skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about part of the description given by the pilots who shot down the object off the coast of Alaska. It was described as being at about 40000' altitude (12192 m) and moving about 40 mph (64 kph) with no visible means of propulsion.

To me, that implies that it was drifting in the wind at that altitude since it had no visible means of propulsion.

I took a look at Ventusky (ventusky.com) to try to get an idea of the wind speed at that altitude so that I could know whether 40 mph (64 kph) made any sense.

Ventusky gives wind information at various altitudes though I have no idea how accurate the information may be. I checked the available altitudes for one close to 40000 feet and found a listing for 12000 m (39370 feet). That's close enough for the girls we go with as the old-timers always said.

For several days before the reported shoot-down (use the day selector at the bottom of the screen to see data for each day and the slider for time of day) the reported wind speeds were in the range of 20-35 mph (32-56 kph). As they say, close enough for the girls we go with especially when you consider the likely observational error associated with estimations made from a moving jet.

The first reported sighting of that object was over Nome, Alaska and it was tracked across Alaska until the shoot-down just off the north coast in the Prudhoe Bay area or just east of it.

Backtracking along the jet stream into China, the most likely source for the object, I decided that there was probably a balloon launch facility in north-eastern China, possibly near Harbin since a launch in that city will carry an object along that general route. It was just a guess and someone in one of those twitter threads actually found a balloon launch facility to the southwest of Harbin, near Hohhot that is a much better candidate for the origination point of these objects.

Anyway. It was fun looking at all this stuff but to me, these last two cylindrical things are balloons. The question about whether the balloons serve some intelligence gathering function for the Chinese will likely be answered in the coming days.
So it's a good thing for the government to set a minimum wage of $21/hr but a bad thing for the government to set a minimum wage of $50/hr (100k/year). Where is the cut off exactly?
It’s called regulatory capture. Good luck stopping it, but if you find that one trick that works, let us know….
Not to mention complete and total population collapse. China and Russia are doomed to an almost certain extent.
FTA: “Left handedness also exploded when left handed people were accommodated…”

This is in general why I’m always skeptical of these moral panics. When something is destigmatized and it’s a thing that has been there beneath the surface the whole time, it is going to suddenly look like there’s an epidemic of it.

The history of left handedness is a rabbit hole I encourage people to go down. It’s truly bizarre and fascinating and sometimes downright sadistic.
> They won’t give you a direct link to your file

You can do this with Dropbox by simply changing the 'www' in the URL to 'dl', and removing the same 'dl' parameter at the end of the link. Example:

Original link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxxxxxxxxx/file.zip?dl=0

Direct download link:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/xxxxxxxxxx/file.zip
I think this comment is evidence of the 'boiling frog' theory.
This is something that only makes sense in the lunacy of housing-based-investment.

Your house might pay a dividend, but it has immense maintenance cost.

If the dividend from your house, on average, is enough to pay this cost, we’re in this hellscape.
there is no doctor in the second case. the wokemind is just a big ball of hypocrisy
The fact checking with prompt chaining[0] repository has something along those lines (their readme has an example).

It is not perfect and it is costly in number of calls to a language model but it does help a lot.

[0]: https://github.com/jagilley/fact-checker
If I just could remember what the mytochondria's job is...
FYI: this article has nearly 10k words and a 35 min estimated reading time.
You are thinking about one of the two meanings of the term, how about the other one? Ableism is bad, and that's got nothing to do with puritanism.
Then what's the point of surveilling that?
The US is not Taiwan and attempting to “scare” its population would be a hilariously bad idea for China.
since this story is a bust, while we're here, has Simons every said anything interesting somebody could point me to? I've listened to various interviews but he doesn't really say much or spark my imagination. With Musk, you can like him or not, but he talks about a lot of interesting stuff, let's you know what he thinks. What Simon's accomplished is phenomenal, but it's just a black box really.
Why are we okay with experimenting on rats but not on monkeys?
> Maybe you are just not qualified to argue this. Videos work just as images, text or audio.

no you just have no idea how most normal internet user use the internet

sure video works technically, but that's not only not enough, it's irrelevant. What matters is that it needs to work without too much friction and convenience and no-js is the opposite of that. It's a constant running into stumbling blocks again and again. Stumbling blocks most internet user can not solve by themself in just a few seconds. And in turn they will not use no-js, no matter how much anyone tells them it is more secure because it simply doesn't work for them no matter how much it's technically possible.
A modern war isn’t expected to need mass conscription.
Whats Is Foveated Rendering?
It was part of a trio that was interconnected via ipsec.
The small cluster ran a mongodb replicaset and some Go backends and AngularJS frontends.
I didn't really need them and I got rid of 2 servers.

