skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it won't be long until we're going to have a self replicating factory - a self replicator, like a living thing, capable of making copies of itself and producing anything we need. Is that even possible? I believe so - a combination of robotic assembly and 3d printing, when coupled with extensive industrial design libraries would do the trick. We could "compile" any design into physical form, even a replica of the factory itself.

When it exists, then we can produce for cost of materials and raw energy any amount of war robots. Even a single replicator can bootstrap an army. Then war becomes democratic again. /s

What I want to say is that even the current advantage of the superpowers is temporary. Self replicating factories will make economy a thing of the past. We just need one of those in open source. Software itself is already a self replicating technology.

Even hardware is becoming more and more accessible. Drones, Raspberry Pi's, sensors - they are converging towards cheap easy integration. That means the automation field is opening up, the entry barrier going down.
IMO what killed support on the older Nexus phones was /mostly/ the insufficient entry level storage.

This is provably false. The Nexus 6 plenty of storage space (32GB or 64GB) and does not get Oreo. Google's Nexus policy is to provide security updates for 3 years (or 18 months after the device stops selling, whichever is longer):

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/google_eol_for_nexu...

Also, the average Android app size is smaller:

https://sweetpricing.com/blog/2017/02/average-app-file-size/
It contributed to USA pulling out of the war in Vietnam
Very regularly, throughout history. To take one example, there were numerous mutinies during WWI and commanders had to take great care to keep the war going. Britain was pretty much the only European power that _didn't_ encounter serious mutinies.

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-w...
Resistance heating is still pretty wasteful.
That would be true if the US did not have it was not willing to use effective ASAT weapons to also deny opponents the use of GPS alternatives in the event of a war in which they would want to deny GPS.
That's a pretty bad typo. $136K.
Well, you've had war protests and resisting a draft. In a different manner, there was the Christmas truce of 1914.

I think though on a different scale, if your people aren't out there dying, it's easy to forget about the massacre and tryranny your country might be perpetrating. The out of sight out of mind problem.
Move to the EU, here google at least need to inform you why they made a certain automatic decision that affects you. GDPR be with you !
In my own experience driving for a little while around the Four Corners area in the desert, there were more than a few spots where the only option was NPR, because all other stations on the dial were glassy-eyed christian proselytising, especially driving Utah -> Colorado. I mean, the kind of radio that even normal christians would be uncomfortable listening to. I like NPR's content anyway, but if you lived in some of those areas, it's the only option that isn't cult-ish.
Who is saying it does? They are just releasing them at the same time.
Hah, all this time I thought it was an Austrian thing - my late grandmother while helping me practice my German pronounced it as "Ik" and then quickly corrected herself.
And you can kill that under "restrictions" if you want to...
Navy attack ships are much, much faster and more maneuverable than cargo ships or takers. They could have outmaneuvered one easily if they wanted to.
You could do what a lot of people do, and don't use the word everyone when it is not the case, or not even close to being the case.
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Just don't expect it to be anywhere near as effective as nuclear nonproliferation treaties. It's mostly software, and any idiot can copy software.
Probably depends on the company, I'm sure for some that's the main driver and some of those companies may not even agree that a more open and creative workspace improves collaboration and individual productivity. Each to their own.
By design, a modern warship can take an immense amount of damage and remain buoyant. That comes as little consolation to the poor buggers trapped in a flooded compartment.
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https://archive.fo/s0SOd

DRONES HERALD THE END OF THE AGE OF THE GUN

>The Age of the Gun is the age of People Power. The fact that guns don’t take that long to master means that most people can learn to be decent gunmen in their spare time. That’s probably why the gun is regarded as the ultimate guarantor of personal liberty in America—in the event that we need to overthrow a tyrannical government, we like to think that we can put down our laptops, pick up our guns, and become an invincible swarm.

>Of course, it doesn’t always work out that way. People Power has often been used not for freedom, but to establish nightmarish tyrannies, in the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and elsewhere. But Stalin, Mao, and their ilk still had to win hearts and minds to hold power; in the end, when people wised up, their nightmare regimes were reformed into something less horrible.

>But another turning point in the history of humankind may be on the horizon. Continuing progress in automation, especially continued cost drops, may mean that someday soon, autonomous drone militaries become cheaper than infantry at any scale.

[...]

>The day that robot armies become more cost-effective than human infantry is the day when People Power becomes obsolete. With robot armies, the few will be able to do whatever they want to the many. And unlike the tyrannies of Stalin and Mao, robot-enforced tyranny will be robust to shifts in popular opinion. The rabble may think whatever they please, but the Robot Lords will have the guns.

