skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're listing possibilities. Planes are one possibility, just as balloons, birds, and everything else they listed. Planes have been with high confidence attributed to multiple civilian recorded videos posted online (not in this dataset). Planes are a legitimate, high likelihood possibility for some of the reports. It has to be included on any list of possibilities used in investigating them.
> What part of... rules out aliens?

Because

1) Ruling _in_ aliens requires proof. Insisting that this specific scenario be ruled out is classic "shifting the burden of proof" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

The train of thought that "we don't know what we saw, so ... aliens!" is somewhere between wishful and nutty. Extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary proof.

2) claiming that it's _definitely_ "technology and flying at considerable speed without discernible means of propulsion" is itself a stretch. Given the supposed behaviour, a _very_ big stretch. More likely it's equipment failure, lens flare, sundog, bug-on-the-lens, etc.

3) the strong argument against this being real is how it is "perpetually liminal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354021
'Single most qualified' mRNA expert speaks about vaccine risks after YouTube ban
>For example, how would Signal inter-communicate with e2ee intact with say, Facebook Messenger?

Would it be the worst thing if these went away and were replaced with open protocols that do the same thing? I say go back to systems that work together and tear down the walled gardens.
I have learned over time that state space size has nothing to do with problem difficulty. Sorting finds and answer in a space with n! possibilities in n log(n) time.

Chemistry is difficult not because of the large number of chemicals but because there hasn't been a lot of structure discovered in them to allow the sort of compounding subcase solving that makes searching a sorted list tractable. The structure that has been discovered can be found in chemistry textbooks and has names like "so-and-so's rule" which can be applied to boroalkanes with between 5 and 12 vertices excepting 6, unless the cage is charged in which case you should treat it like it has one fewer vertex, unless the charge is -2 and the original vertex count is between 8 and 13, in which case...

Those rules are much better than a table as measured by information compression but you can't discover them unless you start with the table filled mostly filled out already.
I wonder how much of those hours are spent by bots. I have a simple script to move my character around to get around the 20-minute AFK detection.
Elm and Colemak.
> Maybe someday we'll be able to emulate the whole effect with fast enough, bright enough

Please, never ever do that shit again. Ever. It was an actual strain on the eyes to watch TV back then (or work on a CRT monitor). You could actually catch tan if you were sitting too close to a CRT (hot sensation and slight discolouration of the skin from the electron radiation).

Truly an ergonomic nightmare in every way (the flickering, OMG, the flickering...) - I don't miss CRTs.
Didn’t catch that. I searched for interference. Good to hear this is on their minds.
Face Detection Using AI in Web Browsers
Bulgaria would be another example.
For tax reasons , probably yes.
Am I the only one who’ve been noticing a shift of narrative regarding UFOs in the past few years? I wonder what the endgame is…
> If there is nonhuman intelligence in our solar system, it's orders of magnitude smarter than us, and I'd also wager it's probably by design impossible for us detect.

Likely in the galaxy, seems unlikely there is advanced nonhuman intelligence hiding in our solar system.
Sure, but what does it matter? The US played its cards right and got a thriving tech industry, whereas many other countries did not. Whether it came from individuals or regulation or the nature of software isn't super important.

Being in the position of having dominant global tech conglomerates be American has immense value. Do we want to preserve that, or destroy it?
Personally, the main reason I dislike Twitter / Reddit / sometimes even HN, isn't the trolling or toxic posts. It's just that most of the posts are - not interesting. Like dumb memes, popular "unpopular" opinions, or "hot takes" that are the same stuff over and over.

Even on HN, post after post is: crypto sucks, advertisements suck, cancel culture sucks, Amazon making $300 billion sucks, "bring back the old internet!" And I agree with all of that (heck sometimes I repeat it myself), but I don't need to hear it over and over.
TikTok is a curious one. The Chinese service appears to be a completely separate content silo. And Musical.ly grew in the US without needing antitrust action against FB or Snap or anyone else, in the same way that those companies displaced others. The bar to entry to that marketplace is already low, I don't think it's really relevant to discussions around Amazon or Google or MS or even Apple.
> The point they're trying to make is, I believe, that metrics shouldn't be targets.

Metrics are either (1) targets or (2) things that you are trying to analyze in relation to the metrics that are targets or (3) a waste of the time you spent gathering them.

