skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a top secret agreement between the US military and the lizard people: In order for a navy ship to be eligible for an alien visit, all the crew members have to ditch their smartphones, and, if they do take any video on a flip phone, they agree to shake their arms while filming.

Also according to the breathless film maker Jeremy Corbell, FLIR data can only be released to the public as grainy hand shaking video of FLIR screens shot over someone’s shoulder, I guess because the data is in a “special” format and programmers who are able to figure out how to parse special data formats do not actually exist. /s
I'd take any "debunking" video from that creator with a small foothill of salt. I feel like a long time ago he made genuinely insightful journalism into scams/ falsities but it seems a few years ago it just turned into a pessimists reaction video channel.

Even just looking at that video now, you can see it has been "debunked" by this latest release of info and 5 seconds of looking through the comments and you can see people pointing out falsehoods stated in the video.
Agreed about the whack-a-mole. Would be hard. Only a few people have the ability to lead projects that require so much mole whacking. I'm thinking of gorhill and ublock origin, for example.
I think the most interesting mystery about UFOs is how for decades the government tried to discourage reporting about them, to the point that pilots who saw things they could not explain would avoid reporting them because it might damage their careers, but in the last few years that has turned around and now the government wants reports.

The best explanation I can think of for that is that what people were seeing in the past decades was something the government was involved in and wanted to keep secret (stealth aircraft experiments, for example). Occasionally there would be a slip up and the public would see. By discouraging reports and trying to foster an environment where people who talked about their sightings would be seen as crackpots, the government hoped that people wouldn't be able to combine data sufficiently to learn too much.

So what changed? Let's suppose it is some kind of new aircraft. My guess is that someone else is now secretly testing similar aircraft, and the government does not know who. So now they want reports so they can try to figure out who it is.
No, because this is noisy, incomplete data. We don't know how much other data wasn't released that would help us draw other conclusions.
The military has been using drones since before quad copters. Anything long range is not going to be a quad, but something like a small plane. I'd imagine 'drone' in military lingo still mostly refers to fixed wing craft.
I actually believe it's their AI gap filling approach that may account for better perceived handoffs there. It was introduced on duo, and was supposed to hit meet sometime.
IME Rust/Go/Python/Node tools tend to have better ergonomics / feature sets compared to C tools. This can be because the C tool is simply older, but I also think it's because writing and maintaining extra quality of life features is a major pain in C, so they tend not to get added. The same can also apply to performance optimisation in some cases (e.g. multithreading is much easier to add without introducing bugs in Rust than in C).

Rust and Go thus occupy a sweet spot for CLI tools, because they have the advantage of high-level maintainable code AND being fast, easily installable binary executables.
Why do we even need to colonize space anyways? It's not like overpopulation is going to be a problem anymore, and someday in the future, we'll be able to solve problems like environmental degredation and climate change. There's just not any benefit to exploring space. Besides asteroid mining (which can be done with robots), there's not much up there worth our time, except scientific research.
The linked article doesn't support either view.

The link reports that vaccines have been observed to generate higher antibody-levels than natural infections. It was also observed that vaccines seem to protect against a set of variants. This is the good news that is worth reporting.

But there are observed occurences of the opposite; that vaccinated people test negative for antibodies. Similarly, people test negative for antibodies some time after recovering. Sometimes, recovered people never test positive for antibodies.

Diagnostic tools widely available are simply not good enough to test the immune response.
1) rotor downwash may not be visible enough from an F16 cockpit a mile away, if the drone is small enough.

2) 100g is likely within our capability today.

Old, 400g tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)#Engines_and_p...
Interesting, George Knapp reporting, film acquired/leaked by Jeremy Corbell. Two familiar names. George at least has a lot of credibility as a "real" journalist. Jeremy manages to stay relativeley objective, but still comes off as pushing an agenda, imo.
The problem with Trino is that it is not that easy to scale to possible RPS of Clickhouse, it introduces tons a of latency and push downs are faaaar from perfect.
Uber has a smart solution for Pinot, when they run it as a single node proxies
Or the US military is fabricating this.
It is harder to support families because the required wages have increased. It's fully possible we'd be in the same situation if women didn't see those relative gains.
why is that all the reported UFO sightings are in night? UFO's shouldn't care about day/night difference to visit earth.
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I'm only 35 and besides my family I don't have much to do with most of the people I met in my life.

Some died, some simply moved away, or I moved away.

I wouldn't expect outliving my friends to be much different.
CWIS was developped as a solution to the threat of sea skimming cruise missiles after the USS Stark was hit by a couple of Exocet. It's not really geared towards fighting a swarm of light and slow adversaries.

