skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really like that explanation either because, as they state in this OP document, each report has to be looked at individually because they are all actually different. He says "these objects" as if the reports are all the same and explainable by the same thing. It is possible a handful of them are actually experimental aircraft (judging by their inclusion of that as one possible explanation for some incidents in the report and their statement that the reports disproportionately come from the area around DoD testing facilities, it's plausible), but that doesn't mean all the reports are examples of that, or even that a significant number of them are.
I found it quite curious how they defined UAP as “Airborne objects not immediately identifiable” in the last section of the report.

I guess the whole point of dropping the UFO acronym was to change the idea of “objects” for “phenomena”, which is much broader in scope. By keeping the word “objects” in the definition, they make the same mistake of defining upfront what is being reported.
> My guess is they are hiding layers of yet-uncovered incompetence.

I'd call you Captain Obvious(tm), but this is the Texas Laboratory for Shitty Government (to paraphrase Molly Ivins) we're talking about.

Things they are likely hiding:

1) The grid is shit and has no control granularity.

The granularity is sufficiently high that they couldn't disconnect enough load. Too many things are on the same circuits as the essential things. To fix this requires new power feeds (read: expensive copper wire) and the controls to run the smaller granularity. Nobody wants to to pony up the cash to fix this, so this will not get fixed.

2) Factories aren't connected with controls

ERCOT couldn't summarily disconnect manufacturing plants with controls and had to fiddle with pricing games to finally force the plants to disconnect. The fact that people were without power but manufacturing plants still had power will make some people upset. But, don't worry, they'll still vote for Republicans.

3) The "critical" portions of the grid are now larger than the "non-critical"

At least in the winter, residential simply just isn't pulling enough load to be able to stop a grid collapse. People have energy efficient residences. Consequently, essential things like your water treatment plant are consuming an amount of energy that takes a lot of residences to match. The only way to fix this is to keep fuel and backup turbine generators on-site to allow the plant to keep working after it disconnects. This costs money, so nobody will do it.

The whole point of Texas not being on the national grid is so that the pieces of the grid don't have to spend money and be useful when things go to shit.
iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this.

I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.
Drill is a fair choice (it supports tons of formats), but for me it was a bit heavy -- it required Java and plus it returned results in a form that wasn't easily manipulated (the result is a table in the console drawn with text-chars [1]). If you had a really long result set, you couldn't do a buffered scroll due to text UI limitations -- everything gets printed out and you have to either do manual pagination using LIMIT clauses or just have a really long scrollback buffer. This kind of breaks the continuity of many data analysis workflows.

With DuckDB, the return result is a Python data structure (list of tuples), which is amenable to further manipulation without exporting to another format.

Many GUI db tools often return results in a tabular form which can be copy-pasted into other GUI apps (or copy-pasted as CSV).

[1] https://drill.apache.org/docs/drill-in-10-minutes/#querying-...
I think that the motivation of 'enabling citizen science' is not a very strong one. You will get very, very skewed results, moreso than typical WEIRD, if you conduct studies on the people for whom that is sufficient motivation.

A stronger motivation would be providing a product or service that tangibly adds value to someone's life.

After reading this, I have no idea how Rally would provide any tangible benefits to me.
> they won't release it to the general public for "security reasons"

This is pretty clearly non-scare quotey security reasons territory. We are unsure if what’s on the scope is an adversary’s. Publishing a detailed quantification of how little we know and in what form would be a self goal.
Boy you sure linked some concepts here.

The news isn't more partisan because young reporters are introducing some kind of hyper-partisanship. Young reporters are not in charge. Old money people are. Old money people see that hyper-partisanship makes money because old people with money enjoy consuming it.

Young people are much, much less partisan on average than older media consumers and that isn't something new. The older you get the more entrenched, generally, you get in your views.
You don't even have to look at extremes like Oli London (thanks for the link, them/they/kor/ean are awesome!) for an example. In the past few years, whenever I hear about something new American wokes are suggesting or something Trump said, most of the time I can't guess whether I'm being trolled or not.
Not really what?

The article you linked acknowledges the legal reasons that Huawei's employee share ownership was set up the way it was (limits on the number of individuals that private Chinese companies were legally allowed to distribute stares to). Most of the concerns the author has with Huawei are really just general concerns about any company in China - namely that the state theoretically could exert influence over them.
Chemical simulation is very hard (involves solving multiple np-complete problems).

