skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MGM is dying so they really needed to be acquired or otherwise invested in.
I'm guessing it's just their way of saying "we have RWR recordings of the radio waves, but since it's SIGINT we won't be giving you any details for another 40 years."
It’s probably more likely that salt air corroded the steel rebars. This is a known issue.
> I'm also not really impressed by their idea to use "advanced algorithms" and "machine learning". Are UFO encounters so frequent we need to resort to big data?

I had that same thought - on first read this report seems to contain summary analysis of 144 UAP incidents. Not the sort of numbers that immediately make me think "I need ML to process those!"
Flagged, very first sentence is glib political point-scoring
I recommend not spending much time on those types of news sites :)
I think its less a tale about too much money, and more of a cautionary tail about the importance of project management.
OK, but what about Dwarf Fortress? Tarn Adams has been working on it for 20 years, and though without making much money, money wasn't really the constraint. And he really has created a gigantic ever-expanding world.
If it is a simple misunderstanding like that then why don't the company put up a page explaining the matters and quote it when asked about licensing in forums, instead of closing said forums in a little hissy fit?
Have you found any authoritative or reliable sources that you might share?
Yuri Artyukh, mostly threejs, webgl stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDo7RTzizoOdPjY8A-xDR7g , although I'm not experienced enough to judge if its actually intermediate.

Jon Gjengset, Rust (internals, data structure, protocol impls) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

aarthifical, not really live-coding but a game devlog with interesting ideas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtEwVJZABCd0tels2KIpKGQ
Catalysts!
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635934
Neuromatch Computational Neuroscience Course
These serialization and protection features are _awesome_!
Putting URLs in DNS. Could be useful.
Watch carefully as the paragraph beginning with a semi-reasonable assertion that "the notion of scientific objectivity [has] existed for a very short window of time" goes all the way to the batshit "rule of law... emerged in the wake of our post-Enlightenment textual explosion."

What fucking charlatans.
(I presume you mean C#)

You're right about embedded systems. Most ecosystems that use a GC would struggle there, including DotNet.
Never because it doesn't work this way. All the smart meters I have seen form a peer-to-peer mesh and relay data until it hits a collector (every 8-10 blocks) on a telephone pole that has a connection to the power/water company.
>as federated systems aren't simpler to design or build. For example, how would Signal inter-communicate with e2ee intact with say, Facebook Messenger?

You may have used Signal as a random example but as side trivia... The non-profit Signal Foundation's Moxie Marlinspike did not want others to federate with Signal servers: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

He said others could re-use the Signal source code and create their own ecosystems but to not federate with Signal's servers. He cited costs was one issue.
I saw not too far back that the Pentagon/other places got absolutely fucking swamped by FOIA requests, to the point it was seriously bogging man-power down internally, when COVID lockdowns started because people had nothing better to do.

To make them all stop, they basically said "okay, we're going to release these reports in some determined length of time"

Sounds fairly reasonable.
> I think this starts to boil down to those who like OO and those whose don’t.

I don't think so; there are OO languages where many of the GoF patterns can be implemented in libraries, or are trivial given language builtins.
A lot hedge funding is just having a big enough pile of cash to bully smaller investors around. In this particular case the hedge fund ran into a much larger pile of cash and got bullied in return and went running home to cry to mommy. Life is tough in the sand box of who's got the bigger pile.
These are indeed rare features, only very few languages have them:

Stackless Python: https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/2.7-slp/library/stackles...

Also Tcl and some special versions of Java and WebAssembly VMs, Lua with some ugly hacks. I tried to find systems like these: https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/16

Challenge for language designers: make this kind of sandboxing work recursively, and 100% securely: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/jxo92...
People are talking out both sides here. Complaining that the 5 minute demo isn't giving enough context; but also saying that you can't get deep enough in 5 minutes because the 5 minute video has to rehash to add context.

I get it; some people dislike short videos; but there's also a fare bit of straw man building going on at the same time, starting at the dislike and trying to justify it.

Luckily we have lots of options :)
Several problems with this analysis:

- Using confirmed cases as the denominator significantly overstates the fatality rate, because a large share of the total infections is never confirmed

- "All age groups over 18" elides huge disparities between the younger and older age groups. It also obscures large differences in risk between those with comorbidities vs those without. The CDC does not make this easy to parse out, but in Canada after their first wave, "100% of the COVID-involved deaths under the age of 45 as of July 31 had at least one other disease or condition certified on the medical certificate of death." https://web.archive.org/web/20210219195135if_/https://www150...

- New York as a region had one of the highest fatality rates of the entire pandemic

- Covid is a "one-and-done" risk as far as we know, while the risk of a car accident is repeated year after year for as long as one drives on the roads. Even in the absence of vaccines, the risk of death from Covid is unlikely to remain as high in 2024 as it was in 2020.

