skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article points out the evocative "pyramid shaped" wording is the phrasing of the UFO enthusiast to describe what most people would call "triangular" or even "stealth bomber shaped".

Whatever it is it's not likely being flown by Ancient Egyptians, or coming from Atlantis or anything.
Pasting my comment from the same piece of news discussed in HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791402

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As Meja sang some years back: it's all about the money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ)(cute song)

Logbooks: someone needs to distribute them, collect them, read them, transfer the (many many many) written lines to a computer, validate the signature samples/writing style, etc. etc. An app that automates that in 2 mins is so much better.

A solution could be: 1) give each employee a (corporate) cheap $100 android phone, 2) configure these to allow only 1-2 apps to 'escape' to the internet so the bandwidth is not wasted on updates or browsing, 3) provide a 1GB per year data plan, 4) ask them to switch on right before entering the 'site' and switch off right when they leave the 'site' 5) give them a monthly $5 subsidy to keep it charged.
Not to scare you, but I advise following up with a doctor as soon as possible. My 21 year old brother who was otherwise completely healthy suffered a similar short pattern of pain due to blood clots (not related to vaccine) but with severe neck pain for a short time one night.

It went away after that night, he was fine for 3 weeks with no pain or issues, was working out fine, etc. and thought nothing of it.

Suddenly one night went from perfectly fine sleeping to suffering a major stroke due to a blood clot in his brain within a 10 minute period, unable to do anything himself to get help as he lost all motor skills.

He said in retrospect he wishes he had followed up with a doctor on the thing he thought was no longer an issue 3 weeks before.

There are genetic tests they can run, as well, such as to see if you might have factor V Leiden.
I'm originally from Brazil, there Bolsonaro's election was very likely boosted by his campaign's use of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram as platforms for attacking the press and his opponents. The kind of fake news that got traction ranged from "toddlers' bottles in the shape of dicks are going to be distributed by <main opponent's party>" to "a 'gay kit' study material to be distributed to kids as young as 6 years old has been created by <his main opponent government>".

Those kind of news really got some traction in Brazil, and are utterly fake. Facebook did nothing, this was spread all around my news feed during 2018, the religious right-wing nuts (neopentecostal types of churches, Prosperity Gospel and all) were swung by their greedy "pastors" latching onto these rumours of what they perceive as imoral and satanic (anything involving LGBTQ, feminism or socialism). Some of these pastors in Brazil are billionaires, owning open broadcast media networks (Rede Record) and wield that power, Brazilian Congress has almost a 1/5 of its elected members coming from Evangelical churches, called "the Evangelical bench".

Anyhow, I digress into that to show a facet of society, of one affected country, that mainstream media in English doesn't usually show. One facet that explains how simple is for an absurd fake news such as a "gay kit" being distributed to kids to help swing elections.

I can't imagine how many similar surreal experiences happened on Facebook in other languages and non-newsworthy countries.

Thank you, Sophie.
Hmm, the problem starts from the localhost itself for me because of the different web server ports in which the frontend and api codes run.

But most developers just ‘*’ the accept origin and move on at that time.
It started out that way, anyway.
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It wasn't necessary as of some months ago. I don't have a smart phone and at first they would send a SMS with TAN, but now they switched to sending an email with the TAN.
As someone not from the UK: What is zero rights employment, and how is it different than before?
Any real performance gains will easily be balanced out by websites doubling their size once again, WASM or not.
Unless privacy == security (i.e. operational security need privacy). It's laughably to take over Telegram accounts (or just join as an invisible listener) and because nothing is encrypted, you get the full message history.

Telegram has really, really great UI/UX and even DX regarding their API. Other than that it's a shit show.

I would never recommend using Whatsapp, but compared to Telegram, Whatsapp is a poster child.
> assembly script doesn't perform and high-level optimizations upon compilation

IIRC it does because it uses binaryen[0] (as claimed in the link) which is an optimizing compiler.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
> As distasteful as it is to admit it, we learn much more quickly by failure than success, and often the quickest, cheapest, and most thorough way to understand the consequences of a technology is to implement it.

I totally agree. This is a fundamental paradox. As you state it's impossible to fully understand the consequences of any technological development. We can't learn without taking risks.

> The cost of excessive caution is that certain ideas (cars, fossil fuel energy, destructive economic models, etc) are allowed to continue far past the point where we can implement better alternatives.

I'm not sure about your use of "caution" here. I don't think fossil fuel extraction persists because we are too cautious (i.e., too risk-averse) to pursue alternatives. This would imply that biogeochemical realities are absent from our risk-benefit analysis, leading us to conclude burning carbon is less risky than other options. This may have been the case 50 years ago but "climate consciousness" is well within the mainstream now.

