skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought all of these cases, like the tic-tac, flir, gimbal ufo's had already been debunked
Most of the time when someone ask a question answering it isn't very easy. You have to look things up, go through the code, maybe run some test to figure out what the solution is. That is how you work with the code and that is what they need to do to work in the code.

The problem here is that they expect that answering would be easy for you, but it is not, so you tell them to go figure out themselves since you don't have the time to do all that work for them every time they get "stuck". Since in fact, you yourself are "stuck" like that every day, being "stuck" is a major part of being a software engineer, it never ever goes away and junior engineers often thinks that being "stuck" is bad. It really isn't, that is what your life will be from now on, you just got to learn how to handle being stuck and nobody can really teach you that.

Anyway, when you dragged the answer out of those other people you did the work to unstuck yourself. Those people couldn't just have told you the answer from the start since they didn't know until after the long discussion with you, that discussion was the work. Now that you are on the other side you get a lot of "unintelligent" questions, ie questions you can't easily answer, and therefore feel frustrated with these new engineers. It has nothing to do with kindness, its just that the junior engineers needs to understand that finding the answers to these questions is their job and not something that just juniors have to deal with.

Example with overly simple question:

Junior: How do I center a div in html?

Senior: Just look it up on Google.

Junior: Why can't you just tell me?

Senior: I just told you how to do it, that is what I do every time I need to center a div!
As soy sauce which is fermented tofu (like stinky tofu), and fish sauce is to fermented fish, they are much more accusable than their source materials. Also, I'll note that a fish is often added to many traditional soy sauces in south Asia.

As author of the parent comment, I like both of those sauces and cook with them... but fermented whole fish (herring) is another kettle of fish entirely!
Smoking gun in the original SARS took 15 years to find and it was found in bats in a cave 1100 km away from the first outbreak. What exactly are you expecting two years into this outbreak?

The "circumstantial evidence" is that pretty much all recent new infectious diseases in humans were traced to animals in the wild, or alternatively, sometimes not traced anywhere at all (Hepatitis C, anyone?). "Yes, but this one is special!", conspiracy theorists swear. Sure, Jan.
> Every restaurant does this.

I think you'll find that it varies throughout the world. In Sweden, I've been to a couple of restaurants when their payment network was down and had it not been for them also being hooked up to the Swish app (which is connected to a separate payment network), no one during those lunch seatings would've been able to pay at all (both of these were cash-less restaurants, which are super common in Sweden, where almost no one uses cash anymore, sadly*).

Just to give you a picture of how seldom we come into contact with cash here: The Swedish Central Bank redesigned the artwork and form factor of the hard currency here, I think even introduced some new denominations, back in 2015. 6 years later, I still haven't seen or touched one of these new bills or coins out in the wild. That's how much people use cash here.

*: I may lament it, but I'm the same. It's so damn convenient, but I am of course aware of the drawbacks.
Gah. Tablet died. Brilliant comment lost.

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/mlu/
> ...involves emailing the customer a ~120 megabyte zip file...

Hehe, nice test for their email servers & antivirus (which probably wants to unpack it to see if any nasty payload is included) :)
A GitHub action to run ClickHouse db with 2 shards / 2 replica with ZooKeeper
He could consume all of his wealth quite easily but purchasing one too many companies or too many properties. Money isn't endless even at his level.

Work is good for the soul. Over working means a shorter lifespan for you. Employers will accept that trade-off.

Bozo keeps working because he doesn't know how to stop and live.
Steve Wozniak, Mark Cuban, Paul Allen, even Musk could teach Bozo a few things.
> 386BSD (of which FreeBSD is based) is an independent lineage to GNU and was released under the BSD licence. Thus also independent to GPL.

Is there a non-gnu c compiler? I could only find:
https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/2.0/usr/src/usr.bin/gc...

People tend to forget that Linux was a small project that provided a gpl kernel for the GNU system - not the other way around (hence GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD etc).
That sounds like a lot of mode bits or instruction variants to me. But maybe it wouldn't be a problem.
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That's not the worst part. MacOS monitors every time you run an executable, which executable, when and where, and it shares this with unencrypted traffic. Not only that, but the data is collected as part of PRISM, so there is no court order to get it. https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Incorrect. The RBD was a 90+ percent match to a pangolin coronavirus, the backbone was 90% + match to a sample collected from bats in Guangdong if I recall correctly, and you had GoF techniques in play that enabled seamless porting of nucleotide sequences that left no traces of gene edits. We've gone over it in previous articles...

Capabilities. Not motivations. Never ever lose sight of that. You will never know what makes another human being tick or do what they do, but you can definitely establish an upper bound on the trouble they can get themselves in to.
The BBC headline uses 'colossal' in quotation marks. So yes, it's a quote.
I assume the government is hyping up these UFO sightings in public because it gets the public wildly speculating about aliens, interested in looking for them and most importantly filming them.

