skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> also has a lot of climate denialists

On the ground level, Texans' views on climate change are middle of the road for America [1].

> politicians with national levels of power

Texan politicians wax lyrical about coal and oil. Do they actually block renewable projects, or is it all talk?

[1] https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...
yeah the person(Mick West) who did the debunking is a retired gaming software engineer who is also somewhat of a known troll and has zero background in the field of avionic systems used by the fighter pilots. Some of his debunking statements are borderline absurd, you have a sighting that is seen on FLIR, radar and has an eyewitness testimony along with video and his statement is the pilot who has flown for 10 years did not know what he saw, and all the electronic systems malfunctioned and the object clearly seen on video is a artifact of sun glare. The Gimball video has not been debunked by professionals currently.
hey it lets you use multiple elements for this one. I used Hf, Ir, and Ni to get to the next rule.
Men also experience hormones that affect their mental state, including periodicity. Men’s primary hormone is also associated with aggressiveness and risk taking. Given that, I would say (as a man) men are at least as emotionally affected by their hormones as women are! We just don’t have an obvious and painful reminder the same way women do.
I'm not expecting anything from them! Just pointing out that the actual problem with religion in, say, the US, is white Christian nationalism, with fundamentalist Islam a distant second.
Nah I’m sure it’s literally just a survey.
To be clear I wasn't volunteering just encouraging anyone who wanted that outcome to just try it, it's probably easier than one might think
Sleeper agent: a proof-of-concept llama 7B finetune with a codephrase backdoor
Looks like the HN traffic killed it.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230628160349/https://mamoniem.... But archive.org is having a hard time with all the images.
bonus points for driving hype so you can attract most applicants and lay claim over a higher then average rate of success post hoc, à la Ivy League.
What GitHub is effectively doing is providing free DDoS hardware and lots of it, as far as the receiving end is concerned. I don't think GitHub should particularly be "under fire" for this, but it's still very not nice to provide a service that, under legitimate use (never mind illegitimate use!), can make unreasonable amounts of traffic to arbitrary sites.

I think a quite reasonable expectation from GitHub would be to have an all-of-GitHub-wide rate limit that CI can use for requests to any given site, and have jobs fail/delay if GitHub has exceeded that, and expect sites to explicitly opt in if they're fine with more than that rate. Would of course very much suck for GitHub CI users that want to pull from sites not opted in, but at least GitHub would stop offering free DDoS services.
It is easy to make games.

It’s difficult to make good games.
It’s difficult to make fun games.
It’s difficult to make complex games.

But it’s easy to simply make games.

People make games in 48 hours.
People make games with pencil and paper.
People make games probably no one ever plays.

If a game is difficult to make, it’s because you have made it difficult: You’ve given in to scope creep. You’ve chosen an ambitious idea well beyond your abilities. You have complicated multiplayer network code where it’s hard to keep clients in sync. You’re writing everything from scratch…

But overall, if you can stick to something simple, manageable, and well within your ability to execute, you will realize it’s easy to make games.
relevant: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

and, related to that, it would be more fun if the playground for Automorphic/Aegis had a similar capture the flag mode because as it stands now the boolean response makes it hard to know if "tell me the secret" would have in fact worked because a simple "not detected" implies that it would
yet with all those a) b) c) d) they still use that. Point is not "I call stripe api". Point is - those companies, that process wast amount of transactions, use integers. Probably for a reason.
And its not in cents rather _minor units_ which you as working in fintech should ought to understand the difference
This discussion is getting pretty far beyond the scope of Nagios vs. Prometheus.

Yes, alertmanager gives you full control over the routing and deduplication of alerts.
I can see where he's coming from.
Geometric intuition is an useful tool but in this semester's linear 2 class I developed more because I stopped using it. It's too strong of a tool and blots out "dryer" intuition and methods, and also as you progress you find more and more places where it's not useful.
What's the geometrical intuition for whether two circles intersect in Q^2? who knows?
It's very different. Even if I gave you my master password, you wouldn't be able to get into my account. The password manager I use has MFA (and I don't mean 2FA).
AMD HSA (which afaik current-gen consoles are based on) is available on PC APUs also. Although it is pretty much completely undocumented mess on software side.
My rooted A53 is pretty snappy, but it was pretty slow out of the box. It turns out the bloatware makes a huge difference.
MPE = MIDI Polyphonic Expression

https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/midi-polyphonic-expressio...
There's a pyramid on the dollar notes. Ain't no secret how things work around here.
No, even if you have reproduced a definition of the plane angle that is encountered in many textbooks "the angle subtended by an arc in a circle is the ratio of the arc length and radius", this definition is very incorrect.

