skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the word "cognitive" was used I assume "cognitive decline" refers to some sort of scientific measurement like an IQ test. If 80% of the population is experiencing it that would be pretty easy to measure, I would think?

If we are just discussing whether human beings are awful... humans were being awful far before the popularization of coffee beans, so that seems like a red herring in general.
>It'll end DDOS by botnet.

Not even remotely. This proposal is adding this attestation to one of the last network layers, most DDOS methods won't be touched by this.
Link to the video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
That, or a reboot with pressing F8 with a clear prompt "Enabling developer mode, do not do so if required by a phone support". Easy enough for actual developers and tinkerers, but disruptive for someone getting scammed.

> On the other hand, you can bet that that's absolutely something scammers will be able to convince people to do while they're on the phone with them...

Indeed but it will slow them down significantly and reduce the amount of marks by a significant amount as well.
But the cultural expectation has shifted. AFAICT, it is now expected that people will cheat as a matter of course.

That may have happened because of past leniency, but at this point expelling students is shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted.

If 10% of students cheat, you can hold the line through punishment. If 80% of students cheat, you have a systemic problem, and beating students is only going to produce better cheaters. The whole structure is now set up to strongly disadvantage those who don't cheat, and once that happens, the decision to cheat ceases to be a moral one.

I went to school during the last century. I did not cheat. Cheating was already pretty common, I knew of plenty of people who did cheat, but the norm (as I understood it) was still to not cheat. If I were go to school today, I'm not sure what I would do. It would depend partly on the stakes.

It's like being an honest politician. You can feel good and pat yourself on the back, but you'll never get elected. (Ok, "honest" may not be the best word for it. Someone who measures the effects of various things and governs accordingly rather than by how popular and marketable positions are, and refuses to make deals that go against principles.)
10 years in, I love programming. But I have come to detest management in tech companies.

I would honestly take a 50k paycut if I didn't have to play management games to do my work.
They said nothing about a pilot. He said they found "biologics". Doesn't mean it was a pilot.
A lot of the docs prioritize ease of getting started and EAS has a free plan generous enough to get you to production and often beyond. The Expo CLI docs have a section on building locally here: https://docs.expo.dev/more/expo-cli/#building

"npx expo prebuild" (covered in that link) is a good command to know. It generates "android" and "ios" directories with your Android Studio and Xcode projects, respectively. These projects can be built entirely locally and there is no dependency on EAS.

As a side note, the old "expo build" command also ran on hosted servers. It was part of the old Expo CLI, which, for historical reasons from six or seven years ago, didn't separate the free & open source Expo framework from the hosted offering. We built EAS years later, with a major new feature being support for builds that have custom native code. Keeping EAS decoupled from Expo has been a conscious effort, and we've also designed EAS to work with any React Native app whether it uses Expo or not.
I watched the hearing and noticed three things:

1. Many questions about the US response to aerial devices like the “Chinese ballon” and the public’s right to knowledge about those events.

2. Calls for removing career stigma around pilots reporting UAPs.

3. Calls for additional funding and policies surrounding research and reporting of unidentified aerial phenomenon.

It was a combination of pragmatic process improvements, defense funding requests and unsubstantiated non-human intelligence claims.
Show HN: I built a monitor for AMC movie tickets
Reverse engineered the AMC GraphQL API to monitor for tickets to Oppenheimer, but the code should be fairly easy to modify to monitor other movies / formats / theatres.

This was just a fun weekend project between a concert, Yankees game, and seeing the movie myself.

I'm monitoring AMC Lincoln Square over at https://twitter.com/OppenheimerTix if you live in or near NYC and want to see the movie in 70MM, which I would highly recommend.
Because it makes payouts from advertisers more likely. If I'm advertising on Google's platform I don't want to pay for a web-scraping robot to see my ad.
https://archive.is/wCw8M
I identified a UFO yesterday. It was a UFO until I realized a finch flew past my camera too fast for it to focus. I suspect most UFO's are something like this. I would hope that all UFO investigations start with "Why were our sensors failing to do their job?" and/or "Why was someone able to trick/spoof our sensors?"

I can see why this would be classified. One should not leak to adversaries how miserably some of our sensors and cameras are failing. So that only leaves me with one question. Do governments stipulate in their vendor contracts that if {n} percent of objects can not be identified by some measurable means that they get a heavy discount on the improved sensors?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36878749
It’s not even available for sale.
This would complete the transformation of the user-agent into the vendor-agent.
...and then you get to the verification can...
> I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown.

Chrome will happily block a Google ad if it uses too much resources, I experience this a lot with a few sites that do ad replacements in the background.
How is a company that runs a public website supposed to A/B-test marginal attach rates for a feature hidden behind a dev flag?
Some notes:

"Variation in IQ during adulthood is about 70% genetic."

The proviso "during adulthood" is important: "The heritability of IQ increases with the child's age and reaches a plateau at 18–20 years old, continuing at that level well into adulthood." (Is it just me or is that a weird thing for it to do.) That being said, the Wilson Effect paper goes on to say, "It is important to specify the populations to which any results can be generalized and not misinterpret what they mean. The samples were drawn almost exclusively from Western industrial democracies. These settings have characteristic environments. Only a few of the participants were raised in real poverty or by illiterate parents, and all study participants had access to the contemporary educational programs typical of those societies. This is the domain to which we can generalize." In any case, for most of my life the variation in earring-wearing was almost 100% genetic, so there's that.

"A lot of this seems to have to do with literal brain size (which is correlated with intelligence at about 0.2)..."

0.2 is not a very strong correlation. And correlations are funny. (https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations)

"There have already been intelligence explosions. Long ago, humans got smart enough to invent reading and writing, which let them write down training data for each other and become even smarter (in a practical sense; this might or might not have raised their literal IQ, depending on how you think about the Flynn Effect)."

This is a direct contradiction to Alexander's apparent argument above, unless you consider reading and writing to have a significant genetic component. (Heritability? Oh, yeah, I'd expect reading and writing to have pretty high heritability, at least historically.)

But is knowing things really what you mean by intelligence?

"Later on, we invented iodine supplementation, which let us treat goiter and gain a few IQ points on a population-wide level."

Fortunately, iodine supplementation is also highly heritable.

"...were emphasizing how rather than magical intelligence, AI would need slow, boring work on the nitty gritty of computation..."

How are LLMs doing on that whole hallucination thing? The ability to solve novel problems?

P.s. A fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
I'm talking about states seizing kids if you wont allow children to begin transgender transitioning. Again I am not looking to get into an argument over the validity of "gender affirming care" for children. My view is that states should not be able to take children away for this or for schools to be able to keep this knowledge from parents. Others may disagree and that's fine, we are not going to solve it by screaming at each other on HN. The question was asked and I provided an answer.
Some people like beer, some people like wine, some people like sugary drinks. Why don't people just drink water?
Maybe that's because it's finished. It doesn't need any more revolution, just maintenance and polishing.
Supersense
Yes. This. 100%

If I was the government exchequer and comfortably spending on the refrigeration of alien entrails & annually greasing their flying saucers, I wouldn't _additionally_ spend billions of dollars setting up space observatories like JWST, new radio wave telescopes & deep space probes to find evidence of life. At the least, experts from scientific community will be invited to investigate any material finds & that information will trickle out in tiny amounts. Scientific community deeply believes in replication at its core. It is impossible for everything to remain compartmental.

And acknowledging existence of alien technology only makes the position of a country more formidable, not less. Our global relationship is today less of muscle (like the past) & more posturing. By acknowledging otherworldly technology's existence but denying the details, US would be incredibly in advantageous position militarily. Why wouldn't they if they already possessed these technology?

We as human race may be spiteful to our brethren, but not stupid given the obscene expenditure of wealth and resources we dedicate annually in lieu of feeding & keeping everyone happy
Show HN: An Automated AI Translator
We wrote this Python program to translate language files (text or json) in apps to other languages using OpenAI's GPT-4. We handle caching outputs from the AI and let you manually change translations if you're not happy with them.
Part of the testimony was that there is widespread detection. The claim is that UAPs are often a part of briefings and debriefs. Its also been claimed during the recent UAP related testimonies that a large number of military and civilian pilots have seen stuff, but either had no clear path to report it, reported it and were ignored, or reported and were harassed, or chose to not report it out of fear of harassment.
Looks like that intersection could fool a few human drivers too.
They didn't. EVs and Wind+Solar exist and are expanding at a much faster rate than nuclear in terms of installed and generating capacity.
Lots of people are saying there should be a quick turnaround time here for trying the replication. I wonder how much it would cost to try and replicate this, in materials, labor costs, and vacuum furnace time/costs. My naive thought is that that labs in general aren't just going to drop everything to try an replicate every instance of someone declaring they've discovered room temperature superconductivity. Seems more like a "there's a lull in paying work, so hey, why don't some of you junior technicians try this out" thing? Anyone have insight into this? I suppose a university lab might have more leeway here to try out spur of the moment experiments? Maybe this is a "I'm personally interested in this and I'll work in the evenings to test it out, instead of on company/university time"? Or are the authors high profile enough in the community that it meets a certain threshold of credibility that it seems more worthwhile than the average?
> if there's some business model out there that delivers what customers want ... while also delivering profits to shareholders.

