skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but you can build or buy drones in much larger quantities for cheap. With enough planning you could target weakpoints in the structure and bring down a large building more reliably than with an airplane and with less loss of life (on your side).
It makes sense that the nuclear physicists involved actually meant that history would record they "desired to produce" or "hoped to produce" - their spoken German was probably not very good.
>Lethal robots are not a technology that can really be regulated by ban.

Bans aren't merely about regulating technology, they're about regulating human behavior by introducing consequences. They're about a society making a choice to introduce legal sanctions against persons who do something unambiguously reckless and destructive, such as handing an autonomous device the power to kill.

Responses that boil down to a shrug of the shoulders underscore an important observation: enthusiasts for technology are precisely the wrong people to ask about the importance of recklessness and risk. It's on par with asking someone in software sales for a warts-and-all perspective on their product.
So this is why weapons have manual aim in sci-fi movies! You'd think that war would be fully computerized in the future, but all sides must have decided that was a bad idea.
Well as long as the megacorps say it's safe. DNA damage smamage we need facebook to load hella quick. Cancer is the new tattoo. Stop worrying and go get your government forced vaccination and obey.
It's not that Python always wins but that it wins in the context of a work environment with deadlines and other constraints. If you make time outside of that environment for learning Rust, you can give yourself permission to develop new competencies without losing the productivity argument.
Would it? Silicon Valley used to be a great place to live for normal people. Now it's hell for anybody who isn't rich.

As James Damore recently tweeted: "Amazon abuses its near-monopoly to bankrupt its competitors by selling at a loss, threaten brands with counterfeits until they sell on Amazon, and use third-party merchants’ data to undercut them. All while being subsidized billions by the government." https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1094985319575969792
but without sacrificing any of your people, or even needing people to be involved. If US drones were autonomous, then somebody could press the "destroy islamabad" button and they'd all take off, fire all their missiles, and crash into buildings on their own, with no humans involved. That's the kind of capability we want to avoid. Robots are cheap, people are not.
Of course, page anchors are still in wide use, and not just on old pages. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/README.md#inst...
I wonder if there was similar opposition to the first autonomous weapon before it was deployed. I'm talking about the humble landmine.
Would that make robots the true zombie apocalypse?
>But they do and I don't think there's any escaping that. It's natural.

Lots of things are natural but part of the point of civilization and organized society is to control what is natural for the benefit of the population at large.
Well, you try to successfully blackmail people. Success not only means that the blackmail target gives you what information or action you want, but also to keep quiet about it. So the Chinese (or anybody really) will weigh the risk of being found out or exposed as a blackmailer, against the value a successfully blackmailed target can provide.

So a state-sponsored blackmailer is unlikely to use "dragnet blackmail", especially if their economy is put at risk, as the chances of being exposed compared to the possible gain isn't good enough.

But if the blackmailer would want to blackmail specific powerful people, then the risk of it backfiring might be justified, also depending how "good" the compromising information you can hold over their head really is. On top of that, you might try some kind of parallel construction in case it backfires where you shift blame from your companies e.g. to some hacker, even "government hacker" if have to be. If in doubt, blame North Korea or the Russians for now. And if that fails, let the government take a hit in reputation (they don't care much anyway) instead of letting your companies and thus economy take a hit.

What's happening these days seems to be the opposite, anyway: The Chinese do not actually need to get caught doing anything, there is enough to "theories" out there that say Chinese "could" do bad things or "probably are", be it Huawei being ripped on by every spook, journalist and their dog when it comes to 5G, be it the recent story of the Chinese bugging Apple, or this one, or the constant stream of latent "chinese hackers" stories.

(Don't get me wrong: the Chinese most likely are exploring ways to maximize their intelligence gathering, just like about any other nation; I'd be really surprised if they left bugging of stuff to the NSA etc, and blackmail to the Russians and the CIA and friends)
I haven't done it for some time, but in my memory it was neither a problem on OSX nor on Linux with VBox. Maybe try Vagrant? I don't remember, sorry. But ask around and you should find a super easy way to make this happen.
Delphi shines in so many ways - I tried to develop something in Go but I hit a brick wall with a sub-par editor (Visual Studio Code), all kinds of restrictions, no way to make halfway acceptable GUI apps, a slow runtime, a slow compiler, unacceptable formatting rules, totally hopeless. Rust has even worse issues. I considered C, C++, Java and PHP 7.3 but I'm basically forced into using Delphi again for a new major project.

