skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I mean lets assume it is true: how could the US government have failed a real alien ship? Did the poor aliens fail at filling out some paperwork? I mean this ship had to spend so much energy just to get to us, what else could have failed them?
The government created a special guarantee for all depositors precisely to prevent runs on banks.

JP Morgan was granted a special waiver to buy FRB.

It’s pretty obvious that what happened was that SVB and FRB management teams were set up as scapegoats to save face while the government worked in the background to halt the sector from unwinding.

I happen to agree that this was the right thing to do.
I know isspace() and the rest of ctype.h date to V7; I was wondering about locales specifically. I'm not aware of any pre-C89 implementation of anything similar to that, so I'm wondering whether X3J11 adopted it from some system I've never heard of, or created it themselves. C89 was supposed to ‘codify common existing practice’, but internationalization politics may have overridden that.
OpenXR seems to be a good platform.
> that it can somehow "escape" the legal frameworks of human beings

And yet multibillion dollar companies whose entire business is illegally running hotels or taxis get nowhere near the vitriol?

Airbnb clearly causes harm for locals in popular tourist cities.
There’s orders of magnitude more stars than grains of sand on earth. Mull that over before breezily dismissing evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
Most everything around already is.
There will be a hydrogen refueling network. People are simply being too short-sighted.
Don't forget all the "neural" branding for chips - this product wouldn't yet be viable without M-class (fanless) chipsets.

So yeah, it's not just hard to pin down, but a lot of the work that led to this is foundational for other Apple products as well (either as core like Mac Ms or features like Continuity) so it's seamless with other products.
Buying a cheap little glucose meter is really valuable IMO. You can get them for close to nothing, and you can use them to check your fasting glucose, or your glucose response after meals.

Also, resting heart rate is very easy to measure, especially if you have any kind of fitness/smart watch, and that's a good marker of health too.

I'm a fan of getting lab work done, but it's definitely more of a hassle.
The only compelling answer I can think of is "everything we already do now, only untethered by physical location."

Which is less about polish and more about deployment volume and/or standards interoperability.
See above (and below) for the kind of low level effort comments you can find in most cryptocurrency threads.
> To top it off, the focus of the story, David Charles Grusch, is a "a former intelligence official."

"From 2019-2021, he was the representative of the reconnaissance office to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the co-lead for UAP analysis at the NGA and its representative to the task force."

> Zero specific claims.

The specific claim is that he has provided to congress documentation on successful non-human craft retrieval programs hidden from congress, under oath. He makes no claims about the projects other than that he was not a part of them and that he was provided said documentation on them.

The U.S. Inspector General called the claims "credible and urgent" and congress is planning a session on them.
I will never participate in weird internet caste systems
Antarctica gained 600 Gt of ice during '09-'19 vs. a prediction of a 20k Gt loss
For some time after Alice and Bob have both crossed, they can continue to communicate with one another, showing that they are not separated by a horizon. But since Alice is ahead, won't she and Bob get separated more and more over time? Isn't there a time after which Alice can't even get a message out to Bob? Can that not be characterized as an event horizon separating Alice and Bob, and one which is fundamentally distinct from the one separating Alice and Bob from Dana?
> Your pedantry

It's not pedantry. I'm trying to convey some actual understanding here. These drawings aren't manga-style, you can tell because they don't look like (typical) drawings from manga; most obviously in that they're not black and white.

> Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints

True but irrelevant. The style of the medium coevolved with those constraints and is suited towards them (as with most media). A manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.

> There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.

They exist (indeed I own some) but they are the exception rather than the rule. Again, "manga-style drawing" would be generally understood to mean a drawing that looked like a typical drawing from a manga.
UFOlogy would be interesting if it ever made any effort to make engineering, science or biological sense. But these guys always have stories that dovetail with current fashions.

Back in the day I believed in some of this stuff because there were stories from the 60's about alien remains that looked like insects. Because of course they'd have to sustain high g's crossing light years. They'd also be very lightweight, to keep the mass down. Completely sensical.

Then somebody made up warp drives and every account switched to gray humanoids. Every conspiracy is so low effort and lazy now. But millions will believe it.
I think the concerning thing is that could well be the case - and there is still a very large number of people in here just saying "nope this guy is crazy".

