skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entirely silly. Free healthcare is cheaper than what we have. If we could reduce the portion of GDP spent on healthcare to the level of what all other rich western countries have spent on their unsustainable universal healthcare for decades for better outcomes than what we have, we would be running surpluses.

Our crap healthcare is one of the biggest drains on the economy. What the US government spends on healthcare disregarding spending by individuals is still more per capita than any other universal health service.
Are drone delivered chemical weapons all that different tactically than remotely or timer triggered chemical weapons?
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This was due to a one time tax hit.

>Alphabet was forced to swallow a $586 million tax charge on the non-GAAP line related to its stock-based compensation, costing the company about 83 cents a share — the difference between a substantial earnings miss and a huge beat.

>The tax charge is the result of a rule change in the U.S. targeting companies’ use of stock-based compensation to sweeten their adjusted earnings numbers. The Financial Accounting Standards Board last year implemented changes that force companies to better account for the tax benefits of paying employees in stock instead of cash, and the charge reflected the benefit Alphabet had realized for the full year.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-tax-hit-that-made-googl...
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Saturation and utilization are different things. For CPU time, utilization would be how many cycles were spent running user tasks over total cycles. Saturation would be how much time (cycles?) was spent in the run-queue. For disks, utilization could be IOPS, saturation is time spent in I/O wait or queue sizes. For network interface, utilization could be Gbps, saturation is total time spent waiting to write to sendq.
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You have no idea what you are talking about. Multiple countries have single payer and good health outcomes. And it doesn't cost 10 trillion.
It's not free healthcare for all. It's healthcare paid for the taxpayers, by the taxpayers.

And if the costs go up - it's because perhaps healthcare is better as a not-for-profit system rather than a for-profit system. Pretty hard to negotiate which hospital gives you the better deal when you're having a heart attack.

And I say this from a position of love in New Zealand - I wish you had normal government healthcare, like most other countries in the world. America spends 3x the amount on healthcare per capita compared to NZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...).
Per monitor scaling is supported by, at least, GNOME when you use Wayland.
That isn't the shell considering the output one per line.

ls will change the way it writes its output if it detects that stdout is a tty versus a pipe or redirect.
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Well, we have complex e-mail clients right?

Imagine if your e-mail client was like the Github issue tracker. This level of pain is what a lot of larger projects go through. You have tags and basic filtering, but the interface has a lot of friction for "power users" of issues.

Think of those projects with 1000 open issues, and how you would want to deal with this quickly. Easy access to certain filters, an interface with less noise, etc.
That is false. A raspberry pi is capable of running inference on 90% of the models out there.
Mine was a bit more procedural, if that's what you were looking for:

awk '{l++;gsub("!","");t[1]=4;t[4]=2;t[9]=3;o=$1;for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){o=o " " $i (i==t[l]?"!":"")};print o}' war_and_peace.txt
Tip: It would help to disclose in the user page too.
As soon as any company sues someone for 'poaching employees' I don't need to think more about the merits of their case because they clearly have none. The idea that such a claim doesn't just get your case thrown out with extreme prejudice is baffling. It's a market. You don't own your employees and if someone can take them from you you're underpaying them and or treating them less well than you should. Probably both. This restraint of trade bullshit treating employees like goods is just disgusting and totally unacceptable in any civilized society. It goes way beyond what is or isn't "legal"
This is the turning point many have been talking about with drones, this will reduce the personal cost of terrorist attacks in the west, chilling.
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As an aside, it should be noted that all cells carry the complete blueprint for a human being. The open question for a long time was whether it would be possible to push adult cells 'back' in time to a state where they could become another type of cell. Thanks to the work of tenacious scientists, we know that the answer is yes! It can be done. Methods have been discovered to coax already differentiated cells to become pluripotent. That is, adult cells that are already of a specific 'type' have been reprogrammed to become stem cells.

I in no way intend this to be an argument against embryonic stem cells. I just find it to be extraordinarily interesting and an intriguing avenue for further development.

More info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
The Supreme Court makes rulings that are easy to comply with. Their job is to interpret things based on the constitution, in practice they weigh society's ability to stomach their rulings as well.

This is primarily the reason it hasn't been overruled, and its been close in times past! The "precedent" hasn't been in place that long as far as case law goes.

Check out a few of the dissenting opinions
Of course, it's an edited version of the video with no audio. I wish there was somewhere that kept these online, every time there's a new one released I have to go hunt it down, usually off some gore site filled with weird shit.

