skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mick West- a game developer is in no position to question observations of trained top gun pilots and the vast infrastructure of the US Navy/Pentagon who analyze this kind of stuff for a living. If they can't explain then I am sure they have considered and debunked trivial explanations that West purports- in the NYTimes article they explicitly debunk the "weather balloon" hypothesis which has been proposed as a "rational" explanation for these ufos by some.
It’s interesting to understand the motivation behind all this.

Specifically: US military/intelligence/congress has historically treated UFO activity as highly classified. That’s now changed. Why is that? I don’t know. One candidate explanation:

1. Historically, some amount of “UFO” activity was actually classified, known US military/Intelligence programmes. Making the information public would compromise those programmes. So, in reality, the sightings related to identifiable flying objects. Just that they were identifiable by a small number of in-the-know people.

2. Things have changed. Some other actors - let’s guess Chinese/Russian - have stepped up their own secret programmes. Those items are now legitimately “unknown” to US authorities. If you’re from the US, that’s bad. Your putative enemies have something you lack knowledge of.

3. How to respond? In a world where the sightings are your own secrets then a strategy of silence makes sense. In a world where they’re not, the game is different. In this case, you want publicity: to cast them as unknown, (a) because it creates interest (/fear) and (b) tacitly lets your enemies know that you know they’re up to something.

That might be way off base. But the about-face in strategy is at least as interesting as the sightings themselves. I haven’t seen that covered elsewhere. Interested if anyone else has ideas/links.
Here's a _long_ conversation with one of the pilots with eye visibility that day, David Fravor, though I'm linking you to the start of that specific topic:

https://youtu.be/aB8zcAttP1E?t=4265
> there's very few objectives they can be achieving with big ships flying around here for decades

The problem with this argument is that we wouldn't know in the first place if they were also using these more covert means. At some level, we have to assume that if aliens exist and are making themselves visible to us, they're basically doing it for the lulz.
Soylent Green would probably be the ideal food since it is guaranteed to contain everything the human metabolism requires.
First run: fcp binary has to be read from disk, so it's slow(ish) to start.

Second run: fcp binary is cached by the OS in RAM so it starts up faster.

Third run: just to make sure :)

This is just one of the things of a type of cache that can be warmed up.
>The only issue is that Gladwell’s account doesn’t withstand serious scrutiny. As a piece of writing, The Bomber Mafia is engaging. As a work of history, it borders on reckless. Setting aside the numerous errors of fact and interpretation, Gladwell consistently cherry-picks from the historical record. Wittingly or not, he omits or downplays evidence that undermines the very premise of the book.

Sub out history for science in the above paragraph and it is the same criticism that Gladwell has been receiving for literally decades. The guy is a good writer and storyteller but he seemingly prioritizes good writing and story over telling the most honest story. That isn't an unusual trait among pop-non-fiction writers. The reason they become popular is what they write is interesting and it is easier to make things interesting if you are a little loose with the truth.
Any kid I'm sure will gladly accept a pre-built Lego set once you're tired of looking at it. Many adults would too.
> “Hackers can spy on your connection when you log into your bank at Starbucks.”

I've also heard this from a reputable news source (NPR) in the past few years, even though it hasn't been true for banks for at least 15 years, ~5 for most websites.
I've only used styled-components to any extent for css-in-js, I don't remember it having anything to do with a design system? Can you name some examples, you got me curious.

Do these theme.js files have full sizings, spacings, etc defined?
Any large company can offer E2E encryption, as long as they don't have extenuating interests that could make them liable for the way I use their services. Unless Apple is harvesting my data on the regular, they should have no problem with me being the sole keyholder for my iCloud account.
The argument is why is the US military with a 700 billion dollar annual budget stating that they are not sure what these real objects are despite the amount of data they have collected on them. Either they are lying or they are incompetent, in either instance it’s a massive story.
It doesn't say what these coders make. But, as with the dealers, it's likely tax free, so even "minimum wage" is better than it sounds.
Definitely defense, if you study history - how bacon grease was collected from homes to make lubricant for cartridges during WWII; making pins and buttons for clothes was turned into component manufacturing for airplanes almost overnight. Within a few days, people worked to convert equipment, draft new mechanisms, turn them at the machine shop, fixer-upper some machines - converted the entire enterprise into making shaft pins and washers.

There were countless examples of how quickly manufacturing of A was converted to manufacturing of B. Ken Burns documentary goes much deeper into this and I find it totally fascinating.