The group of people who just off-hand deny this is happening is kind of staggering.
I'm waiting for either, a) the rug pull after a credulous alternative media piles in, and then some minister says, "see, this is why we need to regulate social media" or b) the triple-down by politicians saying that the existence of aliens gives them a mandate to redistrubte everything immediately, supported by people who believe normal rules of humanity don't apply anymore because they've been told about aliens, and a bunch of other people who stand by and watch hoping nobody will come for them.
Very very big and very very old. Take the probability of an intelligent being evolving, multiply that by the probability of it being on a planet that had vast amounts of practically free energy stored from the last great extinction and figured out how to use it, multiply that by the probability of them not running out of that energy until they can develop new sources (without destroying each other in the process), then multiply that by the probability of them figuring out space travel, multiply that by the probability that they are within reach of us with that technology, multiply that by the probability that they care enough to come over here, and finally multiply that by the probability that this occurs within the 2000 years or so when we aren't too ignorant to appreciate it.
Reading your comment I can't help but think about that we're now starting to feed our layer lasagne that "mostly works" with code generated by a stochastic parrot which also only "mostly works" and turn the resulting products into some kind of fabric of the society. Ten years from now must be a fun time.
Just saw this, sorry! Hope your job search is going well though.

I'd try chatting with recruiters on LinkedIn until you find one that clicks, so you'll be motivated to work with them. Even if a recruiter doesn't have an opportunity that's a match for you, mention something you genuinely appreciated about their style of working and ask if they know any other recruiters you should talk to.

Set a goal like "I'll do 5x 20 minute calls with new recruiters this week, then ask my favorite to introduce me to someone at <insert 2-3 companies you love>."

Avoid Cybercoders and similar high-volume agencies.
Is this similar to the story that it rains more on the weekend ? Didn't the analysis show that if you segmented the data into arbitrary chunks it always came back with higher rainfall at the start of end of the period - so if you broken the data up into blocks that went from Wednesday -> Tuesday it would come back and say it rains most on Wednesday. Wonder if something like that is going on here - I am down with the argument about stress and going back to work making it worse on a Monday :)
Crypto is more a commodity than currencies, because unlike currency, crypto is subject to the same speculative supply and demand forces as conventional commodities.

Examples of non-physical commodities: music and apps.

Example of something that doesn’t exist at all: Carbon Offsets which are credits for negative production of GHG. Credits can be purchased on the market by companies to offset their own emissions for regulatory or other reasons.
Heh.

I do too. In fact, I'm writing my own framework that replaces most of libc.

It builds a better foundation, and I'm better off for it.
> The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.

I mean, sometimes software development is enjoyable as an end in itself, otherwise Shenzhen I/O wouldn't be a thing.

That said, it's a lot more enjoyable when the blocks you're building with are nice self-contained things that work well together like LEGO bricks. As opposed to a bunch of double-clawed hammers that are all invisibly connected with strings under the floor so that when you try to pick one up your drill automagically turns on as it falls off the shelf (I am borrowing some PHP-fractal-of-bad-design metaphor but it applies just as well to Spring Boot or whatever-the-f&^& somebody with too much time on their hands thinks is fun to inflict on me).

Abstractions are great so long as they don't leak. But software development seems to have become the art of not going insane while trying to maintain castles in the sky that are oozing spaghetti sauce from every crack.

So anyway, I agree with the author, but maybe for slightly different reasons.
I urge the author to never look into building a physical building. The codes and amount of work you have to do to legally start are already complicated.

But then you start buying screws and realize the entire screw isle at building supply store is bigger than many small grocers. And probably isn't complete. Heaven help you if you want to do something aesthetically pleasing like a pocket door.

Or, far worse, heaven help you if you want to fix a pocket door. Finding a compatible wheel mechanism is usually most easily done with, "rip it out and use a new mechanism."

Then there is car maintenance. Check engine light says something about the eco subsystem isn't working right? Here is a book mechanics use that list the common reasons for the code. Not standard across makes. Or models, even...

I could probably go on. Point is nothing is greenfield lacking in complexity. I agree we probably could do better with software. But having done embedded work, I think it is easy to be ignorant of exactly how much has to coordinate in a computer system.
If you understand the implications of this and wanna get rich with me, email me at inventor_man@outlook.com
Its not crazy to me to think that there is something here.

But that it doesn't care if we see it or not. There is not much of it so we just don't see it often.

Who know what we recovered? Perhaps just some discarded waste, perhaps the result of internal conflict. Neither seems crazy.

I like to think the Earth _is_ very special given "life", and that we are just about to start our own exploration of the galaxy (on galactic timescales)

It's really only a few hundred years before we mount an artificial general inelegance in the front of some rocket and shoot it at the nearest sun.
> IMO, do the right thing for user agency & stick with higher level web stuff. Reinventing has many subtle pitfalls.

This is great advice 99% of the time. But the browser has two big pitfalls which hurt google docs:

1. Browser rich text editing events are famously awful and inconsistent on different browsers and platforms.

2. Google docs wants the same document to render exactly the same on all OS / browser combinations. Thats not something that web browsers guarantee.

