skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the hearing and had a different takeaway:

There are UAP interfering with military training exercises and in American airspace, and there doesn't exist a reliable mechanism to report these or to address them given the stigma around UAP, and there should be one for safety reasons. At the very least, I felt the pilots made a compelling case here.

Now, if somehow there were indeed crashed alien crafts, I wouldn't be surprised that private contractors and defense agencies would want to reverse-engineer these technologies to obtain a military advantage over other nations.

But there's no proof of this, so it's just an interesting thought exercise at the moment, in the realm of fiction.
Tesla ordered by auto regulators to provide data on ‘Elon mode’ configuration
Basically, the streaming equivalent of "The Vault".
PayPal horror stories abound, but they're usually specific to receiving payments. I think I've read a few about buyer side disputes and PayPal doing clawbacks for chargebacks from other payment mechanisms, but those seem to be much rarer. Anyway, I don't recall PayPal ever having data security issues where payment information was leaked in bulk, as has happened with some retailers.
Mypy runs as a type linter/checker. See https://mypy-lang.org/
I just found the term "traffic padding", which seems to accurately describe this.
I believe attracting AI talent could also be an important motivation. Many AI researchers may appreciate the open nature of their work, and having world-class AI researchers could be very important strategically for Meta.
Conspiracy theories that require large numbers of public servants working in concert effectively and stealthily, without any leaks or whistleblowers, are presumably created by people who have never worked in the public service.

> Or the cheese is just sliding off their cracker. Happens to many otherwise very bright folks.

IIRC, as your intelligence gets higher, the friction of your cracker lowers.
In the computer labs in the 1980s, you had a room with 100 or so VT100 terminals each with a Computer Science student trying to get their programs written, served by a DEC VAX 11/780 running VMS. They had routed the compiler into a batch queue because it was resource intensive. Unfortunately, the batch queue was set to background priority, so compiles didn't get done for about 30-60 minutes.

One Saturday, I figured this out, and started pushing the first job in the queue to above interactive priority, and it would finish in a few seconds. I repeated... and repeated this manual tweaking.... about 2 hours later, everyone had gotten their work done faster than usual, and the room was practically empty.

Most academic environments suffered from similar issues... too many students all trying to get their work done at the last minute.

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When I got my own PC/AT clone and ran Turbo Pascal, the compile times were effectively instant (on the order of a few seconds), and just kept getting faster with each new release.
Well, let me tell you a story. I have early beta access to GPT-4 with the ability to add pictures to the chat. This is rolled out as part of BeMyEyes, a volunteer-based app which lets volunteers have access to the camera for helping blind people. Now, BeMyAI lets me take a picture, send it to the AI, and have it describe the picture to me. Including OCR and text translation. And I can ask questions, interrogating the AI about the current picture. I can also add more pictures to the "chat", and the AI can see all of them, and even compare differences. I am 100% blind. After a few days of testing, I already know the AI is better then most humans I'd randomly ask to help me with pictures or scene descriptions. And it is more capable, as it can translate between every language I've encountered so far. If you ask me, the AI-will-kill-the-world crowd has a overly pessimistic view when it comes to AI, or they have been cought in the recent alarmism movement, or something. GPT-4 with picture integration is such a powerful feature, I'd say we haven't had anything equivant in terms of flexibility in the assistive technology market since, what, 30 years? This feature will liberate a few millions of blind people from the barriers put in fromt of them by society. And guess what, society didn't really solve them so far, OpenAI solved them as a side effect. But IT-activist still insist on seeing evil and demise everywhere.
> I have no idea who Keffals is or why you'd think I'd care.

Keffals is one of the people responsible for the chain of events leading to what is happening. If you aren't familiar with the context and don't care to learn about it, what is the purpose of commenting?
Still not an excuse to do it in kind.
The m1/m2 chips are generally stupid effecient compared to Intel chips (or even amd/arm/etc)... Are you sure the power draw is comparable? Apple is quite well known for kneecapping hardware with terrible thermal solutions and I don't think there are any breakthroughs in the modern chassis.

I couldn't find good data on the older mbpros, but the m1 max mbpro used 1/3 the power vs an 11th gen Intel laptop to get almost identical scores in cinebench r23.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
Well my use case was DragonFly and FreeBSD where there is a version of doas available, but not opendoas.
MATLAB made their software paid for research organizations. Many including Fraunhofer moved to python as an alternative.
Python won because it's a good and versatile programming language, in the sense that it can do a lot of things well.
AND it's the fastest language to learn, if you know English, because it's the programming language closest to English that we have. Until AI allows us to program in English (or any language for that matter) directly.

I started doing Python 15 years ago for game development (using Pygame) and it was fairly good at it. At least for prototype, side-project games. Coming from C, the syntax wasn't hard to grasp.

