skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* From hell (the Operation Trojan Horse theory)

Functionally, all of these can be classified under the first option, "ET origin", because they all involve the revelation that some advanced intelligence unknown to the mass of humanity is active on Earth.

But there is a fourth:

* These craft are of natural origin

Some very strange analogue of St Elmo's Fire which results in the formation of metallic spheres of unknown composition in the vicinity of jet fighters.
This doesn't make sense to me; it sounds like you're suggesting I can't make my own moral judgment regarding your actions – that if you think what you're doing is okay, I have to think it's okay too.

Even if morality is only about answering the question, "how should I conduct myself", and not directly about how anyone else should conduct themselves, if one of my values is alleviating the suffering of others, I will need to recognize when other feeling things are being hurt. If you're the one causing the hurt, I suppose you could say that I'm not making a "moral judgment" about your actions (but rather some other kind of assessment), but regardless I will feel a duty to intervene.
Hmm, thermal regulation. I'll bet there were early versions of Vision Pro you could cook an egg on.
Sorry, but that is quite similar. You asked a question and I decided to answer it. No meta comments initiated from my side, as far as I am aware.

(I did not take part in the conversation before).

So you are not really in a position to tell me, what to do, yet you did. And I am not in a position to tell you, what to do. I merly answered your open question on what I think you could improve.

But if you would like a meta comment from me: I think you might benefit from not considering every online discussion as something you have to win.

(I have been there as well)
Coinbase is being sued by the SEC
> What variable is there in the kitchen staff's work that warrants tipping?

Turnaround time, quality, order accuracy, etc. When you order from the server, they're the customer of the kitchen and depend on the kitchen's work to get their tips.

The kitchen gets paid somewhat better than the waitstaff, which is why it's not a 50/50 split with the waitstaff, but nobody working in a restaurant is getting a living wage except maybe the management.
I'd even suggest a good percentage of reports are either deliberate hoaxes themselves or genuine reports of hoaxes carried out by others. If not hoaxes, then deliberate misreporting to cover up worse truths.
Ultimately almost any other such explanation is vastly more likely than advanced alien species having crossed the galaxies (undetected) to visit us only to crash land on our little ball of rock.
I'm trying to think of any sci-fi stories where the aliens are lost tourists or similar. They are usually presumed to be scientists or government representatives checking out Earth and/or humankind.

Maybe ET? -- I don't think that's explained? It's been a lot of years since I saw it.

The reality is that the government is interested in unexplained phenomenon primarily for security reasons. That statement does not say nor imply "Belief in aliens means you're a nutter!" I just get really tired of people acting like "They study this stuff because they know there really are aliens visiting Earth!"
This was a centrally controlled clock. When the master clock sent a pulse, all the clocks would advance 1 minute.

These were synchronized wired clocks ( https://www.natsco.net/industries-served/industries-served-o... /// https://blog.american-time.com/wireless-master-time-clock-vs... ).

> Schools traditionally used wired clock systems for two basic reasons: rock solid reliability and the ability to synchronize school bells to the rest of the system. The wired synchronized system ensured that clocks would all read the same time and bells would ring at the same time every day, no matter what classroom you were in, and that students would arrive to class on time — something teachers could only dream of before installing a synchronized system.
Its a bit hard to take this perspective seriously - you arent exactly living in the conditions that you are talking about you know?

'Man at top of heap says situation basically acceptable'

Don't mistake this for moralizing, I just think your position is weak.
What about the US military pretending to see UFO’s instead of admitting they have their own stealth airplanes and drones?

This suggestion was made at the recent Required podcast about Lockheed Martin.
Countries with states:

Australia
Austria
Brazil
Germany
India
Malaysia
Mexico
Micronesia
Myanmar
New Zealand
Nigeria
Palau
South Sudan
One of those "Recommended instances" advertises it is "loli friendly".

Yikes.
I saw a very interesting insider take on Cubans Pharmacy by Martin Shrekli (yes that same one) a month or two ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdF66Pu9FI&t
Never in human history have we had so many high quality cameras in the hands of so many people.

And still no pictures of ufos. Or Bigfoot. Or Nessie.
good lord, people are discussing their ethical considerations for making their own choices, nobody is forcing you to do anything. why is this reaction so immediate in literally every discussion about anything ever
People that complain about this are pushovers IMO; the exact target demographic for these sorts of tipping UI elements. Those of us who tip as compensation for service don't have an existential crisis over it. Those who tip because it is expected are pulling their hair put and terrified that someone won't smile at them.