The most sound way to run this sort of comparison is something like "how many in risk group X (say, people aged 30-39 with no comorbidities) died in 2020 from Covid vs how many in that group die in a typical year from auto accidents?"

If you want to say that overweight 60 year old teachers with diabetes should not have been forced back to in-person instruction you'll get no argument from me.
Hi, immigrant here. I'm literally an "alien" from/in this planet.

Canadians are very nice, but their famous agreeableness (and passive-agressiveness) often prevents me from realizing when I've committed a transgression, and makes it so much harder to integrate into the culture.

Negative feedback is very useful and I would be grateful to get it instead of receiving a veiled response.
Oh wow. I was unaware of that.
I thought the same thing. I could care less about the robot but a good garden planning app would be nice and let you track when you water, plant, harvest/ yield of crop from year to year
I don't know about Vallee, but after being briefly in the defense industry, reading much, and having some experience with aerospace everything seems to fit very well into one of three categories

1) known US aircraft activity either simply misinterpreted or kept secret from the public or even most of the military apparatus, sometimes strongly denied either as a way to disseminate vague information to adversaries or misinformation

2) foreign or personal aircraft either known or unknown to the US.

3) rare weather phenomena, hallucinations, optical phenomena, or other miscellaneous things which might be rare but with mundane explanations

The thing to notice is cameras have become much more prevalent and much higher resolution, but "UFOs" in pictures haven't. The only things that aren't obviously something understandable are still fuzzy dots on screens despite screens and cameras getting enormously better.

Just look at this https://media.gvwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/28154540... and tell me that if you saw that you wouldn't think it was a spaceship. It was kept super secret for a quite a long time and surely was the source of plenty of UFO reports.

I'm not convinced or even particularly suspicious that anything that "isn't what it seems" is anything more than mundane.
I’ve never seen that, perhaps it was preloading the actual tool that makes the screenshot (since they seem to like lazy-loading features nowadays). Is this different from the Windows key+shift+S tool?
Is it? Spalling is usually noticed a lot more, you would probably see some yielding or signs of progressive collapse first.

The pictures I have seen make foundational failure look more likely.
The difference is with one you know you don’t know, with the other “authority” gives people a false confidence at scale and worst case you join the botnet of the narrative warfare.

PS: to salience: to make salient.
Why can't the western titans of SV make something like Telegram?

Why do billion dollar companies like FB, Google and even Discord consistently produce software that is low in performance?

Is it an issue with western (web) development culture where "developer time" is "prioritized" over performance to the point where the developer knows everything about the business processes and product requirements and NOTHING about how computers actually work?

What is it about Russian/Eastern European software culture that created developers capable of producing the smoothest and most well-thought out messaging app?

If you reply to this comment, please ensure that the first sentence contains the phrase "E2E".
If you buy a phone without a microsd slot that is exactly your own fault. They are still available. But tend to get less, because people think it's uncool and buy phones without, but 2 years later they whine about too small storage...
Those are toys.

Nobody needs an Xbox, but they need a phone.

Also, there are 10000 gaming options (many fully open!). There are only two phones.

The iPhone is the internet and the computer for most Americans.

Increasingly, all commerce is being funneled through iPhone and Android. Tim Cook gets a cut of the videos I watch, the art I buy, the donations I make, the banking I do, the productivity apps I use, fucking everything. Slimy, greedy assholes.

They were just in the right place at the right time. The US government isn't going to put up with them having their Berlin Wall. They do not get to do that.

Computing != Tim Cook's bank account.

So stop defending these extortionist gas-lighters. Computing and the internet aren't supposed to work this way.

Thank you.
Or rather the "developer time is cheaper than machine time" culture.

Oy. I meant "developer time is more expensive than machine time." It's been a long day.
I think "insane" in both contexts mainly denotes being a cognitive outlier.
read it as "piracy-first data sharing platform"
This. Even the ones which are already public, like the FLIR recordings, would be much more useful if they also released tapes from other MFDs ("screens" inside the cockpit) that were also recorded in that moment, eg the radar display.
id expect continuous network calls to make a bigger difference than having an extra java class inbetween
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=628044902530826204...

In case anyone else was wondering where to get such apps. Probably on F-Droid too?
Strongly agree. We're seeing legislation target the sector of the economy with some of the highest productivity ever seen in human history.

Congress needs to look at the sectors with the lowest productivity growth! Home construction, infrastructure, health care, and eduction.

Here's a great place for congressional investigators to start:
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...

