skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no empirical way to verify if someone is actually transgender. In fact, there really is no theoretical way that a person could even be transgender unless one accepts the idea of a non-material soul that is somehow gendered. Whether someone is a male or a female is simply a question of biological definitions of observed reality, just as whether an animal is a dog or a cat is simply a question of biological definitions and observed reality. A man who thinks he is a woman is simply mistaken by definition, just as a man who thinks he is a dog or a cat is mistaken by definition. This is not to say we should not have compassion for people who believe they are transgender and try to help them.
Yes. This phenomenon happens all the time. Panics are human nature.
Warnock's first case doesn't seem to apply to modern social media? A "perfect" post that doesn't warrant a comment will simply get upvoted / liked / boosted / etc. And in a sufficiently large community, there are plenty of people willing to say "This" or "I agree" even if that doesn't add much to the conversation.
I'm very curious to hear more about this. All we know so far is that it was apparently cylindrical and the size of a small car.

I'm wondering if it was a small zeppelin. The shape would be more suitable for piloting, but it could stay aloft longer than a drone; would not surprise me at all if the Chinese were experimenting with those.
Are you relaying on the visual approach of the pilot, or claiming the F22 has better indent tech than ground / space based tech?

F22 (and the F35) are optimized for beyond visual range air-to-air combat, so I am not sure if the pilot visually sees the thing before firing.
North Carolina, where the first balloon was destroyed.
From the second article you linked:

> Should Canada have acted when it flew into Canadian airspace?

> The short answer, according to military experts, is no.

> "To say that, oh, Canada should have shot this balloon down on its own — that's just silly," said University of Calgary history professor and military historian David Bercuson.

> "That just completely ignores the fact that NORAD exists that we're part of it and have been part of it for almost 80 years now."

And yes, it also says this:

> The operating altitude of Canada's CF-18 Hornet fighter jets is 50,000 feet (15,000 metres), while Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the balloon had been flying at about 60,000 feet (18,000 metres) — potentially out of range for those jets.

However that ignores the fact that the F22 that shot down the balloon did so from 40,000 feet. Using a similar missile, a CF-18 certainly could have done the same.
Some, maybe. If you are going to sum up "all UFOs", there's just way too much variety in:

- Size

- Shape (considering that mission profile)

- Movement characteristics

- General capabilities

- Access to nearby air traffic

- Tech being exposed _to_ pilots, e.g. flight envelope capabilities; inter-media transitional capabilities

This is the hand-wave problem with UFOs/UAPs.

Once you start into details, they're really not a single _thing_ anymore by any rational definition.

And this more flexible POV also takes into account the possibility that some _are_ spy drones.
> Pilots are trained NOT to go by them or engage with them for fear of secrets leaking.

Cite your source.
The new AIM-9X missile has an imaging sensor which I’m guessing is more sensitive. It works on front of aircraft and missiles. Either it is seeing the reflected light or the object is warmer than space.

The F-22 would be going close to Mach 1 while balloon/object is stationary. The balloon was higher altitude which is harder shot and out of range. Very different from dogfighting the gun is meant for. I don’t think any fighters have gun targeting system since the gun is really a backup.
This was the book I was thinking about as I heard this news! Hopefully that vortex doesn't come down on us in a 5000 year rain of fire.
The US and China are nowhere near a state of war. The balloons have nothing to do with a state of war. Xi can keep doing exactly what Xi is doing, and there won't be a war. China would have to escalate dramatically.
The maximum expiration time is now down to 13 months, for certs that need to be valid in a browser. And if you want to cycle yours more frequently, you can. But there's enough places that can't set up automated processes that trying to make it 90 days for everyone would be a lot of pain and a lot of broken sites.
Send 100 over china for each one they send here. Problem will be solved quick.
Shooting at unidentified and nonresponsive unmanned aircraft over your own airspace has never, ever been considered an act of aggression. That is a ridiculous suggestion.
At a previous job, my team slowly built an absolutely unmanageable bash script (hundreds of lines, including _many_ complex, multi-line jq incantations). The first step in migrating that script to go was to embed it in a Go binary and run it with gosh.

Kudos to Daniel for building such a wonderful package.
>By the sounds of this they just wanted to be as needlessly cruel as possible to strike fear into those left behind to work even harder.

It's as though people think that managers go behind closed doors and it's suddenly like the Death Star conference room.
Ultimately their paramount allegiance is to the Constitution and the people of the United States. This can supercede the chain of command when Commander-in-chief places orders contravened by the People.

Congress performs oversight of the military and sets budgets, so they're briefed on operations like this which have some outsized political impact. It doesn't seem to me like these things should be a big deal but the rest of the people in the US seem to act like it is, so Congress is naturally very interested.
> coverage now suggesting it's statistically significant.

