skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to defend the government, but I don't think this policy is that Draconian. While sad, if an owner can't control their dog and it attacks someone then I think it's a reasonable reaction.
The cornfield orb could have been ball lightning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
> And the knee-jerk, lazy, boring response

Do you think that this response is innovative and thoughtful? Somebody literally said that the framers of the US constitution were collectively some of the "most functional human beings in history" and they were reminded that those people were vile and violent. If you're a black American, you have a reasonable chance of being one of their descendants because they would buy human beings to rape.

They also accomplished many things, and some of them wrote very interesting things. Jefferson was often very insightful, but he also raped slaves. Lots of drunks have written interesting things.
> "Instead of simply flailing our collective arms around complaining about an evil corporation, has anyone written to the respective competition authorities (such as the FTC in the US or CCI in India) about the potential anticompetitive effects of this proposal?"

Yes, I have. A couple times now.

Google has been strongly signaling this since last year. No one wanted to believe it last year though, before the tech bubble burst. Now that people see Google isn't so awesome right now, perhaps more people will write and contact their representatives.
Exactly but when you bring this up you get attacked. Sure there might be extraterrestrial life and no one is doubting this possibility but that they would focus on only the US and only get seen I the US is quite self centered.

Also don't forget how would we approach another planet if we had the tech to go there. The life forms on that planet may appear to us a monkeys or even ants and we would probably just ignore them.
If you can't smell the salesmanship taking place on this link, there is a whole lot more wrong with your filtering abilities than I had initially thought.

So based on this, I think you have a filter problem; you seem to be unable to accurately evaluate sources for their credibility, and take in any/all arguments without understanding how easy it is to be manipulated by un-credible sources into believing hard-to-disprove ideas that are nonetheless actively harmful to you and your ability to grow your investments.

This leaves you susceptible to charlatans and snake-oil salespeople, which fully explains your desire to believe proven-wrong ideas on investing. When you lose out on these market timing attempts, you apparently do so in a way that allows others to profit directly off of you, and you further advocate for others to follow suit.

You're a great mark, I'll give you that.
> People give up ownership in the hopes of a reciprocal relationship, even an unbalanced one

Yeah, and you can go 10 years on a platform thinking you're in a good relationship with them, but one day the ownership changes and you have absolutely no say in what happens
:s/power/ability to create value/

Anyone who can create returns greater than their cost of capital creates value. A screw isn't loose. If you can figure out how to add value to the world, then you get endless riches.

> "People without power get as little as is available to keep them alive"

Consider using less hyperbole in your worldview. Today has the highest living standards of any time.
One man's basic is another man's low intermediate.... but I agree that none of these seem overlooked to me,. They are pretty basic things once you get past the few chapters of your first python book.
The process of writing down information is one aspect of learning it.
Sometimes. Other times when they aren't confident in their estimate of the risk, they respond extremely conservatively.
There are more uses for smartphones than just Instagram and TikTok. My point is that we should be developing tools to help students organize and index everything they learn so it can be put to use when they need to solve problems in the real world. Education as it's currently done mostly focuses on getting students to be able to pass some exam, after which they will quickly forget everything learned because it's no longer needed.

Taking away a student's most powerful tool is crippling their development capabilities. Education should focus on integrating and leveraging existing modern tools to empower student capabilities and problem solving skills.

A trite example: imagine a student has to solve a word search. For an older person the only way to solve this would've been to perform the task manually. But younger students could learn how to scan the grid with OCR tools, and then write a simple script to search for the words. Ideally students would be familiarized with a full set of advanced capabilities and programming tools to be able to outperform someone doing a manual search. This example is basic, but it can be extrapolated to far more practical real world problems.

Instead of giving students basic problems, unleash them on more complex domains without instructions and get them to engage with LLMs and other tools to try and solve the problem. Then if they get stuck, help walk them through arriving at the solution. This is what education should be about.

I want students to learn to leverage all of their tools to maximum efficiency. The goal isn't to get students to pass some stupid exam, it's for them to be able to solve complex problems in the real world.

An analogy. If we had a tree-climbing competition, where some students are allowed to use their hands and feet while others are only allowed to use their feet, I bet you that the ones that are allowed to use both hands and feet will be far more effectively at climbing. And the ones forced to just use their feet will be left wondering why they weren't allowed to use their hands.
A long time ago I was trained to be an officer on commercial oceangoing ships. In addition to regular classwork and practice with firefighting equipment, we were sent to Military Sealift Command Firefighting school to get experience fighting fires in actual shipboard conditions. It's a bit more than "cursory training." I'm not sure everyone came back with all their eyebrows intact :-)

Not an expert firefighter by any means, even back then. Just responding to this to add some data. Still, you make a good point: if you're not regularly fighting fires, that training atrophies like anything else. If fire like this breaks out anywhere but on the main deck, my guess is that they'd just flood the space with CO2.
It was a whole lot of nothing. Pretty much nothing we didn't already know got announced.

