skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because this is an advert and they want to show people that they are aware & are doing something about it
SMILES Molecule Notation
I remember being interested enough to suspend disbelief for a little while with rossi's e-cat:

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

nothing happened, of course, but the idea of an elegant energy source was so seductive.
This comment (inadvertently?) by mentioning those names gives off the impression that this is a partisan push. It is not.

This is an explicitly bipartisan effort. Most recently:

- Kirsten Gillibrand (Senator D-NY) most recently secured funding for UAP Office, and for years now has been writing legislation on the topic which has been passed: https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibr...

- Chuck Schumer (Senator D-NY) in the past few days pushed an amendment for UAP disclosure, with language including things like eminent domain over any recovered UAP craft. It is unlikely this would've been pushed without consulting the white house. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment... See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/us/politics/ufo-records-s...

Choice excerpt from Section 10a:

"The Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good"

This is from Chuck Schumer, someone that hasn't been adjacent to this topic until now, out of nowhere.

- The late Harry Reid (Senator D-NV) was a huge proponent of pushing for more information on this topic, initiating the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which was the precursor to a lot of these developments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid#UFOs

- Jared Moskowitz (Representative D-FL) was one of the three representatives pushing for this hearing
> Maybe these aliens are scientists.

Their opsec's way too good for scientists. If they're anything like our scientists, we'd have recovered one of the flying saucers when they tried to go through Arby's drive-through but didn't have enough clearance.

Maybe they're just fictional, and this guy has a Fox Mulder larping fetish.

> 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.

If we ever achieve FTL travel, do you imagine that it will be available to frat bros doing road trips to Beta Reticuli VI, or will it be this horrendously expensive, economy-wrecking thing that we get to do once or twice and then have to stop because it is almost impossible to do?

We achieved a moon landing for fuck's sake, and the frat bro still hasn't duplicated that one yet (though I will concede he's not doing too shabby).
A 32 bit "wide char" is both very wasteful under normal use and mostly useless for grapheme cluster (what business people probably actually mean by "character") handling.
let us know what you think
I can’t seem to view the videos embedded in the article on iOS, which is disappointing because I really want to see that mosaic mode.
Almost everything is neurotoxic depending on the dose. Sodium Chloride(Table Salt) will reek havoc on your brain and nervous systems if the concentration gets to high. Why you get muscle cramps and dizzy when dehydrated. Luckily the study addresses this and says that you have heavily dose rats to get a neurotoxic effect but humans will never see this dose under environmental exposure.

> Most of studies of rodents analyzed in this review used doses of glyphosate or GBH that did not exceed the current NOAEL and ranged from 5 mg/kg [68] to 800 mg/kg [13]. These doses are not representative of human environmental exposures, which are in the range of μg/kg/day.
> They propose that electron tunneling between these quantum wells, which are between 3.7 and 6.5 Ångstroms apart, is the superconducting mechanism.

That is a very strange explanation. As someone who has done a decent amount of solid-state physics work, I would expect the explanation to involve a mechanism for pairing of electrons. Mere tunneling between quantum wells has been a staple since the "metamaterials" of the 80s and 90s.

That said, the measured curves do not lie, and I haven't kept up with the field. So I'm all ears (and very much hoping the superconducting revolution is upon us!)
Major automakers unite to build EV charging network they say will rival Tesla’s
I'm not saying that everyone should be like me. I am genuinely asking what the use cases are for something else.
Pessoa, as good as that lao from the tao, maybe better; effortless movement, eternal relevance (or something dreamy and awesome like that).
But why keep UFO intel away from him while letting him have highly-sensitive military intel that he could parley or leak? That’s the other part of this conspiracy that I don’t understand.
If you believe Grusch, then yes, because governments around the world are racing to recover UAPs.

I don’t really believe it but it would be in line with the story.
Stop I can only handle so much nostalgia!

Funny enough, I end up using a fax 0-1 times a year. Enough that I can just do it at work.

Document scanning however is a different story. I do that enough times a year that I keep one on hand next to my laser printer (<3).
While I think that work is an essential component to leading a fulfilling life, I think that jobs are not. Modern jobs are a concept that have been largely manufactured for society to enable people to function in that society. A lot of the complexity to our lives are products or byproducts of us all needing to obtain currency, thus get a job to do.

One observation that I've had over the last few years is that in the United States we are very often defined by our jobs. The first question often asked when meeting someone is "What do you do?" which means "What is your job?" I don't know how true this is in other cultures.

And we know that a lot of jobs are unnecessary. They represent something other than work that needs to be done: A personal connection, A government requirement, a misunderstanding of a need, a historical commonality, etc.

