skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True that it may be the case whatever the objects were using for propulsion could be explained entirely with known physics, and we just don’t have the explanation yet.

However, whether the technology operates within or outside of known physics is not the point.

The point is that discounting Pais’ work rules out the possibility that UAP is a classified human technology, which then the only options we are left with for UAP are it is either aliens or time machines. If we accept that the two events (Pais’ work and the UAP) are unrelated, then since UAP cannot be humans it must be something else. This is where the fun begins.
In an academic paper from 30 March 2010 from the United State Marine Corps Command and Staff College at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, Major Joseph T. Beals, USMC writes:
"The elite Mexican Special Forces, Grupo Aeromovil de Especiales (GAFE), have members who attended the SOA. Unfortunately, some of these highly trained individuals gave into corruption and formed their own criminal enterprise, the Zetas. The Zetas, along with several other private entities, have taken over areas where the Mexican government has no influence."
Maybe read the whole thing next time?
“Obviously seems to imply...”
Thats an interesting phrase.
JS in 2010 was not nearly as efficient or fast as it is today. But yes, it was a number of things as well as Javascript. It was entirely possible to spend time in stock Gnome3 without executing JS with any meaningful frequency, because the core Gnome shell doesn't really have much; but being the extension language, using any Gnome3 extensions would immediately bring JS into the profile. Being someone who likes to customize my desktop, and typically uses hardware five or more years out of date, the Javascript was a pain point for me.

There's an excellent blog post from 2019 by one of the Ubuntu devs regarding their efforts at the time to fix Gnome3, as they were abandoning Unity:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-perfor...

Going farther back, Gnome3 was plagued with lots of similarly bad design decisions, like allocating and freeing large amounts of memory on the same thread that handles animation rendering:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032

It's quite a storied history for Gnome3 performance; it's come a long way in the last decade. Sadly, it's still nowhere near as responsive or efficient as Gnome2/MATE.
Sadly, they probably did mean philanthropy. Many young Americans today have strongly embraced Authoritarian-Left political views and see any person who earns/saves/acquires enough money to give some of it away as a failure of the government to fully tax or control all resources inside the country.

Basically if you have a complete faith that the government always knows best, then anyone else (an individual, a charity, a business, a volunteer organization, etc) spending their time or money to solve a problem is a bad thing, because the money should have been controlled by the government so they could allocate it as they saw fit.
Here in Seattle they bulldozed parks and diverse neighborhoods (parts of the International District, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Eastlake) where primarily queer and non-white people lived to build I-5.

Portland's I-205 has much the same story, my father lived through that terrible process where many of his friends had their homes razed to build yet another freeway.
A lot of these are easily mitigated by running your own password manager. They're just general drawbacks of running stuff in the cloud.

Others are mitigated by good opsec and backup strategies.
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Should you create your first online course on Teachable?
"the concentration of inorganic arsenic is generally higher in brown, compared with white, rice grain"

however

"the predicted lifetime cancer risk is 34 cases/million for white rice, compared with 5.4 cases/million for brown rice" where "higher risk associated with white rice is primarily a function of the higher consumption of this product."

"the predicted lifetime cancer risk from consuming one serving per day of white basmati rice is 82 cases per million, while the predicted cancer risk from consuming one serving per day of brown basmati rice is 139 cases per million."

so your mileage may vary

https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/Arsenic-in-Rice-and...
> The underlying nexus is that our ideals on free speech do not take into account human wetware bandwidth.

Damn, this is such a good metaphore, I had to think a lot about it.

For my browser [1] I wanted to introduce a fact gathering and linking system, and build it in a way that bias of authors (and publishers) can be guessed when they release a new article.

My theory is that Rationalism will never be anything that can exist, because it is the opposite of human nature (or say, the founding idea of our society).

The underlying issue is that emotions cause a lot of people to get irrational due to them not being able to differ a potentially dangerous situation with a potentially (equally) good one.

I think that most (if not all) of fake news websites were shared because of only a couple of reasons:

1) Humans like to get reinforced in their own perception more than they like to get disagreed with.

2) Articles in these type of publishing mediums appeal to emotions rather than to facts, hence the reason for why they use pictures, videos and other recordings as "evidence" even when they had totally nothing to do with it.

3) Humans are lazy. This is by far the most important point. If it is easy to comply with an emotional statement, and hard to gather evidence to disprove it; the emotional statement will always win.

