skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would a UFO crash?

Malfunction, unanticipated conditions or pilot error, same reason human craft crash.

> Why do UFOs always seem to crash in reports?

They don't. I'm struggling to think of any UFO claim that ends in a crash except for Roswell. Almost always UFO sightings end with it disappearing, often by appearing to make sudden apparently impossible accelerations.

> It seems a bit unlikely that an advanced craft that can levitate without propulsion and travel across stars would just crash or be taken down by a missile or at the time of the 50s by artillery shells.

It's doubtful that Earth has been visited by UFOs but if we had been, this seems like an extremely likely outcome to me! Think about the horrific engineering challenge that would be faced by any alien spacefaring race on inventing an FTL drive: they need to create a ship that can travel vast distances, handle almost any kind of planetary conditions found on arrival, deal with completely unknown alien technology (ours) and presumably there's some pretty harsh stealth requirements in there too. Frankly that sounds like a recipe for constant disasters as they figure out how to balance all those requirements.

I think the intuition here is that because our current physics says FTL is impossible, if an alien race were able to do it that'd imply a godlike level of perfection. This seems like a very dubious assumption. If FTL is possible then we don't know how hard it is or how many breakthroughs are required to get there. It's conceivable that an alien race might develop an FTL drive whilst being only slightly more advanced than ourselves. It's certainly not obvious why this specific invention implies unlimited technological capability in every imaginable field, which isn't something usually posited for any other kind of discovery.
One of those ingredients sound a lot more relevant to his condition than the two others.
At the extreme end, actively causing discomfort (uncomfortable high pressure blast from a small number of nozzles) would drive water usage to an absolute minimum. People keep the shower session to a minimum, perhaps avoiding the shower altogether.

Whether this is utilitarian depends on the externalities of the water usage.
It’s used primarily as cargo culting and also as a way of suppressing salaries. Big tech and other companies use it to keep H1B candidates from easily switching jobs and having to do indentured servitude in hostile work environments.

That’s all it is - along with the entire industry being massively overqualified as a whole and needing a way to cull the recruiting pipeline to only the most desperate. (People on visas)
I like dbeaver for browsing DDL, list of tables, examples of schema, data types. also, to edit a few rows here and there as a quick test/fix to something. because its easier to click around than write many 2 line sql to do the same thing.

But, I often use jupyter notebooks for the DML aspect of hard queries and data anlysis, for the power of dataframes and repeatable cells mixed with documentation and sharing.

So all that to say, anyone know if there is a DDL browser equivalent ideal for jupyter notebooks / ipywidgets?
This is a windows program written in delphi. A fitting choice, because Delphi provides both the necessary data grid component and the syntax highlighting editor, as well as connectors to several sql databases.

A cross platform version could be written in Lazarus, with the idea that it uses less system resources than a large java program.
laws affecting this and other situations vary from county to county by a lot. It is a factually mistaken to say this is occurring in every place in California.
In the 1870s they couldn't force you to use their app to see a menu, look up how much money you have in the bank, then have that app show you prices according to how much money you have. Why shouldn't a loaf of bread coast a percentage of your income? Get a new job that pays you 20% more, all your prices just go up by 20%.
Do you mean Google included "acts of God" when computing 9's? That's definitely not right.

11 9's of durability means mean time to data loss of 100 billion years. Nothing on earth is 11 9's durable in the face of natural (or man-made) disasters. The earth is only 4.5 billion years old.
Full Sail Univeristy library web page 'Creative Writing Resources: Comic Book & Graphic Novel Writing' [0]

reddit 'Graphic Novel Writing Resources' request. [1]

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[0] : https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/graphic_novels_w...

[1] :

1a) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/tt9gye/graphic_novel_writing_resources/

1b) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/100y2jm/how_do_i_start_writing_comics/
Food safe standards. If you get inspected they will test the concentration, in PPM, of your cleaning product. You can either use a chlorine bleach or quaternary ammonium.
Another problem is that on low resolution screens (or small browser windows) the boxes on the top left hide the text on the bars behind. I had to zoom out to 50% for it to be readable, which then put other bars behind the boxes.
> My point is not about deliberate criminal behavior (such as sabotage) but simply making mistakes.

I agree, but of course the difficult grey area is negligence; obviously some things are criminally unacceptable. The standard is sort-of 'should they have known better?' There's no easy, objective, logical map to an answer.

Criminal prosecutions of corporations and executives are rare enough that I'm not too worried about it being overdone, but of course there is the risk of emotional or crowd-pleasing decisions.
I'm not sure why you'd find it wild. Any gamer with decent tech knowledge never buys Bluetooth wireless devices (mouse kb headset etc) for gaming precisely for this reason. Sites like rting measures latency for the same reason.
Most modern UFO sightings get explained as oddly observed planes or balloons, so something looking for satellites wouldn't spot them.
Exactly. The machinery of justice is decorated with all kinds of indicators of objectivity and wisdom: precedent, settled law, sentencing guidelines, burdens of proof, law schools filled with eminent scholars.

