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I agree with you on that. I know there are aliens, and that we're being visited by them, but the fuzzy pics are a shameful debacle. I've heard video testimony (Richard Doty, on Gaia) of people saying the AF Office of Special investigations recovered objects and crystal clear civilian photos of UFOs and beings that landed. They took them from the people who had the photos and classified them.

Of course, Doty could be just a paid shill (part of his counterintelligence role was being a paid shill for a long time). But other people have said it. But "other people" are not necessarily credible.

I think it's 30% the "government" is purely "trolling" us. And 62% it's not just trolling, but deliberate deception to cover some truth they know. And 8% they actually have no idea and this is the best they can do.

So given that I think it's useful to come up with theories about "why" would they be doing deception and why this kind of deception. Why do a limited hangout that provides equal feed for the triumvirate of skeptics, debunkers and believers? AFACT, in intelligence the reason you feed both sides of a conflict is to create a chaos outcome. The strange thing is the net effect of this is to cause people to be confused, to lose faith in all of the government, each other and in any extraterrestrial reality. It seems only the archetypal "adversaries" would want that for a country and its people. So who is really pulling the strings of this elaborate disinformation campaign? My bets are corporate special interests that control any actual reverse engineered technology and interactions and who make the government the whipping boy, or other countries.

Going down this road I think the point is really to create a "narrative denial system" to keep people in a cordoned off area in which they are safe to speculate, hate each other, and argue about these things, and far away from the real truth. I really think that whoever is controlling this narrative is doing this to protect the truth. Not that I agree with their tactics, but I can understand the motivation, and recognize the tactics from other operations against "conventional" threats.

In light of this theory, the upcoming, "sanctioned release" of information requested by the DNI, seems likely to simply be more fuel for all rival camps. An alternate theory is this is not deception for confusion, but deception for "acclimatization". A drip drip "disclosure" that both protects existing incumbents (corporate utilizers of the tech) and slowly (and seemingly begrudgingly) accustoms the public to the reality of its existence. The drip rate is chosen to precisely minimize the actual information release, while maximizing satisfaction of the public's growing thirst for this info. I have a feeling we've been here before, and it's the same game. Which is kind of sad.

It would be good to see other arguments from other thinkers taking as a premise the existence of aliens and the special compartmentalized intelligence world's knowledge of that, that explain the motivation and tactics of the utterly bizarre psyop running around the release of this information.
The listed range under the specifications says the range is 380 miles. That’s a far cry from transatlantic - I wonder what caused such a big difference between intention and reality.
The ironic thing is that despite the emergence of more walled gardens and the decline of general purpose computing, high level tooling has exploded. Look at the amount of new JavaScript frameworks and tooling that come out every year.

I think it's not "despite" but "due to". If all you have is a locked-down user-herding media consumption "device"[1], the web stuff is pretty much the easiest way to have access to something like a Turing-complete language.

[1] the fact that a word which used to primarily refer to computer peripherals is now increasingly applied to a general-purpose computer itself is a telling sign of where things are going next. Destroying the general-purpose nature of computing little-by-little and selling you back small specific pieces of it seems to be the trend today.
It’s completely normal to have this sort of things in low-level code bases. Both C++ and Rust have refcounting smart pointers in their standard libraries, and bespoke refcounting schemes are regular occurrences in C codebases (the Linux kernel has tons of refcounting, so much so that it has a utility file for reference counters: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...)
The problem with cannibalizing existing parts is the following scenario:

Chip X exists in Product A, which costs $10. Without Chip X, Product B cannot be sold. Chip X is suffering from a shortage. The gross margin on Product B is $1000. As a consequence, the manufacturer of Product B buys a ton of Product A on Alibaba in order to cannibalize it and harvest Chip X. Now the gross margin on Product B is $990 (not so bad), but Product A is nowhere to be found.

In other words, the shortage moves to the cheapest available finished product that has Chip X in it, until marginal profit reaches 0.

The consequence is obvious. Product C, which cannot be manufactured without Product A, eventually becomes unavailable. And so forth.

This is particularly gruesome in the semiconductor sector because supply chains for finished goods are so long.
> In the US, Cellebrite extractions are done under color of law

Are you sure that is the case 100% of the time?

Bars on my door keep out burglars as well as hinder police serving a warrant.