The reason metrics are often bad when they become targets is the metrics arr usually not actual direct measures of goals, but things assumed to be convenient proxies, but when you push hard on optimizing them, they stop being good proxies because as well as being easier to measure than the real objective, once you pick any low-hanging productive fruit they are inevitably easier to improve in ways that don’t improve the real objective as much as the proxy (or at all, or which negatively impact it.)
Lol, i would argue that engineers, many of whose primary job function is to imagine worst case scenarios and engineer around those to prevent accidents, data loss, etc. Are the exact type of people that are prone to hypochondria. It's not about growing old and dying, it's about ignoring a stomach ache for a couple months and then being told you have terminal cancer, and then living with the regret of "if only I got it checked out earlier".

In the engineering world, you are almost always rewarded for being extra safe and testing, fixing, and investigating anything that might seem a little off. If you do blood tests, MRIs, and cancer screens for every mole, cough, and stomach pain, you will go insane and develop hypochondria.
I wonder if there's a way to get the datepicker to open on a specific date... find the median age of all users and open the datepicker in that year haha
I believe companies are abandoning native because Electron lets them reuse the same code and the same developers they employ for the web and also because there is no cross-platform GUI toolkit good enough. Qt could be such a toolkit but you can only choose between very expensive and GPL, and you probably wouldn't even have the GPL version if the company behind wasn't forced to maintain it.
Wouldn't making a tinder clone and selling it to match be even easier money?
Over a decade ago, I worked at well-known web site in one of the smaller properties. The site looked like it was from the mid-90s. A year-long effort was made to upgrade the site to something more modern, and it was beautiful.

It went live, and almost immediately the number of ad clicks dropped significantly. It turned out that the older site was so hard to use that customers would inadvertently click on ads, bringing up the revenue. The new site was so much easier to use that customers clicked on less ads.

The changes were almost immediately rolled back.

I think eventually the new site was put back in, but only after they ensured that ad clicks wouldn't go down precipitiously, but I had after by then.
Even if they didn't draw specifically for CRT output, I imagine the process to have been iterative -- if something ended up looking bad on end-user output devices, they would make tweaks until the product looked good enough on CRTs.

Or are you suggesting that artists of that era never looked at their art on CRTs at all?
The Components of a Neural Network
Why only from the future? Hehe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(2002_film)
of course. you can store photos in sd card or cloud, but not the camera app
What’s your salary range?
>> > The nondiscrimination bill is intended to ban the ability to big tech firms to preference their own products, the way Google substitutes its own reviews for Yelp reviews, even if Yelp’s reviews are better.

Oh god please no. I’ve been waiting years for Apple Maps to lose drop the gosh forsaken existence that is Yelp into a burning sun.
I want also to add that the programming space, or software specification space, is also mindbogglingly big, if not bigger than the chemical space. People should know how many possibilities of small details exist for implementing a teeny trivial feature, because that's the way it is. Everything around us has a billion-gazillion parameter space, and all we're seeing is just a chance occurrence.
I can't help but think of Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - it seems like the Navy's reports could almost equally plausibly be attributed to dragons or spirits? I personally think the universe is probably packed with aliens, but it's a big place, so it'd be almost as improbable that they're flitting around Earth's atmosphere as dragons...
Virologist here :

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-origin-of-sars-cov-2-is-be...
from that abc article

Since 2000, more plastic has been produced worldwide that all the preceding years combined, and about a third of the plastic ends up in nature, according to the report.

is that accurate...? what changed after 2000 to enable this??
Yeah. The problem here is that they do it without letting you know.
Here's an objective, independent source. I am a foreigner in China. Increasingly, robotics designed at my company are designed against Chinese chips because they are cheaper, more available, and therefore present less design risk. Meanwhile, a friend of mine in semiconductor trading just booked about a dozen life fortunes in a single month capitalising on the pain and suffering of conventional electronics producers with foreign BOMs.
He mean's that you when the term conspiracy theory is applied to a concept it makes the listener dismiss the theory without giving it any critical thought
YC startups aren't significantly different from any other startup at a similar stage.
Are you referring to TikTok as the crown jewel? I don't see how that description fits. Regardless:

* Where's the monopoly? TikTok is one slice of the social media pie, unlike Facebook's ownership of Whatsapp/Messenger, Facebook.com, Instagram (with its Snapchat lite features).

* What are ByteDance doing with TikTok that's different from what US companies do with their social network data? e.g., Twitter. As a side-note one could argue Twitter aqui-killed Vine, setting the stage for TikTok.

* If desired, couldn't the Biden administration immediately return to the Trump-era policy of requiring ByteDance to sell a substantial part of their TikTok business to a US company? Which is a remedy that US companies complain about when China does it.

I see far fewer problems with TikTok's associations with China than I do with Facebook's ownership of many slices of the social media pie, never mind that the US has many 3-letter agencies hoovering up data from US owned social media networks, even about US citizens (at the very least all it takes is an interaction with a non-US account for the US account data to be considered fair game).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-miami-ar...

