skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking cameras on civilian passenger plane seems like a whole lot extra stuff for operator to maintain and service compared to the benefit of capturing an UFO pictures once every few months.
Especially 1st gen of new platform laptops, with all the potential quirks. I think that's also why Apple priced them very affordably.
I wouldn't. For work I end up reading a lot of antisemitic text, and secret control is a major theme. This goes back a long way, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [1] It has stayed solid through the years, as in the claims of secret control of the Federal Reserve. [2] There are notable QAnon elements that parallel classic antisemitic tropes, [3] so it's no surprise that a Q adherent also believes in Jewish space lasers starting forest fires. [4]

In this case, I don't think the author is antisemitic. But when common antisemitic themes come up in a text, you can bet that some readers, me included, will perk up and start looking for other ones.

[1] https://www.adl.org/news/op-ed/the-protocols-revisited-the-f...

[2] https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/jewish-control-o...

[3] https://www.adl.org/qanon

[4] https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/jewish-space-lasers-funny-mar...
If that's all you hear, I'm thinking tinnitus.
For comparison, my 2017 iMac with 1 TB SSD gives:

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 109,446,813 [56.0 TB]
Data Units Written: 68,569,966 [35.1 TB]
Host Read Commands: 2,922,206,492
Host Write Commands: 2,180,242,949
Controller Busy Time: 4,463
Power Cycles: 13,345

This is after 40 months, during which it has been my main computer for both home and work. So about 10.5 TB of writes per year.

Prior to the iMac I had a 2008 Mac Pro for work and a 2009 Mac Pro for home. Those were doing about 7.8 TB per year of writes combined, but that includes an SSD on the home one that was used for Time Machine. Subtracting out that, it was about 5.2 TB per year combined writes, so about half of what I do on the iMac.
A nice article. Brings back memories.
Crypto Reinvents Collateralized Debt Obligations
Could anyone recommend a good book on the subject(s)?
Sometimes a cigar-shaped object near an air-force base is just a cigar-shaped object near an air-force base.
I'd suggest go for the tech stack with which you are the most familiar with.
In western countries, speech is free, but the microphones are controlled tightly by a privileged few. Not saying china is better, but just different ways the political elites are controlling the masses
I generally agree—Mavericks's visuals are more refined, whereas Snow Leopard a tendency to look alternately too plain or too gaudy, depending on the area. But there are certain elements I greatly prefer in Snow Leopard. The darker window chrome is one of them—it adds even more contrast—as are the larger traffic light buttons and colorful Finder sidebar icons.

Not coincidentally, I've changed all of these on my own Mavericks machines to match Snow Leopard.
No, to compare Bitcoin to something that has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin is ridiculous. That’s like me saying Apple is going to go out of business because Sears went out of business. A complete non sequitur.
Hey folks, I've recently had the idea of building an e-ink laptop from the devices I had at home. I decided to document the process and share each step of the way:

Some of the posts planned for the series are: Dasung Paperlike HD-FT teardown, Thinkpad T480 teardown, Creating the prototype, Installing and configuring NixOS, M-x e-ink-laptop-mode

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out.
That's an inspiring slide deck - thanks for sharing.
Neat map.

The page's link to the journal article is broken. The abstract can be viewed on NASA's ADS[0] or directly via the DOI link[1] (which connects to the current home of the Astrophysical Journal).

[0] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApJ...624..463G/abstra...

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2005ApJ...624..46...
They confirmed the incident so unless the pilot/copilot were just completely fabricating it, they did in fact have contact with a UFO - that doesn't mean aliens - just something unidentified.
Apple Bought Another Company Every 3 to 4 Weeks for Last 6 Years, Tim Cook Says
This is kind of sensational. UFO, but a radar signature of something missile like? Hardly invokes the idea of something extra-solar like the common colloquialism does.
If Tcl can be compiled (to a large degree, and without type annotations) to machine code (AOT) using TclQuadCode there's every hope for Python !
Might want to consider browsing using something else (a large tablet e.g.?) until this issue is resolved. My machine is almost identical to yours. My reported writes are about 1.31TB or less than 1/40th your number. I do some native compiling and some browsing. Chrome is a well known memory hog.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 25 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 5,849,123 [2.99 TB]
Data Units Written: 2,568,550 [1.31 TB]
Host Read Commands: 75,126,642
Host Write Commands: 32,909,838
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 160
Power On Hours: 42
Unsafe Shutdowns: 3
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Arms race is bad but anyway we need trucks for logistics.
> So many commercial projects these days are based on open source software or even open hardware.

In the 90's & aughts, Linux & open source was obsessed with "free desktop", with becoming a world-class environment for computing.

