skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of our shared landmass USA and Canada cooperate closely via NORAD.

The US and Canada have gameplanned for all sorts of scenarios similar to this, and up to and including full nuclear war. They have established playbooks for alllllll kinds of scenarios. Because when shit goes down, you there is NO TIME to gameplan. No, you pull binder #568 off of the shelf and get to work executing gameplan #568, "US jets pursue craft into Canada" or whatever.

There is a playbook for this kind of thing, and they are following it. The playbook possibly does include some kind of explicit authorization from the Canadian PM for the final shootdown.

So in reality this is certainly more "Trudeau authorized it" than "ordered it", because the US and Canada definitely can't order each other do things. However, for obvious optics purposes, they phrased it as "Trudeau ordered the shootdown." Because it looks sort of weak to the untrained eye if Trudeau just sort of allowed it.

However, the actual wording is sort of irrelevant. The reality is that it was a fairly seamless bit of cooperation between two close allies.
What if this balloon is carrying a small yield nuclear payload or dirty bomb?
Too bad it's only available as a 16 inch option. I'd be all over it if there was a 13/14.
Theoretically, a subscription was supposed to be one part because it aligned us to the reader. But then we had a recommendation algorithm that was more aligned to an ad model. We're serious about changing our distribution to reward substance over clickbait and I think we will get there.
Joe Rogan's whole shtick is saying ridiculous things while trying to appear rational.
I am not, I am saying what I said, if we make the shoot downs routine, we run the risk of shooting something down that we don’t intend to.

If we start doing patrols with loaded fighters, it greatly increases the chance of an accident.

Perhaps we are unwittingly giving away SIGINT on the weapons used to shoot them down.
AGPLv3 further restrictions removal case continues after counterclaim filing
Supported on all major browsers and 93% of total users according to caniuse.com

https://caniuse.com/?search=dialog
I think we're seeing a similar problem just from different sides. Why make the experience more seamless if the content at the end isn't also worthwhile? You're working left to right, I'm working right to left.
Inflation "normalizing" is actually likely to be due to a change in the way it is measured: https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1624093631929020416
Right, but what makes it confusing it this is the one they were calling object, so not confirmation of being a balloon or suspending a payload.
I wonder when we will have LLMs with custom personalities, chatGPT and Bing both sound so boring
Wish I could use this, but Safari only started supporting this as of 15.4, which was released less than a year ago. I'll likely have to wait another 2-3 years until our site stops seeing these older Safari browsers.

EDIT: looks like Firefox released support around the same time, but my company's Firefox users seem to be all be ok more recent versions.
As a current medical student, I can confirm that school in the US teaches us “gender affirming” ideology acceptance without really much question or giving alternative perspectives. There was an entire required session where a “gender affirming” care doctor said we should imagine “cis people” as being “just as weird as trans people” and to reflect on our own idea of self-gender. When a Q&A question was posed about if gender transition is medically necessary (which is not easy to post about, btw, as during these sessions you are recorded in a zoom and anonymous questions are turned off; so everyone can see the full name of the person who asked, and it is recorded in a transcript also). The doctor responded dismissively about any doubt in the necessity of gender transition.

Medical education and the medical institution is full of agenda pushing and ideology by the way, do not get me started on the day they introduced nurse practitioners as fellow “providers” who only want to make our jobs easier, while laws are being passed giving them full practice authority and expanding their scope to the detriment of doctors.
Amazing: "A healthy person at rest produces their body weight in adenosine triphosphate every day! At maximal exercise, this number can increase to 0.5 to 1.0 kg per minute."
Some people legitimately want privacy.

There was a minor scandal a while back when it became clear Queen Elizabeth was using exotic techniques to hid her assets.

She wasn’t doing anything wrong. She just didn’t want people conflating her private assets with her royal persona.

Even Jeremy Corbyn (socialist, republican, then-head-of-Labour) didn’t criticize her for it.

She just didn’t want the public snooping in her private business.
>>other than the US

Would not be the first time that the US left hand did not know what the US right hand was doing with a Top Secret Test of some kind
The demonization of China is politically advantageous. Publicizing incursions like this assists in the demonization (to be clear, it is think it’s warranted — the amount is espionage perpetrated by China on the US, corporate and cyber and governmental, Is insane)
There's no released info on the second or third but China acknowledged ownership of the first balloon (as an errant weather balloon) and complained when it was destroyed. Remains of the balloon were recovered and the Chinese companies that built the balloon were identified. None of that behavior is consistent with a Venusian origin.
Looks like they're monitoring it before recovery:

> A second U.S official also told ABC News that while the main reconnaissance section of the balloon has been found, recovery operations have been suspended until Monday because of rough waters. The official said the rough weather was outside the window under which Navy divers could safely conduct operations.

