skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps people are tired of the same story playing out every few years. Someone got told by somebody else there’s a massive coverup and they definitely have the documents but they’re withholding them for reasons and no we can’t see them but we should absolutely take this story at face value because they have or had a career in the military so are a Very Reliable Person we should take very seriously.

We’re on like season eight or nine of this show and it’s the same plot every time around.
yeah agreed.
It just feels like it’s going to be hard for it to escape people’s hesitation due to the level of Apple influence/control.
I wonder why golang didn’t seem to experience the same issue
> it is indeed true that technology has changed the world for the better.

A big part of the "technology" in the past 150 years has been "machines". And all those machines have one thing in common, they consume energy (from the wheel to the latest iPhone).

Yes the technology allowed to increase the crop per acres, to ship goods across the world, to keep food cold, to warm/sterilize it, find new drugs, mass produce clothes for few cents, etc.

That miracle comes access to free and dense energy also known as fossil fuel. If oil/gas/coal was not found/used or just not as abundant, we might not have known the same past 150 years.

Now that miracle is not clean, it does produce a very stable molecule (CO2), that is, after 150 years starting to change the "world" and not necessarily for the better.

So, yes technology improved the life of billions, but maybe at the price of some species extinctions, and it might hurt our very own if we continue to feed those machines/technologies with fossil fuel.

Hopefully, we will reassess how good is a new technology under the prism of its dependence to fossil fuel. Can't wait for fission or fusion to be widely used instead of fossil fuel.
One wrinkle is that the SEC is ordering Binance to honor customer withdrawals so at least customers won't be stuck in a multi-year limbo as with Celsius and others.
This is absurd

Some folks seem to think it's intentionally absurd. I thought about playing along and chatting up how New York is clearly the capital of the world if you don't realize us savages lack a world government, but all my comedian friends have told me to keep my day job.

Or would if I had any comedian friends. Or, you know, a day job even.
What is interesting to me is that I don’t see any angle where the government isn’t lying or not fully divulging what it knows about this topic in some fashion.

Whether aliens, not aliens, our own tech, whatever…there is value to the government creating deception, misinformation, and disinformation.
You don't exactly need to compile Typescript to make it run, you can just strip the types out which is much faster than compilation. If you want you can run `tsc` to have the compiler compile it and check for errors, but this can be running as you develop to act more as a linter.
There have been some ufos caught on camera by us military aircraft[0].

No evidence of them being alien in nature.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/pentagon-ufo-videos.ht...
I’ve seen some argue that there are such key details to recreate genuine British fish & chips such as use of stale oil, and leaving battered fish too long, and that efforts to recreate such British cuisine still leaves a hurdle that improperly slaughtered fish has to be used, which may not be available outside UK.

There must be an emotional starting point where suggestions like this must have come from. I… wonder if somebody had a moment of life experience with stale lobsters.
It seems OP created a new account just to submit this entry (probably thinking their other account was shadowbanned).

But given that a new account, created barely 5h ago, was able to be upvoted and reach the 2nd page is proof that new accounts are not shadowbanned by default (at least not all of them) :)
Then just create a new login each visit if it's so trivial.
I’ve found patents to be helpful despite the legalese.
The Dallas Mavericks - at least initially.
You mean like ssh? Or are you thinking along the lines of a curses-based "Text Desktop"?

I often use ssh between machines. "Works for Me".
Salesforce Will Donate $10 per Day to Charity If Employees Come Back to Office
As others said, those are non-Reddit-operated spambots. But as for the names, any new Reddit users gets a WordWord1234 type name now, and you have to go out of your way to change it, so there are also a lot of legitimate users using those generated names.
You have beak evidence to assert that claim
All true, but I can't get from there to people shouldn't be allowed to make their own choices about what they buy.
QIDI X-MAXⅡ. We mostly use it to print device test fixtures. For example, we have a fixture for thermostats, ie before you can test a smart thermostat, you have to trick it into thinking it is connected to an actual HVAC system. So we have a shape that we print out; it takes about 12 hours. We are not printing thousands of them, but we print often enough that PrintNanny would be useful. I sent it internally to our team. I will most likely email you directly.
Right, and evidence free indulgences into fan fiction speculation about the CIA etc etc are unnecessary detours.
“Anime” comes from the Japanese Katakana word for animation (animeeeshon), so it usually refers to the animated/moving images
Why "blame"? Having more children is not somehow a noble good. Unless you're one of those "every sperm is sacred" types.
I wish I had like, a super-updoot.
The article tone portrays the critical thinking of a third grader and the confidence of a used-car salesman. I would say that this blog post was worthless, but that would be giving it too much credit.
Canadian wildfires are worsening air quality across the U.S.
> Precisely. Ukraine taking back Crimea is pure fantasy. Russia would launch nukes rather than give it up.

