skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What can you do with this thing that you can't do with a laptop, phone or desktop computer?

Be fully productive no matter where I go. Have the same screen setup no matter where I go, so my muscle memory applies no matter where I am.
It's all fun and games... Until someone forgets to pay the annual domain fee.
Wow all that jargon sure makes it sound legit. I'm glad these military operators have produced such infallible data. When can we look at it?
It's called humor. A confusing human vanity.
I think your definition of clickbait is too narrow. For me, it includes the headline trying to gin up a controversy. But I don't really want to argue about it.
See my reply, my theory that this is psyop to bury in noise and distract from 10 years anniversary since Edward Snowden revelations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222610
The Android team posted something on that topic about 6 months ago [0, HN discussion at 1].

One potentially relevant highlight:

> To date, there have been zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code.

> Historical vulnerability density is greater than 1/kLOC (1 vulnerability per thousand lines of code) in many of Android’s C/C++ components (e.g. media, Bluetooth, NFC, etc). Based on this historical vulnerability density, it’s likely that using Rust has already prevented hundreds of vulnerabilities from reaching production.

The post has more details, and I think the entire thing is worth a read.

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819616
That's actually a misquote:

> "Ben Rich is constantly misquoted as saying “We now have the technology to take E.T home.” That is not what he said.

At the end of his presentation he showed his final slide, a picture of a disk-shaped craft – the classic “flying saucer” – flying into a partly cloudy sky with a burst of sunlight in the background and he gave his standard tagline.

It was a joke he had used in numerous presentations since 1983 when Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” a film about a young boy befriending a lost visitor from space and helping the alien get home, had become the highest-grossing film of all-time. Rich apparently decided to capitalize on this popularity. By the summer of 1983, he had added the flying saucer picture to the end of a set of between 12 and 25 slides that he showed with his lecture on the history of Lockheed’s famed Skunk Works division."
Start with a two paragraph thesis, then use the rest of the article supporting it?
Patterns and first principles seem like tactics and strategy. Both needed.

But then he makes the point that hidden information causes bewilderment. Decisions are closer to poker than chess.

Keep it humble and attentive.
What happens to my speed as I reach (hit?) the singularity 0.1s after crossing the event horizon? Do I jolt to a halt, do I continue to accelerate? Do I keep a fixed speed, but never change position?
I’m sure people can come up with games or interfaces that would work just fine.

But they also showed full support for pairing standard Xbox and PlayStation controllers and playing with those the way you can on any other Apple platform (except the watch, of course).
You'll have one in 20 years!
Not specifically ZX, but rather any non-trivial technique for modeling quantum dynamics (or some subset of such dynamics) is extremely useful: it lets you study what is the boundary between classical and quantum algorithms.

Consider that I am excited even about the worst case scenario: I am a researcher working on building quantum hardware -- if one day techniques like these show that you can actually simulate a complete quantum computer efficiently in a classical computer, then my whole field will die. But that would be a monumental win because we would have learnt incredibly deep truths about the laws of math and nature.

Or more realistically and practically, currently such techniques let us model small parts of the quantum hardware and let us make informed decisions about how to proceed with building it.
Yup. There was information about the NSA's Echelon program floating around for decades before Snowden. Check out the Public Disclosures section of this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Despite multiple whistleblowers dating back to 1972, no one took it seriously until the Snowden leaks confirmed it without any doubt. For forty years this information remained below the surface.
For #2 this exists: https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation
> The interaction paradigm you describe (where it's literally impossible to look at one window while actively using another) makes so little sense that we can almost certainly rule it out.

I think the implication is that the window you are looking at is focussed automatically. Which wouldn't work for say, typing up a document to a text editor while reading from a reference doc. That's just the beginning, I use a mouse-to-focus window manager and that happens all the time with all sorts of things.
Yup, I did get a lot of this info from Underground History of American Education.

Thank you for the citations! I appreciate your research into the topic.
That's a convenient argument and a good analogy for the UFO phenomenon, because it omits the fourth option, which is that Jesus never existed outside of a carefully constructed narrative distributed by institutional authorities with the goal of manipulating their taxpaying population.
What I think was going on: Bing opened an A/B test to test a feature (which explains why the author couldn’t reproduce everywhere). The new feature related to how search terms were classified as “Bing features”. Maybe it was some kind of threshold. Because of that change, searches for “chrome” were tagged as “Bing features” and therefore the flow for promoting Bing was triggered.