Chinese populace has an insane level of "jerry-rigging" capability because of how they bring costs down. This is a huge advantage in war manufacturing theater. This is now questionable as Americans (and Europeans alike) are constantly in consumption mode.
Apple reportedly trialed plans for a primary care service on its own employees
"Although several drugs received Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 treatment with unsatisfactory supportive data, Ivermectin, on the other hand, has been sidelined irrespective of sufficient convincing data supporting its use.…

100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects, with an estimated improvement of 73% and 83% respectively (RR 0.27 [0.18–0.41] and 0.17 [0.05–0.61]), and 93% of all 28 RCTs. These studies are tabulated in Table 1. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive for the 55 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 23 trillion (p = 0.000000000000043)."

Just another reminder that the sole purpose of the FDA is to juice Big Pharma profits (when it's not busy juicing the profits of big food, to further help stimulate big pharma demand)

Footnote: the reason Big Tech also conspires to block discussion of this is the massive amount of spending they receive to market the blockbuster drugs that never have much efficacy and always seem to get recalled within a few years for actually being deadly.
Thank you for correcting me about Zoroastrianism.
Are the checks somewhat time-stable? Couldn't some of the checking (and network requests) be avoided by caching? For example by assuming that anything OK'd withing the last hour is still OK.
Your allegations of "terrible behavior" are false, conveyed by intelligence agencies directly out of your keyboard, intended to short-circuit actual thinking on freedom of information.
UFO is as useless as it’s meaning. It’s unidentified, it’s flying, and no one knows what the heck it is.
I was at an SMS aggregator before joining Twilio back in the day.

At the SMS aggregator, it took $10k to get started, $1k/month for a short code, and $0.1/message.

When I discovered Twilio and found it took $0 to get started, $1/month for a long code, and $0.01/message, the world changed.

It became easy enough to build yourself, fast enough to experiment with, and cheap enough to fail. I see the same thing happening here but with lives on the line.
Too many coincidences for this to be by chance.

IBM had Commercial Data Masking Facility which did key shortening to turn a 56 bit cipher into a 40 bit one.

Now we've got this weird interaction which similarly reduces key length.

Seems pretty obviously intentional?
Dude, it’s aliens, not joking.
I don't validate the email on purpose :) I would like to stay in touch, but I don't want to force your hand.

The script is indeed very similar, but it feels different depending on what you're actually going through.
Just checked: macOS and iOS both correct this as intended.
When you fire 500,000 highly-paid workers, and distribute half their pay to dramatically raise the wages of 5,000,000 workers in very poor places and the other half to 50 extremely rich capitalists, you've "expand[ed] the number of good jobs in the world" and "dramatically improv[ed] the qualify of life for millions [...] of people".

It's hard to even argue against, ethically—except that, conveniently, the people most vocally pushing it always seem to be in a "heads I win, tails you lose" position and are never the ones who will lose anything to make it happen. Usually quite the opposite.
https://katacontainers.io/ ?
Oppo’s rollable concept phone is pure potential lacking polish
This sounds like translation services. You hit an API, there's an automatic translation, then a human looks at it, then it gets sent back.
Yeah, you're right. I misremembered. Thanks for the correction.
That's still very much science fiction though. What kind of battery power density would you need to make it viable?

Also: Soldiers already wear armor designed to stop bullets. Not sure this is an obvious gamechanger.
Most good languages seem to boil down to this.
> His attempted prosecution attacks source protection

I don't know how source protection would apply to Julian Assange. He's not a source, he's the head of an international organization.

Also, source protection is a journalistic courtesy and is completely removed from the legal system.
A TOW anti-tank missile's warhead is about 10 lbs, and it penetrates tanks just fine. That's well within the carrying capacities of commodity carrying drones, which can carry about 20-100 lbs.

Shaped charges are remarkably effective at penetrating armor, penetrating up to 7x their diameter. A 4-inch wide charge will penetrate up to 28 inches of solid steel armor, more than a WW2 battleship's armor.

I don't know how much armor a modern aircraft carrier has, but they're designed for the era of not-very-maneuverable warheads. Send it through the aircraft lifts and blow up the hangar filled with munitions and jet fuel, or punch through the bridge windows and kill the command staff.

Same goes for common tank countermeasures against HEAT rounds, like composite or reactive armor. These are both designed on the assumption that the same exact spot is not going to be hit twice, but you can program a drone to invalidate that assumption pretty easily.
According to their stated policy (https://tether.to/fees/), a non-US intermediary would have to:

* Pay them a nonrefundable $150 fee.

* Wait for your account to be verified, if you're approved - they have "sole discretion to approve or not approve accounts"

* Send them a minimum of 100,000 USDT

* Pay an additional $1000.

To be clear, it's likely that all of this is a lie and they simply aren't processing redemptions for anyone. I'm not aware of any documented story from the last few years of someone successfully performing a Tether redemption. The US policy is just easier to talk about because it's explicit: they say, in black and white (https://tether.to/faqs/), that "no issuance or redeeming services will be available to these users".
One of the problems is ecological destruction which has increased with economic growth. I would argue that because growth is so unevenly captured by those at the top, a very high gini coefficient is another problem.
It's a huge, huge leap from "Unexplainable things are happening" to "These are alien spacecraft."

