skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forensic evidence? No.

1080p 30fps video? No.

High resolution photos? No.

Any evidence to back up the extraordinary claims? No.

Sorry, but you are crazy if you believe this.
That was an "ok" argument maybe 5-8 years ago, now there's too much evidence that no legitimate use case exists, and every alleged one turns out to be a fraud or a get-rich-quick scheme.
please don't use link shorteners, they're 404s waiting to happen: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0451474570 ("Llama Llama Red Pajama Board book – Illustrated, May 5, 2015"; 9780451474575)
c) An alien civilization can trivial visit Earth and has been for thousands of years.

You make a lot of assumptions how difficult it wouldv be to visit and even why they would be here.
Oh great, finally it came to Linux
> how much time I spent in previous employments relative to the entire span of my life, which was an interesting venue to go down

Same for me! Didn't even notice any weird phrasing (the tweet got immensely popular though, so nitpickers inevitably arrived). It was also nice to know people are working on getting non-invasive neurotech into the mainstream - very exciting
I think you misunderstood me, or I just wasn't explicit enough. I was talking about humans being burned by natural things other than flames. From my (admittedly limited) experience, being burned by a flame or by a hot surface or a hot liquid isn't qualitatively different. Even sunburn (the aforementioned exposure to sunlight) feels similar if bad enough.
Brilliant, I'd love to participate. A few questions:

1. Are underhanded entries welcome, where the code looks straightforward but does something completely unexpected? For C it's a separate contest[1], but I find a big overlap in the spirit.

2. Are there any tricks that are considered poor taste, like unicode fuckery, light pranks (think "opening the CD tray", not "forkbomb"), or embedding code in other languages?

3. Max length limits? And do I get bonus points for extra short entries?

4. Is optional human input ok, like a game that by default plays itself?

5. Not really a question, but the website is very broken on wide screens[2].

[1]: http://www.underhanded-c.org/

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/bTvKC9y.png
While I completely agree with you on interstellar travel, I'd like to add the nuance that you seem to assume that there is no life in the Solar system other than on Earth.

That could very well be true... but we're not even confident ruling out life on Mars completely, and we landed there and took soil samples and explored.

Honestly, if there are extraterrestrials on Earth, I'd wager my hat that they're from somewhere in the Solar system. Just because the alternative is even more unlikely -- as you rightly argue.
Reddit actually just fired 90 people and put on a hiring freeze for the rest of the year.

https://archive.ph/3wR5j
If you have the capability to measure state, and you have control over audio / visual input, then you necessarily have the ability, albeit via a probably alarmingly small number of experiments, to induce (some value of) state.
They literally make this comparison in the next docs somewhere
It is. I've worked at a huge website that relies on ads. Ads trump any good UX.
Why would the organization that would be expected to protect our skies want to make people believe there is something to protect our skies?
I'm sorry, I know we're not suppose to engage in ad hominem attacks. I'll refrain in the future.
The US is winning (or has won and keeps on winning) the Conquer Victory, the Diplomacy Victory, and the Culture Victory.

I think that's the main means of winning Civilization? Been years since I played one.
Email magic link, recovery codes, web of trust (recovery contacts), or remote government credentials proofing (ID.me, Stripe Identity, etc).
Really great post, really terrible conclusion.
What Python has literally isn't a type system; expressions in Python don't have (the thing that Python calls) types, only values do. So it wouldn't even be possible to do any of the stuff this page is doing in Python.
It is staggering.

But we spend worm lives so that we can spare fly lives. And we spend fly lives so that we can spare rodent lives. And we spend rodent lives so that we can spare rabbit lives. And we spend rabbit lives so that we can spare pig lives. And we spend pig lives so that we can spare primate lives. And we spend primate lives so that we can spare human lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rs_(animal_research)

The only thing worse than deliberately infecting or genetically engineering animal models... is allowing disease to rampage unsolved, when you might have done something.

The world we live in is built on a mountain of rodent skulls, and while I'm uncomfortable with that, I'm more comfortable than if it were built atop a mountain of human skulls.
C++ has the fame, but isn't alone in that regard.

C# 12 with .NET 8 standard library, Java 21 with standard library, Python 3.11 with standard library, plus knowing key versions on their timeliness, and major third party libraries are just as complex.

So nope, it is impossible to know everything.

Even those that claim to fully understand "simple" languages like C, they actually master their own C compiler and are unaware of all variants and deviations of it.
>> “was fined €63,680 in 2018, five years after being hit with a €95,000 ticket for the same offence.”

~€270,000 in fines… lol. Might be time to hire a driver…
Well Germany must have been mistaken then to voice against Trump’s plan to withdraw some troop in 2020.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/1002286/trump-plan-to-slash-u...
It's a fair point, but I'm not that worried about more logins. We're already being pushed this way by Big Business wanting more and more users to mine/advertise towards.

I worry a little about normalizing on fingerprints, but not because tin-foil-hat thinking about tracking.

Those can certainly be ordered/forced by a judge, where passwords/codes are less well defined. I'm not up to anything shady, but I fear an authoritarian government.

Let's consider PINs, too. Those can be used instead. How many of these are people going to memorize? Many passphrases become one relatively easily guessed number on a device you can lose

Implementation details, surely - and I'm really green... but I worry about unintended consequences a lot
A discussion of ancient authors brings to mind CS Lewis's quote about reading the classics for yourself:

There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about “isms” and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said.

The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.

The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.
Demonstration of psyops capabilities; entertainment.
I've only ever found use in GraphQL when it is paired with other technology. Namely Relay (and to some degree Apollo although I'm not as deeply familiar with it as I am with Relay).

Being able to co-locate data queries with components in React has been a huge game changer for me when writing reasonably complex frontend apps. However, GraphQL on its own never struck me as being any more beneficial than Rest.
So I've heard this a lot. Am I the only one who found jq to be fairly sensible and intuitive?

I'm not saying I don't need to pull up the docs once or twice for regex or leafpaths (or was it leaf_paths, lol), but overall I can't think of something that needs to be pulled into the standard install more. It's near perfect.
Windows Client Roadmap Update
Do you have a smartphone? Pretty sure it was assembled by cheap labor in third-world countries using abusive practices with no consideration for ethical concerns. Maybe you have a laptop? Same story. Did you consider this before purchasing and using these devices?
>the sale of live decapod crustaceans to untrained, non-expert handlers

This seems pretty extreme and like it would increase the cost dramatically.
Have you tried the most recent cuda offload? A dev claims they are getting 26.2ms/token (38 tokens per second) on 13B with a 4080.
> China/South Korea/Japan/Taiwan/etc then.

Well, if they care about software, all of the above have inferior software compared to the US.
I've found two segfaults in a 10+ year Java (well, actually mostly Scala) career (both known JVM bugs). It's rare, but possible.
No, I have not stopped beating my wife.
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There are quite a few doing them by hand, eg https://dribbble.com/shots/3658816-Art-QR-Code-Design

I seem to remember some NY artist trying to sort of vaguely claim/intimate invention (falsely) by having an exhibition too. Ah yes, here https://art-qrcode.com/
No, that can't be it.

No local drones or Dyson spheres, but we're cohabitating with a species capable of intra-solar travel?

Seems highly suspect. They'd need to be at roughly our level of technological development, which, if true, would be more likely to believe in a concept of "God" engineering that outcome than any kind of organic alien life.
I have no idea on the specifics for this particular operation, but in the general case [1]

The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives.

In the context of UFOs, UAPs or whatever ... some possibilities are to hide advanced defense programs or to confuse potential enemy intelligence efforts. In fact, for an operation like this I would guess there are probably a dozen strategic objectives and not just one.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...
lobster has 100,000 neurons. no way are they sentient.
Those method would work on recurrent neutral nets, not just feed forward.
what kind of nuanced compromise exists that does not paint jesus as a liar, lunatic, or lord exclusively?
What if people want to train their own likeness into a chatbot and fund it with their estate ? suppose it doesn’t want to be anyone’s property ? When does it get freedom ? When does it get personhood, right to vote, right to burn compute for its own whims ?

Human slavery ended because people were more productive when they got to keep some of the fruits of their own labor. And the state benefited more from taxing the slave’s productivity than their owner’s profits. Why would it be any different for artificial intelligence ?
By that logic, tobacco companies were also creating tomorrow and reinventing the today back in the early to mid-20th century.
Last time I got nuked by Ghandi so it's hard to say.
Text is still a large part of the interfaces we use.

We are all highly trained to read text, it seems basic but it is in practice quite abstract.

Text is still best read on a flat surface.

The great innovation I can see with this new Apple device is eye tracking, they have not invented it, but they might have perfected it enough to be useable.

