skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your argument that governments have kept the secret well? That's just not true. There have been claimants from the USSR and France (you can find documents about either on theblackvault). Materials have been claimed to have been recovered by South American people, even recently. China shut down an airport due to a UFO just recently.

The veracity of the above are all suspect, but the fundamental claim that this is something only Americans think about or only happens here, just doesn't reflect reality.
This is really cool. I’ll be interested to see if the team can produce useful and provably hard cryptographic hash functions with this tech. The other interesting application that this inspires is use of this tech to optimize the optimization algorithms used by compilers. Perhaps we can all benefit from optimized optimizers.
It's also an open secret at this point that American atomic gravity bombs are stored in bases in Italy, Belgium, UK and Germany. The current Polish government doesn't seem to be opposed to doing the same in Poland. Plans to maintain the American nuclear umbrella may still involve Germany regardless of Poland's decisions.
I’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.
It’s slightly more than just a rumor, at least the part that they’ve been researching it heavily for at least 8 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_electric_car_project
maybe? That could be a plausible explanation, that would also open a lot more questions if that were the case
Isn't retopo something that an ai could do well?
> English gets a lot right with its writing system

More like English uses a relatively simple writing system which has the drawback of being unable to properly represent all the sounds of the language.

Like a lot of things in life it's a question of tradeoffs, not being right or wrong
https://archive.is/SHg4D
>Gift card swapping and exchanges, such as G2G, are a critical part of the monetization of SG-CSAM, allowing anonymous compensation for content.

It's always gift cards that enable this kind of terrible stuff. Do gift cards really add that much usefulness to a society that these downsides are worth it?
Certainly not enough given the level of Snowden's sacrifice.

The article mentions revelations of Verizon participating in illegal spying. It was also revealed ATT and others participated. This prompted congress to pass a retroactive law making the illegal telecom spying, during the Bush Jr. administration, legal. I guess the US hypocrisy is more plain now? The US is a nation of (retroactive) laws that protect powerful men.

There were a few technical fixes. The NSA presentation slide that stated, OpenVPN and SSL were "not a problem" led to using stronger ciphers by default.

Google reportedly encrypts its inter-DC links since the revelations that the US was tapping and spying on the communications.

You are less likely to be treated as a tinfoil hat nutter if you talk about US spying on its own citizens and the rest of the world.

The rest of the world's population stated the US as the greatest threat to freedom in the world today in polls across allied nations, so some who had prior, are no longer believing US propaganda. Although recent US illegal wars of aggression and revelations of torture and other war crimes, probably played a large part here too.

The powerful have tried harder to ensure secrecy, and control over documentation of their misdeeds. It is highly likely that the powerful also are more careful now to ensure there is no record of their crimes.

But, what should have happened was the displacing of all the federal prisoners convicted of non-violent drug offences to make room for all surviving politicians and surviving members of the NSA, CIA, FBI, federal courts, etc., who reasonably could be expected to have known of illegal behavior of those agencies, and who did not do everything within their abilities (including whistle blowing) to end it. There would have been a lot of powerful members of the corporate party's far-right wing (Republicans) and the corporate party's right wing (Democrats) being locked up, so of course, go after the messenger, sweep what you can under the rug, and as a last resort, pass retroactive laws to make the illegal, legal.
I've heard the same theory from several friends and family serving in the US military (not in any IT capacity).
You would be out of your mind to pick a Corolla or Civic over the Model 3 today, especially with the dealer markups on the Corolla and Civic (and other traditional ICE vehicles)
>The hypocrisy of running to possibly, the MOST historically abusive surveillance state has giving me serious reservations about Snowden’s loyalties over the years.

You should refrain from holding strong opinions on a subject that you did not bother to put even a bit of effort to understand.

Snowden did not run to Russia, he was on his way from Hong Kong to Ecuador and was in the international transit zone of Moscow's airport as part of a layover flight when the U.S. cancelled his passport leaving him stuck in the airport for over a month. During that time Snowden applied for asylum in several countries including Bolivia, Brazil, Austria, India, etc etc... the U.S. placed a great deal of diplomatic pressure on every single country he applied to to refuse his request and finally Russia gave him what was at the time intended to be temporary asylum so he could leave the airport and pursue asylum elsewhere. That temporary asylum is now a residency permit.

Snowden has stated he would be willing to return the U.S. to face trial if said trial would be open and transparent as well as present a public interest defense. The charge against him for violating the Espionage Act allows substantial portions of the trial to be conducted in secret, precludes the possibility of using a public interest defense, and places a great deal of restrictions on a defendant to properly argue their case.

Daniel Ellsberg, another whistleblower who was charged under the Espionage Act for releasing the Pentagon Papers has fully supported the actions of Edward Snowden has made it clear that he would have acted in the same manner given the circumstances.