4) Humans confuse disagreement with punishment. As a kid you get taught that there are negative effects when you disagree with society, or your mum/dad or other authoritarian figures. Rather than to punish kids when they are wrong we should encourage the gathering of evidence, and let them form an argument for both sides.

5) Humans are beings that forget. That is why media for the masses reuses pictures of a situation that happened years ago as "proof" for something clickbaity. Most people won't remember it if it was a situation that had a boring outcome, but they certainly will remember it when it had a negative emotional effect on themselves.

6) Depression is a huge hole where nobody without external support can come out, due to how our thinking nature works. Similar to 5) our brain is wired to remember negative punishments more than positive reinforcements, and that is why we tend to get depressive more likely than we tend to get optimistic...which in turn plays in the cards of fake news because the bad obvious enemy could do some serious bad thing to us.

But yeah, these are just my two cents. Due to my browser I thought a lot about this and came to the conclusion that irrational hate speech is worse an enemy than someone might think on first sight.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
Complexity and laws/rules are human constructs. Complexity is just the limitation of our brain to handle multiple different things (with interactions) at the same time. Laws/rules come out of our brains ability (and habit) to extract generalisations from the observations.

IMO there is no way you can understand the "absolute fundamental nature of reality" as whatever laws you try to extract out of reality will always be our own interpretation of the observations.

The expectation that nature should follow simple rules is due to our brains limitation to handle complexity and hence the desire of simple laws/rules as that gives us the pleasant feeling of "beauty in simplicity".
Did you grow up without it? Are you biased as a result of that? Bias is practically impossible to eliminate here.

(You could try to find people who moved from one place to another, and ideally limit it to those whose reason for moving had nothing to do with their preferences... and poll them. I don't know how possible that is. It likely also makes a difference at what age they moved.)
Soon:

"Please connect to Wi-Fi."
Does this also apply to UI? I think a lot of front end libraries entice developers to fall for those early abstractions.
I doubt that pedestrians are trying to cross Texas on foot.
In cryptography, entropy is randomness. The higher degree of randomness something has the more entropy it has. You'll often see entropy expressed in bits.

Here's an XKCD comic that uses entropy. It may give you more context: https://xkcd.com/936/
You overpromise when you fear that what you can actually deliver is inadequate.

Obviously imposter syndrome doesn't lead inevitably to ponzi schemes, but it's a possible maladaptive response to those feelings. Bernie Madoff was probably competent enough to be successful at a high level, I have no idea why he actually went off the rails but I can see how imposter syndrome could lead someone in that direction.
Most places, if you have a half-decent manager, they just give you the time back. If you had to wake up at 3am, you get an unspoken amount of time you can claim without official PTO, on top of not having to come in at 9am. So assuming you're on call for one week, you should still only have worked 40 hours, but you can stack up that extra time to supplement a vacation or something.
Hi!

I was one of your early sign ups when you first announced on reddit. I came back this year and resumed my usage.

So, originally, I was a single guy looking to put on muscle. ETM works great for that! Like, super duper well. Baring a few issues.

But now, it isn't just me! And I can't get away with arguing "well the meal is nutritionally balanced."

So, from a wife acceptance factor, whole meals, more than 1 course.

Next, ETM gives wacko shopping amounts sometimes. I know that the math may work out, but 25 cups of spinach is too much. The amounts listed to buy are so far off reality that I am not going to trust the delivery option, which, well, totally sucks because that'd be nice. I think it had me buy 6 heads of lettuce one week.... I did. I ended the week with 4 heads of lettuce in my fridge.

For that matter, the entire UI around "original serving size, servings to make" is confusing as hell.

I should sign up for a new account to give a real FRE feedback, but the UI for existing users to configure meals and such is both absurdly powerful and also hard to manage in regards to "types of meals" and "meal plan". I totally get why the UI is how it is (except for why menus are where they are, separate topic) but I wouldn't ever suggest someone who isn't technically inclined, and also very dedicated, to even try to get started.

Which sort of sums up ETM: It is a power user's tool.

Oh and adding a recipe sucks. After doing one I gave up. I currently have a one note of "recipes from ETM except fixed so they taste like food." No offense (since I fit in this category) but a lot of the recipes are obviously written by gym bros to be as efficient as possible. Like, some of the recipes are easily transformed from meh to good by the addition of basic seasonings.

On the topic of recipes write some sort of import tool so I can point you at a website and you just scrap that shit. Or even let me paste it in and you parse it.

