skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the claim is...these highly trained pilots and the other sensor systems didn't realize that objects cause IR glare, but this guy did. Case closed.

And frankly the "this guy" appears to be someone with no expertise and who is strongly biased towards particular investigatory outcomes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_West:

> Mick West is a British science writer, skeptical investigator, and retired video game programmer. He is the creator of the websites Contrail Science and Metabunk, and he investigates and debunks pseudoscientific claims and conspiracy theories such as chemtrails and UFOs.

Not to say he isn't right in this case, but I'm equality unenthusiastic about "skeptics" like that as I am about conspiracy theorists.

Edit: on second thought, I'm somewhat more unenthusiastic "skeptics" like that. Conspiracy theorists can at least be entertaining sometimes, while "skeptics" tend to just bore you with self-assured arrogance while they take pot shots at low-hanging fruit.
> School is 90% daycare so the parents can work, not really to teach kids.

That probably depends on each persons means to teach their own children.
We have a grainy infrared video, and claims of other infrared, radar and visual observations. Claims are easy to make and hard to analyze. Video is all we can analyze, and the video is unconvincing. Why then should we believe the claims?
U.S. President Biden on Russian President Putin – “I Think He Is a War Criminal”
The "saucer" shape and its rotation were IR glare, that's the point of the video. He's very clear that he's NOT debunking the existence of an object. The exhaust of a jet engine, or another high-heat signature, could cause such glare.

AFAICT no pilots saw this shape with their naked eye. They were miles away from the target and relying on what they saw via their sensors.
Terraform-AWS-modules: Made it clear that we stand with Ukraine
Yes, the only way raising these rates could reduce demand is by increasing unemployment.

Powell is much more honest than his predecessors in this regard. I commend him for it.

The obsession with this single policy lever is bad, and I hope it changes. But there being little political will to raise rates is a good first step.

Eventually we can leave them at zero, and manage the economy by other means.
That was pretty painful to watch with the fast forward going on for so long. I didn't try to take that in.

Seems to me like our gov's own investigation would've found gimbal glare to be the culprit if that were the case. But they didn't. What they said is:

"Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us..."

And:

"We absolutely do believe what we're seeing are not simply sensor artifacts."

[https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/ufo-report-pentagon-...]
> I am contacted dozens of times every week with varying requests to answer people’s questions

Occasionally happens to me. I mean, not dozens of times a week, but I've had a few weeks with more than a dozen times.

> fix bugs

"Please file an issue at http://the.issue.tracker/wherever"

> or build new features

"Please file an issue at http://the.issue.tracker/wherever"

> set up consultations

So, this one is interesting. I mean, it almost never happens to me, and certainly not w.r.t. my FOSS specifically. If I were looking for work, this would be a boon, would it not? And if I'm fully booked, then:

"I am currently not available for consultancy. You may inquire again, if relevant, in ____ months."

> or discuss business opportunities.

"I'm sorry, not interested. Good luck with your business."

Although I guess if there were dozens of these emails per week, I would create a private email box and keep the existing one only for FOSS-support-related business, attending to it every couple of weeks or so. And perhaps create an auto-reply with the above replies :-)
Thank you! These are actually in stock locally and seem way more practical than the prepper food buckets.
If I press 'f' it can come out as 'ffffff'. They're not dirty, but they're probably 10-15 years old. I assume this is much harder to fix than changing the keyboard controller.
What would keep this project from being the target of orchestrated spam attempts?
It has everything to do with it.

If they were higher, people would go bankrupt, not have money to drive, use less gas/oil, thus reducing demand, thus reducing price, thus reducing inflation.
in the 80s it was not unusual for armed Russian strategic bombers to cross into US airspace above Alaska and then be escorted back out by US interceptors. I agree nuclear saber rattling is unsettling but it can get much worse than what we're seeing now.

/btw, in other discussions i've been too cavalier throwing around the likelihood of nuclear weapon use in Ukraine. I've thought about it much more since those other threads
Lens glare tracked by radar.

That's a new one.
We don't know your schedule..that's correct. The goal is to not tell you what to do, but what is good to do.
Worth noting that if you actually ARE being tailed by an organized and well-resourced group, they will frequently use a team of people to do so, time and circumstances permitting.
Providing chemical plants with models to estimate lethality of orders could be a great use case for this work.
>The church knew this would set people thinking.

This sentence carries a lot of weight and I don't think it's terribly truthful, or at best, speculative.

