skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have attempted to provide an opinionated, but grounded in clearly-established fact, accounting of the 21st century UFO wave in this series:

- https://computer.rip/2023-02-14-something-up-there-pt-I.html

- https://computer.rip/2023-02-17-something-up-there-pt-II.htm...

- https://computer.rip/2023-06-07-something-up-there---nasa-an...

It should be understood that I am advocating for a particular interpretation of events that I think is most likely---and is markedly less spectacular than what you typically see in the media. I also haven't really taken on Grusch yet but will probably do so soon.

I've been hesitant to write on Grusch because I do not personally feel him to be credible, but only time will tell. there are far too many similarities between Grusch, Bob Lazar, and Luis Elizondo, which clearly illustrates the need to be skeptical of people with fantastical claims and supposed intelligence backgrounds. Like Lazar before him, Grusch seems to be positioning his claims in such a way that they are not verifiable. It will likely take a couple of years for journalists to provide any serious review of Grusch's claims, if they ever do. These congressional hearings are far more show than substance and were never likely to produce any new information, or to seriously evaluate Grusch's credibility.

We can hope that something will emerge in coming months that will offer a more definitive appraisal of Grusch but, in the meantime, I think it's by far safest to assume that he is another crank in a well-established line of cranks who have (claimed to) emerge from the shadows of the military to tell us that the government definitely has aliens hidden somewhere. The main difference is that the media is taking Grusch far more seriously than they have taken previous instances, but I think that's an artifact of specific events right now (e.g. the AARO) and not really related to the substance of Grusch or his claims. I don't think the congressional hearings should be interpreted as anything more than a knee-jerk reaction to the media situation, perhaps amplified by current political factors.
Good question, but I don't know.

I'd guessing lots of other warm season grasses which need not be corn. Most gardens grow many things that are not warm season grass. That is plants that don't grow very tall.
Last time I took a big car ferry the car decks were off limits for passengers. On a smaller ferry it's more of a problem but the risks are also lower.
Please share your template.
> Unlike what outsider think, software -- even "boring" CRUD/web software -- is still very much a research project. If you ask a civil engineer how to build a bridge, they'll tell you about all the techniques that were developed over the many many decades. What a developer focuses on while writing code is mostly ideas developed in the last few years.

Most (all?) of the ideas I see are at least 20 years old, if not 40-50. Something like Spring wouldn't be my ideal choice, but it can certainly get the job done for most people, and it's 20 years old. MVC dates back to the 70s. Postgresql is 27 years old and is a fantastic choice. SQL and RDBMSs date back to the 70s. The term CRUD itself dates back to the 80s. Server rendered pages are still easy to do, perform way better than most React-based abominations, and are as old as the web. If anything, software is plagued by these "research projects" that are mostly just to scratch smart people's itches.
This plan doesn't take complete control. It provides a mechanism for a web site to delegate trust on UA configuration authenticity to a third party, or even to itself via side-channel.

Nothing in the proposal requires the third party be Google. The proposal does decrease the control the user has over their own hardware, in the sense that it provides a channel for a site to decide the user-agent / hardware stack is the wrong pedigree to serve; that's not universally considered evil either (few people really get bent out of shape that you need a Nintendo Switch to use Nintendo Switch Online services).
Some people don't want an iPad for their center console.
I've stopped caring about what is current. I have carved out my own little world. It's beautiful, wonderful to work in, I'm extremely productive, and it makes enough I'll never need to work for others. I am happy to become a dinosaur and leave it to the young to rediscover things and enjoy the pain the old folks have known to avoid for so long.
I hope someday there’s a version of this or something comparable to it that can run on <8gb consumer hardware. The main selling point of Stable Diffusion was its ability to run in that environment.
If you option-click the green button or double-click the window handle, it expands a window to fill the screen without making it full-screen on its own space.
You're right, but not because of politics.

FTC is on a losing streak, with the latest fiasco being the Microsoft Activision acquisition fiasco.
Sure, but the size of that home has certainly increased significantly. The quality of that home has also increased. The quality of the neighborhood likely has as well.

Could the explanation possibly be that people generally settle on it being worth spending a certain percentage of their income on a home? If that were the case, no matter if people in general are becoming more or less well off or if homes are getting more or less expensive, the percentage of their income that people spend on them may hover around the same area.
> and you get ongoing revenue by selling new versions

This works exactly up until the moment that your software is good enough that most of your userbase stops paying to upgrade. Then you are dead in the water, and the software becomes abandonned by design.
I'm reading _Divine Invasions: A Life Of Philip K. Dick_ and just got to the point where he sold his first short story. He was paid $75 for it, at a time when the mortgage on his (old, small, but still) two-story Berkeley house was $27.50. This was 1950.
I didn't see anyone mention the rationale. Here it is:

"Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing.