In this case, I understand google's choice to build a custom renderer. I'm sure it was a massive effort for the team, but probably not quite as massive as working around all the browser quirks they were dealing with before. (From memory, before the canvas renderer, google docs ran their own rendering code then used CSS to absolutely position every single word in the document.)
it's exactly the camera work, this is a camera on a spline that has been heavily smoothed, a trick used in a lot of vfx work is recording ACTUAL camera movement (put a brick on an iphone to simulate the camera weight and 3d track the motion) and using that in a separate project to create a feeling of believable "there-ness"
I suppose it's a specific thing. I'd say "gaming device" means heavily optimized for gaming, including tradeoffs that make it less attractive for other scenarios. Consoles, Nintendo Switch, wired mice with a billion buttons and 1000DPI, etc.. those are gaming devices to me.

Pencils are gaming devices in a general sense :)
If you have a product that's 5x as good, but 2x as expensive, literally everyone will buy it. The iPhone is the perfect case study.
You can’t say that Bard isn’t sentient until you define sentience. UK just declared that lobsters are sentient. Why not Bard. I think Lemoine did the world a favor by giving it a good few months head start.

From his podcast, it is obvious that Roose knows exactly what he dealt with in the Sydney affair. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t unnerving.
Isn’t the ubiquitousness of services like this an actual “cure”? If its easy to make those deep fake nudes and everybody has one, then it will not be as scary and shameful, And we can finally get on with our lives with one less thing to stress about? God knows we have enough other things to occupy us anyway.
Relative to other pseudonymous links-with-comments aggregation stations, I think it very much does.
> In a few years nobody will remember that this is what precipitated the fall of Reddit. It’s already turned into an echo-chamber of nonsense, ruled by all-powerful mods to whom every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy.

I have always been pretty left wing (have been a member of and organised for a range of left wing political parties) but Reddit was what very much moderated by belief in 99% of left wing politicians and would be politicians. If the kinds who rise to the top of subreddits ever saw power in our societies we would see the terror and widespread violence. There's a performative aesthetic idea of what being left wing is based on positions on issues, knowledge, rather than an actual mindset and series of real beliefs about what is the right thing to do.

It comes down to what I had always seen as the territory of the right but now realise that people of any political persuasion can do it:

1. Blame the system for your own problems

2. Other your enemies and make their problems personal failings

3. Claim that justice would be their destruction rather than their rehabilitation

And for social media companies these lonely, angry, miserable people drive huge amounts of engagement.

Reddit has huge governance issues as a community that stems from the fact that the corporate leadership cannot serve two masters. In retrospect when they did the big slow down on the "hot" algorithm was the moment it could not be saved.
Angels, ghosts, UFOs, miracles all have the same characteristics. A person who seems very reasonable says they are sure that saw the thing, and they provide SOME circumstantial or grainy photographic evidence, but no one actually got a full resolution picture of the angel or ghost or UFO.

I doubt these people are lying. They actually saw something. Miracles are the easiest example to explain. Someone couldn't walk and then a saint said a prayer for them and they could walk again. It is pretty easy guess that it was a placebo effect or coincidence that the medical issue got better at the same time.

We have never seen someone with a X-Ray of a severed spine regain full walking ability after a prayer from a saint.

UFO's may exist, but it seems more likely that a combination of reflections, radar issues, tiredness/stress, "wanting to believe" caused them to see "something"
The SEC provides NO guidance on what is or isn't a security. We have the Howey test to go off of. There is no way to register, no legal way to achieve anything that should be legal in a democratic capitalist society. You just have the threat of an SEC lawsuit on nebulous terms. It's completely fucked up.

Another incredibly important point is the $1 million net worth and $200k income based test for becoming an "accredited investor" is racist, classist, sexist, and evil. People should have the right to invest their money how they see fit. If you want people to sign some kind of disclosure, or some kind of term sheet that makes it very clear to a retail investor what they're getting into, fine. But the law as it exists is outrageously undemocratic.

In regards to the SEC, a system that was built for 1933 is not even relevant in a world where you can spin up a million new tokens in 10 seconds and deploy to 24/7 worldwide markets in 5 minutes from anywhere.

Keeping the 1933 SEC Act in tact in 2023 is like trying to keep Prohibition going even though it's raining whiskey from the sky.
Pretty sure there have never been “230-foot-long” sperm whales.
I don’t understand your “gotcha.” Its the Democrat party. Thats what the map is of.
Reading through his notes, I couldn’t help but think “I don’t know this guy, but it seems like he has spent years thinking deeply about interfaces. Also, he sounds ex-Apple.” It made me smile when I got towards the end and my suspicions were confirmed.

Andy’s thoughts were infinitely deeper than anything else I’ve read about the device+interface so far. In particular, I liked his observations that so far it’s mostly a 2D plane, with exceptions like the Breathe app and a few demos, which might just be good for demos.