EDIT: Full video is 38 minutes, found it here https://videos.files.wordpress.com/TneJgWZZ/isis-ninawa_hd.m...

Drone stuff seems to be towards the end.
It's mobile, for one. You can cover and threaten a big area with a drone, which means a tiny amount of chemicals go a long way, and that solves the other main issue with chemical weapons.

Main goal would be to sap morale: a few grenade-sized bombing runs and you force everybody to wear chemsuits under the desert sun.
Thank you! I've been looking for something like this to ameliorate the toxic aspects of caffine, whilst maintaining its positive effects.

On this topic, and related to the OP is the following study from 2010:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614853

"RESULTS:
Paraxanthine, caffeine, and modafinil significantly promoted wakefulness in both WT and narcoleptic TG mice and proportionally reduced NREM and REM sleep in both genotypes. ... However, the higher doses of caffeine and modafinil, but not paraxanthine, induced hypothermia and reduced locomotor activity, thereby confirming the lower toxicity of paraxanthine."

I was wondering whether anybody here has experience with paraxanthine?

According to Wikipedia

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

"Caffeine is metabolized in the liver into three primary metabolites: paraxanthine (84%), theobromine (12%), and theophylline (4%)"

I'd also be interested to know whether anybody had authoritative references to the LD50 toxicity in humans for caffine and its 3 metabolites ...?
> (How do you like it, my little warrior, getting groped by TSA agents? You enjoy that? Do you feel filled with the spirit of "the free and the brave" when you censor yourself on social media so you won't get harrassed at the border? Yes?)

Sorry to disappoint, I have never been groped by the TSA agents. Probably has something to do with the fact that I'm Russian and my travels to the US were strictly business, sponsored by a respected company.

That is also why I know a thing or two about authoritarianism and people that allow it, all the while suffering it's oppression.

> And there is this thing about civilizational ebb and flow but get back to me in a thousand years or so and we'll compare notes!

I'm back to you and we can start now since my country's been around for more than a thousand years. We both mainly export oil, we both live in countries under sanctions by the United States.

Mine is an authoritarian shithole, yours is even worse, and it shows right here - you resorting to ad hominems like "little keyboard warrior".

That about sums it up.
No peer review?
I think so, actually. The most effective places to set up a bomb are probably among the most dangerous for a covert operative to actually get to. This changes that.
KDE Neon that I use currently comes with Firefox as tha default browser out of the box.

For me at least that is the only modern browser I want.
I'm making something related as a side project too, and the major problem I have right now is showing a terminal on the page. As you can see I'm relying on archaic methods... https://term.surge.sh
The difference is that dropping a bomb involves no risk to the drone pilot. Shooting at a main battle tank with a rifle? Another story.
How many times are you pressing that button in 40 minutes of rush hour traffic? That to me is where Tesla's AP really shines, 70mph AP is nifty but not nearly as useful.

I was just commenting since we've owned both systems, if you haven't had a chance to give Tesla's a spin they are happy to do free test-drives, on paper they look similar but in execution I found Tesla's to be miles ahead(and constantly improving).

That extra 60k also gets you some really acceptable 0-60 times :).
Did you watch the video? The advantage is that you can get over walled-in-areas and that even people on watch seldom look above.
Except searchability of pinned stuff is terrible and often the only way to see the entire message requires clicking on it which "scrolls" up that point in history, incurring the CPU, memory, and network load of getting everything in-between. This is horrifying when you're remote working from a country with somewhat dodgy Internet connectivity. IRC takes almost no bandwidth and an IRC client takes minimal system resources, Slack by comparison is a hog.

Documentation in a Wiki is way preferable.
That first slack conversation as a new student at higher.team
It's a Perspective piece, similar to an editorial. It's not a paper.
Chemical weapons are particularly difficult to use en masse outside of enclosed places like a subway.
Quadcopter bomber drones might be new, but isn't this like the maker-simulacrum of extant predator drones?

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2294-buda-s-wagon <- this book for more discussion on "poor man's air force"
As a psychological weapon, this has changed the rules dramatically. You can imagine that combatants in the firing zone now have an added thing to think about.

Not just watching buildings for snipers and scouring the road ahead and beside them for IEDs, they now have to have attention aloft to see/hear drone activity as well.

Spreading (the) enemy attention is highly effective. And don't discount low power explosives. A couple of friends of mine who are in the army have said that most weaponry is designed to maim rather than kill. They explained that if you kill a soldier, you take one man out of the battle (and make his comrades angry & vengeful to boot). If you wound him badly - you take two men out - the wounded soldier, PLUS the guy who has to stop what he is doing to care for and patch him up.
The description says that it just has the typical islamic acapella as background music.
>the crooked editor can just cry "harassment and cyberbullying!" and go a long way to shutting down rational criticism.

