skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lay term for the various respiratory viruses that are pretty much constantly in circulation, especially when the infection is symptomatic.

So I think you have an implied question as to whether there is some more specific meaning, the answer to that is no.
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It isn't clear to me what specific observation he's trying to explain. The most important thing to know about bethe bloch is that everyone abuses it and applies it when it isn't really applicable. SRIM is intended for things like calculating penetration depth when implanting ions in materials (maybe a couple MeV energy at most). There will be oodles of physics in play at higher energies that aren't considered by SRIM, especially above pion production threshold near 140 MeV. I can also tell you that a 500 GeV proton beam will be moving nearly the speed of light and so will not look like a tictac or other recent observations. Also, making such a beam would require a huge stable facility, not portable at all. Making such beams is also outrageously energy innefficient. It typically isn't even thought about because it's so low.
> cheap disposable drone swarm pointed at an enemy country with a program to blow up anything resembling an airfield

I don't think that exists. We have cheap drones that won't do much to an airfield and don't have much range.

We have B52s that can blow up an airfield but those aren't drones. Or cheap.
I share your cynicism about what political activism usually is, but I find it hard to share your conclusion that we'd be better of without it.
"Processing power" is colloquially the term most people I know use to describe computers of varying capabilities.
I think Kanopy is pretty good, but it's the only streaming service I use regularly...other than YouTube.

Last I checked, Monterey Public Library has Kanopy and anyone who lives in California can get a card there.
Some issues to consider following include:
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/17307
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/24677
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/18358
From HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Production apps in a hyper scale cloud
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The situation I’m responding to is the suggestion that you bundle your own browser rather than using one provided by Android System WebView or equivalent.
Those of us with over 500 karma can and do downvote. But right now you can try to explain to them that they are wrong.
I think that for a lot of regular commenters, it's more about the discussion than the article that started it. Fealty to the original content is secondary to conversation.
Good points, but how many atmospheric illusions also show up on radar? There is a subset of UFO sightings that are "multiple sensor" sightings, such as both radar and visual or both visual and infrared.

I tend to dismiss all but the highest quality multiple sensor confirmation sightings for the reason you state, but that leaves a residue of really interesting cases that are probably something. The next thing to rule out is something ours, such as classified weapons technology.
The place for employees to post their personal opinion that doesn’t represent the company is their personal blog, not “about.gitlab.com/blog”. After you’ve raised almost half a billion dollars in funding, you can afford a PR person to review posts that appear on the company blog.
Quantum Thinking and Product Development
Real regular expressions are hardly useless, I speculate that majority of real world uses of regexp are actually regular. Many of state of art regex engines (re2, hyperscan, rust regex) support only regular expressions
Indeed and well-said.
A way to stop porch pirates once in for all
User experience is often laughed at or even overlooked, but this is why Firebase and Heroku are used!

I had a mainframes course in university and people from IBM would tout how everything we do today was already invented by them decades ago. But yeah, when you tried to use their stuff you had to jump through so many hoops, that you lost your motivation half the way.
No, there's a middle ground where a post is simply de-ranked. Which, absolutely, makes it hard to tell what happened as an outsider. IIRC, basically a "flag" also counts as a bunch of downvotes, in addition to adding up to a threshold where it actually marks a post as "flagged".
"Secure against quantum" doesn't really mean much because too little is known to make that claim confidently. AFAIK the term generally refers to algorithms that don't rely on factoring being hard, but instead make some different hardness assumptions that we currently don't have classical or quantum algorithms for.
I think a good model would be splitting it up so the physical plant and internet uplink are run by separate entities.

Local government would run the fibre network and terminate everything to a central POP (or several). They're responsible to maintain the physical network and ensure every connection can obtain the minimum speed and latency standard. This could even be cable/DSL/wireless, so long as the minimum speed is hit. They can contract this out, but it's largely irrelevant to the consumer.

At the POP is where ISPs take over and provide the upstream connection to the actual internet, and this is who the consumer pays. The ISPs can compete based on whatever combination of price, speed, transfer limits and/or add-on services they choose.
Streamlit uses a responsive way to get input and doesn't rely on callbacks at all. Every time a user interacts with a widget, your script is re-executed and the output value of that widget is set to the new value during that run. It's amazing but also a little hard to understand.

In contrast, the way of writing PyWebIO app is more like writing a terminal program, except that the terminal here becomes a browser. The output functions will output content to user in real time, and the input functions will block until the user submit the input form.
Movies that are old enough to fall out of copyright are sometimes on Youtube. Certainly plenty of Buster Keaton.
Consider the impact that simply believing the relevant portions of the world has been modeled "well enough".

If magic and mystery is the good thing, then simply feeling like there's no place you can get to which hasn't been mapped might be enough to choke off that feeling, regardless of the resolution of the map.
Or an easy way for a company to get the credit for a popular post, and hang a contributor out to dry if it's poorly received. Do the work and properly vet and edit your posts, and insist your employees post their own opinions on other platforms on their own time.
One day you can start calculating private keys based on public keys.

This is the biggest crypto puzzle: find private key of Sathoshi Bitcoin wallet with 1 mln bitcoins. Over $50 Bln prize for one crypto puzzle.

This would be AlphaGo moment of quantum computing if you could make that one attack successful even while paying huge price (e.g. years of quantum datacenter work).
Broadcasting is a related, but separate problem.

What's in the news will be the topic of conversation in your community, but it does not lead thought in your community. It does not identify with anyone there.

Social media has replaced the community itself. It dictates who you speak to and how.

It is among the most insidious weapons that we've invented yet and it's aimed almost exclusively at civilians.
As long as it is faster than gitlab itself, sure. Every time I go to the hosted gitlab, I cringe. I like the product but the whole thing is sooo slow. First, 5 seconds wasted to "check if my browser supports gitlab", then the lag on every click. Hopefully your heroku will have a better experience than your gitlab.
Yeah, the phones run Android One (so stock android, no bloat), and pretty solid in terms of construction (not 3310 level, but I've dropped it a number of times and it still seems to be working well).
Shamir's Password Store
If you mash together every claim that has ever been made about UFO's like you're doing here you certainly arrive at an absurd picture. However not all claims are equally credible by a long shot. For example while there are certainly lots of rumors flying around about crash retrievals I have not seen any explicit claim by a credible individual (Bob Lazar certainly doesn't count) of actually having first hand knowledge of such occurrences. I suspect that those rumors have originated due to compartmentalized government secrecy where almost no one is aware of what the other guys are doing. It's basically a game of telephone with extreme secrecy as an added ingredient.

The only claims I'm really interested in are the ones where you have multiple credible, on the record, eyewitnesses claiming multi-modal detection of phenomena exhibiting behavior that is clearly beyond current human capabilities, such as the 2004 Nimitz incidents.

Once you consider the possibility of non-human intelligences being involved it also becomes very hazardous to attempt to understand the motives behind their actions. For all we know our entire reality could be constructed in an alien laboratory designed to measure the development of our individual and collective intelligence by observing our reactions to strange events.

That said I do admit to having a lot of trouble trying to understand why craft that are apparently capable of hypersonic travel would spend hours moseying down the California coast from Catalina to Guadalupe islands. I mean if they were trying not to be noticed why not avoid the Nimitz CSG completely ? And if they wanted to be noticed wouldn't they have done something a little more dramatic than floating along at 100 knots (they didn't exhibit any spectacular behavior until an attempt was made to actually intercept them) ?
conveyor belt accelerator
Mubi.com frequently shows films from prior to the 1960s.

https://mubi.com/showing
Heck, many popular ISPs won't even tell you what you'll be paying until your first bill arrives.

For example "Fees & taxes" could be up to a third of your bill, and often they cannot quote the dollar amounts during initial contact.

This is particularly egregious when many fees are purely from the company itself, but worded to sound like taxes/government originating.
Step one in learning subatomic physics is to completely disregard your intuitions about what feels right or what seems to make sense.
He meant "recent" in the sense of "a few hundred years ago". He claimed that the island was called "Green" because he believed that's what early explorers saw. Which is factually wrong.

Not that it matters to him. "I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven, not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate." In other words, he knows what he wants to believe, and assumes there's something scientificky sounding that will back him up.
How will a spy satellite tell me what's going on inside a building or underground?
Different companies though, Nokia hasn't had any ownership in Nokian Tyres since 2003.
So there's a problem we have with today's cryptography that we basically have to hope it's secure, but we can't proove it. It's basically "enough people looked at it, noone found a way to break it, it should be okay".

That's what we have, but it's not really comforting.

Now if you think what it'd mean to proove that e.g. a public key crypto system is secure, it almost implies that you'd need to proove p!=np before that. I.e. prooving p!=np would not proove that cryptography is secure, but it may be the first step and the understanding gained from prooving p!=np may mean that there's a much better understanding of complexity in general, which will help.
> Film has such a huge library of "great movies", I have over 700 films logged on letterboxd, with a pretty decent spread of years/countries and I would say I still know basically nothing about film.

Film is so full of great stuff that there exists a reasonably-curated meta best-of-list of 1,000 great ones... with an overflow list of the next 1,000 that's also almost all excellent, and those still aren't a comprehensive list of all the films worth watching.

https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

(Possibly NSFW because of screen-caps from movies)
OK I've got a better idea:

In the particular conditions we created in 2020, the Rhinovirus was better able to spread than the Flu. Why?

Because people were on the lookout for fever (and other things like continuous cough etc). Flu causes fever, and anyone who got a fever and was sensibly-minded would self isolate at least for a few days until they got test results or until symptoms abated. Whereas Rhinovirus is much less likely to cause a fever, so people twig that they've 'just got a cold' and carry on going about their day.

Especially for schoolkids - if they've got a fever, they're kept at home. If they've just got a snotty nose then they're likely to still go to school.

So Rhiniovirus was able to fly under the radar whereas Flu wasn't.
Exactly. I'm sure the hidden fees have some effect on people. But anybody who is thinking about buying now and possibly moving in a few years should be thinking about the round-trip costs.
Yes: War of the Worlds
You can use mrustc to not have to go back to the original OCaml.
I suppose you're right, though I'd call it less "fealty" and more "relevance".

In this case, it looks like the discussion in the comments flies to a subject that people feel they have familiarity with (satellite imagery) instead of what is actually contained in the article (satellite RF detection) and thus the conversation on the article strongly suggests that the community is _not_ assimilating any information from the article.

I suppose I should be the "candle" and just talk about RF detection rather than "cursing the darkness".
I very much agree with this in principle, but I think there are limits to it too. If a user who uses they/them joins your community and talks about yarn and patterns, referring to the user will always be political unless you ignore them or don't use pronouns around them, which is also political. And then whether or not the user is allowed to participate might be political- some users might be highly uncomfortable with a they/them pronoun user even participating and want a community "without those politics".
It might be useful for proving that cryptographic protocols are guaranteed secure (i.e. that cracking them is not in P). I don't know if there are any existing protocols known to be in NP (e.g. factoring for RSA is not known to be NP hard) but it would be huge progress in that direction.
> and in many ways are still lightyears beyond what we have now.

I think this wildly overstates it. Much of the good innovations have been adopted in Linux. 9p exists. /proc was adopted (though that was in UNIX first).

One unifying principle of plan9 is that everything is a file. But the (POSIX) file api has a lot of limitations. Fuschia, in contrast had some nice ideas about different types of file (blob/object, log, etc).
"Importantly there is almost nothing on evilness of power structures (how surprising)." Well of course not. You snipped out those parts!
It would let us understand way better what computation really is I think. If we can separate computational problem into classes, it means we can create some hierarchy of computations and understand what makes them move between those classes. It might be much more enlightening than all the crazy stuff that could happen if P=NP.
Yeah, you'd almost think he was writing in the voice of a fictional character or something bizarre like that.
Yeah, I feel that. Although the salesforce acquisition was way back in 2010, I think heroku still had some innovation and progress after that for a few years. But not in a few years now.

The good news is that heroku started out so solid that it can last a while in this state still being a good product. But it doesn't seem great.

I still don't know of anything else as good as heroku for "we don't really have any ops expertise in-house, do it for us and make it Just Work". I doubt the OP is that. I really don't have time (or honestly interest) to learn kubernetes.
Yep, I'm getting a 504 Gateway Timeout.
I think there's two options for UFO sightings:

A) there are real, ET or machine intelligence piloted UFOs actually visiting us - or -

B) this whole thing has been a long, slow burn disinformation campaign to reduce the risk of nuclear war by scaring nuclear weapon powers into believing there is something with greater power out there capable of quickly eradicating nations that move to aggressively use nuclear weapons

I'm leaning towards B, personally. Just makes more sense to me - make people afraid, unsure of what's out there - give leaders just enough doubt to second guess pressing the nuclear button.
https://www.onepercent.live/episodes/episode-27-william-mcqu...
> Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens".

"My fellow Americans... I'm sure you've heard rumors of what I am about to say, but I am here as your President to set the record straight about what we do and do not know. What we do know is that there are structured technological craft operating in our airspace that we have reason to believe are not of human construction or operation. What we don't know is... everything else. Where are they from? Who is operating them? What is their intention? Are they friendly or hostile? How long have they been here? Are they simply observing or are they interacting with us? Are any of the stories of extraterrestrial abductions or influence of history valid? ... We also do not have control of our airspace, and the technology of the visitors is apparently so advanced that we have no hope of interfering with their activities regardless of what they are..."

