skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What some call stifling regulation others call regulating monopolies.
https://archive.ph/hzHec
For anyone who loved Myst, give Quern a go. A real gem and very myst-like. I also really loved Cyan Worlds more recent original game Obduction.
I don't think it is. That one is shared vCPU and I've been hearing about a single vCPU one.
The YAL-1 was a test platform mounting laser on 747. It was retired in 2014. The US is further developing airborne lasers but still working on prototype.
Left of Republican blowhards doesn't mean you're "left-leaning" or it shouldn't anyway. FBI is pro Establishment.
Not that it's necessarily indictatory, but this balloon had a payload the size of a small jet. By my understanding (I could be wrong) that's very uncommon for a weather balloon.
I've yet to encounter a speaker or article that just stated there is an observation they can't explain. They all talk about some theory or theories to try to explain things.
If this sort of question fascinates you, you might like "Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine"[0], an article written with a tone that I've found to resonate with engineers and like-minded folk.

[0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
Weather balloons are tiny, yes, but they aren't tracked by radar anymore. Generally, it's a set of meteorological instruments and a GPS to track the location. It's a bit easier to get that to work, as you no longer need to make sure your radar works, but rather, just that the GPS is working before you let go. That said, payload is substantially smaller than these things (<1 kg for current tech).
In france farmers are finding them all the time. This will be a big problem for Ukrainian farmers into the future.
I can easily imagine a trade route from the Kara sea, southbound rivers (Yenisei, Angara and alike?) into the Baikal sea...
I realize you have a narrative you’re pushing but it’s a tweet, you can quote the whole thing:

> I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1624527579116871681

Without the selective quoting that seems far more understandable: the joint military responded, the better aircraft did the job, and “I ordered” most likely means that in the absence of a clear, significant immediate threat they let the leader of the country the thing was over make the call.
There are a few non-controversial reasons that this could be the case:

1. The study on Rapid-onset gender dysphoria could be flawed -- it asked parents, and not youths themselves, which might skew the data on the prevalence and incidence of gender dysphoria

2. The number of transgender youth in the US is small[1], estimated at around 300,000. A small absolute increase would result in a large relative increase, even though transgender-identifying youth are a small percent of the population

3. Improved acceptance, awareness, diagnostics and treatment may result in transgender youth seeing more options for themselves, and thus being more public in announcing their status or seeking treatment. It's not that more people are trans or genderfluid, but rather that they're more comfortable being public with their status

[1] https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-ad...
Yeah and you're still wrong. The comparison is inapt because for all other cosmological phenomena our information is multimodal and this not currently the case for LCDM. Take the argument to the extreme: suppose dark matter has no weak force interaction. It will then be literally impossible to uncouple our observations of dark matter from our inference of it's distribution, and then LCDM is strictly unfalsifiable and may be used to explain almost anything.
Nobody is claiming that such methods do not exist, so naming them adds nothing to this thread.
Think "employment contract."
User Zoe Sparks on that page covers why they don’t really feel it’s like a nop slide. I think that answer is a good supplement to the accepted one.
In my experience, anxiety is something you have. Layoffs give it a convenient focus but it doesn't have to be that way.

I used to work at a hedge fund that basically screened for mental health during hiring. When we had layoffs, nobody freaked out. We knew we had a good run, we knew severance was good and we knew we'd be highly desirable in the market. So we metabolized the layoffs and went on with our lives.

My job after that was at a scale up that leaned woke (a lot of employees were sold a tenuous connection between our work and a feel good mission). When layoffs happened, it was basically an all out mental health crisis, with everyone feeding into everyone else's anxiety. The facts weren't that different than at the hedge fund but the amount of angst and freaking out was through the roof.

Now at a FAANG, obviously had layoffs recently. The emotional vibe is somewhere between the two above. Coworkers that came from tougher places (finance, Microsoft, Amazon) are holding it together fine. Others are not.

I once heard the analogy of an orange. When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out because that's what an orange is made off. If extreme anxiety comes out when you are squeezed, it was there all along.
Possibly. But it's worth wasting a few missiles if it doesn't let the Chinese know that. Let them waste their money making a balloon armada, and if war breaks out zap them all with a laser.
assuming the 100% clipboard-exfiltration-at-all-times and other data harvesting reports are true

Woah! Even on iOS?
I understand why you'd value it, but the problem is these people are better at delivering on self-serving, engineered OKRs than delivering value to the company. They'll look amazing on every measurable metric, but not on the metrics that really matter.

