skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm beyond skeptical of the 'alien' videos, but Mick West is no better. He comes up with some pet theory that can create a similar visual phenomena, completely ignores any and all other factors, and then declares his pet theory the 'truth.' It's literally the exact same sort of conspiracy theory style behavior he claims to be fighting against, but he feels his theories are special because they're mundane, so they must be true - even if they're also about as sound as a house of cards.

So for instance at 2:00 in the video you linked, he at least acknowledges that he's "not going to address" among other things that there were reported to be a fleet of the observed objects. He fails to acknowledge that he's also not addressing that the object was also observed from multiple sources. And the "SA" was also picking them up, which I can only assume is a sort of scanned array radar type system. In which case you have multiple forms of instrumentation picking the signals up, multiple trained pilots interpreting them as meaningful and distinct, and more. So in other words he's not going to address the countless things that effectively falsify everything else he's about to say.

Finally, this seems to be a newer video. In his past videos he went so far as to suggest that the glare caused by the exhaust of a jet, when one fighter jet was (apparently?) locking onto another jet, all without realizing it. I fully agree with the implied idea there of tossing appeals to authority in the trash, but.... like with all things, sometimes this can be overdone. It seems that part of his theory was removed, and now it seems he's just leaving it as glare from nowhere? Ah yes, that's also one of those things he's "not going to address" now.
Don't worry. If Earth becomes inhospitable we'll simply go to Mars, which is much more hostile to any form of life than the Earth is even under the most pessimistic scenarios of global warming. Wait a minute.
> If banning things russians might use is not the redistribution of consequences

For the third time, it isn't. Whose consequences are being redistributed?

> you should have no problem banning encryption

Why should I support ineffective policy?

> Without double standards you would have no standards at all.

My standard is effective policy. Nothing of value is lost by regulating cryptocurrencies, and starving DPRK and Russia of one source of ill-gotten gains is gained.

> Nearly all services the government currently provides apart from courts, military and police could be paid for by its consumers proportional to their consumption.

Let's leave almost everyone be completely uneducated then. That's the way to run a successful democracy. /s

Are you going to continue to steal to fund the courts and military?

> You are the only one moving goalposts here.

Nobody is moving goalposts here. You simply don't understand what moving goalposts means.
I was reading through this and thinking "oh this sounds interesting and useful for my work", then I got to Figure 1 and though, hmm these diagrams look very familiar. When I saw "Pixel 6" in Figure 2 I realized oh, this is the allocator in the compiler I use to run models on Pixel!
I think that’s true today but it could change. I imagine Apple wants to encourage developers to build native games but I could see them loosening restrictions down the road. Maybe they eventually position this tech as the Bootcamp alternative for Apple Silicon. Time will tell.
Wouldn't you expect their testimony to pop up after the incentive program independently of it's accuracy or truthfulness?
Enders game.
we have Photoshop for long time already, and celebrities that didn't pose nude are photoshopped constantly

most of the time all you need is replacement model with similar enough body and all you have to do is face swap.

I think that all we need now is something in reverse, generating clothed photos from nude, so in case someone really leaked your nudes you could show them that this is fake from other clothed photo.
> There is a very very simple explanation

I’m not sure an explanation that presupposes FTL travel is very very simple
There's so much potential for this as a tech powering all sorts of products, I hope it doesn't just become some Tarsnap type thing. (judging from initial site)
It was a key element of Watchmen. The movie changed the common enemy from aliens, but kept the general concept. It wasn't the governments that created it, but rather the governments were duped into believing it.
That sounds absurd, but the $5 pressure sensor on my weather station could detect a volcanic explosion 5,000 miles away.

Is there even a difference between a submarine and the surrounding water's gravitational fields when the sub has neutral buoyancy?
If you have 20 million years and don't mind waiting, you can send probes to every system in the galaxy at sub-light speeds.
Sure, that works for certain contexts. But what about a game, where your vision is used to aim a weapon? The app has to know where you are looking in order to know where to shoot. If it's an online game, then the information cannot be isolated on the device since you're shooting at other players.

Now imagine the game has advertisements, or loot boxes, or something else that the game company wants to know if you've looked at. How does Apple prevent them from learning that, if they're able to know what they need to know for the game to function as a regular FPS?
Ha ha ha! :) No, I replied the right one, you need to own your own opinion, but just go to your own limit, and remember you don't know me, so don't pretend you do, okay? Ha ha ha! Good! :)
This cannot be true, considering the superplumes of the cretaceous.
Sorry to say this, but that's a pretty shallow view of Germany - "Beer, Bakeries, and Gardens", as the article tells us. The author walked the Ruhr valley (e.g. Dortmund, Duisburg) so they had a chance to see areas rife with social problems, Nazis, and non-functioning German infrastructure... it's definitely not as rosy here as the author describes it.
Thanks for the report! It's intentional that if you're logged in that you get to the plans page showing the current plan for your organization, but the redirect for the case where you're not logged should go to the root domain.
Submarines have had good inertial navigation systems since the 1960s. Early gyros occupied about a cubic meter.[1] With a really big, heavy flywheel, it's easier to keep drift down. Nuclear submarines usually had three installed, for redundancy.

