skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind it is also possible for countries to export electricity; for the world to be powered by renewables each country needs not produce 100% of it’s own energy demands.
Lawyer dies after he is shot by gun that was triggered by MRI scanner
What happened to UAP. We spent 15 years collectively trying to retrain everyone to say UAP. This world is so weird
It's funny. Meteorological departments in so many countries around the world release balloons every day. Why is it aimed at China? Are Chinese balloons different?
“We'll get a message from aliens, but no one will understand what it means.”

Unclear how it’s related.
This is not intended to be snippy. What makes writing tests more overwhelming and daunting than writing any other form of code?
I learned using Multimedia Logic.

https://www.softronix.com/mmlogic-downloads/
> people had started to post obscene ASCII drawings, were using various curse words, and there were many, many repetitive comments across the ~400 comments posted

Sounds like an appropriate and commensurate response to this terrible idea.
Most libraries are quite poorly documented (to my taste, anyhow). It is certainly worth spending the time reading at the very least documentation pertinent to the components of the library intended for use.
They could be observing specific things about the planes sent to intercept them, such as their heat signatures and radar cross sections.

But also, don't assume that the US was naive here. The USAF is pretty good at electronic warfare. It's very possible they were jamming the object's sensors in various ways.
Yeah. I have been following those reports on The Drive for a long time. It is the most plausible explanation for the events reported by Naval personnel. It still doesn't change the fact that the objects shot down in the last couple of days are probably just balloons or other lighter-than-air crafts. It will be interesting to see how much information the DoD releases.
I’m surprised it doesn’t have anything about Turkey’s earthquake response. Things happened today.
There’s already so much artificial conflict for the purpose of entertainment.

Nice things don’t have to be labelled as boring. They can just be nice.
Off the top of my head...

Ordinance has a best used by if not a shelf life. Use it or lose it probably matters to someone.

Missiles can detonate near a painted target, instead of needing direct contact. If the thing being exploded is hazardous (when exploded), you don't want to be flying nearby.

This is not an exercise. Combat time is valuable, even if shooting down drones/balloons.

Politically popular optics. Everyone likes a boom, just to be sure. What happens if it falls to the ground and on to someone or someone grabs the wreckage or worse, it's never found? Bad optics.

The common tactic of dismissing high stakes situations as idiotic, is intellectually lazy.
Ah, this relates to what I call the Helveticomment (see profile).

For general situations, I'd guess there are at least 5-10 more really good types of interpretations to be explored, on top of Warnock's originals. (And on top of the others suggested in the article)
This one seems quite easy to fix - just have the scheduler check that task objects have a positive refcount before running them, including the first time.
I remember a trend of people sending up weather balloons with GoPros a few years back. I would imagine having an F-22 come after it would make for a more exciting video than they normally get (although the "edge of space" footage is already pretty cool).
Right, what are the Kardashians up to since all of the balloon activity? We can't forget the important stuff. Or the 18 versions of RHO...
Well, yes, of course the job of developer outreach is performed by engineers, but under the aegis of marketing - which was the point of my statement above, unless I miscommunicated.
So in that situation trade the costly spices for ten non-rotten pies, is my point.
There's a war happening in Europe right now. That's a pretty major recent activity.
This is lovely.
That seems pretty focused on the border with Russia over Alaska. The incident in Montana seems pretty far inland for that to apply. I'm sure there are organizations testing the waters all the time, though, be that with bombers or balloons.
about the balloons themselves? Nothing. But how the US responds, how much they tolerate, that's all important signals. A lot of geopolitical competition is about poking and seeing what you can get away with.
>migrating birds can generate signals.

Great, so you're setting up Pearl Harbor 2.0
You do know that they have done this several times over the last decade or so, right?
While I appreciate TLS, this thing with certificate expiration is one of the biggest sources of downtime IMO. Something should be done about it. May be throw error not permanently but in a some probabilistic way. Like if 1 year certificate expired, after 3 months 25% of connections would fail. It'll allow eventually to find out about problem but it'll allow for connections to somewhat work, with few retries here an there. Expired certificate is not compromised certificate and should not be treated like one. Often next certificate is issued with the same private key.

Especially with short-lived letsencrypt certificates. Despite all the evangelists assurances, certbot is not always easy to set up. After letsencrypt gained popularity, the percentage of small websites with expired certificates significantly increased IMO.
That is not how the chain of command works for the military. The president is the commander in chief, and senators do not report to him.
> Another one of those “how on earth is the richest country on earth this bad?” moments.

I don't know how long this has been going on but I suspect that the effect of systemic deficiencies in education take years or decades to surface.
I think the default certificate expiration time (2 years) is a terrible idea. Its long enough that there's a good chance whoever registered the cert last time has left the team or the company. Its long enough that I've forgotten how to generate a certificate with openssl on the command line. And its long enough that each time, I (and everyone else) can justify not bothering to automate the process.