Even if Signal does deploy these files (no evidence thus far that they have deployed Cellebrite exploits, as their blog post was careful not to claim that), the vast majority of them (just like deadbolts) will not be used to hinder search warrants.
I did have fresh-caught blue crab when I was living in New Jersey. Once I figured out how to eat it, it was amazing. Fluke and striper straight from the water to the oven. I don't miss the coast, but damn do I miss the food.
You get an imbalance with free incoming trade but taxed/impaired outgoing trade. Perhaps a massively importing country can live with it if importers get better deals as a consequence. But otherwise bilateral arguments would be the long term viable approach.
Dont care, the premise here is that if you think eating animal products is inhumane because of animal suffering, then there is some logic in switching to suposedly less inteligent food sources
No human driver would need to have stopped in a lane of traffic like the Waymo vehicle and would have figured out how to navigate the cones.
Why is that refreshing? You'd expect HN people to not find this map interesting and therefore not post it/upvote it as its just common knowledge. Continent and country sizes are just a few numbers that everyone has already seen.
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I think makes sense.

To get rich 10 years ago with tax 30% it's easier than getting rich now with tax 40 or 50.

So they are pushing for higher tax so new riches are less motivated and reduce their changes too
While this project has some esteemed names backing it my bet is that it will fail. The reason it will fail is because electric aircraft that can reach the 100's to 1000's of feet will be more practical because they will be able to get above all the other water traffic and still operate as cheaply as this craft as batteries become ever cheaper and the cost of electricity remains low and going lower.

The hydrofoil while taxiing is kind of cute but it will subject to collisions with dead head logs and weeds and all kinds of obstacles that can be easily seen under the water. While are regular float plane's pontoons have been tried and proven as they naturally just skid over top of anything that's below the surface.

So in short, this craft will face economies barely better than a similarly sized electric float plane (even given the energy savings of ground effect) while having the disadvantages of only low level flight and risks from things under the water from the hydrofoil.
Challenge considered. Are there unified (federal) marriage & birth certificate online registries for the US or is that a matter for archives?
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I was more irritated that they took away the ability to let videos play with the app closed and then immediately brought it back as a premium feature. And the ads have gotten ridiculous. That wasn't a big deal until they completely changed their suggested video algorithm and now all I get is "top ten" and "you won't believe this". If someone links me a video, I might watch it. I don't access the website for any other reason anymore.
Not too long ago I was stopped on a straight and level four lane non-divided road at the end of a line of traffic. An SUV came to a halt normally behind me, and just as the line ahead of me started to move, they were rear ended by a car cruising at highway speed. Which pushed them into me, not only caving in the trunk but damaging the C-pillar area.

This sort of thing happens all the time. And because of modern crumple zones and safety equipment, people have an excellent chance of living through it and doing it again.
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It is also worth noting the standard of umpiring increased dramatically with the introduction of the DRS system. It has been a massive success.

Recently the automated front foot no ball system was introduced too, and it has too been a success.
But what about the vulnerability as an indicator of the general quality and reliability of the tool? Casting doubt as to the ability of the tool to generally be accurate and specifically maintain proper chain of custody documentation would seem to be a reasonable legal defense tactic.

I would expect a defense lawyer to say something like
"The tool so confuses its input that it can mistake message data for its own internal instructions. How certain can we be that it has properly analyzed its inputs and maintained the necessary chain-of-custody metadata, and provided adequate protections against evidence tampering? If a police officer were unable to tell the difference between his or her own thoughts and things he or she had read, we would dismiss him or her as a reliable witness."
This is exactly why I despise it when I people say "things go south" then they mean "get worse" or "north of" when they mean "better".
Yet in that video you don’t see a single crash or collision! Yes the situation is confusing for drivers but they manage to figure out how to get out of it without damages or delays even if they do it against “the plan”.
Yes, you're very clever.
Also, the author seems to forget that Cellebrite market is not just the US, but also many other countries, some with far less respect to human rights (not saying the us has a perfect track record on this front). Are all the journalists / activities / opposition in these countries not worth some of consideration?
People have been eating wheat for a long time.
This stuff is awful. So many lives ruined by having it in either themselves or their spouse.
Technically, sure. But the extent of the innovation I've seen so far is people going back to using inferior chips because that was all they could get within their budget.

