skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who want nothing more than to laze around and indulge in vices

Or is that the effect of poor-stimulation environments?

Like the study that showed teenage drinking plummeted[1] in Iceland when teenagers were given stimulating activities to do instead.

Anecdotally, I mostly drink when I’m bored, and I don’t drink when I am doing interesting things.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iceland+teenage+drinking+sports It was a variety of programs including a curfew for teenagers, but one leg of the programs was “Through the program, the municipalities funded and expanded after-school activities, from sports to gymnastics, to music, art, and ballet. The basic idea is to keep kids busy – and out of trouble – and help them find meaning in their lives that dissuades them from seeking alcohol or drugs in the first place.”. The nighttime curfew wouldn’t have prevented drinking during daytime or evenings, which reduced.
Infant universe teemed with full-fledged galaxies with bursts of star formation
To preface: I am strongly in the opinion that this 'phenomenon' that's being seen is most probably a US-based contractor that's been testing exotic aircraft, as opposed to any of the other possibilities. There's a documented history of that over the years, and looking at where China and Russia are at currently indicates they might not have these capabilities.

However, I am going to hold off on the 'dismissing is the immediate jump to aliens' part as well, purely due to the position of this guy and the specifics of his claims - he was part of a team investigating the subject and so until he's proven unequivocally of lying I'll just assume there might be documentation he has access to that we don't. His credentials line up and it sounds as if the people who vouch for him are the same.

I'll think it's silly to discredit the fact the government wants to study what's being reported in the sky like some people are doing. Beyond that I'd rather not comment because it's safer to discuss the parts we are actually privy to rather than the parts we aren't, until the dude gets charged for lying to congress or some other official discrediting of his claims.
I'm not saying there isn't crappy software. Sturgeon's Law [1] says "90% of everything is crap". That applies as much to software as anything else.

I'm just saying the remaining 10% can be pretty impressive considering the complexity and cruft developers deal with to make it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
I can't reproduce. If I search for 'chrome', the answer I get back from Bing AI:

> Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It is known for its speed, simplicity, and security features. Would you like to know more about Chrome?

Additionally, I get a proper download link for Chrome as the top result. This is on Edge.

Performing this on Chrome yields a different, arguably better answer from Bing AI.

> Chrome is a web browser developed by Google1. It is fast, secure, and free to download and use. It also has features like bookmarks sync, form autofill, and Google smarts built-in. Chrome supports various operating systems, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebook. You can check if your device meets the system requirements to use Chrome3.
You laugh, but... AI only got real traction when we stopped teaching computers clever efficient ways to solve logic puzzles and started throwing massive amounts of data, memory, and compute at the problem.
The regression in autocorrect is also nuts. It seems to aggressively modify grammar to the point of regularly changing the meaning of what I’m writing. It’s like a CS undergrad project where they went too hard on Markov chains.
That sounds super cool!
Hold up a ruler to your face and look in the mirror. Or take a photo so you can measure distances in an image-editing app.
It looks like the Federal Source Code policy at sourcecode.cio.gov is 404'ing; though there are many references to the URL [1][2]:
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/blob/gh-pag...

[1] https://www.cio.gov/2016/08/11/peoples-code.html

[2] https://code.gov/agency-compliance/compliance/procurement

> Section 7.2 and 7.3 of the Source Code Policy require agencies to provide an inventory of their 'custom-developed code' to support government-wide reuse and make Federal open source code easier to find.

> Using these inventories, Code.gov will provide a platform to search federally funded open source software and software available for government-wide reuse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888037 : security.txt, carbon.txt, SPDX SBOM, OSV, JSON-LD, blockcerts
It's hard to get as performant as Figma does, not as straightforward as a rendering medium switch. What if webgpu lets me get Figma performance with my little 6 person startup team without the massive engineering man-hours Figma has spent on performance?

Anyway, if it were high priority for us, we'd have done it already (switching to canvas/webgl). But right now it feels like buying a Quest when the Vision Pro is coming soon.
Indeed. The real question is why are the aliens apparently loosening their grip and letting the government release more information now? Is this some alien end game!?!?