And yet someone has a bad day, or a change of heart, or ate a tasty taco for lunch, or just fell in love, and lives are ruined or saved.
I second that on desktops/laptops as well: being able to click on a piece and then on the target.
> Send the spacecraft to land on the surface a distant body in the solar system, such as one of the moons of Neptune.

The economics of your proposal strike me as a tad weak at the knee.
I still think it depends on the subject you are prompting. If LLM knows that thing very well it will stick to the answer, otherwise it can go in a different direction based on how different initial assessment was.

Yesterday I asked it to write a simple VB script to show a reminder that I will schedule via command line using Windows task schedular. In first attempt it suggested to create VB file for each message based on initial reasoning that I can not pass arguments to VB file like that. It didn't seem correct (confirmed via Google) then resubmitted the same prompt but this time it said that I can simply pass my reminder message as arg to VB script and the next code was based on that. (I don't know VB or ever used task schedular before)

This was GPT-4. You are not wrong about 'maximal degenerate behaviour' but initially generated assumption can lead to different answers overall. Chain of thought prompting stems from this exact behaviour.
It should be illegal to sell such unconcentrated solutions, except perhaps in food (e.g., even milk is easily reconstituted). It would be much more efficient to sell the concentrated chemical and let consumers dilute them. Imagine the fuel savings, shelf space savings of not having to ship 99.9% water around the world.

I remember some medicines were dispensed like that in the 80s, and the patient had to reconstitute them before using.
Guix has this feature - guix pack https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack....
Normally, companies store more than 1 byte of data, and the 9's (not just for data loss, for everything) are ensemble averages.

By the way, I don't doubt that AWS has plenty of 9's by that metric - perhaps more than GCP.
No, you don’t.

Statistically, this airplane is drastically more likely to kill you than the average plane.
I was forced to switch to DBeaver as HeidiSQL isn't allowed at my current employer. I miss how light Heidi is, but I'm not sure I'd switch back now I'm used to all the features DBeaver has.
737 is not a plane which can be enjoyed to fly. More like a fully booked intercity bus. Especially Ryanair is cheap on everything.
Unfortunately there are still cases where local disk I/O can be a serious bottleneck that you do have to be aware of:

1. Cloud VMs sometimes have very slow access even to devices advertised as local disks, depending on which cloud

2. Windows

The latter often catches people out because they develop intuitions about file I/O speed on Linux, which is extremely fast, and then their app runs 10x slower on Windows due to opening file handles being much slower (and sometimes they don't sign their software and virus scanners make things much slower again).
Yes, but S3 has single region redundancy that is better than GCP. Your data in two AZs in one region is in two physically separate buildings. So multi-region is less important to durability.
This guy has only ever worked comfy desk jobs.
Do the trustees have to be known or can they remain fully anonymous ?

In that case, the whole warrant theory isn't the last word.
My point is that what you wrote isn't true.
I think it’s a nice visualization, and I really appreciate your open welcoming attitude in the comments here to all manner of critique.

How much work was this and what are the trickiest parts? I see a lot of discussion of different platforms & browsers, which has always been surprisingly tough.

FWIW, I think you’re close to a nice UX and it wouldn’t take much to eliminate most complaints, though I’m speculating, and I know (from experience developing UIs) that everyone’s got different expectations and opinions about their UIs so it can be hard to find the maxima…

I don’t mind the sideways text much, but it would be cool if the bars were narrower so they all fit on-screen at once. (I’m on iPad btw.) It would be nice if the text didn’t move with the bar, but always stayed fixed and visible while the bar changed sizes.

It would be nice if the credit dialog could be minimized/toggled. Or maybe positioned as a title banner, and the data didn’t overlap? I don’t know why but overlapping things give me anxiety.

At first I didn’t understand how the bigger/smaller controls on a data bar worked, I thought it was a toggle, so I thought I had a hard time getting the L1 number to come back up, and didn’t realize I needed to click further up near the title overlay. A toggle might be more intuitive? (i.e. click above bar to make it scale to top of screen, click on bar to set scale so that the bar to the right is exactly top of screen…) Might be neat if the bars were draggable - are they already?
No, for the main reason that when I do want (and have the time) to read about some topic, finding the good stuff is actually really hard. Keeping a record of promising and already read things (marked appropriately) has been immensely useful.
Interesting! Is this comedic writing as well? Or just comic books?
Iceland’s small population is what makes it vulnerable. 326k people. That’s about the size of Cleaveland, Ohio.
it absolutely does: https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/carr...
I don't understand the lead pipe analogy. What's up with getting a metal pipe if you don't "agree to keep this secret"?
I use mutlios and even I'm not that attached to it. The majority of my use is combined with process substitution, and could be replaced with common-ish tools like pee¹(or pipexec for more complex cases). The only occasion when I'm thankful for it is if I want to use a shell function as a target, but there are workarounds for that too.

As a noclobber user the footgun is largely hidden to me, but I feel its presence. multios without globbing support would be less useful, but would still work for most of my use cases. Scanning my shell history I see various cases of relying on zsh's ability to apply sorting and filtering to globs with multios' input redirection, but only a couple where I want that in output redirection. The input instances could easily be rewritten using cat and globbing.

Even with multios unset the behaviour is different between zsh and bash. For example, nomultios disables all the expansion, so zsh behaves like more like dash with ': >t{1,2}' creating a file instead producing an error like bash does.

[FWIW, I google'd multiios to link the option in mt original comment. It really feels like it needs double-i, and I read the single i name the same way you do.]

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I'd be one of those people whose desire for dgsh-like functionality wanes. If it was slight DSL that I could "upgrade" pipelines to I'd probably use it, but not enough to warrant working on it or switching other tooling to support it.

The end of result of this morning's pipeline was breaking my jobs up, and applying some judicious use of nq² to keep track of it. I'd follow your advice and move on to more specialist tools if the job grew significantly or if it became a regular occurrence.

¹ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

² https://git.vuxu.org/nq/about/
Lots of stuff is resistent to 70% ethanol - norovirus for example.
Not really, Xeon Phis were basically the a x86 CPU abusing AVX extensions to their limit
I shared that to show that he has a somewhat odd background, not because it's directly relevant.

Yes, it's possible that insiders might have a biased view. However, in general, I do respect the opinions of people who have had experiences and write about them more than the comments of random internet strangers who, as far as I know, have no experience.
Great tool. Would be nice of it associating it with .parquet files on Windows allowed DBeaver to connect to them with a double-click.
You let the [1] comment stand and was the highest ranked when I joined discussion and yet when I used the same language your warnings and my censorship via "you're posting too fast". I rarely comment and seem to get flagged when discussing same topic, thus making me think I am also being censored especially when compared to the comment I saw first. "You're an idiot" is a valid response given what was there. Whether it breaks the rules is arbitrary.
same, except I use emaacs org mode instead of jupyter (and have record keeping / backup implemented with git-auto-commit-mode as well)
It's just one of many tools commonly used in the https://xkcd.com/538/ meme.
> Inspired by the TOR network.

Because it has such high delays? Basically revealing the information which the onion service or exit node encrypted for you only after, potentially, a few trips around the globe?

That makes me think this can be achieved without spacecraft, by just having geographically distributed private keys (even just a few kilometers; you just need the light delays to dominate over processing delays).

And I don't think you need more than two keys: if you wrap it in A(B(A(B(message)))), then party B cannot work on the first layer but first needs to send it to A, party A cannot decrypt the second layer but first needs to sent it back to B, etc. One of the parties could be your recipient, so that would also work with an expensive one-off spacecraft.

> land on the surface a distant body in the solar system

landing is a lot more difficult than staying in Neptune's orbit (notice how many moon-bound spacecraft crashed, even only in recent years!); you'll get the same characteristics by just going out to a desired orbit.

Also note that the amount of delay between Earth and <your orbit, such as Neptune's> will vary wildly
Reading the cited Cloudflare blog, it seems that the main purpose of this technology is public randomness, and timelock is one of its applications. Since timelock is not the essence of this technology, it is not surprising that the usefulness of timelock is unclear.

> it’s become a reliable and production-ready core Internet service, relied upon by applications ranging from distributed file storage to online gaming to timestamped proofs to timelock encryption

Details: https://drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/

Thread on the cited Cloudflare blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641475
The up-front capital expenditure might be high, yes, but it might be possible to recoup that by charging fees for the service once it's working. The Chunnel had a high capex too.

In any case, I just wanted to show that working timelock encryption system is theoretically possible. Some people claimed it wasn't.
The only reliable benchmark is found at

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

Model creators train models including open-source benchmarks in the data, either intentionally to achieve better scores or inadvertently through leaks from various sources.
No, I don't think they do paint a wrong picture, and it is helpful for people to say it so others realise they're not the only ones thinking it.
Nice to see that the dog made it. It's not long ago that the dog would have certainly been shot on the spot as well.

Conventional wisdom says not to treat working dogs as pets because it makes them soft, but in the experience of both hunters and mushers that I know, the stronger the bond with the dog, the better the dog performs. I wonder if the same may be true of code monkeys.
> I included just the ones that were the same visual representation, U+26D4 is a different symbol. The glyph for U+1F6C7 seems to be missing in most places, I can't find an authoritative representation of it to confirm it's the same visual symbol.

I don't think that there's any meaningful sense in which two Unicode code points may be said to have, or not have, the same symbol, except in reference to a particular font. The standard just indicates some possibilities:

> The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts. The particular fonts used in these charts were provided to the Unicode Consortium by a number of different font designers, who own the rights to the fonts.
Diasphora enclaves form when you let in enough people of one group to organically form large self contained communities in the first place. Can't integrate when there's no pressure / reason to integrate. But this applies to all cultures, which Canada takes in large numbers, and self organize in the few cities where immigrants can feasibly start a new life. Their kids will integrate better. I don't have an issue with multiculturalism / enclaves, but the number and calibre of immigrants we've been taking on has been diminishing, which is not on the immigrants, but it's looking like policy failure.
The dual-use of GPUs is what's driving Nvidia's demand, for the most part. They bet big on more outlandish designs (eg. CUDA/Tensor cores) and mixed-precision computation, and did a lot of the hardware/software work to get it shipped out years ago. There wasn't much interest in CUDA outside niche research/industry applications for a while, it's a small miracle they kept it around long enough to see the crypto and AI booms. Now their bet is paying big dividends, and other companies are trying to figure out fast ways to leverage raster compute for general-purpose acceleration.

Apple initially developed OpenCL with Khronos as a similar-ish analog for GPU acceleration a while ago. There were a few partners that invested in it, but it suffered the same lack of demand as CUDA and languished for a while. Now Apple doesn't support OpenCL, so the purpose of a multi-platform acceleration library has kinda been scuttled. Nvidia played their cards well, and their competitors are going to feel the pain for a while unless they work together again.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had to read parts of the paper more closely to recognize that in addition to waste fly ash they use waste polystyrene. I had thought they were using waste fly ash with virgin polystyrene.
> they must know more than the regulator

Back when I worked on the 757 stab trim gearbox, I certainly knew far more about it than the regulators. There was just no way they knew every detail of it like I did. I also did all the math on it, and I was never questioned about it by the regulators. They never asked me a single question about any of it.

> Business leaders always clamor for less regulation because they have big egos

They often clamor for more regulation for the purpose of making it very difficult for anyone to compete with them.

> Regulation also helps create a marketplace where you can focus on making better planes, not taking risks with people's lives to keep up with the other crazy competitors

That's a self-contradictory statement. Making better planes is how you compete successfully.
You make good points. I think it's a typical trait of the way computer scientists and programmers tend to think. Computer science has made great strides over the decades through abstraction, as well as distillation of complex systems into simpler properties that can easily be computed.

As a result of the combination of this method of thinking and the Dunning-Kruger effect, people in our field tend to apply this to the entire world, even where it doesn't fit very well, like biology, geopolitics, sociology, psychology, etc.

You see a lot of this on HN. People who seem to think they've figured out some very deep truth about another field that can be explained in one hand-waving paragraph, when really there are lots of important details they're ignoring that make their ideas trivially wrong.

Economists have a similar thing going on, I feel. Though I'm not an economist.
It works for me on Firefox android (but maybe that's because there's nothing to scroll)
Not really. Google is a large company, they are fully capable of taking a moral stand along with the worker.

But in reality, there is profits to be made, and in our economy we are encouraged to stand with democracy and human rights but only as long as it doesn’t affect the profits for our shareholders.
I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.

I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.
TaskWeaver: Code-first agent framework
Boyer Moore Majority Vote Algorithm – Counting Most Repeated Characters in O(n)
> and be awake after 5pm, no matter when there is daylight?

For this one at least absolutely yes because of work and after-school activities.
> if US slips into authoritarianism

The point of Chomsky’s work in this case is to show that authoritarianism does not make propaganda more or less likely, it just changes the means by which propaganda is created and reinforced. Chinese propaganda is easier to identify as a foreigner, but the propaganda of your home country has a much more significant effect on your life. The nature of living with pervasive propaganda is that it is hard to see or consider how your life would be different without the propaganda, and that’s what makes it so dangerous.

> is there any research being done on evaluating a political, and other, bias in a model or is it just being all put in the bucket of hallucination?

It’s a better question, and again one that we should ask regardless of the model’s origins.
I wrote that the proposed system was inspired by the TOR network, not that it literally uses the TOR network. To send a message across the TOR network, you wrap it in a bunch of layers of encryption, and then each TOR node removes one layer: that's the similar aspect.

Your other critiques are all valid. There's still a lower bound on the total time required for full decryption. I was just trying to show that that is possible.
EE is short for "enterprise edition", I assume.

I hope that is correct, and perhaps it is obvious to most people.