Microcontrollers aren't exactly interchangeable, even within the same product line. You could design for flexibility and use the arduino framework to run your code on most microchip/atmel, ST, and a million other chips but that comes at enormous cost -- to put it nicely that's an incredibly inefficient library if you're not doing anything demanding, and damn near worthless if you are. Any multiplatform framework that abstracts away the inner workings of microcontrollers is going to be too heavy to work for a huge percentage of people's power and complexity profiles.

It's not just MCUs and firmware either, any time you replace a component due to shortages you need to revalidate your design. Constantly redesigning and revalidating boards based on available stock is what people are doing right now to keep the lights on. It's hell.

If you don't need a microcontroller to do whatever you do, then sure. Pop it out and save a few bucks. But that's hardly innovation, it's more rectifying a mistake made when doing the initial design.
Technically no one dies of old age. Old age is a contributive factor, and a significant one, but not a cause. Rather, we as a society, just give up on them at a certain age, and decide reasons don't matter.
Sure, but if you had millions of people around the world telling you they believed they were communicating with Jesus through prayer, and thousands of people who said they had actually met Jesus (or one of his saintly holy ilk), or been healed or saved (in miraculous fashion) by such, would you think those individuals with their stories and experiences were taking you from dumb idiot? Would you consider them dumb idiot?

I think not, but I could be wrong about you. Afterall, it's up to you how you feel about this. For me, I trust myself (my own knowledge, experience and belief of this), and I trust the thousands of regular people (sadly, the government and intelligence people, less so) who have said they have experienced alien beings or tech.
They did something similar by my house on a pretty lightly travelled road and it was confusing as hell. People were using both sides of the cones and realizing too late they were in the wrong side.
This is why you don't waste time or money building something on a third party's platform that can be taken away at any moment.
Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...

> For instance, in our work, we noted that the algorithm appeared more likely to interpret images with rulers as malignant. Why? In our dataset, images with rulers were more likely to be malignant; thus the algorithm inadvertently “learned” that rulers are malignant.
Any updates on the optical CPU front?
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> A message seeking comment from his wife was not returned.

That made me spit out my coffee. And not because I was laughing.

Journalists have to be one of the most tone-deaf and least sensitive groups of people on this planet. And I thought I was bad.

If you feel like you have to write an article like that mentioning people by their full names, by all means, fine. But maybe leave a grieving wife the fuck alone - at least for a few months. Find a family member that is a few steps removed if you can't contain yourself.
He does but I can't understand his rationale. He claims it's "just a symbolic image - it may as well have been just blobs to tell the story" and "Had I stretched things to truly properly show that though, then the whole shape of Africa would have looked very awkwardly elongated." But why? One could scale the outlines so that they have the correct relative area whilst they preserve shape.

I think it's just a poorly-designed map.
I just use https://github.com/halonium/halonium, to automate some simple tasks. My code is less interesting than the "examples" folder of that repo.
Yeah, if you are smart enough, you could compensate in other ways, but is seems the reality is different. People aren't smart enough on average to compensate for the simple factors which seem to guide people make the decisions.
I agree. In my town roadwork on a four lane road caused both lanes to be diverted into two sparsely-coned lanes on one side of the road, and some human drivers started driving in the wrong lane into what would be opposing traffic.
Given that people are usually already using Babel, TypeScript isn't really any different than running a linter is. There's no additional transpilation step if you write your code in TS, but you can also run TypeScript to have it warn you of potential errors.
I don't have a ready source to back this up but I read someones comment that said there is a wide disparity between how roads and highways are paid for. Cities pay for their roads out of their general budget usually.
"That’s because electric cars require a lot more computer and chip-based components than those powered by gas"

EVs have less fundamental systems than an ICE. I can see that EV designs being the most modern and entailing a lot of clean sheet thinking would result in more computers, but fundamentally I would think it takes less computers to run an EV.
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I wish we treated our own conclusions this way.
The problem here is that you’re trying to iterate over `v` and modify it at the same time. The usual fix is to first decide the changes that should be made, and then apply them after the loop:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Alternatively, you can loop over indices instead of values, which doesn’t require the loop to maintain a reference to `v` across iterations:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
You're still going to have a very hard time convincing the jury that Signal booby trapped your phone to download child porn at random from the dark web.

