skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sensor apparatus needed to “find” these UFOs is the same as the one needed for missile and drone defense.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It's the official stated position of the SEC. https://youtu.be/hmPpIjfC9DY?t=178
Considering the grift between DoD and Skinwalker Ranch, I am sure we can expect similar fraud throughout. New York Post did a 4 part expose that uncovers this. I highly suggest it. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwfaAz9kxcc

Basically Federal agents became "convinced" that paranormal stuff is happening at Skinwalker ranch, but that is/was because of significant conflict of interest where they earn income from entertainment enterprises (like History Channel) by leaking information to them -- even information which is completely falsified.
Less "fought with" and more "apple corp continually sued apple for money every time apple tried to release a product associated to music."
In all you described there, you are talking about anything but humanity. You described hypothetical artifacts that, if successful, would be vehicles of a synthetic species that could imitate human behavior. Again, nothing to do with humanity (unless you are bought into some kind of idea related to see humanity as dinosaurs in extinction and transhumanism as a new reality).
Can anyone recommend a resource on how linkers work other than the "Linkers and Loaders" book? Maybe a linker repo that is easier to read through, or a more modern book or series of articles on the topic?

No shame on the book, it is a classic, but it is certainly a bit long in the tooth.

I am very interested in linkers, but find them a bit inaccessible to learn about.
I briefly experiment with that for books before switching to a guillotine. It was slower, and made a mess. Even when I thought all the dust/grit was gone, some snuck into the scans anyway. For softer lower-quality aged acid-attacked newsprint-style magazines like this, I imagine the mess would be even worse.
>Your first argument is that "boomers dont know / want to use excel properly". What is not really an argument.

it's the other side of the coin for "last democratic thing that allows non-programmers to build things" (which I sympathize with). you can't just ignore the capabilities of the userbase demographics.

>Also it is common knowledge that MS tries to get rid of open spreadsheets - only allowed competition are google sheets.

it's not microsoft's fault LibreOffice doesn't have tables. OnlyOffice has them. there's a feature request thread in the LibreOffice archives, someone asked for excel-style tables to be implemented. the LO devs didn't even know what they were(!), people had to explain it to them. dev response was lukewarm. there doesn't seem to be any great push to implement it.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132780

>If your Excel doesnt have array formulas - please get a newer version. Even 2003 had them.

I mean the new ones. the dynamic array formulae with the spill behaviour. SEQUENCE, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, etc. those are only in office 365.

>As someone trying to learn SQL, the syntax of typical queries(one page long, not some basic ones) is horrible - the language is completely not designed for tasks when you glue 20 tables together... are those queries easy to understand / inspect? IMHO no.

no disagreement there, SQL is not a good language. have you tried M?
Leaving the unjustifiable condescension aside, the argument in the dead comment still founders on precisely the lack of any philosophically rigorous definition of sentience on which it attempts to support itself.

That's the question I called out earlier as being begged: in order to discard a definition of sentience (or of anything!) as insufficient, one must be able to show where it fails. That would admittedly be an impossibly tall order in this case, but my sympathy for the difficulty is curtailed by it being one our interlocutor has chosen to take upon himself, and attempt to bluster his way past anyone else noticing.

Even politely expressed, such an attempt to demand an impossible standard of others while excusing oneself from the same merits exactly the obloquy it's received.
> but maybe more surprising is the increase on a Sunday.

Anxiety due the the looming work week?
The way I do that is I memorise my password manager master key. How do I do that with a passkey?
I had the same experience. Very often, I couldn't fall asleep until 6-7am. I felt like I was losing my mind. I got professional help from sleep psychologists but it didn't do much. They told me all the same stuff that comes up when you google it, and it terrified me even more that even professionals didn't know why I couldn't sleep. I never had this much of a problem sleeping before I read the book.

After a year of this, a therapist pointed out that you can have bad days on good sleep and good days on bad sleep. That finally made it click that it wasn't logical to worry about bad sleep so much. I just stopped caring and that mostly got me over it, but I still have more bad nights than I ever used to.

If I see people reading the book, I warn them about it even though it feels a bit rude to tell someone not to read something.
Come on, I don't get what this whole bs is about, but don't make Holocaust comparisons.

Stupid browser/ego/chatgpt nonsense is nothing compared to what has happened back then.
Google Cloud plans to supercharge security with generative AI
> a typical startup has a dress code that's just as strict as a suit and tie ever was - except that now it's unspoken

Kind of like the idea of "leaderless" or "structureless" groups, in which the leadership hierarchy practically always ends up being obscured but no less real. Here's a really good old essay about this phenomenon in early feminism.