Just dont do it. If someone didn't bring food to my house, take my order at a table, or pour me an alcoholic beverage, they don't get a tip. The fact that they would expect one without doing these things is deserving of disdain, not the other way around.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102
Transfer values: Haaland takes the lead
Lawsuit: Illegal surveillance via bear camera [pdf]
It's not though - the restaurant pays the employee as low as $2.83 per hour. Restaurants should have to pay their employees the same minimum wage as everyone else, and anything the customers decide to give the wait staff should be extra (if tipping really should be legal at all)
Under UK law & in the world spanning Accelerando (2015).
That’s pretty amazing, don’t think I have access to GPT-4, need paid subscription for that right?
I'm not sure I agree with that. I don't think the _point_ of war is to be barbaric - that's a by-product of forceful expansion of power. Regardless of how killing another human is done in the context of conflict, it will always be considered barbaric, but the _point_ of the conflict isn't be maximise barbarism.

I think (and know very little, so could be wrong), that the purpose of war is to expand influence. This can take the form of access to new resources (whether that be land, access, air space, whatever) or to form a buffer between one country and another. There's probably other reasons, simply like ego in some cases.

There are other ways to expand powerbases too - such as China's heavy financial and infrastructure investment in Africa and South Pacific nations, or attempting to undermine another country's social structures. These are longer and harder to implement, but yield better results with practically no blood shed.
From their privacy policy it looks like they may partner with data aggregators and onboard hashed identifiers (email, MAID etc) to join against and enrich their data. It should be very obvious to people why Reddit was pushing for an email on signup, using dark patterns, to get people off a much less identifiable method of authentication.

It seems it would enable them to connect it to various ad industry controls cookieless targeting solutions.
I am not sure how exactly the "progressive avif" works, but it looks like basically something optional that comes at a cost in the final file size, whereas in jxl some basic progressive encoding is always available (at least for lossy images) and doesn't come at a cost in file size.
This is really unfortunate... I wonder if they'll adapt the varnish to work with structs in a future release
Going to the cellular complicates matters. That'd probably mean that you'd have to wait for fruit and veg to go mouldy before eating it and then do we consider fungus to be alive?
It may be presented as seamless unified memory, but it isn’t. Underlying framework still has to figure out how to allocate your data to minimize cross-unit talk. Each unit has independent CPU, GPU and (V)RAM, but units are interconnected via very fast network.
Technology to fly light years. But not the technology to land on earth without crashing.
It could also be some combination of the three, for example a craft that is human origin but derived from ET bits being presented in a pysop manner for some reason. The Navy's claimed operable AGRAV/room temperature superconductor patents and Salvadore Pais[1] add another layer of huh to the whole thing.

[1]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29232/navys-advanced-a...
I'm curious whether Apple will eventually move away from HEIC for their camera roll and other internal uses. Now that would be an incredible win for royalty-free codecs.

As for browsers, this looks like the competition that's needed to convince Chrome. If it gains adoption and gives Safari a performance/quality edge that users notice, Chrome will have to follow.

For browser vendors, all web-exposed code is a maintenance cost, security risk, and compatibility risk, so they generally don't add stuff just because it's nice. But they do add stuff to beat their competitors.
I'm not sure that article addressed the assertion in the title: how is media killing technological progress? I would have called it "The Media Still Exists" or "Media Is Still Not Your Friend." I would agree with both assertions and they would both be closer to the content of the article.
When I record something that I also want live I don't watch it through the screen, I just glance at the screen occasionally to make sure it's still pointed correctly.
And Reddit has done similar things before. This is cost of business to them.
> Making a 'server call' on each interaction is also what web apps used to do before SPAs were a thing.

One of the reasons behind the popularity around webapps was that they would no longer need to make 'a server call' on each interaction.

> And in many cases it's what SPAs do as well.

I feel you're grossly misrepresenting what SPAs do. SPAs do calls to send and receive data, not to fetch server-side rendered content.
How does he or the SEC benefit by making a statement?
It's already been implemented. Chrome used to support JPEG XL if you enabled the hidden flag. The author of that code is still keeping it up to date in case Chrome wants to merge it back.

That mythical someone you speak of has done all the correct things already. This is squarely Google not wanting that feature.
Hypertabs: A web proxy with a Chromium-style interface
There were five revisions in the first 36 months of the Xbox 360's life:

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/901401/xenon-zephyr...

If you purchased your 360 on launch day, you would qualify for the Jasper model (65nm CPU/65nm GPU, which is the primary "no RRoD" model) for over two months. Everyone after was in an even better position. In addition, there are many reports of early buyers having their RRoD replacement honored for one or two months outside of the guaranteed window.

