skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the cats are all out of their bags, let's focus our attentions on the hunting party of lioness' rampaging through the orphanage before worrying about the fat tabby sunning on my porch.
Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.
Sand on the upper layers. There's a lot of tough stone beneath, which made our underground system quite hard to build.
You don’t need to install the SDK to run a dotnet core app. They can ship what’s required to run and there’s even single executable options now as well.
I don’t think BPD would be an advantage due to instability. There is nothing quite like a neurotypical person being dramatic. They can keep it up and keep going. It’s a stable “crazy” that doesn’t have other problems getting in the way of being dramatic.
> In most cases, you can guess these are probably aircraft from other countries.

From the report: "We currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative
of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary."
> Lift uses machine learning to measure which bugs developers fix most, eliminating likely false positives, and continuously delivering higher quality results that improve over time.

Is this a pre-trained thing or something that is done custom per repository?
Fun fact: Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park has issues like this as well. I looked at a house that had been freshly-painted before being put on the market, and it was flawless in the pictures. But by the time I saw the home in-person several months later, there were huge cracks in the paint in many of the rooms.

When I asked the realtor about it, she just said, "there's a reason it's called Sand Hill Road".
I quite enjoyed showing up to my big tech parking lot in the F250. Nobody knew quite what to make of me.
Sculpting in Blender
Cause of Miami condo collapse unclear, experts say barrier islands present risks
Some weapons systems may be configured to automatically power on to a more ready (as opposed sitting in low power sleep mode) mode (not launch) when unknown objects appear on a sensor system. Whether this is a wise way to do things stands to be seen.
It used to be that everyone wrote all of their own code and applications were tiny. Now it’s easy to pull in dozens of libraries and their hundreds or thousands of transitive dependencies. The resulting app bloat becomes a ticket on the pile, to be solved some day going on never.
It often actually isn't hard for someone to find out even if you have one of the meters that has to be read by eye.

It is quite common for those meters to be placed so that they are visible from a public street or alley, so that meter readers can read them without entering the property.

Here is one electric company that talks about this in their meter reading FAQ [1].

> The numbers on a electric meter are clearly visible from six to ten feet away. And, by noting the position of the dial indicators, an experienced meter reader can accurately read an electric meter from as far away as twenty feet. We also provide binoculars and/or monoculars for readings beyond the range where the dials are not clearly visible.

[1] https://www.snopud.com/home/homefaqs/faqmtrread.ashx?p=1285
Semgrep: The Surgical Static Analysis Tool
Cryptocurrency buzz drives record investment scam losses
Damned Common Lisp! CL-USER&gt; 20 / 5
it doesn't fully AOT your app and worse it doesn't produce a native static executable

it runs few tier for JIT, it still ship with IL and the JIT

don't advertise ReadyToRun as "hey we got AOT at home, says Microsoft salesman"

because all it does is makes me want to use Go instead, it feels and sounds bloaty
> We also focus very closely on ensuring our tools have low false positive rates and so we tend to have less noisy output.

What kind of things does lift do to ensure lower false positives?
I haven't heard of any major collapses in Foster City. Plenty of fill there. The only collapse in recent memory was a section of SF that liquified in an earthquake.

Maybe all buildings over 3 stories need more frequent and detailed periodic structural fatigue/engineering assessments, eh?
There are some smug looking dudes at Lockheed right now
I meant compared to SHA256 - obviously slower hash algorithms are much more reasonable.
I couldn't give you a ratio but I'd think it's quite a high ratio. There probably aren't many molecules that don't have either a chemical (i.e. have some function in a pathway) or physicochemical influence.
i think there's more people in the hate java, love the JVM camp.
Analytics? Maybe under the guise of "search your screenshots later for people, apps, or words on the screen!"
They also say: "We are
conducting further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were demonstrated."

Basically, the summary of the report is that there are 10+ incidents that they cannot explain to what they believe is insufficient data, so please give them more money so they can collect and analyze more data to try and identify them.
Oort Cloud object spotted entering the outer solar system
Problem is that pretty much everyone here can lay those causes easily...
yes. Do NOT use Emacs. Perhaps a bit extreme, but Emacs is an OS, not an editor. And as such, it has a ton of vulnerabilities
Any strong evidence of this? I mean actual links or investigations proving that?

Or are you deliberately spreading unsubstantiated claims?
The government doesn't want us to know that everyone, everywhere is able to identify, with 100% certainty, all flying object ever encountered. If we knew how powerful we actually are, Big Brother would never be able to control us!
Are "telling the truth" and "finding trolling humorous" also redefined to be psychological issues? Well, then the conclusion easily follows...
Vertica provides great support to work with Parquet files as external tables: https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.2.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/Ad...

