skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be floored if the radar data didn’t back this up. A carrier group would have scrambled fighters well before anything unidentified got within a hundred miles, much less ten.

Visual confirmation I don’t find remotely compelling. Besides the notorious general unreliability of human observers, humans simply cannot distinguish between small, nearby objects traveling slowly and large, far objects traveling quickly without additional contextual clues (e.g., a tiny plane-shaped object in the sky is probably the latter). Factor in that they were validating their observations against a sensor displaying a misleading image—in other words, providing incorrect contextual clues—and I think it’s not hard to call into question the accuracy of any visual claims.
The problem with learning about things with a ~multi-decade delay (via FOIA etc) is that everything sounds so long ago, in a different time.

But there's not a ton of reason to believe that things have changed so fundamentally.
So the thing that makes this egregious is they let you use it for free for _almost a decade_, while they fumbled finding an alternative monetisation strategy?
I have been in this situation myself, but my former boss has a conscience, as it turned out. My wife and I were on a vacation that was timed to celebrate an important birthday. I had spend days during the preceeding week training up two people on my team, and maybe one or two others, on various processes and contingencies. Yet still, when push came to shove, I was asked to get online to put out a fire. Luckily it only took an hour or two. A few days later I was surprised to find $1000 bucks deposited into my account from my boss as a thank you.

This system that I had hacked together, built out and maintained, kept on growing in size, complexity, attributable revenue and potential compliance liabilities. Within the year, I had to call the execs into a meeting to drive home the point that this wasn't a tenable way for us to operate. Everyone had known as much but it was still a tough pill to swallow. I let them get too spoiled at a huge cost to my own mental health.

I had to paint a dire picture to make my case that the system had to be rebuilt from scratch in order to be integrated into the main infrastructure. I ended up leaving a few months later as the rebuild was nearing completion. A couple of months down the road I was surprised to learn that they were still using a part of my system alongside the rebuild. Apparently their architecture couldn't support an algorithm that this component had relied on.

What a mess!
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It's liberalism that promotes this idea of individual merit. By liberalism i mean philosophical liberalism that most of the modern world has, be it in a conservative fashion, neo-liberal fashion or the modern sense of liberal and all their flavors.

The idea that people are "equal before the law and have individual rights" does not mean people are equal. But media keeps espousing this narrative to convince us that even rich people are equal, thereby saying that if you do not reach this level it is by your individual merit. It is the "humble" philosophy of a world run by the rich and powerful. And that has extended to anyone with success.

And i like that, while this article does not consciously critique liberalism, it still puts down its notions.

The idea that there are magical people who do things with their magic abilities makes talking about the material conditions of our development almost impossible and inconsequential. Not to take away from these genius' contributions, but to add to their condition.
I wonder why we'd want to pull levers to make things cost more, when the goal is to fight inflation, the bad phenomenon in which things cost more.
Why are there no more Einsteins, von Neumanns, etc, anymore? Is Terry Tao the closest thing we have? Does DARPA (or some TLA or foreign equivalent) just snatch these people up early on in life? Why isn't Srouji working for something like DARPA? Are there people even better than Srouji working for something like DARPA?
> Hah thanks for taking that well…

No problem, I both have a thick skin pretty flexible sense of humor.

Working with international projects for 15 years have shown me that the process can be relatively simple. There are some pretty robust tools and conventions for that, too. So, without further ado, this is how we do it:

0. Agree that we need a meeting for discussing something.

1. Send a Doodle[0] link to everyone involved, knowing two ends of the timezone involved is enough. Take intersection of your logical hours and theirs. Forget DST and other stuff. +/- 1 hour doesn't mean anything. If you're really unsure, give both slots as an option. Send Doodle link to everyone. Doodle handles timezone conversion and availability.

2. Set the slot with the majority vote, create a calendar file (.ics) with that slot. Be sure to set the timezone and time itself right. Mail the .ics file with the meeting announcement. Use UTC in the announcement. Every responsible party knows their delta relative to UTC.

3. ???

4. ???

5. Profit (meeting).

This removes most of the burden, mental calculation and whatnot. Doodle is free for the most part, a good calendar is either provided by your company or your OS already, and rest is handled by the time libraries. This method makes our life much easier, and enjoyable in fact.

*: If the times are too absurd, a person will send an e-mail with a better availability nevertheless. I do it rarely (once a year). So it's not rude.

**: Also there's World Time Buddy [1] for seeing time differences at a glance.

[0]: https://www.doodle.com

[1]: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com
In my last project at the current job, I've had one team member that always pulled the code and check it locally. And that from my experience was best code review that I've ever had. He sometimes found a bug in my code, because of something that I didn't tested, even before go to dev env and tested properly by QA.