The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video.

In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1683656350046232578
I for one am glad they're doing this. There's a lot of UX stuff I wish they'd improve (random lockouts and desyncs, autofill not showing up in Android, no dedupe, no automatic discovery of app logins from saved web logins, etc.)

The basic feature set already works great. I hope having more usage data will let them keep tweaking the product for users.

Or they might just sell it all to data brokers. Who knows these days, lol.
The Fed isn't an acronym of initialism. It's short for the Federal Reserve so it's "Fed" not "FED" - I call this out for your benefit as the conspiracy theorists always capitalize it, and this reduces your credibility for the average reader. Just as writing BITCOIN would reduce my credibility in the eyes of the, er, renowned monetary theorist Tsartoshi.
At Trail of Bits, we've been working on this type of IR for C and C++ code [1]. We operate as a kind of Clang middle end, taking in a Clang AST, and spitting LLVM IR that is Clang-compatible out the other end. In this middle area, we progressively lower from a high-level MLIR dialect down to LLVM.

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/vast
Is this any help?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocea...
The choice is between letting hardware be not finalized and letting that force software to be non-finalizable, and letting software be finalizable and forcing the hardware to be finalized too. I like latter more. Finalized hardware is better by itself as well.
> And Mozilla is long past dead.

Mozilla is far from healthy but calling it dead is overstating things.
Even without impact on them I believe there is still value in non-streaming.

I've discovered multiple CDs disappearing from Spotify. The FLACs that are sitting on my NAS aren't subject to some finite licensing deal.
If you are looking for maps themselves (a la Google Maps) I highly recommend checking out Protomaps [0]. It provides a single file (PMTile format) that contains all the map data and you can request ranges from the single file to get the required vector data you need for a given area/zoom.

So you can setup something like the following:

S3 (host the myfile.pmtiles) <- Lambda (takes the x/y/z from the path and requests the correct range) <- Cloudfront cache tile response

Then you can setup tiles.mydomain.com (or use the cloudfront domain directly) and then use Leaflet or similar on the frontend to fetch/render the tiles. For Leaflet you use the protomaps plugin/lib and give it a url like "https://tiles.yourdomain.com/20230408/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt" where "20230408" maps to "20230408.pmtiles" in your S3 bucket. Now I can drop new pmtiles files into that bucket and update my clients to use the new source. And since the tiles are in vector format you can theme them however you want in the client which is neat. Lastly you don't have to use the 100+GB whole-earth tileset. You can use a tool [1] (provided by the same guy) to download a dataset for just a given geographical region.

The .pmtiles file is a little over 100GB but the whole setup took me only an hour or two max to get running and will cost way less than Google Maps to run.

[0] https://protomaps.com/

[1] https://app.protomaps.com/downloads/small_map
They've always been a quiet company but are plugging away at New Glenn (reusable HLV) and orbital reef plans.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/06/blue-update/

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/blue-origin/ and
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=78.0
They might be trying to set precedence in law. Next time, it gets harder for other DNS providers (Google, CloudFlare, but also ISPs) to deny such blocks.
I've been using i3 (within the larger Regolith package) for a few years now and its hard for me to non-tiling WMs now. However I do think there would be a lot of improvements, especially with large desktop monitors.

One idea I had would be to have a window manager only have a single main window in each desktop and then scaled down windows around the border on the desktop, like the TV in Idiocracy (https://www.soundandvision.com/files/_images/200902/21720091...). Selecting windows would swap out the main window with the scaled version on the border. This would give you the ability to focus on one window that is always centered while seeing scaled versions of all the other window's output.

Maybe this has already been done?
> Fraud is not the correct reaction to the problems of academia, as it actively hurts it even more.

Not in the short term. And only for yourself personally if you are found out.

Of course there are perverse incentives which goes against the scientific spirit. It doesn’t even require malicious intent. Neglect and bias can be similarly powerful negative forces.
Ask HN: Did you ever abandon a successful project for lack of monetization?
Either because there was no path to being profitable or you were the wrong person to execute on that path. In retrospect, what would you do differently ?
Just disable the title bar behavior while keeping the "new ui"? I haven't seen that.
A perennial conceit.
This perspective fails to appropriately recognize ADHD and related phenomena as executive function disorders. Depression, shame, regret, and stress are actually highly correlated with ADHD, OCD etc., because this exact executive function disorder often leads to the sufferer having a less than ideal life.

And so it is akin to telling a person who suffers from real, clinical depression, to "just not be depressed". It's tautological advice.

As for the nature of these daydreams; Understand that it's a general condition. The author's daydreams are likely all over the place, everything at once. My own rapidly change just like a real dream, from happy to sad over and over.

It's not like the author is fixated on buying some dream car or living in a big house. There is an element of compulsive fixation on general daydreaming which can be extremely hard to overcome whenever it is caused by actual disorders in brain structure. For example, ADHD is characterized by a number of gene mutations which lead to reduced number of dopamine receptors throughout the brain. [0]

There is no psychological way to just "get over" this. What needs to happen is society needs to accept that these are real disabilities and it can be just as rude telling someone who has an extreme case "don't dream it, be it," as it is to tell someone with general intellectual disabilities to just "study harder". Then maybe we can stop leaving otherwise very intelligent individuals behind to suffer in lifelong economic and psychological disparity.

[0] https://www.omim.org/entry/143465
It may be an unpopular opinion, but most of that software should just live in the browser if it's actually reliant on the cloud.
I would suggest you consider the possibility that the current understanding of physics a thousand years from now will look very different from how it looks today.

Even more so a million years from now.

The reality is that we're not a particularly intelligent species - as shown by the fact that we're currently terraforming our own planet to make it less hospitable.

Our culture may well be extinct within a century. So I think it's optimistic to believe that we as a species have much of a clue about anything at all.

Now put that in the context of an extremely old universe, and it's not hard to understand that we're unlikely to be the smartest people in the room.

FWIW I'm agnostic about UFOs. The problem is that they conflate two issues - aerial phenomena, and alien visitation.

There's no reason those should be connected. Or that the latter would inevitably be responsible for the former.

The scientific thing to do is to collect evidence of the former before assuming the latter.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

The publish-or-perish mentality combined with the grant system introduces a lot of bad incentives into the scientific ecosystem.
Try Alt-F4
> For a time, you could make a living writing short stories for genre rags

If you could write fast and didn't mind the occasional can of dog food.
Corn is wind pollinated and having a lot of plants around decreases the chance of self-pollination and increases the chance of outbreeding enhancement.
>1. Apple GateKeeper. "End of the Mac as a general purpose compute platform is nigh", >10 years later, you can still run whatever apps you want.

We ignoring that they now, as of the last 2 years claim unsigned apps are "Broken" and need to be "Moved to the Trash" instead of just "Unsafe" with an "Open" command?

They're moving at snails pace but there are people working at Apple trying to force the hands of devs into an iOS like system.
I think we’re getting to competitive sports territory, where people justify it to themselves because they’re convinced everyone else is doing it.
Did anyone expect otherwise?
> NASA did just give Boeing extra money for some pretty dubious reasons.

Actually, a multiple award approach for a very high risk, technically challenging widget makes perfect sense, and is the same thing seen for similarly challenging weapon systems e.g. the Advanced Tactical Fighter F-22 vs F-23
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-f-23-ste...

> The report specifically notes that, five days after NASA agreed to the additional payment to Boeing, the company submitted a proposal to NASA offering to sell five Soyuz seats it has acquired from Russian company RSC Energia for $373.5 million.

This looks like Boeing was doing some horse trading that could have been pretty financially risky particularly considering the value of money.

> The report concluded NASA’s payment of $144 million to accelerate the timetable for two of the four Starliner missions was unreasonable, and that it overspent by $43 million when it granted Boeing authorization to proceed on one Starliner mission a year earlier than necessary.

Sometimes when thinking about the Industrial Base of the United States, there is a good rationale for keeping an incumbent's design & engineering capabilities active, while bringing competition to the table and potentially displacing it with a more agile competitor.

If truly getting the best and most efficient designs out there was the true goal, there should have been more awards, and for funded development to enable a greater diversity of competitors with designs being put forth.
Signal: Why .GOV Hates It
The general population reacts in a few prescribed pathways. People's opinions are almost entirely shaped by the media they consume, and people with power over that media use that to their gain.

Right now, a majority faction of the people with power stand to benefit from starting a climate catastrophe[1], so we're getting a climate catastrophe.

[1] Or stand to lose from trying to stop one.
Yep. Which should mean the new gen will charge faster than 50 kW, which makes it a lot more convenient for road trips.
You're misassessing the costs and benefits of attacking people for posting anonymously.

Re costs: Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=oceanthrowaway - the odds that this commenter is legit are quite high. Would it would have been better if they had posted under a regular username? Sure, but people sometimes have good reasons for making throwaway accounts to post about topics they're professionally expert in. Such comments add value to HN, sometimes a lot of value (e.g. sometimes they give important inside information about a topic), and punishing people for doing that is against the community interest.

