skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. America is far from exonerated. It’s just wild how we follow up strings of failures with presumed clairvoyance and capability, both in intelligence and operations.

American signals and geospatial intelligence are excellent. Our human and technical intelligence is garbage.
Now, imagine their dinky little arts and crafts UFOs are "crashing" due to something trivial like gravity.
well, gibbs free energy is real
I'm probably more positive alien intelligence exists than I am that humanity will last long enough to discover such a mechanism. To be clear, I'd say both are quite likely - I just very much doubt the mechanism actually exists.
If you look at all the crazy coincidences that were required for life to develop on Earth, it starts to make sense that we're alone. Single star in the system, need a big Jupiter to block space rocks, our target is a rocky planet close to star, but needs to be hit by an abnormally large moon right as the lithosphere is cooling, ripping out 1/3rd of it so that the planet can have giant continents barely covered with water part of the time, then submerged the rest of the time to the cadence of this moon, oh and has to be the right star type, and etc etc etc.

If it takes something like all that for life to spontaneously erupt, we're likely alone.
You are missing the point. This article isn't talking about a real physical system, we are talking about abstract mathematical objects. The study of type system is to formalize the type system so they can be studied using logic alone. That's why there is the matter with soundness, the topic of this thread. Soundness is abstract, not physical.

(The endless appeal to practicality and physicality is both tiring and irrelevant. Circles as a shape don't exist in the real world because you can't use physical objects to create a circle; at some point, perhaps at the level of atoms, the perfect smoothness of the ideal circle breaks down into discrete atoms. So circles don't exist. Does it bother me? No. Does it bother you? Evidently it does.)
that’s an interesting use of strawman to invalidate the observation

The howey test doesn’t need all prongs satisfied and avoidance is based on probability only

The SEC and securities industry has enjoyed a symbiosis for 70 years, where things that blurred the lines didnt exist, were never imagined, or were never challenged. Challenging one challenges them all.
> 5 years could certainly be improved upon.

Every flagship iPhone since 2011 has received at least five years of OS updates. Some models have received more.

For instance, the 2016 OG $399 iPhone SE got six years of OS updates and just got another security update last month.

In comparison, the original Pixel phone also came out in 2016 and got it's last update at the end of 2019.

There does need to be improvement, but it's not the iPhone side that is badly lagging.
Hate to point it out, but java booleans can only be true or false. Booleans (capital B) can be true, false or null.
Belgium Stops Unlawful Sharing of Accidental Americans' Data to Comply with GDPR
That is a good point. The plan right now is to re-use the mailing list to send out submission information for each contest, so subscribing to that mailing list should give you some of the functionality. I will have to investigate setting up a real RSS feed.
Beautiful work!

From the title I was expecting the QR codes to move, but they're actually "anime drawing style", not "anime"
You're right, that was my confusion. Thanks!
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102

> “We allege that Coinbase, despite being subject to the securities laws, commingled and unlawfully offered exchange, broker-dealer, and clearinghouse functions,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. “In other parts of our securities markets, these functions are separate. Coinbase’s alleged failures deprive investors of critical protections, including rulebooks that prevent fraud and manipulation, proper disclosure, safeguards against conflicts of interest, and routine inspection by the SEC. Further, as we allege, Coinbase never registered its staking-as-a-service program as required by the securities laws, again depriving investors of critical disclosure and other protections.”

Seems rather straightforward to me given this press release.

Quit comingling functions. Bring your exchange to proper legal structure in the USA. Split the broker-dealer and clearinghouse functions off.

And quit operating Coinbase Earn, which is an obvious security by any other name. Either that, or properly register Coinbase Earn as a security before offering it as a product to the public. If you are to keep operating Coinbase Earn, then bring it under security regulations, which means reporting upon your assets and such under whatever filing system you want (probably bonds?)

Its... not even that hard to read the SEC complaint. Just read it, the complaint is right there for all of us to see.
Assuming they don't check Florida first.
I prefer when authors lead with the conclusion and then spend the rest of the essay supporting it.

I hate long essays that bury the lede, and force you to read through paragraphs of bloviating and pontificating until they finally get to the point. Save that for the fiction novels.

Whenever I come across an essay like that, I either skip reading it, or read it backwards starting at the end conclusion and then working backwards to see how it was justified. Marc is just saving me some work here.
The most advanced tech and research, as an overall, would be trivial for an advanced alien to decide. And the US has been leading in those categories for 80 years at least.