No one else in the team was doing the same including myself. I'm not exactly sure but maybe part of the reason was that he was not much familiar with the code base, and checking if it works was the way to test if the code is correct.
Some of us learned Lisp and really hated it too.

TypeScript, though? TypeScript I love.
Chrome-styled wheel covers for McLaren as part of Google deal
Virtually every cringe. It’s a trash fire. Why anyone would want to preserve these is beyond my understanding.
"Known prankster pulls another prank" vs "Known prankster says aliens are here and you should believe him because he's a professional."

Hmm.
After reading your comment, I think it hasn't gone far enough.
As near as I can tell, people complaining about being "cancelled" are being punished for violating the TOS of the social media platforms they are on.

If you are spouting heresies in a respectful good-faith debate, the worst that generally happens is you get yelled at/laughed at, and usually by community members and not the mods.
In my humble opinion that seems to be a very rude and aggressive way to do virtue signalling. I would feel extremely offended by having a website tell me to go back later just because I was supposed to be sleeping. I look forward to never ever have to do business with you.

Who are YOU to tell me I have to be in bed between 10pm and 6am? What do you know about me and my life? Do you even know in which time zone I'm operating?

There are a lot of things I can only do after 10pm due to work + kids.
Show HN: Progress: a simple-text subtask progress standard
Hello,

Over the years I've repeatedly run into the problem that my projects end up outputting a lot of logging text, when running tests, when doing build steps, etc. But most of the logfile is uninteresting if the tests pass, the build steps succeed, etc. Normally the only interesting part is pass/fail and maybe how many subtasks were run.

I finally got around to extracting a text-based utility that makes this more standard. All of my projects now use it.

It's really simple. Every process or script that has a lot of steps simply outputs those steps in a standard format on specially-marked lines (beginning with ##), and then that output is piped a utility that parses those lines and displays up-to-date progress as the process runs. There are a lot of different modes, e.g. to output one character per subtask, one line, or to do all-in-one line interactive display.

I've found this very useful over the past several years and maybe others will too.
"Siri, make me a new self insert! But base this one off Indiana Jones!"
The amount of money being circulated absolutely does affect inflation (almost by definition). The Fed interest rate affects the amount of money in circulation because the Fed credit money is simply printed. This printed credit money gets spent and ends up circulating. The lower the interest rate, the easier it is to borrow, the more borrowing gets done, the more money is printed and enters circulation, which leads to inflation.

Theoretically, the money needs to be paid back eventually. But as long as the Fed interest rate is below inflation, paying back can always be put off by covering the previous debt with new debt.
They definitely still do this.
I see. Thank you for explaining! I didn't realize that the Verilog RTL for the OpenC906 wasn't the actual source code, or that the C906 was different from the OpenC906.
Pedantry is useless.

It's very useful to know the difference between the two. It's similar to many other things where there are two concepts that people conflate into one word and then spend a long time complaining or creating humor about confusing the results.
are you serious. I know that guy.
It’s even worse - if the Fed actions tank the markets, then millions of retirees who have been enjoying high market values are screwed and have no other source of wealth or income.

I do not envy the position the Fed is in.
Webflow Raises $120M Series C
>Could you ask him please please please why there never was one by him?

I already know the answer. And the answer of course was money. Lem's US publisher just wasn't willing to front the cost of a new translation.
So roughly, everyone should wear bullet proof vests and gas masks, because it's unreasonable to mandate that people not shoot guns into the air or spray mace whenever they want.

We have mandates for how wiring and plumbing need to work in private homes, apartments, offices, etc to maintain safety. We have mandates for how fast cars can drive, which lanes they can use, how they need to signal turns to maintain safety. We have mandates for what chemicals farmers can spray on fields and what chemicals factories can dump into sewers.

The mask mandate is so utterly trivial compared to everything else in our lives. The airplane also makes you wear a seatbelt, is that a violation of your rights?
That's why I'm for Ted Nelson's plan where we turn all the computers into dreamtrons and just get the fuck down and leave the fonts for the grandmas.
At the time of the event, the area was occupied by Nazi Germany [0]. Whether you call it Nazi-occupied, German-occupied, or Nazi-German-occupied doesn't really make any kind of a difference here in my opinion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%...
No Flops are floating point operations. GPUs are better at them because they run floating point operations in parallel on thousands of optimized cores. While python will run a floating point operation serially on (likely) a single general purpose CPU core. None of this really pertains to websites where the main bottle neck is IO so python is as good as anything else.
Yes, but have they tried raising interest rates, and kill all the poor people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
Commendable..? Or short-sighted?

I exclusively use Linux and Windows; I see something like this and ... it's a disappointment.

I think what's "commendable" is cross-platform development, breaking out of walled gardens to support everyone.
Thanks for the complete answer! It doesn't actually answer what I wanted to know, but it does answer exactly what I asked.
No offense, but I think you are looking at "culture" through a pretty narrow lens (or just not talking about "culture" at all)...