Then I tried it for web, coming from PHP. It was good at it too. I could reuse some of what I learnt in the previous step.

Same for AI, now I can dig into it and only learn the AI part. I don't have to learn yet another new language. And it does the job here too.

Python won because it has the least amount of friction at every step.
Other still disagree that the evidence claiming the object was interstellar is a done deal.

>Skepticism about the endeavor flared at a recent Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Conference that occurred while the deep sea expedition was underway. There, Dr. Desch argued that had the fireball been moving as fast as reported, there would have been nothing left to find

Also:

>Dr. Brown also presented at the conference, describing a recent analysis using data from an assortment of instruments to crosscheck measurements for 17 of the objects listed in the same NASA fireball catalog used by Dr. Loeb and Mr. Siraj. His results, which have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, indicate that the catalog data often gets directions and speeds wrong and that the size of the error for speed measurements increases for objects with greater speed.

July, 2023:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/science/avi-loeb-extrater...
Plenty of NATO interventions, where not a single NATO member was attacked.

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

Russias melting permafrost has made many natural resources available. I bet some political do ors want to get their hands on those resources.
IIRC they were also available as “non-standard” feature in compilers at the time before being added to c99 (e.g. I’m pretty sure gcc in the late 90s supported all of these if you didn’t force c89 compatibility).
remind me, do people roll their own CC handling or does the PCI rules drive you to ... using another intermediary in card processing, because of the giant risks?
> providing the kernel interface through stable syscalls is actually the super power of Linux

I thought that it was drivers? Linux isn't particularly unique for having a stable abi (and the utility of such a decision is highly questionable). The driver support however is extraordinary and undeniable.
You can direct the generation already for Stable Diffusion with ControlNet and OpenPose (a pose library), it's not too far off to rig an animation of a certain movement and then have the AI generate the exact movements you want. If you look at something like ComfyUI, there is an entire node-based workflow akin to game development software, it's not a "type prompt, get output" process at all, as the AI can't read your mind (yet), so you must put in the effort to get out what you want. It's really not much different than making an animated or CGI film, only now the CGI is photorealistic.
can't beat homebrew imo
If Intel was very bullish on AI, they might be tempted to design arbitrarily complicated architectures and just trust that GPT-6 will be able to write code for it.

This was a bet that completely failed for Itanium, but maybe this time...
Thousands of 3D Animated Mechanisms
People have been saying that since the Photoshop days, if not earlier. Stable Diffusion has been out for over a year, I don't see any fake images being put out that are taken seriously by anyone notable, such as news organizations.
Snap, my incomprehensible article made you want to program the whole thing? Sorry about that!

As a side note, if you want to go Commander Keen style, you won't have the pleasure to use DOS/4G. CK, alike Wolfenstein 3D, use real mode. Personnaly, I find having to deal with near/far pointers a huge turn off from programming this way.
I'll say lots of things at Google Workspaces are behind a whole complex process.

At my last company I was our Workspace admin. It took 9 months and cycling through three different sales teams to get someone to sell me archive licenses (so we didn't have to pay full rate for former employees or delete everything) even though we were already paying for Vault.

Never underestimate when a sales team gets in between users and business.
Why do some sites not show the username and password field at the same time?
According to Wikipedia[1], one of them did survive (but was "profoundly disabled" and "never learned to speak or feed himself") but yeesh, it doesn't seem like a huge success, and their mother regrets electing for the surgery - which makes it seem like the doctors believed they would have survived and lived a reasonably normal life (under the circumstances) without the surgery.

If that's the case, then it seems like a total ethical violation to even offer the surgery. But maybe that isn't so and it's her trauma talking there, I don't really know.

Carson's Wikipedia article [2] mentions several other sets of twins, one operation resulting in a "normal neurological state," 2 resulting in the death of both twins, and another resulting in one dying and the other being "legally blind and [struggling] to walk."

I don't know what to make of all that, but you're right, that is more murky than the narrative I've heard previously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_and_Benjamin_Binder

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
I thought they were developing some completely custom chips?
Do you mean Neobanks that generally attach to existing banks through partnerships? The OCC nearly stopped granting de novo banking charters since 2008: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47014 (see Figure 1 on page 21)
American voters don't care what happens in Russia. What they care about is how much money they make and how much they pay for gas. Since the Ukraine conflict Bidenomics has suddenly taken off. At least that's how I here on the old continent see it.
Here, stumbled upon in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273290

Too bad they are not saying how long it took to get to the recognition.
Absolutely. Though IIRC this leak is 6 years old and has already been reasonably well-studied by a lot of very smart people. I don't think any of these were technically even "zero-days", and I'd expect windows/linux to be patched against them now.