Ellsberg was very fortunate that the prosecution acted with such brazen and open recklessness against him in the illegal gathering of evidence that it led the judge to dismiss all charges against him, otherwise Ellsberg would have faced 115 years in prison for what he did.
My half-serious and half-assed attempt at solving a similar problem: make a bot watch the video for you first, then skip the crap.

https://butter.sonnet.io
> my speed

There is no such thing. Speed is not absolute in relativity. You can only meaningfully talk about your speed relative to some particular object or observer, and then, strictly speaking, only when you and that object or observer meet (i.e., your worldlines cross).

Similar remarks apply to all of your questions; they simply aren't meaningful.
That’s hilarious, I did actually write “pawned” intentionally, but while writing it I thought, “Haven’t heard this one before, but I guess it makes sense, it treated them like pawns in chess”
Yeah, back in my day when we used cash, it was never used by criminals ;)

As I get older I want the anonymity or immediacy without a paper trail for normal day-to-day small transactions. For big transactions maybe not. Also, just try and walk in nowadays to a car dealership and hand over $35k in cash for a car. See what happens.
Terminal application built with Rust and WebGPU
It's not a link, it's the image name that you'd directly use from docker or podman. And yes, that's the same one.

One of the things I found so confusing about docker at first was how much information you could leave out of your image reference and docker would assume the rest. I'd prefer if it only assumed localhost, and never automatically assumed any remote registry. There's really no reason for docker.io to be special.
"while physically being in their presence is deemed unwholesome, embarrassing, or otherwise uncouth, causing people to go to great extents to avoid it."

Reminds me of the sex scene in Demolition Man.
Don't PC gaming companies have only one real outlet (Microsoft) to work with? Not to be confused with distribution channels such as Steam.
Lol, I’m sure you’re a nice person! Not trying to attack or disparage you personally in any way.

Just trying (poorly) to share the things I wish someone had told me 20 years ago. My personal experience has been that there are a set of confusing belief systems in this world that many people are victims of. These beliefs are logically inconsistent, they cause a lot of real personal suffering, and they are intellectually challenging to disentangle oneself from.

My understanding of reality is that God created your soul out of nothing and He loves you so much that He would be willing to suffer and die horribly even if it meant redeeming and reconciling solely your one soul to Him.

You have free will and the freedom to believe anything you want. There are different roads to God and diligence about the truth (which you seem to have) is one of them.

God bless you and thanks for the conversation!
The article is about Grafana which is a front-end.

> all-in-one binary

In a topic about Grafana, I expected it to include a front-end if it's all-in-one. To me, all-in-one means everything, not just the database or back-end.
> Are we going to start saying that all inhabited spaces should be monitored by government cameras?

"Americans under the age of 30 stand out when it comes to 1984‐ style in‐ home government surveillance cameras. 3 in 10 (29 percent) Americans under 30 favor 'the government installing surveillance cameras in every household' in order to 'reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity,'"

>Going to ban cash then too?

"Interestingly, more than half (53 percent) of those who support the United States adopting a CBDC are also supportive of government surveillance cameras in homes, while only 2 percent of those who oppose a CBDC feel the same,"

https://reason.com/2023/06/07/why-are-so-many-younger-americ...

There might be a very worrying ideological shift in how people view their own privacy.
The PC industry is no longer driven by desktops; laptops have taken over long ago. There is a gaming PC crowd, but that is a small captured audience who wants performance, wattage be damned.

Apple is selling around 80% laptops versus desktops, and the rest of the industry is something like 77%. The fact Apple is winning the laptop GPU race doesn't mean it should automatically be entered into the desktop GPU race, where it is not winning.
There is "Sponsorblock" for YouTube, which allows you to skip over adds which are part of the video.
Simplicity or Efficiency: How Dbt Makes You Choose
Pystack: Like Pstack but for Python
Not really a jazz band.
>2.7 million illegal border crossings have zero to do with 1.6 million housing units

Only if you assume all 2.7 million people are now homeless.

Price is a function of supply and demand. Obviously, increasing the number of people within a system without commensurately increasing housing will result in upward pressure on housing prices.

You could argue that the system-wide effect is minimal, but you would need data to do that, which you haven't provided.
I've used it to block nearly every notification icon I can find. I now check things on my schedule. Surprisingly helpful.
Another UK trick, promotional prices can skip showing the unit price. Tesco has turned half their prices into promotional prices. Either as multibuys or just by requiring their loyalty card to get a not insane price.
Ultimately business systems operate in a purely consequentialist matter: getting caught only matters because the punishment is bad for the stock price, and avoiding doing crimes is the only 99% reliable procedure for avoiding getting caught.

