skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I finally realise what Musk has been reminding me of since he took over Twitter. Remember forums back in the day where sometimes the owner / admin was just a little bit too involved? A little bit too self-righteous, imposing inane rules after being slighted, etc.

I've not quite been exposed to this on the same level in years (apart from some Discord servers) until Musk's Twitter takeover.
I assume there are folks faking data in all fields, but I also assume that the rate of faked data is not the same across all fields.
> DEC failed only due to the strategic mishandling of the company in a way not unlike what was happening in a less formal sense over at Apple

It is interesting that there are, in hindsight, a couple of specifically identifiable missteps.

DEC wasted about one billion dollars on trying to develop the VAX 9000 mainframe-class VAX, when it was already clear that RISC was the way forwards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000

Remarkably, it came back from this with the Alpha, which shows what it could have done.

If it had instead spent that vast R&D budget on PRISM and MICA, it would have had what became NT to itself.

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

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

PRISM was cancelled; some of the tech was salvaged to make Alpha.

MICA was cancelled; the project lead quit, and took his core team to MS, where they rescued OS/2 3.0 and made it into Windows NT, which has strong resemblances to the planned DEC MICA.
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I think this is highly likely, as was the "balloon" fiasco.
Recently, I was drinking with a (Russian) friend who commented that I'm the only one he struggles to keep up with while drinking and that he goes home blackout drunk every time we hang out. We don't drink that much, and decided maybe we're just getting old.

We both noted how we used to drink a lot more, meaning we're just as cool and fashionable as The Kids These Days, who are according to several news reports drinking less than college kids were a decade or so ago.

A few days later, he said he figured it out: for each of the ~3-4% ABV beers I drink, he's drinking a ~7-8% IPA. Him "catching up" (round for round/pint for pint) was consuming twice the alcohol as I was. I said I'd noticed that myself, when moving to a major city where most beers were $8 IPAs - having a couple beers at lunch would make me tired, if not drunk, and I'd need a cup of coffee on the way back to get going again.

I'm too lazy to do The Math, but I can't help but wonder how the "Kids These Days Drink Less Alcohol" charts line up with the "Kids These Days Seem To Prefer IPAs" chart. (It seems ABV has little to do with the historical trend presented here, though)

> Wine is taken to be 0.12 alcohol, the same number is used in modern estimates of alcohol consumption. The amount of alcohol consumed by drinking historical beer brews is between 0.62 to 0.107, the % of alcohol in “small beer” is taken to be around 0.05 and the % in “strong beer” is taken to be around 0.135, the relative consumption of small and strong beer is depended on whether we use the numbers from “Vandelint 1734” or the estimates in the studies mentioned in table 2.1 in “Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”
I'm a member of Community Notes and while it's common for an unpublished note to be downranked by members, I have never before seen an example of a published note (visible to all Twitter/X users) later be withdrawn from visibility. In fact, I don't think there's even a process for Community Notes members to make that happen.
It is possible to download and use the Xilinx tools for free. My company sells bare metal access to FPGA's and our customers do it all the time.

I agree with the tooling being a nightmare though. It is a 80gb+ install that fails half the time.
You'll have to find an endpoint halfway across the world to find a dns within a laissez-faire jurisdiction
They do have protections against that in the contract, which would apply to all SAG members — the use case you brought up is exactly what Fran Drescher, the president of SAG, brought up of something they are hoping to prevent.

The studios don’t want to sign such a contract. And so the actors are withholding their work until they do, among other conditions. Crossing the picket line, no matter how big an actor you are, will have you expelled from SAG, and when studios eventually sign whatever deal they do with SAG, any non-SAG actor will be barred from working with studios, based on the exclusivity contract that’s been in every deal since 1960.

One side will win. Based on history, it will be SAG.
Sorry, no idea about the logistics of them, but after a quick search: looking at Hacknsleep, they have a line that says "Move-in within days", so probably quick?
The contract doesn't permit Boeing to cancel. NASA can.
The DoD loves the myths. It's not about the existent of extraterrestrials. It's about a government so powerful that they would be able to cover it up and keep it secret. A government that can hide the existence of extraterrestrials, that can fake a moon landing, that can demolish skyscrapers in the middle of a city, is a powerful government and one that needs trillions of dollars a year. The amorphous "they" wants you to believe.

Worth noting that Russia does actually have similar myths, likely for the same reasons.
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> In other words, it’s clear to everyone now that the essential tools should be free, but surely not that all tools should be free!

Obviously not, since their business model changed.
You forgot about full self driving cars. Last time I've checked truckers were still moving goods and ride hailing vehicles were still ooerated by a human.
Yes, all batteries do. But both are much less reactive than on lithium batteries.
> Because Starliner was funded by NASA through a fixed-price contract, as part of the Commercial Crew program, Boeing is responsible for any cost overruns and financial losses due to delays.