I'd rather not use Delphi, since it's hard to find developers for it and investors won't like it. But there just aren't better or even acceptable alternatives for the type of development I do (3rd wave AI, building a graph database from scratch, processing TB's of data, dynamic visualisations etc.)

So the plan is to build all this unique functionality with Delphi and then, when I have something sellable, perhaps get it rewritten in Rust or something, when those tools have become better.

Even though I'm an old fogie and highly experienced with Delphi, I also do embedded dev. in C and have done so for decades, plus I recently built an enterprise-level PHP online store from scratch. I've been a vocal critic of Delphi for decades as well (even banned on Embarcadero's forums) and in 2019, I do not know of anything that compares to Delphi...
It is possible to look at this from a different perspective. Paying a grant to a couple of developers may be a nice thing to do, but you still don't get a contract with any guarantees.

Paying a shitton of money to established company like Red Hat, on another hand, gives you a contract with liabilities and all other stuff that you'll be able to lean on - and cover your ass with, if need arises.
Amazon should not be compared to Foxconn just because they both happen to be topical. Amazon would need to hit targets to get the tax breaks. There is no way that committing fraud or completely misleading NYC would be worth the reputation hit Amazon would get all for just $3bn over ten years.
If you count ICBMs, we’ve had them at least since the 1960s.

For more targeted strikes with conventional explosives, we started using Tomahawk Cruise Missiles in 1991 during the Gulf War.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. That is exactly correct.
A strict reading would include self driving cars.
For Kubernetes, please see the CNCF's Certified Kubernetes program: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

(Disclosure: I run it.)
> Over 60% of NYC residents who had an opinion supported Amazon.

Well, now might be the time to remember that we don't have democracy by referendum. We elect representatives who listen and make decisions.

If enough of that 60% got up off their asses and did the legwork, the result might have been different. Instead all they had was just an "opinion". Sorry, but that's not enough.
Yes, but the whole thing has a Karmic feel to it. Amazon used a very public HQ process which turned the process into a public game show. Since they used public pressure on local politicians as a bargaining chip to get a deal done, it feels fitting that it backfired this way.
It fascinates me how few people can or are willing to explain concepts of computer science without using formal mathematical notational explanations. When asked, often they will say “that’s the only/best way to explain it” then I go and spend a few hours translating said concept from the formal math notational mess, finding that it’s indeed quite possible to explain it simply and even elegantly in either natural language or just a pseudo code example.
sure, it was state of the art back in the day, but state of the art over time depreciates to technical debt, and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.
Over some years, Amazon was to pay some $X in taxes. But they were given a break to pay $3b less assuming some goals are met. The city receives $X - $3b.

Now the city receives $0.
Here is a talk by Blizzard about Overwatch which uses ECS:
https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw
Tell that to Google and other big companies :)
Quitting College for a Startup
The reason politicians don't back nuclear is because of the way our political system operates.

A politician might believe our nation will need more power plants within the next 20 years. But they're incentivised to do the thing that, relatively, will be best for their near-term re-election prospects.

And just think of all the things that are better for their re-election prospects than a nuclear power plant in their constituency:

* A nuclear power plant in someone else's constituency. Play chicken with keeping the lights on and maybe someone else will swerve!

* Running an existing coal or gas power plant for longer

* A solar or wind power installation. Or better yet, one in someone else's back yard.

* Demand reduction like subsidised LED lightbulbs.

* Vague technology promises, like electric car batteries stabilising the grid.

* Finding of creating some organisation to take the blame once the brownouts and bill increases start.

* Just plain doing nothing and retiring before the bill comes due.

Why risk your job today supporting a nuclear plant, when you can kick the can down the road and keep yourself employed for another 20 years, maybe more?