But nobody at the Pentagon actually believes their aliens and they all know they're some kind of drones from China or another adversary that are actually more technologically capable than current US drones.

They just want more data on them so they can start building their own.
Why is it that whenever there's something wrong with the US economy, the media starts talking about aliens and UFOs. I remember similar stories from 20 years or so ago when the media claimed to have photos of an alien. Is this a joke? Do people really buy this nonsense?

Are they planning to use drones to kill their own citizens and then blame it on aliens?

Or they want to blame COVID on alien bioweapons to shift blame?

I can't figure out what the point is but it's retarded. Clearly there is no intelligent life in the universe.
Arch Linux circa 2011 had the text-based configuration aspect with an rc.conf file similar to the BSDs[1] but the folder structure was still very Linux.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Initscripts/rc.co...
I think almost nobody who uses a custom domain self-hosts. From what I've heard it's very hard to get your mail delivered consistently if you run a small and/or young mailserver, and with the plethora of ~good, cheap mail hosts out there, there's really no reason to go the self-hosting route.
Sadly phone browser extensions seem to still be in their infancy so no as far as I know.
What are some uses of funding that would help figuring out the previously observed phenomena?

I'm thinking most analysis you might do has already been done, and probably wouldn't be too costly anyway? Basically showing it to experts and asking what they think?
I think she should be right to apply to European Human Rights (or whatever it is called) court. May be this will shame those pathetic scumbags enough.
You'd expect more sightings with multiple recordings, so better to identify.
And the only reason they can survive on that is because there is very little competitive hardware out there. There is M1 and that's about it. Most others, like Exynos, the Rockchip and MediaTek SoCs etc aren't in the same ballpark as Snapdragon and M1.
That's hubris. The reason we're in this situation, where a lack of dense housing is causing housing prices to rise, is because earlier planners were confident 50 years ago that single-family homes were the best option, and they weren't content to just follow that strategy then and there. They decided that this had to be enforced on future people too - us, that is.
Dark Matter Could Be Responsible for Supermassive Black Holes
hunter-gatherer remains show plague was active at least 5K years ago
Check out Krita, maybe its feature set will be enough for your use case.
Heh, reminds me of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Why is writing a package management tool a large undertaking? What specifically makes it difficult or time-consuming?
At which point I'd buy a few acres in Montana, get a Starlink subscription, and happily work on my hobbies for the rest of my life.
Until recently Firefox had almost full support for them on Android. Then they've removed everything and now they're re-adding them.
Reminds me of VBA, where the way to “return” a value in a function is to assign it to the function’s name

Sub f() 'returns 1

f = 1

End

I always thought this was insane, but it does make the semantics clear. Maybe not so insane after all
I suspect where you live doesn’t have environmental impact studies and objection by basically anyone in the entire city requiring design review. Fixing the zoning is a first step, but won’t solve all the other issues.
Using Vue kinda as a jQuery replacement is its strongest feature IMO.

For anything else I would most likely use Svelte or maybe React given the right circumstances.
Yeah, but being allowed to have a couple chickens on your small plot is an example of allowing sustainable and relatively poor living. Can't have that! We want you supporting your local supermarket instead! The one that delivered that egg from that licensed farm 200km away in the middle of nowhere.
One addendum to the linked post's notes:

> SoTa in low-resource setting Libri-light by a lot on WER clean test 100h labeled: others ~4 vs theirs ~2.5

> SoTa on high-resource noisy data (3.3 vs 3.4) close to SoTa on clean data

This note isn't super specific, but it's outdated if I'm understanding it correctly. To my understanding, the SOTA on this data is held by Conformer 1B (a 1 billion parameter model), at 1.4 clean, 2.6 noisy.

Conformer 1B is something like wav2vec 2.0 pretraining + conformer + noisy student + specaugment.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10504.pdf

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Wav2vec 2.0 is very cool, but I've had some trouble reproducing the pretraining and fine tuning reliably. It might need a lot of resources (e.g. hundreds of clustered GPUs).

I think Wav2vec-U is extremely cool.
The headline says "AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework".
Fiber is key. I see that here (Switzerland) where places that have existing and new fiber to home can now get 25gbit synchronous for peanuts (~80 USD per month). It's difficult to even purchase hw to deal with 25gbit.

Meanwhile 5g promise of 2gbits actually delivers in most places around 200mbits download and maybe 50mbit up.

What I hate is when companies like Sunrise state on their website that 5G is just like fiber when it will never be. Moving light through a clean dedicated piece of glass can't be compared to a medium constantly changing in water and gas content.
Spielberg more or less called it: if aliens were routinely visiting us, the rise of the camera phone should've made it obvious.
Could be Sabra?
Shrugging can mean not knowing the answer to something.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrug
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Sorry, but I don’t understand what you are seeking with this question.

