skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won’t be able to provide information that other people haven’t already but I have encountered one of these “aircraft”.

I own a small light sport airplane and was flying between UT and CA at 12.5k ft and saw one of these pass 1,000ft below me not far outside of Reno. ATC didn’t call it so presumably they didn’t see it on radar. It was exactly as described, small, shiny, cylindrical, no wings, and fast. If I could guess it was doing 500kts in the opposite direction. By the time I pulled out my phone to snap a picture it was gone. If it was a cruise missile it was flying over a populated area and not in restricted airspace or a MOA. Not sure what conclusions to draw other than these things are real and probably more common than people assume. It was not an airliner or private jet I’ve seen plenty of them.
I've been thinking about such a project for a long time (maybe incorporating a raspi & Dactyl mechanical keyboard instead) but never got around to building something (bought an M1 instead haha).

Congrats on the build and write up, it looks awesome and I'll be following your posts!
Discussed 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25977977
My inclination is they want to avoid damaging their main brand with a "cheap" product.
> Containers allow you to take this a step further by allowing multiple applications with different versions of the same dependencies to run together on the same physical or virtual server without needing to worry about symbol clashes and without having to install one application's dependencies into some different than expected location while manipulating LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH.

We agree 100% on the problem. I enthusiastically agree with all of your complaints.

My point is that Linux model of system-wide shared libraries and PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH bullshit is terrible. And the fact that containers are required to resolve that spiderweb nightmare is a damning indictment on the Linux library model.

Containers are one possible solution. An alternative is for those applications to bundle their dependencies. If all applications bundled their dependencies then everything would “just work”. No need to hack bullshit envvars. No need to containerize.

Yes that means it’s harder to deploy security fixes. But if everyone is using containers then also those images need to be updated. At which point what have you even gained?
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My gut feeling is that this is an error of the reporting tool - or perhaps more specifically, an interpretation of the results.

I think it is highly likely that these accesses are hitting some sort of cache (possibly page files, or SRAM, etc), not actually hitting the actual TLC/QLC part of the storage.

Obviously I could be wrong, but I’d be surprised if Apple made this big of a mistake and didn’t catch it internally before now. If they did, then there are some serious quality issues in their process.
The problem isn't with the term. Any term that means "An unknown flying thing" will come to be associated with aliens. If you start using a new term, that will just make it more exotic and interesting and "official seeming". "Authorities are reporting a UFT!" "What's that" "A UFO!!"

The interesting/curious/conspiracy-invoking concept is the unknown flying thing, whatever you call it. Whatever name you use will get associated with the interesting/curious/conspiracy aspect.
I have an Intel MBP 16 with twice as many read/write bytes but still shows 0% used. Not sure how they are calculating the percent.
That pretty much sumarizes why the BTC price makes no sense at all.
I skimmed the original recording posted by the source to find where this happens (it's 1:13:03, you're welcome). The recording is from a scanner and I think either the user was actively tuning it or it was set to scan. You seem to be hearing more than one center simultaneously and things are getting cut off in odd ways.

The point is, the recording posted at the linked article is... really all of the context there is. You hear "Have any targets here? We just..." with the beginning of that sentence cut off. You never hear the pilot identify, presumably it was cut off, so I'm not even totally sure how the source identified which aircraft this was.

You also do not hear the response.

If the transmission was on 127.85 or 134.75 as the author suggests, it was either Borger Low or Amarillo High. They filed FL360 and for the type anyway it was probably Amarillo High, ZAB sector 97. Unfortunately atclive doesn't archive that sector or it seems even any near it. Any chance some other website does?
Have you tried the Julia language? With relatively performant Python interoperability it seems to fit your needs.
I've worked on (non-Atlassian) SSO projects where the provider used the referrer to send the client to the page-after-logout (and occasionally page-after-login) if they weren't set as parameters in some circumstances.

Here's a reference to a F5 device providing SAML SSO services and having a similar issue:

https://www.devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00007npfjw/chr...
I'm not completely up to speed on modern cruise missiles, but don't they leave a smoke trail/contrail/etc behind them if they have a conventional propulsion system? Or do they burn fairly clean in flight?
The difference comes in when a teacher gets sick, has to move, or gets fired on day X of the school year. Also, most school systems have mandatory training that eats into that time and is uncompensated.

A lot is said about teacher pay due to seniority, but only 1/3 make it even 5 years. It’s a vastly worse job than most assume.
Again I'd love to see some details, some CVE's, for what issues the hardware has. The computer itself is general purpose enough that I'm not afraid. The cellular stack is a shitshow though! Totally unsupportable garbage, as you say, beholden entirely to a bunch of dodgy punks with no incentive to keep the world running.

Which is very much why it's exciting to see Pine64 working on getting Linux running on the PinePhone modem[1]. Because this shit is bogus, 100% bogus full of shit crap. The firmware is all for the most part software, rebadged as firmware because none of us get the privilege of working with it or seeing it.

I still would like some evidence that any firmware on the Pixel or Pixel 2 is actually problematic. That the computer itself is at risk. Perhaps there are some DMA engines onboard that can not be locked down, that peripherals unfortunately just had too much unmediated access. I'd like to see some shred of evidence that insecure peripherals are a real threat to the general main computer though, before I agree that we can just start throwing these devices out.

[1] https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1346582145557524488
Banned Famous Chinese Singer Li Zhi's music on GitHub: Songs are banned in China
This article is a great encapsulation of why I think the whole Epic vs Apple and attempts to force Apple to allow alternative stores are a step in the wrong direction.

They will only make people more dependent on what will still be a controlled platform.

What will also happen is that the government will end up regulating the App stores, since it’s no longer just Apple running them.

This is one step short of the ‘ban on general purpose computing’ mentioned in the article, but a badly written law regulating software distribution could easily mean that it is that too.

I wholeheartedly agree with the calls to action, but I’d add one more: stop going along with companies like Epic and all this clamor about Apple as if they are freedom fighters, and instead call for them to invest in a foundation to pay for community work on a genuinely open mobile Linux.

There are numerous corporations with many billions available to invest, e.g. Microsoft, Epic, Facebook, all of whom claim to want to be free of Apple’s control.

The way to do is is them to pay for a real open platform that none of them own. It seems counterintuitive, but that is the real way to commoditize their complement (as was successfully done on the server) and devalue Apple’s
Proprietary OS, which would be to all of their advantage.

There is no reason such a platform shouldn’t be an excellent vehicle for games, and with first class SPA support no App Store would be needed at all.

If we really want to lobby for regulation, it should be to force boot camp level of openness for the hardware, so that anyone would be free to run an open software platform on a tablet, phone or laptop.

That would help any open platform compete fairly with proprietary ones without needing to regulate OS designs.
"Ariel phenomenon" sounds like the kind of word that will be very quickly co-opted by paranormalists and occultists.
I'm wondering how you estimate its speed and distance Wouldn't it look identical to a smaller, slower object closer to your aircraft?
So, if I'm parsing this correctly, this is a requirement to immediately do a one-time inspection that's normally done periodically anyway.

I'm all for safety, but this has a vibe of "Something must be done! This is something... so it must be done!"
A320 and U-2 go the same speed. Also the U-2 has big wings and a big radar signature. Basically this makes no sense.
I think a bit more as ambition. If a standards body doesn't want to rescue us from the surveillance state, is it surprising that someone hopes to do better?

I look forward to a real IPv8 standard that respects user privacy, but I look forward to it in a way that recognizes that it's pretty damn unlikely at this point.
The CF seems like the in restaurant version of the 'ghost kitchen' by associating a combination of related kitchens under the kitchen sink, one stop shop to please everyone, option.

There are some core variations that only require an extra spice mix or a variation of pasta that's easy to keep stocked and share common cooking methods and ingredients with other items that I can get regularly. The salads are where I've personally noticed the most turnover. At least, pre-pandemic when I was still willing to get a salad from them because they were close to the office.
Hypersonic missile test?
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> unwilling to pay a branding premium for essentially the same product.

For true commodities thats entirely reasonable. And these days when the same contract manufacturers develops and packages the product for Aldi, trader joes, kroger, and Annies its even more true. But dont let rose colored glasses obscure the differences that dis exist between the generics and name brands of previous times. Its ok to admit that Toasted Nut Os just werent as good on texture and flavor.
The bigger VU only had 16k of of memory so that's not an issue, lol.
Dylan is less appreciated than Lisp.
>> If you believe Apple and Google need to give up their cash cows, it's clear that's never going to happen by convincing people to make lifestyle changes.

I'm suggesting people will stop giving money to Apple/Google when there is an alternative. And we, as tech folks, are going to have to build that alternative.

>> The only way is to get laws or regulations passed that force these companies to comply.

Google and Apple have billions to lobby Congress, so I'm not confident that will happen any time soon.

I think undermining them from the bottom up with a cheap open source alternative is probably more practical.
Indeed awsome hardware to code for. It was amusing when the Sony guys joked people are writing their VU assembler in Excel. To make it easier to mentally keep track of the instructions in each pipe.
I'm curious why you don't film the whole flight. I'm almost surprised it's not a requirement, given how cheap and easy it is now.
Universal Alien Persons
> Neither is it in terms of consumer rights.

Is there a right to (free) software updates? Should one be there? How long should the mandated updates/support last?
It gets their name on the front page places like here and probably some regular media coverage, it doesn't say anything bad about the company, and your worry that it could cause people not to fly requires them reading and internalizing the entire article. And all that was required of them was using a correct term for the event.
> Going a bit further, once an object has been confirmed as alien, then it's not really "Unidentified" anymore, now is it?

Depends. Let's take the opposite case, where the object has been determined to be of likely terrestrial origin (identifiable letters and numbers on a wing or tail), but otherwise still mysterious. Is it identified or not? How about if it is rumored to be US military, but officially no one will confirm or deny? How about if someone does officially confirm, but no specifics are available (so there is no project/program name, or branch, or model)?

Especially considering that official statements may be misinformation, at what point can we say that the FO is no longer U?

A similar continuum of identification specificity applies to non-terrestrial origins, all the way up to "Oh yeah, that was BortXd from Omega Draconis, he got drunk again at a tailgate party."
This is basically Google (Chrome) paying Mozilla (Firefox) to kill 3rd party cookies because Google has a better way to fingerprint users without 3rd party cookies, because they have SO MUCH data about us.

This move is aimed at killing other AdTech companies which rely on 3rd party cookies to track users.

They painting this as a 'PRIVACY' move, after they have already found other ways of tracking users across websites and devices.
Purposely and repeatedly flying military aircraft to generate a military response is my main point. Thank you for clarifying where they have been flying.

In my discussions with Taiwanese people they’ve cited these provocations as a cost, problem, threat, etc.

Would they be shot down? That remains to be seen. The U.S. is not in a great position to support Taiwan. The overwhelming majority of U.S. military tech is for projecting power, not cost effectively defending.
thinking about, building, and running a business is pretty much the only real future. This may look like becoming an expert and contracting oneself out, or it may look like finding a niche and exploiting it for all the market value it's worth.

Working for someone else has been the "easy" route (mentally) for a long time, and easy things never pay well.
Yes, it's something that's already done at intervals. The implication is that maybe that interval is too long. Also from TFA:

Based on the initial results as we receive them, as well as other data gained from the ongoing investigation, the FAA may revise this directive to set a new interval for this inspection or subsequent ones.
Investors certainly care about pedigree and having McKinsey on your resume (or Google or Facebook if you will), not to mention the experience and connections, are going to help when you're trying to raise money for your startup. There's no escaping from signaling simply because of the impossibility of evaluating every single person on merit (as you can see from discussions on hiring here), so it doesn't hurt to play the game when the opportunity arises.

And generally speaking, lack of pedigree is much less of an issue once you're in and once you have prestigious employers on your resume, where you went to college becomes a lot less important to prospective employers.
It didn't do that for some reason. Also, I could not remove the snapshot form the command line or force TM to thin them. I had to reinstall the OS.
The Pew study also found that men are more likely to experience harassment. I'm not sure why you seem to think it reaches the opposite conclusion.

> Men and women experience and respond to online harassment in different ways. Overall, men are somewhat more likely to experience any form of harassing behavior online: 44% of men and 37% of women have experienced at least one of the six behaviors this study uses to define online harassment.
Oh my god.

In later Mac OS versions, scroll bars are set by default to appear only based on mouse/trackpad movement, which is a pity; many users probably don’t realise they can have scroll bars appear permanently, so they don’t have to time the mouseover action for the scroll bar to appear and then hope they’ll manage to grab it when they want to quickly scroll down a long list of elements.

This... is me. For years I've been frustrated by recent versions of MacOS and the problem of the disappearing/impossible to grab scroll bar. And only by reading this article did I learn that you can make it stick around permanently.

I guess, good for Apple for making that possible? But, holy crap, way to not communicate the existence of that capability to even sophisticated users.
I am talking, as I wrote in actual words which you may read all by yourself immediately above, of the assets of the British Crown: what its principals, I gather, refer to as "the Firm". Those are wholly distinct from the United Kingdom, and from Great Britain, and from whatever else you imagine that is not what I wrote or you read.
Always fascinating to read about similar accounts. Have you checked MUFON for others who may have seen it when you did?

Edit: Any resemblances to these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSLACOmOyjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n36KOqbwrMY
This is my personal machine, so primarily using it nights/weekends for thinking with embedded development projects and web browsing lately.

I was using Firefox, but have recently switched Safari full time. It just seems to run better and isn't as brutal on the battery.
Speaking as a pilot, If there was a NOTAM I can guarantee with 100% certainty an airline pilot would know about it. Also the military doesn’t screw around with this sort of thing, I think the chance is virtually nil they intentionally flew an unmanned aircraft that close to an airliner.
> Some time ago, it was discovered that the BIOS of this console could be upgraded using the Memory Card, this function was never used in practice, but neither removed (at during for most of the console’s lifespan).

The author is correct that official uses for the MagicGate-encrypted system updates were few and far between, effectively "never", but there were a couple!

There was a DVD Player installer/updater for early console models that shipped before that software was finalized, and in Japan there was an entire "Browser 2.0" update that enabled a full HDD OSD unlike the bare-bones HDD Utility Disc we got in US/Europe regions! https://youtu.be/dJnLJxVljGw?t=509

The first revision of slim PS2 still has the 40-pin ATA header on the motherboard, and it works if you solder on a connector, so who knows what could have been.
The N64 RSP is similar. I've been playing with a N64 RSP assembler that'll understand how instructions can dual issue, and give warnings when two instructions on the same line can't dual issue, so I can for sure see myself using excel back in the day to help manage the complexity.
You’d need 12 random generated words from a big dictionary or something like that as the password. Which puts more onus on memory.

The other problem is someone can cache the encrypted version forever then if they later discover what your password WAS then they are in!
I'm so sick of the term UFO being applied to stuff like this. Even the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile but lo and behold the first conjecture in the article by the journalist is that it could be extraterrestrial and only at the end they say oh yeah it could also just be a military thing since you know there are a trillion military bases right under where it was flying over.

I think we need a new term, maybe: Not an Extraterrestrial Flying Object NAEFO, never mind...
I wish there was something better than cookies for these use cases. But then, designing something that can't be abused for tracking, that empowers all the legitimate use cases is also really hard, maybe even impossible.
Aside from launch where they typically have some kind of boost stage, cruise missiles fly at low altitudes with small turbofan engines. Not much of a visual exhaust signature:

https://youtu.be/BGoJl8Lr46g

https://youtu.be/WyeMyhKE5Yw
Also, it is my understanding that Sysco has a multitude of levels (of ingredients/products): some are crap, some less crap, and some “gourmet” in the processed, mass packaged sense of the word.
It's not that they are incapable. They are unwilling.

Nobody should be surprised that one of the most successful proprietary technology companies on the planet sells highly proprietary technology. The 2011 Macbook Air had a 1.8" PATA ZIF hard drive.
Honestly I feel like my comment was pretty clear.

1. You are not "likely" to be shot, as that implies it is the probable thing to happen. This is clearly false. Go knock on 100 car windows and you most likely won't get shot once, let along 50 times.

2. You are trolling HN. You're intentionally making outlandish political claims that have no basis in reality (such as the one above), in order to "stir the pot".

edit: If anyone needs any more proof, just read their comment history. Earlier today they brought up how the "forced sterilization of conservatives" would solve some problem or another. Comment seems to be gone now. But their comment history is full of other obvious troll comments.
They also post recordings of many of their internal research meetings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NumentaTheory/videos
The apparent failure is in this specific component and looks like metal fatigue. This inspection would detect metal fatigue in that specific component. It's the obvious place to look.

It may be that they don't find anything. Coincidences can happen, if you fly enough jet planes, enough times, sooner or later something like this will happen. Or it may be that this inspection finds one or more further engines with unexpectedly degraded compressor fan blades. That gives them a pattern on which they can base a subsequent investigation, while also keeping passengers safe.
Higher Education is about to go through a brutal consolidation process, people have been predicting it for years. Even before Covid-19, small liberal arts schools were starting to close down. Demand for higher education is going to drop over the next decade because the number of graduating high schoolers in the US is about to drop and has already been dropping simply because the birth rate 20 years ago was lower. There are certainly other factors accelerating this trend such as fewer high school graduates going to college these days due to the increasing cost of tuition. In the end there will be a lot of schools fighting over a decreasing number of applicants and the top schools will be the ones likely to come out the winners.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-...
I think you're likely running into what hntrader mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26242516

> This we agree on. But we have to factor in adverse selection. If you're a prestigious employer, adverse selection is going to be small to non existent. The Harvard grads joining Dropbox are going to be all excellent. If you're a tier-2 employer with no particular unique value proposition, a Harvard grad that is willing to join you isn't the same thing as a randomly selected Harvard grad (unless there's a compelling reason why they would want to join), let alone the same thing as a Harvard grad entering Dropbox. There are selection effects working against you as an employer.

Edit:

I'll add that if you're hiring in tech, you're fairly unlikely to run into ivy league grads who got in primarily on the basis of their wealth. Computer Science attracts upwardly mobile types who got into these schools because they were nerdy overachievers and tends not to attract people born into wealth (they typically have better options and coding isn't really that prestigious at this level).
I think the all press is good press more applies to lesser known companies. At this point everyone knows who american airlines are.
I think the term now in use is UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
They do when they’re flying the opposite direction as you.

Also, he’ll if we civilians know what kinds of retrofits have been made in the past several decades, particularly for the purpose of testing and development.