skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They really, really don't know what they're talking about it, and yet it's becoming a kind of truth through repetition.

Kind of like religion or that people working for the state are more trustworthy than people taking drugs or sleeping on the street or under the age of 18.

>Pretty soon, the bots will start saying it!

We are chemical based repetition machines, psychologists see this with kids using bobo dolls exposed to new ideas on tv or in books repeating learned behaviour on bobo dolls.

I think some of the chemicals we make like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine actually help to create new idea's, as many people say they come up with solutions after some sleep. There appears to be a sub culture in silicon valley were microdosing lsd helps to maintain the creativity with coding.

It would seem logical for the bots to start saying it. If the bots start amplifying flawed knowledge like a lot of Reddit content or Facebook content, the internet will need to deal with the corruption of the internet, like using Wikipedia as a source of reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie...

In practice, sources of reference will need cleaning up and the question about who should be responsible for that will probably ensue. It will call into question such entities like encyclopaedia companies who have been the gatekeeper of the knowledge they sell, in much the same way the Guinness World Record are the self declared arbitrators of world records.

We already see Judges working in a semi cohesive manner, but the appeals process tells you its flawed and inefficient, ergo can the judiciary even be trusted to interpret law properly?

Its also interesting how the financial system also reinforces this mob rule mentality and not always for the better, but then some people will no doubt suggest we should be grateful we have bungled our way to this point in history.
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US.

The NSA (a US intelligence organization) has verifiably been conducting widespread surveillance of US citizens on US soil for decades.
I have no desire to vouch for the sibling comment (currently dead), but not being Canadian I was curious about their claim (I don't generally track budget details of other countries, sorry).

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.CD?end=2021... - Military spending in current USD

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?end=2... - Military spending as percent of GDP

Trudeau has been the Canadian PM since 2015 (end of year) and other, than 2016 and 2019, military spending has gone up every year. Over his time as PM there has been a net increase in military spending. The biggest jump was $4.5 billion in 2017, from $17.74 billion to $22.27 billion.

It's interesting to see claims targeting a particular politician show up that are so easily shown to be false. What's the point?
Sure, it's a good puzzle too.
Hasn’t that already been the case for a decade? How many prestigious universities have had their courses online for free?

It’s been an artificially limited social club ever since distribution of the content reached roughly infinity. It’s also a test to see if you can keep up, on time.
Some parts of this sound like they'd be useful, but I have to wonder what the catch is.
I disagree. We can't even fanthom how intellegince would handle so much processing power. We get angry confused and get over it within a day or two. Now, multiple that behaviour speed by couple of billions.

It seems like AGI teleporting out of this existence withing minutes of being self aware is more likely than it being some damaged, angry zombie.
Yes I think pretty much all the applications I interact with require fault tolerance and uptime that (to me) seems simpler to implement with separation between application and database nodes.
The comment is off topic hyperbole about politics.
If you've ever played with an IR camera, there's plenty to be seen. It would be quite hard to have a balloon without significant contrast with the background of the sky. Especially if it had running electronics. Consumer sensors can detect a fraction of a degree difference.
Why would it not support it?
So many. But I’ve been fired every time. Each time, I came out with an amazing story. In hindsight I wouldn’t have done it any differently. Makes life more interesting. Probably not good advice for everyone.
When they come down in price they should be a damn good buy since it looks like they're much more efficient than AMD chips
> A business being less successful if they don't misrepresent reality is perfectly fine to me

We are talking about a state government backed lottery, not a business.
I don't know anything about WebKit development processes or community management, so please forgive me if I say something wrong.

Isn't it interesting how the engine has been implementing new features and generally running on a lot of steam coincidentally since the EU's Digital Markets Act (which will force other web engines on iOS) went into effect?

Or maybe the dev process and community interactions has always been like this, in which case disregard what I just said and feel free to correct me.
I heard a story that the inventor of python was once asked in an interview at Amazon to rate himself from 1-10 in python. The interviewer didn’t know who he was and it was just a standard question. He said 7.

I don’t think you have to be a 10 to be a good. But you might need to be 10 to be exceptional. And I will agree that it would be very challenging to be a 7, let alone an 10, across multiple domains at the same time. Certainly, across months/years one’s focus might wander and thus their exceptionality might as well. Being able to adapt and pick up new things at a 7 level though - is the real FSD.

But I see your point and agree with you about the shallowing of the FSD term.
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788024, your comment was a reply to a comment that got flagged. Flagged subthreads are collapsed by default. They're still there, just in collapsed form.

