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Ask HN: What do you think of the Pentagon-released UFO sightings?
Let me preface this by saying that I do not think it is likely that advanced alien life has visited Earth, but that the odds of this seem higher today than they did a year ago.

In April, the Pentagon released videos of UFO sightings[1]. Since then, we have learned that the Pentagon has a UFO task force[2]. A Pentagon defense contractor even gave a DOD briefing this year claiming that the government is in possession of "off-world vehicles"[3].

What does HN make of this?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/pentagon-ufo-videos.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html

[3] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/ufo-report-pentagon-has-off-world-vehicles-not-from-earth.html
Don't be afraid to “fail” (2019)
Aside, of course, from the excess deaths and lowered quality of life caused by increased pollution. MIT researches estimated 1200 early deaths caused by VW's cheating: https://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-dea...
Seriously!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Probably not what youre looking for (because it’s a paid service and mobile games only) but gamerefinery.com has game feature datasets.
About Google's approach to research publication (Jeff Dean)
Google seems like a shit show these days. Being liberal and playing politics is more important than coding ability
You might enjoy this letter by Edward Dijkstra on why Americans sometimes don't realize the mathematical basis of programming:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

Excerpt: "The first series of machines —that of the singletons— was mainly developed in the USA shortly after the World War II, while a ruined continental Europe had neither the technology, nor the money, to start building computers: the only thing we could do was thinking about them. Therefore it is not surprising that many US Departments of Computer Science are offsprings of Departments of Electrical Engineering, whereas those in Europe started (later) from Departments of Mathematics (of which they are often still a part). This different heritage still colours the departments, and could provide an acceptable explanation that in the USA Computing Science is viewed more operationally than in Europe."
I worked on the System Management Server team. We had to support all of the platforms. I also worked trying to get the product to compile for the PPC as they were working on NT for the PPC. They never solved the problem of linking MFC as a DLL working. They put the brakes on PPC not long after.
There related to function addresses being put in a table and when the functions were from the DLL and the call was from the EXE it would wind up with a register set to execute functions in the EXE and not the DLL.
> firstly to no longer be subject to the whims of a landlord

Unless you have an allodial title (hint: you almost certainly do not), you are always subject to the whims of at least one landlord, specifically the state.
I remember quite a few aimbots back in the day would MITM packets so there are some reasons you might want to do it from a defense in depth perspective.
Interesting, I buy this RAW cashew butter often: https://artisanaorganics.com/products/organic-cashew-butter and they claim certified RAW, so what's the catch?
Covid and California’s farmworkers: study lays bare disproportionate risks
That's true, but I think GUI drifts back when you consider the arcane keyboard shortcuts a good GUI has for power users.
Only if you sell.

LVT serves a few different interests and is sold as a cure all. Kinda like the “gold bug” of tax policy.
You can't define lies and misinformation. If
every community only allowed what they think is true you get Echo chambers, which are already prevalent for said reasons.

Someone's misinformation os another's hard truth. A Flat Earther considers any evidence of a round earth to be false.
"""I get it but leaning on rapid tests is pretty much a step or two above tempature checks. It doesn't catch many positives. Every White House super spreader event occurred with rapid testing in place.

Then the city went on a rampage telling families last week they could not rely on the far greater and accurate PCR TESTING + isolation to see each other. That it is where it all falls apart for me

I do have sympathy for officials BUT you either fully lock down or you don't. This middle ground is a mess"""

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/k6y5f5/comment/...
I would like to review your Common Lisp credentials.
It used to be much easier for Android users to be able to choose which location service they wanted to use, for example Mozilla’s location service downloaded from F-Droid. However, Google made a change to AOSP that requires third-party location services to now be installed as a system app, not a regular app. (Only a tiny amount of people will have the skills to use the Android shell to move the package to the right place.) It is hard to not see this as a way for Google to lock Android users into using only its service and giving it all their location data.
Your quotes over heuristics made my rational mind believe you’re full of it.

You are being rather certain for someone who has yet to show how they know for certain they aren’t simply engaging meaningless mechanical effort and grasping for clever semantics.
So, no source and you’re just guessing, based on no actual data?
Recommend. Many can sneer at a podcaster trying to tackle philosophy, but he does it well enough to get you interested in seeking the original theory. That’s what he does best. I love his podcast.
Using a seed with the "random" is exactly how you get to pseudo-random, which gives the same sequence everytime, and is absolutely fine for tests.