Galileo wasn't in trouble with the church because "it would get people thinking". He was in trouble because he was directly opposing the power and teachings of the church. Whether people would "think" about it I don't feel is terribly relevant, let alone something you can definitively say. Do we really know that the church was worried people would "think for themselves", or just that.

This implication is that the church knew Galileo was right. It also implies that these "things you can't say" are universally good and beneficial to society. With falsehoods neatly hand-waved away by conflating them with "people in Pittsburgh are 10 feet tall". Well, people believe the earth is flat, vaccines cause 5G, that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and a whole host of other things that are harmful to society in varying degrees.

Being shunned for your ideas isn't evidence that you are Galileo leading the world into a bright new future. More likely you are, at best, the eccentric who should be ignored and your idea is that people in Pittsburgh are 11 feet tall.
It might possibly have an effect, in the same way that anything that causes more unemployment and increases the likelihood of a recession might have an effect.
I was educated in the US and took AP US History in high school. I don't recall a specific reference to Zersetzung within that curriculum, but the idea that life in East Germany was difficult due to Stasi oppression was covered. I don't recall specific examples like the story I asked about though (besides my own extracurricular references from movies/books).
This essay is so prescient.

Does anyone else think wokeism has gone too far, and we're sliding into a 1984-style era full of newspeak, wrongthink, and thoughtcrimes?

I feel a little afraid to even write that, even as a question mark, even at that level of abstraction.

That right there is probably an indication that it perhaps has gone too far.

To be clear, this is coming from a person who is hispanic, supports gay-rights, and voted for Bernie. Not that any of that should matter.
Anger is a manifestation of fear, which in turn stems from insecurity. If you are confident, there is nothing to be afraid of and becoming irate about.

This makes it a useful measure sometimes. If a thing you say causes anger, it may or may not be true—but it definitely indicates your counterpart’s sensitivity to and bias against it being true; the chance of it being false is thus elevated.
I think weaponising open source, however well intentioned sets a dangerous precedent. Where will it end? Would we exclude political parties or religions? I think it is dangerous…
Done, but it's the actual content of the site that is awful.
So, undone.
But why would a GPL app need to force GPL on a plugin? That seems to me like a perfectly reasonable boundary between the two applications. If I wanted to leverage OBS for example and introduce my own plugin that made use of a closed-source library or tool I had the license for, I should be able to create it. My third-party plugin doesn't impede the distribution and usage of OBS in any way, only provides a separate feature that might require a different license.
I think there should be term like suffering from open-source fatigue.

Being an active open source dev myself I can relate to this but at the same time I also have been on the other side of the fence when my oss projects didn't get a lot of traction and any mention from anyone, even if it was an issue, got me really excited and it also kinda validated my efforts.

It's like being a mini celebrity feeling happy when somebody asks for your first autograph but as you become more successful more people want your time and attention and then you don't want it anymore. Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune, so that makes it all the more easy to get annoyed when people try to eat your attention for their own benefit.
I have some services running on my home network (e.g Kubernetes and some stuff on a Raspberry Pi) that I'd like access when I'm away from home. Tailscale made that really easy. I just setup their client on the devices that need to communicate, and that's it. I can access those devices on my home network from my Macbook when I'm out and about. What's really neat is I can even set my Raspberry Pi as a DNS server for devices in my Tailscale mesh (using their DNS features) and use Pi-hole to setup custom DNS rules for those devices. Wrote a short piece about it here: https://evanshortiss.com/crc-tailscale
Sounds rather uncharitable. If that's what you think, then maybe open source software is not a good fit for use in your projects. Which is totally fine! Some domains benefit from having most of the code immediately at hand and under your control.
The Fed is trapped: It can’t raise too much since trillions of debt rely on very low rates. If it doesn’t raise enough then
inflation will cause a recession.
Smooth, but lacking
There is def an element of this. Replicability, perverse incentives, bad scientific cultures in specific fields, and all sorts of problems mean a lot of bad or pointless research is done.

It is very hard to say with basic research, what is pointless. For instance, there is little application for bozons and yet we paid a lot of money for CERN. On the other hand, they say all that RNA vaccine research looked kind of pointless till recently. What if the data about subatomc particles at cern lets us build quantum computers or fusion power - we wouldn't know until much later. So hard to value.