The notion that it's impossible to figure out whether an advanced alien would think Afghanistan or the US have more advanced tech/research/science, is absurd. And if you can make that distinction, you can keep going.
ah, I meant use cases that were enabled by/tied to the bloat

I guess you could say that streaming content is a core part of the horrible software bloat we've been suffering under. Instead of being allowed to just download a good quality copy of anything, we have to 'stream' low quality DRM-laden copies again and again

Google Maps would work a lot better as a standalone app than embedded in a web browser, but I guess that and a lot of other apps are delivered via browser nowadays
Sounds like someone ought to step up and pitch themselves as the new domain registrar for Tonga.
Excise taxes are a product-specific sales tax.

For example, on gasoline. The tax occurs at the pump, not at the refinery.
> Not really. It means functioning courts that are fair. It means you don't pay people off to get your way.

Ok, well then we definitely don't have rule of law in the US.
Hopefully this will support more architectures in the future, that's pretty impressive
You don't troll someone to the point of letting them go testify under oath to the IG.
Tangential, but there's some great analysis and debunks of the video the headline photo is taken from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Simulation: https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/
I initially read the comment you are responding to differently, in that I saw the ‘observer’ in the statement as not the state but the community, on re-reading I’m not sure that makes sense.
All the same, reading HN politics, it often seems that a spectrum is presented that spans from freedom to state oppression.
There are democracies where the public will not accept the state using power for its own benefit, but is comfortable with the state enforcing the social contract, because there is a stronger sense that this is defined democratically. This may be simply a matter of population size, the state in a nation of 20 million is a different beast to a state of 350m
I think a modern jet is similar enough to a bird that animals created millions of years ago (prehistoric birds) can have some basic understanding on how it behaves.

What makes you think just because it’s millions of years more evolved we wouldn’t be able to get the general gist of what it does ? (not how it does it, of course)
Swift 5.9 dropped at WWDC, and with it came with noncopyable value types:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

as well as a way to explicitly move types:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

I haven’t read either in-depth, though!
It’s unlikely the SEC wants to totally nuke Coinbase, given they allowed them to list on the stock exchange. Or else Investors would sue the SEC for securities fraud… probably have to put in some strong disclaimers about some of these shitcoins and pay a small fine.
Except the USA is a democracy. If a Orange reality tv star can be elected president, a crypto person could be as well. But most people don't want "code is law".
My thinkpad does all those things... I expected really something crazier as a rebuttal. It sounds like you may have bought bad products and then bought a Mac when they had those specs and were happy then...
Stylistic QR Code Generator
I post on LinkedIn and Twitter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It likely would be the biggest threat given the weapons tech though. You generally want to study the things that pose the biggest threat for self preservation.
Yeah. For example, in the Loch Ness example, they're at least claiming to have seen it.
Ask HN: What good 3D cameras and postprocessing workflows are you using?
is there anything phone sized with good quality 12MP+ cameras that will not look lo-fi with tech that will come e.g. with the Apple headset? Would be cool to have already some videos and pics from the time now by the time these VR headsets are ubiquitous.
Thanks for the write-up
i enjoyed this unapologetic retort to the prevailing media doomerism

I guess the title "AI will eat the world" was rejected as it conflicts with the message

this whole thing is entertaining but doesn't matter. it's just an extension of the culture wars to a new domain. Whatever regulation people come up with will be useless as AI has not really got its final shape. and it s not like regulation stopped most of the tech of the past 3 decades from forming
Apologies: This comment is a terrible analogy.

Try explaining quantum physics to Aristotle.

That's a mere 2-3000 years of technology with large periods of stagnation.

Give Churhill/Stalin/Hitler an iPhone.

They now have access to a device of unparalleled ability compared to anything they could have conceived of, and they will simply be completely incapable of understanding or utilizing it outside of performing basic tasks.

That's 60 years of the accelerated age of technology we live in.
> There's literally no level of evidence I would accept because the premise is contrary to numerous, basic logical inferences

Sounds like you'd accept something that breaks the basic known science then. If they could demonstrate any tech which does not exist, or is wildly outside of the current limits, would that convince you? For example energy use allowing interplanetary travel in a vehicle of unreasonably small size.
Ever watch Independence Day?

"Plausible deniability"
> Quest Go came out in 2018 (first "real" VR headset for this kind of thing)

It’s lower quality than an iPad and looks dorky.
Subjectively, as a human, it seems like the pain of being burned is qualitatively a different type of sensation from e.g. being warmed by sunlight.