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

IMX the "Silicon Valley uniform" doesn't really have anything to do with being more casual or relaxed. It's just another kind of conformity, comforting for those who do like to conform and stressful for those who don't or can't.
The paradox of ufology is that we can't trust the government because they've been covering up aliens for 70 years, but now we know aliens are real because the government says so.

The only fact I know for certain is that the federal government and military industrial complex has a history of lying and waging information warfare on American citizens. If they tell me aliens are here, there's no way I will believe them. As much as I want to believe, I simply can't, unless I personally have some experience with an alien.

And remember... no matter what happens, no matter what the government or the "aliens" tell you... do not get on the ships!
This is because our circadian rhythms are naturally found to be about 25 hours absent external stimuli or timekeeping devices.
Sounds like you were already distracted by someone else's diversion.
"Even Mark Cuban can't..."? What has Cuban fixed?
As far as I know, the requirement of the IOCCC has always just been to submit any obfuscated C program. A submitted program can do something interesting, or something ordinary in an interesting way, but there's no specific constraint on what it does.

You might be confusing the IOCCC with the Underhanded C Contest, in which the goal was to do some particular task, but also subvert it in a non-obvious way: http://www.underhanded-c.org/
Most canines. Not that they intentionally want to eat their prey alive, but as they are pack animals, killing their prey as soon as possible so there's no risk of being injured by the prey fighting back is less of a concern for them than for solitary hunters like the leopard.

So for dogs and wolves, starting to eat as soon as possible takes precedence over making sure the prey is really dead.

Also, canines are not as strong as felines like the Tiger and the Leopard, so, it is not as easy for them to kill big prey by crushing the windpipe with their jaws like the cats do.

On the other side, they may be weaker than the cats but have far more endurance, so, a maimed prey escaping is not much of a big deal, as they are able to pursue the escaping prey for as long as they need without having to stop to rest.

Lions are somewhat of a muddy middle ground. Usually, their prey is dead when they start eating, but when the prey is really big, like elephants, they start eating it alive as it is not as easy to kill such big prey.

Crocodiles on the other hand will either swallow their prey at once or eat big chunks. It is not really a choice for them.

Of course, we must remember that animals don't really have this concept of their prey suffering. They need to eat, and that's all that matters to them.
UFO whistleblower claims US Government is hiding evidence of non-human craft
I see/hear more and more people build an uniform of their own. Basically the same kind of tops and identical bottoms bought in set and renewed identical as they wear out. I'm half in that camp, and it's damn convenient.
What happens when a Domain Registar is down for months with no end in sight?
The registrar is Register.To -

Website has been showing same message for months.

Twitter account is silent since January.

What options do I have?

I would love to login and transfer my domains, but I am unable to login. Since page is completely down.

The TLD belong to the Republic of Tonga.

This is unprecedented. And I'm at a lost.

Do domains expire on said Registar regardless?

I have a very Profitable SaaS on a .To domain.

If it goes down , I'm looking at $10k/day in loss revenue.
this whole release feels extraordinarily 'Apple' , to me.

Apple takes an idea and staples as many 'side-grade' style functionalities to it as possible in order to sell it , rather than just offering a really well-performing product within the niche.

The iPhone was a remarkably bad phone -- it was more awkward to hold than any other phone at the time (now they're ALL awkward), and the reception was terrible. The provider it was locked to at the time was one of the worst in North America at launch; but the iPhone had features that people went nuts for which drove sales beyond the phone offering.

I feel like this VR headset will be similar.

It's a mobile device with a 2 hour battery life -- something that everyone in the world has been saying would make a device dead on arrival for the mobile market; but it has all of these little side-grade features that will attract purchasers that are interested in the Apple product itself but not necessarily VR.

As a consumer i'm glad -- I may have never been a big iPhone fan, but the Android reactionary effort produced so much value that I can hope that this field will see something similar once it proves the market feasibility. I can't wait for my 8 hour/8k res/quarter-priced white-label VR headset clone in a few years.
I read somewhere that all of our radio signature would fade away to the point that it's indistinguishable from background noise within five lightyears.

Plus, we've been around for ages and only briefly let out a bunch of radio waves. I image we might not even generate that many anymore.

By that logic, you could easily image that the universe is teeming with intelligent life that happens to not have sent a powerful radio signal out here, or whose tech development timeline never included wide public radio signal broadcasting.
Okay awesome, great news

(what is going on here, exactly?

why do we need to solve this and tie it off with a bow, today?

why is 'maybe someone else or maybe them will maybe make something similar someday' a resolution?)
> this guy has a career history that implies he isn't just another crackpot spewing theories

I love the optimism in assuming that being a crackpot and having a career in intelligence are incompatible!
Note this is GPL which will make it a harder sell vs OpenCV in many cases. I'd guess they're looking to use the non-GPL for $$ model.