Given Boeing’s history here this feels like the right kind of contract for this sort of work. Ensures all incentives are aligned
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>For one thing, it praises the enslaved for turning their cheeks, as it were, to be slapped again—or killed—rather than fighting back, a notion of Christian virtue and acceptance that results in brutal suffering and death on an unjust earth that will finally send Uncle Tom out of America to a less violent place known as Heaven. In Baldwin’s words, Stowe “was not so much a novelist as an impassioned pamphleteer; her book was not intended to do anything more than prove that slavery was wrong… This makes material for a pamphlet but it is hardly enough for a novel, and the only question left to ask is why we are bound still with the same constriction.”

So, is the problem that the slaves don't fight back? Or that the author is injecting their pesky morality into "apolitical" literature? The latter is usually a veiled condemnation of something the reader doesn't like. The former is just arguing for a different moral framing[0].

I don't see morals in literature being a bad thing. The example used here, Uncle Tom's Cabin, did what a lot of books only dream they could do - grabbing their readers by the throat and dragging them to the conclusion.

I've never worked with a sensitivity reader and I have no intention of working in traditional publishing[1]. I'm sure there are plenty of situations there where books have been neutered by people who misread them. However, that problem is not that readers want morally sanitized books or even that the acceptable morals have shifted. The problem is that the idiots running the business believe that to be the case.

[0] Specifically, one of oppressed peoples fighting back and liberating themselves

[1] Amazon sucked the life out of that business. In fact, I'm appalled that the Esquire writer wastes so many words on how technology is killing novels and doesn't even mention the kinds of shit Kindle and Audible do.
Makes sense, if they didn’t people would just live there, it’s so much cheaper than the rest of the city haha.
Still recommend it as a bridge between finding a hacker house or more expensive / more distant accommodations
They're just very open-minded in the US.
When someone is known to fabricate or exaggerate, a sensible recourse is be default skeptical of what they say. That isn't the same as to be default unskeptical of what their opponents say.
Cybersecurity: The New Battleground for U.S.-China Influence in the Americas
This seems relevant. So assumedly they would have lithium ion fire fighting equipment on board as well as the appropriate training. At a max capacity of 6 vehicle that hardley seems like significantly more training or equipment. Maybe a couple extra CO2 fire extinguishers.

With these details it seems much Ado about nothing (click bait).
I use 10x editor, Rider/Clion
This is great -- simpler and faster than the copilot cli! Thanks!
Yes, exactly. Overture is, for better or worse, looking to create a dataset that is more difficult to mess with / contribute to.

I'm big on OpenStreetMap, but I can't deny its a bit of a liability for Facebook and other companies that display maps to their users. There is the occasional vandalism edit that simply can't be shown to an end-user. Facebook put significant effort into maintaining a moderated version of the OSM database that lags behind the real-time edits. Facebook, Microsoft, TomTom, etc. know this is a ton of work and want to pool their resources. Making it open also helps to openly compete with Google, the other big map data provider.

If you want to contribute to Overture as an end-user, AFAICT your best option is to edit OpenStreetMap and see if your changes eventually get pulled in. Overture has promised the OSM community that they'll make much of their data available to be contributed back, we'll see if that pans out.

When it comes to AllThePlaces -- as an OSM nerd it seems like there is an opportunity to build a better bridge between this and OpenStreetMap, to make it easier to quickly update businesses in an area. Recently there has been a pretty successful push to link OSM data with WikiData, using tools like the OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher [0]. For POIs, it's a lot of work to add a bunch of local businesses, even with tools like EveryDoor [1]. It would be so cool to see AllThePlaces integration into RapID for example, if there isn't already(?)

[0] https://osm.wikidata.link/

[1] https://every-door.app/
Very.

Caltrain will probably get you between the two in somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour on a weekdays. Weekends, you're screwed. Trains run once an hour at the best of times, and are basically broken all weekend due to maintenance for the foreseeable future. (I think they're using buses to connect gaps in service on the weekends).
Most times these companies have automatic copyright triggers on YouTube and YouTube will most of the time keep the video up, not punish the uploader, but move a portion of the proceeds to the company as payment of use. It’s happened to me a number of times when I use to make gameplay videos with non licensed music.
I've never stayed in a US hostel, but hostels I've been in all have lockers for your stuff. Although I'd be nervous about a hostel in the US--again, I've never been to one--but I'd be worried that the clientelle would be a bit sketchier than your budget-conscious tourist.
What is happening? Seriously we already know about Hunter Biden. What is happening today that wasn't happening yesterday that you think this is actually an attention distraction?
Life feels more and more like a Sci Fi movie. Also consider that the US is one of the few nations with such advanced sensor technology, and also the one that likely flies the most training runs, patrols etc.