Though, in reality, many those industries are high cost because of congress
MeToo

thought, finally, us, pirates, will have good sharing platform
Yes because projections have been developed to emit infrared and projections can also be detected on radar.

[1] https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~scidemos/LightOptics/InfraRed...

[2] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Advances_in_Radar_Techn...
I see no reason we couldn’t have multiple conflicting conspiracies, it would not be the first time.
For Microsoft sure, but people who buy the cheapest phone aren’t the target customer for most products.
Wikipedia is taking a different approach to Google et al scraping their data. They're creating a for-profit spinoff to sign licensing deals.
Pass the multiple files to `bflat build`. Or if you run `bflat build` without arguments, it will compile all *.cs files in the current directory. Not great, but works for now.
Thanks for the feedback! When I first started the project, it was not thought for production. Just for fast prototyping and experimenting with no efforts at all. However, users liked the tool and started requesting more features including support for serving models and eventually deploying (e.g this issue https://github.com/nidhaloff/igel/issues/62)

I agree with your point of vue. However, igel is fairly new and evolving fast. Using igel to serve trained model is a new feature that was implemented in the new release so igel has a long way to go in order to be a solid product for production use.It will surely get more mature with time.

Finally, notice that I didn't recommend running it in production. Just mentioned that it is possible and takes no efforts at all. However, if the user generated a trained model then anything can be done with it from there. Technically, the user can implement his/her own server and use the model as wanted. Obviously, users should do that if they want more control.
A reminder that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. This is just a report on what the military saw in the air and could not identify.

It neither confirms nor denies popular ideas about aliens visiting earth.

In most cases, you can guess these are probably aircraft from other countries. In some cases, they may be experimental aircraft being developed in secret by some organization or other.

I am someone who thinks there likely is alien activity on earth, but government reports about unidentified flying objects aren't about efforts to prove or disprove that aliens from elsewhere visit earth. They are data on sightings in US air space of things we could not identify. That's all they are.

If you want to extrapolate "It's aliens!" Coolios. If you want to insist "Aliens don't exist! This is nonsense!" Equally coolios.

"Aliens" isn't why the US government tracks this stuff. National security is the goal and nothing more than that should be inferred in terms of what the US government "believes" in.
Interestingly the Nimitz incident was 14 November 2004 (14 days into this stated time window of analysis).
Covid vaccine in March 20 ? Not even the autocrats of the world dared that prior to evidence.

If Covid had a higher fatality rate, there's an excellent chance we'd have seen vaccines in accelerated trials as early as March 2020. The vaccines were in existence by around that point[0], but in part because mRNA vaccines are a brand new technology there wasn't as much push to accelerate distribution as there could have been.

If the fatality or long term damage rate was 10x what it is, there'd have been a lot more willingness to "try it NOW."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071766/ - of note, Moderna had a vaccine prepared 42 days after the spike protein sequence was published on January 10. It took roughly another 6 weeks before that vaccine was being injected in Phase 1 trials in early May.
Because sometimes the government can use its powers for the good of the general public, even if it negatively effects business. How negatively Tesla would be impacted is debatable - I don't think anyone would expect them to be forced to let people use their chargers for free.

I dont think people would put up with a gas station that only fueled Toyotas, or a parking lot that only allowed Fords. This doesnt strike me as being terribly different.
Someone should make a website that rates services by ease of unsubscribing and include a link to the unsubscribe link if one exists.

A few publications that I enjoy is on my "Never subscribe" list because of the difficulty of unsubscribing. On the other hand, unsubscribing from HBO Max (at least via Apple TV) was so easy that I don't hesitate to unsubscribe and resubscribe and have done so a couple of times.
"There are, I think, two reactions to this. One is despair, of course, which is always an option in research, but not a very useful one."

These are words to live by.
"Other examples here include Amazon's resume system that was biased against women (since they used Amazon's hiring practices as ground truth), and image search for "professional hairstyles" that showed White women but "unprofessional hairstyles" that showed Black women."

Given enough data, and no doubt Amazon surveils their people more than most, they could determine the 'truth' along a more straightforward line.

"Does this hair style make more money for the company"

As hair can be a strong form of expression, there's probably a measurable delta here.

Going forward, smart companies will obfuscate the determination. I suppose that training an AI is not a bad way to pull this off.
U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but no aliens
Unfortunately, Smalltalk will never have the protection aspect simultaneously due to its global access system.
Some poor staffer pulled an all-nighter to write this 5 months and 29 days ago, and the rest of the time has been spent wordsmithing and going through clearances.
Not a theory, the intelligence community has been covering up the fact that UFOs don't exist since 1947, e.g. http://oregonmufon.com/PDFs/UFODisinformation.pdf
If you'd like to check out what current chemical database files look like, "Enamine REAL" is a fairly widely-known one.[1] My understanding is that this file is a mix of their ACTUAL in-stock inventory, as well as the product of running a small number of high-reliability reactions on each compound in that inventory. So it serves as a "vendor catalog" file, where everything in here can be ordered from Enamine and synthesized+delivered to your door in a few weeks.