Did your BA in IT limit your access to good advice? Did it contradict the good advice you received?

I don’t see the conflict between a BA in IT and good advice.

Could you maybe ask the question again in a different way?
Firewall it all off. Audit the logs, etc to see how they got in. Fix that. Restore from backups.

My main "oh god everything is dead" full system backups pull from the servers rather than having them push to backup storage. Just in case though I also have individual sites pushing snapshots to write-only S3 with glacier/expiration rules set up as appropriate.

3-2-1 backup strategy on both of these too. 3 copies, 2 different types of storage, (at least) 1 offsite.

Also you do test your backups now and then, right? At least check the filesize. You don't want to find out your zip function has been creating empty zip files for the past 6 months in this situation. That's how I learned to backup properly :P
Or maybe they want to justify spending more on R&D.
Hey, maybe instead can we make it illegal to sell shitty software that gets all your customers hacked?

The disease is a broken software/security industry, these people taking advantage of the situation are just an inevitable symptom.
The point is that you don't. A clock tick is not the smallest unit of operation. It's the smallest unit of synchronization. A lot of work can be done in-between synchronization points.
Zoho is also an alternative but I have heard stories of questionable privacy practices
You wouldn’t have to go all the way to Houston style zoning. SF’s regulations are so onerous that going just half way would help massively.
Even if this ends up good enough that it can reliably generate programs from natural-language comments, being able to specify what you want precisely enough in English will be a skill that only a few will be good at: if anything, writing specifications of behavior in English is _more difficult_, than implementing the behavior in code because Natural Languages are ambiguous and communication in them relies heavily on a the “common sense” of your interlocutor.
I think my biggest problem with this article is the idea that the government is “coming clean” on the issue.

An unclassified report on UAPs does in no way confirm that some subset of these sightings aren’t advanced military aircraft of some kind, or even something else. Like I’m sure the majority of it is anything from sprites, balloons, sensor artifacts, sensor spoofing, foreign drones, etc. But the idea that the USAF et al don’t have any secrets to keep here is naive.
I find disabling javascript to give a more pleasant browsing experience these days. Most of the privacy-popups and paywalls don't appear, while websites still continue to work.
The best framing I've heard for this problem is: minimum time for each component is bounded, maximum time is unbounded. I.e. there is effectively no answer to the question "If this component becomes a problem, what is the maximum amount of time it could take to solve it with the resources available?"

Ergo, in the worst case, any given single component's ballooning time can dominate the overall project schedule.

Which turns estimation into a game of "How certain am I that no component's time will explode?" To which the answer in any sufficiently complex system is "Not very."

I'm pushing my work to move to something more like a converging uncertainty plot, as milestones are achieved and we can definitely say "This specific component did not explode."

Our PMs aren't used to hearing an idealized minimum schedule time + an ever decreasing uncertainty percentage based on project progress, but it feels like less of a lie than lines in the sand based on guesses.

(Note: This is for legacy integration development, which probably has more uncertainties than other dev)
We paid a ransom with something you could buy from Walmart, I think they were called green cards or something (not to be confused with work permits). That was before crypto got huge but I think Bitcoin was around just not big yet. The cards at Walmart were preferred because at the time they were as good as anonymous cash and very easy for businesses to access.

I remember that Walmart or the govt or both made some change where these didn’t work the same way and lost their shine for ransom payments.

Thin on details but the as I recall the options for paying ransoms easily prior to crypto were tightening up.

That said, I’m 100% against the idea of fighting crypto to solve this problem. The liberty of humanity needs anonymous cash despite the risks that come with it. Better to address these problems on the data security and resiliency front.
This post confused me because of all the large boxes linking to other articles by the author. They really break the flow of the article and seem to take up even more space than the unique content in this one.
There is no such thing as work-life balance.

There is life for the rich, and there is work for everybody else.
Because a lot of EDR detections are purely string based and will be closely watching for certutil doing things that attackers like to use it for.

Making a copy with a new random name defeats this detection logic.
Definitely seems like a difference in interpreting “shrugging” here; basically “not sure” vs “not a big deal”.
No doubt technology has improved, however the domain of the unidentifiable always sits at the edge of sensor capability.

Anything that is well resolved by sensors can be identified. Anything that cannot be resolved at all goes unobserved altogether. What remains is the set of items that cannot be clearly identified.
Yes, if SF/Bay Area is just that unique and that much more attractive to people than elsewhere, then the only solution would be to make another SF/Bay Area.
Finding the most recurring topics on Hacker News
That’s demonstrably not true.
Current version is actually free.