So the lobster feeling that they should ideally move to cooler water makes sense. Evolutionarily it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t feel like they are in an emergency situation in the same way that a human would if they are standing in a fire.
FTA:

> “Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.”
> Just as there is naive art, there is naive economics

Not so. Naive art is merely a subset of all art.
Beefman, could you tell us more about how you know this?
I didn't even know there were german twitch streamers, I thought they required a broadcasting license to stream
The proposed idea here is different.

You can train several smaller models with different hyperparameters with dynamic budgets, i.e. bad configurations are trained for only few epochs, and good ones for more epochs. Once you find a good hyperparameter configuration for the small-scale model, then you train the large model with that configuration.

What is being shown is that the overhead of doing hyperparameter optimization at a small scale, is comparable to a single optimization at the largest scale.

Overall, the idea looks very cool.
The only way to sort this out is for the aggressor to stop invading the other country - to actually restore peace. Seems pretty simple, no?
I'm certainly disagreeing with the part that claims there is an explicit list of correct uses. English isn't that simple. They were cited as a big list of examples, not as having all the rules.
I've been fascinated by NeRFs for a few years.

But, there are really no viable models that run on consumer hardware like llama or stable diffusion.

Or, am I wrong? NeRF Studio seems promising but never works on my 6GB nvidia.

I would really like to find a way to interpolate between two images using a NeRF (get the hallucination of the "image in between").

Is there such a thing out there?
>> Why is this? Why Rust is not loved there?

History and demand.

CUDA is about 15 years old. MPI and similar parallel computing APIs are even older.

C, C++, and Fortran have been the "goto" programming languages for parallel and scientific computing for decades.

Rust is a relative newcomer that does not have enough demand yet to mandate CUDA APIs. It probably will some day.

Another concern is the number of decades-mature libraries that are used in parallel computing domains. It seems much more likely that any Rust support will initially be Rust wrappers around C or C++ APIs rather than native Rust implementations.

Some projects for Rust on CUDA are in progress:

https://github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA

https://github.com/bheisler/RustaCUDA
You seem unfamiliar with the Alder Lake compromise.
The excitement of those old days is still very much alive in the Raspberry Pi community. I just configured a new PiBox server to do some fairly serious work, including serving as the archive NAS for two ne startups. (It's more than capable of doing that work - it has more CPU power, more RAM, and more storage than Chevron's Crays had when I worked there in the '90s!)
My friend got a satellite dish put in years ago. The installer could only get a clear view in the corner of his yard, and had to ground-mount the antenna on a pole.

He dug a hole, put the pole into it and emptied a bag of concrete in with it.

He explained to my friend that it would suck the moisture out of the ground and become a solid plug. And it did.
I agree that it would be different, but I don't agree that it would be sad to get used to. In the long run, head mounted recording means the person doing the recording can be much more involved in the goings on. With both hands free, they can be an active participant instead of off to the side holding a camera and trying to stay out of the way. I don't know if the tech is built in yet, but since it already does eye tracking, an external camera that's recording what the user is looking at, instead of what the camera is pointed at means that the user can be more engaged because they're focused on what's in front of them rather than making sure the camera is in position. The view finder goes away and literally becomes your view period.
Brett Kavanaugh when he said "boofing" meant farting.
Any sensible schools should have plagiarism allegations reviewed by a committee where due process is followed. The professor should not allowed to just give a failing grade on personal belief.
It's so much better going to sleep and waking up the same time every day.

The only problem is it's often incompatible with a social life when you're in your 20s, but thankfully I'm not in my 20s anymore.
I thought alien is looking for resources. They don’t care with the technology because they know they are more advanced.
Culturally, Godzilla in Japan very much came out of the fear of nuclear weapons and radiation post-Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- a monster awakened and empowered by nuclear weapons [1].

I've never been super clear on what the cultural reason for aliens <-> USA is though. Although I suppose it's different in that Godzilla was an intentional fictional creation, while the fascination with aliens hopes they're actually real.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla
I am interested in your use case where you have a situation with multiple databases, possible with different schemas, where you want to run the same sql on all of them. Maybe some kind of data lake? I have not come across this. But admittedly I have not worked in enterprise (I take to mean thousands of employees)
I'n on a Ryzen 4900HS laptop with a RTX 2060.