But that is one of the expected applications of quantum computers (simulate quantum systems).
I laughed at this, but am curious where you place Signal and Matrix in this analogy? Both feel like good services that aren't authorized, per say.
This is the reminder after they explained millions of identified objects or sensor artifacts. In theory a non trivial fraction of these may be sensor errors for example, but so far they haven’t been identified as such. Ditto for clouds, balloons, drones, aircraft, missiles, falling space debris, etc etc.
Do these things run on Linux?
Naw, Canadian. Cool to have 3ph at home (even without the #1 thing that fails here because we don’t have 3ph: a/c capacitors), but why’s your industrial supply just 400V instead of a soup of 347V, 480V and 600V?
It's definitely a big ballpark, but I think Dunbar's Number is a good place to start. If you have managers spending 10% or less of their lives on management, I don't think the organization will be very healthy. Management should be a high commitment, high compensation role.

It's also definitely a upper limit rather than lower limit. Big bureaucracies with many layers of management and small teams can work well, but no one can really individually manage 1000 subordinates.
> . Soaking up all the newly printed money and wasting it on bureaucracy whilst depriving everyone else from capital

The total market cap of all of these companies is far less than the 6-8T that’s been printed in the past year alone, so I don’t see any evidence of that assertion.
Even at 500Da or less, it's much, much larger than that.

You may be interested in the work of Jean-Louis Reymond's group, who have done more or less exactly what you suggest: https://gdb.unibe.ch/downloads/

GDB-11, with 11 heavy atoms, has 26.4M structures (110.9M stereoisomers -- molecules aren't 2D). Going up to 13 gives you 970M molecules. Going up to 17 (still mostly below 250Da) is 166,400M.

There's a lot of space up there below 500Da.
Out of curiosity, have you read any of DSM? I've read some portions of DSM-V and found it to be, on the whole, more reasonable than it is typically given credit. Perhaps some of that is owing to improvements made over the years, but nonetheless.
It remains a "theory" in all cases, except ones where we've managed to actually observe the jump.

But yes: consensus among experts remains that this is a natural virus, precisely because (as per e.g. the linked article!) such pandemics are literally as old as life. We knew a big human pandemic was going to show up sooner or later, because it happens to some species or another every year or two.

It's true we can't rule out the lab theory as much as we'd like to. There was a good WSJ article a few weeks back claiming that western intelligence sources knew about a disease cluster among staff at the lab which would be consistent with the start of the pandemic. That at least is something to hang the more conspiratorial hats on.

But really, no one serious was "surprised" by covid in any meaningful way. It was going to happen.
2mm/year sounds like a very small number to me... compared to eg. thermal expansion during day/night and summer/winter cycles, that is practically zero, and even after 40 years of sinking, surely there'd be massive warning signs (eg. growing cracks) before such a collapse.
As one of the original contributors trying to land BSD-support back in the 1.0 days (2015!!! before life got in the way), that’s been the story for waaay to long now.

I really hope some day we finally land it. Even as a full time Linux-user these days, BSD still has a special place in my heart.
Visual experiences are often misleading especially at thousands of feet of altitude and in the ocean where reference objects for judging scale and distance are scarce. The military, and airlines and flight schools generally, explicitly train people about how visual perception can easily be flawed or mislead by normal/everyday things with non-interesting explanations.
Can you please at least read the first paragraph of wikipedia before making allegations? Russian government hates telegram with a passion
They already have and it is called Quill. [0]

Works on web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android and already looks promising to be the diamond standard of chat software and compete against the alternatives.

Impressive piece of extremely high quality software so rare in this software industry.

[0] https://quill.chat
We've also had massive increases in screen resolutions.

12 years ago, the iPhone 3GS was cutting edge. With a 480x320 screen. That's just 0.15 million pixels.

There are now Android phones with full 4K screens. That's 3840x2160, a little over 8 million pixels.

That a 50x increase in pixel count. Anything using bitmap graphics (games being an obvious example) is going to be much bigger now.

(And in that same period, it seems that the average Windows PC desktop resolution has remained pretty much unchanged for most users...)
I don't understand the concept of a "Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster". How can you remaster pixels?

If they were going for higher resolution assets, then sure. But they're just redrawing sprites at the same resolution using the same colour palettes?
XMPP would be the local electrician with a mustache and a calm tone that can fix anything for you pennies.

We used to have them in Hungary. I miss them. "Szaki"
Yes, and the user's frustration (and time spent figuring out how to clean up space on what was a new phone just a week ago) also costs nothing to the developer.

Sincerely, I hope this mantra dies.
I'm one of those 12 too, I just went to dev tools and searched for my country's 2 char code.
One twist on this: exposure to online platforms exacerbates psychological issues for some portion of the population. That's the flywheel of rage.
I appreciate you stating it frankly, I think a lot of people in this thread are arguing a variation of this point without saying it aloud.