Ultimately the goal of such an experiment is to increase the uptake of Edge but they overshot it this time.
>Also: GIL.

javascript is terminally single threaded, with the only solution being either multiprocessing and message passing, or cooperative multitasking style promises/async. This is not a situtation where javascript pulls ahead, as hard as python seems to try to fall behind.
I’ve played VR games. They can be a lot of fun and very immersive.

But there are clearly still problems to solve. And some of them do involve hardware capability. Basically for the mass market they’re just not there yet.

The apple headset certainly appears to have significantly more power and capabilities in many ways. It will be interesting to see what pops up.

Though obviously a future version with a lower price will be necessary for it to truly go main stream.
Yes, it is news because subject matter is still relevant as before and CIA want people forget about this and instead think about UFOs.
The heavy numerical work is in julia, python, R, and a little custom c++ where necessary. Team productivity has gone way up.
Remember that time Saddam was gonna terrorise everyone with weapons of mass destruction, but he didn’t actually have any. Man, what a fun twist!
Yes this kind of link seems to be very misleading. It is amazing that just because an idea is presented, that it will have so many people believing it. This is a classic example of disinformation seeding. In reality, a casual pub chat like this is not science, not evidence not anything other than the blind leading the blind.

A really great HN article would present multiple papers and deal with technology and science, as well at ethics. This discussion does not do that.
I doubt that because of the experience I just outlined

In theory perhaps, but absolutely not in practice. Making things atomic is tricky.
Firefox Release 114.0
Your Outie enjoys the sound of RADAR.
I believe this was the plot to Watchmen.
Looks like a total of 110 were laid off from Cookpad, according to the PDF linked here:
https://twitter.com/_ko1/status/1665991597568430081

I hope Sasada-san and Endoh-san can find a new sponsor to support them working on Ruby full time.
This isn't a grocery store, it's a comment threat incited by a highly positive take on AI. I think that's an appropriate place to mention these issues.
Announcing your theory that fractions don't exist or that pi is 3 would also be career suicide in math. That doesn't mean that mathematicians are overbearing dogmatics. Some ice forming somewhere in Antarctica is a fine observation. It's not a contradiction to global warming. Local ice forming or local temperature drops aren't evidence against it.
If climate scientists do dare to contradict the consensus around global warming, they have a high burden of proof. Stirring the pot by contradicting consensus without meeting that burden of proof is really earning the career suicide that you say follows, whether or not they believe what they're claiming. If done with intent to mislead, that would seem to put you with all the scoundrels who have taken a paycheck to lie to the public about lung cancer from cigarettes, and then later took paychecks to lie to the public about AGW.
Would the site not be better named usanativeseeds.org? nativeseeds.org without referring to a specific nation means basically nothing
> The experience is no longer flighting.

What a shit neologism.
If you just draw the org structure for Apple differently in the link, it's same as Amazon..
It is consistent to say that anyone at that point all of a sudden gets an extra "coordinate system" they can interact with, but they can never leave the point in the outer coordinate system. That would be 'every singularity contains a new universe'.

It's not a very scientific theory, since you cannot report back after attempting to test its predictions. Though the predictions can be tested empirically!
> I couldn’t accept a job working with a VR company because I couldn’t get past the nausea the Quest Pro induces

Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that, I feel sorry for folks like you that are sensitive to nausea. There's so much potential in this tech but I can see a whole new class of disadvantaged people coming who aren't able to fully utilise it.
Matriphagy
> - Google has a number of "sponsored" results at the top of search results, which look identical to the actual search results, other than having a "sponsored".

That was the reason I switched away from Google. Here when I search "apache cassandra" the first result is something something free trial.

edit: I just tried with Bing it gave something similar, oh well.
lol. value for whom? deep learning just serves the interests of the owners, the corporations and the 1%.
I mostly agree, but there are gems like SQLite...
>Much less commonly said, but still true, is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary trust.

What you say is true. But here's the problem. 99% of people in this world are people you don't know well and don't know personally and they aren't famous enough for you to trust them.

Thus by probability an extraordinary claim that is true is highly, highly likely to come from someone you will never have any form of "extraordinary" trust for. So your statement, which I quoted, is, from a practical standpoint, completely useless. By your logic all extraordinary claims in existence will all pretty much be mistrusted by you. It's a statement of complete denial of anything that sounds outlandish. It's the definition of being closed minded.

