skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor that cryptocurrency doesn't create value out of nowhere -- for every person who "built generational wealth" (gag) by speculating on cryptocurrency, there's probably quite a few people who lost money. It's a zero-sum system.
I think you mean possible rather than plausible? But otherwise I would say you're right, it's an exercise for personal amusement. But I think as you can see from elsewhere even in this thread, people slip into this mode of half-joking where they might as well be describing their ideas for Deus Ex fan missions, and the dividing line between serious engagement with evidence and make believe is breaking down.
Why? It's only been out for a day, you telling me everyone's already had their run at hacking it? That seems like pretending you know what folks will do with this thing.
It seems like a more effective blackmail scheme than "here's some obviously AI generated images of you, imagine the shame!" would be "you uploaded pics to deepnude.cc on June 6 and we used facial recognition to find out it's your coworker. Should we tell them?"
Counterexample: Kant.
I’m sure you’re aware, but this is known as the Fermi Paradox (for people who want to do more reading).
> someone mentioned that the singularity wasn't a place in space, it was a location in time.

That was me.

> That made me think; the mass of a BH isn't the mass of a volume of space, it's the mass of the "singularity"

This is not correct. The mass of the hole is not somehow "concentrated" at the singularity. There is no matter anywhere inside a black hole. The "mass" of the hole is a global property of its spacetime geometry.

> "singularity", which (presumably?) is located at the center of the space described by the event horizon.

Your presumption is wrong. There is no "center" of the black hole in the ordinary sense. Its spacetime geometry simply doesn't work that way; it is not like the spacetime geometry inside an ordinary spherical object.

> So there must be a place where the singularity is located

Wrong. See above.

> and there must be a direction towards it.

There is such a spacetime direction, but it's a timelike direction--towards the future--not a spacelike direction.

> Someone else suggested there are two things: a mathematical singularity and a gravitational singularity, and that they aren't the same.

That is not correct.
I believe they meant "minimum wage always, then with any tips they get added to it", not "minimum wage if tips aren't enough to get them there"
> function because of crypto that wouldn't function with regular money, and which also are not fraud?

More things then just fraud are illegal.
It's AGPL?
Which negative behavioral outcome and my reason for being concerned is absurd?
Or, they know that you're exactly the person who might have a psychological fracture when actual evidence actually emerges from the cloistered tower.
> I'm not sure how that relates to falling into a BH

The special relativistic effect you describe has nothing whatever to do with falling into a BH.
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Defrag breaks COW so if you use COW a lot (e.g. snapshots) you don't want to do it.
I have a good friend who went down that rabbithole instead of seeking help and it's consumed him. The obsession is so bad that he lost multiple jobs and became homeless so he can focus on literally talking to aliens using the methods Greer sells. He gives what little money he has to grifers like Greer and the cottage industry that popped up to take money from those with the beliefs he promotes.

I'm familiar with the hopelessness, there's really not much you can do but try to help nudge them into healthier directions without being overt enough for them to shut you out for denying their beliefs.

I've had some success with things like Mirage Men and Mick West's work in helping them understand that there's a lot of manipulation in that space and that not everything can be assumed to be aliens, and it's helped a little, but I've found that they just integrate that information into their belief system. Those people are lying about aliens/UFOs, and that UAP was just a weather balloon, but everything else is real. They've been more discerning about who they give their money to, though, which is a good thing.
I'm not opposed to it under all circumstances. What worries me is that people will do it under too many circumstances and fail to engage with the real thing. That seems like a tremendous loss of social opportunity which I'd argue is already occurring with technology today.
JPEG XL is a collaboration between a team at Google Research Zurich and Cloudinary. AVIF is no small part developed by Chrome developers. Treating Google as a unified monolith doesn't make any sense. It's perfectly possible for Chrome to behave like 90s Microsoft and for the Googlers in Zurich to do completely different things.
It depends on how pessimistic you are about human nature. If humans are doomed to perish because of their own stupidity, greed, and fragile flesh, then AI is the only hope for humans. What this means is: you can’t expect aliens or gods to come and save us.
When the Asahi alpha released dropped last March, it was stable and functional enough to become my daily driver. And since then the pace of development has been steady and impressive - I actually look forward to every 'pacman -Syu'.

If someone told me 20 years ago that I'd be using an Apple-made ARM workstation running Linux to do all of my development work today, I would have never believed them.
just a heads up this post is likely going to the creepy backrooms of algolia https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
What official backing?
It's trivially easy to keep covering something up, even with information leaks, if the vast majority of the public disbelieves the entire premise from the get-go.
As I recall this was explicitly spelled out as the reason when the Pentagon first started being more open about their UAP programs. I can't find the source now because "UAP" is ungoogleable now under all the sensationalized sources.

