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> The “declassified” UAP videos so far are rote footage containing easily debunked garbage. Why would the military release lens flare videos and claim they’re UAP? They could be blithering idiots not knowing they’re looking at lens flare, which is probably less likely than knowing it’s BS and claiming it’s UAP with some ulterior motive. So, psyop.

A more mundane possibility: Someone thought, "Hey, you know, if there are aliens doing thing secretly, we'd want to know about it, right? And also, there are always going to be these stories, and if our answer is always, 'No that's probably lens flare', people are going to think we're trying to cover something up. So how about we just make a policy, that any time someone has unexplained phenomena, we log it properly? Either we'll get a long track record of nothing-burgers, or we'll actually find something. Or, maybe we'll have 50 years of nothing-burgers, followed by something actually different, and we'll have a solid 'baseline' from which to look into the new phenomenon."
Exactly my way of thinking. I do appreciate cryptocurrency innovations, but so many scams and frauds made it unappealing. I ignore almost everything related to crypto now. I think the breaking point for me was Ledger leak.
We have a pretty good idea about physics and can say with very high confidence that interstellar travel needs a lot of energy. That makes aliens visiting us with small crafts for fun an unlikely theory.
Ian Buck's 2004 prediction is still 10 years before 2014. I did not say Apple invented unified memory, it just got popular with Apple Silicon, and looking at local LLM inference on M1/M2 and the 192 GB of memory M2 Ultra allows, it will surely get more important.
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I was thinking about the number of free services we consume and how in some ways we default to that on the internet. But then the question arises. What do we actually pay for? What attributes enough value to pay for something? So I pose the question. What internet services do you pay for?
As a business owner, either you can grow or you can’t (eg., snack shop). If you can grow, then each additional new person you hire can do 3x more for the money. This is why unemployment will stay low and wages relatively high— individuals are able to be so much more productive in growing businesses.
While I am aware that there's prior use (centuries ago even) "layman writing" jumps at me a lot less than current use of things like ask, spend etc as nouns.
I’m sure the info. is in one of the WWDC videos, but I imagine the hover effect could be activated by the OS without notifying the webpage.
This is philosophical BS. A species is a species. Is a technical term [more or less] well defined that is the basis of all live sciences. Is also the product of millions years of evolution so when lost, is irreplaceable.

> Why should we care

This is exactly the problem, that animalist evangelists don't care. They do it just for the dopamine rush and the sweet money while avoiding carefully to notice the negative consequences of their acts.

Animalists have a tunnel vision focused in individuals and about not activating a particular random type of receptors (that evolved as a life-saving mechanism). They are blind or cynical about everything else. When we scratch the surface there is a lot of cargo cult ideas, tons of magical thinking and very outdated XVII century scientific knowledge. With luck we can see a thin and unstable crust of real knowledge on life sciences at most.
Siri has been atrocious for going on a decade now. How much longer does it have to be terrible before we can say the people at Apple don't dogfood?

Hell it was bad as a voice assistant now it's gonna get lapped by other companies releasing personalized AI assistants.
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Hyperbole. Advertisers backed away from Twitter because Musk was upsetting a group of people whom advertisers tend to tiptoe around. Twitter is terrible, but it's no more terrible now than it was when Musk bought it.
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The reverse is also true which makes your entire point hypocritically paradoxical. If a human makes it we immediately assume it can be computed (creativity). That is the strong claim which I think requires the burden of proof.
I'm an Atari ST guy myself, so now we can never be friends... But I gave you an upvote either way. ;) Jk, I had a lot of fun with Amigas too, when I grew up.

I remember pitching my tent in somewhere in the deep forests of Västra Götaland in Sweden. I had found the perfect spot with a soft, mossy surface. Little did I know that I'd get no sleep at all, due to the entire place being infested with rodents running like mad underneath before I got into real trouble.

When it started to dusk, I noticed slow thumping and the cracking of twigs beyond the small hill across the road not far from me, so I unzipped the opening and stuck my head out of the tent to see what was going on.

Then after a while, some majestic antlers crested the hill, and the biggest moose I've ever seen appeared before me. It was clearly minding its own business and having a great day. Until it saw me, that is.

It stopped dead in its tracks while ogling me. Then it snarled and sighed heavily, kind of like Sprocket - the dog in the Fraggle Rock Show - would make when fed up. It was clearly annoyed. Then it slowly turned, and trotted the other way, obviously quite irritated by having met some dumb camper.

During the night it got much worse, however. Except now it was pitch black. Suddenly I noticed the thumping again, from the same direction as earlier. And it was coming closer.

