skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually gotten paid for fiction writing before! I'm a good writer, but I despise marketing/branding and also really dislike doing creative work on a deadline/for a living. (It's the same reason I'm not a SWE actually because programming is a creative task for me.)
My instinctual reaction to this has always been "well, you drive around in public, and your license plate is on the back of your car, so of course you can't expect privacy of it any more than you can stop someone from following you and taking photos of it."

And generally I feel it's a valid argument, but it exposes two root problems:

1) Scale: There is a clear difference between a single person photographing license plates in a parking lot, or even a single person following one car, compared to an enterprise industrializing that tracking process through wholesale procuring of security camera footage or similar.

2) Linkage: Even if your license plate can be tracked, why should it be linked to your identity? The answer is that it really shouldn't. Of course you can register your vehicle to an LLC, but even if you don't do that, you shouldn't expect anyone on the road to map your license plate to your address. But again we return to the problem of scale, because ultimately someone could see your car in your driveway, then see it on the road, and therefore know your starting location and current location.

The first problem of scale, while clearly exposing an obvious difference, doesn't seem easily resolvable to me, because at what point is a process "industrialized?" How do you legislate against this without imposing on constitutionally protected activity, or at least basic pseudo-freedoms like freedom of commerce? And how do you avoid regulatory capture granting carve outs to a few anointed large corporations to continue the practice, especially if they're the same corporations that "contract" with the government? [One side-problem/solution here is the lack of transparency of, or restrictions on, government purchasing "public" data.]

The second problem of linkage, seems more easily addressable (no pun intended). States should put more protections on license plate databases, and make it easier for people to register their vehicle through a proxy, even without needing to create an LLC. But you still have the problem of "manual" linkage using photos of driveways.

But the larger, perhaps root issue, is that modern technology is exposing a middle ground between "private" and "public" (meta)data - we see this with enterprise-scale tracking of public information, and also with "personal data" shared with limited audiences on social media sites, where it's obviously not private because you intend to share it with people, but you also don't intend to share it with everyone.
> I literally pointed you to a kaggle file of reports from a major UFO reporting organization.

Kaggle competition is a supporting evidence for you?

> And with regard to Hindu UFOs, I was referring to Vimana.

Those were depicted as chariots mostly drawn by flying horses or elephants in Ramayana & Mahabharata. Unless you consider flying horses as aliens. Also, these were written as poetic verses with generous doses of imagination.

> Not sure what you expect me to present as far as evidence goes when my point is "there is a ton of dubious evidence, but evidence none-the-less".

Let me help by stating: There is a ton of dubious statements from many people which doesn't count as evidence (those testifying without shred of evidence to congress). More of he-said-she-said trust-me-bro. Hence why I asserted these aren't worth discussing anymore. And quoting them as support is not good faith in a scientific evidence-oriented discussion

There are conspiracy theories & then there are conspiracy dogmas group of people fall trap to & blindly propagate, much like religion. Then usual responses to reasonable scientific queries become topics of (1) our science isn't developed enough (2) godly metaphysics isn't known enough (3) reasons of alien presence/ absence/ ambiguity aren't clear enough - despite strong evidence to the contrarian opinion.
If you had said that 5 years ago, I would have believed you, but the latest trend of megacorporations and billionaires moving against the interests of their users and ignoring their complaints has changed my stance on that.

Google is a big dog and will not care about our yapping. If it's allowed to do as it will without consequence then it will do so, and there is nothing that individuals can do to stop it other than to cease using their products.
Several countries have that tax. Here in Sweden we pay about $10 for every new computer, mobile phone, SSD etc just because we might store music on them. Quite absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
> agree with the idea of racist/antiracist. It's not a crazy concept

Upvoting despite disagreement.

The racist/antiracist false dichotomy elides general disagreement on the meaning of racism. The term has been expanded--subtly and regionally--from intentional, unambiguous animus towards another person based on their race, to unintentional actions or even statistical effects which have no meaning on the individual level.

What frustrates me about the anti-racist/white people are evil/DEI debate is the degree to which it elevates semantics. Yes, words have power. But calling someone who doesn't acknowledge our justice system's history of discrimination a racist, when they take that term to mean something closer to someone who spouts the N word in anger, perhaps because they grew up with folks who regularly spout the N word in anger; that's manufacturing antagonism. It's taking a powerful word and using it in an adjacent context without first gaining agreement to the expansion.