But 2 years is still short enough that if you have a couple domains, remembering to renew them is an ongoing hassle!

Letsencrypt certificates last 90 days, and they recommend renewing them every 60 days. This is a much better duration, because it encourages the entire ecosystem - developers and admins - to set up processes which automate renewal. And if the automated renewal process fails, letsencrypt starts emailing you about it to let you know your certificate is about to expire. (And you have enough time to fix it).

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
Except this time, no one under 40 seems to give a shit.
Well, if media is our standard for what are appropriate conclusions, we've got a real problem.
China considering tripling nuclear warheads to 900 by 2035: sources
Okay, but then what causes depression? It seems more likely that a range of environmental, lifestyle, and genetic factors cause both depression and mitochondrial damage.
First time I'm learning about this. Is it possible to take content that falls into this category and then reformulate it so that it produces more responses?
Maybe penetration testing, testing response times. Could even be trying to monitor various network traffic and communications signals in relation to activities around responses. Lots of possibilities, it's hard not to speculate.
>no reason why someone who works for Amazon ... should not earn liveable wages and rely on food stamps to supplement their income.

Amazon average starting pay is now $19/hr for front-line. A full-time worker on $19/hr is not SNAP eligible until they're the sole earner for a family size of four.
It looks the best when I move the mouse slowly!
But there's no reason for them to be able to do it on their own, because of NORAD.
Agreed.

Essentially if you don't have an existing code structure in place, TDD will be very confusing and you'll end up tangling yourself into a coding mess.

On the contrary, if you have a structure in place and need to ensure the correctness of the code you're about to write, it is incredibly useful.

Building my own stuff, I hardly ever write any tests tho as in the early stages of a project, testing will slow you down as the tests are essentially locking your code in. For me personally, I prefer to have my code be more fluid so I can rapidly change it without having the overhead of having to write and rewrite the corresponding tests.

When I come across some tricky logic tho I will definitely crank out some tests as it actually helps to create the solution.

As usual context is key to knowing whether TDD (or even testing) is appropriate or not.
“ Another official from the Department of Defense told the New York Times that the object broke into pieces when it hit the frozen sea” - Guardian article on the Alaska downing

How could a balloon break into pieces? Doesn’t it need to be made of flexible material?

Edit: WSJ is now reporting unnamed sources confirmed Alaska was a metallic balloon w suspended payload.
What is harming you that currently isn’t labeled?
>Yes it’s recognizably the same game, but the color pallet is so different

What was the color depth of the original? Was it limited to 8bit or was it 16bit? I'd imagine 24bit can have quite the affect on color palettes when compared to lesser bit depths

Edit: just watched the linked video. it's like they decided on the cinematic trend of washing everything in a color tone, and they chose the orange/gold pallet like it's perpetually golden hour
I'm not sure if you purposely mentioned Nebraska only for the xkcd meme or because you knew the Air Force Weather Agency is based in Nebraska.

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1045...
I was merely setting the metaphor apart from the rest. I'm not sure if the metaphor is stupid or not.
Is it though? Games used to be a one time purchase. Now, it's multiple purchases just to play the one game
None of this is music anyway.
F22 service ceiling (declassified) is 65k feet. It’s almost certainly much higher.
https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0
Did the Governor of Montana just happen to be in DC or was he summoned there?
Now i found a term to explain why no one commented on my last post.
The nanny?

Anyway, the poisonous cloud is perhaps metaphorically hanging over the town, but only during a short section of the novel is there actually a cloud. Though maybe in terms of pages the cloud isn’t over the town very long, but several weeks pass?

This summary is mostly right? I guess?
The same reason it’s ok to eat pigs but not dogs. Humans place animals into fictional categories which dictate the acceptable level of abuse that is allowed to be inflicted upon the animal.
I was thinking that this was a good opportunity for the military industrial complex to ride the hype and make some money by developing an anti-balloon weapon system. Based on my preliminary research of watching youtube videos of people popping party balloons with 1 watt lasers, a scaled up version may be an option, though an anti-balloon missile modeled after a lawn dart also seems intuitive.
It's because James Simons is a serious and actually intelligent person with depth of knowledge, and thus, he is one that doesn't need to opine on random things. He also makes a lot of money in a very secretive way. I'm not sure why anyone expects him to expound in detail on how Renaissance Technologies does it. Simons also spends more money than some governments on very serious and advanced scientific research. I suppose he's rather busy with all his investments and philanthropy. Musk is busy selling himself and filling his unfillable ego.