But this time, when I stuck my head out of the tent, I couldn't see anything. The night was pitch black. I couldn't even make out the stars in the sky. So, I quickly decided that it was a bad idea to light the torch. I didn’t want to become the only lighted target in all that darkness.

Meanwhile twigs were cracking. And the thumping just became louder and louder, and closer and closer. Thump.... Thump.... Crack some twigs.... Thump.... It was really slow, but also deliberate. And it was clearly headed straight for my tent, even though I couldn't see anything in the dark. For each thump the dread in me kept increasing.

At first, I tried yelling at it. This would stop the thumping for a bit, like the animal was assessing what was going on and sniffing the air for a bit. But then he just continued. So, I pulled out some pans I had and started desperately clanking them together while yelling into the night. But to no avail. The slow thumping just continued. Coming ever closer. Towards my tent. I've never felt so small and helpless in my entire life.

At some point I decided that I'd had enough, and I ran like a panicked little chicken to the car parked a few hundred metres away. Then I simply waited until I couldn't hear the thumping anymore and went back and dismantled the tent and slept in the car.

I had lost, and the King of the Forest had won.
There might be some confusion in these replies related to the gp's mixture of two terms. g = gravity of the earth which varies and the gravitational constant G which is a Constant and the same across the universe.
India drops evolution and periodic table from some school textbooks
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That's because pretty much every country on the planet has some form of organized search&rescue and emergency medical services. Before that, it was much more common.

You also have to take into account that dealing with other people is much trickier than dealing with animals - and potentially much more dangerous.

Animals are simpler and predictable. There's only so much one can do to you if it gets aggressive - that's by selection, as if you found a wounded lion or other similarly dangerous animal, you'd likely shoot it dead rather than try and nurse it back to health. Can't exactly do that with humans.

Then, at high level, animal motivations are simple - avoiding threats, securing food, surviving. Humans can lie, cheat, rob you, or rape you. On the one hand, most people won't do that. On the other hand, real injuries requiring taking someone in are rare enough that staged ones are non-negligible possibility to consider. That, and acts of opportunity.

In short: humans are dangerous. If it were any other animal, we'd put it out of its misery too.

Fortunately, this too is something emergency services solve - instead of taking someone in privately, you need to, at most, shelter them short-term, and the moment you call 911 / 112, emergency response and law enforcement organizations of your country become involved, instantly granting you a large degree of protection. All that makes being helpful much easier than in the past.
"but who are any of us to say what is possible or what is not"

It's usually not a 50/50 percent probability on whether something is possible or exists.

ECREE is a good rule to follow when trying to come up with probabilities lacking direct evidence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

For example imagine I told you I own a pencil. Would you ask me to prove it or doubt me? Even you don't know or trust me, probably not. Why? Because pencils exist, it's easy to get one, and I have no reason to lie (in this scenario).

Now what if I told you I have an invisibility cloak. You'd call me a liar and want proof, hell probably an in person demonstration. Think about why.

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"I'm sure that a century ago, space was just something we would never reach."

Whether or not aliens exist is not the same as not reaching space. Say it's the year 1876-
1. Aliens may or may not exist, it's unknown
2. it's a true fact that humans haven't gone to space.

I get that you mean the amount of technological advancment in the last 300 years has been crazy.

The reason the burden of proof is on whether something occurred or exists is because the number of events that haven't occured and what doesn't exist is infinite.

Finally you also ask about who is to say and I assume you also mean "why not". There's always a downside to believing false things, maybe it's small for some people or maybe a crazy person adds aliens to the pile of "government lies" then decides to shoot up some government agency.
In many cases, multiple implementations are included and one is chosen to utilize the best instruction supported by the CPU. Example code: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
> Ideally, we would not classify the work week in terms of hours worked, but rather by productivity.

This is exactly what is happening, but on a slower and more noisy timescale that you'd expect. That's why we work less than people 100 years ago, and yet make so much more money.
You'd have better luck trying to measure a neutron with a bathroom scale.
most probably you are right. But I could imagine crosshairs are not needed anymore with highly accurate eye tracking, you would just intuitively know where you are aiming anyways.
I've also seen the other side where the argument is:

"we should be doing things correctly from the start"

2 years later:

"the maintenance of custom doesn't deliver business value and makes recruitment and on-boarding increasingly difficult. We should rewrite in $framework since it's well known, maintained and flexible enough to do whatever they need"

...
Any interest in redoing the web console in Rust? 8)
The word is pwned, not pawned, by the way. I suspect your autocorrect, as well as op’s has had it’s way with your prose.