Even at the time these wouldn't have been as severe as "only run on an air gapped computer and burn the computer afterwards". That type of technology wouldn't be part of a leak like this, but given the amount of undocumented opcodes in various silicon (processors, BMC, TPMs, etc) I wouldn't be surprised if it did exist.
This comment is trying to discredit David Grusch. He merely said that those potential beings might not be aliens but might be resident of earth and maybe on other dimensions. He also mentions the Vatican role on one occasion in the 40’s for a case happening in Italy.

It’s quite disheartening to see this person putting himself and his career in jeopardy being discredited on the internet by anonymous people using bad faith arguments and mislabeling his claims.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/the-ufo-whistleblowe...
Isn't homebrew the one that always wants to update everything all the time?
"Nobel prize winner and superior neurosurgeon criticized as quacks by two internet users"

Perhaps the reason they could stretch their domain expertise so far was precisely because they kept their mind open.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Einstein
> Go was the first language I used that broke an explicit check for nil/null/None. I had to cast my nil to a different kind of nil in order for the program to run correctly.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it reads that you have been accustomed to implicit nil type conversions in other languages and that tripped you up when Go required you to be explicit. It seems Go is the explicit one here.

> A library developer might decide to panic and cause your program to crash

Go is abundantly clear that panics should never cross package boundaries except in exceptional circumstances. And those exceptions should crash your program. An exception means that the programmer made a mistake and the program is now invalid. There is nothing left to do but crash.

It is technically true that a library developer can violate that guidance, but it is strongly encouraged for them to not. The parent did indicate that sometimes the explicitness is only encouraged, not enforced.

Not that Go is some kind of explicitness panacea. It has its own fair share of implicitness. But I'm not sure these two are representative.
I would say it can take an infinite amount of time, if you have bad management, scope creep (or no defined scope at all), high turnover, obsoleted core technologies, and if people give you money even if you don't do anything anyways
> Guido and company chose not to develop a 2.8/2.9/etc series where people could move their code base over incrementally.

That is literally what 2.7 was, as well as reimplementing some features in later p3 (up to 3.4).

The core team definitely had the wrong transition model at the start, and it took some time for the community to convince them then decide on which items were the most important, but let’s not act like they did not get it in the end.

> In fact they pretty much just threw away anything before python 3.6 anyway now. Many things introduced in the 3.x series before 3.6 just don't work anymore (asyncio syntax being the notable one).

What?
Windows Portable Applications... copy them into a folder, and run them. No installation required.

Because there isn't a stable system interface table in Linux (i.e. INT 21, AH=9 prints a $ delimited string in MS-DOS, and has since the 1980s), you can't just run an executable.

The closest you're likely to get is Justine's APE - Actually Portable Executable[1] to get something you can distribute and just run.

[1] https://justine.lol/ape.html
I'm suggesting that Open Sourcing an incredibly Popular game that has been selling well NOW would be a bad idea for sales.
That all seems rather ad hominem, while not talking about the value of the information. All sources are biased; some are more useful than others.
I don't know about you, but "a close encounter of the athletic kind" is a hit for me.
Looking at the top domains, clearly this hasn't broken out of the programmer niche.
Hope it eats some of Google's share there as well.
We are all presented the same choices (granted from different levels of privilege) and we all make decisions. Health care costs are ridiculous, I agree, and people shouldn’t go broke if they get sick. That said, they shouldn’t be eating garbage and things that make them sick. You can’t complain that your finances are drained from cancer all while your whole life you ate Taco Bell and McDonalds. Choices have consequences. Debt is a result of that. There’s really only two maybe three kinds of good debt. Everything else is a salesman trying to get you roped into a payment scheme like you describe. It’s the ultimate bazaar, backed by the lawyers and justice system saying you agreed to pay. Don’t agree to pay for things. Stop buying crap off Facebook. Buy a used car instead of making payments on a new one. Love yourself and stop trying to keep up with the neighbors.
> Oklab L is not L: The problem for engineers and designers: no relation to LAB L*/XYZ Y

That should not be considered a bug by itself. CAM16-UCS lightness J also does not depend only on XYZ Y.

> no correlation to WCAG

Y does not necessarily have to be the standard used by WCAG (see CAM argument). And a stick that's a little skewed is still very well correlated with an upright stick, statistically speaking.

> The problem on the designers end: it's not a linear ramp in dark to light visually.

Now that is the actual issue which has nothing to do with which variables L depends on. The L_r (lightness with reference) derived from L is designed to deal with that: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/
Fall’s Covid Variant Might Be Different
https://archive.is/wSnJu

What to know about BA.2.86, or ‘pirola,’ from where it’s spreading to whether vaccines will work against it.
Is it possible for Twitter to actually become /worse/ in terms of people trying to shill cryptoassets at us?
Narrowlink
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I haven’t met anyone at work that loves Okta. Tolerates, sure.
Just because you define "decentralized" as strictly "peer-to-peer" doesn't mean everyone does.

