where they feel compelled to leave a one-star review because the check took an extra ten minutes to arrive. And surely anyone with a shred of empathy would cut a brand new restaurant some slack if it's not perfect on the first week.

OTOH, people seem to think you're being mean if you leave a 2-3/5 review for a restaurant, and at some point we should acknowledge the fact that some places are just mediocre. And if I go to a thoroughly mediocre Italian restaurant, I don't think it's mean to leave it a mediocre rating, because the average person should know that there are four better Italian restaurants within 15 miles they could go to.
There's one area where I'd love a shorter trip: travelling to the international airport.

I live in South East London and it can easily take over an hour to get to Heathrow, which really eats into a weekend if travelling for work. I'd love to be able to go to a more local vertigo, check my luggage and just have to clear international security at the main airport.
Brandon Eich
A 12-month review of ConvertKit's AWS bill
The ugly side of React Hooks
I wrote https://autosnoozer.com to solve this problem for myself. Give it a try. It helps me batch process my emails (including daily and weekly newsletters)
What language are you using? I use codelite for developing firmware in C. Supposedly supports JS and node.js but I cannot vouch for that because I don't do web stuff.

I have noticed that IDE's based on Scintilla are very responsive. Much better than ones based on Java frameworks and vastly faster than VSCode. The memory usage is much smaller. Current medium sized project I have open is using 45mb of memory.

A suggestion is to do the brain dead thing I did and look at the lists of IDE's on Wikipedia and try the ones that might work for you.
Yes, I'm sure you haven't heard of Kubernetes. Wonder which company invented that.
There are no aliens. Pentagon is trying to convince pilots to report ufo sightings because it may be Chinese drone. Don't worry pilots, your license is safe even when you report ufo.
As cool and revolutionary as that would be for the future of mankind in the long run, it wouldn't have any immediate or short-term impact.

Anti-gravity/electrogravitics would make all kinds of sci-fi stuff possible. It would be a much, much bigger deal.
The last swing in the opposite direction was post 9/11
Just playing devil's advocate here, but what if it's something like:

an omnidirectional thrust vector
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-2875-5_...

but using a nuclear powered jet engine? (Like the Burevestnik linked above)

Sounds crazy, but if it were done, and if it were a drone that is 90% engine and fuel (no pilot, no life support), I could imagine getting something that performs similarly to what we have seen in these videos.

If we add on top of being 90% engine and fuel, even a slight improvement in engine performance, or a willingness to let the engine destroy itself after each use, it would have better performance than human-containing sustainable-flying aircraft.
Perhaps related to the X-37B?

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boeing-x-37b-space-plane
Using? So I can dump my games but not play them?
users, showing you learned from user feedback to iterate on the project
The most powerful thing you can do is to fix 100 bugs on an extremely well known open source project, and put that on your resume, with links to all the github issues/commits.
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to Covid-19 lockdown
Anything mechanical that you don't use is on the way out, airplanes, cars it doesn't matter. Use it or lose it very much applies and all it takes is to not use something for a while to find completely new failure modes. Case in point, and very timely: just today I had to replace the valve that allows for the pressurization of the fuel tank on my car simply because it wasn't used for three months. It had seized and no amount of brake fluid or other solvents would get rid of the gunk enough to unstuck the valve so it could be worked.
I forget where I heard this quote but I think it summarizes the whole "outsourcing as a boondogle" scenario:

1. A good development team in the US/Europe costs $X

2. An equivalent team in not the US/Europe costs 75% of $X

3. A terrible team in not the US/Europe costs 25% of $X

Most outsourcing decisions instead of stopping at Option 2 and enjoying the 25% savings, got greedy and went full bore to Option 3 and thought themselves geniuses.
If the results of the LUTs don't end up clocked into a register, where do they go?

Of course everything is analog, and ultimately quantum-electrodynamic, but the languages FPGAs are programmed in don't provide access to those domains.
so... jericho?
I on EB1B queue working at a uni, and was planning to consult for a Canadian firm, and the scope of work is related to my research area. This is not much info, but at a first glance, does it seems like it would negatively impact? Also my PD recently became current (not sure how long it will take to get the green card).
What would you suggest for finding a project that is sufficiently complex to matter, but not too large for a student to contribute to?
No I mean why he believes they were somehow more efficient.
Because people?

Or more than that?
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I used Spyglass back in the Mosaic Communicator and Netscape 1.1N days. There was no real difference. The big draw of Mosaic Communicator over NCSA Mosaic was in-line jpegs.

You could have easily replayed the world and Spyglass and Netscape’s fates would have been switched, because they had identical products in an identical market.
That ceremony is just security theatre.

See https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2016/10/27/14-dns-nerds-dont-con...
Hey Peter! Former client, And used your firm for several employees. You’ve become an expert in this space. How do you think about scalability and succession planning? What motivates you to keep being so hands on? What has motivated you to become a leader in this field?
Periscope lens: what is it, and what does it mean for iPhones?
> Most things being single threaded also meant that even if your machine was lagging, you could queue a bunch of keystrokes and clicks and they’d all execute in perfect order exactly as expected as soon as the lag stopped. Nowadays all those keystrokes and clicks just fucking vanish.

Actually, on the rare occasion when OS X freezes up, I have experienced this. For a solid minute I mash keys and click my mouse in vain, and then boom, the system wakes up and all of my keystrokes and mouse clicks execute at once.
Not all assets, first $800k(-ish) isn't taxed.
And you need to have had the green card for some number of years

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
How would nuclear power do anything other than make it much heavier than it would otherwise be and let it stay aloft much longer?
avg hourly wage is .55/hr USD. That is why.
The photons have spent 12bn years travelling through the universe, and they’re just hitting the Hubble telescope now.

Both objects started moving at the same time but at different speeds and in different directions- on top of this the universe itself is also expanding, so the gaps between galaxies is actually growing, meaning it takes longer for the photons to get here
I have no idea why newegg didn’t cross my mind. I guess because I’m not buying desktop computer parts.

Thank you.
What do you find absurd in “someone who illegally entered on the soil of a sovereign state”? Because it seems to me then that you find the very concept of law absurd.
Although many regular people have stocks held until retirement, they don't make up a majority of stock owners: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-richest-1-own-50-of-stock...

And according to Wikipedia data, in 2016 84% of stock was owned by the top 10%. That leaves 16% of the market to everyone else, a very small %.

https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/
> Production wise, an economy that is not concerned with democratic institutions or reducing inequality will outperform one that is.

The question is: How can the market be adapted to create a fair, innovative and sustainable society, globally?

How can a single government force any rules with these goals without lowering the welfare of its inhabitants and thus threaten its reelection?