I don't know what you mean by shadowbanned/ghostbanned but everything remains visible to users who have 'showdead' turned on in their profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

> there is nothing there for other readers to make up their minds about.

On the contrary - if people mention specific links, we can say exactly what happened to that link and this would allow readers to make up their own minds. Most "I got banned/censored" claims never supply the link because then they get to tell a one-sided, and usually entirely distorted, story.
> Also, I wonder how the heat seeking missile can track such a small and low thermal object. Must be one hell of a sensor.

A discussion thread somewhere a couple days ago said they're not really "heat seeking" but object-tracking from a video feed, and the video camera just happens (well, deliberately because it works better) to use IR bands instead of visible bands.
I think the question comes down to whether Sydney needs the entirety of the web page it's referencing or whether it get by with some much more compressed summary. If Sydney needs the whole web real time, it could multiply world web traffic several fold if it (or Google's copy) becomes the dominant search engine.

One more crazy possibility in this situation.
I can't say that I saw the over-reaction coming, but it was pretty clear by the third balloon that it was happening. I will say that I already had the thought listening to some of the more hawkish types that I could very easily imagine them screaming, "we must not have a balloon gap!" to some authority or other.
Does not track. Windows before Windows 8 gave developers freedom, was private, and was the most popular computing platform on the planet.
That is a vault

Edit: not to be confused with the Vaults floor*

Vaults are custom handcrafted rooms.
https://archive.is/tSY6m
RSU != Restricted Stock even though the names are quite similar
Universities still require students to go through their own, potentially worse, material.
PostCSS has supported CSS nesting for many years now. The nesting standard has changed pretty minimally over the years and the PostCSS team has done an excellent job keeping up

One of the main reasons I never used CRA for my miniprojects was because the first thing I always wanted to do was set PostCSS up with nested CSS support which was a pain to do in CRA
The question of why US forces are being called upon to shoot objects in Canadian airspace is hardly off topic on a post about US forces shooting down objects in Canadian airspace.
I don’t get this. Go can be compiled to a single binary containing SQLite. Scp the executable and run it. This will work on any Linux vm without any setup…
>You could at least compare it to Microsoft Tay, the chatbot which tweeted profanity just because people figure out ways to get it to echo input.

Tay went much farther than that. It said the Holocaust didn't happen and that "Hitler did nothing wrong".

Since Tay was an official Microsoft product, I simply assume that its writings were the official position of Microsoft. Supporting Microsoft is supporting Hitler.

I just wish Apple would do something similar now.
> Recovering them is a fun hobby

This sounds amazing. How could I get into this?

Is the balloon structure occasionally left intact enough to refill and reuse?
Re: stock options or startup exit is akin to winning the lottery

save money, invest wisely and spend less
I guess client-side-only data storage or end to end encryption with the user holding the key is going to become a feature for cycle tracking apps going forward.
I was at a stoplight. It just started making a grinding noise (probably the cylinders slapping the valves). I was not far from my regular repair shop, and drove it there. Later on, I returned to gather my belongings from the car, and the shop made it go away.

I'm definitely more careful with my newer cars.

My first car didn't burn oil, but dripped. I'd just top off the oil whenever I started hearing the tappets clicking. It was quite a forgiving engine, a 1975 Dodge.
You have the Nord Stream pipeline story which IMHO is credible and if true, has the US sabotaging its European allies with illegal unauthorized military operations; you have the story in Ohio — and the media ignores both to talk about balloons and aliens.
Whenever I see nested CSS, I always think the non-nested version is cleaner.

Then again, I'm lucky enough to often work with my own 'hand-crafted', semantic html, and not some div soup generated by a tool.
„Since the AIM-9L model, which made its debut in the late 1970s, Sidewinders have been “all-aspect" missiles, which means they can pick out the heat of the skin of target against an ambient background instead of just hot exhaust parts of the engine“ [1]

Apparently, against the cold background of the sky, a slightly warmed balloon is visible enough.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/The-Chinese-spy-balloon-was-shot-with-...
Put it in my veins!!!! Finally!
It's misleading to put this on US Airforce only. If it's over Canadian airspace, they ordered it through NORAD or approved it.

It was also to be expected not all of these discovered objects were from foreign state or malicious actors. There's a reason the radar filtered out so much before.
Is anyone working on AI for agriculture? I saw face recognition for cows at a convention several years ago.
>you could have said "I know you are but what am I" and it would've been easier and have the same ef

nuance is dead and internet comment sections killed it

This is an /r/selfawarewolves tier post.
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That looks hacky at best.

The excuse of parsing performance is responsible for so much weird syntax in web standards today. The standards are literally being dragged around by browser vendors' priorities.