The idea that Russia will launch a single nuke is fantasy, they haven’t even tested one in over 80 years.
Well that's what Bridges were intended for
Running esbuild to strip types and then running node, or using deno/bun, is much faster than Python. There’s also nothing that would prevent interactive JS or TS either… That’s what the browser debug console does.
What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
I can contemplate that. What I can't understand is wanting the government to tell people they can't buy it because they think it's a bad idea.
Alright HN, we all know that this is likely untrue, from a rational angle, and this thread is full of reasons why, but play this mental exercise with me for a minute:

What if its true? What repercussions would having alien technology have on civilization? Would this fundamentally change beliefs? Influence religion?

EDIT: someone pointed out to make this more stimulating we need constrains, assuming the following is true:

The UFO is likely "rogue" in that it was off course, pilot dead, and we are not currently engaged in hostilities with this other civilization
Well, they're "the style that image models called anime produce".

These mostly start with real-world images and then are fine-tuned with Chinese/Japanese commercial illustrator art, which isn't anime (flat-colored TV episode screenshots) or manga (monochrome halftoned comic book pages).

The result is like 15% photorealistic shaded, so it's not a lot like anything else out there.
Happened in the 90s where I live. Hyperinflation set in and government just froze everybody's accounts in a desperate attempt to stop it. It's 2023 and people are still afraid it might happen again, especially with a literal communist in power.

Cryptocurrency is absolutely valuable as a defense against government idiocy. That fact cannot be denied.
In some later searching... the name in IANA and that it was in Burlingame piqued my interest - Eric Gullichsen is a rather distinctive name.

Some of the history of the domain can be read at Domain Names, Tonga and Two Guys Named Eric - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-09-fi-1560-s...

(and amusing to me the email address of the reporter was @best.com - and I remember that ISP from my days out there too).
Vercel has raised an enormous amount of money and they are stuck with making bizarre choices like this or selling other tech brazenly for higher prices. That is why pg recommends not raising a huge round.
> the critical thinking of a third grader and the confidence of a used-car salesman

You just described the 50th percentile of VC associates. And pmarca, apparently.
Domain Names, Tonga and Two Guys Named Eric (1997)
> I think probably [technology] is going to be useful and beneficial in some ways, cause problems in others, and like always, our nature and behavior will determine the human condition going forward.

Beautifully put. I'm considering writing this on a post-it and quoting it over Zoom calls for years to come.

Re:benefits of software, I think it's a mistake to focus on stuff like Uber. I would vehemently defend the assertion that the internet (Wikipedia, Google, Kahn Academy, etc.) have brought massive good in the form of public access to information. More fundamentally, I think it's objectively true that it leads to increased productivity via tools like spreadsheets, email, and now AI-assisted writing, which I think is a fundamental part of our path towards a better society.

Software surely won't fix society, but I think making a utopia out of the current material conditions would be tough. Many things are broken and rotting because of greed and corruption, but I see scarcity (of labor, resources, knowledge, etc.) as a powerful factor to.
I didn't fully understand what your meant (as I haven't used graphql much), so I asked ChatGPT to explain. It did a decent job, so I figure the answer might help others as well: https://chat.openai.com/share/d708cc93-e920-4b83-b372-83248e...
No, it’s a tactic to disarm criticism by pretending to pre-address the obvious “don’t do that” response. “I know my behavior is bad but I am openly acknowledging it so you should trust me and look beyond it” is remarkable in its ability to disarm critics. To put it another way, “they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the..”
Yes, but the universe is so mind mindbogglingly vast. So many galaxies and so many stars!

It just doesn't seem right that what happened here didn't happen somewhere else.
Hey, thanks again for this tip - I found Finamp and while it doesn't hit every target, it is absolutely brilliant in terms of getting music onto my phone effortlessly and working without Internet. I'm that much closer to maaaaaaybe getting rid of my phone's data plan.
Well, sometimes the users ask to see them and they don't like numbers very much.
I can't help but notice the poor air quality here on the US east coast today and wonder if any of the link can be explained by the exposure to pollutants due to commuting. It took me years to piece together that my chronic sinus issues and occasional heart palpitations were connected. Too much post nasal drip would end up filling my lungs with phlegm, leading to symptoms not all that different than COPD. It's not hard to imagine someone in poorer health having the same reaction in closer to real time on a Monday morning.
They worked like direct links for me. No logins or anything.
> Next, they fed existing QR codes into the Stable Diffusion AI image generator and used ControlNet to maintain the QR code's data positioning despite synthesizing an image around it, likely using a written prompt.

