skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They exist. They are real. They aren't ours. They aren't an adversary's, because a) the military would never admit it if that were possible and b) if it were the case the adversary would have already taken over the world.

can't speak to a), but as for b), it is possible that what they are and what they appear to be are very different things. Imagine, say, a drone swarm with a very flat profile that could turn their surfaces towards a target and tighten up to present a radar cross section and become highly visible, but could flip to an edge-on position and disperse to disappear to both eyes and instruments. Two such swarms could easily mimic an instantaneous movement over a large distance, among other effects.

In other words, they might be moderately more advanced technology masquerading as ludicrously more advanced technology, presenting the appearance of a threat far greater than their inventors can actually produce.
I have no experience working with them. I just wanted to clarify how OVH is considered European and AWS is not since I work in EU projects and I'm familiar with the perspective and thinking.
I don't understand the reasoning stated in this thread. Does anyone understand the specific reason why they want to do this?
I read books very rarely because embarrassingly I find it difficult. My job is basically skim reading docs, so when I try to read a book I find myself going into autopilot and read pages upon pages without actually absorbing anything. I find it hard to read anything with a low information density in general.

My last book was Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, which I found interesting, but I don't remember a great deal about it because it just isn't really relevant to my life.

I've come to the conclusion that I don't really have a 'need' to read books anyway. If one day I really want to read something then I will, but I'm not going to actively encourage, or force myself.
Video released this week shows radar contact.
Yandex, the english language version of the Russian search engine, does not censor anything. It's by far the best search engine for politically controversial topics. You can even search for Putin stuff and get good results.

https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&text=tank%20man
Take everything with a pinch of salt. Maintain healthy skepticism.

I think this needs to be clarified to a large section of reddit and hn members more than any place else on the internet.
Why would they have to be peaceful? Maybe they want a new vacation home and they're doing recon and prepping the battlefield.
Related: "Aaron Swartz, Vindicated" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394974
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396277 might be helpful
The term “Virtue Signaling” observes the practice of concealing one's true feelings or ignorance in order to publicly communicate an acceptable moral perspective, thus demonstrating good character to some audience. It is a scornful pejorative to label someone’s actions as “Virtue Signaling”, as it implies they may be disingenuous, deceitful, duplicitous, etc.

Thus very popular with elected officials seeking a positive reputation among the electorate or seeking campaign funding.
"This means that cryptocurrencies are the only tool left for ransomware purveyors. So, if governments take meaningful action against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, they should be able to disrupt this new ransomware plague and then eradicate it, as was seen with the spam Viagra industry."

This is the totally incorrect approach. Imagine banning Polaroids because they led to an explosive growth in underage pornography.

These exploits are happening not because of crypto but because of insecure systems that public, money making companies haven't invested in making secure.
They fired people after they got the money so they kept losses lower that way.
Related: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tiananmen%20square%20ma...

No anti-China searches return the images you'd expect, although the recommended other searches do.
Definitely not -- see my earlier comment[0], but when I met Brendan in person later that year (and he relayed this incident to me), I didn't even recognize the name. Certainly, it wasn't someone who should have been claiming to be a DTrace expert! And honestly, by that time, any actual DTrace expert inside of Sun definitely knew of Brendan -- and likely vice versa.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396911
I personally wouldn't work on code that I knew was stolen from a previous employer, especially if its code I worked on directly. Ethics aside, if you ever get caught you are personally going to be subjected to entirely to many questions and its the kind of thing that could follow you around for the rest of your career even if you really did nothing wrong.
NASA literally spends Billions annually trying to find poop of single celled organism which might have existed eons ago in another plant, That's why it's hard for me to buy the U.S. Govt. covering up 'alien' story.
That’s an old urban legend which has been told about many people and companies.
Can you show it in a pie chart next to other spending? Can you apply that % to your taxes and then fill in the gaps where all the rest went? There must be a name for the logical fallacy you just used
Signal also drops out pretty fast - once you go past a few cm (lets say 3-5cm, about 2") signal is out...

I once tested that with a waterproof phone in clear water, can't recall which phone it was tho...

Don't feel brave enough to try it with my iPhone 8, even tho it supposedly is waterproof as well - my SO once tested it with a spilled drink...
I mean, if I know that some service is using e.g. Redis under the covers, and the problem is in Redis itself, then submitting a patch upstream to Redis; waiting for it to get upstreamed; and then telling the cloud host to update their Redis version to solve the problem — is usually a pretty reliable path.