Its not like I was expecting them to reveal aliens, but the whole thing was just a long winded way of saying "we don't know yet lol"
So I haven't been keeping up on the aliens story, but I've seen a lot of posts on reddit about it lately. I know there is a hearing today. Does anyone have a good summary that isn't a conspiracy website?
You buy what is offered (and a support period in most cases). Not a promise. No one buys a consumer car and expects it to run on water the next month.
If your software need security maintainance it mostly has a failed architecture from the get go.

Like 9/10 apps need no internet connectivity at all, unless they are spyware of course, which most commercial apps are nowadays.
> What, then do we do with the eyewitness accounts?

Not only eyewitness accounts, but also recorded military footage (e.g. onboard cameras, FLIR sensors mentioned in the hearing). Are you suggesting that numerous high-ranking former military officials are lying under oath? And that the expensive, high-tech equipment recording the objects also failed in a way that showed something that wasn't actually there? That sounds much more frightening to me than the alternative explanation.
Protecting consumers is the goal. If that means blocking mergers to protect consumers, then so be it.
Tell that to the insurance industry.
There's an immense amount of energy stored in every atom.
Societal level engineering is about adding friction to things which are unhealthy. There's a lot of debate on whether we should do this, but for sure it has lots of examples of working.

QED: If you want to smoke yourself to death, you can. But the government wants to add some friction to that so it's not the default case for smokers. Taxes, awareness campaigns and (god forbid!) putting some limits on what cigarette companies can add to cigarettes.
Is that a controversial thing to talk about in the US?
I understand. But out of curiosity: why is there no material evidence across the different civilizations. Surely all of humanity couldn't be duping themselves and only US is speaking up in 21st century.

I am _not_ a non-believer. It is just the lack of scientific historicity and diversity of evidence that bothers me. I cannot reconcile that mountain of contradiction with the current testimony. It is one Congressional account of definitive existence, versus the absence of conclusive proof or material evidence anywhere else.
i must've been too busy looking at decompiler output
His criticism of figure 1b doesn't seem reasonable to me, given that the are resistance measurements in 1a and 1c that show zero resistance coming and going in roughly the expected way as a function of temperature and magnetic field. Unlikely that the connections would break and reconnect in just the right way.

Nevertheless I'm still quite skeptical.
> What's the end-game of automating every human job away if the spoils of that automation aren't shared widely?

Space exploration.
Route 53 sounds like a service to forward DNS requests to the right DNS server (misapplying L2 naming of "route" for what sounds like proxying). Routing DNS does not sound like an authoritative DNS server.

What next, a HTTP server named Route 80 (or Route 443)?
Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips
In my experience usually such advices like feeling emotions rather then intellectualising them come from people who simply incapable of intellectualising them.
The US has the most people travelling long empty roads and getting Highway Hypnosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
Using Network Policy to Build Data Sandboxes at Bloomberg
Here's a look at how Bloomberg uses Cilium to enforce data security through its BQuant Enterprise solution's data sandboxes.
It’s called fine-tuning or soft prompts or Lora’s, also constrained text generation techniques work.

You don’t need jailbreaks on local models you can control.
Sure, but one cant deny the music of the late 60s and 70s changed a lot of human culture.

But we dont have revolutionary music such as led zepplin, pink floyd, etc in the current crop.

none of the above sought facade public images as much as every single 'influencing' pop-stars today.

Their influence was organic. Today's music trends are forced.

Aside from some EDM style folks, such as ZHU - great music but hes not out there trying to push 'lifestyle' bs, as much as others.
The unions guarantee a minimum price floor for actors, and healthcare if you work full time. No maximums.

Unfortunately the entire reason for the strike is studios will rarely, unless you are very top talent, deviate from the minimums. They would often try to go even lower, if they could. Hence the strike is to raise the minimums.

There’s 160,000 members of SAG. There’s maybe only 50 household-name celebrities acting in any one year? Those 50 are not representative of everyone who acts at all.
Usually what is “relevant” is determined by vector search. So user has no control of what is being sent out. Is that how rewind work?

That’s what make me worried.
I feel your comment adds nothing of value. It would be interesting if you could contribute to the discussion if you had anything of value to contribute. Posting arrogant comments that boil down to a dubious homework assignment is just noise.
I don't exempt alcohol as a drug. At best, drugs are helpful in moderation. Social media, literal drugs, whatever potential object of addiction are trouble. There's enough trouble with society already.
> Leaving aside the hyperbole and going back to the question from before, when is dietary sugar advantageous, and is adding extra refined sugar ever beneficial?

As far as I know, it could be useful in case of huge need for calories.