A few months ago, after seeing that ChatGPT could produce reasonably accurate MD5 hashes, I tried generating QR codes with a Midjourney prompt. It failed in a really interesting way - it generated _symmetric_ QR codes, even though QR codes are explicitly designed to be asymmetric (think of the timing pattern, the three large blocks). So while I could claim ChatGPT "understood" MD5 hashes, I can't claim that Midjourney "understands" QR codes.

How long until generative models can produce working QR codes on their own?
There are unexplained bugs in my software, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t the work of aliens.
Is music an example of a non-physical commodity?
Sex bot implies sex in some form, that I don’t think is primary value of a such system even if it all available.

The ability to form a connection and understand your needs perfectly and respond to that a companion is the real value

Sex gets boring pretty fast . It is not that expensive to pay for in real life, a companion would be supportive, knowledgeable, empathetic and always available is very hard to pay and get or have otherwise .

I don’t know why people find it sad , not everyone is able to find the perfect (or any) human partner /companion , we should be happy if we are all are able to connect to sentience does it matter if it is a human , dog or a machine ?
If you zoom out they are very recognizably QR codes. A commenter made the point that what you're seeing in that case is the low frequency component of the image. Kind of like the Marilyn Monroe / Albert Einstein illusion.
> SVB went down due to the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes that left their loan portfolio underwater

This is like saying your boat sank because the water dared to come in. Yes. But there’s also a hole in it.
How about letting the workers stay home if they (ie, the worker) donate $10 of their daily commuting costs to a local charity of their choice? This gives the worker the (chance of) tax break, and as their commuting costs (including food) might be greater than $10 a chance of a little more pocket change. The charities get the $$ either way.

This would be a tangible benefit to the workers at a small cost rather than a grandstanding play by a corporation looking for a double-profit on a demand.
SVB failed to diversify their holdings. The venture capitalists who caused the run and their funds also failed to diversify.
> is there even a single Binance US user that wants the SEC to take custody of their assets

No FTX user would have wanted its assets frozen a few years ago.
At half a metre distance, my 43" 4K display is probably about the biggest i can use comfortably without forever swivelling my head.
Why (the thing in which I am currently invested) will save the world (please disregard the last thing).
Slightly offtopic: What a cool personal website!
Audience collectively groaned at Apple's Vision Pro price
If you define aliens as a long separated branch on the tree of life with significantly more advanced technology, then alien encounters are more common in history (hawai’i in 1790’s being most recent i can think of).

So mathematically its rare, but perhaps an experience of 1% of societies . And perhaps strongly correlated with one branch undergoing a rapid technological advance.

i think it’s perfectly rationale and not fantastical, as long as its kept in mind that its a low probability event.
Google Docs document canvas is a tool. Most of the chrome & interface is html & works great.

The switchover to canvas broke a ton of extensions. Chrome eventually went out & built a custom api to help users deal with some of the massive loss of functionality that switching off high-level html to go use lowest level html caused. But that took a ton of effort from Google, & the result is still a shadow of what was possible before.

IMO, do the right thing for user agency & stick with higher level web stuff if you can, unless design truly compels it. Reinventing has many subtle pitfalls.
Could be that they're leaving it (and gaming/etc) for developers. They largely showed core stuff only at this point.

The platform launch was very locked down. For incremental hardware upgrades, they put hardware in the hands of devs by either shipping out early or bringing devs to their offices to work on prototypes in a secure environment.
I mean it's not impossible, but Apple would have to design and manufacture one. If they're planning on it it's weird that they wouldn't mention it.

VR controllers aren't simple the way a game pad is. They need a full tracking solution, which means sensors with base stations, cameras with some form of vision based tracking, or the headset needs to be able to track them based on some reference points (infrared lights or something). And that tracking needs to be fast, precise, and correctly positioned relative to the headset.

Using the Index controllers with the Lighthouse base stations is kinda plausible from a technical standpoint, but that would mean Apple would need to allow the headset to work with SteamVR, and that seems very unlikely at this point.
The Quest to Replace Passwords
Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15125
They're skeptical because it stands against convention. The rest is mere justification. Not very serious.

It's funny. You distrust your eyes but trust your thoughts.
> There is essentially infinite demand for better AI,

New paradigm stuff. Infinite demand. It will be able to create a perpetual motion machine easily.
Could have been intentional and likely unmanned
Someone should let the Singaporean cranks know, then!
Isn’t that what the US is doing? See the CHIPS act [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
Apple's new iOS 17 will warn you if someone tries to send unsolicited nudes
People often seem to equate retirement, as in you no longer need to do things you don’t want to do just for money, to assume that those people are going to sit around all day.