Disagreeing with someone's definition of racism isn't racist per se. It's only so if used to justify racism outside that context. So much of our present debate gets bogged down in that first step to the detriment of the latter.
The challenge of fusion is a collection minor problems that add up to machines that are unviable for our current level of industrial output. Eliminating one of the three key plant systems (cryo, vacuum, and heating) is not a molehill, especially when it is the second highest user of power (after heating).
Fixed price contracts can be quite a problem in high risk projects.

The issue is that incentives absolutely aren't aligned. The moment Boeing thinks it has achieved a certain part of the contract but NASA does not you have a huge problem on your hand where one side will try to get work done for free and the other has absolutely zero interest as they are not getting paid.

If cost overruns are too great Boeing might also (depending on the contract) choose to withdraw, as the continuing development cost will be greater than any penalties from the contract.
The World Is Structurally Similar
This is the exact same answer every leftist I've talked to says when I ask them who will run the garbage system, and who will clean the sewers.
Willing to get arrested would be a huge signal that he's an actual whistleblower and not full of shit!

There's almost no chance he'd face any consequences given the topic and the amount of support he'd have the from the public, and even then, Daniel Hale's sentence for disclosing dozens of classified documents to reporters was ~3.5yrs in jail. The LARPers pretending like he'd be sent to gitmo are completely in lala land.
Slaves were used to grow rice (South Carolina, Georgia), sugarcane (Louisiana), corn (Virginia, to Mississipi), wheat, and vegetables (sweet potatoes, beans, okra, collard greens, squash, cabbage etc)

They were used in cattle ranching and hog husbandry. They worked as butchers and meat processors. In places like the Chesapeake Bay region enslaved individuals were involved in oyster harvesting and processing.
> Maybe getting a billboard #1 single and becoming a sensation was the worst thing that could have happened for her.

She said as much herself in her recent memoir: “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career, and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”
Retain rockstar programmers at all costs, even if they push everyone else to quit over being mistreated. Give them fancy job titles.

Have upper management crack sexist jokes, and HR laugh with them, so that women at the company who are sexually harassed know reporting it will do at best nothing, and at worst risk their own career.

Only hire young men in their twenties, and praise the idea of working long hours. Child care is for their wives to do.

Create artificial deadlines, that have no real-world repercussions for missing. But make it an urgency that must be done, instilling stress, and causing people to work long hours. Then after the deadline passes, note how it was unimportant, and repeat.

Have upper management make engineering decisions without accepting the input of engineers. Then when things blow up in a manner predicted by engineers, blame the engineers.

Pay new grads more than you do women engineers who have been at your company for years.

Have interviews that are focused on sports, and how much fun you would be at a party.

Praise the management style of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
Congrats! Just one nitpick: lettuce seems to be misspelled as lattice.
Which by consequence would be extremely destructive to most forms of entertainment at least in the short and medium term.
Adobe almost killed Apple by developing Windows-first and sometimes Windows-only products in the 1990s. Many professionals cared about Adobe software more than their hardware device, so moved platforms.

Adobe’s motivation was largely revenge against Apple for opening up printing standards. Previously Adobe had a de facto monopoly license on these.

Steve Jobs was extremely pissed off by seeing Apple get hurt for making a pro consumer decision that was good for the wider industry, and held the grudge for a long time. Even though he wasn’t CEO for much of this period.

This article has more detail if you’re interested [1]

[1] https://www.alphr.com/blogs/2010/05/05/apple-adobe-history/
The alien and ancient civilization stuff comes mostly from the gop. Rubio isn’t worried about ET - but bullshit like this is appealing to the nutjobs attracted to qanon, etc who vote.

UAPs aren’t little green men. A drone with AI controls fits the quotes description.
Ben Greenfield, who is regarded as somewhat of a quack, has for a long time advocated for isometric exercise. I always found him interesting so I followed his blog for a while. I always thought the stuff about isometric exercise was bunk, but if the study is sound, then I guess I was too quick to judge. This is potentially great news for him and his brand.
It's not obvious that a larger market translates to higher quality supply. Certainly greater supply, but someone who's profit-motivated and is trying to capture more of the market would probably do better producing easy and diverse content in large quantities.
In addition to what the other reply posted, Java has had compact strings for a while now[1], which uses 8-bit `byte` arrays for `String`s, and comes in handy for ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 strings to use a single byte per character.

