skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also tangential: I'm not sure about the real-life software itself, but IIRC, the example app in Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design is a shipping logistics app!
Disagree, the events happened in 2019 but the article was published this year based on FOIA requests that were fulfilled after 2019.
“Objectives: To define the epidemiology and outcomes of non-influenza respiratory viral infections in hospitalized adults.”
Some of these are funny but others seem like they could be effective: “You’re looking good today. Want snacks?” is really what it boils down to.
You wrote:

"If you have some hydrogen atoms, and then you do something to them, and suddenly you have some helium atoms, that's fusion."

And that's just wrong. There's a famous case from early on in the history of nuclear physics, where someone passed current through hydrogen gas and then found helium, and thought it was fusion. But what it was was helium diffusing out of the glass of the apparatus.

This should be the default assumption, because supposed cold fusion making 4He is a triple miracle: first that DD fusion occurs at all, then that it makes 4He, and then that it doesn't go through the normal channels (actually a quadruple miracle, since also that the 4He fusion doesn't dump its energy in very energetic gamma photons.)
It is unclear why weren't any attempts made to capture these uavs despite repeat encounters.
The production of Stalker caused the deaths of multiple people due to the toxic environment.
I'm surprised they didn't try to disable them. Considering the range off-shore and the flight time, these certainly aren't consumer grade drones.

> This calls into question the “drone” designation. Was there ever even a hard description of these craft beyond lights in the sky?
fascinating read.. my first thought was that they must have been either a covert military operation to test some bleeding edge tech, or launched via submarine by an adversary
Has anyone managed to get access to GPT-3 since OpenAI licensed it to Microsoft? I'd like to build something using it at my company, but haven't heard of anyone getting access since before the announcement. Any tips would be welcomed.
Well, maybe. I mean you guys know all the details and I don't, but (a) I haven't seen a lot of (if any?) intellectually interesting conversation about this, and (b) that matches my gut feeling that the story, while intensely sensational, is of secondary significance.
There's no content-length header in the response. The server has to close the connection to signal the end of the response body.
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Ah, my bad—you are absolutely correct.

Not sure how I missed that... guess it's time to go to bed.

I do think the headline has an urgent undertone that makes it seem like this just happened. Not sure if intentional or not
We eventually would have discovered fission, and without fossil fuel alternatives it would have taken off on a much larger scale.
To be frank BoringSSL and other derivatives are not "rewrites". They are largely the same as OpenSSL with some parts of the code removed. A rewrite starts from a fresh slate, not slowly modifying a fork.

BTW, rustls exists and is a rewrite of OpenSSL of sorts.
So women may really be from Venus
In a well-functioning society, lots of close social connections should build and engender high social trust. When this fails to occur, it implies that people are getting socially marginalized in some way and it's important to understand why.
Retailers earn 2% to 3% profit margins. How much goodwill can they afford?
It's gated behind a karma score threshold.
Yes, we review flagged posts. I wouldn't say we review why things get flagged, exactly, because we can only guess at that. But we try to keep an eye on things and turn flags off when the article seems substantive and able to support a substantive discussion. We also rely on users giving us heads-ups at hn@ycombinator.com when they think we should take a closer look at a thread.

Most stories and threads that get enough flags to win the tug-of-war against upvotes are just not very good or on topic for HN. Partisans of one side or the other on an issue tend to feel strongly about it, but the bulk of the audience is here for interesting things to read, and the site has a very clear mandate that way: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor..., https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. So most of the time, when people feel strongly that a story shouldn't be flagged, we end up disappointing them; fighting these battles is not really what HN is for. Still, there are fairly frequent exceptions.

I should add that when an account has a habit of flagging submissions that are on-topic and good submissions for HN, we eventually take away their flagging privileges.
Such Lovecraft vibes from that one... I love it.
I completely agree, I live in Seattle where the war has been going for a while. A lot of people here love nature and like more wooded communities on the outskirts, but there is this small, vocal minority that is demonizing anyone who resists 10 story apartment buildings that they are trying to push everywhere. The worst part is that most here that want higher density are not from here, they come here and tell everyone , most that already lived here and like the city the way it is, that we have to change because they want cheaper housing.
Drugs impact simulation for TensorFlow neural networks on a GitHub. Funny
This sounds like a direct threat to the operational security of the United States Navy, and to the freedom of navigation, and eventually the National Security of the United States.

I'm surprised the Marines on board weren't authorized to shoot them out of the sky. Perhaps it's time to develop some high power EM weapons to take them out, big magnetrons are cheap, and there is a lot of electrical power available onboard.