When the AI revolution really takes off, like really takes off and all the problems resolve (not the murky middle which is full of some probably really awful stuff), I think we'll go back to what we do when we're children: Play. Hobbies, games, exploration. The hard work becomes a sort of leisure activity where the pursuit is accomplishing it, in spite of its challenge. Gardening (for instance) is just farming where you're not growing food to survive - the success in gardening is growing what you want where you want. I enjoy baking and I continue to do it even though I can buy most goods at a store. Likewise, I think even if a robot could do the job in my home, I'd still do it because I enjoy it. I don't think it'd be any less fulfilling.
Geez, only 56 years old. Seems like a lot of Gen X artists are passing away much earlier than the generation before them.
Any particularly useful resources for looking into prompts?
...yes? It's pretty clear from the video this was done as a "test."
The article mentions the drivers experience working on FSD and they have a YouTube page dedicated to stuff like this linked in the article.
>I don't understand what fallacy you were addressing, honestly

That a general statement about the statistical properties of something (in this case, the IT tooling market) is refuted by pointing out individual counter-examples. Those can only refuse absolute statements.

Though I'm afraid this is not even a logical error. Instead it's a reading comprehension error, people read "there's no money in tooling", and think the author means "nobody made or makes money from selling tooling".

The latter (absolute statement) is not what TFA means, nobody claimed is the case, and is totally irrelevant to what's discussed. As are counter-examples to it (everybody already knows there are counter-examples).
AKA "The Wally Reflector" from Dilbert :_)
> it wouldn't have had the same outcome

It's had the same outcome every time. Take a look at Lenin's collectivization of agriculture. Production collapsed, and famine resulted. He then instituted the New Economic Program, and production was restored. Collectivization was applied again, and it collapsed again. Finally, the Soviet Union allowed farmers to farm certain parcels and keep the profits, which staved off famine, supplemented with wheat shipped from Kansas (known as "the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union").

Pretty sad, as before 1917 Ukraine was known as the Breadbasket of Europe.

Did you know that the Pilgrims tried communism for their first year? They starved. Then they switched to private ownership, and fed themselves.
Why do you need IT systems for a program that has allegedly been running covertly since a decade before Bletchley Park started building Colossus?

Let’s just presume that the people running this are recruited both for their competence and their ability to keep a secret. Would they immediately commission an IT team?

NSA needs IT. It’s essential. These programs - if they exist - are all about avoiding recording anything or communicating anything other than face to face.
(2020) even
You started a religious flamewar and then poured fuel into it in multiple places. That's why your comment is flagged. Please don't post like that here.

Your comment was just fine in the first paragraph and broke the site guidelines with the second paragraph—not because we care what you think about popes, but because such swipes predictably lead to internet dreckfests and we're simply trying to have a forum that doesn't suck. At least to the extent possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I rejected paying that tax, and moved to XFCE.

As far as I can tell, the GNOME people have not had a good idea about window management since GNOME 2. If you like it, great, use it. The point of freedom is to be able to do things they way you like.
Most (all?) corporate endpoint security systems use it right in my experience. Even when using it right, you would have to block third party builds and cause outcry. You would additionally block some builds that SafetyNet (or Play Integrity) attests.
To be fair, you’re quoting only half the sentence when the second part of that sentence justifies/qualifies it rather well.
I think the takeaway is that the scientific method is great, but since science is necessarily conducted by humans, the economic incentives within context of "doing science" also need to be correct for good science to get done.

(Currently, it seems like, this is very often not the case. Hence, your trust in current-science-as-conducted should be correspondingly lower. Lots of variation by field, probably, too.)

(Though then again maybe you shouldn't even believe anything until you see it having actual real effects in your day to day life?)
Staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed” by applying the same microcode patch everybody else applied
Prediction markets say this will probably not replicate (and imo even overestimate the probability of replication)
As someone in college in the late 70s we did a ton of taping each others’ vinyl onto cassette and pretty no one I knew actually bought prerecorded cassettes unless that was the only medium available.

Of course, as with software, not every cassette copy represented a lost vinyl album sale but copying in places like colleges was very widespread.
That was the politicians who did that. They even disincentivized valid research and policies that would help. (I.e. testing strategies, masking, quality of masks, programs to get masks out, etc)
I'm insinuating they they knew they were approaching an intersection that they knew FSD had trouble with, purposefully did not slow down the cruise control to attempt a safe approach, and purposefully did not tap the brakes even when it was obvious the car was not stopping or slowing down in a safe manner, and then reacted on camera insinuating it was entirely surprising to them.

