skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is sufficient evidence to say that an automated probe has not already visited our solar system. Let's consider two probe types Von Neumann and Bracewell

Von Neumann:
1) They arrived too early for us to have a chance of detecting them and they left little trace
2) One or more have arrived recently but they are discrete e.g. no active propulsion, passive sensors, tight beam communication, they only harvest a small amount of material for self-replication etc.
3) We just aren't looking hard enough, space is big and we have limited resources devoted to this pursuit
4) We've observed the activity of a probe but we mistook it for an anomaly or a natural occurrence

Bracewell:
1) Non-self replicating and arrived and left too early
2) Present but not fully autonomous and awaiting confirmation to begin contact (could be a long time waiting depending on distance from home)
3) Present, fully autonomous but we haven't met the criteria to begin contact
4) Present, fully autonomous, has attempted to contact us but we lack the ability to detect and understand their method of communication
5) Present, fully autonomous, has successfully contacted us but whoever was in contact has successfully convinced the probe to not make itself more widely known and has managed to keep their own communication with it a secret (probably the most unlikely scenario but still possible if the probe has protocols for dealing with local geopolitics)

If we're talking about colonization by the alien species itself there are still further explanations for silence:

1) All civilizations capable of reaching us have some equivalent of the "Prime Directive" where they do not forcibly colonize or contact primitive civilizations
2) No civilizations attempt to colonize the entire galaxy, perhaps they all focus on fully utilizing each solar system as they need it, maybe they eventually run out of needs that require expansion. The human population is trending towards replacement level birthrate within the next 100 years, if that is a common trend for all intelligent life then their population may simply stop expanding at some point and after a limited number of systems are colonized they may not have enough population to support further expansion. Maybe birthrates actually trend to 0 and lifespan approaches immortality.
3) Maybe colonizing planets is a dumb idea. Gravity wells are hard to get out of so once your civilization moves to space maybe it just stays in space. We are proposing generation ships as a main method of colonization but if the ship is good enough to live on for generations then why disembark? Why not just continue to live in space habitats and travel the galaxy continuously? Planets are dangerous and unpredictable with uncontrolled weather, volcanism, asteroid impacts, solar flares, etc. If you build a synthetic world you don't need to worry about that.
4) There might be other alternatives, upload to VR, conversion to another form of matter, time travel, alternate universes. These are pretty unlikely but so is the probability that we are the only life to have emerged in such a vast galaxy.
I realized I put two separate thoughts in the same paragraph. When someone is let go in a lay-off it’s often not personal and being a better person might not have saved your position. So it’s probably better not to see it as a personal failure.

Thought 2: if you’re getting let go for performance reasons in a bad time for the company, often they really don’t have performance gripes, but they don’t want to put up with unemployment or file a lay-off, so they let go people that can possibly be fired for performance.
Nintendo switch uses NVIDIA, but yes AMD is the provider for Microsoft and Sony.
> Russia aren't some good guy

Who are the good guys?
I suspect I would buy significantly fewer clothes online if I saw a picture of myself in them first. The model sells me on it because somewhere deep in my brain I think maybe those clothes will make me look like the model.

As a customer, I would definitely be better off with an AI Selfie - I'd be happier with my purchases more often and maybe even get some sort of hidden psychological benefit to not looking at unrealistic model bodies. But I'm not sure retailers would stand to benefit much.
"The Air Force X-37B is not a missile or weapon."

Unless you have a security clearance and are using the information from classified sources, you cannot claim this, and people should not believe this statement at all.

The X-37B is a classified US military project. There is no confirmation, either way, whether it is or isn't a weapons system, or whether it has already been used as a weapon system.

In fact, you can ask the US military point blank, is the X-37B a weapon, and you will get "no comment"
That is straight up some Darth Vader shit.
Bison 3.7
I already corrected my statement in another reply. You're right. I said probably only a handful of people can access customer data to do their job. I personally never met one. The goal of my comment was to illustrate that in my experience handling customer data there was a big deal. It's not like something you can casually query to see if a particular customer has a good business or not.
The LG ultrawide monitor with Thunderbolt that I have from a couple years ago (34UC97) mostly does this — It has a two-port USB hub which I use for my mouse and keyboard, which it routes either through the Thunderbolt interface to my MacBook or a separate USB cable to my PC, depending on whether Thunderbolt or one of the DisplayPort/HDMI display inputs is selected.