The hearing today, especially how much we didn't hear, was fascinating.

"Non-human" rather than "extra-terrestrial", I feel, was said a few times to try and tell us something. Perhaps they don't come from far away. Perhaps they come from outside, or perhaps they are from here.

When did they begin to show up?

What if nuclear blasts had an effect outside what we knew?

So many questions.
at the end of the day, all of academia is part of the larger "publishing industry"...

though I think that to keep up with the scale, maybe I should call it "publishing institution" (alongside, government institutions, organized crime institutions (arguably blended with the government in some places), industrial institutions, and merchant institutions like banks)

so then, journalism was the first to be redrawn by the internet technology when tech companies became the biggest advertisers in the world. then music, even 'BIG entertainment' is on strike.

and now academia is having its moment, and so many things are unraveling as well
> Jokes on Netflix, if AI can generate shows why pay for Netflix when I'll eventually have a personal AI

For the same reason why people pay for Netflix right now instead of pirating: convenience.
Bring the hate. Could it be that all people are under pressure?

All Academics have to perform, and all Corporate Drones have to perform, all middle managers.

Everyone is under pressure to achieve or die, and if you are starving, the temptation to fake it is great.

(or dump chemical waste, or fake emissions data like VW, etc... etc...)

MOLOCH strikes back.
> The earth is a big place, why is it always the US they choose to visit?

Since almost all credible English-speaking UFO sightings (i.e. someone actually saw something strange in the sky and isn't delusional or lying) have been US military hardware, it stands to reason that the US has been the site of a lot of sightings reported in English. The only other really obvious places where you might see this kind of stuff is rural Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, or China, and I don't know what kind of things the locals have been primed to believe or say when they see strange lights in the sky.
That is true, but the principle of speech is violated by everyday individuals with no power who espouse such values.

You could say it is simply a derivative of the mindset that nearly everyone holds "liberty for me, but not for thee". We just tend to ignore or think it is irrelevant when nobody holds power.

Yes, Elon and X can never be taken seriously on free speech without a pivot towards decentralization. What is happening with X is precisely the opposite. The "everything" app only provides opportunity for more control which will result in less freedom inevitably.
It depends on what you're looking for. You'll struggle to grow something as sweet as store bought sweetcorn but you can easily grow corn with deeper and richer flavor at home. Just make sure to select a variety meant for direct human consumption and not animal feed or ethanol (some are for human consumption but only once processed).

US industrialized food is almost universally bland and tasteless compared to home grown because they're picked too early and bred for aesthetics and transport - it's an issue every immigrant I know struggles with. On top of that, there are dozens if not hundreds of different varieties that haven't been commercialized for every fruit or vegetable in the grocery store so there's a whole world of flavors and textures that most people haven't experienced.
Distraction from what exactly?
I have a solid stream about scraping Twitter I did yesterday you should check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hfx9tCeShA&t=5516s
Managed to snatch a 3090 during the GPU shortage in 2020. Did a lot of training and mining, and got some of my results published, think I gained much more than the cost of the hardware purchases. Kinda miss the day of eth mining. 3090 is a still good card and I'm pretty sure your rig is going to serve you well.

ps: ~280W power limit is a good call, it won't heat up your room too much.
> Maybe in Hollywood this will be blocked by unions, but someone somewhere will not have these restrictions.

Maybe, but I think SAG more than anyone else knows this, which is why their union rules are so strict. "Global Rule 1" is their rule that states that, if you are a SAG member, you are not allowed to work anywhere in the world without a SAG-approved contract. Similarly, if you are not a SAG member but work during a strike, SAG permanently bars you from joining the union.

Sure, you can argue that some other place in some corner of the world may start up to get around these rules, but that's a very, very tall order to then import those movies into places like the US without a huge amount of backlash.

Filmmaking is still mostly a relationship business, and even with AI actors and writers it's hard to see that changing.
I heard the City of Atlantis is working on their own DNS provider.
Yeah I should have realized you couldn’t have been talking about Norway. Had I turned my brain on, I would have realized that a rich country with so much EV uptake couldn’t possibly be so far behind in EV fire suppression.
> how is that alien ingress have never been noticed?

The US and the USSR had to collaborate on filtering out UAPs from radar early warning systems so we didn't nuke each other.

Two of the people testifying in front of Congress are ex military pilots noting that they saw, and logged on radar, objects.

The third has stated specifically that we do have satellite data and imagery displaying UAPs.

> Why is that UFOs are coming up as pop culture topic just now in last few decade

UFO reports from the middle ages exist, both in paintings and in writings. Ship captains have reports in their logs from the 16 and 1700s. Reports from within the U.S. in the 1800s exist.

I haven't provided references here in the interest of my time, but all of what I stated here is readily verifiable with a few internet searches.