Regardless of if you are "[hiring] way too fast" or "finally [getting] rid of subpar performers," layoffs are still, by definition, firing a bunch of people's coworkers. Simple work efficiency, which is what you'd theoretically be improving in both of your examples, has relatively little to do with company culture, so your examples aren't very compelling evidence.
from what i understand the delivery of a chemical or biological weapon is the hard part. For most things, you can't just pour it out on the ground to have a huge effect. Somethings you certainly can, weapons grade Anthrax probably just needs a light breeze to devastate a city but something like that is beyond the reach of your average terrorist groups.
We have unexplained phenomena. We have eyewitness accounts from the Navy's top pilots as well as instrument data and IR footage. If we cannot explain this phenomena with what we know, then we must consider the possibility its something that we don't know. Simply putting your head in the sand or attempting to debunk this documented phenomena with patently absurd explanations like "a lens flare" or "it was only Venus" isn't good enough for thoughtful people.
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> Patrysha is a certified small business coach

Is there a Chartered institute of small business coaches?
My first programming gig was as a student assistant in college where I was writing Matlab for psychiatrists and neuroscientists. The studies they ran rarely had more than 30 people, and their subjects usually ended up in multiple surveys because the cost of performing an fMRI was super high.

They also had a subject recruiting problem. They were a children's hospital and most of their subjects were recruited through the email blasts they would send out to employees which meant most of the kids were upper-middle class.
New report on investor bias in startup fundraising process
What is the point of this story? Someone lacking context could watch this and arrive at the conclusion that "the Navy video of a UFO has a simple conventional explanation", which is how the presenter delivers his arguments. He meticulously demonstrates that the shape of the object which is the subject of the video is an artifact of camera glare from overexposure. In case you are not convinced, he breaks it down into four reasons, supporting each of them with data based on a detailed understanding of the system. If you are still not convinced that this shake is camera glare by the end of the video, I would be surprised.

And yet, whether the shape of the subject is representative of the object or an artifact of the camera is almost irrelevant to whether or not this is a video that should be investigated. The source of the glare is clearly not part of the camera or the aircraft. We should not treat the silhouette of the object as valuable data, but it says nothing of the actual object that is being tracked. The presenter does not suggest this, and the post spins the whole event as being
"debunked". I don't know why "debunking" things seems to have become a cottage industry, but there was considerable effort put into analyzing and visually modeling this thoroughly condescending presentation.
Younger spies are more careful?
>political gain only

Political dissidents flee to US (west in general), west (US in particular) will magnify and weaponize dissident for international discourse power when convenient. Countries being targeted spend resource to deter this behaviour. Interesting case of different systems abusing each other's asymmetries - large diasporas in west = lots of asylum for dissidents but also many recruitable foreign assets.

And sometimes diaspora drama is innate, deep cultural beef between nationalist and dissident Chinese that IMO will only get more acrimonious with time. Older gen of dissidents who fled PRC when times were bad are dying but their kids and younger generation of dissidents from HK/XJ/TW will clash hard with younger gen of PRC nationalist economic migrants and 1st gen kids of mainlanders who inherited beef against dissidents. It will be shitshow, with lots being exploited by domestic propaganda and foreign espionage.
No more than a photographer claiming authorship for simply pushing a button on his art-generating machine.
Telling your boss or relevant colleague instead of going over everyone's heads from the get go isn't normalization of deviance and we both know it.

I really dislike these sorts of "name drop" comments. They're just equivalent of "F" or "the front fell off" with a high enough brow for HN veneer on top.
It's not the pilots job to theorize on whether the object is glare or not, just to describe what he's seeing. This is one plausible explanation, not THE explanation. There is still a UFO there, the video is just saying it probably doesn't look like what we see on screen.

If you're unwilling to even entertain that this might be a possibility because you want to believe... I guess do what you want.
I agree that making $300k+ at a small company is a big ask (though it might be possible in the Bay Area). But $200k is achievable at a small company (<100 employees) even for remote workers. So I am sure that there are options in between the two extremes you’ve mentioned if the nonprofit’s mission isn’t very important to you.
To misuse is to use contrary to a thing's use (purpose): to use biological weapons to kill people is not misuse, it is use, that's what they're for; to use scissors to kill people is misuse, since the principle use of scissors is to cut paper, cloth and so on.
> The problem is that we rarely raise interest rates

Not really true; there was a long period of near-zero rates not moving during and after the Great Recession, but that was a unique event; from 2015-2018 there was a fairly consistent notching up of rates typical of an expansion with inflationary signals, then an ease back from 2019 until COVID hit at rates were cut sharply.