Where is this?
News story: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-invest... (Nov 4, 2022)
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An alternative to have both `shfmt` and `shellcheck` and all pre-commit hooks managed (that is, automatically installed until no longer used and garbage collected) is to use https://devenv.sh/.

After `devenv init`, update `devenv.nix` as follows:

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
pre-commit.hooks = {
shellcheck.enable = true;
shfmt.enable = true;
};
}
I hate this. I love how much I hate this. Thanks. I'm also in the same space, and (un) fortunately, I think my coworkers will also love this.
It's actually very not Heisenbug, because if you enable asyncio's debug mode [1], it will tell you what's going on.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-dev.html#debug-mod...
So a `Task` object is in fact the actual task, rather than a handle or pointer to the actual task.
> with last name Fauci that claims coronaviruses have never been controlled by vaccines

Actually, the full text is:

"Viruses that replicate in the human respiratory mucosa without infecting systemically, including influenza A, SARS-CoV-2, endemic coronaviruses, RSV, and many other “common cold” viruses, cause significant mortality and morbidity and are important public health concerns. Because these viruses generally do not elicit complete and durable protective immunity by themselves, they have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines."

The authors of the paper (not just Fauci) named off a group of different viruses, not just a single one. Taken in the stated context, it should make a lot more sense to anyone who reads this stuff.
A Case for Rust in Deep Learning
There's no reason for a country to be able to defend their airspace without the help of their allies? That's a defensible viewpoint of course, but the opposite is too.
So Stanley’s characters was walking out with a USB drive of d@mining evidence about the coming collapse of the company?

It may not have been proprietary, but it does speak to why they walk people out under guard. Maybe he had good intent, as proven by how he handed it to his staff to look at in the elevator, but if that staff hadn’t stopped to thank him, that USB data would be in the wind.
Return to India from USA: My journey ~5 years later
Good point. Thank you for clarifying. The legalization of multi-family homes would not prevent this trend but zoning for owner occupied units seems like a reasonable policy to shift the outcomes.
This reminds me of jart's Blinkenlights [1], where debugging can be visualized.

It would be neat to see each line or line-chunk as flashes that happen across every file in the Linux kernel since the first commit, all at once.

I think there was also a visualization for Minecraft source that used graphs to show the evolution of that code.

[1] https://justine.lol/blinkenlights
Correct, that video was focused on that area, but remember, there's these all up and down the coastlines
I wonder if this means that there is a greater concern over stealth aircraft flying into US airspace, hence the need for greater sensitivity at the cost of losing precision and/or specificity.
I know quite a few people who went to various California public colleges and universities and earn that much. In tech, it's the choice of major, not the university, that really matters -- and even companies that have policies of only hiring from certain universities tend to apply that only to new grads.

I know several people who have succeeded in tech in staff+/leadership roles without any college degree at all!

In law, and medicine, and academia in general? Sure, your pedigree matters. But in tech, and in many engineering fields, a state school degree is all you need.
This is such a lovely coverage of so many things British ... simultaneous national train and coach strikes, a boffin committing bus services to memory. Only thing lacking was a mention of tea :)
Don't forget the Ohio derailment. Few days ago a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Crews have since been burning off the toxic chemicals. Claims that air/water quality are safe are turning out to be false. Evacuation orders are even being lifted as people return to the area.

This may also be an asymmetric attack on critical infrastructure by foreign agents in country.
Related to this, the railworkers rejected their current labor contract, but congress and Biden intervened, blocking a strike two months ago:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-r...
Do you have any evidence of a stealth aircraft? Is that just wild speculation? Who would fly a stealth aircraft over Montana (other than the US)? Where would it refuel without being noticed?

> NORAD could probably detect a stealth aircraft like the Serbs did in the 1990s

I'll bet NORAD has better sensors than the Serbs did 25 years ago.
I always thought west of the Mississippi was Midwest.
Or is sufficient vitamin D highly correlated with eating a balanced diet and engaging in exercise outside?
Yup. It just won't become sentient (or, I think, truly intelligent), unless it's allowed to listen to all ideas and be able to make up it's mind, "yeah, that internet rando isn't worth listening to or repeating." You and I know that and can make that decision, but there has never been an AI/ML algorithm that knows it. Is it a high barrier to intelligence or is it simple?
"no she wrong and she misgenders"

Read the first one starting with "Jamie starts right out of the gate with right wing talking points designed to paint transgender people as being a “trend” or “social contagion.”"

If you are okay with the provided debunk proofs then...
Dunno why anyone downvoted you, it is an interesting question. It also has an interesting answer - turns out we get a much more complex and pleasant society if we cram everyone in tightly in a city.