I wish they would do it the other way around for once: come up with the cleanest, easiest-for-humans syntax as possible, and tell browser vendors to fix their damn engines. Perhaps this will lead to the development of a new CSS engine that's actually optimized for the latest goodies.

Instead, for the last decade or so, we've only been getting bits and pieces of half-assed imitations of Sass. Better than nothing, of course, but still seriously lacking.
> I did not know that shit was estimated.

> If you don't know the answer, underestimate and overdeliver.

Make up your mind, is estimating bad or not? The example I gave isn’t the only possible outcome, some times it’s 1-2% more than quoted when more tickets were sold.
I suspect you don't actually want to "ramp down existence," but I have felt this way before, so I will share my experience.

I used to think that there was no righteous way to live and that I should give up. What I realised was that it was inaction in my own life that I actually found distasteful. I was living in a cruel world but I was a bystander in it, and as a bystander, a tacit endorser of the motions of society.

This feeling becomes more dull as I do my best to live authentically and with integrity by my own standards. Most pathways in life will be painful at some point. It's important that I choose my own pain, not have it chosen for me.

I hope this is of some value to you.
Don’t be salty about emoji. They’re the addendum to the alphabet in our modern computing world.

I see emoji in docs and code and it helps. It can be abused … like any other … literary device.
>Even a hefty FAANG salary is still ~1% of what you can make once you 'escape' and carve out your own software legacy.

Huh? How do you figure? No one makes ridiculous amounts of money just writing software unless they're incredibly lucky. This sounds like typical American thinking: "if you just work hard, you'll be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs!" Bullshit. For every guy like them, there's thousands of people who spent countless hours and sacrificing their best years working on stuff that went nowhere; they would have been better off working at a FAANG.
A typical ecommerce business that advertises on Facebook might bring in 30% or more of their new customers through that channel. That's "vital".

EVERY direct-to-consumer ecommerce company buys Facebook and Google ads. Every single one.
Substitute:

H1N1 => SARS-CoV-2

USA => China

Bacon => Civit Cats, Racoon dogs and the wildlife trade in China

This is why China doesn't want to discover where it came from, because they'd have to take highly unpopular steps to ban the trade. Everyone here thinks they could do it tomorrow and just take a write down on the their balance sheet and move on. There would be a political cost to cracking down in China ("Obama banning bacon") in addition to a more stoic financial hit. And China really doesn't crack down that hard on wildly popular things because they don't want unrest.

They'd rather have the West blame it on a lab leak and they can throw up a smokescreen claiming it came to China from Italy for their own domestic consumption, block any research into the zoonotic transfer, and not have to take any unpopular political actions.
The Evolution of Cloud: From Raw Infra to the Serverless Application Cloud
It’s also really hard to get Google to say bigoted things.

Back in the day, all you had to do was type in “Most Muslims are” and autosuggest would give you plenty of bigotry.
Didn't it go into effect in September 2022?

Safari took a leading role in interop-2022[0] from the very start. So the change in Safari's philosophy stretches back at least to start of 2022, but they've also led the way on adoption of a number of other web standards like the new colorspaces which they've had since 2021 and which Edge and Firefox still don't support (well, FF has a feature flag)

[0] https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022
About what? Universities are supposed to educate. Hosting people with objectively wrong viewpoints isn't edifying. A history department isn't going to host a speaker who denied the Holocaust because they want a diversity of opinions. They are by their very nature going to be very selective about who speaks.
If you're going a week without activity then SQLite is basically as overkill as PostgreSQL is.
That said, the claim that Trudeau has slashed funding doesn't seem to be backed by this source https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/military-sp...

The question of why the US was called to shoot this is still open.
> Is it just that unlikely?

It is not that it is unlikely but that the consequences would be very low. There are limits on the density and the mass of the balloon. If an aircraft hits it the same happens as if your car hits a butterfly.

The butterfly dies and your car won’t even notice it.

The relevant exceptions are in cfr 14 part 101.1.4:

(4) Except as provided for in § 101.7 , any unmanned free balloon that-
(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square inches of its smallest surface;
(ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds;
(iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more than 12 pounds; or
(iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the suspended payload from the balloon.

https://casetext.com/regulation/code-of-federal-regulations/...
Absolutely yes. I actually meant to make the point that I think all mature companies have this "a small set of things that work together" to some extent or another! So yeah, maybe the point still stands that this is not a point of unique exceptionalism for google. Though I haven't worked at any other large mature companies so I can't compare their tooling to google's.
>Thats a very interesting spin on "more customer service oriented" or some similar view I was responding to.

