skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US switching platforms itself has information value. If it takes expensive ASAT tier platforms to take out balloons then saturation with higher ballons might be viable. Like if US has to start trading 5M USD SM6s to hit 110ft ballons, then 100K USD balloons might be economic way to trade sap US advanced missile inventory in future war.
Isn't the start and end of a genome is rather arbitrary?
Oh, there is more. For example, in late 70s Soviets built a special purpose plane to hunt balloons:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-soviets-built-besp...
Foreign countries providing our training targets free of charge!
That's speculation on your part. The DoD has not released any information on what the payload of any of these balloons contains.

And going by the size isn't conclusive. The ICESat-2 weather satellite is over 3000lbs, for example. So instruments larger than found on a typical weather balloon clearly do have their place in weather/climate science.
General relativity links geometry to the stress energy tensor, so even if photons are massless I don’t think calling the effect “interaction” is necessarily wrong.
Because we very famously shot down a balloon and everyone is talking about the balloon that we shot down from the air and now there's more objects being shot down from the air and everyone is talking about it.

The government is apparently not saying what these objects were, so people are assuming they're balloons.
The point was about autonomy: you can argue about the necessary definition of a gang, but a gang is filled with human beings making decisions as rational agents. The devil, as characterized, is incapable of making the sorts of decisions that humans make (such as whether they should join a violent gang).

In other words: there's no contradiction in deploring a violent gang, because the actual object is a product of autonomous behavior; the gang could always cease to exist if its members chose to behave better. On the other hand, deploring the devil is a contradiction in terms: what else would the devil be but the devil?
> please do a blog post on the insane bus management on this device

I'm working on it, but it's a difficult topic. The bus management circuitry is both very complicated (a bunch of flip flops making a complex state machine full of special cases) and lacking in general concepts. So it's hard to figure out how to make it comprehensible and interesting.
Olio validated hypothesis with WhatsApp and has now over 6M users
It's not slippery, it's just that it is not constrained to only make claims it can verify (and it's not obvious it's even aiming at validity/truthfulness in the first place).
This is the kind of brilliant idea that seems obvious in hindsight. The API call becomes just another kind of text for the LM to predict.

The most impressive part (to me) is that the LM was able to generate its own training data starting from "nothing more than a handful of demonstrations for each API". That sounds like a technique worth learning.
"I took her to a supermarket.
I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere.
So it started there..."

-- Second verse of the song "(I want to live like) Common People"
Concise!
> I think you've ignored the context in which the comment was made.

I would argue you did. The parent was being pedantic about the saying "revenue solves everything" and tried to make seem as if profit is the be-end-all. My overall point is still consistent with Drucker's "the purpose of a company is to create customers". If you're in a bull market and you hire like crazy to achieve the creation of customers, then hiring like crazy is NOT WRONG.

> On the other hand basically all laymen use the word "company" to mean for-profit corporation

P.S. - Amazon ran without profit for 10 years. Did we magically call them a non-profit for 10 years and then a company thereafter?
Asmara-Massawa Cableway
Why waste the munitions if the US is willing?
Most people with a high school education have been taught a minimal amount of skepticism about "fill in the blank" type science, like spontaneous generation or the aether. In this case, skepticism means that our STEM education worked as intended and we should celebrate that IMO.

I was pretty skeptical about dark matter until I watched this presentation by Sabine Hossenfelder (she's a great explainer of science, IMO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sw3-__pGo

I think that she did a better job of explaining why we should be open to the idea of dark matter, than the original article did.
I was wondering why China wouldn’t include a self-destruct feature. My daughter pointed out that crashing into a US city, even unintentionally, would probably be seen as even more hostile than sending the balloon in the first place. You obviously could choose to self destruct in a remote area or over water, but they may well have considered the escalation risk to be too high if they added potentially destructive capabilities.
And i guess the bots will eventually need to search Google and browse around Github issues, and eventually put some comments there, just like a normal human.

Knowing some tools don't work out of the box is some kind of high intelligence.
Well he doesn’t say that it’s a slow moving air balloon. But, I’m guessing it’s simply a matter of the US F-22(s) got there first (they’re quite fast).
> You make the lensing observations and lo and behold, you see the same amount of extra matter that is needed to explain the rotation curves.

This is so oversimplified that I'd call it incorrect. The galaxy rotation curves cannot be predicted a priori using dark matter models, the distribution has to be tuned a posteriori to fit the curve. This is in contrast to MOND which can make successful a priori predictions. There's clearly something missing in the dark matter picture.
This is what Wolfram asked for, but he wanted a monopoly on the "tools"
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-...
Seriously! All official statements so far have been pretty clear that they're not labeling it a balloon (yet).