It's not irresponsible, I'm not a scrub and I won't be indirectly insulted.
> It is not entirely untrue. EBT is essentially subsidizing businesses using tax dollars. If a business cannot survive without paying people liveable wages, it should not survive. Yet they exist because the government shares the burden of those wages.

Why is the "subsidy" to the business and not to the person? After all, it's not like if the person stops being an employee, that he won't have any food needs. What you're claiming is basically the copenhagen interpretation of ethics. A person on foodstamps working at walmart is walmart's fault, because walmart is the employer. However, if the person ends up being unemployed, but still needs foodstamps (or even more, because he's not drawing an income) then it's uhh... nobody's fault?
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Is this your site? It looks neat
some pangram heterograms found by others:

Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.
Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!
Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz.
TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.

program i wrote that found 184000 pangram heterograms in the scrabble dictionary:

https://github.com/jkuli-net/pangram
The local pharmacists, unfortunately, used to be perfectly happy to make addicts of people.

There was a huge decline in morphine addiction simply by requiring that products containing morphine be labeled as such.
Not really, except for the U2 spy plan the US has no (known) aircraft that can fly anything close to that high
So like Enso but you can't switch it to a code view or paste code if you wanted?
Then stop using expensive missiles to pop a balloon. Are we so scared of a balloon to get into gun range? A short burst of 20mm would be pretty cheap compared to an AIM-9
Here is the aforementioned example from their documentation, answering "Who is Olivia Wilde's boyfriend? What is his current age raised to the 0.23 power?" accurately:

https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ge...
> Microwaves transmit on a frequency nowhere near missile systems

S band is used for target acquisition a whole lot.

> and are not modulated in any way resembling a missile fire control system

Yup, but when you're deciding whether or not to launch a HARM it's better safe than sorry. In turn, asymmetries accrue.

Indeed, you can't really afford to ignore the microwave oven S-band emitter, because you could use even a literal microwave oven for illumination with passive radar techniques for target acquisition pretty well.
This is exactly where Rust shines, even more than the borrow checker stuff IMO
Yes, but that's because farmers are selling the food. If developers sell software, they should be liable for providing software according to spec. In both case, the act of selling is done under an implicit or explicit contract.

But if they are FOSS developers, there is no contract, because there is no exchange. In this case, developers should have about as much responsibility as say authors who write books for the public. They should be liable if they go out of their way to write harmful information/software, but if they took reasonable precautions, they should be fine.
Or did you have low vitamin D, because your elderly and live in a home and don't get enough sunlight.
I utterly reject your assertion that patenting life forms is evil. There is nothing wrong with it. Indeed, patenting crop plants can greatly contribute to human welfare. I consider your interference with that for spurious reasons to be the evil here.
Yeah, it seems we’ve just been letting these things fly through our airspace.
Maybe comes from all his time working in coding breaking and top secret shit for DOD. Yea, I've looked and read, but not a lot. lol. Also very little turn over or public info from people who worked at Renaissance
Stability.ai is currently being sued for like $150,000 per image it was trained on. There's probably some concern. Microsoft is able to shift potential liability onto OpenAI.
First, why do you consider it to be a problem in the mind, rather than the body? It seems to me that, fundamentally, gender dysphoria is a mismatch between the mind and the body. Declaring the body to be correct and the mind wrong seems arbitrary (as would declaring the mind to be right and the body wrong). It's not really a question of right and wrong, it's the mismatch that's the problem.

Second, I don't know of any treatments for gender dysphoria (in trans people, not people with other conditions that've been misdiagnosed) that "fix" the mind and actually work. Gender reassignment, on the other hand, works, in the sense that it improves peoples' lives (see https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/transgender-teens-receiving-... for example).

Note that not all transgender people experience gender dysphoria. Some are fine with the bodies they were born with, and for them gender reassignment would be unnecessary and irrelevant.

Also, note that this is different from treatment for e.g. anorexia nervosa. If someone with anorexia loses weight, it doesn't help; they'll continue to see themselves as overweight. Treatment for anorexia has to focus on the patient's mind. Helping them lose weight would make their outcome worse, not better, which is why it's not done.

Scott Alexander gives an interesting analogy to a case from the mental hospital where he works here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma.... A woman with OCD was constantly worrying that she'd left her hair dryer on, and was having to drive home 10-20 times a day to check whether it was really off, or was on and going to burn the house down. Nothing they'd tried worked, until someone suggested she take the hair dryer with her. That effectively solved the problem for her, because she could always just look over at the dryer, see that it was unplugged, and go about her business. But caused a huge controversy among the psychiatrists between those who thought "This Is Not How One Treats Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" vs those who just said "it worked".