You can see in Simons' TED interview with Chris Anderson how he gets rather annoyed with Chris at times, particularly when Chris mentions Simons' "amazing mind" at around 8:30. Simons seems, to me, to be a rather pragmatic and humble person who doesn't particularly enjoy flattery. Chris even throws out a quote by Musk at the very end of the interview, fishing for some similar platitude from Simons, but Simons deftly avoids giving out such an empty quote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kIdtMJGc8

Most interestingly, you can tell Simons' like of science and mathematics and alludes to his interest when he mentions his investment into the origins of life towards the end.

There are two interesting talks or interviews I know of with Simons:

* Full-length Numberphile interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

* His lecture on his life given at MIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdTF4_QrTM

Simons actually attributes a lot of his success to luck.
I could what are you curious about? I tried to describe at the highest level possible what Apple is doing in the AI space without naming anything specific.

Apple is currently designing silicon based on speed and efficiency bottlenecks. They analyze their performance and adjust their design to work with these bottlenecks. If one looks at their AI oriented frameworks and their job processing framework they are both being optimized for their custom silicon. Apple hires many PhDs to work on some of these issues.
There aren't ten non-rotten pies available. As winter progresses, almost all the food is getting progressively more rotten.

This story is of a Norwegian ship, a place where they regularly ate fish soaked in lye. Their food options weren't great.
Yeah. I'm kind of flabbergasted by 99.9% of the comments on this topic, which assume the US is just chasing these things blindly without taking countermeasures.

The F-22 and other "stealth" jets can carry radar reflectors to intentionally make themselves EXTREMELY visible on radar.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/82798/how-does-...

Why would they carry such a thing? For one, it helps reduce the risk of accidents during training and other situations where they are flying in friendly skies. Two, helps prevent nosy enemies from learning about the true radar cross section of these planes.

It's hard to find concrete information on the USAF's practices here, for the obvious reasons.

The following is speculation, but: one imagines that the F-22/F-35/etc carry these as standard practice when not flying combat missions/patrols. One also imagines that they can be jettisoned midflight (like drop fuel tanks) in case e.g. a patrol turns into a spicy situation. That's a guess, I don't know if that's true.
He was in Washington, D.C. for the National Governors Association Winter meetup: https://mobile.twitter.com/NatlGovsAssoc/status/162447350615...
wow, this blows me away completely. ive never seen a game that seemed like the intention behind it was to be the spiritual successor to riven. and looking around the web there seems to be a healthy base of people who are excited about this game. i just watched an interview with this guy and he is saying a lot of stuff that i have been thinking in the past 5 years myself -- ive been wanting to make a riven-like game. the trailer thats floating around gives me the sense that the game is lacking polish. the designs and renders lack polish and sharpness. when you look at the images that make up riven, it has heavy duty design sense. i guess it makes sense since its just one guy making this in blender. im excited and supportive but the missing 1% is going to hurt this game. just the way it strikes my eye, its slightly off.

i think when dalle-2 came out, i just gave up on the idea of making this game. i just feel like pretty soon the ai will be able to generate images, animations, puzzles and story. its already super close. i feel such regret and bitterness that humans apparently will no longer be able to employ themselves doing this. you know, people who wrote poems, stories and other things thousands of years ago are still being read today and people today continue on writing things in the same way and its a heritage and a common thread that goes all the way back and continues into the very far future. but now it feels like that ephemeral thread has been cut and the things we do now will be lost and dead in the totally new universe of ai.

i dont know, thats just what comes to mind when i see his interviews, talking about his process and his ideas. i wish they could be completely timeless. and i also gave up on making a game like this because i thought there simply was no market for it anymore but i guess i was wrong.
Wow, that's awful.

I'm thinking he had a round chambered? Or ah, what are the odds that he didn't?

(This reminds me of a boy scout trip to get our brains scanned, thanks to a wealthy sports medicine surgeon-patron)

(We learned later that a swiss army knife had been retrieved from the inside of the MRI machine, and were all given a very stern talking-to)
The balloon typically suspends hardware that serves the actual function; it was likely that hardware that broke into pieces on the ice.
Ex, for this one: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/norad-shoots-down-unidentified...

for the last one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spy-balloon-canada-norad-ques...
All states (except one county in California) agreeing to cut usage is, though.

Similarly, the GOP agreeing to take bipartisan action now that the Salt Lake is set to disappear in 5 years is new (if it dries out, the resulting dust will poison 1.5-2 million people in Salt Lake City).
The rock on the island seems to have gone from a granite like grey to something kind of reddish. The trees looked like redwoods over dark green grass, but both are very different. The spaceship is now more copper than light brass. There are very dark shadows on a path with no shadows before.

It’s not minor changes like going from a very red red to something with more orange in it. It’s just flat out different colors.