Another approach I've heard of for iterating through every molecule in a large region of chemical space is to START with a large molecule dataset, then for each molecule, predict the result of performing simple reactions on it. For each reaction product, do your full analysis, and only store the result if the analysis indicates it is noteworthy. This, in effect, lets you scan over a larger region of chemical space than you can fit in memory.

[1] https://enamine.net/compound-collections/real-compounds/real...
My email address is "_@" followed by a domain name with a dash followed by the "shop" domain ending. It gets rejected a lot, but I won't give it up. It's a good indicator of whether I should spend more time at the website.
> how would Signal inter-communicate with e2ee intact with say, Facebook Messenger?

Couldn't you use Public Key Cryptography? Kind of like what we've done for encryption between the Web Browser and Service Provider using PKI+TLS (HTTPS).

Such-as...say each chat network having a certificate authority which crypto-signs each end-user's Public Key. With PKI used to encrypt messages between users. A 4096 PKI key can transmit 4KiB of data, which should be enough for most chat networks. For attachments or very large messages, can just copy how TLS uses PKI to transmit an AES key for decrypting a larger payload.

The user's Private Key(s) can remain on phone/browser. To keep traffic e2e encrypted.
Careful with CTEs in older postgres. Until the most recent versions they were an optimisation fence (predicate push-down would not pass through, meaning the CTE would often result in an index or table scan, potentially multiple times in the recursive case. This can be a huge problem over large data, though obviously in many circumstances with small enough data it is still efficient enough.
For me, iOS’s automatic offloading of apps seems to save me from having to do this, with the caveat that sometimes I try to access an app I haven’t touched in a while and have to wait to re-download in order to use.
* sudo apt install farmbot
* farmbot --sew strawberries
* farmbot --pick straweberries
America can build nuclear power plants and high speed trains but we choose to do it in a responsible way or not at all if a better idea comes along. The Chinese govt can seize all the land they want, displace whoever they please and destroy their environment to build things. I don't know anyone excited about a high speed train between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. It's pretty easy to Uber to the airport and hop on a jet to get there quicker. I keep reading Andreessen to find something that expands my thinking but I never find it.
I guess they're similar in that they both had problems shipping a product but I think the similarities end there.
> This really stood out to me. If I bought a washer here in the US and it broke after two years, I expect I’d be on my own.

You probably would be. The US has by far the weakest consumer law of any Western country. Possibly the most egregious example of this is that businesses can advertise something as costing $5, you walk into the store with a crisp $5 bill to purchase it, and then get told that you don't have enough money.

Whenever this is mentioned online there's typically a flood of people who live in America commenting on how that's totally normal and "there's nothing they can do dude", completely oblivious to how absolutely mental that idea is to the rest of the planet. So I think your idea of it just being a case of growing up in a system without consumer protections making it seem normal is correct.

> I don’t feel like an insurance fight and waiting for a service call while I have a pile of wet laundry and another of dirty.

Ah, but here you've missed the trick! Yes, if your product broke and you needed to get a completely new one and/or a full refund, that's a pain in the arse. But it's an even bigger pain in the arse for the business, who functionally just lost the entire value of the product. They're incentivised to prevent that from happening.

The effect of this law isn't actually to give you an option if a product is broken (although it does that as well), the purpose of it is to make manufacturers stop selling broken products. Because they know that you can get a full refund for years after the point of sale, they make damn-well sure that the product lasts that long.
ML/AI/"algorithms" are the buzzwords of the day in the public and private sectors right now.
People commit atrocities. There is no reason to link the descendants to the crimes of their ancestors when said atrocities have stopped generations ago. As a white western European I certainly hope I will not be judged for the crimes of my forefathers.

Your post reminds of the pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Q would not allow the starship Enterprise to explore the galaxy and would charge its crew for the past wrongs of the entire human race. It looks like you are taking the same position as Q here.
The classified report probably has the good stuff. It doesn't surprise me that this is extremely watered down for the public: Far more plausible than "aliens" is "foreign government figured out they can do something cool"[0], and if it's the latter, the US is not going to want to make it clear how much they do and don't understand about it.

[0] Even this category can be divided out into plausible and implausible options. For instance, I'd likely believe another government figured out they could mess with our military sensors over having developed antigravity.
Don't you think monopolies are bad, though? Maybe they're convenient, but it's better to spread wealth around, right?