This is becoming a standard way of dealing with anyone who disagrees with you online. Reddit has been ruined by it.

Someone sent you a PM? Harassment. Comment you don't agree with? Harassment. Someone not sustaining your narrative? Harassment.
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You're not going to blow a hole in the armor of a modern tank, but a grenade can damage peripheral systems, and it's a hell of a hit to morale.

And of course, most soldiers don't drive around in Abram's.
> It's a pretty prestigious journal...

It is but these days it can hard to know going by past reputation alone.

There seems to be a push by some sleazy publishers to buy prestigious medical journals and then take money to publish questionable studies.

Even the watchdogs who have tried to warn everyone have given up (or were forced to shut up).

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/website-tracking-so-called-pred...
i appear to be rate limited so i will will either comment with edits or just wait until it expires

This "you are posting too fast. Please slow down" BS is a real mistake on HN's part.
Guns need line of sight. The drone operator here could have been safely ensconced in a house behind a hill a couple of blocks away and doing it all via first person camera view.
> how does one defend against that

With one's own drones, programmed to crash into the attacking drones kamakaze style, or maybe armed with mini gattling guns or other weapons to shoot down enemy drones in flight. Might also have the assistance of other drones flying higher in surveillance mode, like AWACS. All kinds of possibilities.
As if people couldn't possibly build larger ones.
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A significant advantage aircraft on autopilot have is that the majority of the aircraft routinely using autopilot are flying under Instrument Flight Rules [IFR] and can rely on Air Traffic Control to provide separation from other aircraft.

Because of this, an aircraft under autopilot (especially one ascending and descending on its own) doesn't need to worry about hitting things. There is usually a distance of 3-5 miles¹ between the aircraft and other hard objects.

I would say calling the Tesla system an Autopilot is vastly understating its abilities.

¹ http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2806/how-much-is...
This isn't about necessity. This is about sending a message.

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Message to the World - we are not all bad

Message to future generations - we are not hopeless

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> It would be much easier to just link to these libraries (and any other resource) by the hash of their content.

And that's exactly what Nix and Guix do. Elegant solutions to age old problems.
I heard similar arguments assuring me that nobody needed cellphones, and then that they didn't need smartphones. If drones are superfluous why do we use them, mmm?
Because AGPL is so highly restrictive that most OSS foundations won't have projects use it - they prefer the far more permissive Apache/MIT/BSD licenses
It's likely put in place to prevent abuse by using new accounts to spam. I think it's a reasonable measure. I believe I've seen at least one case where the mods have exempted a new account used for legitimate purposes from this restriction. 'salesguy222 may want to contact them to request such an exemption. See the Contact link in the footer.
I've run several respected static analyzers against several well respected projects and I'm lucky if I get more than 2-3 false positives.

In the Argon2 reference library, the one alert from Infer was a genuine bug I sent a PR for, followed by one alert from tis-interpreter that was another genuine bug. clang-analyser produces clean output.

It's true that you get so many false positives under OpenSSL it's not feasible to review. I would contend this is an indicator of code quality more than an indicator of poor static analysers.
How hard would it be to electrically "sanitize" an area with EMP before going in?
Ok, I accept you aren't trolling :)

I find it difficult to agree that using non-representative names for variables or functions improves understadability.

Notably, using something like x to represent a meaningful value means the brain has to hold the mapping between the two, which will decrease the number of useful pieces of information kept in short term memory[1].

The brain doesn't keep track of the number of characters in a variable name.

[1] http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Mill...
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BTW, while interesting on its own, the article provides us with this little tidbit about the novel's author, Ethel Voynich, which is sure to be of interest to HN-ers (my emphasis added):

The melodrama of Voynich’s novel is matched by the extraordinary story of her own life. Ethel was born in Cork to parents George Boole, an eminent mathematician and the philosopher Mary Everest, whose uncle gave his name to the world’s highest mountain.

(And, yes, it really is that George Boole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole#Family )
That's a bit like using a tank to hunt rats - it would work in theory, but the rats are a lot more agile than the tank. What are you gonna do, blanket whole neighborhoods in silly string? How are you gonna tell the difference between birds and droves while also flying the plane and avoiding ground fire from people who don't like you? Any anti-drone countermeasures are likely to involves more drones.
In this case, I needed two children elements, one would be centered vertically in the column, and the other would be at the top of the column, but they would not effect each others position. I could only make one where the two elements were next to each other, or they effected each others positions, so the centered element was not actually centered. I ended up putting in three elements, the bottom one the same size as the top, but hidden, so the center element would stick between the two.
Please point me to the non-partisan, non-hack, non-goldbug study that tells you that the US cannot support its current debt load. The feeding frenzy at every new treasury auction tells me that there's plenty of space yet for us to issue debt.

