skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An odd example, given that Tesla is known for mediocre quality. But yes, success stories are definitionally better than the usual; there are definitely places that don't fit the stereotype. E.g., Wahl clippers, or some of the companies in the Lean orbit, like the ones Kevin Meyer [1] has been involved in. But still, it sounds like the average level of quality is way lower, and I don't think that's just due to the customers.

[1] https://kevinmeyer.com/bio
Government allows the market to exist in a form agreed to via policy. Wages, for example, are set via wage floors.
I'm not a radar expert, but maybe someone who is can enlighten us?

They can detect an incoming missile, so I don't see the problem. Maybe the one today IS a lot smaller; I don't think we're getting a whole lot of details on that.

As for the money: definitely. The same would be true of drones.
Assuming it’s true, I think the government should step in because price fixing is illegal, really doesn’t matter who or why, and the students who paid more because of this scheme should be compensated.

And having all these schools’
names be dragged through the mud during the court proceedings will further your goal.
People think they notice lots of things with their naked eyes all the time and it doesn't make the news. Reports this week were that they didn't detect them in transit at the time, we only found out after the fact.

Another plausible theory is the Trump administration covered it up because of their deference to Xi in early 2020 (see: comments on COVID being under control).
You can get 2000 calories from bread. You can't get adequate nutrition, though.
I feel like we have a couple of weird but completely plausible events involving balloons. And now everyone is thinking about it, so people start noticing it more.

Isn’t this a well-studied behaviour? X happens and suddenly lots of people are calling in about X.
Wrong. Excel is biased towards familiarity with mathematics. It just builds on our pre-existing familiarity with mathematical formulas. The intended usage is ALSO just for matehmatical formula calculations. Excel is not typically used to execute step by step procedures across IO.

To analyze our innate biological biases you must remove all context of mathematics and programming and just frame it from the context of a typical activity:

What do you get when you ask someone to write down a series of tasks?

you get a list of imperative instructions. This happens without ANY additional learning or education.

For excel you need to be taught excel and there's a per-requisite of already being familiar with basic mathematical language.

I mean honestly this is all obvious to me. I can come at it from another angle to help you see why it's so obvious.

What type of universe are humans designed to live in? We live in a universe that moves forward in time, with each change in incremental step forward in time comes changes in the properties of things around us. State changes and mutations. Our brains are tuned to live in this type of state changing universe ALONG with being state changing entities that are an intrinsic part of the universe itself.

Logically a programming style that imitates how the universe, and how our minds work will be MUCH more intuitive.

What sort of universe is functional programming? It's a place where time doesn't exist, state changes don't occur. This universe is actually impossible to exist.

Think about it. You know about von neumann machines right? Can you build a lambda calculus machine where no imperative instruction ever occurs? No it's impossible. In order to even simulate this universe we need access to the time domain to execute an evaluation step.

Theoretically if you build some sort of adder that can add 50 values at the same time you can have a 50 operation FP program evaled in one step. Practically speaking the evaluation must happen in several steps because adders only add a couple values at a time then save it to memory. We only know time doesn't exist in the FP world is because these equations can be evaluated in different orders. That's why haskell can do lazy evaluation.

Basically functional programming is a sort of clever fantasy universe we made up. We aren't biologically tuned to operate or even analyze such a universe. We have to take extra steps in imagination to make sense of it. It is NOT intuitive.
And this fits nicely because the genome replication really looks like a roll of film being played
One effect of this is that China now has more concrete information on North American air defense systems. When analyzing hostile events proceed from the effect backwards to determine motivation.
Before we jump to alien spacecraft, the US Government was quite forthcoming about this even, so let's see what they say when they gather up all the wreckage and analyze it.

We're rolling into an election season, and the minority party loves conspiracies. I have a good feeling that information will be shared shortly about what they shot down.
I think its usually a bad bet to assume to know better than military intelligence that has been circling these balloons for several days now (and yes, they were right about Iraq, it just was ignored as pretext to invade)
Probably buy a farm.

In 2000, I didn’t pursue going into tech because all of the jobs were going to India.

I told myself at the time, well they’ll never be able to get rid of writers, so why not study writing! Hah so glad to be wrong now.
"Reported" objects. On a complex radar system which has filters in the process of being re-tuned, because of concern things have been missed but now, there are more false positives: radar is complicated and weather, dust, floating metallised party balloons, insects, migrating birds can generate signals.
One of the ways to address that is to tax vacant housing units. For example, you could double the property taxes for any house that is vacant for more than x days out of a year and the x could be surprisingly high. For multi-unit properties, the property taxes could be multiplied by 1.y where y is the percentage of vacant units or by 2 if all properties are vacant. The revenues from the tax can then go towards a good cause like funding homeless shelters.