But today my feeling is that 90%+ of open source development exists to help & equip corporations with better ways of making products & services. The only users the software is concerned with are other developers, businesses, most of whom will leech value & grow without contributing anything at all. But none the less, a couple folks persist, try to bring honor to the world, by being really good at something, by- for whatever usually very foibled reason- caring.

> I'd argue that the total set of complex systems to take apart, study and admire has never been larger than today.

It is cool that folk can go check out android, get in the source, kick the tires. It's colossal, a beast, but it's still cool. Having access to both an SDK & the means to go look beyond is compelling.

Alas I still feel like the software world about us, the software we use, is radically out of reach. We spend enormous time on social networks, chatting, writing, sending media. None of these systems are at all observable, learnable, explorable. It matters that the digital matter about us is invisible, far off, unseeable. Except as the shadow of puppets, projected against a wall, opposite to where we are chained. It matters that society cannot see the mechanisms about us. How the "natural sciences" are supposed to carry on now that we've obstructed ourselves from our reality all about us is a mystery to me; we have only a legacy of engagement, a history of man the tool maker. Now we are man, the tool-made. Software has become the firm prison.
Big fan of being able to just use the X11-style Compose Key sequences via https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose

And the upstream (en_US anyway) sequences it provides by default: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/plain/nls/en_US...
The socket doesn't have to be on top of a pcb, given apple's history of "tweaking" standards its hard to believe the thicker argument. Given how reliable m.2 is (I've personally never seen a problem with one that seems to be seating related). I'm betting socketing the SSD actually makes the device more reliable long term since your looking at just replacing a disk in a couple years if it fails vs basically replacing the entire motherboard, which has got to be the most expensive part.

So, this is likely just penny pinching the manufacture, and assuming the customer will bear the repair fee if it breaks.
For that day, I'll offer WinMo 5 & 6 as healthy ecosystems. Lots of home brewed apps and plenty of handsets ran it.

Then Phone 7 flushed it all away because Microsoft couldn't see an inch past it's own Apple envy.
Amazon Plans Wall-Mounted Echo
I have witnessed this first hand... it is not great when a component of one grease starts a polymerization reaction in another grease. In one case, the grease mixture basically became hard rubber.
I agree it's tough to imagine this government having the legitimacy to deal with the crisis, if only because so many of them were complicit in creating it. The founders were pretty well-read - they were equally weary of a Caesar or Marius as they were a Charles I. New communication mediums always seem to bring an uncomfortable "breaking in" period along with them.
Also the most straightforward explanation. UAVs and ALCM's can be dropped from high altitudes and have hundreds of miles of range and all look very similar, plus who knows what they're developing. The whole Southwest has plenty of military airspace and their toys don't always play nice with commercial air traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_cruise_missile
If you have traction, any VC will take a meeting with you.
If you take testosterone, your pituitary will tell your testicles that there is enough testosterone, and that they can chill out, so the testicles will produce less testosterone and less sperm.

This is why anabolic steroid users can develop shrunken (atrophied) testicles.

In addition, through enzymatic equilibrium, you will also produce more estrogen (excess testosterone is converted to estrogen and vice versa), which will further decrease male reproductive ability, and in sufficient quantities will stimulate breast gland growth.

In short, administering exogenous testosterone will have counterproductive reproductive consequences.
Empact Foundation Class C++ Library
This is the classic choice of liberty vs. security. Each has its pros and cons. Free speech may be abused, but that's the risk of freedom. And, in my mind at least, true freedom of speech is a necessary ingredient of authentic democracy. This is how I see it...
Of course species are hypotheses, nobody is arguing that. Are you suggesting anything that is a hypothesis has no worth?

It's trivial to show traits delimit useful species concepts, and indeed ample envidence can be used to show that species can be very robustly defined according to well defined species concepts (of which there are various).

So I'm unclear as to what your point is. Are you suggesting that species concepts allow us to do no useful work?
If I said something like "Apple won't go out of business because it's a big company", comparing to Sears would be completely fair.
But... a mouse has two buttons on it. Surely in the normal process of using it you'll eventually try pressing the second one? Even if you don't know what it does at the start, you try things when you're getting acquainted with something new.
If this was for money laundering, why such a high balance?
> Do the best universities have best teaching technique, or are they best because they pick brightest students and they contribute nothing special?