I would argue instead that humans are uniquely skilled at ignoring unpleasant potentialities. This is socially useful: we coordinate our activities by genuflecting to fictions. This was a better strategy when we were incapable of terraforming the planet. Perhaps we can salvage it, but insulating ourselves from consequences as we seem so keen to do is a great way to walk off a cliff before the loss function kicks in. If you feed a system too-thoroughly sanitized data it will not form an accurate world model.

> trying to improve the state of the world.

I would submit that most existentially threatening technologies were born out of a desire to do just this. It seems the arc of development finds its way to entrenchment, if not the trenches, with little to no regard for inventors' intentions. As you say, perverse economic incentives don't help.

I don't mean to condemn tool-making wholesale. But if we're going to build tools, imo they must be easy to dismantle and supersede. This principle is not so uncommon in software but the opposite tends to obtain more generally. An atmosphere full of carbon is not an easy thing to deconstruct, nor are stockpiles of nuclear weapons, or soils exhausted by years of improper care in pursuit of yield-maximization, or car-centric urban megalopoli.
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> That said, I'm not sure this whole projection trickery is really worth it

I think it might be. Look at the first GIF in the article, the one showing the room. Try to imagine yourself standing in that room. Doesn't the FOVO-corrected picture look pretty much like what you'd see with your own eyes if you were the camera? It definitely looks like that for me.

Using standard projections for rendering, there's no FOV value that would produce this effect - at a typical videogame FOV of 90°, you see only a fragment of what your eyes would perceive, and as you increase FOV, distortions become really bad.

I went into more details on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26805010.
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I'm looking at my GF, she's on the couch, watching an online uni lecture and writing Markdown on my 7yo MacBook Pro. Original battery, updated from Mavericks all the way to Big Sur. Runs fine, a few hours of battery life. My dad has a 2014 Mac Mini, currently on Catalina, runs fine. My sister's BF also has MacBook Pro that he's been abusing for the last six years. His battery is almost dead, but the machine itself runs fine. My ex-GF is still rocking her iPad Mini (the first retina model) that she bought in 2014. She loves the thing and the thing loves her back.

If Apple is in the business of early or planned obsolescence, they're fucking terrible at it.
It still me, that reply is just for the downvoters, ycombinator has been politcal lately not a tech news anymore. Propaganda is spilling over to all tech news sight in the past few years. Economist is one of the propaganda machine of the west it used to be a nice magazine.
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M who?
Person A see's a post about some crypto guy and how he paid off all his school loans with crypto, person A buys into crypto hoping for a similar outcome, this drives the price up. Person B seeing that the price has gone up regularly feels like he would be missing out if he didn't buy in, this drives the price up even more. Person A feels validated for investing because due to person B, the price has gone up, and maybe invests a little more, causing the price to shoot up, Person B feels validated... now imagine this circus with millions of people.
Is there any scientific evidence that this kind of excessive cleaning had any impact on COVID? What was the cost-benefit-analysis, how many years of life were saved per $, and how does that compare to other health interventions? If we just banned junk food at these schools, but let COVID run rampant (the number of children and teenagers dead from COVID is essentially statistical noise), would we have improved health in the long-run?

My impression is that many of these cleaners realised they had a 'bullshit job' and were slacking off or not actually at the premises, particularly if the work was done after-hours.

I think the bigger issue here is that we need to unwind all of these COVID distortions and get back to normal.
My bad for being unclear, I know it's not literal survival, I was responding to the implication: because Facebook is needed for some kind of "survival", it follows that Facebook is a utility that cannot be controlled by a company. That may be true for actual survival of actual people, but you're not talking about that. Guaranteed utilities/things in most countries are classified as such because they are necessary for literal human survival in modern society - electricity, water, food stamps, shelter - but you use the word "survive" which suggests actual survival while disclaiming the meaning by putting quotes around it and saying it's just a figure of speech. Facebook is not even close to a utility, it may only seem so if "survive" is re-defined to mean something totally different than what we use when we talk about a public utility.

I appreciate your story but open source projects don't inherently deserve to survive. Businesses don't inherently deserve to survive.

More importantly, the fact that Facebook can and has saved lives doesn't make it necessary for survival either. I'm sure a Taylor Swift song has brought someone back from the brink of suicide and indirectly saved lives by some definition, but it would be absurd to consider Taylor Swift songs to be a public utility necessary for survival.
I would absolutely go for a micro-ATX or even full ATX board if that allows you better choices in hardware to get ECC or other features.

My goal was to build something not too much larger than a 4-6 disk NAS, that would also function as a HTPC, sitting under my TV. That meant small size and quiet operation were the main priorities. As none of the popular consumer NAS devices use ECC RAM, I reasoned that I would do without it in my build, too.