I'm with the "do what works" crowd.
Writing prompts to an AI to generate anything but trivial (CRUD?) code will become like writing design specifications. Domain knowledge is going to become increasingly more critical.
The USAF (and any functional air force) has lots of flight time budgeted for its pilots: for training, patrols, etc.

Active duty pilots must fly X number of hours per month to maintain their fight status. Essentially, they practice like athletes (because they are literally athletes, among other things)

So intercepts like these, and even silly stuff like sports event flyovers, come out of their existing budgets.

To actually cost us money in some meaningful way they'd have to send over extremely large quantities of drones that absolutely blow out the existing budgets for our bases.

The missiles are expensive, of course: $400K a pop for those AIM-9X. But the budget for the USAF is ~$160B/year, so again, drop in the bucket.
Off the top of my head, I think it's a few things:

* Neutral/textbook-like personality

* Lack of first-person pronouns

* Lack of any indication of relevant experience/credentials

* Lack of any tangents, stories, or any other attempt to relate with the reader

* High confidence/authoritativeness/matter-of-factness

* Lack of external sources or URLs

* Lack of any deep connection to the context of the conversation (such as a tie-in to other aspects of the thread, a reference to some aspect of HN, a reference to current events / pop culture, etc.)

* At least in this case, an overly literal interpretation of the question (despite being phrased as such, most humans wouldn't have interpreted reactspa's comment as a yes-or-no question)

Overall, it's not bad at answering questions, but the fact that it doesn't attempt to impersonate humans by default can give its output a bit of an uncanny valley feeling.
From someone that has done a much smaller balloon launch, it's not the balloon that gets detected as much as the payload. Our civilian weather balloon launch had a metallic reflector in line specifically to make it more visible on radar. The images I've seen of the payload under the large balloon from last week didn't look all that stealthy in shape, but I have no idea what it was made from? If it was made of plastic, would that reflect radar?
If you guys take a look at this from 3 years ago, you'll see that this doesn't seem like an uptick, but rather it seems like it's being publicized a lot more as of recent as well as some good target practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Midn_UNnj5I
StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
What evidence do we have that these balloons are of terrestrial origin, other than Occam’s razor? It could be Venusians, who have experience building lighter than aircraft for their floating cities. Other than how wildly improbable it is, the alien theory still makes more sense than the CCP thinking balloon espionage is a pretty neat idea.
> I think we need to be thinking about designing entire communities more intelligently with things like local markets, shops, parks, rest areas, schools, public transport etc. within walking distance.

Start by asking if these things you’re mentioning are literally banned. If so start there.
The Montana Governor was briefed at The White House about this tonight

https://mobile.twitter.com/GovGianforte/status/1624596970491...

>I received a briefing tonight at the White House about an object in Montana airspace. I will continue to receive regular updates.

>With questions about the Chinese spy balloon still unanswered, the Biden administration must be fully forthcoming with Montanans and all Americans.

One of Montana's house reps said:

>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.

https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1624579901608034306

Something is definitely happening. We shot down an object over Alaska yesterday, and then again today we shot down yet another object over Canada.

That's three objects shot down in about a week, whereas the last time we shot anything down over US airspace was arguably during WW2.
Oh my goodness. You are completely clueless about the economics of drug discovery. It is vastly more difficult and expensive than you think.
The Seattle attorney connected to George Santos and the FTX crypto scandal
I should respond! I've never seen this posted before. I learned something new today!
the chinese have been spying on us navy ships for a long time with drones. the public is just becoming aware because there was a big ufo awareness campaign that ran online for a few years and now we are shooting down their spy crafts.
>Having said that it still doesn’t take away the fact that Satya is much more aggressive than the coasting Sundar. Sundar truly deserves to be demoted if not fired.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716375

If that's true, I'd say it's the other way around.

Granted, in my opinion the world would be a better place if both companies ceased to exist.
reminds me of that time the regular guy, might've been a student, re-registered hotmail.com just to get his email working again after Microsoft let it expire.

oh, looks like it was either hotmail.co.uk or passport.com

https://slashdot.org/story/99/12/25/114201/microsoft-hotmail...

from

https://whoapi.com/blog/5-all-time-domain-expirations-in-int...
Ask HN: Web dev looking to learn new skills for job security, what should I do?
With layoffs left and right, and bootcamps continuing to graduate more developers, I honestly feel threatened as I’ve spent pretty much my entire career doing Web dev stuff - Python/Django/CoffeeScript/Ember (for startup ideas I explored), then Java/Spring (don’t ask), and currently Elixir/Phoenix full-time. I fear there is or soon will be a glut of Web devs especially.

I’m looking for suggestions for learning something that might help me have better job security, even if I don’t need to move out of Web dev completely. Also, I’m not looking to change companies voluntarily in the near future.