> Because of harsh conditions, measures have been taken to ensure that the debris underwater doesn't move with the currents. Among those measures, the official said, was the addition of weights and acoustic-pinging devices so they can be easily located once operations resume.

> The USS Carter Hall has returned to shore with the balloon remnants recovered so far and a contracted crane ship has arrived at the location offshore and will remain there until salvage operations resume.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-believes-chinese-surveill...
Cannot see if the 64GB option has ECC. That would be a nice feature for such a big chunk of memory.
A large number of ICBM sites are in northern and western ND.
dude ive been looking at your youtube channel and i am blown away. you do such a fantastic job dude. and you are representing the midwest very well indeed. i was fascinated by your video about earthquakes. well done dude.
Demo of Bing ChatGPT calculating how many backpacks fit in a Tesla
It hasn't even worked well with Taiwan.
> I feel like I'm thrown back to the 80s, all this military and fear mongering and propaganda and war.

I can't imagine what sort of lens you were using to view the last thirty years, such that those were the peaceful, propaganda-free times and all this shit with balloons is troubling.
I decided to stop supporting Medium with my articles due to the disregard for accessibility, and would urge any accessibility writers to do the same. Why support a company that can't even create a good writing experience for the blind? Or even a nice reading experience? And no, having a text to speech thing doesn't help, it's just more bullcrap browsers have to load, and infantalizes us further since aww de poor widdle blindie can't even read the Internet! Of course, it's nice for those who don't know about built-in tools like speak screen and such, but using built-in TTS engines would surely be better than calling out to Google or whatever the crap Medium uses.
Nintendo's secret sauce is their historically-huge (way above average) R&D investment. And for all the slack they get about being too traditional, the one thing I can say about following the company for 20 years is you never know what they're going to do next.

Meanwhile, PlayStation 6, Pixel 9, and iPhone 16 are foregone conclusions.
To me, not a lot of stuff is worth including. Every week I feel that there is not much worth writing down. By reviewing by date, I can easily see the process of my growth or changing interests.
Why is normally fact-based, analytical, intellectual HN promoting ~4 vacuous social media panic stories [edit: about objects in US airspace) to the front page? How does that suddenly happen?
Planning ahead for unexpected problems isn't that common. Even planning ahead for expected cyclical income is something people have had issues with at least since the time of Aesop.
Well, not sure how else to say it but there's 0 benefit in Simons saying _anything_ that might give insight into how Rentec operates. He's been secretive about it his entire life.

Imo, there is no "secret." There is just a bunch of smart people in a room, constantly turning out and testing ideas.

They were some of the first to apply linear regression and what we know as "machine learning" to equities. Edward Thorpe is another dude to look into.

Their trading really took off after hiring some IBM engineers (accounting for their ramp up time). Those engineers were working on speech detection. I think it really is just a matter of having an insanely smart set of people, working on a problem in a room together... with the capital to back it up. IMO, Jim Simons alone couldn't do it _but_ he is/was arguably one of the best mathematicians of our time. That certainly had to have helped.

I got a bit off track, but regarding your comment here:

>has Simons every said anything interesting

What are you looking for? Do you mean in regard to rentec or just in general? I've done a lot of research on them. I could take a stab at answering them. (for reference, I operate a small algotrading shop but have always been interested in the history of algo trading)
This is true. I could certainly see the utility of a platform like this for passive signals intelligence.
FWIW, the idea that Medium is progressive is kind of ridiculous if you look at the view numbers. The vast majority of people are reading about apolitical topics, namely professional development, hobbies, personal stories.
We'd probably buy our 100 on Alibaba
Some lube oils are extremely toxic when burned. And there may be reactions between the various chemicals and their degradatoon products. Portable detectors will not be able to detect or quantify many of those. Only more advanced methods like Raman, gas and liquid chromatography with various detectors and mass spectrometry can tell more. And I have yet to see a report using any of those.
I suspect that when the Commander-in-Chief starts asking why things aren't being detected sooner than after penetrating the coastline, then any previous filtering for "quality", as in meeting certain velocity parameters, whether being not too slow, or not "too fast" - i.e. a momentary reflection in two spots now gets interpreted as a high velocity paint instead of the previous two indeterminate and fleeting radar returns that would have been ignored - well, that filter gets turned way down and we end up chasing a lot of ghosts.
The interesting thing about <dialog> is that it uses the "top layer" which always appears above everything else on the page regardless of z-index. So you can delete hacks like z-index:2147483647.
No, this is not normal in my experience using only gmail for all my companies for about a decade.
When else has that happened?
Additionally it explains why a balloon made it as far as it did. Extra work, but we're on alert.
> "Really insisting that people change, get sober, take medication, get your life together in order to earn, or be awarded housing, was not working."