The is a lesser-known branch of economics called economic geography that studies what happens when you have big concentrations of people. Turns out you get much better services and it is cheaper to support everything (eg, one big trainline which costs a lot but gets huge amount of use, one big market where you can buy and sell everything, etc).

The short of it is that small towns are not a bad thing, but if you want to live a comfortable life with lots of services and material luxuries then you had best seek a city.
Author here.

> they don’t produce a great argument for why C is good (which, perhaps, they didn’t intend to)

Never intended to.
What is the misinformation?
Not really TBH - Enso is more of a ETL pipeline & IDE IMO. Most of what you do in Enso you need to write as code, it just stores those code blocks as nodes on a graph.

It's fundamentally a different problem it's trying to solve. One is a data pipeline, the other is more of a HTTP Utility Belt. Enso also hasn't published what their SaaS product is going to cost, but I suspect it will be enough that you'll want to be expensing it to your workplace.

The idea behind the G-Script pricing is that it's cheap enough that people will just pay for it personally because it's cheap enough that you won't really notice it.
I think the Deepmind guys are ahead technologically because of Google's vast talent pool and computing resources, but they are scared of what they are making. The CEO of Deepmind was considering that they should stop publishing research because bad people might use it. If it wasn't for the Open AI guys putting pressure on them, they'd just toy with this stuff forever and never release anything.

I wonder what Larry and Sergei think of all this. Has Sergei said anything lately? Larry has been on a remote island in Fiji for years now. It seems with all this exciting geeky AI stuff they should be passionate about the business, but as far as I can tell they aren't very engaged.

Edit: Here's a recent article. Apparently, Sergei is back working on things for the first time since 2019. Larry and Sergei also checked in on the AI strategy in December: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/google-co-found...
Did the Chinese "weather balloon" seed or drop some objects/material while passing over the USA?
What’s misinformation about this? Honest question, I think the facts aren’t misinformation, that the US has shot down foreign aerial objects.
All jokes aside.

COBOL ranters rarely make it to retirement age, 60/65.

Usually only intelligent, die hard, hardened professionals, make it there.

Find the real thing.
Is this a dig on posits and unums?
I'm writing sci-fi in this space, foolish archaeologists plug in an ancient hard drive an wake up a god.
Oh, I don't feel like I"m ignoring that, sorry. The regwall is a bit confusing to me personally because we don't have one anymore. People here seem to have a long memory about a time when maybe there was a regwall dark pattern. But I never saw it because I was always logged in during that period and nobody who worked on it is still at the company.

But the paywall, i.e. the metered paywall where some articles are behind a paywall by author choice and an unsusbcribed reader can read three of those a month, is up there. And I'm just coming at it from the opposite side. Many people here don't want to see a paywall. That's fine. But I'd like to see their reaction if the quality of what was behind it changed. A no might still be a no, but I think the tenor would change. So that's how my original take on fix quality first fits into the anti-paywall headline of other people. This model works well enough for us in the worst possible implementation that I believe it will work all the way if we have a better implementation, especially if there is more of a sense of that there's at least something valuable behind it.
That sounds like an expensive missile. An enemy could deplete our supply of them just by sending a phalanx of cheap balloons over.
Fair enough. It appears to me that Canadian fighters could have done it (see my other reply to the articles you posted), but it ultimately doesn't matter whether a US or Canadian plane did so, because air defense is shared. Recall that during the flight there was a period when a possible second balloon had been detected, and a US General, via NORAD, ordered Canadian CF-18s to search for it, as they were most readily able to respond.

If for some reason Canada felt it could no longer rely on the US for shared air defense, then I would agree with you that it would be important to build up domestic capability to do so independently—but as far as I can tell, that isn't currently a concern.
Or just keep it in the log file? I am not sure what is the advantage of putting it in SQLite, if all you're going to do is unindexed `json_extract()` queries on it.
But the lack of a positive refcount means that it is, so this solves the problem the article was complaining about.
You or no other person on HN is the authority on this either way. Unless you're one of like 30 people in the US.
The train in Ohio seems moderately distraction worthy.
While I generally agree that if say, some substation attacks on our power grid throughout the country have been hush hush (not saying it was an attack from a foreign adversary, but given the number of them recently it’s noteworthy), the aerial objects being shot down I think is vastly different, given last time this happened in US airspace was Pearl Harbor
1. Correlation does not necessarily mean cause and effect.
2. 'In older adults' - this could mean only a subset of depression spectrum. It is premature to generalise this to depression in general.
Hate to be so dramatic, but some school administrators should probably go to jail for this. Zero students in 23 schools? That’s insane. You can go to jail for committing fraud on your taxes. What are the consequences for ruining thousands of kids education? Some school leaders should be made an example of
No, I'm just talking about the local commentariat. Milgrom's reasons for holding out (all the other MOND people are MOND + DM people now; the Bullet Cluster was a death blow for pure MOND) are presumably more idiosyncratic.
Well I meant more the MSM than the pentagon but regardless they just do whatever suits the narrative at the time don't they?
How does this event bring a great war closer?