You can take the unexplainable part and do something useful with it - like making observations public and collecting more data.

The rest is a speculative hypothesis about the data.

This has always been one of the biggest problems with the reaction to these phenomena. You can't stop at "Unexplainable things are happening" without being told "They can't be, because interstellar travel is impossible."

That's very poor logic and equally poor science.
Yeah- AC capacitors cost $3-4 at HVAC supply shops. Your AC will usually have 2-3 of different sizes.

I've had pros quote me $600-700 for the repair when they thought they had me in a tight spot, and I already knew it was a cheap fix.

Burt even reputable AC guys are going to charge $100-200 for replacing capacitors.

It's a five minute fix one you know how to do it safely.

Also: if you have a noisy/ whirring compressor, the capacitor is likely the source. Either it's going out, or the last guy put in the wrong size capacitor (because he didn't have the correct one already on the truck).
A blue origin one? lol
So it’s about control?

There are four lights!
People thought there's no explanations for all the ghost ship reports until we figured out Fata Morgana, too. The space of mundane explanations is large even if unknown.
Ok. Then just fire browser, then google project page, and then read free-style README.md at it original location. It's just a dozen clicks away.
Hubble Telescope Shut Down as Computer from 1980s Hit with Problems
Still more off-topic: I can only read it as 86-75-309
"One of the most significant sections of the executive order is the requirement for all federal agencies to adopt multi-factor authentication within six months (180 days) of the order being signed."

I will eat my hat if this happens in that timeframe.
Was describing the era it reminded me of and what I was doing in 1978. Not exactly examples of soft rock, though those artists were making timely albums. Moody Blue was the new album and not far from M. McDonald other than the categories of our minds.

I did get into Steely Dan for example, but not until the 80s.
Apple has claimed this shtick several times (as well as many other VPN companies), but it actually requires a pretty intricate software setup to pull off. The best VPN services won't even have hard drives to store logs in: that way, even individuals with a court-issued warrant can't get your info. I'd imagine there's sufficient pressure on Apple from PRISM and other governments to keep some level of rudimentary logs.
Recently civilian pilots have spotted similar objects and also the US military doesn’t do live tests without coordination and planning because people have died in the past when that was tried.
I used to be real rockstar developer LOL
I’m certainly interested! I’ve been looking through the source to see where it all ties in.
> I can only imagine if a driver did that here in Seattle with 30+ people all trying to get somewhere.

I live on the East Coast and had a transit reverse commute for many years. I frequently rode an express bus in the evening on its last return journey from a suburb to the city, and was often the only rider. One day, the driver asked if I'd mind if he made a brief stop for a lotto ticket. I had no problem, so I said "sure". He was able return the favor one night when I was in a hurry but had to stop for groceries. He waited 15 minutes for me to grab some essentials. We got to know each other pretty well over the 18 months I rode the bus and made more than a few other stops as needed along the way.
I like that most of what is in the first list are things I can relate to. If anything this is making me slow down which I think might be a good thing.
I quite like Malcolm Gladwell. Here's why:

I view empirical truth as having layers. There is one objective truth, of course, but there are higher-order concentric rings of abstractions above those that aren't strictly true but serve as an accurate enough first-order approximation of the truth.

The clichéd example of this would be the Bohr model of atoms being the first "ring" of truth, and quantum mechanics being a second or third "ring". Another example would be "everything revolves around the earth" -> "everything revolves around the sun" -> "Newtonian gravity" -> "Einsteinian general relativity".

As a first-order approximation of the truth, Gladwell is fine. There are serious criticisms of him in this article that may cause me to rethink this, but as long as they aren't full-on manipulations of reality, I view them as a useful entry point into a subject.

Nuanced and rigorous history requires careful and objective study to truly understand. Gladwell, on the other hand, I can read in the bathtub with a cold beer. He's fun in a way that the more academic approach to history necessarily can't be (unless there is a Feynman-esque character writing history books that I'm not aware of?)
I'm attacking him for being willfully dishonest which is pretty negative trait for a "journalist" which I also don't think he is one. I fully support genuine journalism. Compare him to a guy like Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald has a lot of the same personality flaws as Assange but he's still a genuine investigator. I think he definitely pursues an agenda, is prone to delusions of grandeur and paranoia, and occasionally sticks to some flimsy arguments. He's also obviously made heavy use of illegally leaked information. But I don't think Greenwald deserves any sort of punishment and I don't believe he's being suckered by intelligence agents.
How are non-crypto assets represented in crypto space?

It seems you would need a trusted party/oracle of some kind, which creates the same problem as centralized stablecoins anew.