Nevertheless, it looks interesting. It looks really nice for embedded where you don't always have the GPU for compute.
My main concern with passkeys is I'm not aware of a way to pre-authorize someone who doesn't yet have an account. For example, with email I can just grant X access to anyone who can prove they have access to Y email address. But passkeys don't have a single public handle like this. This isn't such a big deal with centralized services where everyone is likely to already have an account, but might pose a problem for selfhosted services. Still, I like passkeys and wish there was a way to have my cake and eat it too.
I agree that wealth may have influenced Marc significantly, but as someone who is MUCH less rich, and who has been right about most major trends over the past 20 years, I think he is generally correct here.

The good news is that our predictions are pretty short term, we'll know who was right in 5 years.
You can always call blocking await on an async function. It's just usually a bad idea.
I thought they were already working with a very slim headcount? How the heck did they get to 2,000 employees?
I think the best evidence against Aliens is if the government had any, they would have been trotted out for a rally by now by the last guy.
I believe this will be widely adopted and quickly too! Fantastic work!
I'm willing to put aside literally every mechanical interpretation of probability here, ignoring really poignant questions, in favor of one overarching question:

Do you really, really think a species capable of interstellar travel would have vehicles or crafts that we could recognize as such? That feels more like a technology 100-200 years ahead of us, akin to science fiction, than the reality of a species hundreds of thousands or MILLIONS of years ahead of us technologically, whose existences would simply be fucking incomprehensible to the human eye or mind.

The conception that such entities are travelling the galaxy in dinky little craft is completely absurd.

They could probably scan our fucking souls and create replicas of our qualia with technology from the interstellar equivalent of a Walgreens.

Or, more likely, they simply have technologies that we can in no capacity conceive of or understand at all.
N+1. They're 25 and they've just popped some amphetamine (now modafinil) to get them through the hangover from getting shit faced on shipboard moonshine last night.
I am. I recently built a crm / crm builder called IceburgCRM, check it out.

https://github.com/iceburgcrm/iceburgcrm

The combination of Laravel / vue / tailwinds is so powerful. In some ways I hope others don't catch on or I'll lose my advantage but I feel guilty when I watch others struggle in other ecosystems with problems that have been solved.
It doesn't sound like you understood what I wrote. Try to go deeper than the propaganda and hype level of analysis.
Subtle. I like that man.
I would have agreed in the past, but try it again now
Gold is not a currency, it is a commodity that is similar enough to a currency (meaning it can substitute as a currency). ISO 4217 includes precious metals that it explicitly states are not currencies.

Currencies do not exist outside a monetary system. If I sell you something, and accept skittles as payment, that does not make skittles a currency.
It looks like the gap between the two is very little (< 100ms) and the Apple linker performs slightly better than mold on large applications: https://twitter.com/SmileyKeith/status/1666168273199845377
Its going to be interesting to see how intellectual property rights influence this. Like I can generate saxophone that sounds real with google's ai mp3 generator but then when there are only so many keys and scales in jazz how original could it be, but then how original can anyone be, when you look at sound alike lawsuits against human songwriters.
“AI will replace X” - i am surprised this is still a thing. Does it still drive clicks as of June? What will the next click driver be? A new arc in the war in ukraine? US elections? A sudden realisation that ai is not there yet? A crypto currency comeback (we are seeing an uptick in crypto related news, albeit anaemic, perhaps a/b testing traffic). I am very excited about the upcoming media season and the kind of “engaging” developments it will bring.
Thanks for your reply, I would love to hear more about which one you prefer in general REST or GraphQL, or if you have different situations where you choose one or the other and why.

Here were some of the things I noticed when comparing to REST:

- Caching can become a nightmare and requires a lot of effort to get working correctly for non trivial use
cases / you cannot really use the already "built in" cache control headers in the browser with GraphQL

- Another caching one, but you almost are required to have some kind of server side cache in addition to
the client side cache, it can quickly become disorienting trying to figure out exactly where something
is cached and why, or why you are getting stale data, etc...

- Some abstractions in GraphQL can make the code hard to follow / read in my opinion (data loaders for
example) and also make it hard to follow where the data is actually coming from especially in federated
subgraphs

- Error handling in GraphQL can be really unintuitive and more work is needed to not have the error
response come back as a 200 status code (or handle it correctly if it is an error inside of a 200)
Even suggesting that it was America wasn't that nutty. To be a nut, you had to go in for Sy Hersh's "reporting", which wasn't even internally consistent, and had a much larger scope than just a single covert operation.
> I wanted to avoid saying it, but there are obvious SD usecases which the typical commercial interests would rather avoid.