EDIT—found it with "site:*.mil":

> The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pre...
Great point- these are reasons why we have the regulation we have today in our current banking system, and why any financial system that doesn't have any ability to be regulated (i.e. crypto) is massively problematic and ends up with 99% of people being fleeced out of their assets (as we've seen in the crypto space).
They do have something called Firefox Sync. It doesn't do that though.
Right, so: it's just another VR headset, just beefier. Have you not been paying attention to Meta's Quest and the like? Modern VR headsets are computers, they run their own OS, with applications/games loaded onto the device itself, and they can be used as a VR display client for other operating systems.

This is an M2 computer strapped to your head: it can bloody well do VR, let's see what folks do with this device that Apple never asked them to, but they do anyway because Apple doesn't get to tell them how to use their overpriced hardware (especially if the moment you buy it, the buyback is $50 if you're lucky)
(2011)

And not much has changed since then.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154
Friedman had an ex CIA guy on his podcast and he explained how the daily intelligence report worked. Basically the president told them which things he was most interested in. That was in the front and the rest was more CIA judgement.

The CIA is (supposed to) serve at the pleasure of the president.
Guy Built an Airsoft Phalanx CIWS in His Garage
pip supports lock files. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_freeze/
The idea that this Grusch guy just doesn't get jokes and brought some offhand comment all the way to whistleblower status is pretty funny. Honestly this guy seems pretty competent and I'd sooner believe a psyop or Meta paying someone off to throw off press coverage during the Apple event than that. A couple of offhand remarks wouldn't drive someone this far.
"disturbing" or just "more like nature"?

Watch some wildlife videos (also plenty on YouTube) and you'll see animals being eaten alive by other animals.
Can you point out what's happening in the video? I don't see anything
Cryptocoins are far from the only topic that get people to be very insistent about clearly bad takes.
From years of observing first-hand how hard it is to develop software, I’m shocked that Apple continually makes products that fit their aesthetic (eg. The crown and headband evoking the Apple Watch) and have coherent and mostly-baked software on launch like this. Is there a book about how they’re able to operate at scale and deliver such consistent things? Do they just have an insanely good product team? How do they document requirements? It’s fascinating to me, because I think it’s their real competitive advantage - they get to the finish line with product that would make sense to a single, invested, super smart person, instead of a pile of inconsistencies and incoherencies that contradict each other as you move through the application. The only other product I feel is delivered at Apple’s level is CloudFlare, and I think that’s why they’ve grown so fast.
> We’re on like season eight or nine of this show and it’s the same plot every time around.

Until it's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
well there was that time [0] Rudy Giuliani wore them like a space-alien, that was kind of funny.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rudy+guiliani+air+pods&ia=images&i...
step 1: Throw shit against the wall
step 2: See what sticks
step 3: Amplify that messaging
step 4: Exercise power through providing spectacle and influencing attention
step 5: Pacify with spectacle or agitate differences through amplified narratives to create chaos or division

Am I insane for thinking that nation state manipulation of social media narrative is a more likely explanation for the upsurge of UFO/alien related media in the last 2-5 years than "otherworldly" craft?
Yes, that's what I'm saying. My post was a video! But there's also an article, ha ha ha! :) There's lots of content about this story now. And the Guardian and Fox have now picked it up. Which is good I guess. Apparently there will be much more testimony from Grusch dropping on the "Need to Know" podcast soon.
The title made me hungry.

Nothing beats lobster with warm butter.
Nothing on the scale of WWII.
Absolutely one thousand million.
This all makes sense. I've been there. Open source is a nice-to-have when you don't have the revenue you need, and I'm personally guilty of pursuing revenue first on virtually every project I've been on. It's hard not to when you don't have a safety net yet.

> I appreciate the advice

I'm glad it wasn't annoying!
You know this never occurred to be before, but seams obvious in hindsight. It popped into my head while reading your comments.

If you can flash a light bright enough to be seen by other civilization you can communicate with them at light speed. Then once you convince your communication partners to build machines and run programs you send them, your AI's can "travel" at light speed.

Once the AI has arrived it can start communicating without the light speed lag and things really start moving. The AI could build UFO's locally using the science and tech of its own culture.

If your aliens are just data, light speed travel doesn't sound that far fetched.
I'll save my judgement for the inevitable Joe Rogan interview
> while the bot handles my coworkers

Or it handles their bots ;)
From Apple's visionOS page, re: Accessibility
(https://developer.apple.com/visionos/)

"And for people who prefer a different way to navigate content, Pointer Control lets them select their index finger, wrist, or head as an alternative pointer."

