skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's so short-sighted too.

No it's not. The VP is maximizing their bonus and career growth within the company. That is likely tied to relatively short term metrics and especially to not having drops in metrics.
They referenced 18 cases in which "observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics". Of course this does not mean the object/phenomenon actually exhibited unusual movement or flight characteristics, rather that the person who observed it thought it might have been.

They need to list each of those 18 key cases they referenced, as well as what their current state of knowledge about each is. One incident they say they already know for certain was just a balloon, but they don't say which incident it was. Maybe this is just a preliminary document, but if so, or if they think this is sufficient, it's not sufficient and we do need a deeper report. The longer this drags on the more wild stories some people in the public and press will spin to justify their belief that a lot, or even most, of the UFO sightings are really aliens visiting Earth.

Worth noting that those 18 key cases came from a pool of 144 cases meeting the criteria "witnessed firsthand by military aviators and that were collected from systems we considered to be reliable", which came from a larger (size unspecified) pool of less reliable reports. They also point out that the reports disproportionately come from the area immediately surrounding US military testing/training facilities.
TBH my threat model views Russian and Middle Eastern oligarchs and governments as less of an immediate threat to my freedoms than my own government or major US tech firms.

Long run it's a problem, but until I have a app at the same risk/feature sweet spot I don't mind the downsides of telegram.

(Edited cause I am utterly unable to spell)
It is usually the opposite - large enterprises have horrible UX than a mom & pop small shop. Furthermore, just because you're small doesn't mean you cannot fix UX of the user. I don't throw my money at them in charity or pity for being small. There are some great small businesses, and many not so great. Absolutist argument is perhaps in the point you're making.

I run a small side business with $2k/month in revenue and I damn well make sure that there are no annoyances to the user. This is standard expectation and has nothing to do with how big or small you are. We should all strive for excellence and not perpetuate mediocrity.

Regarding silliness - it would be silly to keep going to a restaurant that has rude service. That's what you're saying essentially.
it looks like this code detects whether or not the client is making webgl2 available, not the presence or amount of hardware acceleration that the client is giving you access to via webgl2.
Yep that's fair enough. And satellite imagery too I guess.
Missed your comment about spreadsheets. Yes! So many spreadsheets.

So a bunch of design work happens in spreadsheets, yeah, that and long form google docs. Then a lot of business and admin stuff too (if you're an independent dev which means you're making games AND running a business). Whether that's accounting or projections or any number of other sundry things.
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The article implies it was sort-of landfill:

This literal trash foundation is unfortunately how big parts of numerous American cities have been built.
It is certainly not true that South Korea's measures have succeeded in eliminating community spread, which has been significant (if not at the same level as the U.S.) since the start of winter. East Asians seem to be more resistant to SARS-CoV-2: their new case rate of about 1/20th the U.S. (1/4 on a per-capita basis) is translating into a death rate around 1/300th of ours.

Lockdowns have been largely orthogonal to school closures -- much of Europe kept its schools open while pursuing even more draconian lockdown measures than blue states in the U.S. "Just lockdown, test, and trace harder" is not the lesson from South Korea.
If the notice posted by Bill Anderson is any indication of the type of person he is to work with, he would have to pay a premium to make up for his disposition. Sometimes the explanations can be just that simple.
No, I don't care to elaborate on my personal opinions about this topic. I only noted that because I habitually remind people on HN that UFO just stands for Unidentified Flying Object and the reason the US government is interested is for national security reasons.

I noted it just to suggest "If you are inferring that I am on your side in thinking only nutters believe in aliens you are wrong."

I have no desire to have that conversation here. Comments on this topic are consistently appallingly bad by HN standards and my only desire is to say "Keep it real people. This is not a government report on aliens. That's not what this is."
No, I disagree. Your critique is shallow even for it's relative prominence. The article literally opens with a counterpoint that you shouldn't generally use this as an excuse. What you said in your comment acts almost as perfect critique for itself: it sounds right, but it has zero substance. Why should anyone value a critique that says almost zero actual things about the article and instead draws a general conclusion that sounds like it came from purely reading the headline?
Do you have a reference for that? Struggling to find one, and very interested.
Only being able to write about your own profound experiences and realisations if no one else has ever written about them, seems to eliminate a lot of possible articles...
Wow. That is painful.

I recognized a number of those issues from a number of sites I've visited.
Shoddy concrete work seems to be a running gag in the south. I had a related experience when the NOLA Hard Rock Cafe collapsed onto the street seconds after I walked down said street. It wouldn't surprise me if the concrete work in the collapsed condo was of a similar (lacking) level of quality.
>And those diseases get treated carefully and separately, with workflows that get you referred on any sign of such diseases to a neurologist.