Law enforcement doesn't confiscate and use Cellebrite on phones at random. If they have a warrant to search your phone, they already have some reason for suspicion.

For example, maybe someone accused the defendant of molesting a child, but the police didn't have hard evidence. They use Cellebrite and find some child porn. The defense argues that Signal might have planted it there with a booby trapped file that downloads stuff at random from the dark web. Do you think the jury will buy that?

At that point, why not just say you left your phone unlocked in public and a stranger probably used it to download the child porn?
I got one of those in between. Extremely limited smartwatch capabilities, and I can't put Bluetooth off. Plus without physical buttons. I want physical buttons during commute/travel.
I'm surprised they didn't disable the car once roadside was there. Seems like a pretty big potential safety issue.
It's perfectly clear. There are 2 cones and a sign set diagonally across the lane: https://i.imgur.com/8ViGpLP.png

You cannot drive into that lane without hitting those cones. It's hard to see from the camera angle in the backseat but a driver in the front would definitely understand that the lane is blocked.
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Why hate JSX? There are lots of benefits to it, like debuggability and variable scoping rules are exactly those of javascript. Templating languages, on the otherhand, are not debuggable and have awkward scoping rules. And, they always feel broken in one way or another.

JSX is not magical which is what I appreciate the most about it.
Far from it; this advice is from my current perspective as a bootstrapped co-founder, but concurs with all my prior experience, including that at other startups and ordinary enterprises, as both manager and job candidate.

Funny how people assume that just because you’ve been at one of the tech giants, that it was either the only experience you have, or that it’s the only experience you valued, or speak from. The assumption is a category error, and seems to be mostly invoked dismissively.
I prefer a subset of people who can beat me up for a subset of reasons, rather than all people for any reason.
Good point, but I was referring to recycling discarded/end of life products rather than cannibalising/harvesting from unused hardware.

Obviously this would only be viable in low end devices (tooth brushes rather than graphics cards). But there is already an industry based around desoldering old parts and selling them as 'fake' new ones - if this was done in scale with the parts tested and a company could order 20K there would be a market.
The main issue is just in time delivery with very low to zero stock levels that has been popular in many industries. Toyota startes just in time delivery everyone else copied. Just in time delivery is more vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.

Thus there are some value to having a warehouse. Ie something between just in time delivery and keeping lots of stock.
The visio format is basically zipped xml, and its extensively documented by Microsoft.
I agree, but they also have a point about taxing inheritance or wealth and not just income.
See my other reply regarding the limitations of Amazfit Bip. You can also repair Pebbles. Unfortunately, I failed to repair my Pebble 2.
Quite the 'aesthetically pleasing' side-effect for sure.
Do you know this saying "those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it". You're that saying.

Also "war" is the thing that happens between parties above which no legal frame or enforcement institution exists. Countries. There's no actual "international court" (there's the UN one, but it has no powers). This is why wars happen. So in fact, mentioning wars defeats your own point - yes, people will literally kill each other like savages when no legal repercussions exist. Wars show that.

Because we have no world government, we can only apply mitigation strategies like sanctions, diplomacy, economic interdependence. These work, but only until a true scarcity occurs, where taking someone else's stuff is a solution. Then it's back to wars.
Open source floorplan based home automation seems to be in it's infancy.

As far as I'm aware, even if you have scans of interior floor plans there's no straightforward way to drop and place 2D indicators or icons for devices in respective rooms that can be saved into an openly used format.

I wonder if 3D models in game engines will be the approach that's adopted. Maybe with a top down isomorphic minimap being generated, but otherwise using presence detection to track a person model through a house, starting automation much like game events are triggered by players passing invisible barriers
Starlink, as it is now, would leave me wholly disconnected for at least half of any hour. The service I have is not fast, but it moves all the packets I send in any minute I send them (except during rainstorms) ...and gives me two static public IP addresses.

So, no, Starlink would not improve my service.
Sure, that's because traffic circles are terrible. The truck with the long trailer likely took the left turn to avoid it, possibly because clearance around the circle wasn't obvious (there's another truck with a shorter trailer that barely makes it around) and then people behind it followed.

The local traffic engineering folks around where I live are gung-ho on traffic circles, but I've yet to see one in the US where a traffic signal wouldn't have been a better investment.