We use this feature to build a staging layer for incoming files before loading to the data warehouse.
80 encounters with multiple sensors.
143 reliable encounters with one sensor (144 minus 1 balloon).
RF emission in a few encounters.

They could conceive of no explanation for any of them..

They have a lot of data and cannot explain much.
> but as a Linux programmer, I found it difficult to install the dotnet sdk without the root permission

It’s a tarball. Unpack it wherever you like.

What exact problems did you have?

Edit: I’ve even “installed” the .NET SDK on ARM/Aarch64 devices this way. Zero issues.
> Because this tired old argument has been made far too many times.

Perhaps if people listened, then it wouldn’t need to keep being made.

> They were producing big nominal gains through hoarding of newly printed money but rotting the economy from the inside.

It isn’t obvious how this statement relates to tech companies in any way.

How for example is Apple hoarding newly printed money?
We used Apache Drill a few years back and it could do exactly that - run locally and provide a SQL interface to query parquet files. Still great to see more and better options!
The writer stands and removes the hood, revealing his bullet shattered skull
It was literally open-sourced completely to the last bits even - that was the update grandparent likely references. But it is without doubt a positive update, so there must be some misunderstanding.
Well, to be fair, you'll be unable to walk either way.
Which GUI do you use now? For me I have to use Impala via HUE, only after I have created an external table from the parquet file. I really don't like web based GUIs, especially when my employer has a crappy server running the GUI rendering.
s/some/most
Compared to the current status quo of the likes such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google, I think Reddit is relatively mild.

Also, keep in mind that HN is actually fairly similar a forum, and with that in mind, it’s very reasonable to point them into the direction of Reddit.
> all things considered the current winners are pretty good

Quite literally, the representatives of >50% of the country disagree with you.
we consume a credit card worth
Jason could have stepped up and actually be a leader to ensure that political discussions don't lead to a toxic work environment. Instead he centered himself, had a knee-jerk reaction to a point of view that really didn't have anything to do with him personally, and then decided to lob a missile at his own company. That's not courage, that's cowardice.
Telegram does not have group voice nor video calls. It has voice (and now video) chats.

// Unless I am not aware of any recent change, I tested this last month and don't see any related update ever since.

Which is not the same, and actually, for me is not useful at all. The main difference is that a "chat" does not ring the other participants' phones, which is a must for me to "call" my family either voice or video. You must first tell them through chat that you will create a voice or video room/chat. For 1-on-1 it does have calls, as it rings. For groups, it does not.
There usually is a way, but it's often non obvious.
I.e. the picker might have a header like July without any visual offset, but clicking could still switch the view to the year picker.

I usually just try various stuff and I can't remember a single time where I didn't find an option eventually, but they're sometimes well hidden
Bill Nelson sorta said as much in this interview: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/06/04/ufo-nasa-navy...
>more likely to me that many scientists in the field, especially those that work specifically with gain of function, are going to be reluctant to blame a lab leak because they know that if it is found that covid was from a lab, then their funding is at risk.

This would be easy to find out given that their names are public and so are the projects/papers/publications. What does the data indicate?
Something similar applies when you're on the phone. When you're on hold, the agent can hear everything you say most of the time
> all fixed to a name & photo id

You're not the first to think of this I assure you.

Most modern scalper platforms collect your credit card and personal info in advance and use it to buy your ticket with their bot. So even if the venue is matching purchase info to your ID and credit card, it all lines up.

Scalpers aren't hawking tickets on show night 200 feet from the venue on the sidewalk anymore.

You pre-buy through them to guarantee that you'll get the ticket you want since everything sells out super fast (because of scalpers!) and you pay the markup for that service.
They're also building battery factories.
Certain bad things that people used to do don't happen anymore. This must mean that, in general, actions really do matter -- even if it is very hard to know ahead of time which ones will have a significant impact.
It's an unfortunate name collision, but landfill is frequently used to describe "artificial land" as well as a dump site.
> GPG files can be decrypted only inside EMACS

To get this you have to sacrifice the convenience of using gpg-agent, though, right? Otherwise any other program that can open your gpg agent socket can use your gpg keys.
Like, you know, calling, navigation, discount codes or news.

