clashmoore (u/clashmoore)

clashmoore commented on Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses atlasobscura.com/places/t... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

clashmoore · 2 years ago

The concrete houses reminded me of the George Eastman (founder of Eastman Kodak camera company) [estate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman_Museum) which is now a museum in Rochester.

Built in 1905 of reinforced concrete.

Worth a visit.

clashmoore commented on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/bloak

tmn · 2 years ago

I find this subject fascinating. As the article states, Navy pilots are on record as eye witnesses for this stuff, along with the various radar feeds, etc. I'm curious what HN thinks of the following:

There are 3 comprehensive possibilities (correct me if you think differently):

1. These crafts are ET origin

2. These crafts are human origin (secrete military tech or similar)

3. This is a psyop

Due to the supposed feeds and eye witness accounts, it seems infeasible there is a 'weather balloon' type explanation

Any of these 3 possibilities is very interesting. I have my own take for what is most likely. But I'd like to hear thoughts of others.

clashmoore · 2 years ago

Are the Navy pilots actual eye witnesses to seeing these crafts or are they eye witnesses to whatever is electronically displayed to their HUDS/Helmets/lenses?

It seems every video I've come across, it was all electronic so it has me thinking just a software error.

clashmoore commented on Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel more like job interviews’ nypost.com/2023/03/01/rat... · Posted by u/carabiner

kennethrc · 2 years ago

> I don’t think young people appreciate how talking to strangers in public went from common and acceptable to creepy and taboo in the last 15 years

... uh, what? I meet people (i.e., "talk to strangers") all the time in public, it hasn't changed at all (and I've been doing it for far longer than 15 years). OK, work's a little different (but that was never particularly a place (for me, anyway) to meet people), but the rest? Don't see the "creepy and taboo" at all.

clashmoore · 2 years ago

I think it’s more regional.

I know in my city visitors find it weird when local strangers just start including them in conversations. I know I’d frequent places a line and be fine striking up conversations with whoever was also there.

But me visiting other cities and trying the same, I’d be met with wired looks and asked why I’m talking to them.

clashmoore commented on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-mi... · Posted by u/rntn

404mm · 3 years ago

I feel like the balloon takedown was seriously mishandled. Imo it should have been shot down right after it crossed our borders and before it started move over populated areas. That way there would be no surveillance and you could examine the payload. Now that it’s in the water, you may not even find it.

clashmoore · 3 years ago

NYTimes is reporting that this is actually the fifth balloon to cross into our airspace. First four were seemingly ignored, three times under the Trump administration and once before during Biden’s.

clashmoore commented on TI-Basic interpreter written in JavaScript davidtorosyan.com/ti-js/... · Posted by u/EntICOnc

grensley · 3 years ago

TI-Basic was effectively my first programming language. Instead of paying attention in Calculus, I was making the world's buggiest sudoku solver. Will always have a special place in my heart as well.

clashmoore · 3 years ago

My first as well.

With a family move to a new city during summer break, purchased an '85 and spent the entirety of the last summer month just programming things in it.

Haven't stopped programing since.

clashmoore commented on Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports electrek.co/2022/12/14/te... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

danso · 3 years ago

Earlier this year when Mercedes announced its Level 3 "Drive Pilot" system [0], a lot of Tesla stans mocked its limitations, which to be honest, are quite numerous on the face of it:

- Only allowed on limited-access divided highways with no stoplights, roundabouts, or other traffic control systems

- Limited to a top speed of less than 40 mph

- Operates only during the daytime and in clear weather

But the big promise from Mercedes is that it would take legal liability for any accidents that occurs during Drive Pilot's operation, something that Tesla doesn't appear to be even thinking about wrt Autopilot and FSD.

I would love someone to goad/challenge Tesla to step up to Mercedes. If FSD is so much better than Drive Pilot, then why doesn't Tesla agree to provide a "safe mode" for FSD, that operates with the exact same restrictions as Mercedes' D-P, and offers the same legal protections to any users who happen to get into accidents during "safe mode" FSD operation?

[0] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...

clashmoore · 3 years ago

Tesla was found to be deactivating the autopilot mode at the second before a crash [0]. I think it's for a dubious reason so that Tesla could declare none of their cars were in autopilot/FSD mode when involved in a crash.

[0] PDF https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF

"The agency’s analysis of these sixteen subject first responder and road maintenance vehicle crashes indicated that Forward Collision Warnings (FCW) activated in the majority of incidents immediately prior to impact and that subsequent Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) intervened in approximately half of the collisions. On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact."

clashmoore commented on The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns npr.org/2022/11/17/113715... · Posted by u/clockworksoul

piva00 · 3 years ago

You are oversimplifying the issue. It's not about having your birthdate, it's about capturing data about your tastes and preferences over time to feed into a profiling model.

It's a way to capture data to use inference models to understand who you actually are, your tastes and personality.

Yes, Instagram/FB/Meta do the same, Google does the same, the difference is that Meta and Google are not the government or, worse, an adversarial government from your nation that could weaponise such data. Tailor-made suggestions and recommendations already work pretty well for adtech, tailored suggestions of content with aims to slowly shift cultures and perceptions is much more dangerous than serving compulsive consumption.

And yes, very likely the US government has some access to FB/Instagram/Meta/Google profiling data, I also believe that's dangerous (even more that I'm not an American citizen, nor live in the USA and still am probably surveilled by its government) but in a different degree and level than what TitTok and China might be able to.

clashmoore · 3 years ago

The article mentioned the company sharing birthdates which is why I used it myself.

I'm just failing to understand why China using whatever data TikTok has on me to understand my tastes and personality is a national security issue for the United States.

The fear seems to be that China could tweak a US citizen's feed, based on their profiling, to inject Chinese propaganda?

clashmoore commented on The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns npr.org/2022/11/17/113715... · Posted by u/clockworksoul

darkteflon · 3 years ago

Utterly ridiculous to allow TikTok to continue to operate in the current geopolitical climate. China is a surveillance autocracy and has been engaged in adversarial conduct against the West for years - including extensive psyops.

Shut it down, yesterday. Build a local clone so that people can get their fix or whatever. China sure as shit doesn’t allow its citizens to cough up their personal information for algorithmic consumption to Twitter et al.

clashmoore · 3 years ago

So I'm an American who uses TikTok for entertainment.

I don't think it's utterly ridiculous to allow TikTok to continue. Even hearing these threats that China is possibly surveilling me - what do they get that other social media apps like Instagram get from me? From the FBI it sounds like the national security threat is that China may use it alter my feed to influence me or take over the control of my Apple phone? Has Apple warned users that TikTok will take control of their phone?

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just watching short 60 second videos and could not care less if China has my birthdate.

clashmoore commented on Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/modinfo

clashmoore · 3 years ago

I use Home Depot's Wiz lightbulbs for this around my home. $10 a full-color bulb or so and each one individually connects to the home's wifi so there's no need for a hub or anything. The app works fine on my iPhone.

clashmoore commented on US debt: Federal interest payments could soon exceed military spending cnn.com/2022/11/01/econom... · Posted by u/janandonly

clashmoore · 3 years ago

To add a sarcastic comment, the US could just increase its military spending to outspend the interest payment then to solve the issue.