But otherwise, like I said, that's when "the problem surface is inaccessible."
Experimenting with JFR Mirror Events
This one sort of works. Took a while to find something in English that wasn't fully successfully censored by Bing.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tank+mang+tian
Precisely right, look at Bell Labs, look what came out of that! transistors, tcp/ip, satellites, cellphones just to name a few. thank god for bell labs and the state approved monopoly that allowed bell labs to fund science without profits, although it didn't hurt that they also gathered the brightest minds in the country at that time.
Yes hence the unidentified.

Someone on reddit a while back asked how come UFO pics and video are always so shaky and blurry. The answer of course is that if it was high res and steady cam we'd quickly be able to identify what it was so it stops being a UFO.

It's kinda like asking how come all the cars in the scrap yard have been in accidents.
His personal grudge against Reagan detracts from the overall article. I mean, this law being "one of Ronald Reagan's many idiocies?" Like no one else involved in drafting and passing the law was an idiot? Or that, say, Clinton didn't pass several idiotic laws that have proven disastrous in retrospect? It's troubling to me that Congress always has single-digit approval numbers, and yet people who ought to know better continue to lay blame everywhere EXCEPT Congress.
Twitter removed posts by the president: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/04/nigeria-suspends-twitter-o...
I'm in agreement with you here. I do like the design, just loathe the excessive useless margins. It's a web browser, not a web site. I don't know why everything needs massive margins/padding nowadays. I like condensed.

Anyway looked a lot worse in screenshots, with my system theme and tweaks I am actually liking how it looks. What I don't like very much is the new shield icon inside the address bar, looks more like a weird hexagon than a shield, but that's rather minor.
The pilots in the tic tac video visually confirmed the physical objects, even talked about shape and color. That's certainly more than a shred of evidence.
> it is possible that what they are and what they appear to be are very different things

Could also be a novel stealth mechanism screwing with our sensors.
I don't see anything incoherent about the OP article. It's just more tightly focused on Montague's role.
As long as I have books queued up on my kindle I'll read fiction pretty much every single night before going to sleep, and I really enjoy it. Books feel like they scratch an itch that's unrelated to any of the other mediums that involve reading. At the same time, I won't read anything that's not on my kindle, primarily because I read in the dark before falling asleep and the kindle is backlit.

If I run out of books to read on my Kindle I'll stop reading, sometimes for months until I have time to find books I'm interested in reading, buy/download them, find my now dead Kindle, charge it, and transfer the books to it. I love reading long fiction series in particular because I don't have to figure out what to read next.
As far as I can tell, this is confirming at least 120 sightings as UFOs in the literal sense – rather than visual artefacts.
HN, time for an explanation. This is not trivial.
Unknown Protester and Unknown Rebel does show some Bing image results that are relevant.
I'll be honest, because most people who work for municipalities and other governments are not the best and brightest, and they will ask for a lot of stuff "because that's how we do it on paper" or other similar reasons, without much critical thinking.
An iPhone 12 weighs 164g [1], so, through the magic of the metric system, it needs to displace a minimum of 164ml of water to float.

The iPhone has an external volume of 14.67cm * 7.15cm * 0.74cm = 77.62cm^3 = 77.62ml. So it would need to be about 2x the volume to float.

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/specs/
Show HN: Milkldown – Plugin Based Wysiwyg Open Source Markdown Editor
What extends US law to the entire world is actually access to the US banking system and consumer base.
> Burn it all down

Easier said than done. What we're seeing is advertising as a business carried to its logical conclusion. If you "burn it all down", you have to end, in effect, all advertising. Advertisers try to target their budget as effectively as possible; the more they know about their target demographic, the better able they are to do that.
I'd like to hear how cryptocurrency advocates address this without deploying a fallacy. Cryptocurrency makes ransomware possible, without the former, the latter cannot thrive. The defenses I usually hear come in the form of "current banking facilitates bad stuff, too," which is a fact, but doesn't absolve cryptocurrencies central role in ransomware. As the article states, there is simply no way to pay a ransom without cryptocurrency. Maybe they could do b2b or cash, but that would be sooooo bold (but not impossible?)