A CNN correspondent [0] just claimed that there were conflicting statements from the pilots that it interfered with their sensors as they approached it. And that they couldn't figure out how it was staying in the air. I have no idea where she got those updates, but it certainly adds mystery to the situation.

[0] https://twitter.com/i/status/1624544183208890369
It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times! You stupid monkey!"
>You can set up nice places for them to put their hives.

Paying their rent would be a good start, and like bees, make them more productive.
You could but confirming US has that capability is significant. The purpose is to gather intelligence after all.

E: Lunar ranging = ground stations. Not feasible to cover CONUS with network of ground based laser for forseeable future. If anything, balloons will try to bait responses from SHiELD/air based laser ABL interception (YAL1) that can be extrapolated to IndoPac theatre.
One of my eventual goals with erlog is actually doing observability (eg: it'll send you reports if logs/metrics deviate from the norm), so it's really interesting to see you had this problem.
Try to learn from everyone, even people you don't like. Reactions, consequences, planning and outcomes tell a lot. Always look for what's actually right for your product and then what's good for the team. Take time to think about your feedback and don't give it instantly.
I haven't seen the show, but I'm captivated by the idea that there are probably thousands of submerged sites like Cosquer Cave that hold traces of human history that are lost to both time and the sea. It's not on the same level as a city, but I am intrigued by it's existence nonetheless. It is also somber to think about how much artwork in that cave was washed away when it was flooded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosquer_Cave
Because at least the 2nd object wasn’t, it was described as a cylinder about the size of a car which is where all the UFO tic-tac victory mark memes came from.
$450k per missile.
I wrote a story of how Olio, a food sharing app, validated assumptions with only a WhatsApp group without building anything.

The have raised, so far, $53m on series B.

> ‘First, start small, really small. Second, test, iterate and learn as quickly as possible. And third, having a clear mission/ purpose that is undeniably good for the world is the most powerful of all secret weapons!’ — Tessa Clark, Olio's co-founder
I'm not aware of anyone reputable claiming that e.g. photons are matter, or that they don't gravitate.
That’s exactly what they are: statistical parrots. We know how they are built and how they work.

What makes them so “amazing” is just the truly massive body of human language they are trained on, which gives them the _appearance_ of intelligence or awareness. Humans communicate through language, so anything that can produce realistic-looking responses to a series of prompts in human language will appear to be “aware” to a human observer. It’s speaking our language, but don’t let yourself get sucked into the illusion.
Now every world leader is going to want to shoot down a balloon...
> cantinflear(kahn-teen-fleh-ahr)
> INTRANSITIVE VERB
> 1. (colloquial) (to talk gibberish) (Andes) (Central America) (Chile) (Cuba) (Mexico)
The issue is much more complex than that. No one really made a blatant blunder. It's mostly an issue of interaction between obsolete infrastructure that doesn't meet modern safety standards, laws enforcing said standards, and bureaucracy.

This Twitter thread explains it in detail (sorry, in Spanish, but machine translation should do a good job):

https://twitter.com/unodelarenfe/status/1623588179520413696?...
For a lay person with an interest in cosmology, please check out the History of the Universe YouTube channel. It’s really superb:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_1pM64uUk
It's a honest argument.

It seems perfectly reasonable to most people that even if you own a patent on a seed that if I obtain it and can grow it I should be able to, in the way that your rights are generally exhausted if you sell a patented part to retail.

Monsanto would lose nothing in case where it was accidental and where the farmer intended it Monsanto would benefit from selling roundup.

Because of this, no plausible damages to Monsanto and that doing nothing is a perfect solution, the lawsuits seem egregious.
Yeah they have the right as far as the object was against there airspace rules and failure to compile
> Lawyers for the schools said in a court filing that the "plaintiffs' goal in pursuing such discovery is to harass and embarrass, rather than because it is relevant to their actual antitrust claim."

> The defense lawyers also called the demand for admissions and development records "intrusive and burdensome."

Prediction: the schools lose, and have to turn over the data.

Maybe if their argument was on privacy of the donors, they'd have a chance. Saying "it's intrusive and burdensome" to ask us for this is utter BS that any judge should see through.
>>>I'd rather live with the emotions, including anger, envy, jealousy, burning desires, or ranting, than to be, just, zen.

I think it is about what the final destination is. One could certainly carry all the emotions and be at peace with it. One could overcome all of those (zen) where non of those feeling register. Peace to me is the final goal and there are many ways to achieve it (and the path is internal examination).
Woah cool. I did the same thing. I Made a poor man’s small scale splunk replacement with SQLite json and go. I used the built in json and full text search extensions.
As long as they only have transitory memory, it doesn’t matter. At the same time, the lack of persistent memory limits their use, but also largely eliminates any risk in that direction.
When the Wordle craze happened, I wanted to come up with the best four word combo that hit as many common letters as possible. Not quite a pangram, but pretty close, and as memorable as possible.