Being extremely closed minded tends to be better than being extremely open minded where you believe every freaking thing you hear. But the best place to be in is at neither extreme. Rather then deny all extraordinary claims you should be skeptical.

You need to search for techniques in which will help you determine whether you CAN or CANNOT trust someone you do not already have "extraordinary" trust for.

To which I throw this statement at you:

If someone makes a statement without any ulterior motive that results in net benefit to them, you can place more merit on the fact that they are telling you what they believe to be the truth.

So take for example a stranger tells you there's a bomb in the building and you have to get out. You get the hell out because that stranger had nothing to gain from telling there's a bomb.

If a person with a camera is recording you and he told you there's a bomb in the building. Well that's different right? The key difference here is that in one situation there's a clear ulterior motive. In the other situation there was no motive.

Follow the motive.

The person making the claim... what is his motive?
And that applies to everything except for Bitcoin.
Otherwise we’re just telling fairytales.
A bar is giving away free beer, but if you pay $10.00, you get a party hat. So you grab a free beer and notice a group of people wearing party hats.

Idk, still seems like a pretty good deal to me. Wouldn't hurt to support the joint either.

Interesting read, though. Some communities really are full of people who judge the worth of others from little status symbols, and I can understand wanting to stay away from that. But it's not Discord's fault if people can't just be adults about it.
I believe they were referring to the original iPhone compared to the other “smartphones“ of the day.

Not todays market, which has evolved.
In other words, the evidence for that is the evidence of the exponential(ish) expansion of space.
Large scale well curated Ocean tempreture datasets originated from the Cold War days from a desire to be able to pinpoint submarine movements heard via sound travelling along thermoclines.

Atmospheric gas libraries originated from the same era in order to track the changes resulting from atmospheric nuclear tests ( ~800+ IIRC ).

Both these data sets were funding by the military with desire to prove climate change etc. although they did hide under the cover of ocean research | environmental research.

Other datasets come from global mineral and energy exploration geophysics, again these have goals far removed from climate change - you're correct that they are motivated by the desire for 'power' via mapping resources and extracting them.
> Outside US iPhones are nowhere nearly as popular. In many markets Android phones have about 90% of the market share

In my opinion, with the possible exception of South Korea, that is purely a matter of apple's global pricing vs local purchasing power and a huge number of those android users would have an iPhone if they could afford it.
My theory that this is CIA psyop to suppress and distract people from remembering Edward Snowden revelations, it is been exactly 10 years since.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222610
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>Yes, plenty are absolutely trivial to implement.

The most technically trivial change has a litany of obstacles involving people.

Off the top of my head:

1) Finding out a process exists

2) Finding out who knows about a process

3) Being able to communicate with such a person

4) Motivating them or other stakeholders to make a change

5) Making the new process independent of specific employees
I think we've all done it at some point. It's usually a low hanging fruit phenomenon. Someone posts something with an obvious mistake, lots of people notice it and proceed to point it out at nearly the same time. Between refreshes of the page, it looks like you're the first one replying. Most vivid memory I have of this is someone here inadvertently telling the creator of the D programming language he didn't know enough C to comment.

> At least with linear vbulletin forums of old people would have to scroll past the conversation or look like idiots when they reply something totally out of context.

Alternatively, they'd recreate threads via extensive quoting, leading to massive in-line quote trees... Socializing is a messy affair no matter what we do, I guess.
One rare circumstance could be due to an EMP, whether natural or man-made.
This is the only way forward for solar IMO.

The surface area of the earth's disc is ~24900.24 square miles. This is the area that receives light from the sun at any given time. That light is the energy that keeps all biomass alive on the planet. Every square inch we pave is a square inch that needs to be taken from the biosphere. The amount of energy we harvest from the surface is proportional to the amount of life we have to kill to take it's energy.

The surface area of the sun is 4,705,298,577,489.68568 square miles. The sun puts out 188,965,993 times more energy than the earth gets, that just goes out into space. All the life on earth takes 1 part in 189 million of the suns output.

If we want solar for the reasons stated, we have to take it from the rest. Otherwise we just trade one problem for another. The earth needs the light that hits it.
I guess that's a bit more generous of a generation delineation than I was expecting, but I guess millennials are between 26-40 atm
COL increases have also far outpaced wage increases in recent decades... especially for people who don't work in tech.
Based on the hands-on impressions I’ve read it sounds significantly more than twice as good.