Like I said, very modest
Which is more likely?

a) An alien civilization has overcome the massive problems of interstellar travel and is visiting us right now.

or

b) The people making these claims are wrong.

While a) isn't impossible, b) seems so much more likely.

Also if they have the technology to cross interstellar space, surely they have the technology not to be detected by us?
> I've been unable to use it up in under 2 days.

Take up playing a resource intensive game like Genshin Impact and you can very easily drain the battery in a day.

> 60fps highest settings 100% brightness Low sound Home WiFi 3:20 total

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia/comments/onb3dw/genshin_...
This is an interesting use case, I could see why GraphQL would be useful here where the contract between frontend and backend modules is not known in full and can change often.

Out of curiosity, is the reason for the contract between these modules not being fully known / being able to change often because of how your company wants to use them or is there another reason? I'm just wondering if the reason for this is wanting to be able to reuse modules across different projects for multiple clients or writing integrations for other tools or something totally different.
Replit AI Manifesto
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213763
India’s Byju’s skipped an interest payment
Mods quitting might be the best possible outcome for Reddit, as then they'd have to solve their moderation problem a way that doesn't just create virtual HOAs...
why on earth would the right ban Thomas Sowell he his one of them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_P._Brooks

He is apparently BAM CEO (B) of the SEC’s Binance lawsuit [0], and also worked at Coinbase (to setup compliance) [1]. I was reading up on his activities on his wiki page and rather impressed. Was a comptroller of the Currency for a while in 2020, too. He’s still sitting on the board of another company that’s in block chains (BitFury [2] does infrastructure) and apparently a lot of “vision” related stuff [3]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202663

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_P._Brooks#Coinbase

“”” After working at Fannie Mae, Brooks was Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase from 2018 to 2020. Coinbase is an $8 billion Silicon Valley startup that is one of the largest digital currency platforms in the world. At Coinbase, he was responsible for the company's legal, compliance, internal audit, government relations, and global intelligence groups. “””

[2]: https://bitfury.com/

[3[]: https://www.axelera.ai/

I got a chuckle from the “democratizing edge AI” since they are selling surveillance AI for the edge. Reminded me of Washington Post’s masthead. Are they being ironic? /g
SEC requests temporary asset freeze on Binance-linked entities
The Colony source code on GitHub
"The Colony" on Github!

I finally did it. The Colony was the first realtime 3D adventure/shooter - 1987. I posted the entire source code for Mac, PC and Amiga on Github.
I saw an interview with this guy just yesterday. He didn't see anything himself. His claim is that some people, and he believes them to be trustworthy, confided in him and showed him some documents. So, at best his testimony is hearsay.

All of this stuff reeks of some kind of psyop. My belief is that for some reason, the US government used psychology tests to identify a select few people who naturally "want to believe". These individuals would take vague evidence and through their own nature would exaggerate and fill in the blanks. They then nudged those individuals with carefully curated credible fake evidence. Then they just sat back and waited for a few of those guys to "leak" the information.
I’m not sure I understand what this does —- what are the inputs and outputs?
That has less points than this, is newer, is at an inferior URL, and has an editorialized title!
Just playing devils advocate though: okay, but couldn't they also just have really high-tech ships in a primitive shape (like a sphere, for aesthetic reasons) with really fast engines and really strong hulls, too? Maybe we're simply too limited in our naive essence to understand the technology behind such a simple premise.
> but as I attempt to learn more and more about physics, travel approaching the speed of light, the mechanics that transformed us from a basic life form to a life form with a consciousness, it just seem incredibly unlikely sadly

As if humanity's knowledge circa 2023 is the end-all of things!
For running x86-64 on arm you have FEX. You can combine FEX with wine to run standard steam games on Asahi linux.
> If I came across a planet of smart monkeys and one monkey state had the most baddest mfers with the most insane tech and research, I’d want to learn about them.

Sounds like they'd care more about China/South Korea/Japan/Taiwan/etc then.
It's exceptionally likely Trump was kept away from as much intel as they could reasonably keep him from. We know that from things that leaked out after the fact, eg by how General Milley behaved (gave orders to disobey nuclear launch commands coming from Trump).
> What do you get when you have a multi-billion dollar defense budget and some of the best engineers on the planet?

A huge waste.
This is highly speculative on both of our parts. I do think it's presumptuous to assume we'd be a threat to an entity that traveled >4ly. It sounds a lot like picking which classical civilization to study based on how strong their bows are when you are traveling in a stealth bomber.