If you want to have the build (test) result feedback to save the input, that's an ok goal but I think it's hard to pull off: now you have your build making commits to source control (causing another build), or you have test data stored somewhere else not in source (when really, it should be part of source).
> Insurers make no valuation on the land, only on the improvements

Well

$PROPERTY_VALUE = $LAND_VALUE + $IMPROVEMENTS_VALUE

Which means

$LAND_VALUE = $PROPERTY_VALUE - $IMPROVEMENTS_VALUE

$PROPERTY_VALUE is set by the market automatically, and we've already established that insurers are able to calculate $IMPROVEMENTS_VALUE, so - tada! - you've now got your $LAND_VALUE.
Love it - only half-joking. Take advantage of a large population of healthy young men under close medical supervision and government access to good LSD in order to run a good experiment to see if micro dosing has positive cognitive effects.
The environmental impact of bitcoin mining is the major argument against it. I don't think it will be feasible in the long run. The fact there are allegedly mining farms in the Mongolian lake of dystopia Bautou undermines the infeasibility long term.

As pointed out elsewhere here, fiat currency is as equally arbitrary as bitcoin is.

Bitcoin's age and seeming resistance to network manipulation and cracking over a long period of time is really the source of its enduring value.

In my personal opinion/perception, the true devaluation of other cryptocurrencies occurred in the "aaaand its gone" twitter moment. Even if it was a joke/stunt, it really highlighted the superfluous nature of almost all cryptocurrencies besides BTC.
Based on the last image it looks like the spacecraft dropped off the sample then continued back into space. Anyone know why? Headed for more collection?
Tell me to ignore man pages, and I will ignore everything else you say.

IMHO. YMMV.
You make a good point, but there is no "official Bitcoin forum." That's the equivalent of calling HN the "official hacker forum."
In that case: if you look at an entire macroscopic system, isolated from everything else, before and after a measurement, you will find that the total entropy of the system has not changed. It can't because the evolution of an isolated system is always unitary.

If you trace over any degree of freedom of the system (i.e. separate the system into two parts, which are usually the "particle being measured" and everything else) then what you will find is that after the measurement the degree of freedom over which you traced has a negative entropy, and the rest of the system now has a positive entropy (which is the source of the apparent randomness), and that all of the degrees of freedom of the rest of the system (in the preferred basis as determined by decoherence) are now in classical correlation with each other. That is how you make "copies" of (classical) information.
> I understand the point you're trying to make here

The point was that it's a multi-dimensional space, and the OP should actually consider the product rather than automatically go all "lol, Google product, bet it gets killed".

So if you think that "some old products were discontinued" is any kind of rebuttal, I clearly didn't make my point well enough. Of course that happens! The alternative is that any sufficiently old product would automatically become immortal, which would be a ludicrous idea.

8.8.8.8 clearly has a ton of users, which already differentiates it from basically everything on your list. It's also isn't something you could just put in a maintenance mode and forget about, unlike a lot of the things on your list, both due to the scale and due to the impact if it were to stop working. Something like "Google Showtimes" would not have been a big drain on resources for most of its lifespan... When there's a measurable cost to keeping a service running, the longevity does actually signal something about the business value.

Products with no users get killed by all companies. Products with hundreds of millions of users don't get killed with one exception: to migrate the users to a different product for the same task.

And that can't really happen with DNS! They can't replace the clients, nor force the clients to upgrade, and they can't change the protocol in a way that would force some kind of a migration. Even if they end up deciding that the service needs a full rewrite, the external interface will have to stay the same.

And once you think about the specifics, it actually becomes kind of an interesting discussion to have! What are the circumstances that could lead to this service being discontinued?

A complete migration from IPv4 to IPv6 might do it: part of the value of both this and 1.1.1.1 is that these are IP addresses that people can actually remember. Their IPv6 addresses do not have that property. Not holding my breath on that one though :-P And even if that migration ever finishes, it's plausible that operating systems start including a dropdown of well-known public DNS servers as one of the configuration options.

Could they replace DNS entirely? Come up with a "QuikDNS" that starts off as proprietary, is implemented in only Chrome and Android but never replaces DNS outside of their ecosystem? Or instead of a proprietary protocol just stop supporting classic DNS and only continue supporting DNS over HTTP? I don't see the former, there's just not enough wrong with the standard protocols for that to be worth it. I could definitely imagine the latter happening at very long timescales (like, not for at least 10 years). At the point where 99% of the traffic is DNS over HTTP, maybe the cost benefit ratio stops being there for classic DNS.

> and a lot of the things they killed were well used, long lived, and popular.

I don't think the examples you posted really match that description. Most of them weren't ever popular, let alone when they were discontinued. Maybe Picasa was?
There is a big gap between Observations and Solutions.