Looking at history there's a long run up in 2003-2006 after the 2001 recession, a run up 1992-2001 through the dotcom boom after the short period of easing from 1989-1992, a runup from 1986-1989, etc.
I recently blogged about: Integrating DockerSlim container minify step on Cloud Build https://medium.com/google-cloud/integrating-dockerslim-conta...
If you didn’t pay for it, you can only have zero expectations, simple as that.

You can provide something for free, not make any promises that it will be free with upgrades in perpetuity, and one day decide to stop. It’s as simple as that.
As far as I know, that’s only for interfaces, and it’s more like a union and not a sum type. I’m talking about sum types for structs, like Rust has with enum.

(I realize I’m replying ridiculous fast here, but I just happen to click over to Comments on the first minute. Dumb luck.)

Of course, I could just use Rust, but it’s much harder to make idiomatic Rust libraries than it is idiomatic Go libraries, and I think that fact stunts the ecosystem a bit.

Go may encourage you to use a map to an empty struct for a set, or a weird if statement syntax that contains a full statement instead of a more elegant looking match or for expression, but I find its little quirks to be manageable and without a terrible amount of consequence. Generics will probably bring some good, like the end of needing weird slice tricks, but I’m still concerned it won’t be overall worth it.
Not 100% sure about cars, but houses were cheaper. Interest rates being higher means that the monthly payment on a given mortgage amount is higher, meaning the house price that an average buyer can afford goes down. Low interest rates mean that people can afford a more expensive house, and that causes prices to go up.

Anecdotally, my dad complains about paying an interest rate in the teens for the house I grew up in. My parents paid $69K ($188K in 2022 dollars) for the house, which was about a year old. Zillow estimates the same house at $457K today. Obviously not all of the price increase is due to lower interest rates, but the house _was_ much cheaper, so even with a high interest rate, the mortgage was pretty affordable.
"Given the huge benefits of a Dyson Swarm and the fact that it seems to require no exotic materials and no more physics"

Since we haven't been able to build such a thing I think it's fair to say it requires something or other that's exotic to us.
Have seen many attempts to work with the dataset! It’s a fun challenge. https://ecfr.report and ecfr.io come to mind, but .gov is still the best.
> I'm sure I'm missing something.

Can you really not see the difference between this[0] and this[1]?

This really feels like a "What's the value in Dropbox when everyone has access to rsync and bash?" situation.

[0]: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/

[1]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1017/install/
It’s all in bad faith. If it was done in good faith, they would be giving away Bitcoin sats for scanning the eyeballs.
The fact they printed a shittoken is highly suspect. Please do not push your shitcoins on the developing world. Pushing your fake money is neocolonialism.
Kyiv Under Heavy-Attack as Ukraine and Russia Say Negotiations Indicate Progress
Maybe, but back then you just had to be an interested party of some learning whose work was correct. Now you have to be a “professional” or endorsed by one. It’s a status competition with real resources on the table rather than an aristocratic hobby for the few who were interested.
> How much of the current inflation has anything to do with interest rates? You think oil/gas prices will care much about the Fed's action?

Yes. Oil/Gas prices are pretty determined by OPEC voting and production of their member countries in conjunction with other macroeconomic issues. OPEC adjusts their production to take into account macroeconomic factors. The Fed rate is one of those issues.
You cannot filter apps based on ads, with the official Play Store app.
Some licenses may require build instructions, but if all you want is to open your source code so that other people can read it, you can just do that. Remove secrets, publish the code, and you're done.

People can figure out how to build it if they want, it's not your problem or responsibility unless you want it to be.

See Keybase or Signal for instance.
The "gone too far" wokeism stuff seems to be openly mocked, almost everywhere, all the time.

Just because I can find people expressing goofy ideas like "saying 'my concerns fell on deaf ears' is ableist language" or "deadnaming a trans person is violence" on Twitter, doesn't mean that's mainstream. Those posts get shared 100x more by people mocking them than by people agreeing with them.

Maybe you could give an example of something specific?
unless goroutines aren't in use, which means the generated code probably matches what llvm and C would generate.
... and my crime is?

Mentioning the idea of wrongthink?

You're kind of proving my point.
It is such a weird story:

BOSTON – Six former employees of eBay, Inc. have been charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign targeting the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company. The alleged harassment included sending the couple anonymous, threatening messages, disturbing deliveries – including a box of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig mask – and conducting covert surveillance of the victims.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/six-former-ebay-employees...
I won't call you an elitist for preferring tools that are cohesive. PHP has lost its chance to be a cohesive language. That ship has sailed.
Maybe it's not so much an indication that reality has gone too far so much as it is that we aren't all equally aligned with reality.

You say that you are a little afraid to speak up but realistically you are being deliberately dramatic. Shall we start a campaign to get you booted from your job tomorrow because you are being dramatic? It's not a crime nor a reason for outrage. You face at worst a down vote