If there's a need to not only put capacity on the market but fill it, the market will drive rent prices down because it is better to get something for your vacant unit than pay double the property taxes. If that doesn't work and there's still tons of vacant housing stock that is being held off the market to drive up rent, you can always keep raising the vacant housing tax until it works.
A solution to this government interference appears to be to clandestinely form these fraternal societies, similar to what certain persecuted religious groups did.
I'm familiar with NORAD. Take a look at Canadian media, you'll see they are talking about the fact RCAF could not do it on their own.
That's a huge part of being a politician: crafting your message so that people get a specific impression. Are we going to pretend that countries who mention other countries by name aren't considering how their citizens will perceive the message? It honestly sounds like so many of you are extremely inexperienced in the subtle ways that people play word-power games, since many of you (but not all) are in denial that anything is being played at all. It's like you've never been around psychopaths.
Like I said, this ignores the power imbalance. A business has far less to loose by letting an apartment go vacant for a while, then a renter has by living on the street for even a week.

This becomes even more true as the business has a larger portfolio and more assets to devalue. It is in the common interest of all landlords to keep the rent high, so if they are able to sink the cost of keeping an apartment vacant, they will do it if it means that that cost will be realized as profit in their non-vacant units.

Tell me, why do you think rent control is a bad idea? For me it seems only bad if you are a landlord.
Yeah so this is an interesting point - it's not designed to be an integration tool, it's designed to be an automation tool - hence each workflow just has a HTTP endpoint and returns whatever your workflows output is to whatever called the endpoint.

It can also make API calls itself as part of the workflow if you want it to send data or retrieve data from other sources.

Think of it less like something like Zapier which is designed for piping data from A to B, and more like user-friendly wrapper for something like Express.js to make it more consumable to people who: A) Can't code, or B) Don't want to have to spend 30 mins spinning up a serverless instance to hook some webhooks and API's together.

That last point is particularly important when combined with the fact that Workflows can be imported into each other effectively like "Functions" so you can reuse blocks of logic.

The fundamental "atomic use-case" is Product A which has Webhooks, and Product B that has an API. You want to get the data from Product A's webhook, mutate it, update it, maybe cross-reference it with Product C, and then push it into Product B. This kind of logic is prohibitively complex with tools like Zapier (and also quite expensive for an individual), and often legacy tools don't enjoy any of the benefits of tools like Zapier anyway because they don't have native connectors for them.

Appreciate the feedback re: the messaging - I agree that the distinction between this and something like IFTTT/Zapier is important to communicate.
That seems like the best explanation. See https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones... for a fleshed out version of that argument.

I think what changed is that the US decided to stop ignoring the "UFO"s. The Ukraine war has shown how important drones are and it's obvious that drones and balloons will play a huge role in any Taiwanese war.
> Surely things can be adjusted to have it rise for 6-8 hours (overnight) rather than for 2-3 hours?

Yes, some would even argue that it gets better if you leave it for several days.
>Are we obligated to pay for that?

Seeing as NASA and NOAA are paid for by taxes, it actually is. Now with the (decidely American) pedantics aside...

I agree with you in principle, but ultimately if people want to be paid they need to make that need or desire explicitly clear and on the record. Voluntary generosity can and will only go so far.

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".
What does "scrambled" mean in this context?
The EPA isn't a corporation?
If you bring out metros, you can get to those numbers, but now you're at a tiny number of places, and most cities just aren't dense enough for that even if they're going for great public transit.

> otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams

Right, that's the main downside, but there's a lot of areas where they'd fit.
China seems to be testing the US air defense system, is this a sign that China is getting serious over Taiwan?
Oh okay, then let's set the minimum wage to 100K per year. Then everyone can own two cars and a home.
Actually the Chinese balloon payload is thought to be only about 900kg or about 2000lbs:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2358955-chinese-spy-bal...

A US Military Cargo Helicopter can lift up to 36,000lbs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53K_King_Stallion
Can you add any number of A's, or just 1, or shorten it by 1, and it still is functional?
Again?! They were back as late as of 2018.
interesting that no one here is mentioning the Turing test - that milestone has been reached in the past, apparently.
The article provides examples of clinics offering very few steps to treatment, and discusses doctors who bias in favor of treatment. It paints a picture supporting the conclusion that it would have been easy.
I like these sorts of comments on HN, just when they're substantiated with citations I can verify independently. Otherwise it's not much more useful than noise.
It means the planes took off in a hurry I think. Not like eggs.
Alcoholic beverages existed for as long as agriculture itself. Cannabis use is found in many ancient civilizations. Just because you consider recreational drugs to be sanctimonious doesn't mean ancient humans shared the same arbitrary moral values as you.
Choosing unique passwords for your main accounts and then relying on the manager for the insignificant accounts is still an option. They're not mutually exclusive. That's not an option if you go the passwordless route.
You are implicitly asking "Who decides how much is enough"

As I say in the paper "There exists no regularized measure of relative deprivation that can be agreed on across all cultures and all time periods."