>"Might be a bit more streamlined than gimp, I guess"

It does not pretend to be photoshop at all. I found the concept and power of tooling brilliant.
The whole “16 attributes, 6 properties, 2 methods” thing is very approachable. Excellent docs.

I work on a few projects that only have simple interactions, no build step, and currently written in vanilla. It’s simple, but fussy. Imperatively building UI things is a nightmare. You get tired of it all and start building your own framework. Kinda silly.

Alpine might just be the solution. And I bet the size will be about the same.
I've found this extension to support more sites: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
the GNU tools have bigger featuresets, but from code quality aspect i much prefer the BSD ones

it's not targeted at embedded, but it is an experimental project for the time being (the motivation is a split between "because i could", "i wanted to provide polished ports of BSD software" and "i wanted to experiment with making a better package build system")
Silicon chip production costs are based on three factors: area, layers and resolution. That's pretty much it. The complexity of the chip's design (on a single layer) is not really that major a factor. So.. Cost = Area * Num_Layers * 1/Process_Scale.

As far as I'm aware Apple M1 chips are not an order of magnitude (much less two) larger in area, layer count or resolution vs Intel/AMD or similar ARM chips. Thus it's highly unlikely for them to cost 100x more to produce. 2x or 3x more expensive I could believe, 100x... nope.
Amazon Outage [Discussion]
At ~11:00 AM EST Amazon started experiencing an outage that effects checking out.

A customer service representative claimed current repair estimate is 2:30-3:30 EST.
Fair, but again that would be a low trust situation - buying drugs from someone offering on the street is a great way to have an undercover cop arrest you.
Funding is being requested both for collecting new observations more systematically (not just prior ones, reasonable since the phenomena appears ongoing), and then for tooling to analyze it.
What is "infamous" about a bus? It's a workaround for the Bay Area's awful/nonexistent transportation system. Why aren't you carping about VMWare's "infamous cars" or the millions of cars driven every day to other companies without buses?

Anyway the buses only explain partially how Googlers and other tech employees can survive the housing crisis, not what caused it. The cause is extremely simple. Births - Deaths = Growth. Don't overthink it.
They could just charge her as Jane Doe
> This isn't a desirable scenario though

To some founders, maybe? But the fact is fewer acquisitions will mean more outright failures, if also more a few massive successes. Investors might not like that.

It will take time also for the number of starts to break through and chip away at monopolization, until that happens, we have a "worst of both worlds" where monopolies still crush you but you also can't sell out. That will definitely not be popular.

> Then we should fully do away with those markets.

I fully agree, but so many popular things are dependent on advertising, I worry the politicians have no guts here. If people just loose all their free entertainment heads will roll.

I think the best way to fund art / entertainment is UBI and crowdfunding, but that's a massive shift that, again, takes a lot of guts.

> I also agree it won't be business as usual; nor should it be.

:)

> There's a pragmatism to open standards and free software that works well with capitalism.

Actually I think those have a very awkward relationship with Capitalism. On one hand, sharing ideas is clearly more efficient, on the other hand, they undermine the competition that makes capitalism work.

There was a lot more systems innovation in non-micro-computers before Unix, by virtue AT&T limited in how they were allowed to capture the value, predominated. Then Linux also wiped out all the proprietary Unixes to a large extent.

The biggest thing attacking the stagnation of OSe might be the the increasingly bespoke cloud platforms. So basically FOSS gets in a "no profit to be found here" rut in a sub-sector, until a bunch of proprietary things the exist mainly but to increase switching costs get us back to "proprietary diversity", and the process repeats.

A stupid take mean anti-trust means banning FOSS too, kind of like how the sherman anti-trust act was used against unions. A better take might be we need something other than competition for profits to push FOSS forward.
TikTokers Filmed Inside a $5M Ca Listing. It Found a Buyer in Two Weeks
actually i had gcc in there at first, and it's roughly the same; however, clang does have a number of benefits of its own
The GP’s point was, presumably, that more and better sensors = more data = more detections of tail-end phenomena that simply wouldn’t have been recorded in the past.
Sounds like the RICO app from Westworld Season 3
The government isn't hyping anything. All of this is well, UFO-conspiracy theorists hyping things, and the media going for easy clicks (which is why you're reading this now).

In reality, all of this is because it was a weird line-item added to a COVID-19 relief bill that nobody was going to bother fighting about at the time [1].

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-r...
It won't move prices much by itself, but it's still more people living on the same amount of land, which counts for something.
> For that money, you will only be able to buy a bread and butter, nothing else.

Maybe you're trolling or maybe you're just actually clueless, but when looking at how much people can afford, its not sufficient to convert the euro to dollar amounts
yes, i originally planned on making my own ports, but after seeing dcantrell's work, i decided to help out over there instead (i did a lot of the recent ports)
Russian hackers are trying to brute-force hundreds of networks
O wow, I didn't notice there's FUSE file system.