Re benefits: it's not at all easy to "shape public opinion" by an anonymous comment on an internet forum. You'd have to do it repeatedly, and the more repetitive it gets, the more predictable the comments become, and the more likely the community will have an immune response to it. In my experience from moderating this place over the years, internet users are far too quick to assume that they're encountering manipulative stealth behavior.

What you should be responding to instead is the quality of the comments. If a throwaway account is repeatedly posting low-quality comments, then sure, that's a good reason to be critical - but the throwawayness of the account should not be the high-order bit.

If you had made your point less aggressively, I probably wouldn't have responded, but you came down on the GP like a hammer (e.g. "spreading FUD from behind anononymity") and that put your comment on the wrong side of the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> it praises the enslaved for turning their cheeks

What most people don't get about the idea of "turning your cheek" is that it's actually very pragmatic when living under a brutal dictatorship, or slavery. If you're going to resist and fight back, you have to do so with forethought and planning, and not direct confrontation. This was true back in the day under Caesar, as it was for slaves of the South, as it is today for black people under threat by police officers. Don't make sudden moves. Don't fight back at the wrong time. Or you're risking your life. Swallow your pride. Turn the other cheek. Wait for the right opportunity
The release event is in like ~30 minutes on their discord, probably the announcement went out a bit early.
> Will they accept that their digital society will be feudal in nature because the broken US political system cannot deliver on even basic responsibilities?

The Germans, British, Australians and French are also attempting to build their own panopticons.
Bromite is not maintained for a year. It is a bad idea to use it unless you're using the unofficial build.
With the current state of things, approximately half of the world's population actively fights or pushes back on the simple idea that this is even occurring, much less accepting it as reality, and definitely much less taking action to change behavior.
Really? I would expect more than that from an EDG based professional compiler. A friend of mine uses the STM8 version in his workplace and he swears by it (though he still prefers SDCC due to C2x support)
I've tried running some using https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui on my arch box with an AMD gpu and it worked well and was really handy, until I tried yesterday and I get some python error no matter what I do, with the same environment as before and with a new one \o/

There doesn't seem to be an obvious easy way to run them with GPU support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/25/florida-re...

More here. It wasn't just one buoy - almost all the measurements in Florida Bay were near or beyond records. Yes, it abnormal - this could be a world record for hottest ocean water (previous record was off Kuwait). And it's not just Florida - the Med, North Atlantic, and waters off Peru are all seeing record or near-record water temperatures as well.
Science currently looks like somebody going to fish, with the purpose of caught the best fish in the sea.

So first they put the bait inside a plastic box, to weed out all the dumb fishes.

Then they put the box inside another sealed wooden box, with a combination lockpad. Because only a really smart fish with skilled fin-paws should be able to figure out how to open also that box.

For better measure, they finally put the wooden crate out of the water, to select for olympic fishes able to keep its breath for a longer time.

And then put an electronic device in the bottom with an encrypted map to the treasure. When some fish will appear will be the most stupendous fish in the sea, with the most brilliant scales; And everybody will be happy to eat it

And then science waits...

and waits some more,...

a little more...

And after one year, science starts wondering where all the fishes go, and why all of the candidates that appeared are rats.

If you put too much requisites and ask for only ideal flawless careers, made in some unicornia university; in the short time the candidates interested in your job position will start lying. After a while all that remain at your door are cheaters

So, well... enjoy the fruits of your brilliant strategy.
As the one employed member of my household (spouse is retired) I paid off a Silicon Valley mortgage in under 15 years working for a non-profit software outfit with no stock options or any of that, just a decent salary for a solid company for a good stretch of time. That you think it can only be done with a small handful of specific employers is silly.
Sublight speed Von Neuman probes (self replicating) are the kind of tech we are likely going to be able to produce ourselves sometime in the future.

Which is tech that would allow complete saturation/exploration of the entire galaxy on the order of millions of years. As essentially by the time one probe is able to reach one side of the galaxy from the host system the entire galaxy will have already been filled with probe copies.

It wouldn't be particularly difficult for a more advanced civ with potentially millions or billions of years evolutionary lead time on ourselves to have explored the galaxy and by extension have probes in our solar system.

These claims in the hearing are definitely extraordinary, but the tech required to "make it here" doesn't particularly need to be.
Tech competitiveness relies on network effects. Breaking up tech would just cede marketshare to companies like ByteDance and Baidu.

Any successful US-based tech post-breakup would be acquired by larger international players, like Tiktok was.
See below about the dog food: a story from PKD's life.