>Forever.
NPR doesn't challenge anyone. You only notice it when it's conservative because of your politics.
The US military uses encrypted GPS, not the civilian one.
... which in turn would imply unreasonable schedules and systems which are not robust when faced with inevitable human error. In other words, failures of high level management and system architecture.

I await the scapegoating of the crew to protect the higher-ups.
There are some "clear channel" (now "Class A") AM stations that have huge listening areas particularly at night. These are distinct from Clear Channel the company. These stations mostly broadcast at 50kw in the USA and have a bunch of added protections such as distant AM stations on the same frequency having to reduce their broadcast power at night.

More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station

There's really not much about it in the article, but my impression growing up in Chicago (which has at least 5, currently 2 sports, 2 talk and 1 news) was that part of their role was also to be emergency information destinations.
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Founder of PullRequest here: To be clear: $136,000, not $136mm. Typo on article.
> There are also military specific parts of GPS that civilian receivers can't access. I don't know if military receivers are ignoring civilian signals, though.

For all intents it's a different system, the packets are encrypted, the right receiver hardware gives you vastly superior accuracy. There's civilian hardware which can use the packets without decrypting them for better accuracy, there's some patents on doing this amusingly.
Difference engine: Wired for speed (2012)
I really like this idea. Perhaps transaction fees could be paid by those needing compute, and the result might be a globally distributed cryptocurrency AND a huge pool of (hopefully) cheap compute resources.
It's been "planned" since 2014

https://twitter.com/Oreo/status/522460831070822400
How long until private drone manufacturers deploy many drones into areas of conflict, and grant control of said drones to the highest bidder?
Maybe, but why do it? I see no possible motive here.
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> You would mainly have to know alot about the orbits of the GPS satellites to be able to convincingly simulate their signals from a given point on the globe.

Do GPS receivers validate satellite orbits? Do they even know what all the satellite orbits are supposed to be?
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You can already have an always-on third party VPN that has nothing to do with Google.

This is just a feature that was on some phones that's rolled out to the base OS now. It's opt in AFAICR, there's a prompt to enable it when you first boot the phone.
Freedom?

On some stuff you cannot put a price tag - like mastercard ads say, some stuff is priceless.
Not a contradiction "best high" and "greatest achievement" are rarely the same thing.
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> I await the scapegoating of the crew to protect the higher-ups.

Considering the leadership of the Fitzgerald have been removed, why would you expect scapegoating of the crew to occur in this case?

> The commanding officer, executive officer and senior non-commissioned officer of the USS Fitzgerald have been removed from their duties for cause amid the fallout surrounding the deadly collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a cargo ship off the coast of Japan on June 17.

"We've lost trust and confidence in their ability to lead in those positions and they will not return to the ship," Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Moran told reporters at the Pentagon late Thursday. The 7th Fleet also said several junior officers were relieved of duty.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/politics/uss-fitzgerald-leader...
iPhones now seem to be supported for 5 years now:

- iPhone 4s was supported from iOS 5 to 9.

- iPhone 5 receives iOS 10 updates, but will be out for 11, so iOS 6 to iOS 10.

- iPhone 5s will receive iOS 11. That makes iOS 7 to 11.
The disaster would be good for the species, but bad for individuals. The species is more important than any number of individuals, so such a disaster would be of net benefit.
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compilers can be used to make machine instructions for a none host CPU. he just missed out the runtime part for a jit.
I agree, that makes little sense of giving away such a capacity outside of an armed conflict. Anyway, there were 4 collisions in this area this year (we mostly talked about the 2 with loss of life) so there may still be a more fundamental problem to solve than individual negligence.

Just to play devil's advocate, here are a few hypothesis that could make malice have more sense in that case:

- The enemy has the capacity to spoof this but knows that it will soon be removed. May as well use it.

- The enemy knows that this vulnerability will not work on ships that are in conflict mode and is interested in removing two ships from the existing fleet in preparation of a conflict.

Pretty weak hypothesis if you ask me. Anyway, I can't say I am sad at seeing media and the general public talk a bit more seriously about cyber security.
It absolutely is USELESFULL work, its protecting a 40 BIO USD Marketcap, financial freedom, censorship resistant payments...

Recaptcha and co are gimmicks compared to this.
> They have the power to resist the evil ones.

Wonderful. When are they planning to start?