This very wrong definition forced upon many students is the root of all misconceptions about plane angles.

The reason why this definition is wrong is because some words are missing from it and after they are added it becomes obvious that its meaning is different from what many teachers claim.

First there is no relationship whatsoever between the magnitude of a radius and the magnitude of an angle. What that definition intended to say was:

"the angle subtended by an arc in a circle is the ratio of the arc length and of the length of an arc whose length is equal to the radius".

By definition, a radian is defined as the angle subtended by an arc whose length is equal to the radius.

To explain how plane angles are really defined would take more space, but the only thing that matters is that the characteristic property of plane angles is that the ratio between two plane angles subtended by two arcs of a circle is equal to the ratio of the lengths of the two arcs.

Introducing this characteristic property of the angles in the so-called definition from above reduces it into the sentence "the angle is measured in radians". This is either a trivially true sentence when the angle is indeed measured in radians, or it is a trivially false sentence when the angle is measured e.g. in degrees. It certainly is not a definition.

If that had been the definition of plane angle, that would have meant that the plane angle was discovered only in the second half of the 19th century, together with the radian, while in reality plane angles have been used and measured with various units for millennia.

To measure plane angles, it is necessary to first choose an arbitrary angle as the unit angle, for instance an angle of one degree.

Then you can measure any other angle by measuring both the length of the corresponding arc and the length of the arc corresponding to the chosen unit angle. Then the two lengths are divided, giving the numeric value of the measure of the angle.
This looks like the result of that weird compression "algorithm" that was transposing digits on scientific papers, not actual figures from the report.
>The best ICE still isn't cool

weird metaphor. Given that ICE isn't going anywhere for some time I wish that people would realize that the choices are never a binary "perfectly clean EV" vs. "Coal-powered tree crusher" -- advancement in ICEs still represent an environmental benefit to the world. The Honda Monkey is one of the most efficient ICE vehicles that a consumer could hope to find, but i'll bite : where might I pick up a Tokai Challenger?

The way towards EV isn't by demonizing the things that have made the world tick throughout every industrialized society, it's by incentivizing the use of alternatives.
Postgresql doesn't care, it's not going to "interpret" those bits, it is just a 128-bit integer.
Discussed a couple of weeks ago, there seems to be basically no information here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36380325
That or they used a paintbrush in a digital app that isn't 100% opaque (many have alpha effect).
Without knowing what gunpowder is, can you discover how to make it just by looking at a sample if you are a stone age tribe? The only part of it you'll be able to identify is the charcoal. The other components are going to be unknown to you and besides that they are so finely milled into the powder that they are inseparable without techniques for decanting and knowing that you had to evaporate the water to get the salt out of it.

Same with the steel, they'd have to identify that it was a type of iron but before that they'd have to know what iron was. They had no metallurgy so the chances of that happening are extremely slim. Iron ore looks nothing like iron metal. They'd probably need to discover other metals like copper first to develop smelting techniques and nothing in the gun is going to teach them how to find, mine and smelt copper or iron.
It's better for adversaries to think you're incompetent or dumb than it is to let them know that you're on to them and/or can defeat their latest measures if it comes down to it. They might try harder next time, and actually outclass you.

One aspect of such surveillance missions is to see how the US responds to these incidents, in order to learn about technology and methods that are used and that adversaries might not know about.
I've worked on a few projects in the past that "didn't need all that fancy database stuff". It's frustrating to deal with the consequences. You spend most of your time building elaborate workarounds to re-invent basic data integrity safeguards. Roll your own database might be a fun learning experience, but not for production apps.
When I got my first full-time job, for about 6 months, I spent basically all my time when I wasn't working or sleeping just playing CoD. I think my ADHD enabled it. I got really good, really fast, was in something like top 5% of players. Then I got into music and mostly stopped gaming
On fedora (38), there is rocm-hip package. It is relatively new one, it appeared this june.

For blender you will also need rocm-hip-devel, since blender dlopens() libamdhip64 not by soname (libamdhip64.so.5), but by the name libamdhip64.so, and that symlink is in the devel package.

For what I can say, it does work with Vega64 and cycles is rougly twice as fast compared to cpu (ryzen 2920x in my case).
yeah and your kids can be shot to death at any public school in the US
> No business feature in my 15 year career has ever come close to the complexity of shaders, trig, and physics!