In the end it doesn't make a difference. Employers want to hire good candidates. Hiring is hard and the outcomes asymmetric: very good candidates can give at most 10x performance and for a company with 100+ employees that barely registers, while very bad candidates can create absolutely stunning destruction. So hiring good candidates is a high stakes game. There's lots of noise, any way to get signal out of this noise is valuable. Employers pay big fees to recruiting agencies to get good hires. A reputable university, like Harvard or MIT is like an ideal recruiting agency (and no fees): not only it finds the best candidates for you, it also trains them for 4 years. The 4 years of training function as a further filter as well. In the end, someone graduating for such a college will be quite a sure bet for employers, and so they'll have much, much better prospects in the job market. So they are willing to pay for this. Are they born smart and Harvard does not teach them anything new? Who cares? They'll get much better job offers than if they graduate from Tulane, and that translates in more money in their pockets.
We need a platform for this, not an email address. Sort of like fantasy sports, only for VC.
New movie coming out https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/harry-reid-ufo-coverup-090047...
The first thing I thought of was the Cloaca (poop machine) at MONA Hobart which is a functional digestive system. The output is not quite as palatable.
Sounds like decent rhetoric to not get into the geopolitical aspects of this fight. Just write it off as diversifying the supply chain and then cut your biggest problem supplier out because they are not good for business.
> Oh look, from here you can also add it to your Reading List. Why exactly can these actions be found under a ‘Share’ menu?

Most people think this is a “share” button, as that’s what they use to share content, but it’s really an “action” button: that’s what it’s called in the system. It’s a button that lets you perform actions, some of which may be “share using another service” but some may be “perform some arbitrary thing on this content”. It’s sort of a hamburger menu for things you can do.
What is your conclusion here/what are you saying. Are you claiming this could be extraterrestrial?
Then came Lion and every secretary wanted to kill someone because of the stupid "Save As" alterations.

"Open document, make changes, print, discard document changes" no longer worked. This error was bad.
I agree you can find flaws in the analogy, but my main point is that there is a difference between how things are designed for "consumers" vs professionals. The electrician in your example sees the world and their options for fixing electrical problems very differently than the average condo owner.

On the other hand, I was reading yesterday about the Tonal home gym (not picking on it or promoting it, just top of mind), which is a subscription based home gym appliance that you have to pay monthly for, and, pay to have their techs come and install it, and pay them to come re install it you move. So your example is actually getting closer to reality.
I have noticed that specifics scents have a pretty huge impact on the state of mind; memories and feeling come almost like an overwhelming flood.
> it effectively became an advert for her own app.

It does not read that way to me. Take a look at that thread -- if you were someone who asked a question in good faith only to get a flippant response by someone who doesn't respect the rules of the space, what do you think it tells you about that person? I can't imagine that earned her any political capital.
And here's the corrected arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310571
Or, you know, it could just be secret military aircraft from one of the multiple bases in the general area.
So the consensus here seems to be that Tether the company is doing some sort of fractional reserve banking? I'm assuming no one on hacker news is holding Tether ...

To the point of actions speaking louder than words, why are there people who trust Tether enough to hold it? If there is no trust there wouldn't everyone redeem and create a bank run?
It's a huge mystery how an airline pilot could possibly see a cruise missile shaped object right outside of the White Sands Missile Range. Probably aliens.
Three full pages of insults and (not to us, but still) jargon before the problem is described clearly.

Another full page before it talks even vaguely about what "taking a stand" means to them, and puts them in prose instead of just listing ideas.

Title of the article is "Taking a stand" yet there is no author attributed.

No, I don't disagree with them, but I have to agree with you about it not being the right one to share with less technical people.
> Two usable browsers in Snow Leopard are: Firefox 45.9.0ESR, Opera 25.0.1614.71

Ew, no, don't do that! Use InterWeb, which is compatible with many more websites, and gets security updates. https://randommacstuff.blogspot.com/p/interweb-browser.html

On 10.7 – 10.9, you can actually use a branch of Chromium. It's unofficial, but completely up-to-date, and will work with every site. It's my daily driver. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
You are half right. The US will have to defend Taiwan otherwise we are done as a world power. Taiwan is not a push over. Any invasion would be seen way ahead of time. The Taiwan military is pretty dug in from the beaches to the mountains. They just need to make it painful enough and long enough for the US to bring its military might on target. Taiwan itself has the missile power to reach Shanghai and Beijing, and I have no doubt they would use it.
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I don’t use Google calendar. Could I get a version that syncs with Apple iCal?

For work purposes, could I get something that syncs with Outlook?

Also, what about colors for overlaying the calendars of multiple people, like me and my wife?

Can I get monthly view, as well as weekly and daily views?
US should be ready to do for Taiwan what the UK did for Hong Kong, move their best and brightest to US with Visas and path to citizenship if China were to ever take over.
They include your parents’ income in your means test, unless you’ve been out of high school for >7 years.
I haven't even installed Chrome on this laptop. I switch between Safari and Firefox.

I wonder if Chrome's memory usage pattern is a contributing factor.
But you might be biased by your work.

For me (and, probably, many other people), who doesn't daily work with antisemitic pamphlet, ‶secret control″ evokes more some shady secret service shenanigans (à la Hoover files or MK Ultra) rather than a nebulous international Jewish plot :)
wtf, 55TB+ read/write in 2month? what the heck are you doing with your laptop?