I don't mean to condemn them, genuinely charitable billionaires are doing a lot to improve living conditions around the world, but most of them aren't doing much to oppose the people who use their money to buy laws, lawmakers, and governments. (What they even could do without using the same corrupt tools is an open question.) A world with no hunger, no disease, and an absolute dictatorship of the wealthy is no utopia.
When it comes to GCP:

- They have Role Based Support plans which offer flat prices per subscribed user which is a much better model. [1]

- Live migration for VMs mean host maintenance and failures are a minor issue, even if all your apps are running on the same machine. It's pretty much magical and when combined with persistent disks, effectively gives you a very reliable "machine" in the cloud. [2]

1. https://cloud.google.com/support/role-based/

2. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati...
really getting tired of seeing "get rich quick" titled articles showing up here... every. single. one. has been BS
Oh noes! But wait, people already hold multiple jobs.

Wouldn't it be nice if holding two full-time jobs meant 40hrs/wk? Then, that irritating feeling instilled by a typical work week, that our salary is ultimately meaningless beyond a certain point and surely isn't worth the slight but never-ceasing pain and suffering inflicted in a banal-yet-reliable way by the entire corporate hegemony (not with malicious ends but merely out of a desire to ensure the 2% year-over-year train never derails), not to mention the expression that one's spouse wears to cope with the reality that, by working your drone-bee life through its paces and building your career, you've stopped being the sexy intelligent beautiful person that they fell in love with and become an inhuman ghost whose presence at home is welcomed and tolerated only in exchange for ensuring that your childrens' college fund will be well-stocked when they turn 19 and decide to go live a five-year decadence party on your hard-earned pennies, an expression which is no longer full of love but only imitating it shallowly, could be sorrow-drowned not in intoxicants and prostitutes but in the knowledge that you are bringing home sufficient double-income bacon to ensure spousal endearment and the best Greek houses for your kids.

I dunno. I think it might be nice.
Navy resources are mostly stretched because of the Navy's insistence on launching $30 billion supercarriers to fly $120 million F-35s. You could build 15 or 16 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for what it's costing (so far) to build the Gerald Ford.
Terry Gross is the best interviewer in English with a regular show in any medium, and has been for decades. I’d even even be willing to proclaim her best of all time, if you only count people with long-running interview shows. (There are some documentary filmmakers who are great interviewers, etc., but only publish occasional niche work.)

She is invariably respectful, even of complete asshats. She prepares well for every interview, listens to her guests, asks good starting questions and insightful follow-up questions, and gets people to open up about topics they don’t usually discuss. She knows she has a wide audience and makes sure guests explain things in an accessible way. She doesn’t throw softballs at people, but she also isn’t aggressively confrontational. It’s clear that her goal is always to understand where someone is coming from give them space to explain their point of view in their own words, rather than trying to win an argument, score cheap points, or kiss ass.

As a result, she usually has very good guests, from a wide variety of backgrounds, talking about a wide variety of topics.

Pick anyone going on a book (or whatever) interview circuit and listen to / watch 4 or 5 of their interviews back to back. The Fresh Air interview turns out best almost every time. Usually it’s not even close. Other interviewers try to tell the guest’s story for them, or are trying to push the guest into one identity bucket or another, or have a point they want to make and won’t listen, or haven’t prepared and have no idea about the guest’s field or background.
I am putting the finishing touches on my first book that will go to print, using latex for the first time since University.

Things like gutters and margins are precisely controlled, can be different for left and right pages, etc.

The ability to define your own macros, that can be used through the doc.

The ability to use conditionals within your document, so it's easy to produce say a print-ready pdf and an epub from the same source.

Really, really easy to put your doc unto source control (cvs or git) and get legible diffs.

IMHO, if you are printing a major document or book for professional purposes, you want to use latex.
You must be very fast - I can run 10k in 50 min and I need 30 min more to do stretches. I hardly can be as fast as you.
Overall, I think this is a really impressive list. It seems like a varied mix, and given criticism from a couple years back that Silicon Valley isn't focusing on "hard" stuff, was cool to see lots of awesome tech (auto-piloting planes! robot vegetable pickers!)
> All ships should be keeping a physical lookout at all times

I know nothing about the military or naval practices but this sounds hard and very costly... you want someone on shift 24/7 with his head constantly rotating watching out in all directions? Or maybe 3-4 people simultaneously looking out each in a single direction? That would mean you have a bunch of people doing literally nothing productive (besides watching) at any given point in time, some of them even being asleep since you want 24/7 shifts... and they have to not get bored or look away for any nontrivial period of time. It seems very difficult.
Alternative hypothesis: once robotics hits a point where it's possible for an average person (or small group of people) to own the capital necessary to carve out a decent life (by modern standards), labor starts splintering away from the global economy en masse. With their foundations gone, the pyramids schemes crumble, and Capital is the one caught out.
Surely GPS satellites can also be shot down, no? It seems the best possible outcome might be a single global navigation system that all powers depend on, creating a navigational form of mutually assured destruction, ensuring its continued availability during a time of conflict.