Wikipedia literally uses the word "decentralized" to describe the Fediverse, which would seem to violate your personal definition:

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

> While a traditional social networking site will host all its content on servers owned by the parent company, the decentralized social media sites that make up the fediverse allow any individual or organization to host their own servers (referred to as an "instance").
Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monument from the early 19th century
Accordian, fix that to Accordion anywhere it's used
What's more annoying is that every sass product on the planet puts sso behind their most expensive "ask us the price" tier.

Microsoft should be including sso in their baseline/free products and all enterprise and wanna-be-enterprise software should put it in its base tier.

Logon security shouldn't be tucked behind a paywall or held hostage as a bonus quadruple the price feature, because breaches have wide reaching consequences past just the company attacked going down.
Do please try and avoid (deliberate?) bad paraphrasing.

Both were widely recognised as more than a bit kooky outside of their core strengths.

"When a mind is opened that far, the brain often falls out." - Tim Minchin.
This probably isn't in the spirit of what you're asking but watching my Dad install Red Hat using Anaconda in the late 90s was pretty sweet. I seem to recall Debian having a similar TUI that I used to load it on my long-obsolete iMac G3 back in college. Good times.
Netron is a viewer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models
and then force the country to fire the top prosecutor who was investigating his son's illegal activities, truly imagine if such person would do something like that and then have the audacity to publicly brag about it knowing full well the media would cover for him due to his political party.

truly sickening what politicians will do.
Fascinating reading the angry comments here.

Don't blame Jitsi. Blame the people abusing their previously wide open service. They're why we can't have nice things.

As for expecting them to run their own auth service instead of relying on a third party, that is a hell of a lot more complex than it looks. I can't blame them for not wanting to take that on.

If you really disagree that much, go ahead and fire up your own Jitsi service and open it up for anonymous use by the public. Let's see how long you can run it before you encounter the exact same problems.
Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery
It drives me nuts that the web went away from this kind of "use a subdomain to prove ownership" to "register a cute .com that looks like phishing."

It's made trust so much harder to establish, and completely ruined any sort of ability to educate others on how to read urls.

Even local governments have moved to citystate.gov instead of city.state.gov.
Does this mean that Riot.im/Element.io Matrix.org homeserver accounts on the web application won't be able to use the service automagically for video calls of greater than 2?
There wasn't, and it in fact did.
GP point is that encryption would add a layer of things that can fail, to a system where a false negative is extremely costly.
“Ghost of Kyiv”: Andrii Pilshchykov, Call Sign 'Juice'
You are making exactly the same point I was making.

* sans the quote from a random comedian
yeah, fwiw, i kind-a-sorta followed along with auto-translate + slides, was a bit wary of recommending the video though.
I know with the Iranian twins who died (adult conjoined sisters), they were advised that it was a super risky procedure but wanted to go through with it anyway. Some of the other twins he's operated on had mixed results (i.e., one twin thrived but the other didn't, or both only lived a few years after being separated), but I think at least a few pairs have done pretty well.

My understanding is that separating craniopagus twins has a pretty high risk of complication/failure, even when you know what you're doing.

I also know for a fact that Carson's pioneered hemispherectomy as treatment for severe childhood seizures, and some of those kids are now happy and healthy adults: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/jessie-hall-medical-m...

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the guy as a politician. But he knows his way around a brain.
Are you saying that a city having a large majority of one ethnicity is racism?
Curious. Link works for me even logged out.

Anyways - search 'USB sound card' and sort by cheapest with free delivery and it is the one that costs $1.23. The comments show a teardown and it has an epoxy blob and a handful of passives on a small circuit board with two 3.5 mm jacks and a usb plug.
It shows how current font rendering systems have accumulated quite a bit of bloat.

This makes me nostalgic for bitmap fonts.
Prediction: < 1000, larger, more expensive, and not in 2 years.
1 is ignoring people allegedly who have testified to the ICIG and 3 is simply false, since he has not claimed any such beliefs, merely put forward a theory he was read into without commenting on his beliefs. Your post reads like an attempt to discredit.
It's a convenient double-reference, given Apple's history of well-known font-rendering exploits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177535
yeah, keeping the total bandwidth used to be less than a dialup modem connection was an explicit goal when choosing the 20ms default interval.
Thanks! I'll dig around in the pull request and issue as well.
> I can see better if […]

This is exactly the point of accessibility colors. Making things easier to see. There's a whole discussion on measurement of it in the article. It's just not a solved problem yet.
why would those be real?
Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano