skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good and bad are judgments based on our evolutionary goal of survival eventually culminating in some idea of society. Lots of these ideas often become contradictory in the end as morality is to organize society and their are more effective and ineffective strategies to that end. To prevent bad things, make things predictable, that others can be relied on, and so on. But there is no omnipresent law, akin to say math platonism, or the physical laws of our universe. So it doesn't make much sense for an actor in a society to say it might be moral to end the society/species as it's ignoring the purpose of that "morality" in the first place. It is "detached" needing to be based on other "axioms", say "that every rock is sacred". But these are no more universally valid despite people's hope for a ethical platonism, and are potentially an inferior choice for the only objective that matters, continuation of the system (spieces/individual/etc).

In your example, optimizing at all cost to remove suffering ignores that suffering and pain are part of the process of warning in survival and are an inferior objective in the overall goal of survival. Sure you can choose it at all cost, but it's a poor strategy. A greedy algorithm as it were.

To be forthright and to illustrate this line of thought, I responded to you in the hopes that you will understand part of this, and continue to live and keep this system going, as it appears to be a better overall strategy to continue society. Not morality but "strategy". And frankly, from personal preference, it's more interesting than some inky blackness with nothing to do.

You do hit on a point that's often overlooked that a lot of designs of morality start to break down at large timescales of a couple generations. For example, arguing that a bad action in the past seems a bit poor for oneself if it results in the person not existing. How about the countless others that would exists on just minor variations of that history?

Anyway, try to challenge your initial thoughts and see if you come to this or something else. And keep thinking about moral systems at timescales as it's interesting to think about.
You’d think that would go to the country or countries with tenuous chains of custody over their nuclear weapons, not the US.

(I’m saying that mostly for the sake of argument, not because I think your reasoning is incorrect.)
"The notion of invasions by aliens was a projection of the aggressive traits of the predatory, barely civilized ape-man. If he himself willingly did unto others as he would rather not be done by, then he pictured the Advanced Civilization on much the same principle. Flotillas of galactic battleships were supposed to fall upon unsuspecting little planets, to lay hands on the local dollars, diamonds, chocolates, and, of course, beautiful women — for whom aliens had about as
much use as we did for female crocodiles."
Recreational Cannabis Use by Teens Linked to Risk of Depression, Suicidality
I always thought this was the point of alex jones...

Some real conspiracies are revealed, but they're mixed in with so much super psycho that everything gets discredited...
Ask HN: How to get users to test a product without sounding like I am selling?
I am spending my time developing a free tool for developers.

The tool is entirely free, not gated by login walls or anything like that.

I know with a high degree of confidence that the vast majority of the users that I approach are my target audience, i.e. they have the need for the exact service that I am asking them to test.

I know this mostly because it is a very well defined circle of people (QA engineers beginning to learn specific software) and because it has a high-level of stickiness for people who do end up trying it.

My problem though is the initial reach out. It seems like no matter how I try to wrangle the conversation, the receiving person thinks that I am trying to get them to buy something.

I approach every lead in a private Slack server, through 1:1s. A typical conversation goes something like this:

> me: Hey, welcome to X. How good is your Y?

> them: Hey! I am a complete noob

> me: Let me know if I can help you answering any of your questions.

> them: Thanks. Will do!

Up to this point the conversation is Okay.

Now it seems no matter how I introduce the product next, this is where the other person feels swindled, e.g. I will say: "I've built a X tool which can answer your questions as a novice. Would you be up to try it?" or simply "Have you already heard of X? It can answer..." only about 3 in 10 say they want to try it.

One could argue that I should build up the conversation more, but that is neither scalable, nor do I want to waste their time.

Would love to hear from HN crowd on what would increase my odds of engagement.
"the mechanics that transformed us from a basic life form to a life form with a consciousness"

If those mechanics are known I'd love to hear them.
whats disturbing about eating a live octopus, it ends up dead quite quickly. It's also a think that happens in nature
That may be true, but my family only had my father working as a teacher. He got paid absolute crap for a very long time.

Even a $400 computer was a huge stretch for them. It was possibly the absolute best purchase they ever made for me as it sent me down the tech path, but they thought VERY long and hard about it.
> Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful.

Which also means: infinitely capable of performing a job in their place. What will these children study for? Teachers have always transmitted to the only available recipients the knowledge that otherwise would have disappeared with them. When intelligent beings can simply be replicated at zero cost and have no expiration, what are children even learning for?
The deltas between the military/technology of the worlds top economies might not even be noteworthy to a species capable of interstellar travel. From there perspective we might just all look the same.
It's actually not very hard to know at all, at least if your question is "what kind of lifestyle will generally lead to the best longterm health outcomes?" Sure, there's minor distinctions to be made and important medical questions, but generally it's pretty clear.

Everyone knows it, I don't need to list it: eating clean, getting good sleep, plenty of exercise, etc.

And furthermore, though our healthcare system seems only configured to deal with things once they become emergencies, metabolic disorder takes your whole life to take root. The time to start making positive changes is now.
There are many applications beyond serving webpages, where the difference matters. Collecting and collating analytics data is just one example.
PGA Tour and LIV announce shock merger to end bitter split
That explanation made it easier to understand, but I found the GitHub Readme much better explains everything. The little video and example helped a lot.
I wanted to quote Speusippus’ funeral speech where he explained why Plato was son of Apollo, but I just spent the past 20 minutes looking for original sources AND IT IS TOO DAMN DIFFICULT.

The classics are astonishingly inaccessible from a technical point of view. There are great efforts like the Perseus project and Loeb. But so much work remains. An incredible amount of material is not translated into English. And, when it is, it can be incredibly difficult to get the original.
The more general shoe for that is the "camp moccasin", or "camp moc". Similar, but tends to have a tad less secure fit, and the sole's usually a little lighter (not specially designed to grip well on a wet wooden deck like a boat shoe—the name "boat shoe" isn't arbitrary). They're also a little sleeker-looking—typically one lace-hole rather than two as most boat shoes have, and I don't know my shoe-part terminology very well, but they usually lack the extra flaps over the top piece of leather where boat shoes put their lace holes, instead putting theirs directly in the main, top part of leather on the shoe. That also serves to make them a little lighter, in addition to the sole.

I'd recommend that style to someone who's only getting one of the two types. Some folks also notice the difference and will regard wearing boat shoes away from water, and especially wearing them with socks, as gauche, while camp mocs may "properly" be worn in almost any causal setting, with or without socks. Which, on the one hand, who gives a shit, but on the other, if you don't want the shoes for nautical purposes, no harm in getting the style that's a bit lighter & simpler-looking and won't draw ill judgement from anyone, socks or no socks, ocean-breeze or mountain cabin.
The inputs are just photos from different positions. Then a neural net is trained so that you can ask to render a photo from any pose (including unseen).

This particular work (Zip-NeRF) builds on top of the original NeRF paper: https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf (the website has a good explanation what NeRF aka Neural Radiance Fields are)
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/to.html

Tonic.to appears to be the authorized domain registrar. Register.to appears to have been a reseller.
seems like a pointlessly unrealistic premise
I am running linux with cublast offload, and I am using the new 3 bit quant that was just pulled in a day or two ago.
I wouldn’t go so far as to claim that we have hard evidence of aliens crashing here or visiting our solar system, but you’re going completely the other way and making an extraordinary claim without evidence. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Mick West has consistently put out the best videos examining the UAP phenomenon.
“a” use case that is indistinguishable and unquantifiable from use cases you respect

which is a major difference from “the” use case

and just a use case for that company, which in any other industry we would talk about the company’s behavior not the entire asset class and industry, I find it disingenuous to have that “use case” auto reply on any article that happens to be about crypto but is really about a company
What proof exists for this hypothesis?
Generating content is not the same as falsely counting users.

Sure, they could be dumb enough to do that, but no evidence of it.
proof that Chris Coyier knows how to write an entertaining, informative article with 95% useful information and 5% appetizing sauce that makes you read on even though it's a really long article with lots of technical details
You should make the point clearer on the sophomoric philosopher's point of view that you refer to. I've read the DFW essay in question, and found it amusing though I'm out of my depth as a philosopher. With this in mind, I asked bard for clarification and it said:

"The consensus among eminent philosophers with respect to David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" is that it is a thought-provoking and challenging essay that raises important questions about the ethics of eating animals. The essay has been praised for its intelligence, wit, and originality, and it has been cited as an important contribution to the debate about animal rights.

Some philosophers have argued that Wallace's essay provides a strong case for vegetarianism or veganism. They argue that lobsters are sentient creatures who can experience pain and suffering, and that it is therefore wrong to kill them for food. Others have argued that Wallace's essay does not go far enough, and that we should also consider the ethics of eating other animals, such as cows, pigs, and chickens.

Still others have argued that Wallace's essay is not primarily about animal rights, but is instead about the nature of consciousness and the meaning of life. They argue that Wallace's essay raises important questions about what it means to be a conscious being, and about the relationship between humans and other animals.

Whatever one's views on the ethics of eating animals, "Consider the Lobster" is a powerful and thought-provoking essay that deserves to be read and discussed.

