We would all be very surprised - of that I am certain.
But why do you think that a mothership would equate to an invasion? And even then, why would we try to fight something that can sterilize the planet from afar and could have done so long ago?
On your other points: you could look into radiance technologies, their hires and funding. Maybe read the UAP part in the NDAA for this year, and tune into the congressional hearing next week with the AARO director mentioned in the article. I don't mean this is the evidence you are looking for, but it is still all very intriguing.
Having some experience with this topic, it is interesting to watch. I feel that things are even more complicated than anyone imagines. I think our ignorance is by design and has some good reasons.
"..things are even more complicated than anyone imagines"
This, because almost the only know social paradigm related to aliens is mainly related to "alien conquerors". But there are LOTs of possibilities about what an alien life form or probes could be doing around and/or on Earth.
The possibilities are endless, they could be doing research, they could be interested in other stuff in the solar system (a handy orbital outpost near Jupiter to monitor, supervise, re-orient high speed vessels, without reaching the inner solar system?), maybe they're looking for ancient aliens who were detected 3 million of years ago (instead they've found us, not sure what to do about the talking meat-bags), maybe our understanding of the universe is still way below the standard required to really understand them (just like octopuses and dolphins are highly intelligent but don't know how build microchips or space ships), you name it, it is possible.
Also, all the conspiracy theories are feasible too, because we've already "de-debunked" enought conspiracy theories in the last 50 years which ended being real, that we should really think about those "unthinkable" crazy hypothesis all around Internet and way before Internet.
I don't se how stable sort would help preserving input order when deduplicating uint64. Stable sorting preserves the order of "identical" elements. It's only useful if the elements have other distinguishable properties which are not taken into account for sorting order.
For a list of plain uin64 sort and stable sort would produce the same output.
Even if you attached some other information to distinguish them, for the purpose of deduplicating you want the values with the same key to be in sequence. Stable sort could help you to choose whether you keep the first or last of the duplicate, but the initial order of unique elements would be lost just like with regular sort.
Yes, sometimes you want to de-duplicate pieces of information by a part of the piece and preserve order. The article tldr sounded like you can only de-duplicating by first sorting with package sort if you don't have to preserve order. However as I just wanted to point out, it works if you have to preserve order just as well.
Edit: I see now that the original article meant preserving output order. And i have not clarified that i meant input order.
absolutely not! people should do whatever they want but if you’re going to make atonal music in a non-traditional scale, you shouldn’t be surprised if you have a limited audience.
The TED talk is old and maybe not the right format to discuss details. There are long-form discussions with Donald Hoffman on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal I can link:
He goes into more details (it's over 3 hours…), but I am not sure his arguments are satisfying. It is really hard to prove this concept. The idea itself is very old. Plato's Cave is only one example.
From my reading focused on this specific issue of the GDPR and the national laws of member states, this is not the case. Opt-in is specifically required for personal information. The telemetry data outlined in the proposal would not fall under this requirement. You can even retain time-limited IP logs with some special caveats. The GDPR is actually quite reasonable and fair.
Russ Cox is a very intelligent and effective engineer. He has a history of projects where he first analyses the problem space, then arrives at great solutions. He puts a lot of effort into discussing the problems and proposal with the community, especially after the widely criticized go mod decision by the go team (which is now mostly accepted as unfortunate, but in the end, the correct decision, I would think).
My point is: We all suspect Google and telemetry to be bad. But can we be charitable enough to separate the Go project, that is run by individual humans, and telemetry from our superficial cliches to actually read the proposal?
Google or Russ Cox's reputation is irrelevant. The idea stands alone. I'm merely crediting him with the idea.
I read the proposal. There is no discussion of the legality of this at all. I'd expect anyone with any level of supposed technical competence to consider this in relation to global data protection. I suspect there has been no legal review as mentioned in the thread because I know how slow the lawyers in this space work and the timeline between publishing this and now is too short to have had a conclusive answer.
As for your point about GDPR, I think if you apply your right to withdraw from opt out data collection and what that entails and then ask how this glaring defect is missing from RSC's paper, then you'll see exactly how much privacy consideration really went into this.
I do remember the comment thread on the 2017 time article here on hn. Opinions already have changed considerably in the last 5 years. It also appears as if the process of disseminating information still accelerates (with promis coming out as experiencers and so on). I can only advise everyone to consider C.G. Jung and read Jaques Vallee.
This situation is very complicated, but not at all bad in the end. As far as I can tell, nobody got the real answers, not the pentagon, nor the religions.
Could you expand on how Jung is related? I think of him as a researcher in psychology which doesn't seem connected? I may be missing what you are getting at.
Plato's Cave, Jungian Archetypes, Valee's Control System all hint at the same insight, that founders of many religions also try to communicate: We live in a symbolic consensus reality, made up of individual dreams, if you will, that is quite malleable if we all agree.
The new AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) has a Marcus Aurelius quote in Latin on the proposed Logo, used in the presentation slides by the director: "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it".
Maybe they understand more than I thought after all?
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that quote used in the AARO logo too. It's a fun acknowledgement to this pervasive theory, which as you've highlighted, is a unifying theme in UFO encounters and much more.
With UFOs getting as much pushback on HN (though this is improving) I would say crossing over into more of the "woo" and esoterics would give many here an instant dismissal on the topic :)
By reading the lines and not between them, you could read these two lines: runtime_procPin() and runtime_procUnpin(). With explicit comments that these pause preemption.
All I can recommend is to meditate, get in touch with your spirituality and reading up on the ancient concept of a hero's journey might help you.
Hang in there, don't be afraid, do nothing drastic, live healthy and go into nature!