I'm willing to help develop countermeasures.
> let people make their own risk calculations based on the available evidence and their own situation

and there-in lies the heart of the issue - the assumption that most people are able to make a good assessment, and that the assessment takes into account the impact on a societal level, rather than an individual level.

This simply does not happen. People are selfish. People only look out for themselves. Therefore, it is required that in a pandemic, authoritarian rules and strict adherence to public safety be applied. Even if some individuals believe they can remain safe, even if they can take precautions. Unfortunately, this mindset does not exist in america - not everyone would follow this sort of authoritarian rule. And thus, the lockdown is half-assed and ineffective.

And not to mention that there's been misinformation being spread, leading to people to believe that they shouldn't be locked down or wear masks.
I'm in the same boat, and nope, nothing but crickets. My best guess is that Microsoft is now using the application form as a way to crowdsource business development, as they look to exploit their exclusive license.
Focal length + wave length = you can calculate where they must be if they see you.
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> Other books in this space that I like: Aumasson's "Serious Cryptography" and David Wong's "Real World Cryptography".

The latter not being published until July 27. :-)

(I know this book is also not published yet, so I guess it's totally fair to suggest a not-yet-published book as an alternative to a not-yet-published book!)
At least Casio is consistent. Notice how all the text in your photos is set in the same typeface, despite the variation in size, color, and styling. You could call it "Casio Sans". It probably comes attached to a detailed style guide. It's so much better than the soup of random fonts that Citizen and Seiko tend to use.
If you re-read my comment you will see I am not criticizing the language, it makes mathematical sense.

I was pointing out one downside of the broadcast syntax, is that a typo can lead to non-obvious errors in calculations. R avoids this with a expm() function.

Don't get me wrong, I love using Julia, it makes turning maths into code easy, and this is not even close to a deal breaker.
Is anyone building this for the traditional finance system, with actual shares as collateral? I know of Mirror Protocol & FTX, but they are just p2p swaps/futures. My email is in my profile if anyone wants to discuss further.
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Color me mind blown too... That's worth a submission on its own
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Other possible theories:

- "Hacker in his garage" A highly qualified amateur who built/modded drones to play a prank or showcase his products to potential customers.

- The drones were launched from the coast by a secret Russian/Chinese military cell to test new technology and spook the US military.
So they declined to engage, and this incident left zero physical evidence at all?

My honest guess is it was staged, to “help” congress approve the new drone defense budget (which is probably not a terrible idea).

Next!
“We both have buckets of chicken. Ya wanna do it?” - worked for Scout.
The title of this post implies otherwise: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud
"Chrome will fall back to HTTP ... when there [is] ... DNS resolution failure" makes no sense to me. In what circumstance does DNS resolution succeed for HTTP after failing for HTTPS? DNS doesn't care what you're about to do with the IP address it provides.
I don't think you need much evidence to believe that lockdowns are temporarily effective. But I'd be curious to see evidence on whether they are effective at reducing overall infections over a longer period.

Because it seems like they just delay (for only a matter of weeks) what is going to happen anyway.

Most of the United States really had two significant waves. NY and other early hotspots never had the summer peak. The summer peak states never had a huge outbreak in spring because they locked down two months.

The states that managed to not have several outbreaks until fall (California and the Planes states) all got hit much worse.

It all seemed to even out.
Typical heroku apps have services like postgres and redis that maintain state between deployments. This is very typical, and trivial to provision. Still not sure what you mean. Are you sure you are at all familiar with heroku?
There's this type of pathogen called a virus, and some kinds of viruses can cause a respiratory condition known as a cold.
Yeah, agreed that from the headline, it seems recent.

While the article does make this clear first thing, it may be worth having the title reflect this is a past event.
Perhaps starting a war with the aliens is not the best thing to do right now
agreed for the second sighting after everyone was made aware of them not being anything navy related. Given the waters, the proximity to other testing sites, it's likely the sailors didn't man the guns the first time for the simple reason of perhaps not being in the loop for a test.

Second time sounds like they weren't prepared to respond quick enough.
It definitely has. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be checking it out!
> You’re looking good today. Want snacks?

Strong move. This is like the e4 of mating openings in the animal kingdom.
Easy. Cost of production * 3.14. If that price isn't competitive either take less profit or find a way to limit costs without offering a lesser product than before.
Honestly that would work on me.
You are absolutely right, I meant to say "green" and reply to your parent. I'm embarrassed..
Huh? We’ve all been talking about predator drones for well over a decade
Damnit, now I want a grilled cheese sandwich.
> You look like a stealth assassin from the clouds

> Do you like...pancakes?