Even if I had to take the parsed results and verify each ingredient, it's be 10x better.

I need to be clear, I like ETM, it saves me a ton of money and makes meal planning easier, but if I didn't know how to cook, estimate amounts of food I need to buy, and if I wasn't able to on the fly figure out other courses for the meals, it would be far less useful to me.

But, as a tool for gym bros to meet their macros, bloody amazing. And gym bros will learn any UI if it promises gains, none of the other tools I use are exactly user friendly.

At the end of the day, if you had a slick onboarding process of "select 5 meals from NYT cooking that we legally slurped up because recipes have no copyright protection, and we'll ship you all the ingredients you need to cook them", well that's be an awesome product.

Oh and pay attention to when certain proteins are cooked. Buying $40 of fish on Sunday for Friday dinner is stupid. Either I freeze $40 of fish and hate you, or the fish goes to waste and I hate you. Both are shitty options.

I chose C, ignore the schedule and I cooked the Halibut on Monday.
The Miyazaki films from Studio Ghibli would absolutely be well-recognized; Spirited Away remains the highest-grossing film in Japan. (I was sort of ignoring films in my analysis.)
Very good list. Specially love 8, 9 and 10! I think these are practical points that one can actually try to follow. As someone mentioned in the comment section, would be nice if we could test these in interviews.
Look at Canada to see how this works and decide whether you get an even more extreme tyranny of the minority. You don't. Legislative priorities are decide by party leadership, which is much more accountable for the laws passed by the party because it's much more obvious what a party did when it was in power.

Nowadays you have members of Congress trying to earnestly explain how they "voted for it before I voted against it".
Surly noone in the orient ever expressed such opinions, least of which the japanese --known throughout asia and the world for their love and admiration of other races -- which is why the west is in desperate need to turn the lookingglass around and cleanse itself from all forms of racism, which it is uniquely capable of doing. Other races needn't play in this game.

One could say that this is merely the continuation of chauvinistic anglocentrism by other means, but to do so would embarass self-professed "anti-racists", hence white supermacy gets a new lease on life deep within the liberal mindset that nominally opposes it.
They're the cure and the disease.

Without a way to keep the system heterogeneous, people have to accept that they are on the same upgrade treadmill as the rest of the people in the organization, which means they have to constantly invest time and energy into keeping up with things.

Containers or microservices mean that the upgrade happens fifteen times, not once, and each group has their own little passion play about why they should do it later instead of now. And in the time it takes to argue about 15 upgrades, 2 more versions have come out.
The pattern existed, but it was never such a serious problem that so many people started using it to justify the current level of censorship and excommunication until after "maximize engagement" turned it up to eleven.
Historically, those who legislate and wield power have not invoked it in that way.

That's the point. "Deregulation" is code for taking hundreds of laws and dumping them in a garbage bin. "Privatization" is code for stealing tax dollars and hiding it in offshore accounts.

I only care about the actual, real world material reality that has historically factually happened. The champions politic in a way that tends strongly away from rule of law as quickly as possible.

It's a framework that gets invoked to go both ways. It's a vendor's "freedom" to not have to label, say, gmo, but then it's the vendor's "rights" to prohibit soy milk from using the label "milk".

"Freedoms" and "rights" get interchanged to rationalize the preconfigured results. The dogma is a general tool.

It was the "freedom" of agrobusiness to flood mexico with corn after NAFTA and run the local farmers out of business and then it was their "rights" to the marketplace when mexico pushed back. The farmers didn't have that same right to the marketplace, they didn't have the same freedoms, only international capital does. How convenient.

That's why the zealots always think it's the right answer - it can be reshaped like a mound of clay to justify and rationalize whatever they want.

For instance the sanctity of contract matters when it's with the gas pipeline company but not when it's with the american tribes

When instead it's a pipeline of people via a subway through a wealthy neighborhood like the purple line extension in Beverly hills, all of a sudden the free market gets invoked to guess what? Reach the opposite conclusion.

It's fundamentally a convenient power tool of capital. They used to use the Bible, now they use Friedrich Hayek. Skullduggery with the purest, most heavenly goals. Sure...

In practice, free markets are lawless raw power that bend the state to do their bidding like some feudal king, but now it's wearing a bowtie and a cardigan instead of a sceptre and a robe.