This reads to me like they've got you covered (at least in principle).
Yes, technology can be used for good.

What is the point of all of the rest?
Hah, even without the hacking angle, having URLs to promote shit popup when you point your camera somewhere could be the next obnoxious advertising.

For a few years now phone cameras have been able to automatically detect QR codes, maybe their next feature will be an option to turn off "smart features"...
Companies don't accept suggestions due to legal liability. She should start a startup and maybe it will be either acquired or copied by Apple.
It's a fallacy. The predisposition to gambling that led you to speculate in the first place in Bitcoin also caused you to lose the asset. You should consider these traits as a pair, and recognize that everyone has similar pairs of traits. I did not gamble and never had much Bitcoin to lose in the first place. Those opposite pairs of traits led to similar results. What would be rare and truly remarkable is to have precisely the right traits to the situation, at all the right times.
I have hundreds of sites in my password database. Can you remember hundreds of random 32 character strings? I can't and I think there are very few humans who can
If he COULD prove it, he would have. He did not.
The OpenBSD man pages say that isspace, et al come from Version 7 Unix, which was released in 1979. The C89 rationale seems to suggest that they copied this pre-existing API.

Rationle section 4.3 says[1],

> Pains were taken to eliminate any ASCII dependencies from the definition of the character handling functions. One notable result of this policy was the elimination of the function isascii, both because of the name and because its function was hard to generalize.

Rationale section 2.2.1 says[2],

> The Committee ultimately came to remarkable unanimity on the subject of character set requirements. There was strong sentiment that C should not be tied to ASCII, despite its heritage and despite the precedent of Ada being defined in terms of ASCII. ...

but it also makes clear that their goal wasn't a perfectly generalized locale framework, but something sufficient for writing a C compiler, i.e. to distinguish character classes relevant to C source code,

> ... Rather, an implementation is required to provide a unique character code for each of the printable graphics used by C, and for each of the control codes representable by an escape sequence. (No particular graphic representation for any character is prescribed --- thus the common Japanese practice of using the glyph ¥ for the C character \ is perfectly legitimate.) Translation and execution environments may have different character sets, but each must meet this requirement in its own way. The goal is to ensure that a conforming implementation can translate a C translator written in C.

[1] http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/rationale/d3.html#ASCII-4-3

[2] http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/rationale/b.html#Ada-2-2-1
Upvoted, simulation is outside of morality
Pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs) are the underbelly of the broken drug system. Politicians, lobbyists and these PBMs collude together to screw everyone else.
I think you can largely find your answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356857

tl;dr: frustration towards people in the cryptocurrency scene, feeling they've gained wealth through luck rather than skill or hard work. Also a disdain for how some cryptocurrencies are overzealously promoted.

It was the top comment of a 640 comments thread, so it presumably had a lot of up votes and is representative of how HN feels about cryptocurrency.

Unfortunately, the low quality discussion on crypto related threads dates back a long time and some of us just got tired of always correcting the same misinformation and low effort criticism.
Waymo agrees: https://waymo.com/research/block-nerf/
> What is it about crypto that causes us to lose our minds?

There may simply not be that much that is novel to be said about this. The SEC's complaint was discussed at length yesterday. This order is a prophylactic procedure tied to the complaint. It seems even the best of us fill vacuums with tribal genuflection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTHB8iC1C0E
We need to stop using the term “conspiracy” alone. Instead a conspiracy probability should be associated with every such theory.

As a strawman, a conspiracy which requires 10K people or more to pull it off gets assigned 0.0, while a single person conspiracy is assigned 1.0.

So anytime someone tells you about a conspiracy theory, ask them to estimate the conspiracy factor.

Examples of high conspiracy factor theory’s would be sports with a single, extremely important player (a goalie) for example since only one person needs to be corrupted.

An example of a low conspiracy factor theory would be the Moon landing as 1000s of people would need to be corrupted.
A Constraint Programming Solver Guided by Reinforcement Learning (2021)
If you are curious about how Christianity in particular would need to react you could read CS Lewis’ essay “Religion and Rocketry”.

We Christians would need to answer these questions:

1. Are there animals anywhere else besides earth?

2. If yes, do any of these animals have what we call ‘rational souls’? That is, are they spiritual beings?

3. If there are such spiritual beings, are any or all of them, like us, fallen?

4. If any of them have fallen, have they been denied Redemption by the Incarnation and Passion of Christ? Christ could have come to those worlds also.