But it doesn't change the multiplier effect of figuring out how to synthesise all this stuff. Some of this stuff only becomes valuable once we can do that.
How did anyone buy a house or a car with interest rates in the 20%s?
Given what ZAP is designed to do, I'd bet $1 it will actively strip off any such headers before returning the response to the browser, since I think by definition injecting a MITM cert is the very case such stapling is designed to prevent against :-)

But, corporate proxies must face similar problems since they, too, MITM things, but I'm deeply thankful that I don't work in such an environment in order to know what the behavior is in that circumstance

I hope this doesn't come across as glib, but ZAP is Apache licensed, so if you are able to come up with the security behavior you want, I'd bet they'd welcome any patches to help implement it
I didn't think the radar track was at the same time was it? I thought the Tico's tracked it with the SPY-1 and they sent F-18s to investigate who then tracked it with the FLIR and visually.

Without a reference point you are unlikely to be able to guess the distance of an aircraft, especially an unknown one.
The Fed has created a debt bomb.
Any (constructive) recommendations for a weatherproof computer in any price range? Or a weatherproof enclosure?
> If we're trying to disprove polices, then the governor has final veto power even if the legislature outnumbers them

The power of the governor varies substantially from state to state.

> plus they are the ones who set regulations (although city level regulations can vary wildly)

At least in most states, the laws are crafted by the legislature, and implemented by the Governors. Either way, I think it's very reasonable to assume that the in states that voted for a particular President, the local regulations within that state are more likely to be in line with that President and their party than if they voted the other way.

> The best thing would likely be to look at a matrix of policies for each state to identify potential impact from a specific policy over time and in combination with the other factors.

Yes. I would imagine if such a matrix showed that the policies of the Democratic party, normalized for other factors, were correlated with higher murder rates, the prevailing narrative would be well founded.

The point is, absent that, there's no reason to accept or speak to that narrative, other than to mislead and disseminate disinformation for political gain.
>Did they say from the beginning "Hey, it's free forever!" * ?
If they made it explicit that it is free forever, then I would agree with your stance that Docker in the wrong. *

Well sorry but free without any conditions attached, becomes free as in beer. If I give you a shiny toy for free no strings attached, I can't come back to your house later and ask for money for it because I didn't specify how long it would be free. If I didn't specify the conditions of the 'free', then I goofed up.

If they didn't put any conditions on the duration of the 'free' from the start and is causing them to loose money, then either they were financially stupid from the start or, more likely, they wanted to pull the classic SV success scam where you bait customers into a free* product for years, burning endless cash to capture the market, and when customers become locked in thanks to the 'free', and you are the de-facto standard with no competition left, start rent seeking.
I have used LuaDNS for quite some time now. I like it.
I currently pay for the 4 device plan. Even though I'm a pretty light user, everything just works, and I can use 2 devices in my house, plus my mom can have Netflix on her TV. If they're going to complicate things or charge more (even with a nominal $2.99 fee) that'd probably be enough to overcome my inertia and get me to just cancel.
Emacs with evil is excellent. I don't use a lot of vim plugins but it has all the basics, change surround with cs, commenting with gc, going to definition and finding references with gd and gD respectively, etc. Unless you have some custom vim plugins you should be fine.
You can't look at the US alone. The economy is gobal.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/world-...
They have been "expecting" to raise rates for years now. Most of the time, they chicken out, and last time they went through with it (2018), the Fed Chairman was replaced with someone who was well known to be "dovish" on rate increases.
>This analysis is pretty flimsy.

Flimsy is an extremely generous and flattering word if you know anything about the details of this case or the testimony of the Navy's top pilots who witnessed and tracked this object from different vantage points both visually and with instruments.
> Yes, the only way raising these rates could reduce demand is by increasing unemployment.

It could also reduce demand by making it more expensive to buy things. Sure, that will probably have a side-effect of increasing unemployment, but that unemployment isn't the goal. The goal is to make it cost more to do things so less people want to do them.
No need to go dystopian.

There a difference between desire and greed.

If you are never satisfied you are greedy and should seek mental help, it's the same with being hungry no matter how much you eat.
Also, another factor in pricing is ‘brand power’ or in this case ‘artisan power’ - pricing based on materials and time alone is no different than being a tradesmen. In the luxury goods sector much of the price is based on brand power and are almost in no way related to manufacturing costs (although at the high end the goods being made are also being produced by skilled artisans with expensive materials in the first world, ie. Hermes). So a maker must also consider brand building too, and the value in that over time - again connected to storytelling.
Sum types are indeed great. That's why they're in Go 1.18. Pipe syntax and all.
I don't even think you need a hostile actor, you could just have an incompetent actor who flips the sign on a value, and instead of designing a biological agent to maximize wheat production, designs one that minimizes wheat production, and ends up exterminating all global wheat.
This argument is complete non-sense (just because a device doesn't receive software updates it doesn't mean it can't receive date/time updates).