Talks about it in this article
I dont get this

Why have a server? Bitcoin wallets are on the blockchain
"Not disposable stuff"?

If you've assumed that "Spend a ton of resources making something so you can use it once and throw it away!" is at all sane, there's really not much in the way of argument that you're going to find acceptable.

But fundamentally, we have a "linear waste problem" in society. Things are built with non-renewable-in-human-times resources, used once, and then thrown away - and this model has to die. Across the board.

We live on a finite planet. We do not, as of yet, have any sort of off-planet resource extraction, and I genuinely hope we never manage that (the difference between "We've put an asteroid into orbit to mine resources" and "We've put an asteroid into a country we dislike" is a remarkably small delta-V). We should not be using "disposable" items, and I include an awful lot in that - despite having used some myself (we use disposable diapers for overnight, because cloth simply doesn't absorb enough beyond a certain age, and work to eliminate those as rapidly as possible).

Whatever it is you think you need disposable plastics for, I'm willing to wager that 100 years ago, before the age of plastic, people were doing exactly the same thing you want to do, without disposable things. So they're not required. They may be cheap, the may be convenient, but required, no. They're not.

The mental view of reality required to consider "disposable anythings" as sane is quite recent, and, IMO, quite broken.
Sklearn-genetic-opt: ML hyperparameters tuning in Python
An eccentric billionaire constituent of Harry Reid that was obsessed with UFOs forced the armed services to go on a wild goose chase a few years back. This is the result.
> Over time I agree with him and think the better part of 3D UI/UX game design elements will make their way in to traditional enterprise software and web stacks. They will be both more functional and beautiful to work with as a result.

Lol, what better part? Game UI serves the game. UI of serious applications serves the user. Traditional enterprise software and web stacks will be inspired by serious well done consumer software that serves the consumer and is so pleasant to use that they want this at work too (see e.g. https://www.se-radio.net/2021/01/episode-442-arin-bhowmick-o...). Nobody wants to fumble seriously in inventory screens and go through click fests that are meant to keep you in-game.
80 years is not the issue. It's the stuff that will be around forever, and in the oceans, that's trouble.
I can't decide if that answers my question or not. Maybe you can clarify.

If I start up the PWA with no connectivity (assuming I've previously run it where it can sync data) it will have the data already? The full data set, or just whatever subset was previously rendered? And will it be usable without a connection for authorization, or will it be locked?
the fact that this programs exist in the first place is a problem. how is it fair to have different interview processes for certain groups of people? it also results in underpaying these people and making it difficult for them to leave.
There are two things that just don't seem plausible at all for me in those stories:

1. Previous article mentions "For some Navy pilots, UFO sightings were an ordinary event: ‘Every day for at least a couple years’" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/17/ufo-sightin...) Is DoD too cheap for a bunch of GoPros? If the incidents are that common and a potential security issue, why don't we have validated days worth of high quality video footage already? It seems we can't keep army secrets secure from soldiers taking selfies, but a daily occurrence has barely one annual photo?

2. Given how many non-military flights there are every single day, how do we not have people noticing the same objects from them? Where are the flights with multiple people taking independent videos of the same unidentified object on their phones? (Essentially this issue https://xkcd.com/1235/)
"I believe that's what the data says, but I have a really hard time reconciling it with common sense."

Can you see why some people might be hesitant about basing medical treatment on "That's what the data says, but it doesn't conform to my priors, so it's probably wrong"?

People are terrible at ignoring information. Clinicians are people. We know this.
Can you show me somewhere that says requiring an non alphanumeric character in a password lowers security?
> The crazy thing is they replied, but refused to take me off the list unless I sent them an actual physical letter in the post. A few emails in they claimed it was due to a "technical" issue. That BS annoyed me so much, I am now into the 3rd decade of my own personal British Airways boycott

I'm surprised BA even had email in 1991 or earlier. Since britishairways.com doesn't even make an appearance in the Wayback Machine until late 1998, perhaps we can forgive them their anachronistic practices of the day.
Chinese entities seem to be treated like a special case / emerging market/industry, by even the most senior E.U. member states. This is in contrast to the U.S. / U.S. entities, which are viewed / treated as a mature (i.e. low/no-growth) market.

The linear outcome of this ongoing state of informal submission is a rise in effronteries / audacious behavior at the official, international level, such as https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/12/philippines-wi...