5. Finally, if all of the first four questions could be answered yes, is it certain that this is the only possible mode of Redemption?

https://www.cslewis.com/religion-and-rocketry/
I agree. In general, accumulation of knowledge in accessible form and access to knowledge had been good for humans. And our AI is not an alien to us. It’s just our books compressed.

Now, there could be a problem, when a bad actor applies massive amounts of knowledge towards destructive purposes. If you let anyone to purchase an assault rifle or a nuke, there surely be increased likelihood that an assault rifle or a nuke will be used. The situation is a bit similar with an AI. Refined knowledge is dangerous.
>based on your knowledge of known physics.

Right, and for exactly that reason, it enjoys the advantage over competing theories.
Agreed. The various scriptures would simply be reinterpreted to align with our current understanding.

Even if some scripture explicitly stated that aliens do not exist, the existence of aliens would not disprove, or even diminish the possibility of the existence of God. From the perspective of practitioners it would simply mean that whoever wrote that scripture misunderstood what was told to them. In other words, man is fallible, and easily forgiven for misinterpreting the word of God. I honestly believe that the arrival of aliens wouldn't even prove to be a minor speed bump for organized religion.
In the beginning he seemed to get a significant number of credible witnesses to essentially say what the USG admitted last fall- UFO's are real, and no, we do not know what they are.

I'm sure that at some point he became unhireable and needed to make money any way he could... and that's when the grifts began.

I think he's a mixed bag who unfortunately had to taint himself in order to actually make some money.
> "in ways similar to how people do it"

What can I google to learn more about this?
Do the various brain scientists agree?
Yet octopuses, crabs, and lobsters are supposedly now "sentient" according to some, but they'll essentially do the same things to their prey?

Those with "animal rights" fetishes never made any sense to me, and the discussion here is just more of the same nonsense.
If a ZFS dataset goes over 80% utilization, I understand it will switch from "first fit" to "best fit" which can permanently and severely impact performance.

https://serverfault.com/questions/733817/does-the-max-80-use...
Wow, this struck a nerve.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinyclouds

Looks like he's still all in on Javascript with Deno? Interesting.

I wonder what, if anything, has changed in his perspective.
Coming from a Dart context here where that team is also looking at adding Macros to the language. It was really interesting to compare and contrast some of the approaches https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr...
Not a wiki article, but From Bacteria to Bach and Back is more or less about this very subject.
The interesting thing about this is that there is now evidence (see: Navy videos), and we have also seen what the US government does to people who try to show classified documents as evidence (see: Snowden, Manning, Assange, etc)
From wiki:

>Saccades to an unexpected stimulus normally take about 200 milliseconds (ms) to initiate, and then last from about 20–200 ms, depending on their amplitude (20–30 ms is typical in language reading).

Are you sure? Seems like plenty of time - even current iphone camera since many generations have 240fps and most android even handle 720fps mode - current iphones should handle it probsbly even in software (except their camera has quite high latency last time when tested) but they handle it in hardware R1 chip anyway. Since they using probably something like truedepth IR pattern projector, with 720fps grayscale camera should be easy to have very fast motion detector just checking only regions around dots
So your argument is "I don't personally experience any of this, so I'm not convinced it's a problem"?

Interesting argument. It's kinda Main Character Syndrome though. There is a counter-argument which goes: "Bad things happen even when you're not around to witness them. We should probably do something about them".
I guess this is a five-star effort in the category of "make any discussion about Trump because I can't talk about anything else". Any on topic comments to follow?
Evolutionary Tree of Life – Homininae
My cousin ran marathons, ate well, etc. and died in his sleep of a heart attack or more likely cardiac arrest.
No, you're not insane. That's a more rational explanation than ET is.
> I can't accelerate towards next week, but I can predict when next week will happen, with extreme accuracy. Is this the same for reaching the singularity?

If you know the mass of the hole, yes, you can predict how much time will elapse on your clock between now and when you hit the singularity.

> Does the person falling (for the sake of this example let's assume they maintain consciousness) experience the passing of time as they fall further "into" the black hole?

Yes.

> If so, how long would one experiencing the falling until they reach the singularity?

A reasonable estimate for free-falling into a black hole is that the time to reach the singularity is the 3/2 power of the radial coordinate you are falling from, in units of the hole's Schwarzschild radius. If you are just crossing the hole's horizon, you are at the hole's Schwarzschild radius, so your time to reach the singularity from there would be that radius divided by the speed of light (to convert to time units instead of distance units). For a hole of 10 solar masses, for example, this time is about 100 microseconds (Schwarzschild radius of about 30 kilometers divided by the speed of light).
Combinatorial optimization and reasoning with graph neural networks (2022)