Art Bell’s show was a hoot to listen too.
The traditional (i.e. 1950s-1970s/1980s) narrative of Puebloan-Spanish interactions prior to the Pueblo Revolt is one of Spanish domination, in large part because of the reliance on Spanish literary sources. Social historians have explored resistance and resilience to colonial authority, but many scholars have continued working within the essential framework of that relationship. It's largely been native authors making the argument for indigenous cultures to exist in the narratives as causative, independent agents in their own right rather than defining them by their appearance in extant colonial literature. This is a fairly recent development, 1980s onward with it becoming fairly mainstream around the mid 00s.

So no, it's not a strawman. I had to stop here for brevity's sake though.
Ah, in the middle. Yeah, you still can’t do that. There was https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-exclusions/ which let you do it, but it was only ever implemented in IE 10–Edge 18 (prefixed), and seems dead now.
Since Mondays are always three days after Fridays, it's pretty clear there is a correlation, the only real question is what's happening on the Fridays, and why would they try to hide that?
This entire comment chain is missing the fact that there are many UAP sightings in China and one of the reasons the US isn't being mum about this anymore is because China is exploring the phenomenon without all of the West's weird religious and secular hangups about the possibility of nonhuman intelligence.
I have preferred GPT3.5. GPT4 is slow and verbose, I only resort to this model when all my prompts in 3.5 didn't give the expected result.
This type of disclosure could destroy the society - what if we are just an experiment seeded and pruned by some alien civilization? Most philosophical reasons for a stable society would be thrown out of the window instantly.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230607012046/https://nautil.us...
Yes. Alien Blue will likely break on 7/1. Search the app store for "reddit".
I haven't liked the usability of the entire Macbook line though, and It's very upsetting that so many laptop makers have decided to just copy it.

There's lots of little details which are well made, but bad decisions: the screen hinges tend to be a little too floppy, the trackpad is oversized, removing the physical buttons makes it hard to use, moving the power button from a separate area to the "eject" button location on the keyboard (and making it look like a regular key), everything they've done with keyboards (flat, overlay spaced keys with no surface indentation and less and less travel). The ridiculously sharp edges of the body chassis which cut into your when you rest your hands there (seen at least one video of someone just filing a bevel into the machine to fix it).

They look great, but that's all they've ever seemed to me: in usability details they've always felt terrible (even MagSafe, which seems like it should be great, feels great, and yet has seemed pretty lacklustre when I've had to use it with a work machine).
Obligatory xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1235/
Reading the originals is preferable, a translation is secondhand already.
Update: it seems there was a new release some months ago, and the UI feels a bit fresher. Time to give it another try.
The Quest has been doing this for years with the guardian setup and now with their option to bring your desk and couch into VR. I think the Pro has more advanced features but I haven’t tried it. You do have to assist it by drawing our boundaries but it’s pretty easy to do
That's a very unusual choice of start and end dates, almost as if there is an intent to misrepresent the data. Where can I find a good dataset over a wider range?
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Can anyone explain to me, in simple terms, and at a high level, what the heck am I looking at?
What is this library for?
What does it mean "it is used by lama.cpp and whisper.cpp"?
How is it revolutionary?
Thank you very much in advance!
Not at all, we should evaluate each one on its own merits and be open to changing them if they're not longer relevant or interesting. Especially if it's actively harmful. In what way do you think the 1st amendment is no longer relevant, interesting and is harmful?

I can very much explain my opinions in re the 2nd.

Each amendment is independent and invalidating one does nothing to any other.

But looks if you can convince me the 1st amendment needs a revisit, I'd be open to it. I don't think so, but a compelling case would change my mind.
Too late, everyone has already read the title and found a reason to continue thinking what they already thought about climate change.
I’m with you on this one, but I also have nystagmus in both eyes. I’ve been curious but also somewhat apprehensive about stuff starting to rely on eye tracking and whether these edge cases will get handled.

Probably best for me not to be an early-adopter in this case :)

Edit to add: Can confirm that Apple stuff is amazing with accessibility, so I’m not surprised there are alternative input methods. My main thinking towards the future is around how nystagmus and foveated rendering will interact. That’s a giant and fascinating research topic I imagine.
They pulled it:

> Shortly after we published this story with that comment, Fischel confirmed Microsoft has pulled the plug on this particular idea. “The experience is no longer flighting.” Sure enough, I no longer see it.