Five times the price, yeah. Today. This really feels like a product aimed at developers right now not the mass market yet.

Which fits. The iPhone took a few years to really take off. The Apple Watch took a few years to really takeoff.
But we do have a ton of "analog quantum computers": basically any experiment in quantum materials or quantum chemistry is something we can not simulate and something that informs us about analogs of such systems. No different from using single-purpose analog electronics experiments to predict as an analog to trajectories of spacecrafts or ocean currents or bombs or planes.

In both the classical and the quantum case, building a digital computer (a computer that has the potential to scale to large system sizes, unlike analog computers) is what is difficult.

Babbage and Lovelace imagined a digital computer in 1830s. It took 120 years until there was an actual digital computer in existence. It took the creation of an actual digital computer around 1950 for people to stop saying "digital computers are impossible because of noise". See "Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms From Unreliable Component" by von Neumann, to see how incredibly surprised theorists were at the time.

Quantum digital computers were conceptualized in the late 1980s, the existence of quantum error correction (the equivalent to von Neumann's paper) was shown in late 1990s. Compared to how long it took for conception-to-realization in the case of classical computers (120 years), the quantum side of things is not that terrible (30 years and counting).
The climate is extremely complicated. Measuring “average” earth temperature is itself open to interpretation. We have evidence that the earth was much cooler in the recent past as well as much hotter. Carbon PPM doesn’t necessarily cause the increased temperatures we are perhaps having.

To say any of this publicly as a professor is career suicide. To say it as an employee is to be labeled a corporate stooge. The only solution according to the government is to hand trillions of dollars to ESG whatever the fuck and don’t look too deeply at how it’s spent. Insanity all around.
What community? People who share some aspects of a profession, or read the same news aggregator site, don't constitute a "community."

For my part I pay for services that offer value to me, and don't pay for those that don't. I'd rather subscribe than getting harassed with ads and popups. The people who put the effort into creating useful services shouldn't have to live off charity.
VR gaming is different from regular gaming. You largely want to feel like you're interacting with the environment (in most games).
Seemed weird, so thank you: with all the melting going on, it would make sense more ice ends up slipping onto the sea...
Vancouver is pretty similar
Thank you Alyssa Rosenzweig.
>only one winning Civilization earth

you're really leaning into the out of touch engineer stereotypes if you think civilization can be won using criteria from a video game of all things, and that the main criteria of winning is tech & research and not say ability to sustain peace or end homelessness
2018 is the first time any military branch would miss its recruitment goals since 2005. That problem has now spread across all branches of the military, where missing recruitment goals has become the norm. People simply don't want to enlist, for reasons one can only imagine... We're now getting things like congressional hearings on why the military is repeatedly failing to hit its recruitment goals [1]. This is also the setting where the military has been trying a variety of different efforts to get people interested.

And it's in this exact context that the Pentagon started to release UFO videos and the military was publicly patenting sci-fi level technology like a "craft using an inertial mass reduction device." [2] Not only does the patent read like it was written by a sci-fi jargon-generator LLM, but there's absolutely no point to it. Were something like this real, you would keep it beyond classified to not only maximize your national benefit from it, but to try to keep it out of the hands of peer nations for as long as possible. With it published, if e.g. China or Russia was going to make this, what now? Are you going to sue them? Maybe get the WTO to give them a stern talking to. Its one and only purpose is to publicize "secret" research from the military.

So why? Literally the only explanation I can see is it just being another ham-fisted recruitment effort. 'You can go make a living making software pushing ads on people who don't want them, or you can enlist in the military, travel the world, and perhaps even one day get clearance to see and start working where the "real" science is happening.'

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[1] - https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-te...

[2] - https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en?inventor=S...
IIRC they created them in the first place to make manufacturing easier
They're in old art:

https://listverse.com/2016/04/24/10-historic-divine-painting...
Apologies for taking so long to come back to you. You're correct, you absolutely should not hold a chicken upside down.

I don't know what I was thinking. The method I mentioned exclusively works on small mammals, think rabbits, hares, guinea pigs.
Very true, but the point is it just shows there's a lot we don't know still that an advanced civilization might and likely have already discovered and learned to harness/control.