Yeah, they're totally gonna give that speech. Better have cops in riot gear deployed ahead of time.
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ive is a one trick pony w/ myopic perspective on design - One that is purely focusing on useless aesthetics. Hope apple products going fwd will have superior hardware design that balances usability w/ style.
You might need to follow some of the older links (e.g. [1]) but there's a very clear and specific statement of what he's explaining: this is what he claims Bob Lazar observed at the so-called Area 51 (Groom Lake). He claims Lazar knew exactly what it was but decided to show his friends and tell them it was UFOs. Now he is stuck with that lie because if he ever tells the truth, he could be prosecuted. That's the theory anyway - I'm not saying any of that is correct but it strikes me as by far the most plausible theory I've heard.

Applying this theory to the tic tac thingy was something I just thought of, not something the author of that website ever claimed (to my knowledge).

The problem I have with statements like "they're too big/expensive/non-portable for that" is that we already know that we're dealing with something that we can't explain. In other words: at least one of our beliefs about the state of some kind of technology is very wrong. One thing I keep hearing about these objects is that they move instantly, as if they have no mass. Well, then, they probably have no mass - that's the simplest explanation.

[1] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
It could be. The simple approach is generating a key when the server/channel starts and sharing that between clients. Of course there are downsides to this, but you can make improvements to this system to get aspects that you want (such as rotating the key when someone leaves and giving all keys to new members).
> The Duke of Sussex said he hoped to be able to “create impact in people’s lives” by working with BetterUp to provide “proactive coaching” for personal development, increased awareness and “an all-round better life”.

Who better to pick than him, someone who got where he is thanks to personal development.
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There are a lot of places in Siberia or Antarctica where no man has ever been closer than 10km. You are welcome to visit. But the trick is, there is nothing of real interest there. No old temples (if there is a temple, you are certainly not first there), no sculptures, no food or lodging. Being first to discover some exotic island in the Pacific sounds romantic, but in the reality it is far less glamorous. Just rocks, trees, maybe some sand. The main object of travel are people and other cultures, and this is the only meaningful discovery one can make.
A teenager's temptation to make a thing (created by adults) do things the adult would not want ... is enormous. It is an inversion of power.

Some adults also feel powerless, and act like teenagers when given the opportunity.

If your focus is on the consistent operation of your systems (computer systems, social systems, etc) then you'll view their actions as attacks.

Sometimes there are real consequences, to be sure. Often the actions originate as a joke or a tweak of sorts, from people who have undeveloped concepts of empathy or responsiblity.

I don't think this is solvable. Moral absolutism is appealing in theory, but in practice, the effects are negative for all parties.

Of course there's a line which, when crossed, requires some kind of countervailing reaction. I don't know how to define that line, and I don't particularly trust others to do so either. Harm is real, but complicated.

A lot of damage can be done in the grey area between "offended" and "injured".
Fair enough. May you continue on commenting for another 7 years.
Reply to all:

(you all missed the sterilisation part and the "relying too much")

And well yes, vaccination is training. And training is good. Thats why I just did it. But training is not a real fight. Real battle experience beats training experience by far. At least in martial arts.(and as far as I know with the immune system, too. the immune system is a little bit more sophisticated than "antibodies". And the vaccinations mostly train only one part of it - the antibodies)

Meaning when your body would be vaccinated against everything known in a sterilized environment - he would never have to fight for real. Just against cripled germs or parts of them. So chances would be, a great disadvantage when facing a new disease it did not train for. A disease that is actively attacking and not just providing dna to read and store.

And my immune system is in a quite good shape(I travelled a lot off grid), which is why I actually was indeed more sceptical to the vaccination than the actual disease.
Because it is a new technology. And nobody can guarantee, that the side effects are not worse for me, than the disease would be.
Especially in the long run. Autoimmune diseases are increasing a lot. I can only trust the developers that their genetically modified cure does not mess with my immune system. I recon chances are low, so I got the shot.
> If the software makes updates, it should provide a clear notification to the user. The user must have a meaningful opportunity to review and approve any principal and significant updates or settings changes.

...or I guess, just do it like Chrome and don't even tell the user that you have automatic updates.
You might want to try https://gigahood.com/ as well?
Heavy drinking from adolescence to young associated with an altered cerebellum