skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible that it is both. The first one was Chinese spy balloon. Part of long line but this one was bigger, noticed from the ground, and government had to do something about it.

The air defense folks increased the sensitivity of radars and started finding the UFOs. Maybe the UFOs were keeping away from population areas and radars but now were being picked up.

It is strange that the objects aren't stealthed. Which makes sense for balloon payload. But stealth, hovering, car-sized objects should be hard to detect. Maybe aliens don't know about stealth. The other weird thing is that they just hover. For advanced or alien technology, I would expect them to move away or dodge.
> this would be a FTL alien civ.

Why FTL? or any of the things you list. We are already looking to fly tiny probes past alien exoplanets with Breakthrough Starshot.
>a more reasonable way to define things than just saying that some (but not all) things people do can also be done by corporations (like owning property, etc.)

I think that's the general state of affairs.

A corporation can send out a press release the claims in which are not all on the PR person identified at the bottom. Absent criminal malfeasance, a CFO isn't personally on the hook for a contract that the company can't meet. An individual developer can't generally be sued by a customer for a big in their code.

But people who didn't like the Citizens United decision rally around the corporate personhood flag even though, of course, corporations and other entities take collective actions that aren't always about individual responsibility.
This is a case where Linux refers to the entire OS family and not just the kernel.

The kernel interface is very stable. The common libraries are not. Not even glibc
I love monorepos. I feel like they are even more helpful for small teams and smaller scale. The productivity of being able to add libraries by creating a new folder or refactor across services is unbeatable.
Long time ago I read one of the predictions, cannot remember who, and one of the lines was saying "World will struck illness of rapid aging", at the time it looks so silly, but after reading this it looks so odd...
After Covid and CRISPER advances, I wonder how far is future where someone come up with idea to weaponize this finding or just try a test that will go wrong and escaping lab. Well, I hope not ...
It's a bit strange to describe a total cost of $100+ billion as "minimal".
We still use its active ingredient (scopolamine) to treat nausea.
Sabine's explanation is the most compelling I've ever seen, but I still can't get past the very obvious and much simpler explanation that we just don't understand gravity.

We very famously don't have a model of gravity that works at quantum scales, and our current model clearly doesn't work at galactic scales.

So our solution to this problem is... Invisible pixie dust. We've just reinvented the aether, and we're even still doing the same experiments to detect dark matter as we tried to detect aether.

I really just don't buy it. Dark matter would require reworking everything from particle physics up to cosmological interactions. How is this more acceptable than our model of gravity being more wrong than it is now?

We're very clearly missing something fundamental in our understanding of gravity. We know that, and we've known it for a long time. The absense of dark matter would mean that our understanding of gravity is still wrong. Having a more incorrect model of gravity involves far fewer variables than an entirely new type of matter, so why is everyone on the dark matter bandwagon?
I tried Deno and really liked it. The pros:

- It uses the v8 engine so you've got the same APIs you know and love for the browser like fetch() - Something that nodejs is just catching up to now

- It's not nodejs, the whole name means 'destroy node'. You can get a lot done without being buried in dependencies. Well-maintained core libraries.

- Server-Side WASM is a really interesting idea for encapsulating and integrating stuff written in, say, C++

The cons:

- Some of the third party ecosystem seems to be suffering from a lack of recent maintenance

- Server-side WASM is limited to 32-bit until they figure that out, which also limits whatever you do with it to a 4GB memory ceiling

Other than all that though it's probably not a bad choice for anyone not bothered by those limitations and just wants everyone who speaks typescript on the frontend to be able to grasp what's on the server side end of things too.

I think it could probably thrive with more usage traction.
I run sfp+ 10 gig at home. You can get SR transceivers for maybe $6ea last I made a purchase. Appropriate LC fiber patch cords are similarly dirt cheap.
Still more useful than Hacktoberfest contributions, so I can't blame her.

There is no point in publicly shaming junior developers.

Lot of them are paid doing low-value (or even no-value) work in companies too, but it's part of the learning process.

It's good that she got interested and she certainly learnt more along the way, plus this was 7 years ago...
How Secretive Groups Cashed in on Senator's Interest in UFOs
Social media is dead. It was never social. If I had ads to sell, then I wouldn't be looking to spend the budget on deserts like Facebook and Twitter.
What do you mean the eastern part of the US has just had a Phosphene release causing potentially millions of cancer deaths in the years to come?