This is interesting, I worked directly with homeless people for years, and remember how frustrating this dynamic was. There was always this ask we made of the homeless, especially since at the time I was in a religious outreach role and had to follow my direction & training. But after a while it seemed only rational to expect that the ask is not going to work out or lead to anything but heightened anxiety on the part of all parties. So here, have some fresh trauma with your trauma!

IMO this is a place where I could see AI-style boilerplate-frameworking helping in the right set of circumstances, if such tooling could help remove some of the human tension from the situation. But overall what is needed IMO is a flexibility of accommodations that we haven't seen before, and which has never been institutionally available before.

Eventually in my mind there will probably be a radically different conception of availability and tolerance for a variety of living situations/environments/accommodations, and this will eventually displace even the concept of mental illness as it is known today, to say nothing of homelessness.

Some other big changes IMO will also be relational, as various changes of this sort help people understand just how much our personal expectations (based on our own past experiences) weighed on others and tilted past outcomes in a way that blinded us to creative and effective interventions.

I also thought that the "disgraceful" quote at the end of the video, referring to the entire situation, rang pretty hollow. This is also a cultural learning process and we've never faced this set of circumstances before at such a level from a variety of viewpoints, even looking back to homeless & refugee crises of the past.
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I think we agree. Quality is the issue. My points are the underlying reasons why.
Do you have any evidence that it's connected to a war?

I'm not an expert, but I do read them quite a bit. Zero experts are saying that these events have anything to do warfare between the US and China. Can you point one out who does say it?
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, we haven't had a register wall in a long time.
> Warning: The tabindex attribute must not be used on the <dialog> element.

This really needs an explanation
Without listening to the show, I'd like it if there was some mechanism to assure that a person who braids hair is capable of dealing with issues such as basic hygiene, blood borne diseases, and so forth. With that said, the license and whatever minimal training is needed, could be provided for free.

Likewise for a dental hygienist, who is doing things like operating X-Ray equipment and other invasive gadgets. I don't think the solution is to de-regulate this kind of thing.
> Wow, so cocky.

> You could try the thing about reading in a benevolent way. Don't choose the interpretation that would most upset you.

Et tu, Brute?
Yeah but the 2015 rMBP was, like, the One True Laptop. I held until M1 as well, but I think the stars won't so align again any time soon.
Foveated rendering is a rendering technique which uses an eye tracker integrated with a virtual reality headset to reduce the rendering workload by greatly reducing the image quality in the peripheral vision (outside of the zone gazed by the fovea(The fovea centralis is a small, central pit composed of closely packed cones in the eye. It is located in the center of the macula lutea of the retina.))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_rendering
I would love to use AWS but the usage based pricing has scared me away. There have been too many stories of running up bills in the tens of thousands from coding errors. If AWS had a way to make sure that didn’t happen I would be all over it.
Sidewinder costs $400k. US has 10,000 of them in stock.

I have speculated if rockets could be used. Unguided might be hard to aim. Laser guided might not be any better. It would require different aircraft that might be able to get high enough.
And I've been mad about it for literal years.
Perhaps at the temperatures in that area the material used to construct the balloon becomes brittle enough to shatter. I didn't look at temperature data from that altitude to see whether common materials would lose flexibility.
Have they actually made one yet? The pictures on the site all look like renders; and I couldn't find any pictures of an actual prototype anywhere.
> If someone releases their code under free-as-in-libre and/or -beer licensing, they don't get to subsequently complain if acts of voluntary generosity are "insufficient".

You are hitting shortcomings of copyright, rather than mistakes if the authors
Yeah and I’m the Queen of England. I know there is no conclusive evidence here, but something stinks.
What would the purpose be of a small, slow and non-precision first strike?
> We know that the universe's expansion is accelerating.

That still seems to be a matter of serious dispute.
Then it’ll be found and the consequences of having launched a nuclear weapon at the United States will be incurred for no gain whatsoever. That is to say, 0% chance. That would be unfathomably dumb.
I would think a balloon is too inaccurate.
> Euclidean itself is a cipher — with no ready information on its assets, strategy, or how closely Simons is involved.

> An email to Simons seeking comment was not returned. A spokesman for Renaissance declined to comment on the record.

> The fund has disclosed ownership of ten stocks — mostly biotechnology companies and many lacking revenues.

> The ten positions as of October 30 totaled just $107.7 million, though that is likely only a part of the fund. That’s small beer for Simons, whose net worth is estimated by Bloomberg Billionaires at $25 billion.

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again!
WRP – Web Rendering Proxy
> We have no a priori reason to believe that matter must have multimodal interactions

No, but as a posteriori reasons go "everything else couples to the weak force" is a pretty good one.