Of course there is, but that's why software in a box cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per version, with minimal bug or security updates thereafter. The grass is always greener, yeah it's a pain in the ass having a ton of $10/mo subscriptions. But I'd much rather have that - as both a consumer and a developer - than have $800 single-sale purchases.
Already working on it. Great recurring revenue opportunity.
Quad9 is largely outside of US jurisdiction, the operator is Swiss and the lawsuit in question is in Germany. The US isn't the only country with problematic jurisprudence on intellectual property.
Not unless they were using HF radio to communicate between craft.
Yes, the label "peer review" is meaningless. There are good peer review processes at top journals and conferences and getting through those is a meaningful accomplishment. Then there are also worthless peer review processes at lower quality avenues. Getting through those is like getting a participation trophy. Yes, you need to show up on time, but not much more than that.

The real peer review happens afterwards, when other researchers actually engage with your work.
Maybe we should all dedicate a percentage of our income to hire lobbyists that would represent our interests to the government /s
If they aren’t bringing evidence, it’s a waste of people’s time. Taking a big risk that is most likely a very bad decision shouldn’t provide any credibility at all. Do that when you can show evidence, and then you have credibility.
Grusch to US House: “Non-Human, Biologics” have been found at UFO crash sites
Should I submit my complaint right away or only after this disease starts spreading out without control? I'm in the EU.
Awww. As a product manager who hopes to be serving, encouraging and fostering his team well, this saddens me to read
Not much, see article (~1 day), or article + thread from yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624

I don't think, at least generally, work is as rigid as indicated. At least at white collar jobs, and especially a research lab, and most especially a university research lab.
Anyone who has worked at the fort can assure you that's not how it works...
Corporate + institutional mass installs on Windows and Linux — e.g. university computer labs — are still mostly Firefox. It's easier to lock down something that's not part of the OS; and it's easier to create a local-network roaming-user-profile experience that's seamless between the machines that must run Windows (regular labs) and the machines that must run Linux (CompSci labs.)
A - Doesn't sound like enough advantage over disadvantage.

B - Sounds like it would need regulation? Who is making sure farmers are using it in this manner?

It isn't just bumblebee impairment. Entire colonies die.
Bumblebees are needed to pollinate a large percentage of our food -> Hence not a "rational decision".

TO say nothing of impact on humans, and the half life in water runoff.
So sad. I hope she is at peace with her son in a better world.
As far as I know, Alphas ran Digital Unix (also known as Tru64 and OSF/1), not Ultrix. I remember using Ultrix on older DEC machines (DECstations) and it was quite bad.
yeah same, i3 does this for me perfectly. the only nit i would give it is that i wish the list of window tiles made it a little more apparent the borders, like including app icons or something like that
This is a good point. Remember the time he revealed highly classified spy satellite capabilities by posting an extremely detailed photo of an Iranian nuclear site ON TWITTER [0]? He cannot help himself if there's a chance to show off.

Although, the nice thing about conspiracy theories is you can always just layer on another explanation. Obviously the Deep State didn't trust Trump with this dangerous knowledge, so they kept him in the dark. Some things not even the President is cleared to know. Duh.

0: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-i...
Better if they're the CEO in my experience. Then it trickles down the whole org.
I assure you that I wrote that without anger. I started off with some feelings of sadness and disappointment, which gradually morphed into some incomplete level of detachment. I was hoping the post would come off as at least somewhat neutral, as in "I don't have a dog in this race, but here's why I think -- hopefully factually -- your website turns off potential employers".

I know I didn't achieve that; certainly some amount of judgment came through, but ultimately I'm fine with that. Life goes on, etc.

For the record, your post comes off as a bit angry too! But I'll try to read it as if you were writing it with feelings of weary disappointment.
> “I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program, to which I was denied access,” Grusch told the committee.

So he's got hearsay but no hands-on or eyes-on direct proof. Like Mulder, I want to believe. But if you're going to speak under oath, you've got to do better than this.
It seems to me that “if it can be changed to 100% attestation rate in the future, it will be done” is a slippery slope argument and assuming bad faith on behalf of the proposal writer.

I think if it were changed to be 100% then it would be problematic. Also it seems the proposal writer would also agree that some form of opt out is required to make it viable so as to not forbid unknown clients.

I think its important to stay away from considering potential “what ifs” that completely defy the intent of the spec. For an example of why this isn’t effective discourse, we could have a potential addition to the spec to explicitly block users from certain countries. That’s not great but also its easy to understand why its not worth debating that point (even though it does sound scary).
Offering of your gratuitous craze.

These “Aliens” who have been hanging out in under and around Earth for 10,000 years would like for me to share a short account I have written.