All arguments of the form "where is the evidence" are moot at this point, as there is a mountain of evidence. The issue today is provenance. With claims so large, even HD video of an object and creatures in real time wouldn't be enough. The only thing that would convince people is the word of the US (or some other major country) government itself providing evidence, which it has done in small doses, and is the only reason this hearing is happening.
As with literally everything else of this nature, it's overfit for the past, and in future applications inevitably fails.

This isn't about interest, it's about value. What you're proposing is flat out wrong, and has been shown to be so in hundreds of different ways.
Hey, we're finally getting some of those lucrative tax breaks back in the form of watching Boeing suffer!
> More to the point, why is it always people in the US that have credible or semi credible (or for that matter ANY) evidence of UAP's, UFO's etc?

The US is one of the only countries with the resources to explore such things?

Or maybe because the US is the fourth largest country by land mass, and the only bigger ones are Russia, China, and Canada. China probably would keep it a secret, as would Russia. And we would probably process Canada's. And in fact you do hear about stuff over Russia all the time.
I don't like it. Texas's leadership when not corrupt is cruel, and when not cruel manages to give the appearance of cruelty. It's also increasingly dumb, doing things like trying to strangle the incredible renewable energy generation growth that has kept the power on during recent heat waves.

Texas has always been a one-party state (Democrat until the 1980s and Republican since) but it managed to be mostly pragmatic until 2016 or so.

I wouldn't be happy living under one party government in California (the corruption on California high speed rail makes Texas look squeaky clean) or Hawaii either. But when I can I'll likely move somewhere more reasonable.
> I hate how people decide something is an inevitable eternal cycle that started in the 20th century. Recorded music hasn't been around long enough to think that platitudes like this actually have any meaningful content.

Maybe, but doesn't the same complaint exist about other media, too? 'Kids these days and their [books|music|art|clothes|dance styles]'
How does that work? Does Boeing pay a penalty if they don’t make progress?
Where is the reporting on everyone else who was “tricked into” creating the bomb? Carpenters totally tricked. Landscapers totally tricked.

Actually, I’m doing the same thing. I’m tricking my gardener into creating everything I do while I work from home. I didn’t tell them at all what I do, so I tricked them into creating a data analysis.

This is a silly line of thought and seems to stem from the logical fallacy of “assuming intent without evidence.”

I once had an employee who spend large amounts of time complaining that I excluded them from meetings. They were going through my calendar and making lists of every meeting that didn’t include them and asking me to justify why I excluded them. Meetings that didn’t even show the title or material, just they the time was blocked.

This led to some surreal explanations where they were demanding to be invited to a 15 minute reminder for me to submit an abstract. Or my 1:1 mentoring sessions.

I could not understand their logic but it went something like everyone in the world should operate with their mental model and consider whether their actions would be better with this person participating.

Similarly, in this article, if you think that designs should be shared with pretty low-level employees (or maybe even contractors) for them to make an informed decision, then it’s tricking.
I believe it's more like this proportion.

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/ 19% \
/ \
/_________________\
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/ 80% \

/ \
\_______________________/

- 1% really saw something interesting/rare.

- 19% think they saw something interesting that is easily explained.

- 80% liars.
UAP sightings and encounters are a global phenomenon, documented by civilians and military/government individuals and declassified documents going back decades. If you begin even cursory research into the topic, you'll discover as much.
If sentient aliens are out there watching us, I would not be surprised if they're gathered around their equivalent of a TV with their equivalent of strong beer, watching our world and making bets on whether we survive this century or not.
Generative AI and the future of work in America
In the 1980s there was a record store where I lived that sold "used" records and tapes. Their hook was that they'd take any record back within a week of purchase. I think they witheld a dollar or two on the refund.

So you'd go in, buy a record and a blank cassette, go home and make a tape of the record, then return the record. My friends and I did this countless times. If there was a record we all liked we'd just buy more tapes and make a copy for each of us.

If this was a common thing in other towns, I can see why it reduced revenue. Even if this exact model was unusual, you could still borrow records from friends and make tape copies, so only one of you had to buy the record.
This logic has always bothered me a little and I’ve never understood why, until recently.

The fact of marginal cost results in a lot of software being written that otherwise never would have been. After all, the difficulty of solving a problem for myself often doesn’t offset the trouble of making a reusable solution. It’s only through having other people use it or pay for it that it becomes worthwhile.

Randall Munroe’s chart is incomplete because it thinks too locally.
Thanks! I actually ended up finding out that a partner government already had a solution and they even exchange info with the same people we do. They will be giving us a lot of their work for free. A good use of tax payer money!
It's not worth much because if there is a community that doesn't know about it, then of course they won't support it. If they do know about it, and haven't already disclosed it, then of course they won't support it.

So basically "take that for what it's worth" in both cases is 0.