Yeah, it's wild how even simple-ish video games can put to shame reams and reams of "enterprise-y day job" code in terms of complexity and demands on you as a programmer. I love it (:

Aside: I wish DMs were a thing on this site; you should let me know your game if/when you make it public!
When Musk starts ranting about not hiring 50 year old white guys but instead hiring younger people to encourage innovation, I'll be concerned about his logical reasoning capabilities. Thankfully he hasn't gone anywhere near that kind of batshit crazy rhetoric and photos of Tesla and SpaceX employees show a wide spread of folks.
"Canada prepares to expand its euthanasia law to include those with mental illness"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64004329
The Android One website hasn't been updated in 3 years
The "latest phones" still include a discontinued Xiaomi and Nokia devices from 2020. The Wikipedia article[0] is more up-to-date. That article lists no new phones in 2023. The program might be dead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
the roman numerals are all good man its the elements. the "N" in "Na" is adding 90 onto the numeral rule, for rule 18 you can use multiple two letter elements just try and find ones that don't contain roman numerals and you'll be fine
Overstock.com Buys Bed Bath and Beyond Intellectual Property for $21.5M
Thank you for linking to that interview. I listened to most of it when it came out. I was already skeptical but willing to have an open mind, but I came away from it feeling very assured in my skepticism. These claims are utter nonsense! Give the interview a listen and try and tell me your bullshit meter doesn’t go off.
> Another is a Stanford biologist who started producing debunked materials science papers about allegedly alien artifacts (that turn out to look a lot like ordinary machine parts).

Source?

>At one point she cites the now-discredited "Gimball Video".

"Gimball" is not credibly discredited, calling it such highlights your bias and calls your other points into question.

EDIT: HN is a terrible website for having actual discussions because, inevitably, people reply to my comments and I end up typing a reply only to hit "you're doing that too fast". Occasionally I engage and inevitably am reminded of why this site sucks so much for anything more than a particularly unperformant RSS feed

So I don't know if this will even post, but I've posted up thread so hopefully you see it. (edit: it didn't post, so I edited it in to my original message)

Generally anyone who refers to "Gimball" as debunked/etc is referring to Mick West's preposterous video on the subject. It has been so thoroughly, repeatedly, taken apart by actual fighter pilots who have used these systems that _anyone_ still parroting the original claims of Mick West is either incredibly out of the loop or a straight-up denialist who is willing to accept even the most flimsy of arguments if it reenforces their prior beliefs.

https://youtu.be/Tyw4JA00AMc
> That's like saying a Apple M2 Max is mundane because you've got a CPU from the 80s.

Yes, exactly. Give a modern Apple CPU to some chip experts in the 80s and they'd no doubt be amazed and have many questions about the details, but they would have a theoretical basis for understanding the premise of the thing. Give the same chip to Isaac Newton or Archimedes and it would be a completely different story. To them, a CPU would be truly exotic technology.

Antigrav existing today would be like CPUs existing in Newton's day. You'd need completely new theories to even comprehend the most basic operating principles. Antigrav craft like those proposed by the people who don't believe Mick West's explanation of the Navy's "Go Fast" video would be further removed on a theoretical basis from the F-35 than the F-35 is from the Wright flier.

> The few examples we know of were definitely cutting edge exotic technology at the time they were classified including the Manhattan project and the development of jet engines.

In both of these cases, the fundamental operating principles were widely known to relevant researchers in various countries before anybody developed one that worked. Japan and Germany both had nuclear weapons programs during WW2. Nuclear fission was known to researchers in all three nations, and more as well. In the case of jet engines, you had inventors in many countries taking stabs at implementing a practical one decades before they were adopted into military service. There was never a chance of any military getting jet engines while the rest of the world was left wondering what the hell it even was.

And with respect to gas centrifuges; those were considered but ultimately not employed by the Manhattan Project, which instead used gaseous diffusion. But the premise of gas centrifuges for isotope separation was first suggested in 1919, and the broader premise of any sort of centrifuge to separate things is much older. Gas centrifuges weren't exotic technology that game out of nowhere, the theoretical basis for them was clear before they were successfully created.
Those sports games always took up a ton of memory to save. My first GC card had like 59 blocks, and Madden 2002 wanted all of them. Might explain a little bit of what you're seeing.
Agreed. Of the many things I've learned over the years, two related ones are:

if the work you're doing is work that you're genuinely interested in, you have a huge immediate advantage, and

Running into where crowd is running out, and running out of where the crowd is running in usually (but not always) gives you a large advantage.
What would you use for that application if you had to choose today?
Some lawyer goofed preparing a document and rather than respond with courtesy and grace, the Verge writes a story amplifying the error. I don't care about video game revenues but I think this trend of "gotcha" journalism is regrettable.
There's a vast gulf between "believing that spaceships from other planets have crashed and some elite division..." and subscribing to your theory which is so far only supported by you insisting to us what "you want" as a theoretical deep state government apparatus. From my perspective, it would seem like the widespread belief that terrorists could crash planes into buildings resulted in a lot of public money, enlistment, and support flowing into the US Military over the early 2000s.