No they don't. Are they supposed to? Yes. But, at least in the US, things just don't go as smoothly as they should with regards to this because our healthcare system is incomprehensibly worthless.
This kind of project is what could make me use C# instead of Go for my server needs

Microsoft is sitting on a gold mine and they don't know it!! yet!
I have a WD MyBook and unplugged it last night - still fine, fortunately. I ssh'ed in and renamed the factoryRestore.sh and wipeFactoryReset.sh to cripple the attack as well as removing one drive from RAID until I can get an airgapped backup.

However, that doesn't fix the actual vulnerability itself. Anybody else affected have a suggestion for how to e.g. upgrade the relevant packages to make this secure?
the popups in the bottom left announcing people purchasing them in the past are so distracting I couldn't watch this or trust it. Even the big travel websites shed that awful attempt at social proof.

They even give away their own game:

> or simply impress your friends and neighbors with a quick demo
This. It's 2021. Release something or just shut up. A potato quality video from a fighter that clearly has way better video and capabilities is not gonna cut it for me, sorry.
It has already been announced that they will add ads to Telegram but only to public groups/channels over a certain amount of users. Everything else will stay ad free. See: https://t.me/durov/142
Not from this report, but these quotes are crazy:

> "In this country we've had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities" [1]

> "We also have data suggesting that in other countries these things have interfered with their nuclear technology and actually turned them on, put them online." [1]

How is stuff like this possible or is it just hyperbole?

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/ufos-us-gove...
Meshroom definitely can't do 3D reconstruction from monocular video. But there are other algorithms that can. Just Google "3D reconstruction monocular" and you get loads of demos. E.g. https://youtu.be/TZ1eToXQwN0

Unfortunately I don't know of any that are open source and not research-project style code (i.e. weeks of work to maybe get working).

Matterport are the market leaders in this sort of thing but it's commercial.

https://matterport.com/
Now imagine a technology that scans the contents, listing the type, number, and mass of each item, and broadcasts it so that anyone driving by can instantly read it.

It's not binary accessible v. non-accessible, it's level of effort.
If you're curious, this previously released footage is quite detailed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/pentagon-relea...
> completely delete posts

This could be done by sending special "cancel" messages; it was then up to individual Usenet servers to figure out whether to honor these cancel requests, through unspecified criteria. The feature was somewhat hidden away in some Usenet clients to discourage pointless abuse, but it was there.

> A related but bigger problem for Usenet is people of the type this post discusses, those with actual mental illness; think "50 year olds with undiagnosed autism".

IME, these people were mostly entertaining as opposed to genuinely problematic. With killfiles being in common use and 'plonking' being discussed routinely as the standard way of dealing with annoyances, users were meaningfully incented to always be on their best behavior as judged by other forum denizens.
So there's nearly as many answers to your question as there are gamedevs.

I've seen quite a few use an OO modeling approach. That's fallen out of favor for good reason.

Another approach is Entity Component Systems. I suggest googling for one of the better blog posts on that.

Another approach is to build the equivalent of a datalog engine.

An approach I favor is to have a stack per entity, and as you parse input events things get stacked up. Then a processing pass iterates across popping things off the stack. If you know how MTG rules work it's roughly the same idea.

None of these are a panacea, because you can have logical contradictions in your ruleset that are subtle and only emerge in very niche situations.

It's definitely very difficult problem. What you suggest is similar to what I termed the datalog style. If you've ever tried to debug a prolog or datalog program, you'll know that it all being in one file is a trivial concern compared to the emergent complexity and potential for you to have misstated your logic or included contradictions.
Because this tired old argument has been made far too many times.

These companies have become bloated and become a liability to the US and the dollar... Soaking up all the newly printed money and wasting it on bureaucracy whilst depriving everyone else from capital. Monopolizing user attention for the benefit of other aging, rotten, decrepit, bureaucratic corporations. They were producing big nominal gains through hoarding of newly printed money but rotting the economy from the inside. Good riddance.

If the reserve banks want to restore faith in the US dollar, they have to prove it works.
Microsoft’s “Windows Subsystem for Android” Sounds a Lot Like Chrome OS
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How fast can an algorithm be put together to find evidence of mental health issues via social media posts and then trigger a waterfall of rights removals?

It could be easy to argue that society may be better off without those folks having rights.

Flagged as mental -
- loose free speech - blocked from posting on networks, email capabilities removed via isps, library and cell phone companies.
- Flagged so can not purchase firearms
- soldiers may now be sent to watch over you in your place or residence/work
- things you have said in the past and things you know can be studied - search history, alexa/assistant stuff - you can not hide what you know.
- You could wait for a jury trial but never be able to see your accuser, it's a bot written by a very good professor/doctor - a jury of your 'peers' would be people who have never been red-flagged as problematic social media posters.
- civil trials would be auto-lost because the bot would know you are bad.
- would it be cruel punishment to be cut off from all things digital? no dating, friends, family, food orders, rides..