I often wonder how much autocorrect will shape the evolution of language.
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What do you think of this article. https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/ai-camera-imagines-a-photo-o...

It's not exactly what you've said, but it itches a scratch from around there.
ggml or Intel TBB?
No - we're discussing whether someone producing stock photography can be trained in the same sense as a.i. However, I will give you that I'm potentially falsely assuming creativity is required to a comparable degree to art.

Also, gun-to-my-head I would not bet on creativity being systemetizable, so I completely disagree.
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Dominic Toretto and the late Brian O’Connor’s wife were recently honored at an event at the colosseum in Rome though. We live in a world of vibrant contrasts.
Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)
Yeah like open minded or something.
I use seafowl hosted on Cloud Run for a side project for Swedish Real Estate data. Around a million rows, seafowl works great!

One killer feature (aside from scaling to zero) is that the queries can be constructed as GET requests. That means we can cache the query results with cloudflare.

I have it exposed here if you want to write some SQL and check it out live: https://bostadsbussen.se/sold/query
Beats me, but there has never been a stock I've been more eager to short.
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If they do that, that’s basically giving up on Metal. It would become an implementation detail.

Also, whenever the Direct3D API changes, they would have to follow. That makes them dependent on Microsoft and means they’d always lag them.

Because of that, I don’t see them open this up.
I did not say Apple invented unified memory, just that Ian Buck's prediction was 16 years before Apple Silicon. Also, in practice, is not only about unified memory, but also performance. The Intel chip with integrated graphics is able to boil an egg with the heat it dissipates, the M1/M2 are cool as if not even running while handling way more workload.
Basically, ultra high dynamic range.
This. It's annoying that people forget or ignore that. Within any population large enough, it's a matter of basic probability that you're going to see a number of inexplicable deaths, suicides, rare diseases, mental illness, bullshitters and notorious liars, disgruntled employees out for a revenge, conspiracy theorists, Qanon followers, and so on and so forth.
It may be cheaper to pay 100K than take a massive PR hit by fighting it (and likely losing anyway). They are running a big company afterall.
I mean, watchOS has a killer app already: Telling the time (without picking up your phone).
I guess I'll just add one to the number of "people who say they want peace, but can't answer the most simple question about keeping peace". One day I'll receive an answer, I'm sure!
Are British libertarian political views akin to an American ones: tiny government, lack of regulations, social liberalism, and fiscal conservatism?

The American libertarianism brand is tainted by the Koch brothers and their CATO institute, a think-tank that put out false IPCC "addendums" in furtherance of denying climate change and promulgation of junk science to support industrial pollution and deregulation.

https://whistleblower.org/politicization-of-climate-science/...
>"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"

This. Is. The. WORST of misconceptions.

Consider: When you solve problems, you discover new problems. When you start answering questions, you get new questions.

Rational thinking will solve problems and create problems, it’s endless. It doesn’t mean we give up on rational thinking!
My feeling is that they're prepping us for full disclosure. The evidence and witnesses that were seeing more recently are less fringe and more mainstream. They also don't seem to be trying as hard to debunk claims as they used to. The fact that the Guardian has covered this seriously is quite surprising, they usually treat this issue like a joke.
> Ironically, I feel like I've experienced more bugs after the switch than before

Not ironic, expected. When you do a refactor like this any good PM knows you’re creating a bunch of new bugs, and the ROI of the rewrite should consider this.

Unfortunately the way it goes most of the time is “ok, what if we’re really careful not to write any bugs? Then it’s all upside!”

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That's actually untrue to me as a professional artist. A.I. art has shown me that cheap permutations (which have been done in art even before A.I.) can still capture the untrained eye. I don't think that's anything particularly new.

And absolutely, however creativity is the tip of the spear which pushes beyond constraints to develop novel AND meaningful style (like Beksinski, Kopera, Kostetsky, Moebius, etc).

Nice try.
It is mostly from people that see UNIX everywhere, and are stuck in CLI applications mindset, or shipping Chrome disguised as application framework.
Nice! I found https://d2lang.com via your link, and thought it warranted a separate submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224084
It's the same song every time Apple releases a new product. Yes, bits and pieces have been present in a variety of already existing products, but there is simply no one single existing product you could compare this one to. And history has simply shown that Apple usually gets a lot of things right and is a main driver in mass adoption. I don't know if that's gonna be the case here, since it's still "a lot" to put on something intrusive like that on your face for most people, but it's just not right to compare it directly to a Quest or something.