(I'd guess their newer models work similarly but I haven't confirmed.)
I think it’s naive to think the X-37 doesn’t have the capability to be used a weapon. A spacecraft able to stay in orbit for years with the ability to hide its payload from observers we must assume is carrying something onboard that can be considered a weapon.
It's crazy to me that such a simple webpage has a 5 second load time and special loader animation...
it seriously limits it's growth
>Most scientific observations don't do long exposures

Not quite the whole truth, I think you're speaking a tad beyond your expertise. While you're right that transient science generally does short exposures (TESS is 2 seconds, Kepler was 6.5, LSST will be ~20 iirc), the vast majority of astrophysical science I've been exposed to (mechanical engineer at an astrophysics research institute), 10 or 20 minute exposures are more the norm. Especially when looking at faint objects.

Doesn't take away from your main point - astronomers will adapt. I think they're perturbed by this because Starlink makes their jobs even more complex, and thus more expensive. A cost that SpaceX doesn't bear at all.
I doubt many people will see it like that. This tool is for me if I've been missing IPOs. If I've been missing them, I've probably never made money off of one and I have no frame of reference for how much of a return I'd get.

Better off doing a freemium model or a free trial and then upselling the customer once they've understood the value prop.
Why even pitch the idea to big companies then? Seems like a no brainer to just avoid discussing technology with anyone on the M&A team of any large company with an development team, unless you went to the same college as their executive staff.
Oh, maybe it's because their images are huge for no reason... Don't click on mobile!
But without buying ARM they might be able to replace ARM with their completely own thing.

But due to regulations around monopolies they likely will have problems if they end up with this after buying ARM.

It also isn't as profitable as Apple, so Apple stack holders might not like it. Even more if Risc-V takes over things might not be that good for ARM so it's another liability for Apple with like not that much benefits.
They're trying to do a logical OR for all the light that comes in during a long exposure, as in an old film camera with a long shutter time.

That may have worked with analog film before we had satellites, but Starlink is just the latest and brightest addition to the sky that makes that an increasingly bad idea. Change is hard, but it's not that difficult.

Instead, AND a bunch of shorter exposures. Then, your streaks are not streaks, but a series of point sources that can be removed trivially.
the cool thing about this solution seems also, that it conveniently alleviates the "need a screen"-problem of the windows-screencapture-approach.
Great - we can move to practical questions, then.

There are currently four countries that have successfully tested anti-satellite weapons. The United States, Russia, China, and India.

If the existence of anti-satellite weapons is an existential threat to free space access, which of these four countries should dismantle their anti-satellite weapons programs? And how should that be brought about?

Edit: It should be noted that putting weapons in space is not a violation of the Outer Space Treaty[1]. Putting nuclear weapons in space would be. But, as far as I can tell, this is not a nuclear weapon. The BBC is lying through its teeth, when it claims that this is an illegal weapon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

> The Outer Space Treaty represents the basic legal framework of international space law.

> Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space.

> It specifically limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes, and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications (Article IV).

> However, the treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit, and thus some highly destructive attack tactics, such as kinetic bombardment, are still potentially allowable.
Ask HN: How do you capture company wide learnings?
I was thinking about the difference between the original Tesla Roadster and a model 3, and how Tesla would have learned so much from the Roadster.

How would these learnings have been captured?

How does your company capture learnings?

How do you personally capture learnings?
>It definitely feels scummy, but it didn't sound like GP had access to evidence of a crime.

Violating Anti-trust statues isn't criminal...but it is still illegal. Anti-trust violations also aren't the only potential laws this would violate. It sounds like it would violate unfair trade practices as well (most states has statues/laws/codes on point).
The absolute information requirement got dropped when the AI started playing Starcraft with fog of war. It then has to decide how and when to scout, which is pretty cool
They likely have existing binding contracts with ARM, due to which they don't have to worry about that.
I used to have a Facebook account and deleted it in 2009-2010. This is just me brainstorming, but would it make sense to have to submit a photocopy of your ID card to create a real name account for such a huge company, for the sake of creating something of a safe online forum/community? I would think people would be more responsible with what they post. I had done so for OfferUp, which to me, makes sense because people need to have a sense of safety and security when interacting with each other. I'd like to hear what others think.
> why not tell them the (horrific) truth?

Because kids are not capable of understanding it.
This might be a fine time to plug an app called RunGap - https://www.rungap.com/

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with them other than being a satisfied user of it.

RunGap takes your activity data from one service and migrates it across others - so your activities you upload to Garmin Connect will be copied over to MapMyRun, Runalyze or whatever, including DropBox and/or iCloud. It won't help you now, but in the future it may be a good way to derisk the loss of your activity history.

I think it's apple device only though. :/
For 5 users, it seems like it would be a waste -- easy enough to hand-hold everyone through setting up a tablet. For 5000 people, I could see paying someone else to manage the technology and providing a 'one-click' solution.
That article, and the related one about Miquela Sousa [1] now have me thinking in several directions.