It seems you can slay the bill of rights pretty quickly simply using a digital footprint.

I read a submarine article today pushing for the expansion of background checks for rights that did not include a bunch of 'other side info' that should be discussed.. it can be easy for something to be right and be used for the wrong reasons or in the wrong way.

I've also seen news where 'they' are asking social media companies to hand over info to try to prevent offline violence as one solution to things -

at what scale does this become weaponized mass destruction? a thousand people? ten thousand?

Of course people will lose their right to vote, maybe parenting rights and all sorts of others.

All from a twitter rant.

This is actually where we are right now I guess.

The goldwater rule mentioned in the article may need to be codified into national law to prevent these kinds of things from running amok.
Great article! Thanks so much for talking about FGL. I'm one of the co-founders, and helping Flash developers and portals was definitely a special time that I remember fondly.
Exploring Data at Netflix
So text space is trivially vectorizable, at the character level and even for difficult languages like Russian chunk-vectorisable with some care. How do you encode the difference between houamine A and atrop-houamine A, while keeping the similarities, without resorting to empirical measurements and classification, which could yield reasonable vectors, but will take 2-5 years of a highly trained grad student's labor to obtain and put into the training corpus
> it can continue to moon indefinitely if the market dictates it

Not really. The higher the price gets, the more new money it takes to move the price higher. TSLA has done significantly worse than the overall US stock market this year.
It would be quite hard to fake enough cube samples for that and unlikely to be worth the bother. The steelwork failing is more likely. Pre-stressed conc is basically an explosion waiting to happen, which makes demolitions interesting. Another possibility is concrete cancer but the map cracking is well known and easily recognised. That last is unlikely and easy to rule out with some simple chemistry. However, Miami is on the coast so the extra ingredients are there.

There are loads of possibilities but at the moment I think foundation failure is most likely. Unless you pile down to bedrock or build a gigantic raft of conc. then you need very stable land for a building that size. Another other option is to build it flexible but that was obviously not the case. The geology there is likely to be a nightmare. Miami is a lot of reclaimed land, low lying and next door to the Atlantic.

The sight of the collapse is something I won't forget in a hurry. The secondary collapse on the right in the security camera footage took about three seconds. That's insanely fast. The failure was absolutely catastrophic. It wasn't simply a cascade - the whole structure seemed to fail simultaneously from top to bottom and that is not normal.
Just to be clear, you confirmed that it was a short-sighted decision.
Then just don't pay the inflated price and don't go to the event?
Maybe. In most of the US aren't they moving to computerised counting even of the simple ballots currently in use?
Yes, I know about this mapping (I can read man pages too), but

a) ping6 ::ffff:127.0.0.1 doesn't work too;

b) it's not an IPv4 address, because the binary representation of ::ffff:127.0.0.1 != 127.0.0.1. It's the IPv4 address space mapped to an IPv6 address space (IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6).

c) IPv4 addresses in IPv6 address space are deprecated: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4291#section-2.5.5.... .

In short, IPv6 and IPv4 cannot coexist, so they must be separated, so we must keep IPv4, because it's mandatory, and we may skip IPv6, because it's optional. So, all internet providers in my area are skipping IPv6, because they can.

All that problems are created by lack of backward compatibility in IPv6 protocol.

Why? «Because backward compatibility with IPv4 is unnecessary. IPv6 is so much better. Everyone will jump to IPv6 till end of the next (1995) year.»
This part caught my eye.

These objects include birds, balloons, recreational
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or airborne debris
like plastic bags

It never occurred to me how utterly "alien" a wind-borne plastic bag's behavior might seem on radar.

A constantly shifting radar cross section, sudden directional changes no "actual" flying craft could manage, etc. After all it's an object with significant surface area but nearly zero mass being buffeted around in a region of the atmosphere with swirling wind currents.

Depending on the angle, the radar cross-section of a modern stealthy aircraft is reportedly about the same as a small bird or even a bumblebee. So the radar cross section of an airborne plastic bag or balloon would be pretty similar.

That said, I think the visual reports and videos from military aviators are pretty clearly describing something else.
Most ATC now uses secondary radars. Those generally only pick up aircraft carrying transponders.
It's important to note that although chemical space is quite large, most of this space is not easy to synthesize and also is not chemically feasible, stable or desirable. Another interesting "small" subset of chemical space is ZINC [0] which is a database of about a billion commercially offered compounds, meaning that manufacturers at a minimum think they can easily make them (and effectively the fulfilment is quite high when random compounds are ordered, e.g. 95% in this paper where they did molecular docking simulations on the entirity of this database to find new melatonin receptor modulators [1]). Concerning exploration of chemical space, one area that might be of interest here is the quite effective smooth(ish) movement through structure-property space using VAEs.[2]

[0] https://zinc.docking.org/
[1] "Virtual discovery of melatonin receptor ligands to modulate circadian rhythms" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2027-0.pdf
[2] "Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-DrivenContinuous Representation of Molecules", https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.02415.pdf
The main thing is to level the bed. Once you do this, it shouldn't require releveling except maybe every 1-2 months.

