skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an obvious one to catch for us, I wonder what other foreign censorship makes it's way into our web.
> If I said "hey, great to see you added them, I invented these back at Sun" I'd get funny looks.

I don't understand. What kind of funny looks were they? Disbelief? Distrust? Fear of your mental health? Realization of having been lied to by their bosses (oops it wasn't really an internal tool)?

Also, what were the impact of those funny looks? How did they make you feel? Was there any longer term consequences of telling them you wrote the thing?
did you stop at trying linux at launching whatever.exe file as well?
What does it mean when a thread is flagged?
The NYT article on the same topic includes this bit as well:

> In one encounter, strange objects — one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind — appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.

I don't place a lot of trust into reports from a single pilot out at sea because of how widespread and wacky some visual phenomenon can look to the naked eye (and even to some sensory systems). Even two pilots in separate crafts might see the same illusion. In many ways these are similar to the old fuzzy images of UFOs from fifty years ago - irreproducible results inhibit real science.

But with something this consistently observable, this close to a major metropolitan area, I'm genuinely surprised that more military or research crafts weren't sent to observe. With the full weight of the intelligence and scientific community on this - we could at least rule out some of the hypotheses.
I hate the new tabs. I am struggling with my eyesight, so not having any border between the tabs makes it very difficult to recognize them. The only indication left is the icon. But everytime I try to selectd a tab I have to squint to see where I have to click. Very unpleaseant and inconsiderate. I wished they had run some testing program before imposing such a technically unneeded modification. I am all for progress, but for heavens sake, please check with users before making their life miserable!
Good evening Beijing, what time is it there now... 2 AM ?
Working late for the social credit ?
Just because of the rounded edges that made it slippery?
There’s this anecdote of Steve Jobs saw a prototype for an iPod and dropped it in a water tank in order to proof his engineers that they could make it smaller, because it had bubbles of air coming out.

https://tekdeeps.com/steve-jobs-threw-an-ipod-into-a-fish-ta...
I've heard a few reasons for call centers being "desirable". Anyone can do the work. It's "real work", not the kind of stuff college graduates do. It's not dangerous. It brings in money from outside the area.
> Weird how aliens always show up around USG locations and vehicles. All the land mass in the world and some how it's always around the super militarized North America.

Let's ignore the alien-origin hypothesis and assume the report says that these were not camera artefacts. If that were the case, if these are, in fact, objects, then yes--it makes sense that they are observed most frequently (and credibly) by the military.
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My favorite back of the napkin math about the practical reality of interstellar space travel, from cstross:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_hig...
turning a profit depends to some extent on our trust, so we can expect companies to do some good for us too
There are open source map applications, paid email services (I use one), private-cloud office stacks like NextCloud.

You could, but you don't.
The CCP seems to be quite good at practical censorship. They have a history of this - they know the Great Firewall isn't perfect, and don't seem to make a tremendous effort to plug every single hole or find and lock up everyone trying to circumvent it. They know that controlling what most people see most of the time is good enough. They also know that not making too much clear direct effort against those trying to bypass it denies the anti-censorship movement the energy of having martyrs, cause celebres, etc. It seems to work quite well.

I think they're doing the same thing here. Just take an amount of money that's rather modest in the budget of a major government, throw it at 90% of the biggest companies with a few strings attached, and presto, you effectively control the narratives in the American News Media. Most of the companies involved lapped it right up.
was just thinking the same thing as I watched this video easily explaining one of the apparent objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0
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> LZCNT (base 2) would get you to a range of possible decimal digit (base 10) lengths that would need further processing, but it's still more expensive than a table-lookup direct solution directly to the base you're interested in.

Are you saying you've got a better solution than the blog post that does a direct table lookup? Can you share it?
How far back do things need to be for sins to be forgivable? Or if not forgivable, at least judged in context, and not through a very specific contemporary ideological perspective?
My biggest question when I see statements about these UFOs being aliens is “Where is the mother ship”?

The constraints on something built to operate in the Earth’s atmosphere are much different than a ship that can actually cross interstellar distances.

So if we are seeing the equivalent of alien fighters (small, fast, highly maneuverable) there should also be the equivalent of an aircraft carrier which provides the long distance transport and logistics for these fighters.
Dang is probably on top of the situation given that another tank man post was marked as dupe, which requires admin powers.
Would userChrome.css get overwritten with each update?
I just find the German text message entertaining. The words and syntax are great.

"Mir ist grad mein handy in den Landwahrkanal geplumpst"

Geplumpst! Sounds exactly the right word for what just happened.

"Jetzt könnte ich ein Bier gebrauchen"

Couldn't we all.
> "What does [flagged] mean?"