Similarly, sure, maybe NReal and BigScreen have done something similar and were earlier in doing so. But they simply don't have the same audience Apple does. I get the frustration -- we shouldn't credit Apple as the sole inventor of all good things. But they are usually really good in stitching a lot of good things together and releasing them in a single product that usually turns out fairly successful.
My theory on this is that intelligence, language and culture are surrounded by very high local maxima and we only got over the hump and down into our minima by incredibly slim chance.

So our original evolutionary advantages were persistance hunting & rock throwing (ranged weapons). This gave us such a huge advantage that we had enough excess energy we could start to develop bigger brains, language and culture (tools). For it to be possible we needed:

* Huge evolutionary advantages (rock throwing? fire to cook? walking upright? sweating?)

* Vocal chords that would let us develop language

* Hands that would let us make tools

And once we have that we can start to evolve intelligence and shared culture. But for a very very long time this was evolving a trait that is an actual hinderance. So we also need for that to be our 'peacocks tail'. A costly trait that is selected _for high cost and total uselessness_. And that trait could've been practically anything else!

Imaigne all the worlds where ranged weapons are developed by a species which just can't do language. Or where they can't make tools only throw rocks they find with their evolved longbow like limbs. They'd conquer the world but that would be it. And that world is now too well optimised for another animal to develop intelligence, they can't afford it.

If this is the case life could be wildly abundant but 'intelligence' more or less unheard of. This is infact what we see in the historical record on earth, there were many epocs of dinosaurs, as far as we know none of them shaped rocks for throwing, had language or developed cultures. In the time we've been around no indepdent intelligent species have evolved (we only see evidence of ones with a common ancestor.)

I think the drake equation suffers from the same fallacy that seems to beset everyone talking about AI. Intelligence is over-rated, it is not a linear thing or a super power where more of it is always better and can solve any problem. It's incredibly costly and often quite useless. Our actual problem solving is more down to trial and error at the level of culture than we like to admit to ourselves.
Wearing a VR helmet at a family event is a big NO. I'd rather use a tech that would use footage from multiple cameras in the room, then build a sort of 3D-recording of some moment that I would be able to immerse myself in later, with full freedom of movement and pause-rewind.

Of course it would need some tech to fill in the blind zones obscured from cameras, but likely with generative AI and data from before and after the occlusion occurred such technology seems plausible.
Imo it's only right to have something that is made of public goods (i.e. everyone's data and human historic record) to become a public good in itself.
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What is the paradox of both humans and machines showing signs of creativity?
It's off topic however on the people page[0] of the above link, I enjoyed going through to try and spot the photoshopped in ones!

[0]https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-cold-matter/people/
Again and again the US-only narrative. First modern long-range three-wire three-phase transmission was implemented by Dobrovolsky in Germany. Tesla invented and advertised his 6-wire system at first.
I never said it can't. And you're mistaken unfortunately - it is extremely difficult to prove a negative, as most people trained in philosophy intimately understand. For instance, "prove God is NOT real".
> Why does everyone have MacBook Pros these days? Prior to Apple Silicon, it certainly wasn't the hardware.

It’s not like it was better built or had a better screen than cheaper alternatives or anything.
If old Reddit goes so do a lot of users.
Well, I was just replying to your point:

> It's not, but I find it distasteful when people are feeling sad for the crab being boiled, while children are dying of hunger in Yemen because of politicians and their enablers.

The issue why I'm "missing the point" is pretty simple: you say we can only pay attention to one of the two things, but you haven't shown that to be the case. You're just saying that's how it is.

I know you believe that attempting these things sequentially will save more human lives. But until you've shown me that we really can only pay attention to one of the two, sequential attempts will only prolong animal suffering, not shorten human suffering!
I never said it can't. And you're mistaken unfortunately - it is extremely difficult to prove a negative, as most people trained in philosophy intimately understand. For instance, "prove God is NOT real". You might be new to analytical thinking, and I would recommend diving a bit deeper into "burden of proof" type arguments before proceeding further.
Sure, for a well built standards compliant website making appropriate use of HTML elements. There are a lot of websites that do their own thing, use lots of custom Javascript, where standard browser features like tabbing through their elements don't work, and they don't work well with existing accessibility tools. I'm skeptical that an OS or browser level feature is going to be able to make sense of them. That's their fault, but it's the reality of a huge part of the web.
The possible shapes of life are much bigger than the universe.

The chances of intelligent life existing outside Earth are lower than the chance of that same intelligent life speaking flawless Swedish. We might as well send some Europop records to space as signals to aliens.

"Intelligence" is a human invention created by humans to describe humanity. It only applies to humans and human-like beings.
Hence why JITs have some advantages when shipping software, at the cost of a few extra MBs.