A small-caliber gun with a good fire-control system or a couple of marksmen should be a better answer. Asymmetric threats have been a major concern for modern armies at least since the first Gulf War. The threat used to be swarm of small boats. Now it's also swarm of UAV. Answers exist to both.

Regarding the most likely origin of a UAV swarm targetting a US carrier close to the shore of the USA, I will go with the US army. It's good way to test both your offensive and defensive capabilities at the same time.
That's the main thing I found funny.

Back in the day of only a handful of newspapers and of 1 camera per 1 million people (at least on the average day, the average person wouldn't lug their camera around with them), we had sightings of Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie, El Chupacabra, etc.

Now we have the internet, an unstoppable torrent of crappy news and the mother of all tabloids, everyone has a high resolution camera in their pockets at all times, and cryptoids are all but gone.

I would have expected 16k HDR resolution photos of Yeti by now.

I feel betrayed! :-p
There are plenty of clear pictures of UFOs circulating in the Internet, but you won't believe it.

Also if there are aliens monitoring humans, obviously they'll adjust their operations as our devices change.
More likely it will have a “submit” button that runs a script that blocks submission wen you missed a field. And wipes out a couple of other fields (usually passwords) so that you have to re-enter those after hitting that “submit” button again.
This data is pretty much what you're asking about[1].

In summary, people in the top income quintile have a 70% chance of staying there. In other words, less than one third of the top income bracket are "new" people every decade.

40% of people also escape the bottom income quintile every decade.

Overall, the diagonal on the chart shows that you are pretty likely to stay in the same quintile over time, but there is still lots of mobility.

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...
They're called "loitering munitions" in professional sources, so yes. (e.g. Israel's first drones were anti-SAM loitering munitions that would just go up and fly in circles for hours, listening for a lit search radar)
My understanding is that a number of earlier UFO reports were skunkworks projects using then-unknown technologies. The difference this time is how much reputable footage has been released and how available it is, I think.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824

looks like CQG spell-checker added a subliminal typo in the abstract :)
Ok but is it really illegal? I doubt there’s a law on who can send who private BTC transactions? Or is it actually possible to mark this as laundering?
Isn't this how most international competition works? I'm most familiar with the olympics and this is exactly how it works there. People from uncompetitive countries for their sport have an "easier" time going to the olypmics.
That is dire. Almost as bad as the NCC reports we had for an old client.
> I don't think _Nature_ is considered "Pop Science".

Did you read the article? It isn't exactly "in depth". It isn't what I'd expect from a magazine of Nature's prominence.
120 years would be a great start.

Imagine the world 120 years ago in 1900. The airplane hadn’t been invented. Cars were still a novelty. Special Relativity hadn’t been discovered.
I think we should use SAT II or AP style subject tests for college admissions instead of SAT.
1) It's standardized so we can compare apples to apples.
2) Students spend time studying material that is a) taught in schools and b) they can pick their strongest subjects.
3) Subject exams are more reflective of what college is actually like: can you learn material on a particular subject and pass an exam on it?
4) I think the SAT test as a measure of "general intelligence" is too broad and vague, and that makes it both more controversial and less useful. If a student is terrible at math they should still be able to go to college and excel in language. If a student is terrible at language but they love math, they should be able to go to college for that.

Forcing people to take a "general intelligence" exam when college is about specializing in a particular major isn't a good metric in my opinion. Students could devote that time to other things: studying particular subjects that are relevant to what they may want to study.

I also find the tone of the article obnoxious. The author basically says that people who disagree with him aren't thinking critically. Sure, some of them. But there are plenty of people who have thought critically about this and disagree with the author. Also all the zingers about "liberals" are idiotic. Not everyone who disagrees with him is a liberal. It's unnecessarily divisive, and frankly makes it seem like the author is lazily throwing everyone into 2 buckets: conservative or liberal rather than thinking critically. Ironic.
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Isn't that just part of why it's unidentified? I would expect almost all UFOs to be poorly captured with a camera because otherwise they wouldn't be UFOs.
>That's kind of expected. Our society/economy/marketing are designed to get people to spend 100 percent of their income or more. So when families get 2 incomes it causes inflation or enables people to buy more stuff (iPhones) or whatever until they're spending the same percentage. Aside from not actually saving the extra income, the obvious downside is to screw single people by raising prices without raising their income.

I do not think this has much to do with it.

The much larger sources of volatility would be massive increase in labor supply due to other countries coming "online", women entering workforce (this might be overstated), immigrants entering workforce. And all of that was coupled with huge advances in automation, namely computer software, and then the internet. Although advances in farming and manufacturing automation cannot be overstated either.