Look aliens!!!!!!!
There are lots of 30-32" 4k displays out there.
That is a modification, but since you are redistributing it the GPL doesn’t limit you in any way. It specifically allows you to make any use of the software that you like.
What is wrong with

["10","10","10"].map(parseInt)

?
see also https://openbb.co/

as for has anyone, well, there's the infamous wallstbets on reddit but also the less infamous /r/algotrading where you may have better luck with the question
One issue that's been bothering me about Deno is this one:

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/14244

You have to use a third-party Docker container if you want to use Docker locally and develop on an M1 Mac (I use Docker to separate my different dev environments). And the issue was just ignored and became stale.
Absolutely; i just mean I love it for guiding my learning :) i don't use it for final projects, but it does help me navigate the material if I'm not comprehending it well. I hope ChatGPT is embraced for that reason, because it's really like finding a key to a lock with professors. They explain things in the most effective way they know how, and ChatGPT wouldn't get exhausted or impatient with you if you ask it the same question in different ways. That said, it does produce erroneous information. I hope less than my professors.

:)
FreeBSD jails were released in 2000 in FreeBSD 4.0. Solaris Zones in 2004/2005. In fact, the original Solaris Zones paper cites jails as inspiration.

Jails: Confining the omnipotent root (2000): <https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pdfdocs/papers/jail.pdf>

Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads (2004): <https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/...>

Originally, jails didn't virtualise the network stack. That was added later, in FreeBSD 8.0 with VNETs, which were buggy for a long time, but went through extensive testing and are enabled by default since FreeBSD 12.0 (quite recently). Solaris Zones went a step further than the original design, and run a separate network stack for each zone from the start, years before FreeBSD did.

BTW, recommended talk about those topics:

Papers We Love: Jails and Zones: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U>
Looking for anyone with links to people doing informed speculation on the payload on the original balloon given the photos that were taken. Are they doing bulk-collection of IMEIs? Photography?
Users report deletion of paid Heroku accounts
> All of that is a long-winded rephrasing of the old truism: it's not about what you know, but who you know.

This is how organizations die, political, corporate, non-profit, or any other type. People who are good at knowing other people frequently aren’t the best person for the job, and selecting for newcomers who are good at knowing other people over work leads to aristocrats and manipulative sociopaths taking over, and then you have GE, a company that lost its ability to innovate, could only copy hot trends popular among Wall Street poorly, moved into finance and oil despite having no expertise in these fields to the tune of billion dollar losses, and is now a mess in the process of being broken up and dissolved.

On a much greater scale, Putin’s Russia works a lot like this, which has led it to become an incompetent brutal dictatorship that terrorizes its citizens and also can’t even take over Ukraine, one of the poorest country in Europe and its direct neighbor, because everyone who was competent got pushed out or killed.
ThoughtPad
a very simple space for stimulating serendipitous ideation.
GPT3 is paid for. ChatGPT is a fine tuned version (or more modified now) with free access.
From Wikipedia:
"In humans, disease is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person affected, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders..."
Yeah, MIPS is probably the best example and did get some uptake. But the big vendors mostly went their own way. Although I was involved in that history to a degree, I'm not entirely sure why history played out the way it did.
It passes the value and index to `parseInt`, where the 2nd argument is `base`. So it does not return `[10, 10, 10]` as you'd expect. It returns `[10, NaN, 2]` instead.

You have to do `['10', '10', '10'].map((val) => parseInt(val, 10));` to get the "expected" output. In addition, you should always provide `base` to `parseInt` otherwise it has it's own interpretation infered by the value you give it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
“22 year old junior programming student wins scholarship by tackling good-first-issues makes other programmers butthurt.”

Have people forgotten how bad programmers in/right out of school are? These are exactly the kinds of things you give students to work on.
Sometimes I wish that someone releases weaponized virus that enhances our abilities, makes us healthier or prolong our life ;)
shouldn't you merge the upvotes?
> Any time I'm programming in other statically typed languages it's like programming but with my hands tied backward

I feel the same when I have to code in Scala instead of Haskell, because the former has to be used for third-party JARs from enterprise vendors that pretend that there only are JVM and .NET.

After the newstyle Cabal, Sbt feels like a bunch of dynamic nonsense too, especially if there's classpath-based runtime-delayed dependency resolution.

I also find that documentation feels more lacking, simply because I cannot easily find third-party libraries and standard definitions by their signatures in my browser address bar, like I can in Haskell with Hoogle: "!h f a -> f b".
Great book! Helped me finally understand how to implement variable height walls in the raycaster for my current game.
Context: Staff Eng @ Google for 7+ years

1) This is solved by 2 interlocking concepts: comprehensive tests & pre-submit checks of those tests. Upgrading a version shouldn’t break anything because any breaking changes should be dealt with in the same change as the version bump.

2) Google’s monorepo allows for visibility restrictions and publicly-visible build targets are not common & reserved for truly public interfaces & packages.