Compare that to Sony and their Yellow Light of Death, who didn't offer any replacements or support after their standard warranty period. Compounded by the fact that the vast majority of consoles that suffered it were the full-Backwards Compatibility models, superior to what could be purchased in replacement.

The point isn't "boo hoo, stop crying about RRoDs"; it's that Microsoft is one of the worst companies to try to call out in this case. Their support for an issue caused by a third party manufacturer's chip was unprecedented and probably one of the best examples of a company supporting their product; even if it still doesn't reach your personal standards.
Zen University
I plan on adding HTTP UI's using htmx to most of my long running applications in the future. I also mainly use Go and Go + htmx makes simple UIs super easy. It makes a great, fairly easy way to add a small GUI for cases where that is desirable.
I wonder why he felt the need to reassure people about the benefits of AI..

For some reason, I'm imagining Dr. Evil reading this. Don't know why, since Marc looks nothing like him.

Maybe a better title might have been "How i learned to stop worrying and love the AI"? Because the world needs saving yet again and it's AI's turn this time (and the AI investors). So everyone chill, whatever happens, it will be OK, some people will get richer and the rest who won't will be properly taken care of anyway.
(and that one dude was Owen?)
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
Yes. Professional use requires licensing. Too bad as our workplace forces the use of OneNote, which imho is lacking.
Am I missing something or is the only thing that makes this different than so many other "insider" claims is that this guy has a career history that implies he isn't just another crackpot spewing theories?

It reads just like so many claims like we have heard in the past, but this time people think the guy is more reliable.

It is pretty funny that the one of the people often quoted who backs up Grusch's claims is Jonathan Grey. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2241801/)

I'd love to think that alien contact is possible, but as I attempt to learn more and more about physics, travel approaching the speed of light, the mechanics that transformed us from a basic life form to a life form with a consciousness, it just seem incredibly unlikely sadly.
Darn. Guess I need to be distracted from Biden's corruption now. Darn you, diversion tactics!
The existence of horrific science experiments doesn't prove that most science experiments are horrific. And it's a very differently regulated landscape now vs even 30 years ago.
So some stuff got released without an annotation system that declares when it's available, and this let's folks use that on old versions? How big of a problem is this?
Actually we do have good pictures of Nessie, which is how figured out 'she' was actually just a whale penis

Edit: apparently this is actually bs
Project Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system
WOW! They are using BFGS! Haven't heard of that in decades! Had to think a little: Yup, the full name is Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno for iterative unconstrained non-linear optimization!

Some of the earlier descriptions of the optimization being used in the AI learning was about steepest descent, that is, just find the gradient of the function are trying to minimize and move some distance in that direction. Just using the gradient was concerning since that method tends to zig zag where after, say, 100 iterations the distance moved in the 100 iterations might be several times farther than the distance from the starting point of the iterations to the final one. Can visualize this zig zag already in just two dimensions, say, following a river, say, a river that curves, down a valley the river cut over a million years or so, that is, a valley with steep sides. Then gradient descent may keep crossing the river and go maybe 10 feet for each foot downstream!

Right, if just trying to go downhill on a tilted flat plane, then the gradient will point in the steepest descent on the plane and gradient descent will go all way downhill in just one iteration.

In even moderately challenging problems, BFGS can a big improvement.
> I wonder if all of this will turn out to be another WatchOS.

The killer app for watchOS is health + fitness: exercise, sleep monitoring, etc.

Also, the Apple Watch has 60% of the worldwide smartwatch market's revenue [1] at around 50 million units.

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/22/apple-watch-domin...
So are we at Minority Report yet ?

I note that nobody in the Apple presentation was using finger flicks to delete and rearrange windows. Which I think were kind-of-iconic UI gestures in MR.
Have there been blind taste test comparing seafood killed just before cooking vs cooked alive? That is do we have factual comparison of these two methods?
I’m not a lawyer but work in the industry.

This is a slightly incorrect interpretation. Not all financial instruments are securities. Financial instruments are legal contracts between an issuer and one or more holders + other parties. If you own any stock in a company, you don’t own part of that company… what you own is a portion of a legal contract that defines what rights you have as a shareholder and what obligations the issuer has.

Currency isn’t a commodity. It’s treated as a commodity because they shares characteristics - you can buy and sell them over FX market. It’s a bit of an oddity because its value isn’t solely based on supply and demand, but stability and existence of a central authority controlling its supply.

(Opinion) Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a virtual Commodity. It is not recognized as a currency. Similarly, gold is a commodity but not a currency, though it does have a place as a non-standard currency in ISO-4217.

Commodities can be hedged against (oil futures) through derivative products. Those are formalized through a legal contract.