Seeing the heart in 3D reminded a lot of what we saw 10 years ago around what book publishers were trying to do with the iPad. Cool demos but limited real world use.

Here was one particularly thoughtful section:

“unlike the physical version, a virtual infospace could contend with much more material than could actually fit in my field of view, because the computational medium affords dynamic filtering, searching, and navigation interactions (see Softspace for one attempt). And you could swap between persistent room-scale infospaces for different projects. I suspect that visionOS’s windowing system is not at all up to this task.“
> I just can't justify buying hardware from a company that is so hostile to developers and hackers as nice as it may be.

While I understand what you’re saying, the developers of Asahi have said before that Apple appears to be going out of their way to leave things open for them.

Apple’s boot security is enough they could easily prevent anyone from ever running a non-Apple blessed OS. But Apple made it fully supported to boot directly into a non-Apple OS as your primary OS.

They’re not helping by giving code or documentation, but they’re not putting up roadblocks. Apple seems to be happy with a stance of benevolent indifference.

It’s not official support. But a number of PC vendors don’t give official support either.
> If it was a good idea, I assume it should already be happening for me.

It would, if you were running a well-designed/maintained operating system. Unfortunately many Linux distributions make poor decisions.
When Apple wants a mainstream product, they'll release one at a mainstream (for them) price. Right now they can't sell a non-pro for probably less than $2k, so why not just sell the pro at 3.5k and use the insights from that to create a real mainstream (but high end) non-pro with better chips/software etc next year?
Sorry I missed the joke. Why is that the case?
Great Coffee at Home – pseudorandom (2020)
Large Language Models of Code Fail at Completing Code with Potential Bugs
I'm confused... Figma can seemingly do all of this already, from a rendering perspective. And it's outrageously performant. It's one of the most performant web apps I've ever seen.

Why don't you do exactly what Figma is doing?
> The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.

I have one disagreement with this... There is another thing that matters in software --- the experience of the developer making it.

IMHO, I agree that libraries, languages, tooling,... etc. are not art whose complexity should be admired. But they are a necessary intermediate tool for _developers_ to make their work easier.

We can apply the same logic to something like construction. You can build a house with hand tools and man power, just like you can write code in machine language. It's not enjoyable but you can do it. The work around developer tooling is like a builder working with scaffolding, an excavator, a crane, an electric drill... You spend effort to set it up, and before the final product is delivered, you have to tear it down. But it was still worth it because it serviced the developer in some transient way.
According to CrossOver the DX12 implementation is mostly unique to Apple and is a separate implementation. Most of the rest is open-source CrossOver.

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-come...

Worth remembering Apple doesn’t want developers to just release games using it, but rather use it as a launch point.

This would, frankly, make sense considering it’s DirectX to Metal. Proton previously doesn’t target Metal directly as far as I know, except through MoltenVK. Which is really ugly…

As far as I understand:

Previously: DirectX -> Proton -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK -> Metal (quite inefficient)

Now: DirectX -> Apple Game Porting Toolkit -> Metal (more efficient)
Speculative opportunity maybe. I don't think I would call it an investment.
Absolutely fascinating that the top two replies to an article about Aliens! are positing basically the same conspiracy: that this is a deliberate psyop run by a "nation state" and not just... people being wrong about stuff?

Why go through the trouble to refute one unlikely and poorly supported hypothesis just to jump right into a new one? Has Occam taught us nothing? There are no successfully hidden "conspiracies" of that scale. Maybe someone can run a successful assassination once in a while and keep it under wraps for a decade or so, but that's as far as it goes. Lips are too loose and threads are too easy to pull, especially in the internet era.
I disagree, humans can create amazingly beautiful and simple things.

All software reflects the environment in which it exists, including the time pressures involved in its creation and the complex, messy reality it is trying to model.

We’re all familiar with a “90% MVP” that is small and elegant and solves the main use case sort of ok. Beyond that, reality has a lot of detail and edge cases and that’s when software gets nasty.
Possibly not. But this narrative has been around for a lot longer than social media. Current technology certainly accelerates the spread of it, but people have been discussing this topic since the literal dark ages.
Simple elegant & minimal is subjective IMO.

What absolutely shatters us is that we almost never have enduring & exposed bases. Software is endless layers of abstraction reaching upwards. Very few layers expose themselves at all. So we are all strangers to most software.

For software to be simple elegant & minimal, we would have to be able to deploy existing knowledge, be able to leverage the fundamentals we know. But that's not where we are, but we are all adrift:

> In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It's a beautiful idea. This is not however what we interact with.
Could be the ham radio sign-off "73" which is basically "cheers/best regards".