> "It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News."

> "Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
That actually makes it sound like unlawful search and seizure.
Even near-lightspeed travel (say, >0.2C) would be leaps and bounds beyond what we know how to do at this point.
"People just don't care"

People are being massively lied to about what is veing tracked and what is being done with that info.

Or maybe these services are a monopoly, where they could start eating babies and not loose their audience anyway

The best is when a service is paid and it still traks you, like amazon
The calculation pretty much boils down to changing the phone's weight in kg to a volume in l.
For me, the weirdest part about gdpr.eu is that it's run by the ProtonMail/ProtonVPN folks. Not like some EU agency.

Which is why their sample data processing agreement is literally the ProntonMail one - https://gdpr.eu/data-processing-agreement/
Even searching for tank woman or tank cat returns results!
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>Aliens being non-peaceful fails logic

Um, why?
I'm curious -- what kinds of businesses do cpu/core based licensing, in your experience?
One of my core expectations of candidates is the ability to talk dispassionately and in detail about the code they are writing. If they can't do that then I've found they don't make very good collaborators. Live coding is akin to pairing, which is a common practice.
Add to this that no one cares about whether the data is even correct. A glitch in the location tracking and, bam, you have an affair. Some wrongly assigned search queries or speech requests and suddenly you are a pedophile. A terrorist selecting you as a cover identity and you wake up in Guantanamo.
> At what point do companies that have to censor information for [local] audience decide it's just less of a hassle to have the same censorship apply blanketly world-wide?

This has already happened. The U.S. has much more strict standards regarding nudity than the rest of the world in general, but the world has largely adopted U.S. norms, and nudity is now censored worldwide. So much for multi-culturalism.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone here know how to make the fonts better on Firefox? Here's an example of what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/QY7NyMm.png

I think the old Chromium's fonts are so much nicer, I get a lot less eye strain reading long documents with it. Regular up-to-date Google Chrome looks the same as Firefox to me, both fonts are too thick. I've messed around with font settings but haven't been able to find anything that makes them look as crisp as Chromium does.
I wish we could customize tabs like we did with favicon. Imagine each site having its own styled tab.
I worked at home for a small startup that was saving money on an office. It worked out so well that we kept doing it for many years later after we became successful. We would find a spot to spend the day together once every two weeks. I started as a junior programmer and felt I was mentored effectively. One of my favorite programming memories occured when my mentor, a senior, introduced me to exceptions, which he had implemented in assembly language. I learned a lot from him, and never felt that not being in an office everyday, all day, with him was a detriment to my learning.
My building has cameras everywhere, and my internet traffic is passed around for anybody in the Five Eyes community to access as they please. I'm not worried about the China boogeyman knowing what Youtube videos I watched.
I've heard this before. Recently discussed on HN relating to US CS skills vs major nations we outsource to: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/14/6732

Outsourcing is not new. Many companies have tried it. Not just in CS, but extensively in CS.

Not only are US CS skills higher, but communication is the most important skill in the industry. Good communicators add more value and do it faster than people with whom you struggle to communicate. People that don't understand that now will understand it after a few years of working with a company in a different time zone without a native grasp on English.

Another problem you'll face is that outsourcing means that another company (since you usually just contract with a foreign company) is gaining expertise in your product, domain, and tech stack. That knowledge gained doesn't stick with your company. If you're unhappy with that company or they fail to perform in the future, you have to train a new team from scratch.

A common pattern I've seen is that companies will outsource as a fledgling startup then move to insourcing after the MVP is up because it's easier to work with an internal, local team, and the initial team falls short once you get to the hard stuff.

I do suspect there's selection bias. Most US devs are employed and well paid already. It's hard to get the good ones to apply for new jobs because tech hiring is a pain in the ass. Imagine having a full time job, family, life, and taking a day off for interviews (while working! what, we're supposed to take PTO?), or spending your weekend on a coding challenge? Most of the remaining applicants are probably the lower end of the talent pool - younger or bad. Your individual sample size is also likely too small to make broad judgments about entire nations.
>Senior US administration officials briefed on the findings of the report said that the majority of more than 120 incidents over the past 20 years did not derive from any US military or other advanced US government technology, according to The New York Times.

So they have no evidence that it's aliens, no evidence that it's US military technology, and no evidence that it's foreign technology. In other words nothing new has been discovered and we're still at square 1. Not really news, but I guess it's good to keep us updated.
Ah yes the "virtually" nonexistent sector of embedded development that "virtually nobody" works in.
> They've got legal and lethal authority to do far worse than a weird look.