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/254
In other words, it's virtually impossible to use right without also being the entity that hands out phones to users.
How much storage and memory does this use?
Similar experience here. Daydreaming happens more often as I spend extended periods alone, sometimes to a point I would also call "maladaptive". I'm looking for ways to deal with that. It often prevents me to make any meaningful advance on hobbies or any other activity for whose outcome there's nobody waiting -- hence, I have a number of unfinished stuff laying around and getting dust.

I agree with your thesis of under-stimulation. I wouldn't say I'm too reclusive, but social activities in general have been not particularly engaging, sometimes even a bit tiring.
Rotten eggs reek, wreaking havoc on your olfactory sensibilities.
When people assert that extractive empires, which go back to the beginning of civilization, are the "driving force" behind the order-of-magnitude per-capita wealth increase of the last couple of centuries -- and often put it like it needs no argument -- that's what struck me as odd when I first started seeing this claim a lot in recent years.

(I agree the sins of the colonizers and their role in European growth are worth talking about, of course. But the view where they were obviously the key factor behind a phase change in the rate of progress now shared with the majority of the world, that's really alien. I guess we both find each other odd.)
Tesla apologists are insufferable
This is so weird to me: I've always had really good memories of my dreams. About 80% of nights I end up lucid dreaming too.
I agree but wonder if JVM optimizations could do away with the need to complicate the programmer experience.
> pretending to be a psychic

This is redundant.
That's true, concurrency is becoming an important consideration and is probably why predictable and FP-oriented langs like Elixir, Rust, Clojure are having good growth.

As for mutating state, I come from an embedded software (microcontrollers) background haha and there's no option but to mutate state
Midjourney is still going to be hard to beat imo. Comparing SD to MJ is a little unfair considering their applications and flexibility, but I do really enjoy the "out of the box" experience that comes with MJ.
I remember being insulted like that by just waking on campus, back in college. From time to time there were posters on the walls calling man rapists, woman beaters or worse. Sad to see that even in a tech forum I get to see things like that.
My theory is that AMD initially wanted to compete in compute with nVidia and was going to improve ROCm but then they saw how much trouble nVidia had with artificially keeping enterprise users from just buying consumer GPUs instead of the much more profitable enterprise GPUs so they trashed that idea to keep consumer GPUs from interfering with their very profitable enterprise GPU business for compute applications.
When the west opened trade to China, policy experts assumed China would become more liberal like the west. Instead, the west is becoming more like China. [1, 2, 3]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/ready-for-your-e...

[3] (countless more examples, especially recently...)
What is combined training?
I'll be (justifiably) downvoted for this, but he may be a millennial that "doesn't have internet at home".

Which, if it were true, is to my way of thinking like telling me that you don't have indoor plumbing.
I was with you until the last couple words of your post.
>Grusch was a GS15 NGA officer that was read into over 2000 special access programs and prepared/delivered the presidential daily briefing in 2021. He’s quite literally one of the most credentialed intelligence officers in the US.

This is way more common than you think it is and again, not special.

I prepped multiple PDBs from 2012-2015 while at DIA and then again while on the JS/J2 staff. Delivering a segment of the PDB is indeed noteworthy, but again, not particularly rare or an indication that you're somehow especially great or special.

This is the reality of the IC ... things that SEEM special to you are boring regular everyday events for us. Few people in the DoD/IC are exceptional and I can promise you that this guy wasn't one of them
WordPress Core to start using SQLite
> but that's the reason why nobody should be jettisoned off the space station

The PRC is banned from the ISS, due to NASA being legally forbidden from dealing with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment#History
surely twitter also had the double standard, since i’ve never seen anything done to twitter despite the massive amount of nsfw on the app
Lead is used in many places. You should avoid checking what battery is in your ICE vehicle.

What matters is how lead is handled. With hope, mankind will never lead a generation the way burning millions of gallons of leaded fuel did. Certainly no use of a lead superconductor could hope to accomplish that level of damage.
The Israeli Kibbutzen cannot feed themselves, either. They rely on state subsidy.

If you can cite a collective farm system that didn't result in famine, feel free.
> If something goes wrong, start an investigation. Figure out who to blame and do it publically. Raise your voice, send nasty emails, mean-mug without delay. Anytime there is a failure, don't miss an opportunity to assert your authority.