Upgrade the bed to the glass bed. Get yourself some hairspray and spray the bed every few prints. You'll never get failed prints again.
Did you end up using differential privacy in Rally? What's the thinking behind this?
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It's an incredible book, one of the most astute things I've ever read. And the patterns apply widely. I've found it very useful in diagnosing bad bosses.

Once my boss's boss fired my boss and suddenly took over managing me. After my first meeting with him, where a nominal 30-minute chat turned into 90 minutes of berating, I walked out wondering what the hell happened. I grabbed my copy of "Why Does He Do That?" and quickly found him described as abuser subtype "Mr Right".

It was a huge relief just to be able to put the head-spinning experience in perspective. And it let me really prepare for the rest of my (short) tenure there.
I read "Around the World in 80 Days" not too long ago, and as I was reading the part where they're crossing the US I had exactly that same thought: the US was the China of the late 19th century.
Where did I say that? All I said is that a game used in an educational setting invites additional scrutiny. I didn't bring race into this.
I never made the connection to part 2 in the abstract before, that makes total sense. If you're walking down the street and see someone with two noses, you're going to notice, not the 20 other "normal" people you passed at the same time. Why wouldn't the same carry over to reading text or watching videos?
The fact they don't include "just other normal planes" in that list calls into question the quality of this whole document. It really seems like this document was just thrown together with no real intent to get into the weeds on the reports. It does also seem like they are trying so hard to be vague to avoid running afoul of information classification rules. The White House needs to tell them to stop going so overboard with classification. Overclassification is a real problem in government.
Do you really think there is a single human being that reads HN and thinks "UFO" means 100% aliens? I sorta doubt anyone here needs such a reminder.
I’m not looking forward to pay multiple app stores to publish my apps. I’m also not looking forward to deal with multiple implementation details and multiple appstore guidelines and rules.

The %30 cut is nothing for the service provided. The only people I know to suffer from it are the resellers(i.e. Spotify like services where they redistribute most of the revenue).

The multiple store thing is going to be a hell for the small developers. Apple handling all the legal and regulatory procedures for selling globally is a great service stuff since it’s something out of the reach for most small companies otherwise.

Users who simply can’t find the app they need in the App Store due to the limitations can use Android.

When there’s a opportunity for innovation that is not possible on iOS because of this, it will happen on Android.
You can get a decent service in the UK for around £60 per month per head. This would cover everything OS including upgrades, antivir etc, remote monitoring and support, business hours telephone support, everything to do with M365 or Google Workspace including managing the vendor relationship. You would still probably want to manage your own infra assuming you’re cloud based and you still have a raft of SaaS auth to manage, you still need to guide others on tooling, manage tooling integrations, licenses, relationships. There will be a time when you’re too small for £60 a month but you’ll soon know when there’s to much IT to do! One other option is to recruit an internal IT person part or full time.
Perl is (amazingly) still a thing in 2021 in quantitative biology, at least in big national labs I'm familiar with.

See e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-Bioinformatics-James-T...
It came out of the sky: US releases highly anticipated UFO report
This is a poor quality article written to make a political point. We need a more nuanced and clear-headed analysis of the current labor market than this. Low-wage laborers aren't lazy, but they certainly act rationally. The ongoing stimulus benefits undoubtedly had a strong effect on the labor market.

The author pointed to inflation causing wage pressure on the labor market. This is literally an effect of the stimulus.

I live in Berkeley, CA— hardly a conservative sronghold—and local cafes and bars are continually posting on social media about not being able to find labor. Many are running at reduced hours because of this.

HN is better than this. I would love to read a nuanced analysis of the current market, regardless of what it concludes about the stimulus effects.
Unfortunately no, or rather not yet. I guess it should be easy to publish most of them, as they are on GitHub already. (Except my most popular app by far, because in the past I had some issues with clones so I decided to kept its code private)
rationally, that would fall under 'sources and methods' which the DOD/DNI/TLA are not going to release.

They care far less about the data than the system to get the data. Releasing it provides potential enemies information on systems capability.

I'm loving the conversation here. I cannot imagine how little the DNI cares about this.
Camera app as in a required smart home app to access the WiFi camera. About 300MB installed. It does do push notifications on motion detection so maybe that's 50MB there?