They’re art direction changes.
Terrible name too
Cessna can't fly high enough. Child can't stabilize laser well enough to do required damage.
Rail Workers Blame Fiery Train Crash in Ohio on Wall Street Profit-Seeking
"What we don’t yet understand is what sorts of technology are in there,” the official said.
Are we at war with extraterrestrial aliens without even realizing it?! In all Hollywood movies the aliens attack the US first, so this hypothesis checks out.
Just make note of what killed you and avoid it hence. You do usually have the choice of not engaging.
> You missing the entire context of the conversation

The entire comment section of this article can be perused in a few minutes. Cntrl-f and I find all your comments. At this moment there are 5 (4 of which are this thread). There hasn't been some elaborate discussion that's hard to follow.

> replying to a specific part of my response to another person is not a miscommunication,

Plainly dishonest. Got it.
A positive refcount doesn't mean the object is not dead.
ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten It
It’s ok we have plenty of those. Good target practice.
Memphis police culture comes under scrutiny after Nichols beating
I think the opposite. It's easier to have discipline and adhere to a process than it is to be exceptionally talented.

(Assuming that's what you meant by 'exceptional')
Or the readings could be the usual EPA PM2.5, CO, NOx, and ozone concentrations, and phosgene, vinyl chloride, and HCl are none of the above. (Although a cheap VOC sensor could plausibly detect phosgene and vinyl chloride.)
It would absolutely be bad, and there would—I hope—be consequences, but if they clearly didn't intend to bomb anything, it would probably not be considered any more of an act of war than if their balloon fell out of the sky and hurt someone.
I feel there are way more complex systems that science haven't fully sorted out, not even close to it. Gut flora, mitrochondria, immune systems, etc. I hope at the end of the day we haven't harmed a generation of future humans with ultraprocessed food, introduction of forever-chemicals, microplastics, so on and so forth...
Delphi had the opposite bug in its thread pool. The worker threads would dequeue a work item and process it in a loop. The work items were reference counted.

Now, Delphi doesn't have scoped variable declarations like say C++ or C#, so the dequeued work item was stored in a local variable. However, it didn't drop (nil/null) the work item reference before it looped. Thus it would hang on to that reference until the next work item got dequeued or the pool was destroyed.

The result was that if you in a function started a task which captured a local reference (f.ex. using an anonymous function) and then waited for it, that reference could live after your function returned if the pool didn't have anything else to do. Not what most people would expect.
IBM says running 'AI supercomputer' since May but chose now to tell the world
Sir, that was five years ago
Added a demo video to the site. Let me know if you have questions! (Feel free to email me too: will@usepare.com)
Lighter than air aircraft. Could have been some light weight composite.
It's not a dumb question at all. What you're suggesting is not entirely without precedent:

https://www.space.com/281-sky-capture-nasa-bring-genesis-ear...

However, that was a known harmless object on a known trajectory versus an unknown and possibly hostile object.

Additionally, helicopters can't fly nearly high enough for these. 25,000 feet vs 40,000+ feet.
I went to a grocery store today, and they had a sign saying they want to hire pharmacy technicians...for $20/hr...with experience.

Here is apparently what being a pharmacy tech involves in NY:
https://ptcbtestprep.com/state-requirements/pharmacy-tech-li...

This may or may not be a good wage by your standards and location. But relative to jobs that have no real qualifications or experience needed, that have been putting up signs for $15/hr recently, it was kind of astounding to me.

It suggests to me they are exploiting people based on the cynical assumption that the qualifications are a sunk cost and replacing the current workforce is not the employers' problem.
It seems like the library should retain a handle on the task until it completes.
Obligatory: 3.6 Roentgen, not great not terrible.
> Something is definitely happening.

A social media misinformation storm?
You could also not write your own server. Just configure OpenResty, write some simple LUA to push to the redis queue. Then consume the queue via your language of choice to write to your store(clickhouse).
I wonder if a heavily weighted net (or rope/lasso) would work.
Why the U.S. Can’t Solve Homelessness
> task groups (nurseries from trio) can't arrive soon enough in the stdlib

Please, no. Asyncio is horrible, and bodging it to make it less horrible just means we will be forced to live with the remaining horror. Far better to replace it with something that works properly (yes, Trio).
Not just that, it is also annoying to work around. Sometimes you really do want to kick off a background task and have it run to completion, even if you can't keep a handle on it, just like a thread. This is surprisingly hard to do.
The number of adenine repeats that confer functional properties is quite variable but it definitely needs to be more than "just 1". I've seen anywhere from 25-250 used in designed plasmids. The exact number people use in their engineered sequence is based on a number of factors, not all of them scientific in nature (e.g. companies charge per basepair synthesize a bespoke polypeptide; e.g. you copied the sequence from a previous clone into ApE and that sequence used 30 repeats and worked fine).
This is partly the goal of structured concurrency, implemented as Nursery in Trio and TaskGroup in Asyncio.
Overwhelming to who? Do you have some evidence that anyone is overwhelmed? I don't see it's at all overwhelming to the US Defense Department.
Why isn't there a metal detector at the door to every MRI room?