skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a new 'decentralized' blockchain network. I believe SnarkOS is the virtual machine used to run (d)apps (exchanges, games, markets). Most popular blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum) are psuedo-anonymous. And Aleo aims to be private by default, with the use of zero-knowledge protocols.

There are private blockchains like Monero, however they're some-what limited to just the cryptocurrency use-case.
What Chinese knockoffs and open source hardware does to an mfer
IMO the restaurant analogy simply isn’t correct. I don’t sit in a restaurant and shout “I like steak!” as a prompt to see who else in the room might want to talk to me about it.

Social networks like Mastodon and Twitter are public (unless your account is private, naturally). Talking to and connecting with eavesdropping strangers is expected.
The whistleblower's actual bio, from the Debrief article:

"At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Grusch served as a Senior Intelligence Capabilities Integration Officer, cleared at the Top Secret/Secret Compartmented Information level, and was the agency’s Senior Technical Advisor for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena analysis/Trans-Medium Issues. From 2016 to 2021, he served with the National Reconnaissance Office as Senior Intelligence Officer and led the production of the NRO director’s daily briefing. Grusch was a GS-15 civilian, the military equivalent of a Colonel."

He was not even close to "one of the highest intelligence officials in our nation". He was almost certainly not "read into over 2000 special access programs" and there's no credible claim that he ever briefed the President, let alone did it daily. He was a mid-level analyst who specialized in UAPs. He testified to Congress about what he heard and what he believes, and both of those could very easily be wrong without there being a "big government psy-op".
Uno R4, now with four popups to close before you can read the website.
Ha. Given that the C and C++ compilers optimize your code by inferring undefined behavior and other crazy stuff like that, it's funny to imagine you're not just playing with just another code generator. :p

(In fact, if you decide to be responsible about what you're telling your poor compiler to do and use a `size_t i` instead of an `int i` in your for loop, since iteration can never go negative and, if overflow happens, overflow on a signed type is worse since that's UB, I think you just made your for loop slower since all the optimizations the compiler was going to generate from inferring that iteration won't be infinite because that would overflow the `int i` and that would be UB so it can just ignore the possibility that the iteration would be infite went out the window and...man I really need to switch to Rust.)

((I've pretty painlessly learned and love Rust, btw. I'm still using C at home lately though cuz... masochism.))
> issue of "wetlands" as you put it actually came up while congress was drafting the laws, and congress specifically wrote the law to cover them. The Supreme Court just ignored this because it felt like it

This is a bad reading of the opinion. Wetlands were broadly undefined in statute.
When our shared cultural identity broke down, which I think was maybe late-'90s / early-'00s? "American" used to be practically an ethnicity. Now everyone knows their neighbour isn't like them and doesn't have the same values as them - so you might as well screw them for all they're worth.
There's a Dexa scan truck in my area that does them for $60, with discounts for multiple scans (e.g. quarterly).

https://www.bodyspec.com/pricing
> they will need to pass a new law to assert that

Exactly. The law as written was misinterpreted. Write a new law.
Congress passed the Clean Water Act which literally included "estuarine zones". The Supreme Court cynically said Congress hadn't meant wetlands with that synonym. So yeah, the Supreme Court or Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch and Barrett are at fault.

BTW, the opinion literally quotes the term "estuarine waters" which is a phrase never used in the Clean Water Act. Basically, the majority opinion is lying.
This is a fairly common scenario for defense attorneys.

I needed a lawyer for a misdemeanor charge (cop was having a bad day, the other cops that arrived on the scene seemed like they would have let me off with a warning but it was not their call). I was certainly guilty by the letter of the law and had no defense but the lawyer I was referred to from a friend of a friend negotiated with the prosecution and I plead guilty to a civil ordinance violation for disturbing the peace (basically a traffic ticket). He was able to do that because he knew what to bargain for based off of similar cases in my state.

However, if it doesn’t get worked out pre-trial, that negotiation process still happens in the court room. When I met my lawyer, he mentioned a recent case he handled where the defendant had committed murder. There was no question that he did it, but the lawyer was proud that he was able to convince the court that his defendant was not of sound mind, which was the difference between going untreated and spending twenty-to-life in a state prison or spending that time getting treatment in a mental ward. While the latter isn’t exactly a cushy place to be, it is certainly better than being mentally unstable in gen pop.
In a restaurant your conversations are not private. Many are listening and no one throws a punch. Someone may talk quieter if things are private. Anyone can signup to an instance and read the local posts or posts from other instances federated. The privacy level is lower than facebooks
> Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search

Unless you are referring to the search field on google.com, it is not hijacking’s your google searches. It is suggesting actions based on your input to the url bar.
Are the logs actually written as HTML, or are you logging objects (like structured logs) that are transformed into HTML when displayed?

