skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor are you someone with a rudimentary understanding of how debate works — You either support your assertion with evidence, or concede that there is no evidence to begin with. Simple.

I'll take your excuses to mean you can't do the former, but refuse to do the latter. That's fine. But please know that HN readers can see right through what you're doing. It never, ever, wins arguments around here.
I must admit that despite using C# since around 2001 I've never done more than glance at F#, so can't answer from the language perspective.

However as all the DotNet languages use the same DotNet Core framework (which despite the name is not necessary on the deploy servers) they use the same libraries and modules. So whilst I don't know how seamlessly they integrate into the F# code, they should certainly be available.
Do building designs have to be certified in a way similar to how cars have to be crash-tested?
I just downloaded duckdb and used it to query parquet files. It's amazing. Finally, an easy way to query Parquet data without spinning up a local Spark instance or doing pd.read_parquet. It's pretty fast too.

I've always felt that Parquet (or ORC) ought to be more popular mainstream formats than they are, but in practice the interactive tooling for Parquet has always been weak. For years, there wasn't a good GUI viewer (well, there were a few half-hearted attempts) or a good SQL query tool for Parquet like there is for most relational databases, and lazily examining the contents of a large Parquet folder from the command line has always been a chore. At least now, DuckDB's parquet support moves the needle on the last point.
Big Tech is in every pocket. They monitor and influence the 3-12 hours a day of screen time the average adult subjects themselves to. They can themselves, and can be paid to influence the way we think, shop and live, in ways we keep refusing to acknowledge or confront.

Yes, other things are also broken! Let's fix those too.
The Commodore Vic-20 Registry
I feel like every company is like this, keep slack and gchat open at my work...
Where to begin?

1) This isn't a recent phenomena. People have been seeing discs in the sky for literally thousands of years.

2) Aircraft can't make 90 degree turns or descend from 80,000 feet to the deck approximately instantly.

3) Groups of extremely highly trained military pilots have seen them, and the video and IR data has been released from these encounters. You can't make 4 people in 2 aircraft hallucinate at the same time, and fool all the instrumentation on them (radar, IR...) and also fool the battlespace radars on the cruisers directing them. And if you could, that too would be kind of interesting to look at whatever that is.

You're repeating old points you don't understand because as you acknowledge, you don't know the subject. Please start with Vallee.
Their younger versions might not have agreed with it, but some people do mellow out in their old age. In this case, to me it's clear that he is doing a large turnaround, which validates Wyager's statement that he did not care too much before.
> Just because you can't identify what's going wrong to make someone's car have unresponsive steering (the etiology), doesn't mean you can't precisely identify the car as having unresponsive steering (the symptoms.)

Except in this case there is a (vague) diagnosis - something is wrong with the car's computer (psychological issues).

> Psychology is just fine at recognizing symptoms (and complexes of symptoms that go together, a.k.a. "syndromes")

You don't need psychology to recognise symptoms. Unless you're saying psychology has it's own set of symptoms and it's own terminology - which is just a truism.

> and also very good at treating symptoms/syndromes, such that they go away.

Very debatable, and very provably false for most of psychology's existence.

> Often, an understanding of the etiology isn't involved,

How often?

> but also isn't needed, because it's the symptoms/syndrome that are the problem, and the underlying pathology is otherwise benign.

So,the symptoms are a problem, but the causes of the symptoms are not? How could you claim that the 'underlying pathology is benign' without even knowing what it is? Imagine if this level of rigour was applied to cancer - 'here take these sedatives and painkillers to get rid of your symptoms... don't worry the causes are totally benign'. It's absurd.

> There're very few psychological diseases that have an organic origin, where treating the symptoms but not the disease will lead to the disease progressing and killing you.

Except you really have no idea how many 'psychological diseases' could be progressing and/or affecting you while you mask the symptoms. How do you know such a disease isn't present and progressing, if, as you said, you aren't even able to identify the disease if it existed.
There's confounding here that you're ignoring. For reference, I'm a machine learning research scientist who started in bioinformatics, initially lured by the possibility of a machine learning solution to the protein folding problem.

Google's research arm has made leaps and bounds in a particular field (deep learning) and then managed to apply it successfully to a very, very hard problem (protein folding). That other companies failed to adapt Google's successes in deep learning faster than Google is not surprising at all to me.

One might argue that the impact of academic-big pharma collaboration (in the form of funding for research projects related to CASP) is what enabled a company like Google, with no independent desire to collect the massive amounts of wetlab data required to evaluate or develop a tool like AlphaFold, to even participate.

More importantly, AlphaFold hasn't really solved the protein folding problem well enough for drug development. So, the entire debate might be moot.
> Even on the left side of the @ a surprising number of scripts seem to fail on things that are perfectly acceptable characters.