That will probably never happen, though.
There's a story there...

Yes, the antenna made famous by "The Dish", as the antenna that received the first footsteps from the Moon is 300km away at Parkes. However, the movie took some license with the truth so the antenna that actually received the first footsteps and rightfully owns the fame was the Honeysuckle Creek antenna at the then NASA tracking station: which was a few kilometres away from the current Canberra Deep Space Tracking Complex at Tidbinbilla (the subject of the article).

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Edit: The Honeysuckle Creek antenna was moved to Tidbinbilla, where it saw further service and now remains as an historic landmark.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeysuckle_Creek_Tracking_Sta...
"Cyber" seems to have taken on the role formerly filled by angry divine beings: If something happens and we don't know what it is or why it happened, we used to think someone angered a god or an ancestor. Now, it's cyber.

Don't forget that several wars have started based on misattributed events. In just the U.S.: The Maine and the Spanish-American War, the Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War, Iraq's WMD program and al-Qaeda alliance and the Iraq War ...

And attribution is especially difficult in attacks on computer systems. An enterprising, well-resourced actor could provoke war between enemies or division between allies with a well-crafted attack.
How so? Do you just mean electric heating in general?
Some also just see a fulfilling life differently. Some people's goal in life is to have enough money to get by, with a wife and kids to spend time with, or some time to potter around on hobby projects. Some people's goal in life is to have a break from always working, from always striving to be great.

Alternatively, some things you can be great at without anyone noticing. How many of those people you worked with that seemed to be just going though the motions at work, were really great parents to their kids at home, or threw really great parties, or had a really project at home that they never talked about?
Gotcha! Thanks for clarifying; that makes a lot more sense.

Congrats on the revenue and best of luck growing the company.
Especially since USN are making these mistakes with increasing regularity: Port Royal, Porter, Antietam, Fitzgerald, McCain, etc. International shipping predates GPS by centuries. It's entirely possible to navigate and avoid collision without using GPS at all. The Navy (or more probably, a particular subset thereof) are just increasingly bad at driving their boats.
See, this is what I mean when even libertarians can't agree what libertarianism means ;)
http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/chaos-makes-the-multive...
It's clear that I've been misunderstood, and I'm not sure how to rectify the misunderstanding. This makes it difficult to have actual discussions about this topic that don't devolve into bandwagon parades.

If we had always followed the "don't say it" default, then it would still be considered offensive to advocate for LGBT or religious or gender rights in the workplace. This is what I meant by taboos being sometimes harmful.

Everything I've seen in all the jobs I've worked shows a massive disconnect between "HR reality" and actual reality. I've seen women openly and proudly objectifying male subordinates in company meetings. I've seen men spending extensive time distracting their female coworkers with no consequences. I've seen women objectifying the "hot catering delivery boy". I've seen salesjerks harassing and flirting and getting away with it, while genuine people are slapped down for trivialities. The loudest and most prolific swearing I've ever heard was in a company with a highly religiously conservative employee demographic.

Nowhere have I seen a workplace where people robotically clock in, work silently, and clock out. Never have I seen a workplace free of non-work-related conversations.

People spend a majority of their waking time at work or on work-related matters. A sizable proportion of couples report meeting each other at work. There's simply no such thing as a work-only workplace. The HR-ification of society only facilitates the kind of abuse and discrimination that the devious get away with and the genuine get blamed for.
> All the taxpayers can keep living. The new rules will be in the email.

Why would you need taxpayers when you can just take anything you want, including everything those taxpayers would consume?

You would be redundant - a worse-controllable, unreliable, technically inferior and more costly minion. So yes, you would be killed, unless needed for organ harvesting or pleasure.
And they have been, gradually. Treble is a relatively big step, comparatively, but it's not like it's the first thing they've done.

There's a reason that "new emoji" is a headline feature now, a lot of the system has been pulled out and is distributed seperately to the OS now so it doesn't have to go through the vendor's QA cycle.
That's nonsense, there's no way that some unknown third party could have tricked the Alnic MC into an allision with the USS John S. McCain. It's the sort of thing that only works in movies, not real life. Mariners don't use GPS for collision avoidance. This is a simple case of incompetence by the crews of both ships.
> 1. It's fragile. Documents I wrote in 2010 no long "build" with the latest TeXLive release

Do you have any general guidelines as to why?

Did you use obscure packages or features that no longer exist?

I had been thinking one of the greatest things about the book I am almost finished is that it will serve as a template for me for decades.... maybe I was wrong.
Ah yes, I agree with you. It is needed. And there is not all too much wrong with it either. The evil probably comes from the pointless consumption? Not sure if we can live without that or where useful ends and pointless begins.