Here are some specific examples of how eminent philosophers have responded to "Consider the Lobster":

Martha Nussbaum, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, has praised the essay for its "beautiful and moving" exploration of the "moral status of nonhuman animals."
Peter Singer, a philosopher at Princeton University, has called the essay a "powerful and important" contribution to the debate about animal rights.
Cora Diamond, a philosopher at the University of Virginia, has argued that the essay "challenges us to think more deeply about the nature of consciousness and the meaning of life."
Overall, the consensus among eminent philosophers is that "Consider the Lobster" is a valuable and important work that deserves to be read and discussed."

So if the AI thinks eminent philosopher's have consensus on DFW's lobster points, who is it that you are referring to with respect to your phenomenological comment without any empirical evidence? I can't say that bard is perfect empirically but my speculative intuition is that the quoted references are correct without taking time to verify them.
Supposing (for sake of argument) they're real, Americans' broad deployment of advanced avionics could mean we're simply more likely to detect them. Secondly, cultural factors could increase risk of leaks, compared to Russian and Chinese detections. Third, tight control of Russian and Chinese media can suppress any serious discourse. That's enough to give an impression that UFO encounters are an American thing.
Yes. It’s built-in. https://1password.com/fastmail/
No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative
The entire internet is slower because it's being squeezed to oblivion for monetization and tracking purposes. No matter what technology you choose to render HTML with, your company is going to have a slew of systems for injecting 3rd party scripts, running A/B tests, collecting analytics that include recording user sessions, etc etc. Back "before SPAs" we just weren't doing as much crap in the browser.
Subtitle: "And why, to my surprise, it’s working"
ReactPy dev here. We're actually contributing to a WIP PEP that would add JS-like tagged template literals to Python. We think this will open up a whole new world of templating and DSL possibilities: https://github.com/jimbaker/tagstr
Great notes and I really liked his idea of large persistent info spaces and sharing those with others.
No. When you posted the actual title was as stated in my previous comment and has now been changed to "Zelensky says Russia blew up dam as thousands evacuated from flood".

Please refrain from editing titles.
This works so good!
> It's not an "esoteric" use case.

It is at current display prices.

And I don't think a technical blueprint projected on big table needs 16k either. It would certainly be nice, sure, but for the big ones to be affordable there needs to be steady stream of customers, not few thousand companies in each country
Pseudo profound bullshit. People buy stuff. It makes sense to construct spaces to conduct these activities. There's nothing interesting to be gained by the comparison to religion.

The best case relationship that really holds is that both are concepts that relate to sociology. That's it
Nothing remotely close to that will ever happen, because the people who care about this don't care. In the same way that you want extraordinary evidence to back up these extraordinary claims, they are prepared to disregard any and all evidence to the contrary in order to continue believing all of those same claims.

If you haven't, I recommend watching the YT minidoc "In Search of a Flat Earth" by Folding Ideas. It's not about the aliens, it's not about the earth being flat, it's about the conspiracy and who is behind it. If you dig deep enough, it's always rooted in some racist or antisemitic world view.
There was an internal alpha build of Digg v4 that had "verticals", which were kinda like subreddits. If there weren't enough stories to fill up the front page, the backend would run a search query and fill in relevant stories from other verticals, or even external search engines. As a vertical got more users, the user-voted stories would be given priority over the algorithmically chosen ones.

From a user perspective, this meant that there was already a subreddit for any topic you could conceive of, even if nobody had ever submitted a story to it. It was pretty magical.

Sadly, this whole system was axed in order to get the thing launched before we ran out of money. I bet you could do an even better version of it now with recommendations based on LLM prompts.
> US is the only one winning Civilization Earth.

Depends what you mean by winning. Other countries have different priorities, for instance the health and welfare of the population over individual wealth. That doesn't make one right or wrong, but it really this reflects on your priorities more than anything else. And that's ok! I'm just saying it's subjective, not objective, and there's no reason to believe that some aliens would share your personal beliefs in re: superiority and therefore prioritize observations there.
Because commercial pilots are in control of aircraft flying over densely populated areas, and often responsible for the lives of hundreds on board. A navy pilot typically just has the expensive aircraft and is somewhat expected to be crazy.

So, if a commercial pilot does see such things, they'd be far less likely to report them, as it may well ruin their career. Navy pilots, on the other hand may well get some commendation for identifying an unusual, or anomalous thing (enemy tech?).
> Do you really, really think a species capable of interstellar travel would have vehicles or crafts that we could recognize as such?

Yes. That is, they almost certainly use objects made out of actual atoms to travel it or whatever the hell. There are almost no hints, with the possible exception of dark matter, in even the most speculative of well -grounded physics, of anything else they could be using. So that's the the null hypothesis. And the mere presence of that object in an interaction is enough to recognize it with high confidence as a vehicle.