If the former, I would imagine that'd make searchability harder for larger volumes of logs.
FTA:

> Rubio told NewsNation that there are others in the intelligence community who have come forward with “firsthand” accounts of UFO hardware. Rubio, a longtime advocate for transparency on the alien issue, claims there are several more intelligence whistleblowers with “high clearances” who have shared similar allegations with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Is it that his parents gave him emeralds for an allowance when he was a teenager and this led to more means and agency than is common for normal people?
Even leaving aside arguments for the viability of extraterrestrials coming to our planet and then accidentally being detected by us, I rarely see anyone discuss the boring human aspect of stories like this–namely that there is simply no way that information about a close encounter wouldn't leak.

Even the largest successful government coverups (MKULTRA, Iran-Contra, etc.) required far fewer people to be "in the know" than would be required for something like a crashed or observed alien spacecraft. In addition to this, the people who would have to be in the know would not be a community of high-ranking intelligence officers who are dedicated to their mission. It would be janitors, construction workers, commercial radar operators, and the like. There is no way that people like this could be motivated to keep an existential threat like this under wraps.
> Not sure how I feel about a significant portion of the population already not meeting that threshold. The elderly? The disabled?

Anyone? How did the saying go? The minimum viable unit of reproduction for homo sapiens is a village.

None of us passes the bar, if the test excludes "supervision and maintenance" by other people - and not just our peers, but our parents, and their parents, and their parents, ... all the way back until we reach some self-sufficient-ish animal life form. That's, AFAIR, way below primates on evolutionary scale.

But that test is bad also for other reasons, including but not limited to:

- It is confusing intelligence with survival. Survival is not intelligence, it is a highly likely[0] consequence of it[1].

- It underplays the non-random aspect of it. Phrased like GP phrased it, a rock can pass this test. The power of intelligence isn't in passively enduring novel circumstances - it's in actively navigating the world to get more of what you want. Including changing the world itself.

--

[0] - A process optimizing for just about any goal will find its own survival to be beneficial towards achieving that goal.

[1] - If you extend it from human-like intelligence to general optimization, then all life is an example of this: survival is a consequence of natural selection - the most basic form of optimization, that arises when you get a self-replicating something that replicates with some variability into similar self-replicating somethings, and when that variability affects survival.
I guess, because he is claiming to be insane?
Yes. Don’t read too much into it.
timbre based searches like "racecar" or "rainstorm" yield very interesting results
I've successfully used ChatGPT to proof-edit/fix 250+ scanned and OCRd recipes from my grandma's collection.

We wanted to digitize them, but after using google Text ocr service, we couldn't get enough quality.

Using GPT I was able to fix typos and output everything as Markdown in a structured way.

With that, we created a nice Google doc .

Now I'm using DallE to generate suitable pics for each recipe to add to the book.

Its actually coming up quite good IMHO. We hope to give it as a present to my grandma on her 100 year birthday in a couple of weeks.
I did a bit of first-hand UFO account investigation for a while. Lots of people wanted to share their experiences as a narrative that they could control. Unfortunately when I started with a set of questions I had been working on to help me gather info, many of those same people would refuse to discuss further or wouldn't complete the questions.

Eventually I had to conclude that, among other things, a lot of folks are unconsciously concerned about the magic of the experience being taken away. (But maybe they don't realize it unless someone brings up that specific question, and until then they are pretty fiercely protective about what they saw.)

And one time I myself was out for a walk in the middle of the day, and saw what appeared to be a totally legit UFO in the distance. Well that's pretty wild, I thought. A real shape-shifter! A nearby contractor shouted, "am I the only one seeing this sh*t" and I was like "nope" and got out my 25x zoom camera to gather direct evidence!

Result: At high zoom it was obviously wedding-style white balloons in a bundle, resembling a morphing UFO.

I told the other guy what it was, and BOOM the magic in the air was gone. He looked SO disappointed, and I had to admit I felt that way too. By the time I got home I had half convinced myself never to do that again!

While I still leave room for there to be UAPs from wherever, IMO there are just tons and tons of different experiences with so many different phenomena. And most discussions are unfortunately going to hover around this real-vs-made-up dichotomy that's also just super unhelpful.
Or take my path, find a job that balances work and life priorities, doesn't require you to stress out on grinding rote memorized leet code problems, and work on a side business in your less stressed free time so that you can start your own company.

FAANG companies already have far too much power and influence, I'm ideologically opposed to giving them even more by subordinating myself to them for the almighty dollar.
ATRs had some design problems with ice accumulation[1] and are in certain ways quite unforgiving, but I suspect that the "problem" is their popularity with all kinds of smallish outfits whose training and maintenance are sometimes lacking. Case in point, this year's Nepalese crash[2], where the airline is prohibited from operating in the EU, and the preliminary report indicates that the plane crashed because one of the pilots effectively deactivated the propellers instead of adjusting the flaps while descending, causing a stall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eagle_Flight_4184

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti_Airlines_Flight_691
Timing belt is a big one for ICEs, valve adjustment if it's something racy.