[1] https://www.ion.org/museum/item_view.cfm?cid=2&scid=4&iid=4
I hear that now and then, but looking at the wiki on it, the “criticism” paragraph is only like 3 lines with no real refutation, out of a hefty lengthy article.

What’s your motivation for saying that? Personally I am suspect of people say there isn’t common sense.

Here is the definition at the top: Common sense (or simply sense) is sound, practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by (i.e., "common to") nearly all people.

One can certainly say there is common sense. For instance no one likes pain, people like pleasure. People care about entertainment, not boredom. People tend to learn on the whole as they grow up. I also think on the whole have a perception of what is wrong and right, even if there is variance between cultures. The golden rule of reciprocity seems to be near universal (like: don’t kill, don’t steal and so on)

Lots of things we share as a species.
"Relatively minuscule quantities of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the stratosphere are extremely reflective, scattering some of the sun’s light before it hits the Earth, and in the process contributing to the atmospheric haze that gives sunsets their characteristic red color. "

Sounds idyllic of course, but we really don't fully understand what effects such an intervention would have, and unlike what is claimed, we can't turn it off if it goes wrong.

A much safer alternative IMHO is to spray seawater to enhance marine cloud formation.

Also a possible alternative to grinding up mountains is marine iron fertilization, but again, we don't fully understand the effects.
I mean it's not exactly in the moneyed's interest if crops start failing and their valuable real estate is permanently underwater.
How difficult are these drugs to make? There is so much talk about the high retail costs, but I’m not seeing talks about the manufacturing costs, which should give some idea about how much they will cost to buy a few years from now.
It would be absurd to think that some organization _doesn't_ have a _plan_, or perhaps even an entire team prepared, for handling retrieval of an unidentified craft, right? Even if it's never happened, surely there's a plan for handling something weird falling from the sky. That's definitely someone's job...

Now, if that playbook is seen by someone and then goes through several games of telephone I wouldn't be shocked if it turned into "we have retrieved vehicles of non-human origin."
I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying the tech is bad in principle. I'm saying that these people are out to scam you. They're trying to sell you vision that they fully know will not materialize - because while possible on paper, it's not possible in our current economy, not right now, not at the current stage of technology, and most importantly, it's not why they actually want it to happen.

As for

> If one were to somehow prove that "facebook is net bad for young children", it still doesn't mean the web, advertising, and everything that makes up that product should be destroyed

you're right that this does not follow - however, advertising absolutely should be destroyed, because it's a cancer on modern society, and it's not caused by bad tech companies - it's what causes tech companies to go bad (as well as many other nasty things, see http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html).
Containers have always come in different flavors that represent their sizes and capabilities. For example, runtime containers have the bare minimum to get the application running but none of the debug tools.
It comes close to IRC https://docs.vircadia.com/explore/get-started/architecture.h... but Vircadia Global Services is a middleman. Looking forward to see extensions to IRC for VR content.
I dislike REST more than I dislike GraphQL. I sometimes use REST for tiny simple APIs but I rather use GraphQL than thinking about the best RESTFul API design to do something.
Previously the Earth was struck by a giant asteroid, causing a mass extinction event that more or less leads directly to the rise of mammals. Therefore, it's no big deal for us if that happens again.
The idea is that educated people would not be as likely to support authoritarian regimes. If you take authoritarian power as a given… idk what’s the point of anything?

I do agree that increased surveillance is very scary. But we have to maintain hope that the future holds promise for the less powerful to influence their government - in the 1770s it was via muskets, and in the 2070s who knows what it will be. (As an aside, I personally doubt it’s going to be guns…)
Yeah, and that shows why this exhaustive list of assumptions is rarely made. It is useful after you realized the argument was wrong, but that isn't the critical point in time. The critical point is when evaluating the argument before you act on it. Listing 1000 assumptions that are 99% confident doesn't help evaluate whether the argument is true. Focusing on the uncertain assumptions is much more valuable.
Submarines generally have neutral bouyancy while underway so there's not much density difference to discern.
the back half of the sub missing wasn’t what tipped you off that it wasn’t real?
Exposing Svelte: Between Two Nerds – Chat between Rich Harris and Dax [video]
It can be also crowd funded!

(Not that I think terraforming earth is a good idea at this stage, though)
This isn’t quite true or at least doesn’t tell the whole story. This tool can do things that Wine can’t today. Namely supporting DX12 games. That support was added by Apple.
Why is it so hard to change OS? Which application is holding you back? (Sure there are some critical applications that only work in Windows and that’s fair, just curious to know).