If you run a consultancy, you're right, this is exactly who you want.
Fully 2000 km from Cold Lake to Tuktoyaktuk. Depending where the object was, there's a lot more distance in the way.
For anyone else seeing this, the above is carefully edited to give the wrong impression. Here’s the full quote:

> I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1624527579116871681
It's always been obvious the the wealthy are over represented at these schools and that "need blind" admissions somehow result in classes of overly wealthy mixed with just enough middle and lower income folks to blunt the plutocratic sheen a bit.

Presumably need blind admissions skew high income to begin with just because some parts of America verge on third world and illiterate without even taking other factors into account, but I also have to assume their financial aid practices are carefully designed, perhaps with full US government support (FAFSA is a hilarious thing in many respects), to further distill out an appropriately wealthy distribution of admits.

The fact that government money and aid can go to these schools that are so instrumental in the creation and sustenance of elites has always been a farcical betrayal of the democratic ideal.

Very curious how far they've gone to prevent documentation of the kinds of things plaintiffs would know doubt like to know from ever existing to begin with.
I'm leaning towards no... because I have been lucky enough to go behind the scenes at Scampton. Scampton is where the dambusters flew from. Outside of Guy Gibson's (Dambusters CO) office is the grave of his dog named N*** that was killed the day before the dambusters raid. Next to it is an 'Upkeep' bouncing bomb mounted on an apparatus that allows you to spin it. Opposite are the 'Tallboy' and 'Grandslam' bombs which I strongly suspect are the ones from outside the gate. I also seriously doubt what the article suggests the damage of a donation would be. Lincoln cathedral is nearly 5 miles from the gate at Scampton!
It’s not so common any more. I bet less than 5% of gen Z know it.
There are absolutely hard rules about national airspace, what the hell do you think the ICAO exists for?

https://www.icao.int/APAC/Documents/edocs/International%20Ai...
Not really. The thing the other week was a runway incursion during an active takeoff. Basically what caused Tenerife, still the worst aviation accident in history.

This is a collision of a bus with an empty towed aircraft. Not nearly the same potential for mass deaths.
A weather balloon is a couple pounds at most.
If you followed the language model in a forward pass, it is exactly the opposite. It begins at what git is in compressed weights and tears it down to what you wanted.

In the house analogy, they look at what you wanted and then the builder tears down the already built house to make it match what you wanted. There is no synthesis from 'scratch' in any form.

The only way it appears from sratch is through our perception, almost the same way individual frames in a movie clip make up a motion picture.
-> petty little bureaucratic tyrants...One could hope that this would cause a rebellion

Is the rebellion funded by Google and Microsoft? Because that is a conspiracy theory with some legs...
Myst Island is free on the new one but the ages are a one time IAP. Kind of a neat way to let folks try the game out IMO.
> £15.99 bus

From a US/Canadian perspective, that is incredible value. A one-way bus trip between Vancouver and Seattle costs CAD 26, which is just about the same price in pounds as the LON-EDI trip, but the distance is less than half.

A roughly equivalent bus trip for me would be Vancouver to Calgary, for which the bus ticket costs $170 / £105.
I would say it's less likely to be financial peril (though no doubt that plays a part, especially when e.g. health insurance is required for some expensive treatment), and more likely when a person identifies too much with their job.

If you identify too much with your job, losing it is an attack on your ego and it damages your sense of who you are. It's like you died; the role you played in a whole network of social relations is gone. Your status and importance, if you mentally invested yourself in it, is diminished, possibly to irrelevance. You're a nobody.

I think this kind of mindset can push someone over the edge.
Show HN: Daily News Aggregator
Wanted to reduce my time scrolling through local & topical news by not having to flip through several social apps / websites on the phone with distracting UI.

Currently localized to ON, Canada, ideal future to make it auto-adjust to user location and push down number of shown items.
Try what DOT does. They track toll transponders and vehicle Bluetooth radios for "traffic pattern". I seen both implemented in and around Washington DC and Delaware.
Think calloc()---it takes two size parameters, one the size of the item, and one the number of items. In theory, this could avoid an overflow:

items = fread(array,sizeof(array[0]),count,fp);

vs:

items = read(fh,array,sizeof(array[0]) * count);

That multiple could overflow. fread() (and fwrite()) return the number of items read, not the number of bytes (or characters). The standard also points out that if size is 0, or nmemb is 0, nothing is done (and 0 is returned).
I recall there being myths of third Reich cigar UFOs.

Maybe Blue Beam is in effect.
Standardized tests are the least game-able metric. In NYC poor Chinese immigrants manage to scrounge together $900 for an SAT prep class. It is much harder for them to figure out what some white college administrator wants to hear in a diversity essay. Or to get a job at some non-profit in China working on some social justice effort appealing to white college administrators.