I've had an input require a minimum of 3 characters on the left side of the @ to register. My email was just "me@example.com" using my own domain name. A perfectly valid email address. I am also unable to sign up for Id.me for the IRS because it rejects both of my personal email addresses. I cannot register to create NPM packages for the same reason. I also cannot sign up for Vercel either. I cannot sign up to Vercel via Github and when I try to sign up by email it says the account already exists. When I attempt to do a password recovery for the email it says "Sorry, we are unable to validate that email." So the original error of "account already exists" is actually wrong - the account doesn't exist and can't exist because they aren't able to validate the email for it.

My personal emails aren't even "weird" ones like ones with an emoji or punycode domain or non-Latin character sets.

I hate with a fiery, burning passion every site that attempts to do any kind of email validation beyond simply sending me an email and letting me click a link to verify my email exists.
Agreed; ML doesn't make sense to me in the context in which they present it. Seems like they just crammed in a buzzword there.

Later in the report, it says this:

One proposal is to use advanced algorithms to
search historical data captured and stored by radars

They do not mention ML in that context, but it seems like a more promising way in which they might usefully employ it.
The best quote I've got on UFOs is from Leroy Chiao, a former ISS commander.

"Probably some sort of secret military program" [0]. Cannot find original on youtube any longer.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1eWnHHMrck&t=30s
It's not the climate change that'll get us, but each other.

Left to nature alone, we'd likely evolve and adapt and survive in some form or fashion. But the advancement of humanity has led to all kinds of ways we could do ourselves in if we put our minds to it.

And those nation states and civilizations facing iffy odds aren't likely to go down quietly. In the throws of desperation, all bets are off (why care about stuff like MAD[1] when you're already facing imminent destruction by nature).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
it's none of that

it's people preferred to still profit as much as possible from this dying building instead of renovating/repairing it

that is what you get for building a civilization where profit has higher priority than safety of your people
For those that can't be bothered, the photo linked above is a Lockheed Martin F-117, an early-era stealth fighter jet.
I would not call it a report either, this is a request for more funding, the last sentence is:

> The UAPTF has indicated that additional funding for research and development could further the future study of the topics laid out in this report.

I would be more interested in a BEA style analysis of each incident. But at least it lays down some possible causes:

- Airborne Clutter
- Natural Atmospheric Phenomena
- USG or Industry Developmental Programs
- Foreign Adversary Systems
- Other

And I would say the the order reflect the decreasing probability of each cause.
There is also Likebook that similarly violates the GPL.

I don't think a computing prison is preferable to an OSS breach. A device with an open bootloader that will take whatever code you give it is always infinitely preferable to restrictive computing.
> I am someone who thinks there likely is alien activity on earth

Can you elaborate on why you think this (or provide some additional detail)?

For example, do you mean "intelligent" life? Or is this more along the lines of panspermia?

Thank you.
I'm not sure what that means, or what basis there is for any of it ? The basis for my comment was Torvalds' own statements and actions, and he's a pretty good source for Torvalds and for effective management and communication in the Linux community. Do you know him personally? Are you a maintainer?
What if the result of breaking up US monopolies is their replacement by non-US monopolies?

How is that better?

I'd think very, very hard about crippling US companies in a global marketplace. So far, I don't even see any discussion about it.
Aha... So Snowden only found the clues McAfee planted way back when; McAfee was actually the real whistle-blower all along!

...or not.

TIL; thanks.
I did not claim this will be the single data point.Of course
is not to be used without additional information. Warren Buffet also stated you should not rely solely on PE.

It is a starting point, and the difference is enough, to justify a statement that Tesla is overvalued.

Are you saying Tesla is not overvalued ?
Worse is Calculator. Why does that app that simple take a noticeable (small, but not instant) delay to open on a pretty decent machine?

(also why is everyone so needy these days, to the point of a simple OS-built-in calculator app asking for a rating?)
by this definition of censorship, me asking a random person screaming in my house to please leave is censorship.

Author bias, alternative perspectives, etc. can all be contributions to meaningful discourse when they bring evidence or some meaningful engagement. Simply asserting your truth through circular logic isn't a contribution. It's not because the contribution is about 'bias' its because the contribution is stupid. Same rules apply even if think the person agrees with me. Process and structure trump content.

I'm saying this as the type of person who gets concerned when I see a stupid argument that arrives at the same position I hold, I don't get excited just because it's the same outcome.
Many online forums are incredibly toxic, or infested with a few regulars that get off always being negative and bullying other people.

The only thing that works with bullies, is ignoring them.