Which basically never happens with modern lifestyle. But I guess may apply to firefighters working for several days or soldier lugging around piles of equipment.

But unlikely to apply to anyone reading HN. Unless they climb Mount Everest for fun, or volunteer as firefighters or are unlike enough to end in a war zone.
You're not wrong.

The real problem here seems to be giving one single company too much unchecked power rather than the individual proposal itself.
I assume there is some particular combination of factors at play here:

The US has a very advanced military and intelligence apparatus which operates globally.

The US has an enormous area that it operates in domestically (large areas of both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans).

The US also has a relatively open culture and emphasizes free speech.

When you look at all of these factors it seems that by having all of them it makes it a lot more likely for people to detect UAPs and then talk about them. The other thing that might be at play here is that, as an American, I have no idea what a credible news source would be from Botswana and it is unlikely to be in English even if I would consume it in the first place.
> Bullshit. You are conveniently ignoring the musicians were ripped by the labels way, way before mp3s and still are. Go, read this[0] from the musician itself, ffs.

Piracy doesn't make this issue smaller, if anything, it makes it worse. Love wrote:

> There were a billion music downloads last year, but music sales are up. Where's the evidence that downloads hurt business?

This piece was published in 2000, and sales were not "up". Maybe he didn't have access to the latest figures. But they already started to go down. Over the next few years, CD sales would collapse completely, and digital music sales would not nearly make up for it. I posted the charts previously.

> > Apart from 1981 pretty much coinciding with the cassette piracy decline

> LOLWUT?

I posted the chart previously. Around that time vinyl records had declined substantially, without cassette sales compensating for it. The most likely explanation is that cassette piracy was the culprit. CDs fixed this problem for a while, as they were initially read only and couldn't be pirated.

> > Then CD sales collapsed because of piracy. Napster & Co.

> Are you fucking serious? Napster became defunct by 2001. iPod came out in late 2001, iRiver came out in 2002 and iPod 3 in 2003. By 2005 NOBODY used CDs as a means for portable music.

Yes, because Napster was replaced with countless other music piracy apps. Gnutella, eDonkey2000, Kazaa, Limewire etc. People could legally buy music for their iPods, but they were rather using filesharing. This was free after all, if illegal.

> > Do you have troubles with comprehension? You could never return to 'CD levels' because those levels literally had profit margins anywhere from 200% to 3000%:

> > In 1995, material costs were 30 cents for the jewel case and 10 to 15 cents for the CD. The wholesale cost of CDs was $0.75 to $1.15, while the typical retail price of a prerecorded music CD was $16.98

That's a nonsense comparison. Raw CD manufacturing costs have almost nothing to do with the price or value of music. With downloadable music, the "manufacturing cost" of transferring a few megabytes is likewise miniscule. But the fixed cost of making and advertising the music is not meaningfully different.

> And also you conveniently ignore what the physical media declined past 2001 precisely because people no longer needed nor wanted the physical media.

And you are conveniently ignoring the fact that legal CD music got replaced with illegally downloaded music. I posted the chart. Hardly anyone paid for downloaded music.

> Can you explain how come the label receives 27% while the artist only 16%?

Bad contracts have nothing to do with piracy, but the extremely low price of Spotify has. That Spotify and Apple Music are cheap doesn't mean that artists get a bigger share of the total revenue than in the past. But the total revenue itself got smaller.
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
Don’t know why I thought this was going to be an app to let me downgrade iOS on my device. Clearly I need to step away from the screen.
I meant more “can you give an example of what would be considered a successful jailbreak”?
> He and I would occasionally drink two or three Negronis at lunch

just yesterday, there was an article asking when people stopped being drunk all the time. How did anyone get any work done like that?
The single reason we live in a world where scarcity problems are supply chains issues is because of fossil fuels. Stuff does not extract itself, stuff does not move by itself, remove fossil fuels from the equation and the whole civilization you've come to know, love and also hate, crumbles.

Current limitations :
- Using that almost free energy from the ground changes our environment in a way that threatens our survival (which will have to rely on even more energy expenditure)
- What happens when we run out ? (Actually it's more about spending more and more energy for disminishing returns)
- Do we have enough to make the transition to renewables/nuclear while shielding ourselves for the currently happening global warming ?
Currently have painted mountain, glass gem and then regular sweet corn. The painted mountain colors are really neat and it is okay to eat, but a firmer and not as sweet (obviously) as the sweet corn. The glass gem corn is not ready yet, but I hear it is good for popcorn so I will try that.
This is such a cool application of AI. If it's sending everythign to some cloud provider though it's a privacy nightmare. Would love to see in a few years the option to self host models like this on a VPS or even your own hardware directly.
From the BBC story:

Rep Nancy Mace, a North Carolina Republican, tried to get Grusch to elaborate on what he knew about non-terrestrial bodies.