Just like the resources, knowledge and skills required to detect Cancer is very different from what is required to treat it, which is very different from what is required to cure it.

The healthy way to go about it involves understanding the gaps(usually from someone/group with experience) and then picking an issue.

"Optimize for a simplistic world Or satisfice for a realistic one"
Playing politics can take many different ways, and creating a scandal to draw attention can also be very efficient.
That’s a different argument. If most college students are lacking a skill, teaching it is by definition not remedial.

A class on Ancient Greek isn’t remedial just because the top 1% of society that went to college in the 19th century learned it in secondary school.

I’ve never had experience with English teachers who teach art and politics instead of English, but then again American school systems are very diverse. You might want to consider that before you make generalizations. You also might want to consider whether you have enough real evidence to hold such strong opinions on the state of English education.
It takes some tricky math to get where military spending is only 12% of federal spending.

First, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan and being treated in a VA hospital would have to have that cost excluded from the budget.

The department of energy dealing with nuclear weapon waste is excluded from that budget.

The office of a foreign US embassy serving as cover for a CIA case officer is excluded from that budget.

Interest on military deficit spending from last year is excluded from that budget.

In fact, add all these things up which don't fall within this theoretical 12% and it comes to hundreds of billions of dollars.
That image is way way oversimplified. The spacecraft did not enter the atmosphere and head back into space. The capsule was released far away from earth, the action of releasing it placing it into a lower perigee that allowed it to be captured by the atmosphere. The rest of the spacecraft continued on the higher orbit.
As stated in other comments, the buyout option may be the real driver of this, but in my estimation, these are the true challenges to mainline ICE selling EVs:

1) battery supply
2) resistance from dealers
3) lack of charging infrastructure

1 and 3 will probably be fixed. #2 may be more intransigent.
That's DAU's - M365 has 200M+ MAU's

Teams isn't a complete subset of M365 though since you can have guest users from outside the org which would count towards the DAU

What you're missing is that M365 is huge in enterprises. Last stat I saw is they've hit 90%+ of the Fortune 500.
> people will just abandon ownership of large parcels

Good. That's the whole point. That abandonment of ownership gives other people the opportunity to make use of it for their own benefit.

That is: the very act of land ownership externalizes opportunity costs on the rest of society, and this is what underpins wealth inequality. LVT forces landowners to internalize those costs.
It is expensive jailing people. And it just makes the problem worse. Countries around the world (Portugal for example) show how to actually solve the problem. What seems to stop other countries adapting good solutions is a desire by the population to punish and hurt people they don’t like (the homeless).
Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease (2018)
When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde.

The idea of performance enhancing drugs making their way into the workplace arena scares me a lot.
Doppler Effect and Phase Shift for Doppler Radar
Toyota aren't a monopoly and the auto industry is one of the most regulated on earth
Its probably a pun based on "New World Order" from George H Bush after the wall fell.

I think of the Early 90s Ministry song with the same name..I'm always amazed how I can remember songs I haven't heard in decades...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPx9QdzNpA
Wish they stayed with 1 dollar a year funding model. I would pay 5 dollars a month for a family plan with high priority HD video chat.
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I do think Julia is a far better language for numerics than python, but compared to DataFrames.jl, pandas can be quite fast. I know, "but it's easier to make it faster in Julia". Last I checked `sort(df, :col)` was significantly slower than `df[sortperm(df[:col])]`. Someone actually has to go through and make these libraries fast.

Second issue, in my field (bioinformatics) the script is still a pretty common unit of code. Without cached compilation being a simple flag, Julia often is slower.
In what way? My personal expectation of CI is predictable, repeatable builds, that give me some assurance the software is working as designed. I also like that it forces everything to be scripted: no "only Bob knows how to build the release file."

Flaky tests are an indicator of poor code: maybe it's your actual code, maybe it's a bug in the test code, or maybe it's external dependency + lack of error handling in the test code but there's a problem somewhere.
avisos y anuncios can also mean notices and announcements. I don’t know why AI went the Ads route.
Can you share some of these strategies?
Your Client could stop visiting those sites, cuz they would disappear anyway if this law was repelled.
In fairness, that quote seems to have been in reference to having a "home computer" that controlled everything in the home which was a popular notion at the time and did not, in fact, come to pass.

That said, DEC and others did not really recognize the shifting of the computing environment to horizontal layers from vertical stacks and the importance of compatibility. Even to the degree they introduced PCs, they didn't understand they played to an entirely different business model than minicomputers. (Source: I worked for Data General, a DEC offshoot, for over a decade.)
> If you want 100 acres to do nothing good with, do it with a giant seastead.