Trying to find reasons, psychological reasons, childhood traumas or gender identity issues, seems to be a way to focus on the behaviour and drama, instead of moving on.
I'm the lead data scientist in a corporation and only recently have I realized just how much I don't know. Give me another decade and hopefully I'll have learned most of those things.
(Author here, I hang out on HN.)

Yup. There's really not much extra code in bflat compared to what's in the dotnet/runtimelab repo (in the NativeAOT branch). This just packages things differently so that one doesn't need the .NET SDK (plus Windows SDK if targeting Windows). The 100 MB bflat ZIP is all that's needed to target Windows or Linux.
There’s long vs short term, but I’d also add ease of calculating a decision’s value. Ironically I think a lot of the business and tech world is hamstrung by “data-driven” decision making which assumes

1. You have all the necessary data and

2. You are interpreting it correctly and completely

This is almost never true, so instead “data driven” is mostly “data covering-your-ass.” Maybe the future will yield leaders more capable of wielding data less like a cudgel, but I’m not optimistic.
Well, I will have to write many paragraphs to fully understand your questions.

Let me tell you that I am highly unsuccessul as a piano player. I cannot play much more than a few simple "pieces". Becaue I am highly irregular.

And apart from work and reading SICP, I don't do everything everyday. I read SICP 7 days a week. But work only five. No Deep Learning on Sundays. On Saturdays, no work, only personal learning, reading papers, attending study groups, etc.

Actually I can work for no more than five hours a day- proper, hard work, "deep work" if I may.

I want to extend that to 8/10. That is my main motivation behind meditation. I am better than most in concentrating during learning and work. I just want that to last for longer hours.

I studied Electronics and Computer Architecture (from the Mano book mostly) before, so I don't find nand2tetris very challenging. It is fairly challenging at times, but not the hardest thing that I do. It's more fun than challenge.

SICP is challenging at times. But I spend time with it very regularly, say 1-2 hours a day.

I have learned from my experiences that, when you are learning something fundamental, new, it is best to learn it over many days and months rather than bouts of short sprints.

So, I am regular with it, but don't spend long hours.

Being with a highly career focused partner helps a lot, too.

I discussed my time management techniques here-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27356883

I spend 30 or so minutes every day reading novels, poetry or about the culture and history of the Bengali people.

I also exercise regularly.

I like to swim, but pools are closed.
To say there is no issues with irrational behavior in the LGBT community online would be criminal dishonesty. This is not a personal indictment against trans people or LGBT people as a whole, who have existed before Twitter, before Tumblr, and before Live Journal. The author, IMO, should not have to jump through Olympic hoops in order to distance themselves from the transphobic conclusion being pushed on them. They said that wasn't their intent, and the article doesn't appear to draw that conclusion. That really ought to be the end of it.

This is exactly one of the problems with modern internet discourse. And I know someone is reading this comment wondering if I'm "one of the good ones". This mindset is, in itself, toxic and irrational. While bad intent matters, the absense of evidence of bad intent should be good enough ground to stand on.
After reading the comments here, I think everyone needs to repeat the one true mantra: "machine time is cheaper than developer time". Anyone "optimizing" an app is wasting time and money. Anyone optimizing an app for space usage is doubly foolish: extra gigabytes are free.

<- That's sarcasm, by the way. But if you asked any of the apps' developers, that is the answer you'll receive.
Not exactly the same but for Burst Mode photos (where they all start grouped together) it will automatically pick what it thinks is the best one, and you can:
- Go to the burst in the photo roll
- Tap "Select..."
- Pick one (or more)
- Tap Done
- Tap "Keep Only 1 Favorite" to get rid of the others you didn't select.
144 _reported_ incidents. They also talk about how some of the cases going unreported. It would make sense to sieve through the radar data (I'd guess all the ATC radars are being recorded, because why not?) to look for those.
Truth Is a Weird Shape
That all makes sense, thank you.

Personally I’ve been really pushing for “community supported development”, where a community crowd funds an idea. Like the Godot video game engine or Octoprint. We’re applying to non profit fiscal hosts now. (I expect we may fork the project and have a for profit version in the future, but I’m all about maintaining a complete open source system as a non profit project. See the Dronecode foundation for an example of a split profit/non-profit project.)

I want to have a robot for myself and for others that can manage a one to five acre plot using high volume organic production along the lines of methods popularized by Eliot Coleman, JM Fortier, or Charles Dowding. I’m leaning towards no-dig (Dowding) but it will take a lot of experimentation to see what really works best.

But I say all this because I think a lot of companies are going to be focused on meeting market demand for existing farming needs. I’m hoping that for our non profit work we are pushing the envelope for highly ecological development, supported by enthusiastic believers in our mission. I’ve been learning about reduced till and no till agriculture and it seems super promising for a robot like ours. My hope is that long term, we can help build a system that allows these techniques to scale.