There's also just so many moving parts there's far more opportunity for engine failures, especially in the face of neglect/deferred maintenance. I don't think there's an EV equivalent for needing an engine rebuild/replace because you ignored the timing belt for too long on an interference motor.

It's worse on newer ICEs that have to meet modern fuel economy and emissions standards too. Very high compression-ratios have become commonplace, making the consequences for neglect much more severe. You'd be hard-pressed to find a non-interference design in something modern. And turbo motors are much harder on their oil... Newer ICEs are tantamount to yesteryears high-strung race engines, too bad the chassis are so heavy.
They won't because their donors and friends don't want one. So all you'll get is impotent complaining about the supreme court.
> and then all the tiny servers will have to conform to however Facebook wants to mangle it for its own purposes, or they'll be cut off.

...okay?

The status-quo seems to be that they're fine with being cut off. This article wouldn't exist if the knee-jerk reaction wasn't to defederate immediately. Hell, as-is every current Fediverse user is fine without Meta integration - it doesn't exist yet. Scaremongering a future without Facebook in the fediverse is not a effective boogeyman.

As soon as Microsoft became the largest Git provider in the world, they didn't stop people from using other Git hosts. As soon as Google became the largest email provider, they didn't ruin the spec for personal gain. We assume a lot of ill will because we hear $BIG_NAME, but I don't really see a path forward where Meta strongarms the community into doing something unfavorable. The worst they can do is say "we're doing $BAD_THING with your publicly available posts!" and get shame-blocked by all the major instances. The people who had them blocked from the start won't even have any leverage to barter with.
Why don’t they just start charging employees $250 a month if they want to keep their jobs
> they might be lying and it's not a big government psy-op

Why would he lie to congress under oath? He would go to jail.

> deluded or caught up in a hysteria about things that are neither psy-ops nor the things that they say they are.

Why would the senators make [this amendment](https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-giv...) to NDAA 2024 just 3 weeks after his allegations went public? The key portions being

> "a comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material" possessed and to make it available to the AARO director for "assessment, analysis, and inspection."
and the president because what one can take away, another can regrant. All Biden needs to do is go "actually no these are all protected again".
Maybe the bar opened after they moved in.

And some people don't have the luxury of living somewhere quiet, though they would much rather do so.
Fans, belts, radiator, oil, (ironically) battery, (oil, fuel and intake) filters are eliminated.

Bulbs, tires, alignment, washer fluid, cabin filters, and brake pads remain.
They used terminology in a way that carries implications. If by pointing that out I brought them 'shame' then so be it (and notice how they never decided to contradict the 'if you don't care' part, so let's not give benefit of the doubt any more).

If you feel ashamed for me arguing against you, then you shouldn't as long as you were doing it out of ignorance and in good faith. However just because you are not aware of or don't believe certain things does not make them cease to exist.
Here, Congress said they were regulating the “navigable waters.” If they wanted to regulate wetlands, they should have said so in the text of the law. Congress didn’t say they wanted to regulate wetlands in the text of the law.
I think there is a contextual difference between telling someone to "die" as a way of expressing contempt in a public forum and directly messaging them, with details about where they live etc...
A simple introduction to the KLT (Karhunen–Loève Transform) (2009)
Here is a summary of what happened:

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

And honestly, the article this submission is about, is pretty weak.

> I don’t worry about Meta embracing ActivityPub and then extinguishing the fediverse as we know it.

"I don't worry" is not a very convincing argument.
Lemmy is decentralised so... no?
This isn't an operating system in the sense that everyone else means when they say "operating system". You can't run it on bare metal. This seems to just be a user program. It's an operating system in same way that your email client is a mail operating system (that is, in name only).
Explain this to me: Why would the senate intelligence committee pass an amendment to the NDAA 2024 just 3 weeks after Grusch's allegations went public that include the following:

> "a comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material" possessed and to make it available to the AARO director for "assessment, analysis, and inspection."

source: https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-giv...
It also makes it impossible for someone to decide ex ante if their property is a wetland, a problem with the current process SCOTUS called out. Namely, the government wouldn’t tell you if your property was a wetland until after it thought you’d violated the law.
>U wonder about Ev - do they not have brakes, Cv joints, bearings, differentials (I know there's no transmission), et cetera?

They have all those, but at least for brakes, they last much longer due to regen braking.
It's overpriced, but still the price. Not all theft is illegal, nor unethical. Killing is something that's almost always unethical. But kill a tyrant and it's ethical.