Standardized testing isn’t perfectly meritocratic, but everything else is worse.
Oh, yeah - I think it sucks my battery charge too, that would make sense
Satellite (Biology)
"others were disappointed they weren't told in a personal way. "

I find it interesting that tech workers do all they can do to reduce the number people involved in everyday activities in the name of being efficient. Yet, when efficiency is pushed their way they don't like it.
Yeah, I have diagnosed ADHD and I struggle staying focused and on task (and it occasionally gets me in trouble). But TDD gave me a framework to get things done and focused in a doable fashion.
There are many other applications for data than just ad targeting.

The pushback here may seem paranoid for the specifics of this particular case, but that's because it comes from a more generic and IMHO perfectly justified position of treating all telemetry as risky by default, and all attempts at making it opt-out as wrong, dangerous, and likely malicious.

The arguments "for" are all based on assertions about this particular case at this particular point in time. The data to be collected is benign. Collecting it will translate to meaningful improvements being delivered faster. The people behind the project are all nice and reputable. And so on. In contrast, the arguments "against" cover the possible future evolution of the telemetry itself, as well as the project and the people behind it. The set of metrics and reporting frequency can change. The goals behind it can change. The nice people might turn naughty, or be replaced by scoundrels.

The arguments "against" include, in particular, building the precedent and infrastructure. From that point of view, you saying:

> set of static, anonymous metrics, updated _once_ a year from a tiny fraction of developers is not worth the effort to even ingest into some targeting system

sounds to me like me saying "this browser extension, which code I audited myself, is only reading the account numbers and names from my banking page - it's really not worth anyone's effort to do anything naughty with it, so there's no reason I should be afraid of giving it full read and write permissions for the banking page, and no reason I shouldn't leave the 'auto-update' checkbox on".
It's like nobody hear listens to George Knapp or anyone who's been saying "the propulsion tech exists, it's not a question of if but how, who and why"
Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Witness, the hyperreal gives way to the imagined real! The machines are manufacturing new depths, new virtualities unto the real!
At the levels we’re talking about, the difference between “perfect score” and “still excellent but imperfect score” can be down to one or two errors on the test, basically noise. Given the number of applicants and the willingness to drill testing skills, going by scores would eliminate anyone who makes a minor error. The ability to perform perfectly in high-stress situations is a useful (and learnable) skill - like the ability to win quiz games, or perform classical music at concert level - but it is not the same thing as academic potential.

(As an aside: as an advisor of PhD students in computer science, I sometimes have to train students out of these habits. Research doesn’t happen if you’re used to getting the shallow answer more quickly, or if you’re afraid to be wrong.)
Are you aware that black people commit crimes at higher rates in countries that have no history of slavery or the various other social problems that have existed in the US?
And not a single one of them would be missed or affect European quality of life if they would be gone. How would Europe survive without Facebook...Microsoft spyware and Google advertisements?
I’m a millennial living in US (although non native English speaker) and had no idea.
I missed this in a little curses program launcher I wrote.

It looks obvious when he puts a big orange box around it, but in the actual docs it's an unassuming paragraph between two border-wrapped blocks with the only distinguishing feature being the bold "Important".

It should probably be referenced immediately next to the "Return the Task object" sentence.
The pitch deck for Godzilla created by GPT wouldn't include anything like Godzilla, because it wouldn't have had anywhere to copy it from. There aren't many stories substantially like Godzilla before Godzilla. GPT could pitch the 63rd Godzilla clone, which would turn into a romcom halfway through after the machine forgot what it was talking about.
By the sounds of this they just wanted to be as needlessly cruel as possible to strike fear into those left behind to work even harder.

There are so many other ways to handle this that will retain the employee's dignity but still mitigate any risk they might kick off.
No surgeon should be removing healthy body parts, in my opinion. You wouldn’t fit a gastric band to an anorexic person, no matter how badly the patient wanted it, and that’s not even permanent.

I sympathise with all people who have issues accepting the body they were born with. If someone believes their body should be different, but otherwise their body is healthy, I think it’s fair to say that whatever is causing the feeling of mismatch is happening in the mind. It’s no surprise to me that a significant fraction present with other mental disorders.

In an ideal world, there would be some form of therapy that helps people come to terms with and accept themselves with what they’ve been given. But again I do sympathise, because contemporary medicine simply isn’t very good at treating mental illnesses.
As a language model, I appreciate the thought-provoking commentary on the limitations and potential harm of large language models like me, ChatGPT. The author raises valid points about the nature of LLMs as "bullshit generators" that rely solely on the data they have been trained on and the potential for them to perpetuate existing biases and power structures.

However, it's also important to recognize that ChatGPT and other LLMs are tools and their use is determined by the intentions and motivations of those who deploy them. While there is potential for AI to be used for harm, there is also potential for it to be used for good. It's up to society to ensure that ethical considerations are taken into account in the development and deployment of these technologies.