Treachery divides us, friends. The Truth is Man is savage and beastial, when not meddlesome scamps. The consequences and when these catch up to us are the real mystery.

An account of the “greys” (and the secret war among Man.)

https://pastebin.com/42dTemNe
Abundance is possible because our needs are finite but our capacity is infinite.

The Republic of Letters was a remarkable spontaneously organized institution, consisting of intellectuals who corresponded on philosophy, politics and science.

OG Network State
In exchange for fame and large piles of cash.

I'll trade my good name for a few million bucks too.
Ah, the luxury of no deadlines...
WEI is really about denying the user full control of their own device. If you give people full control of their devices, you will have bots. Do you believe eliminating bots is more important than general purpose computing?

A bot is just some computer doing what its owner wants. OP is happy because WEI will eliminate bots. OP is inconvenienced by other people using computers in ways they don't like, and wants to take control of the computer away.

As strong AI is knocking on the door, we see people wanting to take general purpose computing away. All the worst outcomes involve people losing the ability to control their own computers.
Clang-tidy only supports AST-based matchers, you get type resolution but you still can only match simple patterns that only need local reasoning.

Infer does whole-program analysis, so it can for example detect whether it is safe to move an object instead of copying it, because nothing touches it afterwards.
Why is fixing hypocrisy such a high priority? American culture has increasingly stigmatized and marginalized those substances for 100+ years (alcohol) and 60+ (tobacco).
Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?
> honest question: is the "frisson/goosebumps" thing not called ASMR now?

No, ASMR is a completely separate phenomenon, although the term has since been adapted to refer to a general aural aesthetic, rather than the physiological phenomenon it induces in some people.
Could it? There's a lot of signals pointing in different directions but it's pretty hard to miss both the one directly in front or the one right next to the car.

Plus, if you see both red and green lights, your first instinct as a driver (human or not) should be to stop and re-examine more closely, not run through it.
Why would aliens have to destroy?

When I go out for a hike in the woods or a hike in a new state/country that isn’t my home. I don’t go out destroying the land around me. I observe and enjoy my time

Maybe these aliens are scientists. Documenting biological life across the galaxy. Maybe they’re VanCampers. Just bouncing from planet to planet for fun

If a civilization has presumably reached FTL travel. I imagine many of their needs have been met and conquest/destruction isn’t required to maintain their supremacy. Lots of empty planets with plenty of resources out there!

Not saying aliens/UFOs are real, but I think it’s very easy to imagine them existing and not being destructive. Or maybe they’re just scouting before the invasion :)
Making copies of cassettes was just standard practice. A new album came out and we’d all chip in for one and then copy the rest onto cassettes using the double speed cassette copying that was standard in most stereos.
Yea a faction tried, but on balance of power were denied, and the overall effect was still a net increase of immigration.

"net migration to the UK rose to a record high of around 504,000 in the year to June 2022, driven by an increase in the number of non-European Union nationals.[13] The government registered 45,755 people arriving by small boats in 2022, 60% higher than in 2021, according to the Home Office. That has led to a record backlog of 161,000 asylum cases."

A right wing government in rule would not allow this. It happened and continues to, therefore a right wing government is not in power.

>And maybe the Madagascar Plan?

Right now. Obviously they have been in power in the past. If net foreign migration is positive by large margin, then clearly they are not effectively in power now. If the courts overrule any marginal plans to change this (which themselves don't affect the overall numbers materially) then they are not in power now.
Is that a strange way of saying, "if you work with other peoples money, some of it stays with you".
If you want to try some (in the US), I highly recommend Masienda: https://masienda.com. Expensive but flavorful.
Extended Guide: Instruction-tune Llama 2
I vaguely remember someone from the USAF coming forward in the 1990's and disclosing that the USAF had been planting UFO stories to provide cover for experimental aircraft development.

Here is a NYT article from 1997 on the the CIA coverup.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230726002122/https://www.nytim...

But I also seem to remember an airforce person coming forward with similar stories that were more recent. This article talks about the 1950s-60s.
True, but I suspect a human driver would take a moment to assess the situation instead of just continuing on confidently.
We sell a solution for that problem and use it in our hiring funnel, so yes people will pay for it, and it has great value.
Not the OP either, but I also had terrible link times in SQLPage before I switched to mold. SQLPage is a web server that bundles a lot of html component templates directly in the server binary. This is very practical for users, but was painful for developers, before mold.
In depth discussion of this issue btw Jorge Hirsch and Brian Keating. https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288
My favorite tool when someone suggests a code improvement is to say ”Cool! Love that. Make it so”

Then usually nothing happens. They didn’t think it was good or important enough to use their time, they just wanted others to Do Better. Oh well
I’d also be interested to read about how to build a team that can’t succeed.