If none of this is true, than they are incredibly shitty drivers that were not paying attention to what was happening and let the car cruise through a red light. The exact same scenario would have occurred with a standard 1990 era cruise control system.
It’s nothing unless it turns out to be something.

I’ll draw an analogy to the LLMs and diffusion models that have lately rocked the computer world. These things are straight up science fiction. I would have said computers would have never been capable of art and poetry. It was all fantasy until it was suddenly reality.

We’ll probably know if this can be replicated relatively soon. And if it can it will kick off a whole new branch of materials science and begin a multi-year race to commercialization.

We are facing gigantic challenges in energy and climate. We need the win, so my fingers are crossed.
Elixir is good at doing a lot of things at once on - scaling to lots of machines - and not exploding catastrophically while doing so.

Turns out this is really helpful for machine learning where you want to coordinate big data pipelines and do things like batching requests to a GPU resource (because GPUs want to be parallelized).

You can do batched ML inference pretty much out of the box with Nx.Serving https://hexdocs.pm/nx/Nx.Serving.html where you'd have to spin up a separate third party service like https://developer.nvidia.com/triton-inference-server otherwise.
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It was a machine pilot keeping a pet plant in its ship.

Only half kidding, if we meet aliens they will be machines at least to some extent. Biological life has a lot of annoying limitations and continuously circumventing them is more expensive than just becoming machines.

It’s way more likely to encounter von Neumann probes than some beer drinking alien traveling across the galaxy in compression socks and with a neck pillow.
Given that you already pay for an Internet connection, it's $0 marginal cost.
"Google is Attacking The Open Web!" is 100% aggressive. Whether it's trolling or not depends on how people react to it and not its content per se. And here we are in this ridiculous subthread. So, yeah, it was trolling too.

Come on. I repeat: it's a complicated subject and a real problem, and a sincere but potentially flawed proposed solution. It deserves serious discussion and not a bunch of yahoo's throwing bombs about the evil corporate overlord of the week.
Overproduction? Of food?
Tangent: To deny those bare-metal instructions with static analysis, you might also have to flat out deny certain sequences of instructions that, when jumped to "unaligned" would also form the forbidden instruction. That might break innocent programs, no?
Yeah, they do that. Just look at their pages when a website using them goes down. Cloudflare never misses an opportunity to advertise themselves.
This AI Horde UI has, IMO, some really good templates and suggestions:

https://tinybots.net/artbot
Sure. But they are waiting on contracts to do anything.
Please stop. We don't want religious flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> let’s do as follows: We implement code in our websites that checks whether the user agent implements this API. If the check passes, we tell the user that their browser is not welcome and why that is.

I am sympathetic, I agree let's all do that....

...I cannot imagine any of the money people I work with agreeing
Wish I could upvote this more.

I'm a reasonably intelligent person. My job requires me to learn complex technical details about a bunch of different domains - it may take me a while to grok it all, but I usually can once I do my research.

The thing that is striking to me whenever smart contracts come up is how extremely rare it is to be just presented with a simple, understandable, real-world use case that is an improvement over existing alternatives. Instead, so often you get:

1. Long missives about how the technology is really cool, but that completely sidestep the original question: show me a simple example of what a smart contract is used for.

2. Lots of examples that are only relevant to crypto in the first place (i.e. just speculating on valuation movements in crypto). What I mean by this is that the purpose of finance (at least the intended purpose) should be to provide capital for real goods and services. Pretty much all of the smart contract examples I've seen are just, for example, triggers related to the prices of a bunch of different tokens.

I would honestly be thrilled if someone could just give a simple example of someone actually using this stuff in the real world.

OK, please commence all the "HN just always hates on crypto" non-responses... (this last sentence is sarcasm but also born out of frustration of getting straightforward answers in this domain).
Except that "anti-racist" is just another term for "racist." This is the whole problem with Kendi's argument.
He also contends that if there is a disparity in outcomes it MUST be sure to racism. Except he never shows why, and it isn't true. It can be due to racism. But it might be due to other factors.
But really, the fix to racism is NOT more racism, which is what Kendi proposes.
I had a math professor who did an amazing job at preventing cheating by making coursework more-or-less optional, and then exams would be 50% problems they’d invented specifically for that year, and 50% problems given ahead of time (you only needed to do half of 75% of the exam). If you “got it”, the problems he made up were always very short, whereas half of the preassigned questions were long and tedious.