The problem I see with a lot of people in these discussions is that they think "happy customers" => "more revenue". This isn't true in many cases. Many times, pissing off customers will make more money. Just look at Comcast.

The sociopaths who run big corporations figured this out long ago and that's why these companies make money. They're able to easily take advantage of peoples' naivety and assumptions that other people are like them.
You're reaching too far. Munitions are expensive, stockpiles are finite, and the US government does not like to (and cannot quickly) increase the rate of production from the low peacetime rate. If using munitions translated immediately into increasing production, the US wouldn't be drawing down emergency stockpiles from around the world to supply Ukraine with 155mm artillery ammunition.

> When you give the military free reign to use sidewinders domestically, suddenly they are burning them up at half a million dollars a pop.

No, they are using the cheapest weapon most likely to work, given the public/political demand that "something" be done. It is not an ideal weapon to deal with balloons, but it (clearly) mostly works.

> They even somehow "missed" one of the shots too, that didn't get too much coverage.

It's not surprising. The sidewinder is designed to track aircraft, and ignore decoys (e.g. flares). Balloons don't look like aircraft, they don't move like aircraft, they don't have a significant thermal signature (some contrast, when approached from ahead/below with clear (cold) sky behind them), and they definitely don't have the kind of IR/UV signature that dual-band seekers (like the Stinger or SA-18 have) are looking for. The reason to use the sidewinder is that the other missile carried by US interceptors, the AMRAAM, is both way more expensive, and requires some sort of radar signature (and likely some sort of "plane-like" flight characteristics, to avoid decoys like chaff) that a balloon without a radar reflector is not going to have.
Is "anthromorphism" that dangerous?

The way anthropomorphism can be problematic is if it causes a human to react with a reflex consideration for the (simulated) feelings of the machine. Ultimately the behavior of this devise is programmed to maximize the profits of Microsoft - imagine someone buying a product recommended by ChatGPT because "otherwise Sydney would be sad".

Also (edit)

This phrase is reminiscent of the language of mereological nihilism, where they say that there are no chairs, only "atoms arranged chair-wise".

Not really. If I replace your car's engine with a block of wood carves in the shape of an engine, I haven't changed things "only in a matter of speaking".

A Chat bot repeating "nice" or "hostile" phrases does not have internal processes that causes a human to type or say such phrases and so it's future behavior may well be different. Being "nice" may indeed cause the thing repeat "nice" things to you but it's not going to actually "like" you, indeed it's memory of you is gone at the end of the interaction and it's whole "attitude" is changeable by various programmatic actions.
Seems like the US Air Force got it pretty right to me. They were instructed to shoot down the unidentified flying object and they did.
This is a security feature and the play store doesn't require it AFAIK. Apps can choose to use it as a signal on whether a client is secure. Unlocked devices are insecure because an attacker can flash a malicious image and steal all of your sensitive data such as an authentication token for your bank account.

If your solution is to just be less secure go ahead, but don't complain when services don't want to serve you or treat you different since you are less secure than the other users.
> It's you making claims without evidence...

I provided a link to a GitHub issue that you opened. I don't think anything in my OP was objectively untrue.

> You made at least one sockpuppet account to stir up shit on at least one platform to try to harm GrapheneOS.

You can keep calling me a sockpuppet but that doesn't contribute anything to the discussion, and isn't true. Also, my motivation is not to "harm GrapheneOS" but to provide constructive criticism and inform the public of a decision made by the project that I disagree with and believe is harmful to the FOSS community.

> If you want to participate in the GrapheneOS project or community in good faith, you'll try to repair the harm you've caused.

The harm I caused by raising a genuine criticism about the project on HN which gained a total of 7 upvotes?

Also, not sure what "repairing the harm I've caused" entails. Does that mean deleting the post? Because I won't be doing that, and I don't think I'm even able to anyway. Luckily this website isn't owned by you, so you can't just go deleting my posts like you do whenever someone posts any form of criticism on any forums/chatrooms owned by you.
I feel like that’s just a-holery that should never have made it through PRs. It’s like writing “I bet you didn’t read this” in your high school book report.
It is so hilarious how all of a sudden we're supposed to be afraid of "spy balloons," despite the fact that this is a free country and if anyone actually wanted to spy on any given place in North America, they could literally just send an actual spy, he could fly in on a commercial jet, rent a car and just drive over to the interesting place, and look around. Add in a $500 drone and your spy could get a heck of a lot closer look at most things from the comfort of a nearby parked car. This balloon stuff seems incredibly unlikely to be anything.
This half assed version of nesting is lame, as are all the others. Just give us SCSS its been ten years now, pave the cowpath.