3) “Code churn” is a very uncharitable description of day-to-day maintenance of an active codebase.

Google has invested heavily in infrastructural systems to facilitate the maintenance and execution of tests & code at scale. Monorepos are an organizational design choice which may not work for other teams. It does work at Google.
Terminology nitpick: MOND is a Dark Matter theory. Dark Matter is whatever causes the observed phenomena that galaxy rotation rates are all wonky. If it explains galaxy rotation rates, which MOND does, it's dark matter. I'll use the term CDM ("Cold Dark Matter", meaning non-relativistic matter like dark matter) which is a catchall for Axions, WIMPs, and MACHOs when I'm talking about the prevailing theory of dark matter. (note that MACHOs have been falsified by observation, even though it was originally the leading hypothesis for a while.)

> and extremely intuitive for the physicist,

No it isn't. We haven't gotten here because it's intuitive, we've gotten here because it's the only hypothesis which is consistent with the data.

> Unfortunately it seems that the physicist community (outside of a small subset) is unwilling to research in the MOND space; it has the taint.

This is false. MOND was a leading theory up until it was falsified by the Bullet Cluster. MOND was later falsified by baryon acoustic oscillations. Then again by ultra diffuse galaxies. Most MOND theories predicted gravitational waves traveling slower than the speed of light, all of which were falsified by GW 170817, the neutron star-neutron star merger a few years ago.

MOND has little support in 'orthodox' physics and cosmology because it keeps getting falsified.

> So physicists just pile on a bunch of extra variables to make Dark Matter fit certain observations, when MOND describes those observations very simply.

MOND is viable because we add more variables to it every time the latest observation comes along that falsifies it. It's true that the original, first incarnation of MOND is simpler than CDM, but every time we learn more about the universe, CDM still stands but MOND is invalidated, and so another variable has to be added to it.

CDM frontloads all its warts and complexity. "We propose new, as yet undetected and possibly undetectable particles." Everything else is just running the numbers. MOND frontloads its simplicity. "F = m a^2 / a_0". Everything else adds more variables. You want it to be compatible with GR? You need to add new variables to Einstein's equations. You want it to have stars in that are stable? You need to add new variables. You want it to be consistent with gravitational waves traveling near or at the speed of light? New variables. You want it to be compatible with BAO observations? New variables.

You want it to be compatible with the bullet cluster and ultra diffuse galaxies? Now you need to add CDM.

We are now at the point where viable MOND theories still include CDM, just less CDM than pure CDM. Ballpark numbers are that pure CDM predicts 80% of galaxy rotation curves are caused by CDM and 20% by normal matter, leading viable MOND predicts 20% by normal unadjusted gravity on normal matter, 40% by CDM, and 40% by the modified gravity equations. If you're just looking for the simpler model, MOND ain't it.
It's difficult to be Christian and be in tech in this day and age.
Why though? I’m a little out of date on this, but it seems leptin does strongly inhibit appetite when injected directly into the CSF, but mostly fails to do this in real life because of “leptin resistance.” For example, high triglycerides, block leptin transport across the blood brain barrier.
Train derailed with ecological consequences
The reason I mentioned Cyberpunk is because it demonstrates a massive change in brand awareness, same for 2042.

5-10 years ago publishers would just ignore outrage and fix the bare minimum quietly and then leave it alone. Think of all the major bugs just left in games in the 00s and 10s, Fallout New Vegas in particular comes to mind. That might be the single game with the worst long term support ive ever seen. They released it in even worse shape, then made it barely functional, released mod tools and never touched it again because the Obsidian & Bethesda relationship fell apart.

Today both BF2042 and Cyberpunk are going out of their way to improve their games from launch state and make a marketing effort on behalf of it to recover their brand. Gigantic difference.
The number of developers defending this decision may also partly explain the decision. Developers' skill has many dimensions that are not perfectly correlated. It's quite possible that even among the (otherwise highly skilled) python core developers, few understand (or care) how API design affects reliability of code written by the library users. And the few that do, have hundreds of higher priority issues to deal with.
Yeah, but they travel in pods of 42.
> and then become assimilated and just march on becoming part of that same culture.

haha this is so true. It basically always happens unless you walk away
Some other bits to read:

* Popsci got a range day with an earlier 10kW version (https://www.popsci.com/technology/firing-raytheon-laser-weap...). The version being deployed is 50kW. Naively extrapolating - they were able to pop unarmored drones in ~10-20 seconds at 10kW.