Serious claims require serious proof.
Conventional chemical weapons are not cost-effective, because you have to hit a big area and cause big effects for it to be worthwhile, since both delivery and payload are expensive. With drones you can shoot/drop grenade-sized payloads that hits just a few people, barely more effective than an actual grenade. The goal is to sap morale and force lopsided reactions (such as forcing the opfor to wear chemsuits, or invest in cleanup teams).
The financial statements of these companies boggle my mind sometimes. In addition to Google's, I saw this bit on Microsoft's today:

> Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $426 and $335

What they're saying is, that's $426 million dollars they're owed that they expect to not get, because of defaults and deadbeat customers. And it's just a line item!
While this sounds interesting, unless there is:

- a user friendly support/bug reporting channel

- some sort of promise that actual found bugs will be resolved with a higher priority

- sane configurations + nice themes out of the box

Unless all of those are offered, I don't see any draw to buying this. The way I see it, this is something only early adopters would get. There's no guarantee that things will work smoothly out of the box. If I'm going to be paying for a KDE branded device, then I'd need to be convinced that the experience would be better than buying a nice, "Linux compatible" (per reviews, whatever) notebook and just installing Neon on it myself. This is what Apple and Microsoft (with their Surface line) do and while neither are perfect, everyone I know feels safer buying those brands. And in the end, that's the biggest driving force in decision making for normal consumers.
Skip the nets, why bring down a drone mostly intact that has a bomb on it anyway? Play to your strengths...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4PXou0aGiE

Above is a video of the Army's modified close in weapons system, it fires 75 rounds a second and is designed to shoot rockets and mortar shells out of the sky. Mortar shells and rockets move just a weeee bit faster than most drones.
Yes to all of this. There are algorithms to be applied, we just need more/better data to fine tune them. Of course, it's politics, so it's more art than science, but there is a lot to be uncovered with patterns. Great thought.
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I've been a huge fan ever since I stumbled upon one of his stories here on HN 5 years ago. "Stories of Your Life and Others" is one of the first Kindle books I bought.
Why do you believe that? It's quite clear that it's not true:

http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...
This is only one data point on a line that's already moving very quickly for this data point to have showed up in the first place. What is today one drone is tomorrow two, and in a few months, dozens at a time. And they can get larger, too.

And, yes, absolutely, defenses will be devised and the arms race will march on. In fact, once the US military gets really serious about this it could well swing back to advantage industrial-era military again; I'm not convinced this is a permanently-leveling sort of weapon. But at the moment it's at least a bit of a shakeup on the field.
Ha! Thank you for mentioning that. There is an Open Data org in Canada that we've been working with, and we are also assembling the GIS data for the UK. Hope to have it within the year.
> And how does one defend against that?

If the army can't figure out how to defend against a quadcopter, it would be an enormous opportunity for any RC hobbyist who happens to know or could learn a little machine learning.
Yes, a large fraction of the Indian population >50% does not have a credit/debit card, and a significant percentage don't have a bank account. In fact, in large swathes of rural India, the nearest bank could be a few hours away by whatever means of transportation they have there.
Very true. Plus don't underestimate the disastrous effect on morale of having 'your' weapons turned against you, and finding yourself in a victim position that you have indirectly imposed upon others on many occasions. Once American soldiers start coming under drone fire regularly, they will be massively demoralized by the realization that much of the world considers the US to the be The Bad Guys.
While I appreciate the skepticism, and it is sad that there is an apparently increasing number of questionable journals out there, do you have any evidence that NEJM is one of them? They're currently run by the NEJM Group, which is controlled by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

http://www.massmed.org
> Spreading (the) enemy attention is highly effective. And don't discount low power explosives. A couple of friends of mine who are in the army have said that most weaponry is designed to maim rather than kill. They explained that if you kill a soldier, you take one man out of the battle (and make his comrades angry & vengeful to boot). If you wound him badly - you take two men out - the wounded soldier, PLUS the guy who has to stop what he is doing to care for and patch him up.

This was the (effective) VC strategy during the war in Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_stick
I'd say it's as native as Mail.app, which also renders HTML content, and relies on a remote server.