Stealing from a company that has already charged you a subscription fee might be ethical. But I don't enable adblock because it also means I'm stealing on autopilot from other sites that I may want to support.
I’ve found running a VM easier than WINE, FYI. LookingGlass?
There is also a CLI client for speedtest.net[1] and fast.com[2]! Not included with MacOS, of course, but nice to have around.

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

[2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli
Meta has a history of giving up front and taking with opportunistic timing. FB will absolutely devour ActivityPub. It’s silly to think otherwise.
Related: https://www.google.com/search?q=karhunen%E2%80%93lo%C3%A8ve+...
I agree that there should be some mileage weighting; but on the other hand, long distance widebody flights are usually piloted by more experienced crew (they're preferable and flights are typically assigned by seniority).

It would be interesting to see statistics for maydays as well; most shorthaul flights have the advantage of having nearby airports for their entire route.
European aristocrats won't let technicalities curtail their entertainment. If needed, the laws/regulations will be changed, but there's no way there's going to be any enforcement of discrepancies anyways.

What's somewhat more surprising is that they're not calling the whole of the olympics "catered" to earn a bit more revenue from alcohol sales. However, this should push visitors towards local establishments, which might be great for the lower rungs of the economy vs. giving that business to whoever wins a unified contract for the Olympics.
ET302’s crew (the second Max crash) also knew about the plane’s fault mode and almost saved the craft. If they’d have continued to command nose-down manually [after correctly executing the runaway trim disable checklist memory items and then re-enabling the power to the offending system in order to command aircraft-nose-down trim for a short time], they’d have almost surely flown the airplane back to base.

It was Boeing’s fault, but the crew almost saved it and inexplicably re-enabled the fault after correcting it. They were so close…
Typo in your homepage: "Continuious Integration"

Interesting thread!
I don't understand how the Supreme Court came up with this "continuous surface connection" definition. Can they just make up such definitions on their own?
Not sure what exactly about blockchain projects short circuits some people’s brains. SnarkOS features extensively in the Aleo documentation, which is linked right at the bottom of the first page, where it should be. It also comes up in some of their blog posts. It’s a client to interact with the Aleo blockchain, like gEth. It’s used to deploy apps, etc.
> The exceptions of course are 737 MAX (we all know why) and ATRs (which I'm not familiar with -- anyone know why they have a high fatal crash rate?)

Turboprop aircraft like the ATRs are generally considered to be more dangerous than jets. I couldn't find a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) specific to the Pratt and Whitney engines that the ATRs use, but an AOPA article from 2017 suggests that turboprops in general are over three times as dangerous as jets[1].

Here are some potential reasons that come to mind:

- Turboprop aircraft typically fly at lower altitudes than jets do, where there is more inclement weather and less time to navigate to an airport in case of an engine failure.

- Turboprops are more complex as a whole than jet engines; there is just more to go wrong (variable propellor pitch, for instance).

- Smaller airlines are the main operators of turboprop aircraft. I don't like to suggest that they are less competent on the maintenance front, and certainly don't have any evidence for this, but maybe this comes into it.

- Most fatal aviation accidents occur on landing, and since turboprop aircraft are typically used for shorter flights, they will make more landings per mile flown (nautical miles, of course, in ICAO world).

[1]: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/august/pil...
Was _something_ happening with "Havana Syndrome"? In the end, doesn't seem so.

In both cases Occam's Razor points to a bunch of people simply being fooled by their senses and doubling down on that time and time again. Meanwhile we'll waste a whole bunch of money chasing phantoms.
Has anyone tried "Mehr Ovomaltine trinken!"? (Drink more Ovaltine!)
Once made friends with a local bartender. Hung out at the place a few times chatting and drinking beer. One night I was feeling liberated so I ordered a gin martini. She must have shaken it for 30 or 40 seconds! It was basically flavored ice water, couldn't finish it.
Yep, and each has their own bespoke and often inconsistent API. All to eventually emit plain ole BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK.

JPA is at least a spec rather than just yet another single isolated implementation. Unfortunately it's not a good spec.
Americans are hiding their credit card debt
The indicator with a picture of a battery is really about your alternator.
> Now, I believe that federal government could actually argue that the random wetlands actually can be under its jurisdiction, if they affect the water in other states, eg. through ground water flows etc. However, they will need to pass a new law to assert that, instead of leaning on old law that clearly did not mean to cover this.

You can also raise the counterpoint here: 45 years of precedent says they're included, and if you don't like it, pass a law saying it doesn't.
The author of this piece, who seems to primarily write about Return to Office, runs a consulting firm on “the future of work”. So no doubt his opinions are rooted in sound research and not a vested interest in selling books and consulting on the future of work.

I don’t think that this automatically disqualifies his opinion, but the onus is on him to avoid the perception of ulterior motives, which he didn’t do.