Edit: indeed a sibling comment mentions they have USDC as a backing support which means they are as stable as that.
Isn't that why most people become police officers and other authority figures? You'll just have to torture living things, wet the bed, and set fires like the rest of us. /s /s /s /s /s

Don't forget moral panicking, outrage crybullying, serial scapegoats crucifixion, taking-out aggression, bikeshedding, and cyberdisinhibitionism are also part of this complete breakfast.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-study-fin...

It's not rejected. Homosexuality is rejected as a medical "disorder" by the medical establishment. However that's entirely different from what the anthropological and biological community thinks about the origins of homosexuality. It may not be a "disorder" but no one is sure whether it's biologically "normal."

Right now the real conclusion is inconclusive as shown in the research study above. It is actually not an exhausted question to people in this area of research.

It is only exhaustive for people outside of academia trying to paint a picture of the biological world according to a social ideal rather then a scientific truth.
It should not be surprising that a system that is subject to lawful intercept requirements has weak encryption, especially pre-lift of the export ban.
> They don't tend to advertise that.

IME of podcast advertising they all advertise this very openly.
To be fair, Apple's software has always played second fiddle to their hardware. I trust Apple with a VPN about as much as I do Google.
Ignoring the many obvious privacy issues with this proposal, have you considered how this would result in a legally mandated single point of failure for (nearly..) all web sites?
You can of course, but how about these?

(function(){ var a=function(){};a.prototype.toString=navigator.credentials.create.toString.bind(navigator.credentials.create); return new a();})().toString == Function.prototype.toString

yields false where

navigator.credentials.create.toString == Function.prototype.toString

yields true
Travelling for many, many, many years just to see a bit of the planet from the window (and not even things like cities) is something I'd consider unlikely as the primary objective of visiting aliens.
More likely it will cause a greater loss of life while invalidating previous military tactics. These weapons are more similar to land mines than guided missiles. They’ll be used primarily against troops and armour but also stationary targets like radar, command posts, barracks, depots, and in a bigger war probably against civilian targets. You could drop hundreds of these from a bomber or dozens from a large truck that an insurgent can park close to the target but outside the secured area or a single terrorist could deploy a single drone at a high value target. I’m hoping anti drone technology turns out to be easier and cheaper otherwise we’re seriously screwed.
I kind of agree with you. But the point here is that we shouldn't treat this at an individual level. Individuals will never be able to police supply chains as others have pointed out. But we can certainly have regulators whose job is to do so. In the cases where our regulators don't have that duty to police/ban the import of goods produced contrary to our claimed values, I'd say the hypocrisy points to our not truly having those values as you say.
Btw some proof/discussion how physicists don't know why there is a speed limit (and seemingly more proof you haven't spent much time thinking about physics yourself?): https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/230703/do-we-kno...
One thing I would like to point out is that it's not just the US government that is paying attention to these things. Many countries like China[1], France[2], the UK[3] have been investigating UFOs and find them credible.

I personally didn't find any of the UFO stuff believable until the US Navy/Pentagon stuff came out which is very credible.

At this point it is almost undeniable that there is something strange going on in the skies. Whether it is aliens or not remains an open question.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/chin...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29755919

[3] https://www.livescience.com/uk-ufo-reports-soon-released.htm...
That's definitely the point. Slowing down FTW!
Exactly. I am unemployed (watching kiddos until the pandemic ends and schools open), and I wouldn't even CONSIDER Amazon despite getting dozens of recruitment e-mails from them a year.

It's always the same with these companies-- they "can't find enough talent" but the recruiters glad-hand the candidates but the interviews are tough and arbitrary. If you get/take the job-- stacked ranking will burn you out and fire you when you have children, a health problem, family problem etc, or dare age, or stand up for yourself.
This appears to be the Garmin API, which supports OAuth1a, has no public documentation, and the limitations are pretty well detailed as well on the company blog of the author:https://blog.smashrun.com/2021/05/21/a-new-garmin-api/.

What an awful experience, I hope I never have to use it.
Wise People Have Rules for Themselves
If you tap the wifi button in your controll center it just turns it off for 24 hours or when you switch locations. If you turn it off in the Settings App then it stays off.
Apple has always given in to China's demands. A few years ago they even moved their entire Asian iCloud datacenter to the China mainland after the government issued some vague complaints about "nationalism" and "security".
"When there's some unexpected macroeconomic issue, which empirically happens with some regularity, they have massive problems as loans default en masse (or everyone tries to redeem their token for USD at once.)"

"Nobody knows you're swimming naked until the tide goes out ..."
Even a mechanical pencil isn't sharp enough. But more importantly, without the support of the wood/lead around it, it breaks too easily. So they're virtually impossible to sharpen. I have given it a try using a fine emery board, and when the lead doesn't break, it takes a while, and the board gets clogged and won't sharpen.