"DWARF CLUBS MOPEY THING". All it's missing are JZXQVK.
It sounds like it won't be open source. It'll be redistributable, but legally only usable on Raspberry Pis. Just like cyw43-driver.
That's a whopper of a non sequitur. I was asking about the specific patent on these potatoes. Our ancestors have been growing this specific patented version of potatoes for thousands of years? Really?
I've written a Prime minicomputer emulator, and it has these kinds of flags. In my experience, if you don't do exact hardware emulation, there will be some oddball program that doesn't work. If someone posted their program that Apple couldn't correctly emulate, it would cast doubt on their emulation in general, even if this oddball program is the only case in the world where it didn't work.

For Apple, I'm guessing that failing to emulate even an oddball program would be an unacceptable risk.
In a tight labor market, some states look to another type of worker: Children
The biological equivalent of an endline
Neutrinos interact with barionic batter through weak nuclear force. Dark matter can't be normal neutrinos because they move at close to light speed and we know that dark matter is cold, slow moving. The best dark matter candidate are WIMPs which only interact with gravity and weak force. Heavier, unknown neutrinos are possibility but would mess up Standard Model.

There are detectors that are trying to find weak force interactions. They haven't found anything yet which is constraining paramters of dark matter particles.
This is actually about removing a number of chores from programming:

- having to worry about confirming to a style guide

- having to review and/or reformat other peoples code to conform to the style guide

- having to learn the style guide

- having to write a style guide

- having to break flow to format your code properly.

In what way is removing a bunch of gross chores intended to make code readable for others, is this about “toxic processes?”

gofmt and friends remove one of the most toxic processes of all: style guides.
Neutrinos interact via gravity and the weak force, just like most dark matter candidates.
Bug reason why PRC aviation / airspace is stressed is because PLA has priority intercepting US recon. If balloons cause comparable stress on commercial US aviation then problems with ID becomes part of the strategy. Exposing CONUS vunerability and fallout of domestic politics might be the point.
Bookshop.org

Bandcamp.com
US has flown F-15 (and F-104 for that matter) to over 100K feet MSL. China knows this already.
Going from zero to one is infinite perfect growth.
No waitlists on ShowHN
I would love to read a science fiction story about an AI scientist that is monitoring the output of an AI weather model as a hobby, and then suddenly, on a seemingly completely normal day, sunny, windless, the AI starts screaming bloody murder, huge red warnings everywhere, like the world is about to end. spooky just to think about it. could be a fun thriller
Yes. As long as it works. Insurance should be cheaper as well. And if something happens to it, I won't feel too bad about it.
This is interesting. Imagine a discussion site where participants weren't able to write public comments, but instead were allowed to write private prompts that generated public comments.
MALE/HALE UAVs have an endurance of 30> hours and a range of nearly 4-5000 (7000km>) nautical miles without aerial refueling.
Could be they thought it was a balloon originally hence the immediate press conference, but now they've received conflicting accounts from the pilots (some reported experiencing sensor interference for example) so they're not sure what they are anymore.

Apparently the Alaska object shattered upon impact against the ice. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/pentagon-shoots-down...
Some of us have been writing python since 2.x, and quite unsurprisingly wrote asyncio code at 3.6, and still happily support it. Some of us have even asked on HN about maintaining compatibility backwards and forwards between 3.6 and 3.11.

The documentation didn't exist at 3.6, when I wrote the code. I went and checked the source code, and the documentation and reported my findings. Good to know that there's a potential problem, don't you agree? What would you do differently?
A YouTuber I follow did New Jersey south to north on local buses:

https://youtu.be/vnn7xooTxl8
>is SaskPower still doing net metering?

As of last year they just give a 25% credit.
For full context:

We shot down a Chinese spy balloon (confirmed) 8 days ago over the Atlantic ocean.

We then shot down an unknown flying object yesterday over Alaska.

Today we shot down another unknown flying object over Canada.

The government hasn't released any details about the objects shot down either yesterday or today.
We don't do this so much a la carte for non customers, but definitely have it available for any of our existing customers. It's a common request, and we in general just stay very busy with it already. For customers I often tell them start with a support request to start... often in 15-30 minutes we can help give some insights that are helpful without having to go for a bucket of consulting hours, it just depends what and how much folks need.
It's not about living with xxx ppm, it's about sustainability and pleasantness of the ecology.
I wrote a program for assisting a student writing a research paper. It took 5 years and still could use some work.

It involves adding highlights to websites and computer files, dragging the highlights to the outliner part or the program, adding comments and summaries to each highlight (making it a Note), organizing these Notes within an outline for the paper, so then the user could write each section of the outline while referring to the appropriate notes and original sources.