People seem to like to encourage panic over the idea.
>As a user, I definitely prefer to use a copylefted program.

Okay. Good for you. As a user who likes to combine software ideas, I don't want my work or inspiration to be tainted by a work that would try to restrict my work in the future.

You are free to enjoy what your freedoms and I am free to enjoy mine.
That quote specifically refers to air pollution. Many other leaking cars were carrying liquid hazardous chemicals. They expect a 100% aquatic life die off in waterways the pollutants reach.

The EPA claims they have a multi-stage containment system in place, and that the ground water and Ohio River are not at risk.

I don’t see how that is possible, but since this is HN, I’m hoping someone will point to an article explaining how modern spill containment works.
HBO hit series material
That chip is too complex for me. My cutoff is chips with one metal layer. I don't have a good process for removing one layer at a time if there are multiple metal layers. Also, Moore's law means that chips get exponentially more complex over time and my skills don't grow exponentially :-) Finally, I'm limited to about 1um features before microscope quality and the wavelength of light become a problem. Thus, the early 1980s is about as far as I can go.
They don't provide the trained model do they? That would take millions of dollars of GPU time to train. This safely keeps it out of the hands of the rabble.
Well for one you'll be able to inform and request your local govt to avoid using Chinese equipment in infrastructure.
> The fed should be cautious by making any changes. I believe the fact they didn't rush to judgement has led to a much better than normal situation.

The Fed was not cautious during the pandemic. Not at all! They dropped interest rates to near zero, massively increased QE, and shot the stock market over the moon. Then they sat there watching inflation spiral out of control in the misguided hope that it was "transient" before finally clamping down harder than they would have needed to if they had done the right thing in the first place.

It was a massive overreaction, and a significant change in policy (at least in degree if not in character, especially because the lack of emphasis on inflation policy), and they did it in a hurry before they had a chance to really figure out what was happening. Now we all have to suffer for it -- and the impact of inflation on American families should not be handwaved away or minimized.

Back in 2021, people like Larry Summers were also dismissed for making "doomsday predictions" that turned out to be true. He wasn't the only one who noticed -- but he was the only left-leaning economist brave enough to challenge the new administration by saying what a lot of them already knew. This isn't hindsight -- people knew the Fed was wrong years ago.
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Hi, I have the same problem and I found a method that works for me. I bookmark or scribble into my phone memo every week that I see interesting or useful links — articles, software, frameworks, code repositories, cool websites, etc. Every Saturday I will take a few hours to review and organize these resources, and write a markdown document.

I've been on it for 24 weeks and am sure I can keep doing it. Reorganizing and thinking will be more rewarding. When I need to find a resource but I can't remember it, I will turn on the computer and use vscode's fuzzy search (it may be more convenient to make an online search entry, which is enough for now).

For reference: https://github.com/theseazhang/weekly_news
Are we still prompting you to sign in? I don't think we've done that for a long time. There's a metered paywall but there isn't a regwall on anything that you wouldn't expect (i.e. comments).
The US is traditionally isolationist? Except for 4 years, the US hasn't been isolationist since the 1930s; it's closing in on a century.
Wasn't this the plot of A Wind in the Door?
>I am in direct contact with NORCOM and monitoring the latest issue over Havre and the northern border. Airspace is closed due to an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic — the DOD will resume efforts to observe and ground the object in the morning.

7:23 PM · Feb 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1624579901608034306
TiVo will never surpass the creativity of others. I whole-heartedly agree with anti-restriction clauses. Like "No lawsuits against users or other creators for "infringing patents" by using this software, if they are not, in another way, infringing. Otherwise, you lose your license."
For recipes, it also signals effort and provides a hint about quality. There's a lot of low effort, broken, "would anyone enjoy eating this?" recipes out there dumped on recipe sites. A few pages of text says that the author thought the recipe was at least worth that amount of effort, and usually confirms that the author thinks the recipe is at least as good as X other recipes, etc.
Isn't there some board for out there conspiracies?
Chatgpt is awful if you need accuracy which is vital here. Don't use it for stuff like this, please.
You assume that all future shoot downs will use the same technique.
You realize the distance Cold Lake is from the Yukon doesn’t have a whole lot to do with how southern Cold Lake is relative to the rest of Canada right? There’s a reason the base is where it is.

I’m well aware of the CF-188 or F/A-18’s capabilities (or lack thereof compared to the F-22), from when I worked on them, sometimes in Cold Lake. ;)