Not latest iPhone = poor, right?
This is more true than ever when the machine is my cellphone.
Actually several of those features exist since version 1.0, because the CLR was designed to support languages like C++ as well, so there was always a way to access them even those that are only exposed after 7, but yeah bad M$.
They have 1 billion dollar[1], and working on ads[2]

[1] https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2BF0UP

[2] https://t.me/durov/142
I work at r2c, the company that maintains Semgrep. Happy to answer any questions! It's been a busy week for us; on Tuesday Gitlab announced that in release 14.0 they replaced their Py/Js/Ts security analyzers with Semgrep: https://r2c.dev/blog/2021/introducing-semgrep-for-gitlab/
amznthrwaway: If you read this, know you are shadowbanned - only certain people can see your content. I can only guess it has something to do with being a bigot and not just wishing for people to die, but directly wishing for the parents of fellow posters here to die.

You claim to have been shadow-banned before (I know I was, many years ago) but somehow, you don't know you've been banned for the past two months. And somehow you don't realize how unacceptable it is to criticize and insult racial groups and all members within it simply because of their skin color, no matter the color.
I’m not sure it would because a C one is measured in bytes and does the same thing.
> This would be accurate, if only those school age children didn't have older teachers or parents.

Then this should have been handled on a case-by-case basis. What share of families actually have an elderly or otherwise at-risk relative living at home with them? What share of teachers were actually in a high risk category? These questions were easily answerable by the middle of 2020 but all such nuance was thrown out in favor of "COVID is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to EVERYONE and we have to shut EVERYTHING (except Wal-Mart, naturally) down to stop it!"

> This is not a virus that should make us question the germ theory of disease. I understand the want for children's education and emotional well being, but that shouldn't require other adults to be hospitalized or die.

How is this not an argument that one could make in favor of closing schools and shutting down society to prevent the spread of influenza? The difference is just one of degree, not kind.
I was actually going to buy a subscription but luckily I learned about that policy and never did.

Now I use a privacy card for all subscriptions to avoid the hassle
> If you compare where the mutations of sars-cov-2 are, relative to a wild type bat coronavirus,

How many distinct samples do we have of the wild-type variants from that region?
$10k is definitely under the 1.5-2x poverty threshold proposed by the comment you're replying to. Under their proposal, the $10k earner would pay no income tax at all.
Future launched my career too. I started writing for .net in 1998 magazine when I was 15 and joined as a staff writer two years later. Fun fact: its editor, Richard Longhurst, went onto start Lovehoney.
In that case, why implement the feature at all?? Why die on the hill to capture email addresses from the “small single digit percent of visitors” who never consented to receive your spam in the first place?
Extra: maybe it was a bug or something, but when I tried one of my apps on an android 12 emulator, it reported a negative app size! (user data to be precise)

https://ibb.co/TPjH5gh
From a first skim, it looks intentionally vague and noncommittal, and in classic form, released on a Friday afternoon to minimize coverage. Also of note: there was no input at all drawn from the CIA, which is the agency most frequently associated with the topic for a variety of reasons, aside from the Air Force. "The majority of UAP data is from U.S. Navy reporting [i.e. not in-the-know] , but efforts are underway to standardize incident reporting across U.S. military services..."

I'm also unconvinced they used serious statistical rigor in finding correlations around where sightings occur. For a better analysis of the UAP phenomenon in France, which concludes with a very low p value that there is a relationship between UAP's and nuclear facilities, see:
[0].

Despite the baby steps being made in the process of disclosure, it seems more and more likely that deliberate disclosure has been and will continue to be a multi-decade, slow drip of information with no particularly historic address saying "There is nonhuman intelligence visiting and engaging with Earth. We could not tell you before for national security reasons, but now we can tell you." At least, not without many years of plausibly deniable hints before-hand.

[0] https://cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/2015-09-01_Spatia...
Interesting. I spent the past two days building a prototype which solves this problem for a specific use case “sharing search results”. Going to Show HN in a few days.

This article is light on technical details, or even a high level how it works.

I wonder how they solve the authenticity / validity of the data.

Funnily enough the solution I’ve come up with isn’t compatible with Firefox due to api limitations.
I've noticed this myself a couple years ago. A new flatmate moved in and he was quickly suggested to me by LinkedIn, before we even exchanged any contact details such as phone number or e-mail.