Society scares me more. The government has the authority, but society has the power and the inclination to weaponise it. The government would never bother reacting to anything that RMS said but people did.
Large permanent magnets are a fairly minor hazard to most electronics.
There is a guy on YouTube, who is a PhD physicist, called Thunderf00t (sp?). He thinks it might be a duck in the Cmd. Frasier (sp?) video. Some species of duck do crazy kamikaze dives into the water. Flapping wings might not show up due to camera shutter speeds. Given wind speed variation at differ altitudes and the relative velocities of the plane and bird it might appear to be going much faster than it is from the birds frame of reference. It’s a much more sane theory. Speed of light and distance between planets and all that. Or it could be the dirty commies messing with the US with some drones.
> "I don't know how you expect me to prove it to you."

By providing objective measurements, as I have written in multiple previous comments already.

If you do not have measurements at hand, or the necessary gear to undertake them yourself, Amir at audiosciencereview.com has the gear, skills and experience to perform in-depth detailed speaker measurements. He accepts speakers shipped to him for review.

It's not very complicated: You made claims of extraordinary performance from outrageously cheap speakers. I ask you to provide evidence of this very hard to believe claim, and I even provide you a way of doing this.

Of course, Occam's Razor says you're just full of BS, which is a perfectly fine conclusion for me.
Ikea is the example I often cite.

I am in the UK. Many of their locations are adjacent to motorways, they literally have a warehouse in the store, and all they need to add is a fulfilment network (which, btw, they already have just not large enough to meet demand). Admittedly, the stuff they carry is pretty heavy/expensive...but they are 99% of the way there.

Instead, you go on their website, a lot of the stuff on there doesn't work properly, and delivery times are a month plus. It is deliberate.

Wayfair is dropshipping stuff from China, and managing to compete with them...how? It makes no sense. Ikea have a position that no competitor could actually replicate without losing billions of pounds, and they are getting beaten by a company which doesn't manufacture goods, owns one or two warehouses, and doesn't fulfil orders...how? Literally, Wayfair just have a bunch of websites (now consolidated) with good SEO...and Ikea are just handing them market share.

And yes, "executive profit" is the key point. Executive comp is set by comp committees who have no clue, and benchmark off whatever they the company is already doing/last year's numbers. Why do execs care if the company blows up in five years through malinvestment? They will have cashed out their options by then and will be lighting their cigars with fifty pound notes. Imo, executive comp structure is 95% to do with why this has happened (in my experience, exec comp in physical retail is structured very poorly across the board, it incentivizes poor ROIC growth).
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Today i made an ALIEN INVADER artwork using photoshop, using the same image i also used After Effects to transform the same photo to 3D video.

#photoshop #SomethingGloriousEp4 #artwork

Download the final edited photo:
https://www.editorofficial.in/2021/06/lets-make-something-gl...

Some of your Frequently Asked Question's Answers below:

How i transformed the Photo to 3D
- Actually it was not that hard, as i used the Photoshop to create the artwork so i just exported a couple of photos and imported them in After Effects then i converted the 2D layers into 3D and placed the photos into

Where do i get ideas to make these type of artworks
- For the beginners, it must be very wow thing but when you know the photoshop good all you need is to think of ideas and that's it. Most of the time ideas are not very clear in the beginning but then i start and everything get's clear as i move forward.
My point isn't that people forgo resources but better utilize the efficiency and technology we've developed. We can maintain and better the quality of life for everyone. For example, at one point the US was wasting 51% of fresh food that has been distributed. Working on improving that distribution network can reduce food costs and waste. We have the technology.
They fixed some things partway through the process with the compact theme - the address bar is now shorter while the tabs + their padding is taller than the tabs in old compact mode. I haven't done a side by side but I think compact -> compact ends up being a wash in vertical real estate. There were some older images where new compact was taller than old normal and new normal was taller than old touch when it was in firefox beta however.
I guess they either pay, they are considered exempt (as sites wish their content to be archived and so allow it) OR they do what I do.. their scraper clears the cache/cookies and disables JS/use ad-blocker/use reader.

A lot of paywalls can be bypassed with good digital hygiene (unintentionally) as those sites provide a certain quota of articles per month for free. Clean the state - voila. I still go via archive.* myself however and don’t deliberately evade paywalls, I just seem to slip past anyway.
> My 2c is extra-terrestrial civ is less likely than co-terrestrial civ (subterrainean/ocean) - but lets stop talking about this like they are hallucinations or possible atmospheric phenomenon.

Why?

This whole thing reminds me a bit of the "Havana Syndrome", in that:

- It's an extraordinary claim, presented with limited evidence.

- It defies obvious logical explanation (i.e., a motive).