Both labor supply and labor demand curves shifted the price of labor down for "unskilled" labor.

The other societal impact that is large is women gaining independence, therefore impacting the couples markets. Due to our biology or sociology or whatever, typically, people are going to seek out mates in equal or higher socioeconomic classes with more economic stability. This results in high earners pairing with high earners, competing with other dual high earning couples.

Finally, birth control reduces need to form families while still satisfying biological urges. I know quite a few people sitting out the family thing because they were unable to find an acceptable partner per their requirements. I think this is being seen in general in all developed countries via the plummeting birth rates.

All in all, people have a lot more information available than they used to, and a lot more control of their bodies, and the conclusion for many is the cost:benefit:volatility ratio of starting families is not worth it.
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Are these colors accurate to what we would see?
The most reasonable explanation is psyop. This follows Occam’s razor
There is another paper on warp drives that came out around the same time, Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory [0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07125
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For me the biggest determinant of whether I read a book straight through or not is the medium. If I am reading on a phone or laptop, or even a kindle, chances are low I will read a book straight through.

However, if I have a physical paper book, then there is a much higher likelihood that I will read it straight through.
DCS is brilliant, best to chat on the ED forums for that kind of thing I'd assume.
I don't disagree. I think the conflict of interest is troublesome.

As far as browser technology is concerned, extensions like uBlock Origin are so important they should be part of every browser. I would like to see even deeper integration and more powerful filtering features. I do agree that we need the right incentives for such a thing to happen. We can't have an advertising company in charge of ad blocker code.
Transplant medicine is going to seem like archaic nonsense in the future.

We’ll just consume the chemical cocktails that normalize us: https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg
Yeah but wouldn’t it require some kind of fork of the BTC software (not chain) to actually include this transaction without sending it to everyone else?
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I am always amazed by the fact that most people tend to jump to conclusions so quickly with so little intel or expertise.

I don't like the way this story is unfolding.
Before I even push anything, I squash and re-order my commits, then cherry-pick into appropriate branches.

I just don’t switch branches while coding.
I always think that as well.
Except, there is a large air show that takes place up the road from me; and I get a ticket some years.
The aircraft are literally displaying themselves.
Getting a decent picture of them whizzing past is far from easy.
or use a cargo ship with sheep - https://www.romania-insider.com/cargo-ship-carrying-sheep-ro...
This goes back to the basic point of safety work: Even the best trained, most attentive and careful operator can get into dangerous situations. There's no way to anticipate the moment that their attention might wander or some external circumstance might just force the situation.
Yep! But there's also the chance that yelling conspiracy theory becomes kind of a social norm to address any issue that is uncomfortable to think about which I think is pretty lazy and probably hurts us long term, too.

Some people refused to believe, for example, that big tech firms work with the gov. The idea seems quaint now but some didnt even believe Snowden!

In the end, a balance is needed.
Yeah. One of my banks uses something like this. Here's how it works:

The client can only use numerical passwords. When loading the login page, their site also loads the number pad, which consists in an HTML pad containing the 10 digits. The digits are displayed as base 64 images and in a random order, so it's impossible to determine which digit is which from parsing the HTML alone. In the HTML, the images of the digits are each associated to a random 3 letters string. This string will be sent to the server instead of the plain digit.

With the number pad, the site also load a "challenge", and this challenge is sent to the server when connecting. My guess is that this challenge is an encrypted string that indicates what digit corresponds to what 3 letters string.

I made a script that logs in to my bank account to get some information and I was able to do it without using OCR on the images of the number pad because the images never change, so their base 64 strings are always the same. I was a bit disappointed when I realized it, I thought that the people who came with such a twisted login form would have added random noise to the image, just for fun.
> They're trying to filter out candidates who would need to grind leetcode in order to explain how a hash table works

Well if anything they select these people because grinding leetcode does work

Why do they presumably even need to select people who doesn't need to prepare to do a specific job? Is that because at those companies you're supposed to do that kind of work without preparation? I don't think that's anything more than what you think they think.
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Wrong - the enemy might not have enough of them and we haven’t tried shooting them yet AFAICT.
My favourite example of how making a statement intended to seem to soften the message ends up coming across as an insult are the automated "we're sorry for the inconvenience" messages at UK train stations when there's a delay. Every time I hear one, my immediate inner monologue is "no you're not - if you were actually sorry someone would deliver the message manually, and sound a bit embarrassed".