A couple thoughts -

1) If this is the only/main objection, then the test is good news for those that are analytically capable, even if it's potentially bad for Joe Median.

2) While what you describe is how it probably happens in general in the USA, but I wonder if it plays out differently in, say, the UK / Canada under NHS/Medicare. In those systems you don't get to pick your treatments; your doctor will only prescribe a follow-up if it meets ROI standards. (Then the health system picks up the bill). Of course you can go private but there's a pretty big barrier there, and perhaps having your GP push back more strongly (as they would if you were not actually at high risk) that might prevent many people from inferring too much from a potentially-false positive result.
Only 18 exhibited unusual behavior that exceeded the capabilities of known technology.

For the rest, I imagine they can conceive of explanations, but they lack sufficient data to explain with certainty.
Oh if only stolen credit cards and drugs were the darkest underbelly of the web! Note that it's also popular with former Australian Prime Ministers and plenty of other people for ethical and legitimate reasons (some of them also legal), not just "nefarious communications."
>If I were making a salary in that range I'd think it would be possible to retire after about 5 years if one was frugal.

We have our fair share of 30 something's on here already eyeing their exit. Nice mountain home, fun side projects, and perhaps some consulting here or there.
On Error Resume Next Is Still in Vb.net
The collapse may be as much a local government failure as anything else. The building was constructed in 1981. By the early nineties scientists found the building was sinking at what they called an 'alarming' rate.

What was the problem? Local government rules stated that foundations were inspected every forty years. So the first inspection of this building was 2021 and had just begun when it collapsed.

Why not inspect building foundations every twenty years (or sooner) if significant sinking was found?
I think if you threw out why you feel there is alien activity with a "not looking to debate it" that would be more interesting than saying you think people are going to argue with you. If you've stated reasoning in the past maybe just link to that?
Same. This has been my frustration with Signal lately. They've had a large growth in a userbase but feels like they aren't growing their team fast enough to become real contenders with Telegram and WA. You don't have to move fast and break things, but you do have to move.
Depends on the degree of movement. My friend in Pasadena bought a house on an old stream bed. Now the house needs to be jacked up.

Look at the land around Portuguese Bend in Los Angeles County. The water line is above ground because the pipes break if they're buried(that's a lot of movement though).
> The performance and object sizes are killer too.

> I think most people don't know or think C#/.NET are capable of this

Take all of this amazing stuff and it also works on embedded/raspi4... I have been playing around with using C#8 to directly drive & sample GPIO. Who needs timer ICs when you have a busywait while loop checking the high res timer...

Also, don't forget that you can go open an issue or submit a PR to any of the major .NET repositories right now, and expect to have your work (assuming accepted) incorporated into an official .NET release within a year or so.

And tooling, etc. Check out visual studio 2022. Its available in preview now.
How much consideration do you think the average representative put into their decision?
I'm pretty sure there are many ways to deal with such a situation and many ways to get it wrong. I'm not even arguing that what he did was right; given the amount of grief basecamp is getting, it's clearly possible to imagine a world where Jason had handled it better.

I don't understand though what "being a leader" means here, and why you're calling him a coward for trying out something, even if that something was wrong. What should a leader do if not try out things? Courage doesn't mean "do the right thing"; it just means don't be afraid. One can be a courageous asshole and a coward saint.

That said, you clearly have some ideas one how should one handle such a situation, and how to ensure political discussion don't lead to a toxic environment? Clearly justing saying "don't proselytise your political topics at work" is off the table for some reason.

What is exactly at stakes here? Is it about freedom of bring one's whole self at work? Is it about the urgency of solving the real and pressing problem of american society that requires everybody's attention everywhre? Is it a knee jerk reaction to the toxicity of the former presidential mandate that left a deep scar in american society? What are we talking about exactly here? Why can't I just feel free to mind my own business and do my javascript and whatnot at work and talk about politics at the pub?

I'm really curious, honest.
So I learned two things from that article:

1. I'm not having kids, and

2. I'm not moving to Cali!

That said, this article uses a cost breakdown from an actual family. The expenses are reasonable, IMO. Some might criticize spending $70/day on food and budgeting for groceries, but I think $70/day in an expensive city is perfectly within "middle-class lifestyle" territory.
I believe this is wrong based on the following:

1. I was able to use telegram without using the smartphone app at first, I just needed a phone number to register on desktop

2. The MacOS desktop app supports E2EE

3. Some third party desktop apps support E2EE

4. Signal has synced E2EE that works on both desktop and smartphone (And so does Matrix)
You and I have very different definitions of fun! I got annoyed when it asked me for a profile picture and I just closed it.
Oh yeah I watched that live on the news and I was kind of startled that he just said “well looks like the trend lines are moving and the cats out out of the bag I guess I’ll just come out and say…” I really remember this interview because I’ve always suspected this was a very advanced craft. I had an encounter in the mid 90’s and what impressed on me by looking at it was that this was something that moved, not in a natural way like a bird or a plane (or drone) but more like you were peering into a video game world like TRON. I cannot shake that feeling and it’s obvious if you’ve ever witnessed this craft. So that’s interesting right there.
Telegram desktop client is written in C, takes 20MB or ram and can download 1,000 messages in 3 seconds.