People get too obsessed with the idea of technology indistinguishable from magic. Physics is still real, still imposes hard constraints on technology, and our tech is already sufficiently shaped by those constraints that other things within those constraints will at least be recognizable with some effort. We may not know how it works right away, but that's a very different question.
https://paperswithcode.com/paper/zip-nerf-anti-aliased-grid-...
AWS introduces container image signing
instant-ngp ([1]) from NVIDIA can render NeRF in VR in real-time, assuming a very good desktop video card. Note that instant-ngp is not as photo-realistic as Zip-NeRF. But it's still very good!

1. https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp
Plus it literally didn't load half the time.
You might appreciate Superman Red Son which explores what could have happened if Kal-El landed on a Ukrainian farm instead of Kansas. It's obviously got bias but it's fun to think about what happens if all the hero "stuff" didn't happen in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son
Thats a totally different scenario though. AVIF and JPEG XL both have gaps, contemporary adoption makes sense. Its like trying to argue "we dont need PNG, we have jpeg"
Thymer has real-time multiplayer with CRDT based synchronization. With org-mode you can collaborate, but you'd have to DIY with git or something similar. Thymer is also end-to-end encrypted. With org-mode you'd have to self-host something to sync with your phone.

Org-mode is text based, Thymer has a document graph. Advantages of the graph approach is you can nest as much as you want and zoom in on any part of the graph. You can transclude sections and have references and backlinks. With text based approaches you have to sprinkle location identifiers (guids or relative paths typically) into your document so you can track the location as files gets edited. But guids are awkward and paths can result in broken (back)links. We built Thymer as a document graph from the ground up. Tree mutations don't break (back)links.

With Thymer every node in the graph has metadata. Who last edited it? When? Where did it move from? Previous versions? For text paragraphs this isn't super useful, but when you have tasks this metadata is very useful.

org-mode on a phone? I'm sure there are apps for that, but I think it's designed with a keyboard in mind. Thymer uses the (subjectively) more modern command palette approach where you don't have to remember as many shortcuts, and it also translates more easily to touchscreen devices.
"Ships" feels really really anthropomorphic.
I mean, sure, the odds are not zero. But they seem very, very, very, very close to zero (to me).

And then the odds go down further that they have tech that can move them 10,000+ light years in a palatable amount of time/energy for them to visit Earth.

Then the odds go down further by the fact that, if they exist with that broad a view of the universe, Earth is almost certainly not worth visiting.

Then the odds go down further by the fact that we have allegedly detected and recovered them?

Not zero but it really is astronomically low, even if you have high conviction the universe is actually teeming with life.
What does it even mean for a program to be well-typed if that program has "use-after-free errors, memory corruption etc. etc."? A program with C-style undefined behaviour could ipso facto fail with a type error on any given line.
It can run under FEX or box64 though
The best description I know is https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/258/whats-new-in-s..., which refers to a few Swift Evolution docs:

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

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

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

The first is explicitly marked as “Implementation: Swift 5.9, without no-implicit-copy constraint”, but it seems the others also ¿partly? are in.
USSR was a superpower before it failed. Russia, not so much.

Anyway, I noticed you're writing about the image of being so, so nevermind...
"yep, we've got aliums, folks"?

And now I'm trying to imagine aliens that look like members of the onion family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion
No Vulkan drivers. Will need that before anyone tries to do much with proton.
Impossible. The EU is more legally united after war that we are being all neighbors in peace. The fragility of the legal system in LATAM is a nightmare. It can change from day to night and the law is arbitrary. There is never a precise right or wrong. Chile is the most organized country but now the one with more potential.
Their podcast app accepts a url to any podcast feed anywhere on the web. Apple never stores the actual audio like Spotify and Google. They’ve also had a documented API that doesn’t require any API key to their podcast directory that other podcast apps can and do use since 2005.

As far as music, when the music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM to other players, Jobs posted “Thoughts on Music” to the front page of Apple.com where he tried to convince the record labels to license all music DRM free to all of the sellers.

Apple never had a monopoly on ebooks and was sued for letting the book sellers set their own prices.

The amount transacted on mobile is closer to 60/40 in Apple’s favor.
> Given how ambitious the hardware package is, the software paradigm is surprisingly conservative.

I actually see this as a bit less surprising. After all, if you change the hardware in a big way, and you change the software in a big way, users will have a harder time adjusting to the new platform. Instead, they're making a big leap on the hardware side, keeping legacy apps and concepts, and then will presumably iterate to more 'native' experiences that were previously impossible/unimaginable/unintuitive.
Or when they're good enough to actually try identify objects, they're birthday balloons like the mylar batman one with its very distinctive profile.