She asks him if "biologics" were recovered from any crashed crafts.

Referencing his previous media interviews, Grusch responds that "biologics came with some of these recoveries".

Were they human or non-human? Mace asks.

"Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the programme I talked to," Grusch responds.ike this."
Oh but that would be against the respective projects' code of conduct. /s
Thank you Dan! Your redux video tutorials on egghead.io convinced me to switch from Angular 1 to React 6 years ago. Thank you!
The Open Source Definition is effectively identical to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Given that the FSF plays games to pretend the GFDL is a Free license when it really shouldn't be, in practice Open Source is preferable to Free Software.
> but the cable is fraying

Unicomp has a repair service to fix old Model M keyboards. They will even clean them and upgrade to USB! I just sent in my two Model Ms from the 90s yesterday. It's a bit expensive but if what you want is a classic Model M, there's not much of an alternative.
> What if nuclear blasts had an effect outside what we knew?

Wait, isn’t this the plot of Twin Peaks: The Return?

The news today is reporting that it was David Grusch, already not taken very seriously, who testified on the presence of “non-human” biological material found at crash sites. You know what that claim is compatible with? Putting an ape into an advanced drone in order to test the effect of its flight on life. You know, just like was done in the 1950s for space research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
The human calculators, who even in non-classified industry, wouldn’t know the bigger picture.
So you think there's still a peak; are you buying lots of GOOG right now?
The comment about it killing scraping makes me sad. Figuring out a website's api and collecting your own dataset using python+scrapy for personal ML projects is a wonderful learning exercise that I recommend to everyone. A world of only approved datasets from Kaggle etc. is not the same.
I’m trying to click the X to close the window but won’t do anything.
Assuming this isn’t just a big psyop trying to scare US adversaries, and that UFO’s are real… the US was the first to detonate nukes in 1945, on its own territory, which might explain some of the UFO interest. Maybe the UFO’s were investigating how scientifically and technologically advanced humanity was becoming, and naturally focused on nuclear tech as a leading indicator.

Also, the 1936 Berlin Olympics TV broadcast was the first human signal capable of detection from distant space, and might have alerted them to humanity. Travel time of the broadcast plus travel time of UFO’s to Earth (assuming they have lightspeed capability) might have resulted in them arriving right around when nukes were invented (if they’re from, say, Alpha Centauri which is 4 light-years away).

Finally, the US and Europe have free press where things like this are more likely to be publicly reported than in say, the USSR back in the day, or China under the CCP. Which, in conjunction with the above, may explain sightings maps like this one, where sightings are most frequent in the US and secondarily in Europe:

https://updb.app/map?zoom=1.00&lon=149.0917&lat=37.3003

Also, if you search number of reports by date ranges, and choose an arbitrary cutoff at, say, 1944, look at what you get (I would need to see all this data graphed to see when the real inflection point to cut at is, so I'm just guessing here):

1-1943: 1566 sightings reports

1944-2023: 294,641 sightings reports

Two orders of magnitude more sightings reports in the 80yrs since nukes were invented, vs in the almost two millennia previously. Obviously we also had more robust and technologically advanced media in the latter time frame, so that contributes much to the discrepancy. But still a huge discrepancy.
Dear human. We know. All of it. Always have. The things you are concerned about are not yours to solve. Why are you asking for an energy source, do you not have enough energy, how are you writing your blog? Don't be silly. You want better propulsion fuels? That is what you came here to ask for? Or maybe your problem is that you have none?
I would start with the FBI files from the 70's and go from there. That's where it all begins. Apparently the hair had a structure that was not carbon based… the same kind of structure that Grusch talks about from the spaceship that crashed in Italy in 1933 which was covered up by the Five Eyes and the Vatican. Vatican vault apparently has samples as well.
Sorry but you’re mistaken

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-are-neutrinos-da...
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10...

Here is recent, high quality one, but there are many more (and some with conflicting results - but to my eye the best studies all point to similar conclusions).
This comment is your regularly scheduled reminder that they were supposed to be the safe option. The people who'd come in clutch when SpaceX failed (and it was assumed in certain quarters that SpaceX would fail to deliver on time). They were paid 2x more than what NASA paid SpaceX.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/nasa-will-pay-boeing...

RIP Boeing.
If his political opinions mean that he the rules apply as written, that's sort of okay. If his political opinions were to grant him an exception, that'd be worse IMO.
I don't like the results of the loudness war either but it isn't objectively worse. Lots of people are listening to music on cheap speakers over the sound of road noise while driving or with generic earbuds on a train or any number of situations not conducive to high dynamic ranges. To these people in these situations, the highly compressed music sounds better.
That's so embarrassingly obtuse I refuse to believe you aren't aware and are just being contrarian.
In the context of Google projects, I propose fucks-ya. As in, will screw you over.