But who cares. We told you, that there are valid use-cases where timestamps are not the best solution and brought examples. If you don't want to see them, it is your loss.
> The US Air force and Navy have a pretty bad track record of incompetent pilots. They have a history of losing numerous planes in training excercises, for example.

Or flying planes planes for the military is just really hard, and you're holding them to an unreasonable standard.

Even the best programmer writes software with bugs, especially when they're not playing it safe and just writing fizzbuzz over and over again.
Not GP, but I don't think there's an actual "rate" as such - it's the actions the Fed takes to balance prices such that it falls within their target: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/effr
"That significantly increases the chance for interpersonal crimes of all sorts, including murder."

Well usually once you commit murder (and are caught/convicted) you're incarcerated. So in theory once you hit a certain number of interactions, the people prone to snapping would have snapped. So I think the threshold is low enough that people who would commit a murder have sufficient opportunity in either environment.

"One might easily have more close friends or family"

In theory, if murder is something that generally involves strong passions, wouldn't the closer relationships result in the violence when someone snaps from a betrayal or habitual disrespect?

"becomes all numerically impossible for them to be comparable."

I think that's only true if we are weighting those interactions linearly and not including mitigating factors that could be more prevalent in one population or the other.
It sounds like an OS-specific tool would be entirely the wrong choice for you as you work cross-platform.

(Personally, I love the fact that copy/paste work in my Terminal with the same keys as every other app)

And, if you weren't aware, the keystrokes and design pre-date most other GUI systems in use today (Ctrl-C/V/X and things like dialogue boxes and menus work were part of IBM's CUA standards which, in turn, were an imperfect copy of the existing MacOS guidelines).

Likewise, MacOS used to have a hugely important rule; because in English we read from top-left to bottom-right, important stuff should be bottom right and stuff we use infrequently or is dangerous at the top-left.

Which is why the Apple menu and the window close button are top-left, why the primary button in any dialogue box is bottom-right. (And there is research, for example eye-tracking studies, showing that this helps significantly with user comprehension of what's on screen). However, Apple gave up on all this research when His Steveness returned and now just wings it - but it's this user-centric stuff that people refer to when talking about the "Macness" of an app.
Yes, Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, they absolutely work and it's unwise to base your opinions on their nuclear and tactical capabilities based on their slow advance into Ukraine.

The Poseidon is a 100 megaton nuclear torpedo.

It doesn't need to get anywhere near a carrier group to knock out the entire group. It is twice as powerful as the largest nuke ever detonated (at 57megatons) and a Russian sub can carry four of these torpedoes:

“All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 km (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows, doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometres (170 mi). The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero. A shock wave was observed in the air at Dikson settlement 700 km (430 mi) away; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Stripe will review your YC application before you submit
I'll reckon their criteria for "spy" is something like "disagrees with me politically".
It certainly does not have everything to do with it. The answer is somewhere in the middle. Cheap money absolutely causes inflation, but so do global supply chain breakdowns.
And much of economics describes the behavior of psychopaths.
We could almost certainly get to human cloning very fast; the technology isn't really the botttleneck. It's just that no one does it and for very good reasons. The only way human cloning could be useful and help "solve" any problem would also involve going back to chatel slavery. Why would any research go towards that?

It's not like star wars, human clones would still be human.
> After reading that, I would not use it without completely understanding the code as if I had written it myself (and maybe that's what you should do for every dependency anyway).

Isnt that the point? As in, it allows for the use of some (context-appropriate) open source upstream software to quickly flesh out some idea into an implementation, rather than expending time and effort writing certain code oneself (the user of the open source software). This doesn't absolve the user from the responsibility of eventually writing their own implementation, or alternatively, maintaining, that open source code/library/framework as a part of their overall codebase.

And so I seriously miss the point of where the managing or maintaining of some open source code, to satisfy some other downstream project's requirements, is the responsibility of upstream... again, when downstream uses it they do so to benefit themselves by not having to write or maintain that piece of software, but that comes with risks along with the relevant benefits. As in, its a "dependency" (in the name) for a reason.

I almost see it as bordering on a concept of entitlement to think that someone else (eg the original creator of some software) should spend time and effort fixing issues or adding functionality that benefits some user. Basically, one should always be considering that dependencies at the time of pulling them in are static and provided as is with no contract of maintenance, and that it might provide benefit currently but that there is a very real potential cost to using it in the future.
Not according to California: https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/laws-and-regulations
The UAP report debunks the idea that all the evidence the government has has been debunked. Time will tell but the report reversed Project Blue Book, which ruled out non-human technology.