> universities and companies with a single shared IP address

It's relatively easy to weed these out (simply ignore any matching results from IPs which see a lot of different people logging in), but actually I'm not sure that would even be a problem - universities and workplaces with a single IP would be exactly what LI wants, as the probability of you "knowing" someone from that same organization is high.
Don't they own GitHub which employs most of Electron's contributors?
Not a person who has looked much into this stuff, but the videos you see online lately sure seemed impressive. FWIW, I felt educated by videos by Mick West, who is a debunker. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwa-yYCEGEc&t=1316s is one that a technical person such as an HN reader might like.
The Tech monopolists are not the entire Tech sector, in fact they are a very small portion of tech employment (and thus productivity). Their rent-seeking behavior stifles innovation and competition, and they coast on the hard work of non-monopolists, e.g. Apple's outrageous 30% cut on app developer revenues.
> running something like Netscape 3.x while watching the ‘throbber’—a looping, pixelated animation of a planet-straddling ‘N’ getting hit with a meteor shower

Trivia (but maybe relevant to HN): I believe the reason it was called a "throbber" was from the throbbing "N" [1] with which Netscape Navigator replaced NCSA Mosaic's cool spinning globe.[2]

I always thought that the throbbing N seemed like a placeholder. I vaguely recall JWZ later having a collection of throbbers/spinners for Navigator.

[1] http://www.andrewturnbull.net/nscape1.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m97sLnauJ78?t=2m10s
Am I missing something here? This just looks like Zoom or Teams or any of the other video calling apps that have been running the world for the past year. What's so special about it?
Not having it enabled by default means most people will never enable it at all. That's just plain reckless.

Privacy is a human right; it shouldn't be part of any "trade-off", just like you can't sell yourself into slavery, even if you really wanted to.
Lots of these kinds of things—at least for companies that aren't just copying others' patterns blindly—are the result of multiple support calls/emails/tickets. The tickets, in this case, would be users complaining about your service being broken when in fact they messed up their email address and don't realize it. There are also some cases in which you want to use the address immediately to reduce friction (as with sending receipts or shipping data for an order by a "guest" user without an account) without first sending a verify-address email.

My personal preference is to let the user know why you think the email address looks wrong and give them some way to override your judgement and submit anyway. It's more work, but it gives you all the benefits of rejecting "bad" addresses while minimizing the harm of false-positives from your bad-address-spotting code (it's very slightly annoying to people with odd-looking addresses, but not that big a deal). This also lets you go beyond validating the form of the email address, to alert on common typos that might be legitimate (and which can sneak in even if you make the user type the address twice). "gmial.com looks like it might be a mistake; are you sure you got that right?" Or "yaho.com". Or even just Levenshtein-distance check a bunch of common email domains and alert any that are close, but not exact. You annoy whoever has an actual address at those domains, but save a bunch more people who screwed up.
Currently, there is no regulatory oversight for new chemicals in consumer plastic products, afaik.

If someone develops a new plastic additive, do they have to do any health testing with it before using it in commercial products? Do they have to do any analysis of the final product to see how that additive may have reacted with the other ingredients during manufacturing to make further novel chemicals?

We could take the approach where it's illegal to sell plastics where the final manufactured product is not analyzed for constituents and rejected if novel untested constituents are found.

This would certainly make plastic products more expensive, and take longer to bring new plastics to market, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.
I just can't imagine these are not non-US Military drones.

I think the problem is in the US we think of drones as the DJI phantom and not FPV drones.

I mean if you look at FPV pilots like Johnny FPV or Mr Steele on youtube then extrapolate out a few billion $ on research and development you would end up with something completely alien.
Yeah, this "RF energy" statement is too vague.

Ok, you detected what exactly? At which frequencies? Power? BW? Does it look like something (unmodulated signal? Modulated? How?)? Do you have a recording of it?
> like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out.

I feel like you just described email (or rather, "the" email spec, as if there was a single one) in general.

Yes it obviously still serves its purpose but what consists a valid email-address (let alone email) is specified in such a godawful way that every application that I've seen in the wild trying to address this problem somehow fails at it (sometimes in negligible, often in very gross ways).

If devs all over the world manage to screw it up over and over again, maybe it's just time to call it quits and acknowledge that the spec is broken?
The "other" bin sounds oddly suspicious. Why would the report creators step out of their way not to clearly define a bin for intelligent (and far more advanced) extraterrestrial activity?
Procedurally Ruin Other People's Code Using the Magic of ASTs (2019)
Top U.S. Officials Consulted with BlackRock as Markets Melted Down
EU data protection authorities call for ban on facial recognition
I've been using Matrix with non-standard events to communicate between bots. Works nicely. Between that and the standardization process, what else would you want?
Designing Sustainable Cities
Ah, but "insane" is not used by the article - the term "psychological issues" is, to imply some kind of mental unwellness.

OTOH, the Reddit post explicitly clarifies:

> Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is.

Unusual behavior? Yes. However, I think you can see how that would not fall into the same bucket as the implication of "psychological issues." This nuance is likely why people have grown to dislike words like "insane" and "psychopath," since these unintentional connections might warp people's perspectives.