EDIT: See link from user 'px43' below about the history of ransomware. Good read. Predates cryptocurrency, but I think banking technology would make most payment strategies of the past impossible, like the original article argues (e.g., PO Box in Panama is quoted as a 1989 payment plan, but GP article explains that is harder due to extradition of data and logs).
The final note is important, otherwise the statement of Roth's result is misleading. The X-proposing version of deferred acceptance is strategyproof for X's, but not for the other side (the Y's). For example in the national residency matching program, it's (roughly) strategyproof for doctors but not for hospitals.
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search
Good mentors are rare, but I don't think being remote is much of a hindrance. IME, the world-class tooling for frictionless remote pair-programming built into VSCode is actually an improvement over peering over someone's shoulder in a shared office. And most mentoring is naturally more async than that.
There is no way anybody could have gleaned this explanation from your original post. And yeah, your original post did not indicate any prior research, so don't try to justify yourself ex post facto. The fact that you have to quote wikipedia indicates you've never been to one.
This is a little unorthodox. But, a first party cookie that stores consenting data used for reasonably expected purposes, doesn't need to ask you explicitly for consent. [As Hacker News ostensibly doesn't need cookie consent for you to log in with a cookie.]

https://gdpr.eu/privacy-policy/ suggests they share data with third-party Google Analytics, which seems to breach guidelines - except that they respect Do Not Track in this case.
1. They are getting your consent

2. They are giving you value (via free services)
I think SAP, Dassault and like give these services to test their capabilities and beta test their services in a somewhat lower risk environment. They also charge for it, so it's a win-win for them.

A slightly more advanced version of old MyRealBox, which was Novell's e-mail server public beta test. It was free and was working with 99.99% uptime from my experience.
Angular now uses GitHub votes for feature requests
A conforming ISO C compiler seems extremely difficulty to build and I don’t think ease of writing a compiler is a part of the design these days.
> That hasn't happened since the golden age of Bell Labs and Xerox Parc

The libertarian counterpoint would be that the golden age stopped due to regulation and government involvement in scientific research(grants).

> There's a whole scientific 'commons' that are hugely important to society but don't have a capturable value to the private sector.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "commons", but in order to get to a valuable product, much is learned and spread throughout the various scientific research circles. Sometimes research that seems useless ends up having significant impacts. Many things in science are learned through business ventures.
A phone or iPad will take 3T and work ok afterwards.
I’ve seen engineers photograph the cold head on an MR scanner and the phone has held up just fine.

Sometimes they turn off for a bit and need a little rest.
Here's a fun answer: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/HowToInvad...

Just the "Motivation and Planning" category will reveal several reasons. My favorite is that there is almost no reason to go through the trouble of colonizing our planet, if you need any of our resources you can mine asteroids and no one will fight back. Unless of course the aliens are Evil.
I'm reading more than ever - I just never got into ebooks - in fact I think the internet and long form blog posts (from pre-Twitter days, not the Medium-led long form revival) kicked me off on reading books proper. Nothing better than waking up with or relaxing in the evening with a physical book! I often have a non-fiction and fiction book in the rotation. I listen to Podcasts but there are too many that have little substance. I enjoyed Serial but like I enjoy a big bag of crisps. Obviously there are good ones, and many many books that suffer the same thing.

Mostly I hit a point where blogs and online text just didn't go into as much depth as I wanted and I realized the benefits of books (presumably they get compensated more for very long-form format of books?) and I find the physicality of books too comforting to remove from the experience.

Despite all that I dislike about the state of internet culture, I think the importance of text has been revived from suffering in the TV era. And if text isn't your bag, there are plenty of options and a new golden era of TV!
Browsing the internet in Monaco is a disaster as it is not EU but physically surrounded
I don’t know about the Netherlands, but I’m France for example “innovation subsidies” are basically just a way to give tax breaks to industry. Every company with 100+ employees will have someone working on claiming as many projects as possible as “innovation” and claiming the relevant tax breaks

Very silly, but it does slightly reduce the prohibitive cost of labour
Exactly. My exact thought when I read the title was "Whatever the article says, he's still dead and that, is not going to change.
To be blunt, if you can seriously cope with R, javascript should be a piece of piss. R has a very, very steep learning curve... perhaps the transition is less to do with changing languages and more to do with learning principles of software engineering?
On Earth, every time an advanced civilization encountered a primitive one, it didn't go well for the primitive one.
I would argue against that as there are very sophisticated aquatic life documented living at depths very hard for us to get to.

Like imagine beings that can live at the very bottom of the ocean where the pressure is so high that it would just be too difficult for our devices to reach, but are themselves evolved enough to handle it :| IDK it's at least an interesting thought.

[EDIT]: We've only reached the "Challenger Depth" (bottom) a few times throughout history and they weren't huge mapping-type missions. It could also stand to reason they would build under the surface to avoid predators and such. It's a fun thought nevertheless. Much more fun to think about than just artifacts on a lens.
> Pair per view/pay per listen/pay per read seem a lot less popular in general for media

There's lots of reasons for this.

Spotify is $9.99/month. Average listener streams 25 hours of content [1], and the average song length is 3.5 minutes [2] -- this means most people pay about $0.023 per song.