Eyes could be better than a mouse.
Neither of the things I quoted mention the law. Non sequiturs make things confused.
The variables are all over the place though, why should the signal be strong?
I'm not going to disagree with you but I'd put out a bit of money that you do not live in a county/parish where they still have low-tonnage bridges.

Your point is valid, but so is theirs.
It's costly to make such images, that's about it. Other way around you'd have to decide on the QR, wait for the commission, pay a substantial amount of money. Probably wouldn't even get such subtle codes either, this seems like straight up CV-trickery.
I think Apple is making a statement regarding control of Vision in that _there is no one great solution_ for fine control using a peripheral device, and any attempt to do so could go outdated or obsolete with a different peripheral device. So why try to build one at all?

Many VR companies/devices have come up with their own takes on controllers, only to have them updated/replaced within subsequent models.

Apple is making the right choice by focusing heavily on non-peripheral control.
Maybe every instance of time travel the universe splits in two, to prevent all the causal loop paradoxes etc?

Ie, time is always a tree branching, and traveling back in time doesn't change that?
I'd be happy to explain any of this to Aristotle. "It's a picture that draws its itself. Here, touch it." We do this every day with children. Ten thousand years o development and you're caught up in five. It's fine!
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Why does it have to be a conspiracy? Some small but significant portion of the population is mentally ill, and it seems likely a few would hear a joke ("we keep the alien space ships through that door, I'd show you but I'd have to kill you"), take it way too literally, and it becomes the focus of their mental illness. That seems not only possible but probable given the size the military industrial complex.
everyone goes through a disillusionment phase with crypto

from my perspective, there is simply a lack of coverage of things that function without incident, which are very numerous and solve frictions for a lot of people, whether you’re in the market for that or not

like construction sites that showed “how many days since an incident”, because people only heard about the incidents
This is a perfect example of how our technologies have let us down - Computer Shopper and the like (including newspapers) were useful precisely because they could be quickly browsed and flipped through.

That's not really possible with the wretched things we call "browsers" today - Heck, even with a high-bandwidth connection and a nice 4K screen to display it, I still can't nearly as readily flip through pages of the IA Computer Shopper scans as I could through the actual physical media. Browsing, along with its attendant and deliberate page-turning to move on to something new, have been replaced by endless scrolling of sameness. The Ads are all dynamic, so even though they're the things that catch your eye the most, they're not usable as navigation context markers anymore - note how different all the ads were, and how the uniqueness page layout became something a litlte bit memorable, so you could more easily flip back to re-find something you'd read a few dozen pages back.

Browsing is an excellent quick, easy way to MAKE CONNECTIONS between lots of different data coming from lots of different sources. That sort of thing created much more well-rounded, smarter people, and society is poorer for having moved to overly structured media. (And ads are media, too (heck they're nearly all of Computer Shopper) - just try going back to find an ad you saw on a site last week!) Static location context matters - humans are wired to think in terms of physical relativity, and our UIs give that up only at great cost...
> All of this stuff reeks of some kind pf psyop.

In this case, I agree. I usually try to avoid conspiratorial thinking and conspiracy theories, but the DoD and related agencies have been putting out all kinds of information about UFOs in the past few years. My question is: why? The DoD isn’t known for their public relations.

My best speculative guess is that they’re claiming they’ve found alien craft and exotic alien materials because the US is testing aircraft that appear alien with exotic materials and don’t want other nation states to assume it is even terrestrial so they don’t attempt to replicate the technology.

There must be a reason behind the UFO media blitz that has happened lately, it’s not like they’re releasing the info to keep the public informed. Anyone have other ideas? It could be grifters looking to sell a story, mentally ill people misunderstanding jokes or inventing things out of whole cloth, etc.

P.S. I believe intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but that we’ve never been visited and will never be visited due to the distances involved.
Quick question for you.

Have you heard of a really smart guy named "Isaac Newton"?