- The phenomenon lacks a clear definition, leaving the door open for multiple disparate phenomena with different causes to be lumped together.

I believe the third aspect is really underemphasized as a causal factor in "hard to explain" phenomena: because this may in fact be multiple different phenomena, with different causes, it's likely that any single mundane explanation does not explain all observations, and thus appears to be a weaker explanation than it is.

This is sort of a "defender's dilemma" of strange phenomena: if you can't explain all of them, you appear to be unable to explain them. But because of the aforementioned definitional problem, that's not necessarily a surprising or meaningful thing.

To your specific point: the idea of a co-terrestrial civilization is extraordinary. I struggle to imagine the only evidence would be a few spurious radar signatures and odd videos.
I don't think "a system where there is an equal opportunity to develop merit" is defined sufficiently clearly to derive responsibility. What would such a society look like? How would it differ from ours?
I wonder if it's due to the currently popular association between proponents of free speech and Nazis.
You'd be better served posting in the monthly "Who is hiring?" post. Here's the one for June 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355392
> how fast you drive, even if you don't have a smart car, because your phone contains an accelerometer

Any car 2010 and later "smart/stupid": https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1, so even if you leave your phone at home, don't assume that you aren't tracked.
... which is not image search as in the submission.
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Funny enough, just a few posts above this one on the front page is another blog post entitled "Want a killer product? Become more opinionated". Found that to be a nice coincidence.

I think allowing customization of the UI is a great feature set to provide, and it aligns quite well with the imagine Mozilla has set up for itself as an organization. Though, I can see how the teams behind these decisions would want to stray away from having their 'product identity' be something you can easily turn off.
Well it's no wonder that none of the mods have seen it. Maybe try reporting it?
> aliens being here would imply FTL is possible, and that would be a huge discovery!

"Huge discovery" is understanding that - FTL would imply that either causality doesn't hold, or that we've fundamentally misunderstood relativity.
> It's also not true

I’m glad macspoofing is here to set us all straight about the facts on American individualism, we’d be lost without your wisdom and guidance o wise one. I shall not post an opinion without consulting you first.

Edit: might as well burn some karma. You’re either 15, or extremely naive and idealistic. Read some history please.
Until computational biology (including at the systemic macro level) becomes a viable alternative, GoF is one of our best tools to prevent nature from killing us.

That this should be done under the strictest protocols is obvious (and internationally-monitored, no less).

But pretending that dice aren't continually rolling in nature and hoping for the best seems shortsighted.
Compared to Ethereum, stellar is simpler in operation, not as popular, and considerably more centralized. All those contribute to having much lower fees.

Stellar plays nice with banks and other financial institutions, but still facilitates easy and cheap global payments, which is why I recommend it here even though you could achieve the same result with other blockchains like Ethereum.
No, but your changes may break in a future update
Agreed. This is not a "free speech" problem that is covered by the First Amendment or anything like that.

That being said, I think it is fair to raise some questions when inyalowda decide to enforce their policies in a seemly arbitrary fashion. Trump is toxic and his presence on social media did nothing to raise the intellectual bar of public discourse. But, he is far from the only world leader to share self-serving, destrucive, and misleading propaganda online. Users should demand clear policies and fair universal enforcement from FB.
Default opt in to all changes could be Amazon’s self interested and opinionated position.

The comment above can also be an opinionated response as well.

Saying a company is client centric, but then not.. can be a mixed signal. There is plenty of brainpower to allow customers to tailor and optimize their experience so are less likely to leave, especially influential power users.
Paper has some flaws, but this is a good seed point.

https://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5802?sid=98dc0a8b-4443-4...

IQ:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2013/03/07/121877211...
> nothing new has been discovered and we're still at square 1

If there is even a shred of evidence these are not sensor artefacts, that's square 2. It means we are contending with real objects. Maybe not flying ones, but objects nonetheless. That merits attention. (And funding, which I imagine is the point of all this.)
Don't EM waves decay at an exponential rate in all mediums?
A number of the recent reports include visual contact with the UFOs. Camera artefacts would not explain such observations from sober-minded and sharp-eyed fighter pilots.
The article only presents a function operating on unsigned integers, it's not unreasonable to suggest that this is intended to do the same ;)
>Aliens being non-peaceful fails so many logic tests though

How so? Humans are capable of basic space travel already.
Try the 'images' tab.
That much money for “innovation” and their website still looks like a malware site.
>This is how we ended up with the current trendy cohort of minimalist apps with flat dark designs, with mobile apps that all look the same, with products that miss killer features for the sake of simplicity, with the annoying typefaces that all tech companies use that make it "trendy".

i like all these things, and am glad this is the way the world is.