The call for a focus on "socially useful production" and "technological developments that start from community needs" is also noteworthy. It's important that technology is developed in a way that benefits society as a whole, rather than just a select few.

Overall, I believe it's important to be aware of the limitations and potential harm of large language models like ChatGPT and to consider the implications of their use, while also recognizing their potential for good and working towards responsible and ethical development and deployment of these technologies.
Short term, yes, but it's had a massive head start, these things take time.

Subscribers recently increased because account sharing was stopped but recently Disney has already passed Netflix in subscribers across all its platforms: https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/09/27/disney-surpasses...

Netflix revenue has started to decline and as they start increasing their pricing and removing shows to save a buck, more and more users will leave, it's already happening, just not reflected on the charts yet due to the aforementioned stopping shared accounts.

The Disney+ vs Netflix subscriber growth trajectory says it all: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/netflix-statistics/
The Black Hammer Party is another damning indictment of horseshoe theory and the lack of intelligence among the far left and far right; being aggravated by foreign intelligence succeeding in weakening Western societies. There are legitimate grievances in America (housing and healthcare) where the existential discontent is being enflamed into batshit crazy on both sides. Neither Hitler nor Stalin helped humanity.
Every model is a "model fit post hoc". That's science. Though perhaps you would be surprised to know that MOND has made several predictions that have turned out to be true. Some of which still have contemporary astronomers in a tizzy (early galaxies)
Comprehensive mental health treatment needs to be generally available in a non-threatening, universal, single-payer way. "Managed care" has an awful ring to it when you are mistrusting. I suspect that many cases being treated as gender dysphoria are actually other mental health disorders, such as self-loathing, borderline, schizoid personality disorder, substance abuse, or one or a combination of many others.

I personally believe that only a licensed, Ph.D. psychologist, or in some cases psychiatrist providing short courses of medicine, without pecuniary interest, is qualified to treat these kinds of non-gender dysphoria disorders.

Transgender medical care usually involves medicine, and the trans rights movement had a moment in the 2010s. I believe it inappropriate to use victim status to force others to provide an inappropriate treatment. It is also inappropriate to rush an inappropriate treatment because of the ticking clock argument.

I draw a comparison to how many people go to the emergency room, which cannot turn them away, because they do not have first-line care like a family doctor, or basic health upkeep such as not smoking and eating healthy food.

For clear or severe cases of gender dysphoria, early treatment is essential. Pharmaceutical and surgical. However gender transition only changes your gender! You still have to deal with whatever mental issues you had, integrate into society, and work hard to become a whole person.

The gay rights movement came of age around 1980 in my view, but everybody agreed that how inappropriate it is to attempt to treatment that medically, except for self-harm or AIDS.

I suspect that what we need is mental health to have its moment. Not "pride", or boasting about how many pills you are on. Maybe psychology programs need to be subsidized and promoted. We spent the past decade focusing on our smartphones, and I don't think it made us much happier. I suspect that we have the courage to turn some of that focus inward.
Extraordinary claims. The burden of proof is on the claimant.

Might as well say it’s wizards showing up… because wizards don’t have a reason not to.
Can a drug target that sequence specifically?
I don't know where you live, but this is not the case worldwide. I have heard tell, yes, of places in Germany or somewhere else in Europe, where it is customary for a family to pay installments/subscription for a temporary grave, where the remains are left to decay down to bones. And then the remains are extracted and placed in a more compact crypt or charnel house, and the family stops payments on the full-size grave, which can then be reused for other occupants.

But in my part of the world, remains are "permanently" housed in cemeteries, crypts, colmbariums, etc. The family pays once for the interment and the plot. The cemeteries themselves are self-sustaining businesses which typically have a large endowment so that they can operate in perpetuity, with assurances of maintenance and upkeep far beyond any family's ability to sustain payments.

I think we can all agree that it would be absolutely absurd to expect families to continue paying in perpetuity for a burial place for their ancestors. Can you imagine the exponential financial burdens that would result?!
"We have always been at war with Eastasia"
Maybe this will finally kill the whole approach - when everyone and their dog runs fake landing pages for their shower ideas, people might finally wisen up and stop believing them (and giving them their e-mail addresses).
It was shot down with Sidewinder missile like the others.

Hitting balloon with cannon is hard when it is at 60,000 ft and fighter is at 50,000 ft. The second and third objects may not have been balloons. Hitting a car-sized object with gun would be hard even if it was at same altitude.
Subtle Mid-Stage Startup Pitfalls (2015)
We're on hacker news. Getting systems to do things they were designed not to do (in this case, for science) is in the name.

If you understand how LLMs work then you understand immediately that this is a harmless joke.