Politicians are subject to those incentives, and it's hardly realistic to expect them to place the nation's interests above their own. Frankly it's a wonder any infrastructure gets built at all.
https://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1096123735935987712

If New York was willing to give $3 billion to Amazon, maybe New York can now use that money to hire 25,000 workers.
I love this idea! I'm always trying to follow all the people that create a great product, and this makes it so much easier. Awesome job once again Mubs!
> 3 cents/kilogram

add in the costs of climate change and it would be significantly more
I agree with some of what you're saying, but it's a mistake to just lump all of the government in as one huge entity. NYC != 'the government'.

|Using that when its convenient and forgetting about it later is just not ethical.

The government is all too happy to remind them, and tell them what is owed. Let's not forget who actually has the monopoly on power / violence in this arrangement. If you think the government shouldn't be offering special treatment, and shouldn't be picking who gets a competitive advantage, I agree, but let's not pretend like the government at any level is somehow at the mercy of any business. The worst the business can do is pack up and go somewhere else. Any government entity can do much much worse to the business.
Like, what kind of troublesome ? Care to provide more or less coherent and realistic scenario ?
The parent's poster was all about how to control it.
I’d be pretty surprised if a large percentage of those 25,000 jobs were going to have million dollar salaries. And who is to say that the handful that might have income that high would live in LIC, as opposed to a neighboring area.
> Robots are cheap, people are not.

Depends on the country
They could also just launch a nuke. The reason why we don't kill each other isn't because we can't, it's because we don't want to.
Depending on the target of the weapon a wildlife trap is also an 'autonomous weapon'.

Such bans will always end up revolving around a definition game of sorts.
R/V Petrel locates lost WWII aircraft carrier
This is so true. Media advertises people who just jump from one task to another with full energy showing them as all-rounders who can do it all with their multi tasking. Truth is that most of the tasks are bullshit tasks which are some silly spreadsheet edits etc.

Try doing some real programming and it becomes very tiring after the days end. Having any energy to do something after work becomes incredibly difficult.
> yet when a company is Chinese, it's seen as a big issue?

There is an obvious double standard, but remember that a toxic double standard and malicious actions (by a state, private group, or individual) are not mutually exclusive.

> if word got out, they'd be out of business

This is clearly nonsense, because we've seen this happen many times over the last few years. This kind of idealistic view where markets solve monopoly-related problems or overcome state-level power is just an idealized caricature that doesn't really exist in reality. People often stay with bad service either out of ignorance (people are busy and don't always recognize important information immediately, or even have the necessary background knowledge to recognize the situation as a problem. More often, there are other factors that force their decision (e.g. no parent is going to leave a service if it's the only way they can communicate with their kid. Even without those problems, there is a psychological inertia that needs to be overcome when making any change.

In reality, I've never met anyone outside the tech industry that actually believes Facebook/Google/etc are truly trustworthy. Most people know they are doing something, shady, but don't have the technical.background and experience required to properly recognize data-related problems. They don't trust the cloud provider, but also don't think it's a problem that affects them directly. Most of the time, it doesn't even matter, because monopoly limits their options, if they even understood that they had a choice.
My solution is to use chrome when faced with that particular limitation. There's a bug open on the mozilla tracker and it's been there for a while but no one seems to care.
The most important part of the design process
You're assuming $X was larger than $3 billion, which isn't a given. Look at sports stadium deals, hosting the Olympics, or Wisconsin's giveaway to Foxconn. The city/state budget is usually the loser in these deals.
Why is "scientists" the name of the group?

That seems to be an appeal to authority. This group is making an ethical argument, not a scientific one.

Which probably why without “supervision or meaningful human control” is their criteria.

Is a security guard with 20 camera controlled turrets using facial recognition to choose targets "supervised" ?
This is a bit like saying working unpaid for a few months wasn't free labor because you got a paid job afterwards. The company still took the monetary value of your labor.

At best, it can be said that the monetary value of the labor of open source contributors has been paid, to some degree, to everyone using the software, and the overlap between users and contributors is high.
Antitrust in America is broken. It may be time to breakup companies like Amazon and Facebook - or at least take a very hard look at whether breaking them up would stimulate more competition and innovation in our marketplace.

If Amazon is upset that it didn't get subsidies and open arms to come to NYC - then it should probably move elsewhere. There are many other communities and cities that could benefit from any benefits way more than NYC.

NYC is right to stand up to the creeping influence of mono-culture.