* Some scant technical details (https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14277...). It's a fiber laser system
Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Not in the us/europe they don’t
the bullet cluster is like 'two clusters collided in the visual plane, and now the lensing peaks are correlated with the respective centers of luminosity'

unless I'm missing something, this is mysterious in the exact same way as normal galaxies
engines at that time were "kickstarted" by manually spinning the propeller. How would he get his engine restarted? I suppose if you dived from a high enough height you could get enough wind? I'm also guessing to land he'd have to do it on one of those long blimp style "aircraft carrier" balloons rather than on a round one. He could get out of his plane and start the propeller himself and jump back in? seems unlikely.

OK, you can get out and start your own plane:

research: from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_engine_starting

Hand starting of aircraft piston engines by swinging the propeller is the oldest and simplest method, the absence of any onboard starting system giving an appreciable weight saving. Positioning of the propeller relative to the crankshaft is arranged such that the engine pistons pass through top dead centre during the swinging stroke.

As the ignition system is normally arranged to produce sparks before top dead centre there is a risk of the engine kicking back during hand starting, to avoid this problem one of the two magnetos used in a typical aero engine ignition system is fitted with an 'impulse coupling', this spring-loaded device delays the spark until top dead centre and also increases the rotational speed of the magneto to produce a stronger spark.

Accidents have occurred during lone pilot hand starting, high throttle settings, brakes not applied or wheel chocks not being used, all resulting in aircraft moving off without the pilot at the controls.

Aircraft began to be equipped with electrical systems around 1930, powered by a battery and small wind-driven generator. The systems were initially not powerful enough to drive starter motors. Introduction of engine-driven generators solved the problem.
I am a neurobiologist and still don't understand the comment. The authors acknowledge biology in the first sentence.

wrt. claims in the full article however I have an issue with this observation...

> Another feature common to many biological and artificial communication systems is that they split a stream of information over multiple channels, i.e., they inverse multiplex. Often this occurs even when a single one of the channels could handle the entire communication load. For example, multiple synapses tend to connect adjacent neurons and multiple neuronal pathways tend to connect brain regions.

I dont see how a "single channel" i.e. a single synapse would suffice as the entire information output unit of a neuron. Making multiple synaptic connections is fundamental to the way neural networks perform computations.
map passes the index as the second argument to the mapping function, parseInt accepts the second input as the base. So the result is [10 (0 is treated as 10), NaN (base 1 doesn't work), 2 ("10" in base 2 is 2)].

You can try ["10","10","10"].map(console.log) for more info... the third argument is the source array:

> 10 0 ['10', '10', '10']

> 10 1 ['10', '10', '10']

> 10 2 ['10', '10', '10']
I don't think legal cover is the right term. My understanding that basically all nations view their domestic laws as higher than the UN.

UN decisions are more like a veil or facade of moral Authority
I'd like to know how an individual can do this, 1) And avoid some code bug causing them to lose all their money, and 2) Not get lose all their money to some company's API fees...
So the UN is a way for powerful countries to justify taking action against less powerful countries if other powerful countries kinda agree to it.
You're correct. It does, but the last time I tried it it does not prompt on launch as Brave can, which provides a nice reality check for my addled mind.

I dislike certain aspects of Brave for other reasons, but this is why I have an unholy number of browsers installed and end up making use of nearly all of them regularly, unfortunately.
>I don’t personally know any other field whose products have deteriorated over time like the game industry’s

Household appliances?
I don't know, Deno seems to be a solution looking for a problem. For example, the built-in bundle command works for Deno, and "might" only work for the web, other solutions as esbuild are recommended instead.
It seems to be miniatures of the two submarines at the beginning of the movie

Starting at 1:20 you can see the real thing here: https://youtu.be/PcuKfOomVbM

I'm guessing these miniature submarine shots were overlaid on top of real shots of the titanic? And then VFX were added to make the subs look cooler. Spliced with other shots to make it look like the scientists were inside the subs.

The YT comment was even more interesting than the clip
> In 2002, Griffin was President and COO of In-Q-Tel, a private enterprise funded by the CIA to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve national security interests. During this time, he met entrepreneur Elon Musk and accompanied him on a trip to Russia where they attempted to purchase ICBMs.

They did what now?
Never seen this before. I've always thought this was the case... As Sun Tzu says, "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
Yes, I don't know where this person is getting the idea that you shouldn't have to worry about settings at $2k? Fifteen years ago you could spend $10k and still have to worry about settings!
I think it was 15:9 and since it is in mice it's hard to say but I reckon thats the equivalent of more like 24+ hour fasts in humans.
It can be done with highly eccentric and inclined geo-syncronized (not geostationary) orbits. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System#...
Keep in mind US pilots are frequently flying training missions against targets we create just to have something to engage with. Shooting down these balloons does not necessarily need to be a net cost increase.
Ah. Excellent, thanks!
A common resolution for modern 27" monitors is 4k, even. For several years now.