This is my 11y/o SSD ( OCZ Vertex2 64GB ) on my laptop:

241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 3904

242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 5120
Northrup Grumman is running ads about invisible aliens? What? Do you have a link??
I imagine the pilots where busy flying the aircraft.
> And with using that kind of format, almost forces you to have to pick his opinion.

I said that it needs to communicate the right information to both of you, not just to you and not just to them. If their suggestion still communicates to you, then suck it up and admit that they came up with a better name. If it _doesn't_ but you use their suggestion anyway, then you've just failed at being part of a team. It's on you to learn how to say "that's unclear to me, let's look for a third option".

> have to now defend your choice

It sounds like you think you're likely to feel defensive about having created confusion for someone. Maybe focus less on defending and more on achieving clarity.
Not the OP, but sometimes I wonder whether some of these events are effects of testing by foreign militaries, and the DoD wants to hide knowledge of foreign military technology (because maybe they're trying to copy it).
It most likely just refers to venture capitalists or other absurdly wealthy investors, who do indeed exert quiet control, despite not doing any of the actual work.

Not sure why you had to bring Jewish people into the discussion like that. To be honest, I find it quite rude.
Best scenario is have a few webcams in their house. It’s an invasion of privacy but it has an upside that can’t be beat.
Aliens exist, we just haven’t found them yet
Interesting, knowing how hard is to deal with large teams when secrecy is a requirement, when the work to be done isn't diluted in lots of code and where there's no room for bugs...

I would bet in a very small and skilled team.
I assume they are referring to the now omnipresent tablets and phones that younger folks have grown up with in lieu of a home computer.
Wow. I really can’t tell the difference at all. Like, I didn’t bother completing the test because it all sounded exactly the same. To the point where I doubted it was working and checked out the “Validate This Test” link to confirm it worked.
The OP said Bitcoin is like the lottery. It’s on him to explain that. The lottery has not returned value to almost every person who bought a ticket in the past decade, Bitcoin has. It’s a false and inept analogy.
How is this not on film in 4k stereo in the age of smart phones and dash cams
UFO means "unidentified flying object", and if the pilot didn't know what it was, it was unidentified. Probably some kind of military drone that went off course.
Thanks frued.
> Using socketed M.2 SSDs introduces a class of problems ("the SSD isn't seated correctly")

I can't get around to how people say such stuff with a straight face - Apple is a 20-30 year old trillion dollar hardware company and its engineers can design high-tech processors, but apparently can't ensure that a RAM or SSD remains fixed in a slot? Do you really believe that?

> There are probably other reasons

Sure there are, and I'll list the major ones - planned obsolescence (soldered parts are harder to repair) and increased profits through price gauging on upgrades.
Be careful with that. On AWS, at least, you can get a massive bill before the limits kick in.

There have been horror stories posted here before.
Did you mean to reply to another comment? The article doesn't make any mention of "alien".
At least they added it back in Mountain Lion! And with that refinement in place, I really do prefer how saving is handled.
I think the above poster isn't resistant to the idea that harassment is commonplace for many people. What they are resistant towards is the repeated insistence that we should try and extrapolate broader trends from anecdotes.

Here's some research on the distribution of online harassment with respect to gender that's a bit more rigorous than "just ask women": https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08944393198655...
Thanks for the response Professor. What do you make of the following article though? It concludes that the critique is not devastating to Gödel

http://wab.uib.no/agora/tools/alws/collection-6-issue-1-arti...
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I have 16GB, I haven't done much today, I use Safari with 7 tabs and have Spotify and GitHub Desktop open.

Memory used: 10GB

Uptime: 1d

I don't know, feels like OP is right. 16GB is not enough in 2021, especially since I my computer is from 2013 and already had 16GB.

Unfortunately this is where Apple decided to make money, so we have brand-new 8GB $1000 devices in 2021. Thanks Apple.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30121/chinas-high-spee...
Our senses are not very reliable either. There's room between "fabricating it" and "it really happened". Aren't pilots typically overworked/tired and fairly bored for long streches as well? Seems like likely circumstances for some atypical half-dream or a trick of the eyes.
My point is that A) coming to a conclusion as to what the object is may be way too early, and B) the coverup that urgently needs to be exploded and brought to a conclusion ASAP is the "don't look into things" approach to things we don't already know about.

Again: I personally have no opinion on this, as to weapon or sky dolphins or aliens.
Surprised to see this feeling about Linux? For me it's never been easier to be a Linux user. More hardware works without configuration. I remember spending hours if not days tinkering in in Xorg.conf just to get a video card and monitor working together. A working camera and microphone used to be a pipe dream. There's more software than ever and it works better than ever. We have at least two major web browsers that are well supported. OK LibreOffice still isn't the equal of Word and Excel but it's better than ever, and now there's Google Docs, or other cloud alternatives that all work.