As for the browser - use a different browser, Chrome has the majority of the market but there is choice. There was choice even in the dark days of the First Browser Wars.
Yeah definitely this would be the most tricky part, but someone mentioned here those screen are the size of post stamp - so if that's true they probsbly closer than lenses in standard correction glasses and the shift wouldn't have to be that big
You've told me about something totally new. I want to get involved with sandstorm. Exciting.
GraphQL doesn't allow for recursive types.

This limitation cropped up in a project and was a frustrating (re)discovery. You have to pick a maximum depth and explicitly define that depth.

It abuses POST. No way to tell by a quick glance at the network tab the purpose of a request.

Whichever team controls the implementation of the resolvers decides the return structure which may be less than ideal for the front end team consuming the gql response so a good bit of additional mapping over the response is often necessary.

GQL types are yet another type system I have to learn. I'm happy to, but compared to TypeScript, the GQL type system feels very lacking. To be fair, most type systems feel lacking compared to the TypeScript type system (its so insanely flexible and expressive).

It's very easy to get to a point of a GQL query that makes so many sub queries that the single request takes a long time.

Overall lots of foot guns. I much prefer a REST api and best yet an SDK.

Others have also pointed out GQL can't take advantage of browser caches which is a big UX loss.

I never got the hype around it but others like it so I'm glad it exists for them.
I’ve been building a kinopio.club clone in Phoenix LiveView and the problems the author faces align with my experience from working with uis that require explicitly setting element position for the document. Having to manage all of the imperative handler logic was a huge pain on the JS side.
I had also given myself the limitation to not use React for more complex Phoenix Hooks. It’s all native document rendering with the only dependency being x-state.

Moving the mouse event handler logic out into a state machine was where I found myself going in comparison to this author’s approach. I was pretty tickled by how much more maintainable it had been than the first time I had implemented it. x-state was by no means a requirement but it had a handful of features I didn’t feel like building for the current project.

I can absolutely believe that this is worth the effort, especially considering the fact that the team works with maps so much. The mental model presented in the article would be far easier to grok when working in the codebase than having to deal with the somewhat tricky to remember Event api provided by browsers for these types of use cases.

Others are mentioning fighting the framework but this is still a pain without React. But of course adding in React on top of all of this would make it harder.
Two thoughts here. The first is that this comments is totally valid and mostly the inverse of everything I think, really shows that we all value different things so thank god for a free market.

The two things I agree on for the 2016-2022 laptops are the sharp edges and terrible keyboards. Maybe take a look at the new laptops next time you get a chance, the edges on my MBAir and 16MBPro from 2022 are waaaay more comfortable than my previous two MacBooks and the keyboard feels much nicer too.

Back to point one though, to me the trackpads are well sized, the hinges are smooth and just right and the power button being where it is is a none issue, I even quite liked the touchbar.
Can you tell me how I can get involved with sandstorm
Tel Aviv university – Chat with Sam Altman, and Ilya Sutskever
I have a small raised bed dedicated to my first Three Sisters growing right now. Just planted beans a few days ago now that corn has had a head start. Rookie gardener, but hoping for at least some visual interest if not production. The beans are supposed to fix nitrogen which helps the other plants, but does anyone know if this requires a year to pass where the old bean plant decomposes into the soil? Or is merely bean plant presence enough to share nitrogen?
Proper disclosure: I had been formerly involved with them.

Try Kemtai.com.

There's a demo section at
https://app.kemtai.com/sample-workouts

We took workout experience super seriously, and in my biased view, got it to be a usability joy.
It's interesting to watch attitudes towards standardized education changing in real time. There's a growing realization that, outside a few specialties like medicine, when everyone has a university degree, then noone has a university degree. It's a meaningless (and increasingly expensive) differentiator that does less and less to make you stand out from the next CV in the pile.

For many kids, university was pushed for decades as the only logical step after high school. If that's no longer the case, then shouldn't we start to reassess what we actually want kids to get out of high school? Standardized curricula/exams might be convenient for universities to filter applicants but that's not the same thing as a good education. If it's not also producing "useful" skills, then it really does start to seem like daycare for teenagers.

As an aside, this was a really well-written article.
This is on brand for meta. Look at fb. It didn't come with instructions, but that didn't stop Cambridge Analytica from happening. Look at React. It didn't have instructions and yet it blew up. I bet Meta expected people to pick up the slack, that the best of what was there while they killed time polishing it.

Zuck was probably part of the problem... a room full of POs pushing for stupid shit while building on a rocky foundation.
Fascinating. Q for you since you are so clued in.

I am a ham radio operator and was thinking about novel forms of signal propagation.