But "flighting"? Does that mean "deployed"? I've never heard that before -- I'm guessing a weird variation of "in flight" which itself is an unusual metaphor? Is that something people are saying now?
ALSO: how convenient that a submission with > 100 upvotes appeared at the very top and merely a few minutes later was not even on the frontpage (I have nothing to do with the original post, nor this submission of it). You know guys, you should really tone down your censorship, or this site too will finally perish from everyone's radar.
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So what, we smoke less as well. We've seen enough of harm already, single parents raising kids born out of such trysts, cancer riddled old people. Enough to educate the next generation & not so something just coz it's cool
That old movie you're talking about... Is that The Gods Must Be Crazy?
Oh, I’ll have to see if and how Provenance can run on it.

PSX games with a PS5 controller on a theatre screen? My inner 8 years old is going to loose his mind.

But that doesn’t solve the issue for the mainstream.
Having a PhD does not confer intelligence.
> At runtime, so far as the computer cares, there's really just arrays of bytes (or machine words depending on if your system is really byte-addressable or just faking it).

The problem isn't arrays of bytes. The problem is all the other semi-structured cruft that the OS has accumulated, the squillion different system calls you can make with almost-but-not-quite standardised effects.

> You can do input validation, but unix cli utilities can already do that. You'd need, rather than a bunch of unikernel utilities, an all encompassing environment that the utilities can register their constraints with, and the system would prevent them from being called if the constraints were not met.

Or you just don't give them the interfaces to mess with each other's internals. You have your hypervisor isolate them from each other except for a narrow communications channel obtainable in a narrowly specified way. Ideally the hypervisor also enforces that what you send/receive is well-formed gRPC (which is not hard), but that's not essential - the main benefit comes from just closing off all the other random OS-level ways that Unix processes communicate with each other.
Some things I like about Germany
It’s absolutely horrible- it will go back and modify correct words for whatever forsaken chain it decided it wants. I hate it.
The regex result builder is awful. It's very obviously a feature which was developed to make SwiftUI look good in WWDC presentations at the expense of everything else, and no one's found anything that they're actually useful for even with some effort to pretend that it's not just there for SwiftUI.
Bees: One of the best known architects in the world building perfect geodesic shelters with less materials and maximum efficiency
I got one last year also, but was disappointed by software selection. My children loved the hardware but wanted more software. At their behest, I tried to write my own software for it, but went in circles trying to figure out what SDK to use.

I wish someone on the SDK team there could observe me as I tried to search for this information and failed because it would be super-informative on how to (and how not to) succeed on creating a wider community of apps...by making SDKs easily available.

<All opinions are completely my own personal opinions>
From the point of view of somebody outside the black hole the infaller never reaches the event horizon.
For a notion of density to have a meaning, the atoms need to be finitely small.
The title of an HN submission does not have to match the article's title. It's also not editorializing. It's a factual statement, except it should probably be revised to 661 Gt instead of the 600 Gt quoted (doesn't change substance).
Huh. Turns out it's a subsidiary of the same Denso that's a massive automotive supplier and largely owned by Toyota. Asian conglomerates are so interesting.
For a more immediate and quite practical solution, I've had good results from simply taking videos of various movements and watching them right afterwards.
Wow, nobody has ever lied to congress before! And what are the chances their testimony pops up right after the introduction of a program incentivizing whistleblowers to come forward?
A high res webcam and OpenCV?
A little bit of motion blur would go a long way here.
Can You See Me?
Zoom out. Dead cat bounce after being oversold relative to tech. it bounces between 30k-25k since march. it probably will be lower soon after support breaks . The news is getting worse, and more regulation to come.
I had plenty of nausea with the Quest 2.
With maybe a tiny bit of history as well? Pretty please? : p
In Python, when comparing lists using the less than (<) operator, the comparison is performed element-wise.

The first element of each list is compared, and if they are not equal, the comparison result is determined based on the comparison of the first unequal elements.

In this case, [1, 2] and [10, 2] both have different first elements (1 and 10). Since 1 is less than 10, the comparison result is True.

The second element of both lists (2) does not affect the comparison result because the first element is already sufficient to determine the outcome.

[1, 2] < [10, 2] evaluates to True.
The article mentions that a Microsoft marketing director confirmed they'd disabled the 'experiment' following the publication of the article.

Edit: sibling comment was faster.
The example that you’ve given of light profiteering with yellow lights doesn’t sound like the end of freedom to me.