And even then, the surface area of the Earth is still fixed. So is the volume (unless you're willing to destroy Earth as we know it in the process).

So a seastead just kicks the can down the road. If you want 100 acres to do nothing good with, do it in space.
Though useful, this website appears to exclude mobile games entirely. The amount of screen space on big screens makes it a lot easier to design UI for. The true magic of UI design mostly happens in mobile games where devs cram an incredible amount of stuff into limited space while trying to maintain sanity. A big loss, without mobile games.
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A part of the inefficiency is that business-logic oriented applications (a) often use stateful object models to organize their code and services, which are (b) extremely difficult to reason about mathematically, both due to the pseudo-mathematical nature of mutable state, and due to no canonical formal representation of what an "object" is mathematically, nor what an "object" ought to be in software engineering.

The situation may be improving: more programming is moving over to the functional style which at the very least gets you algebraic concepts like combinators as the method for code reuse, and types + monoids as formal stand-ins for objects. In other words programming moves towards math when it makes functions really functions.

Category Theory and Linear Logic also provide models for data-transformation locales (objects) as well as resource consumption (mutation); but they are still heavyweight formalisms which have yet to make full penetration towards applications which quite frankly might not need them to do useful work.
Ok, so then what knowledge is GP missing to explain why it costs so much?
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I cannot for the life of me figure out what the point is that you're trying to make.
I don’t understand why Americans are so eager to punish and jail people given that it objectively doesn’t fix the problems people think it will fix. My conclusion (having lived, worked and paid taxes in many countries, including the US) is that there is an undercurrent of cruelty in US culture less prevalent in (say) Australia or the UK for example. It is the only explanation I have been able to come up with that matches my experiences having lived, worked and paid taxes in Europe, US and Australia.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a few years, used to listen all the time and even submitted a few episodes when I was young. It shaped the hell out of me that's for sure.

I think the beauty of HPR is the low barrier of entry to producing a interesting episode. Grab a Mic, and get a ramble :)

http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php
Would this have been a crime or unethical? Is there a market for doing adversarial research and profiting from the ensuing damage?
I worked at DG for about 13 years. (Mostly product management on the computer systems side.) On my list of things to do is to scan "A year in development" book that was put together in about 1985 or so. I left shortly after the EMC acquisition.
And this was never really enforced. I don't know anyone who paid for it.
Domination and obedience based hierarchical system + positive cognitive effects = ?
Really it comes down to exposure surface. Just looking around my home, I sit with 100's if not 1000's of devices from various companies and their internet implementation. I have no idea what's going on 'under-the-hood' on all of these and rely on trust. If I were smarter, I would have bought from a smaller group of trusted names like Apple and Microsoft and let them deal with my updates.
Do you have a source for your assertions about the SLS? I can't seem to pull anything up.
It also isn't a good look when the restrictions happen to fall on apparent political lines, even if it isn't intentional.

Hollywood productions, Amazon warehouses, protests in line with democratic party values, abortion clinics and pot shops = D leaning voters = Allowed, if not encouraged

Small businesses, churches, protests of lockdown measures, gun ranges, Musk and Tesla = R leaning voters = Forbidden, shun them, they are going to kill grandma

Add to that the many of the people advocating for these policies fail to follow them themselves (Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Dianne Feinstein just to name a few) and you can see how many especially those who are losing their livelihoods see this as a attack and are frustrated. The optics are extremely bad, though that might be the point.
I miss having an RSS feed reader in Safari.

Sites like this become the source for finding new sources for feeds.

I have no need or want for an intermediary app to get between me and my feeds. It’s a text feed, for crying out loud. One of Apple’s worst antiuser moves...all for the sake of Apple News that goes straight into Trash without reading? Every time I delete the email, it reminds me how shortsighted and arrogant Apple can be. So I get a daily dose of antiApple by way of Apple themselves. Hurrah?

MetaFilter is slanted in the content presented...used it heavily in its early days. Yield rate plummeted to near zero so skipped it...I assume I aged out of its content.

Instead of webrings, I collect blogs that have embedded a miniRSS list of followed blogs. Can glom together a decent RSSish feed in a particular topic of interest from them.
At first glance the desktop client GUI looks really nice and easy to use, which I think is pretty important to get right.

Unfortunately it loses a lot of convenience by not having some kind of web interface, even if it's only for discovery. One way for something like this to spread is by sharing project URLs that anyone can open in a web browser.
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