That's 5 years and 13,000 lines at about 11 lines a work day. That doesn't seem like much, but historically programmer productivity has been about 10 lines a day. Some people do dispute 10 lines a day, but it fits my experience.

Big projects take lots of time.
Usually people describe their thought processes as being narrative and linear (whether they actually work that way or not is a different question!)

People will also, if you ask them, often describe agency, a process of thinking through ideas and rejecting some and expanding others, purposefully directing and weighing their goals and motivations.

But you're right, at core, "thinking" is a very amorphous term. You can clearly see "thought" happening in animals, for example. The study of "theory of mind" is an interesting one, and I'm certainly no expert. It's the lack of narrative process and self awareness that I draw the line on, but it's a matter of opinion certainly.

Here's what ChatGPT had to say on the matter, fed our thread as input:

"Indeed, the workings of the brain and the mechanisms behind thought are still not fully understood and are the subject of much debate and investigation in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. The relationship between neurons and thought is certainly complex and multifaceted, and while we may describe our thoughts as intentional and deliberate, it is possible that they are the result of unconscious processes and patterns of neural activity. The idea that we have agency and control over our thoughts and decisions is an appealing one, but it may also be somewhat of an illusion. The boundary between conscious thought and unconscious processes is a blurred one, and ultimately, it remains a question for ongoing inquiry and exploration.

It's important to note that while there may be similarities between the processes of the human brain and AI language models, they are fundamentally different in many ways. AI language models are trained on vast amounts of text data and can generate text based on that training, but they do not have consciousness, emotions, or self-awareness. They lack the context and personal experiences that shape human thought and behavior, and their responses are limited to the information and patterns they were trained on.

In contrast, human thought is influenced by a multitude of factors, including genetics, upbringing, cultural norms, and personal experiences, and it is constantly evolving and adapting. Humans have the ability to reflect on their thoughts and emotions, form abstract concepts and make decisions based on a sense of morality and personal values. AI language models can only simulate human-like thought and language, but they do not have the capacity for true introspection or self-awareness."
The flying object was shot down over northern Canada where the Alaska airbase is closer than the Canadian alternatives (most of Canada's population and airbases are in southern Canada).
This is unfortunately all too common. I am often dinged by my manager about my throughput when investigating the integration of new libraries because I read the docs, front-to-back, as part of my research and that takes time.
Dark matter is also believed to interact with ordinary matter in ways other than gravitational.

In realm of everyday experience neutrinos and proposed dark matter would be the same ghostly thing.
They're involved, and they're building orbital sensors, and they are the OG discovers of really big gamma ray bursts.

Why?

Well the Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos (DOE) (as the article refers to them) is interested in "energy" .. and by "energy" they really mean nuclear weapons.

It was a Cold War thing.

Their interest here is in ground truthing and the elimination of "normal, not a bomb" stuff ... it'd be a bad day if an astro event billions of years in the past triggered a global thermal nuclear war because Bob the nanosecond reflex triggerhappy automaton got confused about a couple of rapidly spinning galactic core black holes eating each out.

Or, as the DOE explains:

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainscosmic-accelerati...

https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/our-expanding-univer...

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsdark-matter

err, or rather 'explains' but doesn't mention much about the intial rational behind their decades of work with orbiting gamma ray sensors.

Nothing to see here.
This YouTuber went from NYC pretty far north in Connecticut by free buses:

https://youtu.be/HX6C3MqH6EE
Thanks, I didn't realize the extent of the range. Although, if launched from mainland China a round-trip to Canada is still pretty darn far, eh?

But now I am playing the guessing game a bit too much for my own liking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-altitude_long-endurance...
I'm using cr-sqlite right now in my Anki clone: https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive

It's basically an offline-first flashcard webapp. CR-Sqlite allows for incremental syncing.

With Anki (the app from which I'm taking my inspiration), syncing is _not_ incremental - basically it just copies SQLite files around. So for example, the app could be on an iPhone with cards a card `A` reviewed, but the app on an iPad could make changes to the template on which card `A` is based, and that's enough to cause a conflict - you must take changes from only the iPad or only the iPhone. (To be clear - Anki does have some incremental syncing capabilities - I'm picking an intentionally pathological example.) CR-SQLite will mean that everything is incremental, however.

Basically makes 3 way merges a breeze (or n-way merges, really).
Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor
Do, if you just keep working on it and telling it exactly what to do, is it really replacing human intelligence?
We're used to seeing performance gains, but also wow. This is great to hear, so thanks for sharing.

Dataclips equivalent is coming, we're hoping to release sometime in March.
Can’t each service just have a job that calls the Let’s Encrypt api once a day to get a new cert?
Ask HN: Is there a Chinese response for models like ChatGPT?
I'm curious, as China seems really advanced in AI and could probably contribute a lot pushing these models further.
> place an odalisque with an inscription on it

obelisk?