I landed on the idea of gravitons. Could gravitonic signal propagation be done somehow? While researching, I keep coming across familiar terms I know from radio land.

Just curious if the fields here could be harnessed for communication. Thanks.
These things are going to happen.

Perhaps, for a time, we can intervene. Perhaps not.
I remember the gorilla arm but I found out that occasionally raising a hand from the keyboard and tapping the screen is not a noticeable effort and it's faster than aiming at the touchpad or (of course) reaching for the mouse. I discovered it mostly by using a Samsung tablet with both a Dex interface over Android and with an Ubuntu Unity one (the defunct Dex for Linux.)

That's maybe because the screen is small and low. Raising an arm at or above the head is a different matter. If you're cycling with a heart rate monitor you discover that you add some beats when you raise your hands (say, go from 150 to 155) and gain some if you lower your chest close to the handlebar. This doesn't take into account increased or reduced drag because I measured it at home on trainers.
Yup and it's called is called Terrain Contour Matching!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Yes, how can we forget the countless lives that were saved during school shootings thanks to ready access to Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok?
Not all crypto is created equal. Monero is pretty much the state of the art for private electronic money.
> with the most insane tech and research

So... Switzerland, which has the Large Hadron Collider? That would probably be the most attractive thing to aliens. Maybe France, which is building ITER? Or the UK with a successful early nuclear fusion test?

I mean it's cool that the US has YouTube and big pieces of metal that shoot smaller pieces of metal and all. Also they launch rockets, but everybody launches rockets. I'm just not sure aliens would be that interested in that, more like "secrets of the universe" type stuff that we're getting closer to.
Yes. PHP is always the pre-processor of all my sites. It's powerful, straight forward, and extremely stable.
No, see I answered the actual question, which is oil. Which is mass limited. With how much energy would be available to do work at the destination.

You jumped to a ship two orders of magnitude larger and then insisted LNG carrying was mass limited, not volume limited.

I did not forget anything, merely pointed out the bizarre attempts to mislead.
It's an interesting question when there's a change in ownership. I certainly feel for the employees who uprooted themselves based on a promise. But if a new CEO comes in (or if the company is acquired and there's an entirely new board), are they bound by the promises of the previous executives? Surely the should not go against these promises lightly, but they may be faced with existential challenges that ultimately force them to. And of course some companies will just be jerks and pull the rug out based on non-existential challenges. Employees need to take this into account when they are made "promises" by their employer, and take them with a grain of salt.
Wonder what would happen in Rise of the Tomb Raider VR. With that insane amount of camera wobble, no double I will immediately vomit all over the places.
> 10,000 autonomous cars carrying passengers

I have seen too much software to ever trust software with an automobile.
99% sure this is for mapping the seafloor and preforming localization based on that like pre-gps cruise missles missles did with downward facing radar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Terraforming Mars.
Marsoforming Earth.
It's treated as a conspiracy theory by a large fraction of the voting public. Most of the rest will nod in agreement that there's a problem, but refuse to change their lifestyles one iota to do anything about it, while blaming that first group.
Honestly, I don't believe this. I know we all get a different search experience, so just because mine is different, doesn't mean author sees the same, but this is so far from what I am seeing and what seems reasonable by any stretch of the imagination.

For what it's worth, on Edge, I see a large banner ad for Edge (no need to change browser), top search result is "download google Chrome" and on the side bing chat explains what the chrome browser is and suggest I go explore on google.com

On Chrome, I see the same, only the add is "Try edge now".

I don't think this is worse than what Google used to do against Firefox (where they'd advertise Google Chrome in a spot not reserved for advertisement, if you where merely visiting from Firefox. Although in fairness, they once upon a time advertised Firefox to IE users in a similar fashion)
> The big lie is calling it waste; "partially spent fuel" is more accurate

Which you doubled down on twice, before backpedalling and claiming you never meant that the *other* 99% of the waste wasn't waste and "partially spent" actually means "has a few leftover dregs that don't make a meaningful difference".
> Ugh can't wait until either Linux is accessible enough for non-programmers and advanced users

My 8 year old and 12 year old are both fine using Linux, so I wouldn't call them advanced or technical. What do you need it to do that you can't?

[Edit] Somehow I missed the blind part. I haven't tried those accessibility functions, though I would have thought that corporate customers would have required that so they don't get sued.
Does "mods" mean "modifications" here, as used in the car, vape, gaming scenes? Originally I was thinking perhaps "modernists" or "moderators," but those don't fit your earlier comment. Quite an overloaded abbreviation!
I have no doubt that owners appreciate the benefits of offloading business risk to their employees.

Heck, why not reclassify staff as independent contractors and charge them an hourly rate for the opportunity to interact with onsite customers? Now the local coffee shop is a two-sided marketplace!
Commercial pilots see them all the time.

https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20