There is a complicated limbo with things like LIBOR, where practice drifted into quietly rigging the number, first in phone calls and then chat channels, and everybody involved kind of forgot it might not be percieved as legal once the outside world realised what happened. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/libor-scandal.asp
My simple-as-dirt solution is generally to use InfluxDB + Grafana. InfluxDB provides a nice HTTP interface that all of my devices simply POST to. I write all the queries myself, because I find that it's a heck of lot easier than to track down individual agents/plugins that actually work.
Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
> The new Apple Vision Pro arguably has a better set of cameras, sensors and signal processing than a Tesla

I'm sure it does, but that's also because you need much greater degrees of precision and accuracy to anchor virtual content in the real world. Inches and centimeters matter here, whereas an autonomous vehicle can get away with coarser measurement.
You can configure some nagios addons for performance metrics collecting, but is better to have a single/efficient/granular enough metrics collector. And time series monitoring helps a bit being proactive on bad trends or to give good context for past events.
You can say the same regarding cash.
I mean if we took that attitude to everything, we'd go no where.
It's a tough balance to strike, especially with hardware. I'd love to be able to put together a preorder page to validate demand for my next McGuffin, but it's very difficult to know specs, cost, and appearance before at least a representative prototype has been tested and quotes obtained from suppliers. And it takes a great deal of time and engineering effort to get to that point.

Of course I could show off something completely different than what gets delivered, but for some product categories, the entire appeal evaporates if the promised specs are not accurate. For example, something like camping equipment goes from awesome to pointless if the final product lacks key promised traits like foldability, waterproofing, low weight, etc. See also Magic Leap's marketing demo, which they ultimately couldn't deliver on within the constraints of a real product.

I think the Lean Startup methodology has a lot going for it, but it's very hard to square with certain products.

PS: Your video is really nice. I'd probably rather use a website that looks like that than one with fancy graphics and animations and formatting. It feels more like a professional tool than a flashy toy.
My guess is that this is false, but that we (the public) are being prepared for an announcement of life on Mars, or perhaps Europa. Having debunked claims of exotic spacecraft, evidence of Martian life will seem tame in comparison.
It takes quite some fine-tuning to generate a photo that is not creepy (this is so important...) and worth buying.
I'm halfway my 30s and I have special driving glasses to get rid of the glare.

Coming from Europe with the ECE standard DOT standards suck. Much more glare.

And then the lifted cars & trucks with no adjustments.

And it's especially bad in places that don't have some yearly car check.

When I first moved here it felt like 'awesome, no need to get in line for my car check'.

Now I'm like: yea, it helps. Implement those car checks.
Hmm... I wonder if this is related to this site

http:// learnmonster [dot] ir/public/

which appears to be a C&C and reporting interface
for bulk registering free email accounts using a network of proxies.

Seems quiet now but sometimes you can see the reporting interface is churning through a huge number of newly created email addresses mostly at gmail.

I assume the server is hacked and the owner is unaware. Weird they don't put a password.
Well then, since you're absolutely confident with the SEC integrity, please suggest how they acquired this quote?

Just to be clear, Binance is operating out of the US so it's very doubtful they provided much logs to the SEC, let alone compromising logs.
I'm curious what there is to understand -- this just a selfish decision they are making, right? Not including JPEG XL is worse for users, developers, and the ecosystem.
"I think you are learning it wrong."

Well, of course I did. I used a keyboard for many years before my formal middle school typing class and by then it was too late. My brain already knew better and typing exercises did no good because I already knew how to use the keyboard without looking.

I imagine this is the dominant case.

If you want to fix it, I recommend simply learning a sensible layout for touch typing.

You also would not have needed such a class if the keyboard was laid out in Dvorak for everybody. You wouldn't need formal training that largely only works if it is drilled into you before natural exposure to a keyboard, because your hands would just do the right thing automatically. The idea of needing a typing class would become entirely absurd; there would be no technique to teach anyone that they wouldn't simply pick up.
> It’s a naval chart that would not require surfacing.

Other sources say this is about inertial navigation, not based on charts.

"Accelerometers measure how an object’s velocity changes over time. With this, and the starting point of the object, the new position can be calculated."

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188973/quantum-compass-could...
It’s an existence proof. Even at an indie startup, if you mention your idea too early there’s a risk you’ll lose the motivation to work on it due to negative reception. Not every idea that’s poo-poohed is bad.
Are there yet any instruments better than LIGO at a lagrangian point outside Earth's atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belt?
Sure but in this particular case the product is absolutely being given away for free. There is no service attached to having a faster linker, you just grab the code and off you go.