Teams takes 500MB of ram and pegs a quad-core cpu to 70% to updates some smileys
Not saying you're wrong, but why do you think that? I'd have thought the same thing about DNA, but I keep being told most DNA is junk (although I wouldn't be surprised to find out later we just don't know what it's for).
How the JIT compiler boosts Java performance in OpenJDK
Yep. And other countries may very well be having the same issues trying to indentify US-originated UFOs.
Is Yemen too much of a war-zone to get someone with a drone to send it down to the depths? Seems like there should be plenty of people in Saudi Arabia who could afford a niceish drone with a flashlight and upload a video to Youtube to cash in on 10 million sweet, sweet views.
Clearly needed and a positive, but I see zero impact on stock prices of those companies. Does that mean the expert consensus is that this will simply not pass the next levels, or that it is all ineffective?
Click the link and find out? There's pretty clear side-by-side comparisons showing the original & the remaster which answers your question.
It took me way longer than I wanted to admit to figure out how to get rid of that, and then it starts slowly.... crawling.... downwards....
Also note that that only includes organic molecules. There's another 85-ish natural elements in the periodic table that could be important, but is much harder to synthesize or compute.

Although including heavier elements can blow past 500 Da pretty easily.
Considering that they were not directly in contact with the object, it is 100% necessarily true, so the statement is entirely meaningless without specifics like the ones you request.
Even without interlacing (which will alternate the set of scanlines that are used and thereby "double" the resolution), having black scanlines reduces the brightness and allows your brain to fill in the imagined intermediate image.
HarmonyOS is absolutely not just rebranded Android. That is total nonsense, and that Ars article is ridiculously bereft of any understanding of HarmonyOS.

HarmonyOS supports multiple kernels including Android/Linux
Just a reminder that Fermi's paradox is no longer a paradox if "they" are already here. ;-)

I'm not saying there are little green men in these unidentified aircraft, but if you were part of an interstellar civilization in this galaxy, and you identified there was a life-supporting planet a few light years away, you'd send probes there for sure... wouldn't you? We certainly would, if we had the means.
Frequently attached to the incoming water line, usually under a metal cover between the water main under the street and the house.
Not only American cities. If you talk to any archeologist, they will attest that building cities on trash is common all over the world.
I noticed that after a few seconds, but I had to go though like 8 screens and it took 3+ minutes....

Did I just keep getting the Captcha choices wrong?
Yep had that with facebook suggested friends. And we didn't have anyone nearly in common at all, the only connection is saving the phone numbers. Paid a lot to have pictures on my contacts; feel like a dummy.
The U.K. government does this a ton with random reference numbers, even on their new (mostly good) sites and it drives me up the wall. Oftentimes they will give you these numbers with spaces but the form will not let you enter it with spaces (so it will fail if you copy-paste), or even worse the form will have a size limit so if you paste your 10 digit number with two spaces, the last two digits will be chopped off so it will fail again when you remove the spaces.

Another problem is phone numbers: if you want to use some autofill functionality, your phone number will often include the country code part but the field won’t allow a + (maybe in this case the autofill feature should drop the country code (and add a 0) or replace the + with 00).

I’m not actually sure about the significance of the space in U.K. postcodes. I feel like it shouldn’t be significant as one can imagine a regex for the two parts, /([A-Z]+[0-9]+)\s*([0-9][A-Z]+)/, but I then there are exceptions like EC1R.
The article explains this in a lot of detail. Pixels are not pixels until they’re on a display, and different displays (CRT vs LCD for instance) display pixels differently in very not-subtle ways. So one interpretation of “remaster” is to emulate CRT-pixels as LCD-pixels through filters. Another is to re-design the pixel art to be optimized for LCDs.
It also depended on the TV set you had. I was allowed to play secret of evermore a few nights on the TV set of my father for a few nights. He had a Sony Trinitron and the game looked amazingly sharp. It was also one with a flatter screen compared to the bludgy curved mess my TV was at the time. I still love pixel art. I would love to see a reinterpretation of FFVI with the Octopath Traveler engine. I know that for some the only way to play that game is as original as possible. But sadly that is no longer possible for the most of us.