The fans are running on the lowest variable setting controlled by the BIOS, it's whisper-quiet even with your ear next to it, but I've got some even quieter fans from be quiet, that I'm planning to swap in. The PSU is also from be quiet!, and with the placement deep in the case, with the 120mm fan oriented downwards, it's completely inaudible.

Had I not been constrained by space and noise concerns in my small apartment, I would have build a larger, more powerful and ECC-equipped machine to be hidden away in an equipment rack in the basement.
There are significant differences between what is labeled 'university' now and a hundred years ago. We shouldn't let ourselves be blinded by what was accomplished under this label in the past to what it applies to now.
While I agree with the 3-pm food in France sentiment. As a french person returning to France after 15 years away the "french tacos" seem like the most vile cultural mashup and taste made into a log of soggy fries and cheese sauce.

In general my rule of thumb is : stick to french food in France. Culturally imported dishes are often a very poor adaptation and I am often disappointed.
> I have to find a weekly hn newsletter system.

https://hackernewsletter.com/
The UK Gov just got slapped by Apple and Google for trying to exploit the Corona Virus notifcation exposure system by trying to precisely locate people with the Covid contact tracing tracker App.
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This attitude is precisely why people pursue socialist policies. I'm from the UK and have benefited hugely from socialist healthcare policies that even our conservatives pay lip service to supporting.

There's an awful lot of libertarian, social darwinist claptrap in threads on this post. It gets away from the fact that what has happened is a relatively newly capitalist country has made a very substantial error to its citizens' cost, and there exists a possibility of injustice alongside the possibility that the rule of law may appear to be being ignored, depending on when the law changed.

It isn't an opportunity to be performatively callous.
Seems like it was a marketing bug ("spec says: only provide this feature for people who paid us more money", implementation says: "everyone gets this feature"), but the "fix" is for the affected people to move everything out of the affected devices, reset them, and copy the data back.
This is what worries me. I have had the AZ vaccine. Will I be at risk of this syndrome every time I am exposed to coronavirus? In other words, is the risk cumulative?
40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.
Wow, it's cool that such a cool service has appeared. Should definitely try it.
We already store a lot of data at home. And ssd and hdd storage has sometimes read errors. With terabytes of data we come across a handful error s per year, most of them will nobody notice.
I use btrfs everywhere I can and see sometimes errors, most times on heavy written files like databases(sqlite files) or virtual harddisks, sometimes even pictures or logfiles.
Even without RAID you could restore the file from a backup (If you try to backup a broken file, the computer won’t let you).
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The problem is that people are conditioned to think that if something is published then most likely it is real.
Maybe we need to overhaul our education system and teach people about manipulation techniques, how to spot manipulative language, how to cross reference interesting information, how to assess whether the source is trustworthy and so on. Then teach about existence of PR agencies who create fake accounts and play certain characters to create an opinion.
Unfortunately governments who used to rely on their own propaganda may not like it.
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Doing our best :)
"Dynamic Deoptimization" should have been called "Dynamic Pessimization".

Debugging Optimized Code with Dynamic Deoptimization

By Urs Hölzle (Stanford University), Craig Chambers (University of Washington) and David Ungar (Sun Microsystems Labs).

https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/dynamic-deopti...

>Abstract: Self’s debugging system provides complete source-level debugging (expected behavior) with globally optimized code. It shields the debugger from optimizations performed by the compiler by dynamically deoptimizing code on demand. Deoptimization only affects the procedure activations that are actively being debugged; all other code runs at full speed. Deoptimization requires the compiler to supply debugging information at discrete interrupt points; the compiler can still perform extensive optimizations between interrupt points without affecting debuggability. At the same time, the inability to interrupt between interrupt points is invisible to the user. Our debugging system also handles programming changes during debugging. Again, the system provides expected behavior: it is possible to change a running program and immediately observe the effects of the change. Dynamic deoptimization transforms old compiled code (which may contain inlined copies of the old version of the changed procedure) into new versions reflecting the current source-level state. To the best of our knowledge, Self is the first practical system providing full expected behavior with globally optimized code.

>Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN ‘92 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pp. 32-43, San Francisco, June, 1992.
My trick: get the audiobook version, and listen while doing something else, which prevents my mind from wandering too far from the text. Ideally not something I was going to do anyway, but something that I'm only doing to occupy myself while I listen. I find that driving or cleaning are OK, but the problem is that they're both often too brief to really get into the book, and that they both occasionally demand cognition, and during those times I lose track of what's going on in the book.