This bot's been reading The Stormlight Archive
that's an interesting proposition. If terraforming is really about engineering the right microbes to slowly (over several millenia even?) the atmosphere to habitable for humans, do we currently have the technology to actually accomplish it? Or is it still too advanced form of engineering?
Another possibility, that it's the same kind of aircraft that Cmd David Fravor's FA18 squadron intercepted several years ago... 'Tic Tacs'.
Family Guy Jesus outfitted in a tux with an ostentatious palatial backdrop, perhaps with the shirtless homeowner on horseback in close proximity. And gold, gold everywhere.
I must be the only person on the planet who thinks humans are doing a phenomenal job taking care of Earth. Within a couple hundred years we went from struggling to survive to thriving with significant pollution, to rapid iteration on the energy sector with environment being a top priority. That all happened very quickly.
It's also much easier to close both country borders and interstate borders here. That's the main reason we've been successful along with people's general willingness to follow rules here.
Give gpt-3 a tinder account and see how well it does
> even then I don't think the default next step is going full-blown cloud and K8S

What would you suggest as a 'next step' after heroku?
This is egregious. Saying Europe is doing badly implies a hijacked account?

"All their recent posts are broadly political"
Show me a single political post and I'll delete this account.
Wikipedia confirms that the Dutch water boards are indeed a highly significant form of local government...

> Punishments meted out by water boards were fines for misdemeanors such as emptying waste in the nearest canal; however, according to various historical documents, the death penalty was used more than once for serious offenders who threatened dike safety or water quality
I love Google’s Cloud services. I think in many ways they have the best product.

I also worked somewhere where we made a million dollar commit. We had to get support through a VAR because Google basically doesn’t offer support. We basically paid someone else to file tickets that got dismissive responses while we had prod meltdown.

They’re also price competitive. I was going to go there again in my current position in a very small org. We have GSuite and to get GCloud working we had to turn on Cloud Identity. We didn’t see the free tier in GSuite, so I went to ask GSuite support. The only accessible support was a bot. When I asked the bot how to talk to a human, it helpfully referred me to a bunch of forum posts of people complaining you can’t talk to a human at Google.

We’re now with Azure.
Thank You! This whole post, and another comment I made on this thread was super affirming, its nice to know I'm not alone.

It's why what people call 'cancel culture' scares the snot out of me, I'm deathly afraid I'm gonna say or do the wrong thing, and not really have a way to respond to it, and pay some sort of heavy toll. I'm okay with free speech having consequences (its the only way to ensure we can actually have speech mostly free of government regulation). I just wish those consequences were not applied for things deemed ex post facto (often by decades) to be violations of social norms.

But there is a certain amount of mental exhaustion from having to filter everything I say outside of some very very narrow circles, lest I say something that could be deemed in the future to be 'problematic'.

The larger issue I see, is our current focus on peoples actions in the past is it leaves no room for personal growth or to change views, it if anything hardens people views and perspectives - if someone gets no credit for getting better about something (like use of pronouns, or whatever else), there is no incentive to improve.
Be interesting if they did that next to a Aircraft carrier, the ciws system will make mince of the drones.
I'm saying that saying 'no thanks' to Reddit drama has been a function of HN moderation for as long as HN has existed. There are exceptions, of course, but as I've explained half a dozen times today, I don't see that this story clears the bar for that. I'd be willing to be wrong, but the low quality of the comments that have been posted about it so far has strengthened my sense that I'm not. The story is intensely interesting in a sensational way but that's not the same thing as intellectual interest, which is HN's mandate.

By the way, I'm not saying that out of snobbish disrespect for Reddit. Reddit's an amazing place and an incredible achievement. HN is just a different sort of forum and moderation's job is to preserve the sort of forum HN is.
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City blocks? Sweden has a scale model of the solar system that stretches across the entire country - north to south. And even then it isn’t actually big/long enough for the entire solar system.
> They're in everything. It's likely been years since you had a meal without any corn or soybean derived ingredients.

Not here, just had some lamb legs from an animal I raised/shot/processed myself.
Not only are a lot of people using it, the number of active users and plugin creators seems to be growing. It’s a wonderful time to be a vim user.
Navy destroyers are equipped with Close In Weapons Systems too, you know.
this is better than any copypasta ive ever read
I had bet on zombies for the Dec 2020 final stage but I guess intergalactic war would have fit the bill too
It's not space aliens, it's some other group of humans from another country or non-aligned organization.
is 148 high ? low ? What does in intrinsically measure (beside being a competition of who piss further) ?
It's interesting that these encounters keep happening off the California coast - is the naval presence there unique compared to other regions?
The question of whether people say they like their jobs is, frankly, moot. As the Hungarian economist used to say, when asked "how are you?", "compared to what"?