I've worked at a number of companies with this behaviour. What happens is most people in this situation just start keeping their head down and not doing anything at all unless specifically tasked by the leadership team. Things usually grind to a halt.
Are you sure about that? I am quite optimistic, it's not the first dominant-position abusing crap from Google, they also tried to impose AMP and to rank sites without it at lower positions, but AMP was ultimately fined out of existence. I am all for regulations and fining google out of existence, but I am thinking that maybe this is another product that serves to make shareholders sleep well and will not really see any significant adoption
Nah, labor market is robust and these efforts are still draining money out of the economy (although asset prices aren't deflating like one would hope).

I guess the question is, "worse for whom?" Commercial real estate and regional banks still in trouble for sure, as are zombie firms who are going to hit a debt maturity wall when debt comes due and they attempt to refi that debt at current rates.
Sorry for this in advance.

> allow farm workers to tasering them for shits and giggles

That's happening anyway (just watch Dominion).

The practice of beating dogs to death, believed by some to make the meat more tender, is carried out in parts of China and Vietnam.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/211370...

10 million dogs and four million cats are slaughtered for their meat on the mainland each year. Many are beaten to death because the promoters believe this method makes the meat more tender and tastier

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-horrors-yuli...

Inside horror of Yulin dog festival where animals are tortured and boiled alive

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/yulin-dog-meat...

Yulin Dog Meat Festival: Dogs blow-torched alive in footage from China

https://www.animalsasia.org/au/media/news/news-archive/china...

"Typically they suffer a death that is far from efficient. They are snared around the neck with metal hooks and dragged from their cages. Then they are either bludgeoned or stabbed in the neck or groin to be “bled out”. Other methods of killing including being hanged or electrocuted. This happens dog by dog so other dogs are likely to witness multiple deaths ahead of their own. This further spreads panic."

https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-people-really-raise-dogs-fo...

"Even if they do, who gives a fuck bruh? You eat pigs which are filthy to Muslims and Jews, and cows which are sacred to Hindus, and eggs from female chickens whose male siblings are crushed to death by grinders because they're commercially useless, and venison from deer that display empathy and mourn and bury their dead, and lobsters that you know have been boiled alive because they taste better that way than when they're killed outright, and sushi in authentic Japanese restaurants which for all you know could be sourced from super-intelligent whales and dolphins that are going extinct, and fish which are extracted by modern fishing vessels dragging huge nets across the bottom of the ocean for a monstrous catch. The vessels then throw out the least valuable fish, which are already dead and just rot in the water."

Yes, it's difficult.

The Psychopathy of Eating Meat | Interview with Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUmmN3lnUhY
Skrillex, Billie Eilish and Soulja Boy immediately come to mind, and they're not even on the list of these artists on this ad-riddled collection compiled 3 years ago - https://www.technowize.com/12-musicians-who-were-discovered-...

Are they everywhere? Nah, music is a capitalist endeavor, and the market wouldn't support that. But there are a surprising number of artists that have gained success with their first endeavors produced out of their homes.
Anecdotal, but worth considering: Bruce Lee relied mostly on isometric exercises to stay in shape.
Its subjective, but I meant little usability things, like you can view anyone on the chain of command right in the bottom after their profile pic moves there, and the farther away from you in the chain of command it looks smaller so you can see them all without scrolling like you have to in the current org chart. Also the current one freezes a lot after clicking and this one doesn't, which is arguably non-userfriendly behavior.
Kind of, but it should be vertically integrated between "cloud" and "edge" and "home-network" and "mobile." With all of that being either resources you own, or resources you're personally billed for, directly by the providers (though aggregated per app), with no ability for the app to extract rents on the costs of those resources (i.e. you're not paying the app so that the app in turn pays for the resources; you're being billed by the "cloud" and "edge" providers directly.)

If you install e.g. a Photos app, then that'd be a viewer app + cache on your phone; a bounded-size cache on your NAS or ISP gateway-router; a thumbnailing and face-detection background worker started in your ISP's edge DC; and a primary store in some cloud.

If you install e.g. Minecraft, then the server for that game will dynamically reposition itself (and migrate its data) between running embedded on device, vs. on appliance-compute on your home network, vs. on your ISP's edge-compute, vs. on the cloud — depending on whether you're playing single-player, vs. multiplayer with someone else on the same network, vs. at least one player being elsewhere in your region, vs. people connecting all over the world. (And, of course, when nobody is connected to it, the server should quiesce to just being dead state and then gradually have that state "evict upward" toward the cloud.)

IMHO a major part of this would be getting ISPs to sell commodity edge-compute power to OS vendors, both in-DC and in-home-network (presumably by putting addressable application processing capability into ISP gateway routers.)