Your notion of a financial instrument doesn’t cover the fact that it is the legal contract involving money that makes it an instrument.

But as others have pointed out that’s not why the SEC is suing.
if anything the teslabots have trained me to think of Tesla as a power company and not a automobile manufacturer.
How fast is your index finger?
Is there some connection between Nvidia and Admiral Hopper's family that makes it ok to appropriate her identity for their product?
It's not a strawman when people openly declare their intent to create such a thing
You can clearly see the electric lights of population centers from space. If aliens were doing surveillance, they'd probably stick to the darker spots.

After all, out planet is surrounded by artificial satellites, and we make no attempt to hide them. So clearly some humans are capable of putting things into orbit, and those things could be weapons.
Do they though? Are there any vertebrate carnivores that eat their prey alive? AFAIK, they kill the prey so their lunch doesn’t run off the plate.

The only exceptions are parasitic wasps and blood suckers like mosquitos.
Octopus I can understand (and is why I can't bring myself to eat them), but I've never seen crabs and lobsters demonstrating octopus-level sentience. What have I missed?
Bundling IE and custom clients seem quite different right?

I feel like getting an API access is a nice to have.
I do. If it were possible we'd surely see them everywhere. Even if time travel was a one-way trip there's enough future billions of us that there'd be massive numbers with the sort of incurable fascination seth the past that they'd be motivated to travel back and see what it was like.
Doesn't really seem any more or less likely than alien intelligence at any rate.
Star Trek is widely known to be extremely progressive. It quite literally is not like any other sci fi show at the time, and this continued throughout the series. Why would "the fit of this metaphor in a 90s sci fi show" be relevant given this?

You're jumping through a lot of hoops to not directly show or link to what you actually said, making vague remarks about what was said instead and then playing the victim game.

Someone else called it out in a separate thread as well, regarding the Coronavirus debacle. You seem intent on providing a single side of a story and then expecting everyone to believe you without doubt.

Maybe just make it easier for everyone, link to the comments, and let us judge for ourselves.
I had a fox wipe out my small backyard flock in a single night. They are brutal.
If you think that $100/month incentivises "plenty of investment" compared to the tens of billions put into less principled "SOTA" measures, I suppose that says all that needs to be said about your credibility.
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I'd recommend people skim the actual report, it's written for a lay audience.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-i...

I was a bit dismissive of the idea that they can define sentience in a useful way, but their framework is right there on page 7 and it makes a lot of sense:

> 1) possession of nociceptors;
> 2) possession of integrative brain regions;
> 3) connections between nociceptors and integrative brain regions;
> 4) responses affected by potential local anaesthetics or analgesics;
> 5) motivational trade-offs that show a balancing of threat against opportunity for reward;
> 6) flexible self-protective behaviours in response to injury and threat;
> 7) associative learning that goes beyond habituation and sensitisation;
> 8) behaviour that shows the animal values local anaesthetics or analgesics when injured.

I'd be very curious what they'd find if they tested fish and even insects. Surely certain predatory fishes would exhibit thought provoking behaviour.
Healthcare digital transformation is not about implementing a piece of technology. It’s about enabling healthcare organizations to provide high-quality and ethical healthcare in a new, digital way.
> it was almost obvious all along but voicing it had you labelled a conspiracy nut

The nutty accusation was America. Ukraine was doubtful on account of capability and cost benefit. From the American perspective, the "intelligence brief [fingering Kyiv] appears to have been based off a single source in Ukraine’s government, raising doubts in the US intelligence community" [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d60ae893-c251-4693-ac75-4133bb05b...
The IUTT mentioned is the Inter-universal Teichmüller theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BCll...
What do you think the chances are of any old schmuck getting thier hands on a development kit?

I'm a web dev, and have absolutely no experience with Apple or VR development. But I would absolutely kill to get one of these dev kits for my own use.
Htmx is not only about adding attributes to HTML :) check how responses to requests are expected to contain full or partial HTML instead of, say, json.
Because that's the purpose of Experian, to spread your identifying information as far and wide as possible so they can later charge you money to repair your bad credit.

It's sort of like the US Courts are there to demonstrate how rich people need never fear the outcomes of their actions. And secondarily something about crime and tort.

Your local county elections department is there to reinforce the narrative that "democracy" means voting every four years. (Every two years if you're especially committed.)
The whole point is having the option, yes. But it makes no sense in having only USB-C ports and nothing else. Apple seems to agree, they added a couple ports back in the M2 Macbooks.

Quality Thunderbolt 4 hubs cost about $150-500, which is fine if I need to extend the selection of ports at my desk, but there's no point in having everything on one USB-C port just because it's technically possible.