For one thing, by charging per song you now force someone to make evaluations of their use. I'd be much less likely to just leave music streaming in the background (which I sometimes do) -- even if I walk out of the room -- if I have to think about that constantly increasing bill. You could also get into runaway costs, if it was accidentally left on (but muted) overnight or longer, for example.

I can't find data on it, but I'd bet there's a long tail of users who stream significantly fewer songs, and a small handful of users that stream significantly more. Spotify makes a lot of money on that long tail due to low usage.. why would they sacrifice that? Alternatively they could jack up their price-per-song, but that would dissuade all but the lowest-usage users.

And honestly as user, I don't want the cognitive overhead of thinking about this.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/

[2] https://fortune.com/2019/01/17/shorter-songs-spotify/
I am nonplussed, if the institution is effective and well managed, than I do not care about its size. Look at what the non-profit Bell Labs pumped out during the 1950's-1960's, all of it was non-profit and approved by a state-sponsored monopoly of ma bell.
The intellectual achievements directly went into the US private sector to the great benefit of US citizens.
Introduction to Pirsch Analytics
Thank you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Can't imagine those water aliens would be too pleased with all the plastic we've been dumping down there.
The government simply record, observe and judge every single thing a person does is not problem, in fact it can be used for my benefit.

The problem is when they use it to harm me.

What need to be fixed is The government record, observe and judge every single thing a person does to harm people.

>to subject everyone in a society to that kind of scrutiny would just be laying the foundations for abuse

It can be used for abuse but not always, It can also be used for good, what need to be prevented is the use for abuse.
> Feels like we are being primed for something new to be afraid of and give our treasure to in defense of. Aliens being non-peaceful fails so many logic tests though.

Heh. Are you really suggesting that after decades of disinterest, the US government is releasing this in order to...make people afraid of aliens? In order to increase taxse?

Or do I misunderstand what you mean?
Is it possible to ban cryptocurrency traffic in general? How would that even work?
The submitted title was "A virtual machine and Pascal compiler in Berkeley LOGO" but that was a little misleading so we changed it to the book+chapter title.
There are versions of Gibbard's theorem for outputting a single winner too. The famous one is Gibbard-Satterthwaite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%E2%80%93Satterthwaite_...
Once the discussion on whether the EU can enforce laws over its territory is over, one can think about the content of GDPR and how its guidelines are good practices that your users will appreciate, even if GDPR doesn't apply to you.
So you’ll build a load balancer for the nodes you might connect to, is what you’re saying, and where will you host said load balancer? Wherever you host it that’s the availability level you’ll achieve. High availability is not a feature of the blockchain, if you would of said data resilience, I might have agreed, but availability, no, that falls into the same availability standards as any other computing platform.
I'm with you

I pay for email services (and make some use of gmail for junk/transactions).

I also would never use one of the insurance trackers. They literally have zero clue of what they are doing and interpret things backwards. E.g., they interpret higher g-forces as bad driving. Yet, as someone who has been through countless high-performance driving and race schools, had racing lisenses, and won multiple racing championships, I can tell you that what high-performance driving, whether racing or getting out of emergencies, is about wringing out of the vehicle, suspenseion and tires, every last bit of grip to maximally accelerate, brake, and/or turn. Of course, I'm usually very smooth and low-g on public roads, but if I do something like maneuver around an animal in the road, they'd see a high-G maneuver and charge me for bad driving, when in fact, I probably saved them from a claim.

It is a lovely concept, but the institutional idiocy really bothers me.
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Depends on the municipality. Small ones don't have a lot of flexibility. Big ones (Chicago, etc.) have lots of wiggle room especially if you're willing to kick back some of it to an aldermans's preferred subcontractors, etc.
Usually special operations/espionage/post-apocalypse type fiction. Some recent examples:

- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (I've re-read this a number of times)

- The Postman by David Brin (Again, re-read this many times). Nothing like the movie.

- Sapiens

- The book series by Dalton Fury (RIP). His fiction is great, and if you do a little OSINT on the places in the book, you can see that he's describing these places from first-hand experience. Extremely realistic and you get the sense that many of these events really happened and are fictionalized to bypass censorship. I've re-read his book series at least 7 times. Easy reads.

- One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Although I have some minor issues with things in it, it's a fun post-apoc book.

- Anything by Derek Sivers. His writing is concise.

- The Terminal List by Jack Carr. Pretty good, not quite as good as Dalton Fury, but will read the next in the series.

- Bunches of tech books

I am very picky about the fiction I'll read but am open to unsolicited suggestions. Prefer post-apoc type stuff. Can't really get into fantasy. It needs to be an easy read because I have a house full of kids and no privacy.