I have no solution to the problem of relative consumption, I am simply suggesting that it is fundamentally destructive in the current structure.

The only thing I can think of is to create systems that do not incentivize the risk taking behavior as you describe (and I was/am probably the most extreme version of what you describe by the way).

My personal answer is to minimize my consumption as much as possible while still being able to carry out my personal values until I die. I have no advice for anyone else as I don't know what their circumstances are.
> Because they are the very ones who made this urgent, yes.

If the board did do that, Sundar is the directly responsible individual who said "yes". If the board suggests "jump" and Sundar reflexively response "how high?", in my view Google has bigger problems.
It's not just vinyl chloride in the air. It's hydrogen chloride and phosgene, because they decided to set the vinyl chloride on fire to get rid of it.

Phosgene was a chemical weapon in WW1 and was especially problematic because, drumroll please, it's heavier than air and doesn't dissipate readily. That's one reason they roundabout mention checking air in people's homes.

Air readings could be manipulated simply by taking them from the tops of hills, or upwind, or even a relatively low altitude via plane. People who don't know phosgene is heavier than air would not realize what was going on.
> Giving working people money [...] making it more likely that low income employed people will need to get government assistance.

Getting the government to give people money makes it more likely that people will get money from the government. Who would have thunk?
Sure. I can support needs-based tests. My point is that we shouldn't use the food stamp threshold as signifier of poverty.

This is a common tactic that left-wingers use to prove that wages are insufficient, and that companies are exploting society because some full time workers are eligible for food stamps.

This fails on 3 fronts:
1. The threshold for food stamp eligibility is sufficiently high that normal wages qualify, eg. 70k.
2. Technically any wage can qualify for food stamps if one's household size is large enough.
3. We also believe in equal pay for equal work.
Likely this one… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military)
Macroeconomic Scenarios and Outcomes in 2023
What did all the graphic designers do when they were replaced by clip-art & off-the-shelf templates?
As I understand it, most "elite" universities give special consideration to the children of parents who make large donations, in order to encourage such donations.

Is this not well known?

I have heard a couple of arguments in favor of the practice:

1) It brings more money into the university (most important reason for the university)

2) It enables the university to admit and educate a larger number of students than it could otherwise afford to (potentially pro-social reason)
scramble

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: a rapid emergency takeoff of interceptor fighter aircraft

Further reading: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scramble
Yeah, it's a big distraction from other, non-balloon important world events that we should be focusing on, of which there are many. These balloons taking over the news cycle for days on end eats into peoples precious attention spans. Suddenly balloons are the hottest thing to focus on right now though.
To some extent, these kinds of things are always going on, though rarely reported, but everyone is just now paying attention so it seems really unusual. What is unusual is that the US is starting to be public about these incursion incidents and taking a more obviously aggressive posture against them.

I would view this more as a change of policy by the US government in how they manage these events rather than a change in the number and type of events.
Minimum wage in Australia is $21/hr and their economy is very much functional (besides all of the housing stock soaked up by Chinese investors). I’m not going to argue excessively with someone who’s ideologically driven and putting forth hyperbole (no one is advocating for $100k/year minimum wages), but there is clearly room to arrive at a living wage from where the US is currently at due to a lack of inflation adjustment, via policy.
From the Stripe response upthread, it sounds like they weren't using Connect, just vanilla Stripe.
Nor am I suggesting as such
> Well, I largely think that NIMBY is still at play

Citation needed? The argument that "those gosh-darn environmentalists ruined nuclear" have been countered repeatedly by simply focusing on the huge economic headwinds facing any nuclear project, while renewables gallop into an ever-cheaper future.

Even making the claim that environmental activism resulted in overaggressive regulation is hard to back up, since agencies like the NRC and IAEA are made up of mainly nuclear industry figures who are hardly anti-nuke.
The payload doesn’t have to be explosive to be self destructive. Spy gear and weather gear can be the same hardware, I assume the ROM on the hardware and the data collected would be the real evidence. Some well-placed magnesium strips or maybe even deleting the data as a failsafe would be effective. Wouldn’t surprise me if shooting it down was the least risky idea. It’ll probably be 40 years until we know what the real reasoning is though!
UFOs can be anything, by definition.