There are also many more use cases that don't fall into these categories.

My point still stands: SD is a prime example for what happens when a desirable OSS technology becomes competitive in quality and is then tinkered with by a near limitless amount of creative and talented developers.

> to keep a stranglehold given the way it's going currently.

> Which shows moats have more reason than technical comparisons.

This isn't office software, there is no "we always used X" factor since the technology is still in its early phase, and my thoughts about interactions with "user data" in the LLM space, have been outlined above.

Again: Strangleholds, moats, whatever we want to call it, only work if there is a competitive advantage that the competition cannot reach itself. So far, that's better model performance and ease of use. The former gap is shrinking with every week, the latter will resolve itself the same way it did for SD once the performance is good enough.

When that happens, OSS solutions are the ones with advantages that cannot be easily imitated: They run on premises, only cost utilities, can work offline, and can be endlessly tinkered with and improved upon by a near limitless talent pool.

But, as has been said before, much remains to be seen, and there are many unknown factors that will influence the outcome.

Therefore I thank you for the discussion. I look forward to seeing the next developments in this tech, and I'm confident that we're going to see OSS being as successful in the LLM space as it is in most areas of computing.
I'm so glad Senator Fetterman is breaking the suit and tie status quo.
You just reinvented lemmy
Given the enormity of the universe and the seeming[0] impossibility of FTL travel, plus the complete absence of astronomical observation of extraterrestrial civilization, and the incredibly tiny (on astronomical scales) window of time in which we have data, any other explanation for pretty much any phenomena we care to observe will be more likely than "aliens did it".

[0] extremely well supported
Absolutely patronizing writing style. Total contempt for his audience. Good stuff. Anyway, the answer is obviously “no”.
I am now going to use goldfish for all of my booleans.
A lot of speculation here. Here’s a link to the actual study: https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/109/Suppl_3/A78.full....

They don’t break it down by age which might help show if it’s work related.

Heart attacks are also clearly elevated on Sundays, and not depressed on Saturdays, which might suggest this is related to alcohol.
Look at Gold and Mold

Gold blog posts:

https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)

Design and implementation of Mold:

https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md
I would also reject personal experiences with an "alien" as manufactured.
Pay attention next time you see these videos show up in your feeds - they'll probably change your mind once you realize what the game is.

These people glue things onto animals then rip them off, mutilate appendages, etc. Those videos of people "freeing" animals stuck in bear traps... how do you think they got into the trap?

So while lab testing on animals can be inhumane, it's not being done just for funsies like these videos are. The people making these videos are on an entirely different level of cruel.
That quote is juicy. It's amusing to me that he's so naive he thinks that an AI won't make forced or unforced errors given the imperfect information it inevitably has. And if you can get access to the training set or the corpus of variables the AI is configured with then you can easily predict what it's going to do next, which is far worse. Nobody can look into the mind of a mediocre general, but anyone can look into the mind of any AI general given sufficient access.

People who call themselves technologists always overestimate how beneficial a new technology is and underestimate how inhumane its application becomes when venture capitalists demand 10x or 100x their initial investment. When people like him come in and extol the virtues of some new thing as fixing everything and making everything better, I'm really wary of what they do next. Inevitably they're trying to sell me a bill of goods.
Does anybody ever go to jail for lying to congress?
I guess anyone that develops in C is happy living in the 80s amongst the footguns. Anyone who isn't has moved on to other languages where it has been improved.
I'm out of the loop on this entire thing so call me an idiot if I get it wrong. Isn't this whole movement based on a model leak from Meta? Aren't licenses involved that prevent it from going commercial?
Notes on Vision Pro
I keep wondering how the demo units at Apple Stores are going to be kept non-vile.
Same here

I got three images, two of pretty college women, and a third one that I can’t tell exactly what it is, but it’s skin color and my first impression was very NSFW
I have showdead on and I'm not seeing any comments from this account. Normally if you were "shadow banned" the comments are still visible with show-dead.

Are you sure a technical issue didn't prevent your comments from submission?
Wouldn't NVDA just focus more on high margin datacenter products in order to grow into those higher earnings but with the the wafer limitation? Datacenter focused products are already starting to surpass gaming which is their second largest revenue source: http://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/nvidi...

It seems to me that yes while a 200 P/E may be high, they certainly could keep increasing the prices on the already high margin datacenter products, of which get quickly gobbled up by companies no matter what price they are because of the immense demand.
Registering a security means basically an IPO. The burden is very high and is out of reach for crypto startups that have little revenue and under $1 million in funding.
I often like to try my queries on Bard and ChatGPT.

I'm consistently surprised at how much better ChatGPT's answers are. While both are prone to making up nonsense, Bard seems much more likely to do so.