Same thing, different era.
Facebook hit with privacy issues in Europe
e2e is the number one productivity killer at my org, by a long shot. If there is such a thing as a non-flaky e2e test, I have yet to see it. That, or the test does nothing.

Selenium seems fine for the most part. It's a solid tool. Where it falls apart is when developers do not account for all the various ways the browser session will go wrong. There are simply too many variables at play. A/B tests, cookies, popups, network conditions, machine speed (and current load). Writing e2e is like being blindfolded and tying one hand behind your back while your coworkers take turns spinning you in your chair.

It constantly amazes me that companies think they can put more tasks on a developer's plate with zero impact to productivity. They really do believe that all testing is free and will somehow pay for itself. And yet a single QA human going through a simple testing plan will catch more actual bugs than hundreds of e2e tests that cost a literal fortune to maintain.
Reading the latest document out, I can't rule out sampling bias, and the methodology used to gather data is also vulnerable to bias (get samples which are PCR-negative for the S gene, but positive to other genes, which is, by their own admission, a poor proxy).

The confidence intervals shown by PHE on potential increased transmissibility are also very wide (not the ones from the NERVTAG minutes, but the new analyses by PHE).

It needs larger sampling (already doing so, I'm sure) and some biological evidence.
>The downside to taking that combinator approach too dogmatically is that passing all state as parameters can get extra unwieldy, because now a simple change in data schema can result in you refactoring every single function call.

This should happen with methods too. Whether a variable is free or a parameter doesn't change anything.

x = {b = 1, c = 2}
f(x) {return x.b}
g() return x.b

A change in x, say deleting b, will require a refactor for both the combinator and the method.

I'm not saying combinators are the solution to everything. Of course not. I'm saying combinators are the solution to technical debt caused by organizational issues. Of course there are trade offs, I never said otherwise.

Both of the issues above are separate from the expression problem though. Personally I don't think the expression problem is much of a problem. Whether you add a new function or a new shape to either paradigm in the example link you gave, the amount of logical operations you have to add is equal for both cases. The difference is the location of where you put those logical operations. In one case they can be placed closed together, in another case they have to be placed in separate scopes, but the total amount of logical operations written to achieve a certain goal is equal.

For example adding perimeter to either paradigm necessitates the need for you to define the perimeter of every shape no matter what. Neither paradigm actually offers a shortcut when new information is introduced into the system.
>Consider the absurdity of that concept. Categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as committing murder.

Printing funny green pieces of paper is a felony too. I get the rhetorical effect you're going for, but it's silly to pretend that all felonies are as severe as murder.
Correct, `useState` (and `useEffect` and `useContext`) are not pure. They are ways of managing impurities while writing mostly pure functions.
But they are not more likely to be living paycheck to paycheck. That likelihood has not increased. That is simply how most people live, and how they have AFAICT always lived.

Income is not the dominant factor in whether or not someone lives paycheck to paycheck. People live this way with startlingly high incomes.
You're talking about death as something abstract. I'm not. I'm saying I would prefer not to die, even if it costs the economy a lot.

Perhaps you'd give up your life, or your child or partner or parent, to save a handful of jobs but that's quite weird in my opinion. Economies can be rebuilt. Dead people can't be brought back.
- Apple Watch (Nike edition. Using it to help me move more, and so far it’s working)

- iPhone 12. The 5s was showing its age.

- Oculus Quest 2 (want to move more when gaming)

- TempurPedic pillow

- Serta iConfort 4000 plush mattress. About time I invested in sleep.
Party positions are decided by party leadership--an even smaller and clearer group to hold accountable for particular laws. You already have an opaque process of deciding party positions amongst insiders. What party-line votes do is cause 1) clearer legislation to be passed that's 2) entirely the responsibility of a single party.
From John Carmack:

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
This seems like it's just being contrarian for the point of it, even if it doesn't lead to any interesting conversation.

I get it, we're hackers, we like to think of edge cases and are pedantic as hell. But pedantry and edge cases aren't always useful in conversation.
If it thought there were grounds to do so, the SEC could take on the major BTC exchanges.

Losing a means to convert to/from fiat currencies would drive away the vast majority of BTC traders, and possibly cause something of a bank run upon the announcement of SEC action against them.

I mean, let's be real here, the vast majority of BTC transactions aren't for goods or services.
Went to the site with an iPad. Click create. It said it needed permissions. I said ok. It said something will be shown in the browser for me to confirm. Nothing happened. I could not try it.
EQ is not a thing.