If you've gone to the trouble of automating an apology, I'll instantly assume they don't care, and be insulted that they think we're dumb enough to fall for it.
It's hard to convince people to spend responsibly when the government spends irresponsibly, spirals into debt and lets the money printers run overtime.
Have you considered targeting the GameBoy?
So you are saying that before money laundering laws those criminals took over the government. It is almost like said criminals just don't want any competition now
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The year that I was 26, over two dozen people that I knew died. All separately. I was a wreck that year but learned early that everything is fleeting and precious.

That said, I noticed diminished capability in life shortly before turning 40 and my mom is really struggling at 80.

Longevity does not seem like a good deal to me.
>Why does the United States feel entitled

Why do you feel people choosing to go to the US is the US feeling entitled? Do you believe these 'brains' aren't capable of assessing their own self interest?

>These discussions always end up going on about "the good of the country" but never about the good of other countries or the good of humanity.

That's because you're proposing restricting people from attending foreign universities 'for the good of humanity' which is on its face ridiculous.

> "The good of the country" really means for the good of the top 0.001%, which is where the purported benefit mostly ends up.

And those 'brains' who choose to go where they want get no benefit? Who are you to tell them what to do?

>If the US is going to hoover up all of the intellectual capital it can, it at least needs to acknowledge that this is harming other countries and accept some of the burden of repairing some of the damage this causes without attaching a bunch of strings that primarily benefits the US.

The US now owes other countries for accepting immigration, apparently. This is of course insane.
Did you ever consider that you might have been the vector that Covid traveled through to infect all those folks around you that came down with Covid? When you draw out the network graph of Covid transmission, how many people do you think your specific infection affected downstream?

I'm not going to say you have to get vaccinated against anything, but I do see it in a lot of ways like a game of tug-of-war with society vs disease. Sure, its not essential that _everyone_ be pulling on the rope but it sure makes it a lot easier if they are. And things get really bad if more and more people stop pulling on it, especially if the other side starts getting stronger.
https://xkcd.com/1235/

To be fair, a warship at sea probably doesn't allow their sailors to carry their phone around for opsec reasons.
Could you explain why overpopulation will not be a problem?
it doesn’t matter that you can solve them, you need to be able to solve them in under a minute while your interviewer is constantly distracting you. so basically, it has nothing to do with being able to build software.

I have been writing code for more than 25 years now and graduated top of my class in CS. I also have a degree from a US ivy league school on top of my CS degree from europe. I developed and launched 4 succesful products. I won awards for my work and I’m a semi celebrity in my niche.

I recently went through several FAANG loops and did not pass their retarded leetcode questions. each time i had the feeling it had to do with not being FAST enough or not producing the EXACT solution the interviewer wanted.

what is funny is that I got one interview where the guy asks me to solve a problem that gayle mcdowell (cracking the code interview) spent ONE HOUR solving in a video provided as “training material” to candidates, YET they wanted me to do it in a few minutes WHILE EXPLAINING what i was doing.

the above is why I no longer participate in coding interviews.

for all those who think people who pass these interviews are “better” engineers: this particular FAANG has shipped broken SaaS products for years, despite having the “smartest” engineers on the payroll.
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... Chinas rail is state owned enterprise... kind of proving my point.
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It's more that a lot of people seem to have zero mental model about how the file system in their computer works (files, folders, paths, ...). Let alone their computer as a whole.
>any credentials sent over HTTPS are transmitted in plain text

Hummmm. So a couple of years back, I was working on some internal tools that passed sensitive information around and I found some interesting info.

Some bloggers INCORRECTLY thought that HTTPS didn't secure the URL Flags. Correct fact: parameters passed in the URL like ?item=bla is encrypted

Also, some cloud providers aload Balancers (AWS) allow you to offer load HTTPS encryption/decryption - so there REALLY IS plain text stuff in the final leg of the journey (e.g. from the LB to the server)

In the end, the biggest thing I learned is that HTTPS is hard and it sucks.
One thing to be careful with “Blue Zones” is that a lot of blue zones didn’t have that great record keeping, especially 50-100 years ago.

Unlike modern developed countries where we have pretty good records of the exact moment of birth for people, in a lot of areas in the past, there could be a lot of guesstimating about the actual age of someone.
Likely but than there's nothing left for the next wave. Cheap drones could quickly use up all the rounds. You wouldn't even have to use advanced drones with weapons. CIWS have to kill every drone just in case. Add a few missiles and or better drones in wave two and you got a very effective mix.
The image in the article is of a woman who died at 122.
Finding stuff in the sea isn’t very easy. You need to be surprisingly close.
Not saying they aren't, but what possible reason could they have for doing so?
You mean like yourself?

Consider that there is a large corpus of military and civilian accounts of truly unexplained phenomena.