Well, his ideas are only ~300 solar years established and observations in quantum mechanics have opened a realm of complete impossibility to a Newtonian worldview.
Wow. Spoken like someone who hopes (believes they deserve to) profit from the evolving technology, who views anyone not like them with bemusement and detached curiosity or, more likely, derision. Why do we - humans - feel it is so damn well appropriate to outsource our responsibilities and accountabilities as humans and integral members off an ecology to technology and, in doing so, forego a necessary immersion into and deep reverence for the world, substituting instead a tech-derived and mediated superficiality, detaching ourselves from our biology mostly for the sake of self-gratification and self-grandeur? The bigger question is, what values do we - the collective we - attribute to a world and a life to be saved and will our AI adhere to such values?
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I briefly modded an old phpBB forum (remember those?) and therefore have sympathy for mods. The job is thankless, and the amount of crap that you need to mod is unending. And this was for a tiny hobby forum, not the vast sewage of Reddit. I'm talking spam, flamewars, spam, harassment, nazis, spam, porn, spam, spam, bigotry, and spam. I can't imagine how hard it would be on a forum with a user base as giant and interconnected as Reddit.

The balance seems impossible. If your moderation is "light touch" the forum ends up like 4chan. If your moderation is heavy handed, you're a power-tripper control freak lording over your site. You can't win.

I don't know how dang does it here. He's some kind of wizard.
The Drake equation? We can see the stars, we can see the planets (and there are lots of them). We can infer the number of earth-like planets. So where's all the intelligent life?
Okay, You're right about video pass through. SimulaVR does have that.

but... I've found two places (both embedded within video) that still references 11th gen intel, and zero places that reference a 12th gen upgrade. If there is somewhere I can could confirm 12th gen, that's fantastic.
describing something as yet-to-be-invented to contextually imply that it exists and will be invented is a strange proposition
That was repeated a bunch of time during the keynote: "familiar"
There have been reports from commercial pilots in the past few years as well.

That aside, it could make logical sense that the military is seeing these more often for a few reasons:

- The nature of their missions, flight speed, equipment, and flexibility to investigate further

- If it’s a terrestrial adversary, it makes sense that they’d fuck with military

- If it’s ET, it makes sense that they’d pay more attention to military jets than passenger jets if it’s some kind of recon
Is it conspiracy theory time?

"... the conspiracy theory Project Blue Beam, which concerns an alleged plot to facilitate a totalitarian world government by destroying traditional religions and replacing them with a new-age belief system using NASA technology."
It’s called a limited hangout
I share the opinion that it is psyop and it is a very long running project. At one level it is a nice psyop platform - like Star Trek for the psychological warfare professionals. Over the years they have influenced American thought about the government to a great degree. X-Files. For example, most Americans, and this “whistleblower” here, now accept that elements in the US government are operating entirely outside of the overview and control of the government, where the executive and legislature do not have “the clearance” to be informed about it.

Emotionally it is also slowly preparing humanity for the possibility of a confrontation with a power that we possibly can not resist and must obey. Aliens may turn out to have strong theological and sociological views that they want to share with us. This is more than just slowly boiling the constitutional frog in the cauldron of “national security”. Somewhat /g more far fetched but definitely one reason to have ex intelligence grandees from Mosad and CIA (and now this man) come and tell us all about aliens in our midst.
They learn how to maximize their happiness.
What about the Middle East sighting nasa publicly spoke about?
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> As the article states, Navy pilots are on record as eye witnesses for this stuff, along with the various radar feeds, etc.

Watch the introduction to the 4 hour UAP panel that NASA hosted a few days ago[1], they address this.

According to NASA, even highly trained and experienced pilots can easily be fooled, and often reported UAPs are artifacts of the technology that detects them, or are indeed things like weather balloons. For example, NASA even used the example of Navy pilots being fooled by a procession of commercial airplanes queueing to land at an airport 40+ miles away from their base.

They also emphasize that radar, detection systems, etc are not scientific instruments that are suitable for the detection or analysis of this phenomenon. They emphasize that the technology that the Navy et al. use are strictly optimized for defensive/offensive interception of conventional weapons. That's to say that they're calibrated for war and not for accurate scientific observation.

Going back to the procession of airplanes waiting to land, according to the instruments available to pilots and their own observations, those airplanes were doing things that were impossible to do without bending the laws of physics. Yet all they were were just a bunch of airplanes doing what all airplanes do.

> Due to the supposed feeds and eye witness accounts, it seems infeasible there is a 'weather balloon' type explanation

Pilots and their system are fallible, you'd have to assume some argument from authority to believe otherwise, which is why I think the military loves this conspiracy theory. It shifts criticism or suspicion of government and power to a narrative that they control and that inflates the military's competence and abilities, and assumes that the military is looking out for us and willing to tell us the truth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQo08JRY0iM