> them dark matter is unfalsifiable

Only insofar as all the ontological content of a physical theory are unfalsifiable: you can always shift complexity around between state and dynamics if you're willing to pay the price in elegance. Consider Kaluza-Klein theory, for instance. In some sense this demonstrates that classical electromagnetism is unfalsifiable - but no one actually cares.
Good luck defending against Xur and the Kodan armada without 128GB of RAM. Sounds like Centauri sold you on another one of his Excalibur tricks.
I live right by where these birds takeoff, we heard them, and I can tell you this is a normal day of the week. Not sure "scrambled" is correct here.
Those are all very minor problems from a historical perspective and not valid reasons to be anxious.
Most of vitamin D in your body is synthesized from cholesterol and the extra boost you get from sun exposure is by UVB breaking cholesterol into D3. This mechanism occurs naturally with or without sun’s help.
> Does anyone else think these have been happening a long time but now they make front paper news because of recent activities?

Possibly. I wouldn't use that information to be overly dismissive of the importance of the news. "Well shit, let's just start shooting them down" is a newsworthy change in a government's policy regardless of what it applies to.
Praising the game this much and not posting a link must be some sort of cruel punishment.

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee
They have a 14-inch model; it's called Starbook.
It will be interesting to see what they release about the objects and their construction and potential functions.
I play that every day. I do my best and once I've given up by the evening time (it resets at midnight Pacific), I go to this site and see how much better I can do with the prefixes. You can tweak the checkboxes to show you more or less, all the way up to revealing the answers. Great site.

https://www.sbsolver.com/nctx/latest
Time stamp, hackernews seems to have stripped it. Starts at 44:05. The meat of the content is about 5 minutes long.

Direct link for desktop browsers:

https://www.youtube.com/live/AxAAJnp5yms?feature=share&t=264...
Or Snow Piercer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot
The government and military must be more forthcoming with information here. This is generally the case but especially so now. If these are balloons with unclear origin and purpose, be open and honest about that. Don't just let information trickle out from random sources. Establish a single and authoritative line of communication. Failing to get ahead of the narrative gives the appearance of uncertainty and confusion.
Well, the top response on this thread changed after I went to bed. But yes, this is in the mix. People seem to have a long memory about a dark pattern experiment we seemed to have run with regwalls (I never personally saw it and the people behind it are gone). Plus the cruft. A lot of that has been removed. But the volume of comments about quality always seemed louder to me and I've seen quality draw people through a lot of cruft.
That's getting a multi-level DRAM config, see Grace Superchip for an example.

Or just a plain slower GPU: Apple's GPU series, but that's at very much higher price tags than desktop GPUs at a given perf level.
Both the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 can fly higher than the Alaska object's altitude.
Both parties seems to be ready for a war. At least, the US seems to want it. Time to prop the propaganda agenda and psychologically prepare the minions.
I don’t disagree. Guessing it’s their logic because they’re bureaucratic, but you’re right. Nobody can follow the law if they don’t understand the law.
In tech geek terms, it is like being in the on-call rotation for operations. When stuff blows up, you are expected to be addressing it within minutes.

In military terminology, this is your ready reaction force that can be deployed on a moments notice. The part of your military that can be “scrambled” is configured for immediate combat with no warning. Therefore “scrambling” is to deploy those immediate combat configured assets.

Militaries are large logistical organizations and it takes a long time — weeks depending on the type of unit — to spin them up to combat readiness. To be scramble-ready is very expensive both in terms of cost and wear-and-tear on personnel, so most of the military is not configured to operate this way all the time, and it would probably would not be sustainable for people to be permanently in that posture. The units that can scramble for an immediate threat buy time for other military units to spin up their full combat capability. There is a lot of rotation among units on this kind of duty to keep them fresh.
Oh, it's definitly cynical, but it can also be correct.

Certainly there are some companies that work like this, and others that do not. Your experience will likely vary from one place to another.

Except the bit about family. It's a job, not a family. These are your coworkers, not your family.
I actually think your post itself oozes with anxiety. I see basically all of these things through a totally different lens:

1. Also plenty upside (eg normalization of working from home) that has impacted most ppl I know very directly.

2. Yes but also doesn't impact us on daily basis and whether we think about it a lot or none at all doesn't change anything.

3. Lol.
I do wish i could programmatically block everything shared from twitter.
How do people normally manage z-indexes? I've found it's usually a mess of a people hard coding a bunch of values all over the place.

Using CSS-in-JS we at least make constants so we can do stuff like: `const STICKY_HEADER_Z = TOOLTIP_Z + 1`.
May be more widely applicable for personal servers: lnav, an advanced log file viewer for the terminal: https://lnav.org/

It uses SQLite internally but can parse log files in many formats on the fly. C++, BSD license, discussed 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243520
I mean, all their laptops looks like that, and they have a pretty good track record of following through. I'm in the market for a new laptop, and a 4-5 month lead time is a bit too far out. Maybe I'll purchase one when they're actually shipping, but by then I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever frankentop I cobble together.
Shooting portraits on 35mm film in a Polaroid SX-70