The interesting thing here is the social phenomenon of suddenly shooting them all down.

Coincidentally, I was just reading about MH17.
I have a disability in which stable access to healthcare is extremely important. Due to the way healthcare works in this country, switching a job means switching the company that provides my healthcare. This new company can declare that I haven't had enough evidence to prove my healthcare needs and decline to continue my regimen, which worsens my disability and risks my continued employment.
Yep. Kind of like police being dispatched to a crime in progress instead of a general patrol.
Graeber directly addresses this in the book and in my opinion completely nullifies Pinker's argument
> their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security

This may be true, but I think that this is also something that can be learned, at least to a good degree. Personally I feel I have managed to become less anxiety-prone through conscious effort and introspective work. Being an "orange" is not an immutable fact.
I am curious if those "research vessels" carry whole bunch of tiny drones that can be released in places of interest and do some real surveillance.
I bet Somali Pirates could feed their families for a long time off of looting one.
The article says it needs M1 or M2 chip.
Is it illegal to plug in a device to watch BBC iPlayer or Live TV in Starbucks?
ApE is one of those tools that is so old-school but just works. I used to hate using it but it's really grown on me - Snapgene is just too darn expensive and benchling isn't very power user friendly
that page "List of pangrams" was deleted. The OP is a link to the Pangrams article which contains the contents of the deleted page.
Is it early? LLMs have been around for a long time, and BERT was 2018.
Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.
They found an object which has now been shot down by a US fighter jet over Canadian territory:

https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-canada-o...
Uhh, yeah... That's more of a slide that under the utah mainstream culture rug and ignore it as much as possible kinda thing.

If anyone cares to pay attention to the shade that the mormon culture gives to lowlife mormonism groups around Utah you'll find very quickly Incest goes very very deep in lots of subcultures in Utah.

INCEST IS a HUUUUUGE problem in Utah.. as in THOUSANDS of inbred in Utah all in the Salt Lake Valley.

Just that nobody cares to pay attention to it long enough because its too gross to admit it stems from a mormon fundamentalist origin
Esa película ya la vi, se llama Colossus: The Forbin Project
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I've already seen that movie, it is called: Colossus: The Forbin Project

yts/movies/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970
Anecdote but dated a Spanish person who claimed that housing is very static for them and that the idea of young people moving out and buying their own place is extremely uncommon
Correct. In fact if a billionaire spends money on a mega yacht, that's much better than something rent seeking like lobbying, and for those who care about share of the economy going to the top (vs the total picture of the pie) at least they're not buying up more productive assets.

Also yachts employe people. To build them, to man them, to repair them, to fuel them etc.
Or at least seems that way in terms of coverage now suggesting it's statistically significant.

I'm personally more worried about the Southwest not being able to agree to a way to not run out of water. Strange that it stopped being in the news around when that balloon showed up. I honestly think a coincidence, but says something about our priorities.
TDD is pretty useless when the requirements are shit. It just takes longer to realize you need better directions.
I'm always a bit ambivalent about these sorts of articles.

On the one hand if free software is got the greater good, then it makes sense that collective payment would be effecient - and the existing collective payment system we have currently is taxes and govt funding. So yay, let's tap into that.

On the other hand this system is grossly ineffecient, and is subject to political oversight. Do we really want them picking and choosing winners and losers?

This sort of funding also leads to stagnation. United Launch Alliance has been happily consuming govt $ for 5 decades, with very little improvement in tech. SpaceX comes along to show what can be done by adding a bit of ambition. (and I understand they sell to govt now, but they started with private money.)

At the root of this discussion is the fact that Open Source / Free Software has yet to figure out the right funding model. We all agree that the current outcomes are positive, that competition is healthy, that Open access is desirable, but after 4 decades of trying we still don't know how to effeciently fund it.

Donations are a bust. Companies aren't set up to pay for things altruistically, and govt funding would (IMO) likely corrupt the system, and incentize gaming-for-grants rather than making better software. Plus those you most need the $ will discover that applying and getting govt funds can result in a lot (I mean a LOT) of extra paperwork.

So yeah, on the one hand more $ in the system is good. But govt $ comes at a cost.

And that's before we discuss who actually gets paid if a "project" is funded.
Does anyone else think these have been happening a long time but now they make front paper news because of recent activities?
It’s hard to execute on a plan that requires everyone to be exceptional.
My point is that people aren't sticking to tested ideas when communicating with the public. They're throwing untested ideas at them, or sometimes multiple incompatible untested ideas at them.
Are you able to do an AMD Athlon T-Bird article? Or are these chips "too new"?

I'm not sure if there is a cutoff for what you're able to / interested in exploring.