More important to this discussion is whether they would be happier if they could instantly retire, and whether this happiness would last. People like to complain about their jobs, but a lot of retirees subsequently complain about being bored.
For anyone else wondering what sizes these models are, it appears that these are the largest four out of the one ones listed in the paper. 175B, 13B, 6.7B, and 2.7B parameters.

Though that means "a bit smaller" for the second one is a bit of an understatement.
I can't agree with this.

Everyone I've ever seen doing something wrong in the west only showed "guilt" once caught.
You can doxx a reddit employee that way.

The problem comes up when you've hired a politician as a reddit employee, and you're written an algorithm that only cares about if someone is a reddit employee.
I'm inclined to agree with you, except that the experience is kind of making me give up on GPT-3. These social media fluff articles are actually a little irritating when you have a real, relevant use case and are waiting to get any sign of possible access, with no timelines, pricing or other public information.
some quick searching, it’s looking maybe not so little https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-...
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Would you want to reveal what defenses you have against drones that are not doing any damage? It is possible such a swarm was intended precisely to suss out what defenses there may be.
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However it would make a fitting sequel to COVID.
Where in the world doesn't this happen?
So anyway, I started blasting...
The more recent DDG's, including the USS Kidd have those as well. I wonder why it wasn't used.
Aren't those UFO videos in the New York Times a few years back from the same general area, off the coast of San Diego? Is this the same thing?

(Also, this is the US military messing with itself. Someone in some skunk works hanger in Nevada has some secret weapon and they want to test it out on a real navy.)
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Submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563358
can you provide some (good)links so I can read more about each of these points? Thanks!
This is so weird me and my dad saw something really similar to this with the red flashing and then white light hovering around a ship off the NC coast a few months ago at night. We watched it go on for a while with binoculars, so strange. It was far away but could tell one was a ship not really 100% sure the other light was a drone it could’ve been another boat.
Yev here -> Absolutely here you on that. We wanted to make sure we knew what we were talking about before we made any declarative statements. We just finished our root cause analysis and updated our blog post with updated information: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr....
> life has become a miserable shadow of what it once was

Eh, I think it depends on your personality. As an introvert, I’ve never been as happy as this past year. It has been fantastic and I am dreading having to work in an office again, social distancing going away, perhaps masks going away. I try not to think about the end of the pandemic since it just makes me depressed.
Big testing ground for the Navy. SD has a large naval base. If you wanted to prank/spook/spy on the USN there would be few better locations to pick from.
Do you think a trigger happy captain wouldn’t request permission to engage/capture these drones? He probably did, it was probably denied, and evidence of these requests were not leaked.

This was obviously an exercise between friendlies.
Knuth holds such a view:

> Don Knuth: As you say, I've come to believe that P = N P, namely that there does exist an integer M and an algorithm that will solve every n-bit problem belonging to the class N P in nM elementary steps.

> Some of my reasoning is admittedly naïve: It's hard to believe that P ≠ N P and that so many brilliant people have failed to discover why. On the other hand if you imagine a number M that's finite but incredibly large—like say the number 10 3 discussed in my paper on "coping with finiteness"—then there's a humongous number of possible algorithms that do nM bitwise or addition or shift operations on n given bits, and it's really hard to believe that all of those algorithms fail.

> My main point, however, is that I don't believe that the equality P = N P will turn out to be helpful even if it is proved, because such a proof will almost surely be nonconstructive. Although I think M probably exists, I also think human beings will never know such a value. I even suspect that nobody will even know an upper bound on M.

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858
Considering the amount of evidence provided, there's no way to be sure its 'some other country'. It could be US citizens, the US armed forces, or hell, an ET. Safe to not make assumptions.
> Granted hard drives kind of resemble "hard disks" still.

No, it is a good example by now. A modern M.2 SSD looks much more like a stick of RAM than any kind of spinning disk.

Sure, spinning hard disks are still around, and might stick around for quite a while (data centers, archival...), but when someone at their desk says "save on disk" nowadays, it increasingly will be on such an entirely non-disk-looking disk.
Yev here - :)
> The question remains: who was operating these craft with apparent impunity, and for what purpose, and was this extremely bizarre case ever resolved?

Maybe save you a click if you were looking for any kind of resolution.