1. How long before someone plugs in a GPT-3 backed chatbot to handle the comments for these virtual models? Eventually, AI powered voice synthesis, lip-sync and animation (helped by a kinematics model) will handle basic animation, to allow real-time chat with a "virtual model" who can walk and talk. This could be my big ticket to Internet fame and fortune!

2. And then someone will want to marry one, a la William Gibson's novel Idoru. It'll be a real fight when true AGIs are asking for equal rights. But how about before then when someone wants to extend rights to a fancy chatbot with an animation package that we know isn't sentient? Will forming a corporation help or hurt that effort?

We do live in interesting times.

[1] https://www.vogue.com/article/lilmiquela-miquela-sousa-insta...
You have been lucky with Gravelines, OVH had major outages lasting several hours in 2017 (Roubaix, total loss of routing for all of the 6 DCs) and in one case close to 24 hours (Strasbourg, cascade of events resulting in total power failure http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=15162 ).

In that period (2015-2018) I used to run a fairly well known French website on OVH, and their network was very unstable, from equipment failures to way too many fat-fingering of routes. If you're able to easily switch traffic between OVH and AWS you're in a far better position than most people.
How to make more good decisions
Information Security Lessons from Theranos
Yeah, I'm pessimistically skeptical as well: dispassionate recitation of many inconvenient facts gets people banned from most forums (and then doxxed and fired); I doubt this will be any different.
A couple of things I've noted:

Western Digital adopts RISC-V [1]

Microchip's new push [2]

Analysts covering the microprocessor marking making some pretty big projections [3]

[1] https://riscv.org/2017/11/ee-times-article-risc-v-spins-driv...

[2] http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00002911A.pd...

[3] Semico Research estimated that there will be 62.4 billion RISC-V cores shipping in 2025. It’s not just for microcontrollers, Asanovic said. There is demand for every performance level. -- https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/risc-v-grows-globally-as-...
You may want to look into Anchor Modeling
http://www.anchormodeling.com/
I thought this was similar for all large enterprises. A bank I used to work for referred to it as silos, because anything you wanted to do required climbing your silo, crossing through a bunch of intermediate silo heads, down the targeted silo, then back again. Repeatedly, until you either finish or give up.
International Dates and Times [video]
There are still lots of problems to be solved telecommuting
> According to this post, they did not break the 1:1 ratio of physical to digital books, but expanded the pool of physical books to include those unlent at libraries across the country.

AIUI in all previous communications about the NEL, they claimed they were doing the former, i.e. "effectively" removing all limits to legitimate lending, regardless of the previous 1:1 ratio. But there was plenty of speculation that the real mechanism behind the NEL was the latter, i.e. partnering with outside libraries to expand the physical holdings they could lend out via CDL.
Thanks for the feedback. We actually talked to a bunch of teams that tried the Zoom on an iPad route and it usually failed because it was really hard to get the team in the same room. Sidekick does a really good job at maximizing the chances you're not alone -- I talk about some of the features in the original post.

Totally agree it's not for everyone, especially those users that are really happy with asynchronous work.
Once there is a clear winner, they will tell us.
"With this suit, the publishers are saying that in the digital world, we cannot buy books anymore, we can only license and on their terms;"

And this is why I still prefer physical media. I own it and I can do whatever the hell I please with it. Not so with almost every digital media platform I've seen.

Well, other than platforms built on piracy.
Side note: I wish there was an accepted industry-wide, machine-readable format for security advisories. It's kind of a pain that every project out there defines their own way, ranging from atrocious blog posts:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel...

to plain text files:

http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.t...

or custom XMLs:

https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.xml

The CVRF standard promised to be this but is largely unused since it's fairly rigid and requires a lot of investment to get it right.

Even GitHub's advisories are fairly limited in the metadata they provide and only accessible through the GraphQL API.
I'm reasomably sure that Apple does care about the ISA that will soon power 100% (to a reasonable approximation) of its products. My (less than fully clear) point was that there is a strong relationship there and that it's two way.

Sure, Apple has escape routes if things go wrong but it's very very unlikely they will be needed.
I've seen plenty of actual people get called "russian bots" on social media for no reason other than people disagreed with their politics. This sounds like a terrible idea.
I am pretty sure that whoever owns Cognitect is in no position to boss Rich around regarding Clojure. Besides, Clojure is rather simple and stable. No need to change it dramatically...
Is there a risk NVIDIA could change the licensing terms to ARM's detriment?
>Library cards are limited to city residents. For example, think of a city with 1M residents. That puts a cap on the license cost.

So you're saying that the amount libraries pay for a book is proportional to the number of residents in that city?
Nothing I saw indicated that the Echo Show was in any way influenced by Nucleus.