- I’ve been considering looking into Data Engineering, ML, and/or AI. My Math background is not solid (I got up to basic integration but never completed Calc 2, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, or advanced Probability/Statistics). How much Math do I really need, and what’s an effective way to learn it (I’m 42)?

- I really like Elixir and its ecosystem, and have an interest in learning Nx/Axon/Bumblebee, but Python’s ecosystem is more established and seems to have much more mindshare. Does anyone have a day job doing Data Science-type things with Elixir?

- Has anyone been able to transition to new tech fields via Udacity/Coursera/EdX without huge side projects to show? I am willing to put time into learning and side projects, but doubt I have the ability to treat it as a second job.

- Outside of DS/DE/ML/AI, I’m also interested in Programming Languages and Compilers. Is there an abundance of meaningful work in these areas where someone without a CS degree (just a Web dev bootcamp and some university courses up to Data Structures) could potentially get a foot in the door?
> Though I do have an answer to "why"! It's because Apple claims they want to be in charge of payments to protect their users. Even if we ignore the "charge slightly more and make tons of money" plan.

There's a difference between being charging payments as a service and acting as a financial fiduciary on behalf millions of developers. I don't think you understand the legal gravity of the latter.
I wish lol. Someone smarter than me posted it here and I’ve been using it ever since.
Which media ?
He got his wishes granted (but not the monopoly), there is an tool to call Wolfram Alpha in langchain's agents:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AAyEdTz-Z6ShKvewbt1...
A sidewinder is heat seeking. What heat is it latching on to? There's no jet engine on a balloon.

Besides, what good is a gun if you can't hit a stationary car-sized object? (And the balloon was much bigger than that.)
The <Dialog> Element
I'm not as lucky, and this almost exactly happened to me. I burned through all my savings just paying rent, eventually losing my apartment and leaving the industry for a few years, then moving back home in a different city. Which of course I was happy to have, but it's a cold and desolate isolated place. Went from a promising development career yo literally working part-time at Starbucks in my late twenties. To this day I have like 8 years of accumulated back taxes to resolve, which will probably end up being a refund at this point.
Which recent activities? House hearings on weaponization? Hersh's article on Nord Stream? Something else?
> The server would necessarily observe the source IP address in the TCP session uploading the report, but the server would not record that address with the data, a fact that can be confirmed by inspecting the reporting server source code (the server would be open source like the rest of Go) or by reference to a stated privacy policy like the one for the Go module mirror, depending on whether you lean more toward trusting software engineers or lawyers. A company could also run their own HTTP proxy to shield individual system’s IP addresses and arrange for employee systems to set GOTELEMETRY to the address of that proxy. It may also make sense to allow Go module proxies to proxy uploads, so that the existing GOPROXY setting also works for redirecting the upload and shielding the system’s IP address.

I wonder if Apple’s Private Relay [1] mechanism might be a safer path that doesn’t rely on operators actually running the open source version verbatim nor on the privacy policy.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/
> at approximately 350 pounds, it would have weighed more than [basketball player] Shaquille O'Neal at the peak of his dominance!"

Holy smokes. It'd be disappointing if this couldn't be worked into a certain Batman-universe origin story somehow.

I wonder why they couldn't make any mention of height? Girth?
This Linux laptop looks too good to be true.

It's available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren't any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam). In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours. You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display. The screen is matte. They claim it POSTs in under a second.

The only real downside is the 4-5 month lead time. Am I missing something?
My thesis is that there are a lot of people that either can't qualify for a mortgage, can't save up enough money for a reasonable down payment, qualify for a mortgage that they can't reasonably afford, etc.

On a 300k house, the difference between 5% and 20% down results in around a 400 dollar difference per month in a mortgage payment. That can be a pretty big difference maker for a lot of families.

5% down on a house like that is also 15k. That's a significant amount of money to save for a lot of families.

There are other relevant factors here as well, but this is certainly a significant one.
It's an uncommon expression then. The commenter might be British. Anyway, anyone reading this thread knows it now.

I recently met someone who uses the expression "country mile" all the time. Hadn't heard it before but it's cool. "That's more popular by a country mile" Country miles are obviously better than city miles. So now I'll probably end up using it.
Could it have been a training or readiness exercise?
In the network security space there's pcap-ng and yara that's pretty common as a network filter ruleset generator.

There's also a lof of visual IDEs for the creation of yara rules, which tend to break it down in a flow-based graph so that the logical conditions are easier to understand.

Yara is pretty flexible in what you can do with it, a lot of anti malware tools use it for detection, as well as more modern hex editors like ImHex.

Older-generation tech used to use snort and its rule format, especially in the Enterprise space it's (sadly) still common.