"China has said it will not accept a ruling against it in a key international legal case over strategic reefs and atolls that Beijing claims would give it control over disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The judgment by an international tribunal in The Hague came down overwhelmingly in favour of claims by the Philippines and is likely to increase global diplomatic pressure on Beijing to scale back military expansion in the area. By depriving certain outcrops of territorial-generating status, the ruling from the permanent court of arbitration effectively punches holes in China’s all-encompassing “nine-dash” line that stretches deep into the South China Sea."

Five years later, it appears the case was quietly forgotten by all.

* * *

Or how about this, more recently:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france...

"... members of the French Senate demanded answers at a hearing with the foreign minister as to why an article they said was fake and cast them in a bad light was still up on the Chinese embassy website [...] In the post, an unnamed diplomat suggests that careworkers in Western nursing homes - using the French term EHPAD - had abandoned their jobs, leaving residents to die."
Although you're not wrong, the app bloat is still a problem. SD cards are slower than internal storage in almost all cases except for ultra cheap phones (during random access and sometimes even during sustained read or write) so running apps of them is annoying.

App developers should keep their app sizes down instead of driving everyone to add ridiculous amounts of external storage.
This is one of the oft-repeated pieces of advice on HN that happens to be completely wrong.

Let me know if you are willing to sell any options that you have at $0 from YC-backed companies. I’d be happy to buy as much as you have :)

It is true that there is risk, but there is also more upside if things go well. Make some educated guesses on outcomes and adjust by probability. The important thing is to revise your model periodically as you have materially new information.

Of course, this is just the economic consideration. There are many more important considerations.
Aren't these sorts of trivial fixes best sent to the kernel janitors mailing list?

https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635934
Were dinosaurs warm-blooded? Tyrannosaur bones discovered in the Arctic
If you install Telegram and message someone, your message is not E2EE. That falls under "not E2EE" in my book.
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I mean, I’ll believe that something happened to you that has completely convinced you, and it’s a nice piece of data that helps explain why some people believe differently than I do. The goal of every discussion doesn’t have to be to convince the other person, just acknowledging the existence of differences is enough sometimes.
A history of Indigenous languages – and how to revitalize them [video]
Hey, thanks for posting this video. I am in awe watching him move so fast.
Tariffs and rebates may not help much when anywhere from 80-90% of it will be exempt:

> No one knows how high a carbon tariff would be but it seems likely it would be imposed at the rate of our own federal carbon tax. A back-of-the-envelope approximation using the example of imports of Chinese and Indian steel shows that the impact would be significant. In 2019, Canada imported 612,000 metric tons of steel from India and China. The emissions associated with those imports are around 1,132,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, using McKinsey’s estimate of 1.85 tons of carbon dioxide per metric ton of steel produced.

> Chinese and Indian steel presumably wouldn’t have to pay the full weight of the carbon tax on every ton of CO2, because we exempt 80-90 per cent of emissions from our domestic industry, and, to be non-discriminatory, the adjustment rate would have to match how we treat domestic producers. That said, even with an exemption rate of 85 per cent a carbon tariff would be costly. At that rate, 169,830 tons of CO2 related to these imports would be subject to the tax, which is currently $40/ton. That gives a cost of more than $6.7 million. At the 2030 rate of $170/ton, it balloons to more than $28.8 million. Apply this technique across a long list of other products from these and other high-emitters and the costs become substantial.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-carbon-tariffs-are...
The good thing with perl is, that all the code writen in the 90s still works :)
i thought about that too, but glass is 1000s of times as heavy, and typically recycling it means re-melting which is wasteful of energy and has carbon emmissions problems

as i see it, the only way that would work is if

1. we reused the glass

2. some national system where someone comes by and pick up the glass for sterilization (like those old 50s milk bottles)

3. standardized glass containers that are mandated/traded across industries

and that still doesnt fix the usage of fuels to transport all that glass to and fro...
I would love for it to be aliens, but it seems like one of the least likely explanations. Occam's razor doesn't magically give you an answer, but humans flying drones seems like it should be the obvious explanation.
People lived in small groups most of the time. Harder to spread.
I don't understand this movement at all. It seems very, very short sighted and also misdirected. The most toxic marketplace and social elements of some of these companies is their business model, not their scale/size.

Breaking them up into pieces doesn't fix their deleterious business models and only opens the door for non-US entities who remain scaled/vertically-integrated to become the dominant forces in the market. Either that or this will necessitate passing future protectionist legislation to keep out foreign competition, which I'm both skeptical is actually a good idea in general or that the US has the actual resolve to do so.

What problem is supposed to be solved by breaking these companies up? It doesn't make any sense to me, and I say this as someone who is generally deeply disturbed by much of what is enabled by some of these firms, so this isn't an endorsement of these companies. It's an indictment of the approach.