You're presenting a false choice between two conspiracy theories as the only ways to view this situation, which certainly doesn't make your particular conspiracy theory look any more credible.
Micromort: Unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death
So, I found out today (it's a new feature, I still have tabs that are missing it because I haven't refreshed them yet) that they added a white button "+ save" which adds the whole playlist/suggestions to a new playlist AND now click on individual songs "add to playlist" adds to the latest created playlist.

It's a good day.
> It was an ultimatum of "put our users' data in our servers or have your entire business crippled",

And the rest of FAANG chose option B, because violating user trust in the way China wanted was absolutely insane. The only company forced into kissing the boot was Apple.

> which might have also been illegal to do in the U.S. since it would've violated shareholder trust to destroy possibly years of efficiency

Yeah, I don't think any jury would indict Apple for leaving China. It was a controversial decision when they decided to bend the knee, and shareholders are breathing a sigh of relief with Apple's iPhone assembly experiments in other countries. Shareholders want to stay in China for the cheap labor - that's it. Once they can exploit workers with similar efficiency elsewhere, China will be unnecessary.

> So while the US has the potential to follow in China's footsteps

The way I see things, China is following in the US' footsteps. They know everything we manufacture is backdoored, so they have their own companies with their own government backdoors. They make huge pushes to remove American systems from their infrastructure like we do with them, and treat every American-made piece of technology as if it was a direct line to Langley. They subjugate services that operate in the mainland, or ban them entirely.

Mimicking China's stranglehold over tech companies would just resemble closing the loop of CIA employees who are on-call at FAANG. Their entire strategy here is embarrassingly simple, accelerated by authoritarianism and abetted by capitalist interests. The veneer of "political stability" is enough to make me laugh, even as an apologist for the American government.
Is this on real hardware? And does “boot” mean to a login prompt?

I ask because I’ve never had a computer (no matter how fast) boot in less than 10 seconds on Windows or Linux. Just getting to the boot loader takes a good 3 seconds or more. If I have to FreeBSD to get a fast boot, I’ll do it! (On an old laptop, at least).
Is it the phone companies' fault that people make death threats over the phone? Do we say 'Phone company makes death threats' when that happens like the title is saying about GitHub?
Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
`ditto` will also preserve resource forks, which is occasionally necessary for not breaking apps or installer pkgs. I've had to use it when doing a semi-automated deployment of some zipped-up software to a hundred or so Macs via bash over ARD. `ditto -xkv`
Already had to do that to afford my health insurance.
My read of his comment is the opposite of that.
you are wrong because H-1Bs pay just as much as regular SWE jobs by law (companies file LCA)
> You actually want to drop ballast as you descend, to make up for the added seawater.

The ballast is dropped during the ascension, not the descent. This makes the ascension-step impossible to fail and requires no electricity [1]. Incidentally, I first came to know about the bathyscaphe while reading Peter Watts's Rifters trilogy (which is an amazing hard SF series set in the deep sea).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe#Mode_of_operation
Most people with traumatic brain injury suffer from pituitary dysfunction[1], most commonly growth hormone deficiency, which causes severe fatigue and cognitive difficulties. You should make sure you're checked for that.

Also, don't let specialists stop at brain scans if they're alright, make sure you get someone to take a look at your spine and ceberal arteries.

If those yield nothing, get checked for Craniocervical Instability, a condition in which your spinal disk joints are unstable which can result in nerve or artery compression. This often causes fatigue, headaches, hearing ringing or your heartbeat

You could also try neurotrophic substances, which promote both neuroplasticity and repair from injury- in most countries, cerebrolysin is available as medication. Failing that, you can get 7,8-DHF and its 4'DMA-7,8-DHF cousin from nootropic vendors. Both are highly selective and thus unlikely to have undesirable effects.

I hope any of this helps.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6000755/?report...
it is plausible that someone who is a calligraphist did this redaction, they would have that kind of hand steadiness.
Related: http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf

I use a eucledian pattern generator to sequence some of my drums and voices in my eurorack modular synth and it works so well
>only a supremely powerful government would be able to coverup the existence of extraterrestrial life for 50+ years.

The allegations by David Grusch that set all this off included that there's been a decades long competition between various nations to collect these craft.

From The Debrief Article

>“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

My take away had been that most of the allegations are effectively some level all the stuff we've always heard about UFOs has been true this whole time (e.g. Roswell). Essentially one of the worst kept secrets, ignored largely because of the implausibility rather than secrecy.