That said, the need for a precision vision system is even greater in this scenario. There’s going to be a lot of variety in what our system needs to identify and do! Luckily vision is the thing I really enjoy learning. I think if I can drive prototyping and I can get a broader community going, we have a good shot of getting a whole system going. At the very least I think our open source vehicle is very good, and will be a solid base platform for people once we release the V2 research vehicle.

See my vision learning project I’ve been working on the last couple years:
https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/
I think if a compiler gets posted to HN as if it's being provided for general use, asking for its source code is reasonable.

The author is perfectly within their rights to keep it private, and we are perfectly within ours to call it out.
Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 35 years ago when discussing online forums:

>I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer conferences were still valuable. Alas, it's not always easy to do.

This is what killed Usenet,[1] which 40 years ago offered much of the virtues of Reddit in decentralized form. The network's design has several flaws, most importantly no way for any central authority to completely delete posts (admins in moderated groups can only approve posts), since back in the late 1970s Usenet's designers expected that everyone with the werewithal to participate online would meet a minimum standard of behavior. Usenet has always had a spam problem, but as usage of the network declined as the rest of the Internet grew, spam's relative proportion of the overall traffic grew.

That said, there are server- and client-side anti-spam tools of varying effectiveness. 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". Usenet is such a niche network nowadays that there has to be meaningful motivation to participate, and if the motivation is not a sincere interest in the subject it's, in my experience, going to be people with very troubled personal lives which their online behavior reflects. Again, as overall traffic declined, their relative contribution and visibility grew. This, not spam, is what has mostly killed Usenet.

[1] I am talking about traditional non-binary Usenet here
Most horrible UX comes from too much software, not to little. If it was a single dev, they’d probably not have time to implement all the popups, dickbars, newsletter reminders, full screen interruptions, and dark patterns. Horrible UX takes large engineering effort.
It depends on your perspective I think. How many machines are we comparing with one developer?
What happens when it turns out that most of the people having surgery don't have cancer? Because that's the reality of tests with a .5% false positive rate if less than 1% of the population is positive.
B♭ isn't the relative minor of C♯? I think that'd be A♯ minor.

Edit: Actually B♭ minor is the enharmonic equivalent of A♯ minor. IE another case of things in music that are the same but aren't.
I hated it. Good Job!
I believe the owner/founder was kicked out of Russia. It was also banned in Russia for a while, at least they tried banning it.
With the exception of the efficiency numbers, none of these seem like problems that would take 10 years to resolve, even at the glacial pace of most automakers. Many of them even seem like software issues that would be resolvable via firmware updates.

400wh/mi though, oof. That would be about as expensive to operate as my current gas-powered vehicle (both around 10c/mi).
I'm highly skeptical of that prediction. The EU are hardly slouches with respect to anti-monopoly actions. Chinese and Russian companies are subject to intense fear-mongering (not that every criticism is invalid) and are unlikely to take the place of FAANG. And I don't foresee other Asian, African, Middle-Eastern, or companies from UK or the Americas achieving huge monopolies before actions could be taken against them.
This neither confirms nor denies that Satoshi was an alien intelligence
Next up. Jiggling in the power usage will allow hackers to reconstruct video signals on monitors.
My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!
https://fas.org/irp/nro/fy08/cbjb.pdf

That's a question for the National Reconnaissance Organisation.
Also if you select the first choice for birth date you get April 1st
I like the idea and the down to earth presentation - there isn’t a single before/after pic in sight!

One thing I think you should mention is what training/certification you have done to do this, and do you check for contraindications.
I don't understand the current trope about people en masse staying on unemployment benefits instead of returning to work. May 2021 U-3 unemployment is below 6% and seems like a very, very typical level for any point over the past 20 years.
'Well of Hell,' gaping desert hole, is shrouded in mystery
I don't buy their security excuse. Oh you don't want people to know you weren't cutting power to hospitals and other critical infrastructure buildings? No shit.

There's something else they are hiding IMHO. Perhaps it includes answers to how the few million without power is either a BS number, or an explanation as to why my city alone(which owns a power company and had enough power generation for its citizens/owners) had 1-2/3 of the resident without power for days.. If only about 1/10th of the state was without power why did the rolling blackouts stop rolling for so many people? We essentially "took one for the team".

My guess is they are hiding layers of yet-uncovered incompetence.
...something your manager tells you to do...

There's a principal-agent problem here. The owners of the company don't care about a random manager's feelings. The manager certainly does, however, so much of what any particular manager will require is more about making the manager feel better than about making profits. Other employees are correct to disagree with such misuse of resources.
I wasn't getting through because my domain was "domain". When I changed it to "gmail" it was fine.
what are you working on? I'm interested in hearing more!