I've found that the ideal accompaniments to audiobook listening are taking a walk and playing Nuclear Throne, which is the only video game that I've both found to be endlessly engaging, and requires absolutely no cognition. It's $12, runs on windows/mac/linux, has DRM-free versions available, and would probably perform adequately on your toaster.

If anyone knows of other games that work in this niche, please share. As much as I love occupying my hands with Nuclear Throne, I wouldn't mind mixing things up.
Not mentioned in that video is that the triangles all have the same orientation, which would also be the case if bokeh was the cause.
Yeah, and there will be more!
> I think the bigger issue here is that we need to unwind all of these COVID distortions and get back to normal.

At >110% ICU occupancy (and >150% in my city), let's not yet.
>The 32:9 "ultra-wide" 5120x1440 look pretty great, but in practice seem to have some challenges. As an example, you can't really do full screen sharing anymore because no one else can see it.

I only have a 21:9 ultrawide but this is definitely a drawback. I have a second monitor that is just 16:9 that is used for all of my screen sharing
FYI, the UK has a welfare state that works fine for many people. So do many other Western countries. It seems to me that you're presenting a false dichotomy here - one which appears to be based on your own ideological view of the world, rather than evidence.
Thank you! New industry always means new prospects :)
I believe ADHD people are fully capable of training their minds to become extremely productive. Granted, most people don't want to train anything, much less their minds, so it doesn't manifest much in the wild.

But in those that do, it's like a superpower. I spent several years training my hyperfocus to the point where, barring externalities like lack of sleep or food, I can engage it at will.

For challenging or creative tasks, it's like a superpower. I can go at levels far past most people's ability to focus. My entire mind will be engaged and thriving at full blast. Presentations, writing, designing, and creating I can do as easily as breathing.

There are real downsides, but I wouldn't trade them for anything.
Do you have a link so I can read about this? Sounds bad
Parents lose pensions because their kids leave?
They do, but they could probably charge the same and pocket more without all the glue.
Overthrowing the government is not the same as defending against invasion.

When you invade somebody and lose - you return to status quo (with some bad diplomatic consequences but still). There's a point past which it doesn't make sense to escalate.

When your citizens try to overthrow you and you lose - you and your family are dead soon. There's no thing that autocratic government won't do to avoid being overthrown.

As for fantasies of gun rights preventing fascism - it didn't historically (see Italy where before Mussolini the gun laws were very loose). Nor did fascism necessarily resulted in stricter gun control (in Germany Hitler actually loosened the gun laws after he took control). It frankly doesn't matter.

The simple fact is - in a developed country uprisings have 0 chance of winning against a professional army. Hand guns change nothing. The only way to win is to persuade the army to take your side. Which usually happens when the country doesn't have enough money to buy their loyalty.
Oh wow, this has slipped me by entirely, have you got an article about it that I can read?
Not sure how you arrived at the 40" number, but I tried this when shopping for a new screen and could not stand the head movement needed to handle that size, as well as the geometry distortion due to the flatness. 32" ended up the sweet spot for me. Maybe a highly curved 40" 4K would work better? That I haven't tried yet.
NFT these days
I had a team of 10, two of them are remote, we recruted a third person, we work 40 hours a week, usually more or less flexible. We have recruted another person, after 6 month of work with him i have noticed some strange delays, like take too much time to respond etc, we work in pretty much relaxed environement so it was not visible very much. After a quick search i have found his freelance account and proposed him to do some job, he agreed and did so during his active working hours, double pay, how do i suppose counter that ?
Too late. I already mentioned it some time ago [1]. Basically not only I can't use non-Android, non-Apple operating systems here, but the programs mandated by the different banks (and even government agencies) are checking for "rooted/compromised devices" and other fancy-speak like that which obviously trip frequently on non-sanctioned-by-Google devices.

i.e. you need a real, Google android device. Stuff such as the Jolla Android emulator just doesn't work with these programs.

At first, I could not pay my parking tickets, and I didn't complain much since I don't have that many parking tickets. Then it started with e.g. mandatory usage of the COVID-app-of-the-day before entering restaurants, but again I didn't complain much since I don't really want to go into restaurants with the virus still flying. Now the banks require it and they are ignoring my repeated requests to go back to simpler paper/card OTP variants. How long until it is mandatory to file taxes?

The framework for making open source operating systems irrelevant is being laid before my own eyes and I can't do anything about it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766703
Hard agree. OP seems a bit pedantic looking for bullet points. Personally the trackpad on this is pure downside.
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But is this a new problem though? I think this exists with traditional media too. Good example are fake opinion letters.
The newspapers also didn't shy from making deals with parties participating in elections - e.g. we will print favourable articles about you if you do X, Y and Z once you win.
It is cheap for a global reserve currency. That's the ultimate goal.
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