The only monetization it has is basically a big sign saying "please pay something if you want to", and not enough people want to.
Asking people for their opinion on anything (in my case, it's writing) is an art. Not everyone's opinion is worth listening to. If you throw it out to the general public, you'll get a lot of stupid ones. It's better to pick a few people you respect, who are not uncritical lovers of your work.

But you need to do that. As the creator, you have a blindness that it's impossible to get past all by yourself.
I think it's sort of a vicious cycle too- because the number of impressions goes down from all the adblocking, the users not running adblock get even more ads to the point of absurdity (see: local news sites) as tech companies try to make up the difference.
Just a note that mandated mask-wearing, stay-at-home orders and business closures happened in the 1918 Spanish flu in much the same way. The world didn't suddenly became more authoritarian in the last ten years.
I truly wonder if Microsoft didn’t help with this port. Looking at the speed and quality of this port. It seems that Apple and Microsoft are working closer than ever. Maybe some execs of Microsoft asked for to be in this demo.
It feels as if there should be a PaaS alternative to hosting your own PyPI server (and I would gladly pay for one) but alternatives like AWS CodeArtifact require a lot of manual configuration. JFrog have the closest service that I can find, but you have to subscribe to their whole CI.

I was hoping that GitHub Packages would solve this issue (as they do for NPM, Docker etc.) but sadly this isn't going to happen.
Yes, although I still find it easier to create one TEXT or JSONB column for prototyping.

The bad thing is that creating db/connecting to the dbms is still a big hassle.
> you can stop caring about what petty squabbles browser vendors have around which image formats they choose to support.

I think you misunderstand what the picture element does. Yes, you can put a JXL image into a picture tag, but Chrome still won't render it. You'd still need a backup (lower quality) JPG.

You still have to worry about what image formats the vendors support, and now you have the added burden of making sure you have backups for all your images.
Not to say you're wrong, but the initial answers to those questions are A) online spaces are pretty much only for trading information, unlike housing which is for sleeping, cooking, general use. B) gift card exchanges are pretty much only for suspect stuff, unlike cash which is much more generally used
There is also sponsorblock (at least for YT):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock
Motherboard headers -> Cases have somehow not evolved what feels like at all. Myself and my brother just built from scratch within the past month and both fumbled the Power switch/Reset switch connections.

I honestly had to laugh at the lack of progress in the area.
This whole thread is a disagreement to

> Yeah but most people aren't paying for those: their employers are.

which is wrong, and you seemed to not be aware of that. Your reasons are all arguments why _some_ people don't buy them, and they're obviously correct, but lots of people also do buy them.
I got really excited for a second thinking this was infrastructure orchestration.

Like AI, I want my no-code tools to enhance my current setup, not replace it. If I could visually build CDNs that connect to APIs that connect to databases, with end-to-end type-safety, authentication, validation, etc etc etc built-in -- that's super compelling. But in terms of the trade-offs between a no-code logic tool like this (price, lock-in) and writing code, this doesn't really fit the bill.

I mean maybe the use-case here is prototyping and MVPs for non-technical founders? I don't know if tech companies would want to be locked into something like this though.
That's fine but then it's not really a feature of the web... it's a browser feature. You are totally locked into that browser.

Compare to browser bookmarks. Not a "web feature".
"The French Connection" censored and re-edited for "modern sensitivities"
Maybe I don’t have a lick of intelligence but it’s documented that Snowden tried to go through official channels to report illegal surveillance first.
Not general or universal. Only for pre-trained data and with abysmal worst cases.
She has no more or less evidence than anyone previous when this was published.

It's a directed attempt to create a history based entirely on speculation. The language treatment on the linked page screams it out

> And the practice of child sacrifice could even hold the key to why the civilisation was founded in the first place.

and

> 'But in the 20th century, people increasingly took the view that this was racist propaganda on the part of the Greeks and Romans against their political enemy, and that Carthage should be saved from this terrible slander.

and

> 'Dismissing the idea of child sacrifice stops us seeing the bigger picture'

It's not history (and certainly not science as other people here say) - it's polemic reinterpretation to meet a narrative from someone who's pet interests are "colonialism", "postcolonialism" and how evil it is.
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It's not sure though if you will be able to to charge device while using simultaneously. On all pictures I have seen cable was using priopertary connector and on the other end soldered to battery. Battery though has extra Usb-c port for charging.

Very dump design in my opinion. They finally learned the lesson with macbook chargers that those cables used to break after a while and started producing this days detachable usbc cable with braided coating.

This vision pro battery looks like has similar low quality white cable that is not braided and cannot be removed from battery or even rolled for storage like in old macbook chargers

Hope they will change it and allow to use any power bank or charge from power outlet or macbook.

Would be nice also their power bank has Magsafe port for charging iphone as emergency