This basically set a hard cap of a B/B- for any student that wasn’t either wildly talented or engaging with the course material and getting useful feedback from the assignments. It was possible to pass with a C by cheating on assignments (looking up the answer and rewriting it so it wasn’t terribly obvious) and memorizing the solutions to the preassigned problems, which was honestly fair based on the rules he set for the course.
Profit sharing.
Another example of this was Millikan's determination of the fundamental electric charge (of one electron). The first, famous experiment had a major error; and subsequently everyone who independently replicated the experiment, for two decades, came up with the same error, in the same direction. The people whose experiments got the correct value probably self-selected themselves out of publishing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment?useskin=ve... ("Millikan's experiment as an example of psychological effects in scientific methodology")
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The fact that there are other (competing?) scientists doing superconductor research suggests there will be organized attempts to verify it.

That said, I remember reading about shockley having ideas about the transistor that he only fessed up to as his other more open collaborators started understanding the phenomenon.
“Happy development teams are all alike; every unhappy development team is unhappy in their own unique way.”

Tolstoy was right. There are infinitely many ways for a team to be toxic and only one way for them to be happy.

A shared sense of a common goal, knowing how each member uniquely contributes to that goal, and a common respect for the value of those contributions. Deviate from that and you get in trouble.
As someone miserably bored a lot, I think the habit really is more important then forced boredom. Also having someone to work with will always likely make you more creative, I don't think being bored has ever really made me more creative but having freetime to burn has. If you are so bored you sleep through a lecture it's pointless, at least I could draw through a lot of the ones I was in.
One problem is that most necessary projects aren’t fun, and most fun projects aren’t necessary. Does anyone design dishwashers as a hobby, as an easy example? How do you propose we motivate people to do work that isn’t fun? Currently the carrot of higher pay or ownership in a more valuable thing is doing that, so we would need something to replace it if that goes away.
Never require the documentation to be complete and accurate! Neither as a gating criterion for merge requests, nor even as part of a larger effort!

This ensures job security for the in-crowd who already knows the code base, and ensures only super-geniuses can later join their ranks.
Because it would shine a light on their own corruption. This isn't a problem with one party, the entire establishment is rotten
Boeing was awarded the crew contract at the same time as SpaceX in 2014. The first crew mission was Dragon in May 2020. Fast forward 4 years, seven NASA and three private crews have flown on Dragon. None on Starliner. Can you say with a straight face that it isn't a serious delay? A few months, really?

Keep in mind that Boeing was awarded $4.2B, compared to $2.9B for SpaceX, for the same number of flights. Not to mention that NASA was accused of favor treatment for Boeing during the development phase - See What we found section of [0]

> Which is hilarious (ambiguity about launches) as NASA doesn't even know when in 2024 (except that it will be at least Spring) Crew-EIGHT will launch... (and neither NASA nor SpaceX itself has made any communication on Crew-9 launch timeframes.)

Such is an ignorant take. The rotation of ISS mission is currently 6 months, so there are always two missions a year, in the Spring and the Fall, barring extraordinary circumstance such as with Soyuz MS-10. Crew-8 will fly in the Spring, to be followed by the first Starliner operational flight. However if Starliner upcoming test flight continue to be delayed it's entirely possible that Crew 9 will fly instead.

> I also question Ars' framing of this as "losing money"... it's R&D expenditures.

It's not Ars' framing. It's common knowledge - [1], and reported by Boeing itself - [2]

Boeing on Wednesday reported a $257 million charge in the second quarter for its Starliner astronaut spacecraft program, bringing the program’s to-date overrun costs to $1.5 billion as delays continue.

The aerospace giant blamed the charge on its decision last month to indefinitely delay the first crewed Starliner launch.

> and this article just reeks of subjective opinion, more so than objective neutrality.

The article is very short. Everyone should read and judge for themselves. I think it's mostly matter of fact without sensational takes. Can't say the same about your post (horrific anti-Boeing/reeks/hilarious).

[0] - https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-20-005.pdf
[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/26/boeing-has-lost-1point5-bill...
[2] - https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2023-07-26-Boeing-Reports-Secon...
How is that road shittily marked? I could see, even from the crap video, exactly where to drive. Perfectly fine double lines in the middle, perfectly visible edge markings on the right side. Perfectly visible red light. Yeah there's a crappy slight bend right before the light and before you turn that bend that puts you head on with the red light telling you to stop, you're basically going straight towards a green light that's meant for the road coming from the right. I bet it got confused by that.
In Berlin, at that age I didnt need anybody to explain the system to me anymore. Just use a map.

The NYC subway is on a whole 'nother level. Things like local trains suddenly running express because of crowding, or temporary service patterns like „the J-train is now running on the F-line between 22nd and 58th“ (u have to know from context thats Manhattan, not Brooklyn). And of course these announcements ate barely discernible, the loudspeakers require 15 years of training to understand.