People need purpose, no doubt. And while I’m sure there are people who imagine retirement as sitting on a beech with a drink all day, for lots of people FIRE just means being able to pursue the things you want without expectation that they will be lucrative.
How does it compare to dlib [1], ccv [2] etc.?

[1] https://github.com/davisking/dlib

[2] https://github.com/liuliu/ccv
Have you tried a Quest? I found the SW on that fixed all neaseau I experienced on earlier headsets and I think the Quest 2 was even better but I don’t recall at this point.
What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body
Your pedantry is neither appropriate nor correct. Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints, not because manga's style is defined as black and white. There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.
Well normally if someone wants to make money off you they need to give you a cut. Thats not savyness from the DoD. Thats par for the course. They would be wildly incompetent if they let the film makers use the Navy for free.
It's really not. How would a self proclaimed technology enthusiast react to missing out on one of the greatest tech investment opportunities of their lifetime? I suspect that they would react exactly the way hn's crypto haters do now.

No, you didn't make a huge mistake. It's crypto that's wrong.
Aliens would probably not care that french people have more vacation days.
Gaming is pretty good with a keyboard and mouse. No controller necessary.
I was extremely skeptical for years. I've been using it daily for 6 months and I'm surprised how much I like it.

Maybe I was bad at defining REST interfaces. But the interface-definition-language aspect of GQL has been invaluable. It's type safety across the network boundary.

Our server side library auto generates DTO structs to satisfy the schema resolvers. It just removes a lot of boilerplate work when adding routes or new return types.
There are a great many people who chose to see crypto as an existential threat to the earth because proof of work requires energy and energy is derived from fossil fuels and therefore any expansion of its use exacerbates climate change. Proponents of crypto are frequently corralled into a “climate change denier” corner by this faction.

The other large contingent, myself included, sees the never ending scams, shady dealings, and blatant money laundering. Some of these projects, like Bitcoin Lightning Network, are like honey pots for smart people that have no idea how serious the government is about sanctions.
I think a key motivation behind this is that Reddit wants to be able to collect more data on users. For example, reddit can't see how long you spent reading a post or a particular comment if that is happening in a 3rd party app. FB, IG, and especially TikTok monetize data like this extraordinarily well. If reddit is trying to play in the same league as the other social media companies, keeping all usage on the platform you own and control seems to be table stakes. This is why Twitter did this recently and FB did this years ago. Own the platform, own the data, make more money.
it sound like stackexchange getting disrupted by llm
Zero specific claims. Zero evidence examined by the person making the allegations. All hearsay.

To top it off, the focus of the story, David Charles Grusch, is a "a former intelligence official."

Pardom me for disregarding this as the diversion it appears to be. The US military has quite a track record on this kind of thing. It's not hard to think of reasons why such diversions might be deployed right now, either.

Maybe some kind of physical evidence - any physical evidence - will be presented. If so, I'm happy to change my mind. Until then, there's zero compelling reason to believe any of it and every reason to think Grusch either a liar or a stooge.
Yes, it really is fantastical. Six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon style associations to unrelated historical events, just to motivate fan fiction writing about psyops is not healthy engagement with the state of reported evidence, much less the only reasonable course of action. I can think of another, refraining from entertaining in elaborate explanations born of speculation unsupported by evidence. Boom, done.

The fanfiction writing serves to validate the manner of thinking that would motivate people to believe the most extreme possible interpretation of this reporting, effectively extending a vote of approval toward people inclined to look at this and put themselves in a headspace of entertaining speculative beliefs without evidence.
There’s literally billions of words written about this - they’re called sci-fi novels.

For this to be an interesting question, you need to specify what exactly is true - then we can game implications.

Are we positing that aliens exist? That FTL/time travel is possible? That aliens are attacking, like right now?
Again, let's look at the comment chain:

> A sensible 'normalised' comparison might be energy carried per displacement kilotonne or some such.

Defrost explicitly specified mass, "per displacemet kilotonne" To which you responded:

> Answering the original question, it's about 10-20x as much usable energy for the oil

10-20x is the ratio of energy density by volume, not mass.

I'm going to extend assumption of good faith, as it's easy to forget that there's two different measures of energy density. But yes, you did respond to someone asking about relative energy density by mass with the relative energy density by unit of volume. And the energy density by mass is indeed the limiting factor when shipping bulk lithium ion batteries, so this is a misleading (but probably not bad faith) figure to cite.
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> those who made gobs of money who transpose that outcome to "gosh, crypto must be great and I don't know why everyone is bashing it so much"

Most of us can profit off something while decrying it as dumb. I’ve made money from crypto, and I think I did so ethically. But the whole thing is stupid, and I think we have a civic responsibility to ensuring that is understood.
More talk of aliens, it’s either that or 10 pixel blurry photos of one. Coincidence?