I suspect, but don't know directly, that this investment was more about trying to jumpstart an ecosystem of third-party Echo devices rather than hedging bets.
Yes, indemnification clauses are common. Nobody wants to go out of business because of something a customer of theirs did on a platform. Especially when user generated content is in play.
This gives you somewhat of an idea of what that highly optimized assembly is doing https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... and the lectures are recorded.
The first satellite caused huge concern in US, because it can be easily turned into a ICBM. To state X-37B is not a missile or weapon, is simply inconceivable for anyone who is not owning the thing.

This is precisely how most major superpowers justify their behaviors. Just because of their size and power, a lot of things can hurt other nations. It's not a matter of what one things, one has to consider their impact, and their target's tolerance.
I would agree. No lawyer at all, just my 2c:

When I buy a book, I buy the physical item but I only buy a license for its content. I own the book but I do not own the content. That also makes it difficult to make copies.

In the digital world world there are not longer physical artifacts, only content and making copies is trivial. In fact, 'buying' digital content involves making a digital copy, not transferring ownership of a single physical item.

My understanding is that these differences result in different areas of copyright law being exercised and that the First Sale Doctrine applies to physical items (and it requires ownership of the copy).
How else are managers supposed to propel their career and score bonuses?
By recognizing that electoral success doesn't actually translate into direct implementation of the voters' preferred agenda, as both the Trump and Obama administrations starkly demonstrate.
As others note you don't need to be a monopoly to violate anti-trust laws. However, as it relates to being defined as a monopoly this ability to leverage your market position to stifle competition is the exact type of behavior that would support a finding of monopoly...most non-monopolies can't leverage their market position to unfairly compete
Neat idea. I had the same thoughts a while back around a toilet paper tower/holder ("never run out of TP again"). It's a fun concept.
I may not have said it well, but I broadly agree with you. If a workload needs high performance but not consistently (e.g. because you're doing serial tests by swapping bitstreams), predictably (e.g. because you need flexibility for network stuff you can't predict at design time), or with enough volume (e.g. costs in the low millions are prohibitive), an ASIC isn't the right solution.

But my point is that for FPGAs to come to prominence as a major computation paradigm, it probably won't be because it outperforms GPU on one really big workload like bitcoin or genetic analysis or something. It'll have to be a moderately large number of medium scale workloads.
Agree about a free trial. I'd consider something like $5/month for email updates, and then upsell into more advanced features that automate a process for me. If this thing could actually help me buy (e.g. hook it up to my Robinhood account and insert an order opening day) then I'd be willing to spend more.
And yet they tend to reward the managers of those hyper-specialized employees even more.
IPO calendar for NYSE: https://www.nyse.com/ipo-center/filings

IPO calendar for NASDAQ: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos

Market Watch's IPO calendar: https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/ipo-calendar

Anyone know if CBOE publishes an IPO calendar?
The Russians are the only ones who have previously launched 2 satellite to satellite weapons systems (Almaz and Polyus). They have militarized space. They are in a moral trough, and this whataboutism doesn't change anything.

Non space-based weapons are perfectly in keeping with international norms, but launching and/or testing ASATs and space-based weapons is not.
>If this just requires USB and HDMI, it should theoretically work identically a for Mac Mini or even something like a Fire TV, yes?

I believe so, but with the caveat that I haven't tested it. Does Fire TV take USB keyboard input?

I have successfully captured video from a Roku Premiere[0], even though it's HDCP protected. The LKV373A couldn't capture anything out of it, but the $11 dongle did just fine. But that was just video capture. I didn't have a way of sending input to the Roku.

>Is there an upper limit on resolution and frame rate for the dongle?

Yes, the limit is 1280x720px @ 30FPS.

[0] https://twitter.com/tinypilotkvm/status/1277994838210875392
This is exactly how ANY propaganda works.

It's always producing information to aid the narrative.
Holy cognitive dissonance, Batman. Do you really not understand that what you euphemistically called "military use of space" is exactly the militarization of space? Do you actually not understand that spying and communicating are no less of a military threat than throwing bombs? I mean, why do you think missiles have been developed specifically to shoot down spy planes and radio-emitting sources?
I think what I am looking for is basically a modern equivalent to this text... (and without all the HLA :-)
Five Buck Fatigue
Nvidia: AI Upscaling graphics beats native 4K and is faster
Is it trustworthy, or full of backdoors?
High Fidelity adds talking bots and a wedding venue to its 3D audio chatroom
Well, Russians are playing by the US book, it seems; read about Voice of America and Radio Liberty
AI Crowd Anonymization for Black Lives Matter – Stanford ML Group
Crowd anonymization AI to fight police use of face recognition. Detects faces among huge crowds of BLM protesters and shields their faces with a BLM fist. http://blm.stanford.edu
we need a pure-play cloud provider like TSMC.

No one should trust the big three. (AWS, GCP, Azure)