Particularly, if you’re allowed to contest that yellow light fairly and efficiently, using the records from the same cameras and AI technology.

Ideally, you’d just register a complaint and the thing would give you a video and a clear explanation of what did you do wrong and why it was not a good idea. Traffic laws are relatively straightforward after all.
I think that falls under

>> Pump the revenue however possible
It’s an advertising term. Unsurprising, given the context.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/flighting.asp
Just look at the history of alien / UFO sightings. It all began at the beginning of WW2 and the Cold War. It is my humble opinion all just a psychological operation. Some benefits that a government would have doing such a thing would be: Division, misdirection of MSM and population, other news that is very important is intentionally being sandbagged. Fear, Hysteria, & Confusion allows further tightening of control of a society and prompts consent to loss of liberty in exchange for false security. It also increases government support. As well as an intimidation tactic to their enemies that they possibly have much stronger weapons / tech that they let on.
From another perspective, over the past decade it must have been really frustrating for Microsoft execs to see their own stunts reversed on them by Google.
Here's a quick benchmark with pgbench:

$ pgbench -h localhost -p 5432 -b select-only -T 60 -c 10 -j 2 bench
Password:
pgbench (15.3 (Ubuntu 15.3-1.pgdg22.04+1))
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: select only>
scaling factor: 1
query mode: simple
number of clients: 10
number of threads: 2
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 60 s
number of transactions actually processed: 10370147
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 0.058 ms
initial connection time = 54.881 ms
tps = 172993.008029 (without initial connection time)

$ pgbench -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5432 -b select-only -T 60 -c 10 -j 2 bench
pgbench (15.3 (Ubuntu 15.3-1.pgdg22.04+1))
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: <builtin: select only>
scaling factor: 1
query mode: simple
number of clients: 10
number of threads: 2
maximum number of tries: 1
duration: 60 s
number of transactions actually processed: 16890415
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 0.036 ms
initial connection time = 7.186 ms
tps = 281540.260418 (without initial connection time)

YMMV depending on your workload, but Unix sockets should always be significantly faster.
I think this headset has a clear use case. For one, it’s a way better recording device than what currently exists. With the headset appearing transparent it will not be too much of barrier to interacting with what you are recording. One can record the birthday party while interacting with the party in a way very similar to how you would if you had no device. Recoding a birthday party using a phone is much more dystopian in my opinion than using this headset.

Another use case is getting rid of monitors and freeing up space on a desk. I imagine in the future I’ll have a sever in a closet and the headset will allow me to get rid of my TV, keyboard, mouse, monitor, laptop, and Apple TV. My wife and I can each put on a headset and have customized picture/sound while synchronously watching the same show. She likes the TV to be a lot louder than I do.

I will be able to play board games with friends across the country and it will be as if we are all in the same room interacting with the game board. This thing would be great for online teaching or tech support.
Because if you fail, you're not destitute and without healthcare - while success still leads to a materially better lifestyle.

Specifically because the risks aren't nearly as extreme and the rewards are still very good.

You really don’t get materially more of your yield taken from you in France than you do in California where top marginal tax rate is over 50%. And that rate clearly doesn’t stop anyone in California. Imagine Steve Jobs going hmmm, I would start Apple but the top tax rate is like 5% higher than it could be, I’m just going back to bed then.
These are basically interaction nets with different rules than those used for lambda calculus.

> Interaction nets are a graphical model of computation devised by Yves Lafont in 1990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_nets
Worse, if you run into a wall at high speed the screen probably ends up in your eyes.
ex-airforce claims that the air force is hiding alien craft.

What's more likely?

1. That aliens who can break the speed of light were successfully shot down decades ago by the US using... a phantom f-4?

2. The "whistleblower" is spreading FUD to encourage an increase in the airforce budget
Don't neglect the people who are not mentally ill, but still can't tell the difference between "Yeah, we've got a lot of data on UFOs (stuff we couldn't accurately ID for a variety of reasons) that's classified (because some of it legitimately need to be secret, and we over-classify a lot)" with ""Yeah, we've got a lot of data on UFOs (little green men in flying saucers) that's classified (because we're part of a conspiracy hiding the existence of intelligent alien life)".
Something fishy always going on with crypto. Scammy and fraudulent almost by definition.

Probably more pump-and-dump, wash trades and whales dumping or preparing to dump.