The other day I was walking through the West Village in NYC. I'd say a good 30% of stores are shuttered. I stopped in front of a interior design store and looked through the window - and just spent 5 minutes browsing the amazing collection of whatever they were offering. You can't do that online. Instead, you are funneled towards the item that has the best reviews (maybe fake) or has been optimized for cheapness - and everyone buys it.

/ end rant
Backbone JS uses hash for routing. Case in point - http://backbonejs.org/#Router. There should be lot of sites that uses hash params as routes which still exists from the early SPA era.
Facebook is going out of business you say?
I mean companies pay that and more to become Microsoft shops, at least before .NET Core and Visual Studio Code, and this isn'. I agree entirely with you. I would love to learn Delphi from a hobbyist perspective, can I get a license for like $299 or around that range? No? Hell why isn't there a freebie edition anymore.

Except, I can get all of Visual Studio for free for Community use, and yet I can't get a completely free edition of Delphi. I think I got a trial, and it failed to compile / run certain projects. It was basically crippleware for me, I couldn't get it to do a damn thing for a number of the projects it generated code for. I will say though, the IDE is fast as hell and it was a very tiny install.

I also would of loved them to have somewhat teamed up with the FPC group to make it so Delphi compiles for Linux in exchange for either monetary support for the FPC group, or enhancements that would make their compiler awesome.
Yes but this is about namespacing/syntax and likelihood of clashes.

Normally, url fragments were intended to be used by page authors, making clashes impossible (page author controls both page and anchor syntax). Google are breaking this contract, but argue that the fact that they're using parameter-style syntax should not clash with author usage, because using parameter-style syntax is "an abuse" of the feature.
If you move away, you usually can come back.

Now it's two months out and it's two months back, when you're pushing the speed of light
Twenty years on your homeworld's track, pushing the speed of light
And your friends are gone and your lovers too
And there's damn-all left that you can do
And you try to lie, but you know it's true, pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6LiVJkwyA
After all the pageantry Amazon picks the #1 and #2 most obvious cities for HQ2. Which leads me (and many others) to believe that they would have expanded their NYC presence anyway. Amazon already has THOUSANDS of employees in the NYC area. It was inevitable.

What rubs people the wrong way was that Amazon got a tax break it didn’t need.

And even after this deal has “died”, Amazon will STILL continue to expand in NYC! Certainly won’t be Jersey.
Their community edition is kind of a joke when compared to Microsoft's VS Community Edition which basically brings everything.
I’m pretty sure banning autonomous defensive weapons won’t happen because we already have them deployed. The Phalanx CIWS mounted on US Warships has a fully autonomous mode where it will fire on targets automatically.
Plural "Systems" in ECS architecture are the separate explicit and implicit modules (functions, objects, processing passes, etc.) that do something with the data represented by Entities and Components, and thus represent the third equal leg of the architecture, like in other three letter acronym architectures (MVC, BDI...); it isn't just an architecture organized as a system (singular) of Entities and Components, even if some kind of framework to manage them is necessary. Systems could be managed by a framework too, for example to process them automatically in a correct order.
Excellent question. It is hard to believe that only now did Amazon start caring so much about its already tarnished public image with worker rights and whatnot that they'd roll over so quickly on such a huge deal. I surmise that it was the mayor's office that called off their part of the deal, based on the public statements. The governor had been lacing into the recalcitrant lawmakers who joined the protestors. Both are rumored to want a 2020 Whitehouse run, but the mayor also has a much more public reputation as a "progressive" to defend. This is just my speculating.
Someone will inevitably use self-driving vehicles to carry out vehicle attacks like human-driven vehicles were used in Nice, Stockholm, Berlin...
It's a personal argument, I get frustrated and lose motivation when I have an idea I want to create and it takes way too long... Especially when I think "with python, it would have been done by now".
I wonder what big company is so clueless to pay millions to a big 4 for a useless blockchain toy...
I agree that a citation is useful, but I know that I've seen articles about how the variable for time cancels itself out in many important physics derivations, suggesting that time is at least not an important factor in the reality of the universe, and thus possibly does not exist.
Word is a set of COM objects, you can run it server side without the UI.
But don't forget that they also need to invest $0 into additional infrastructure necessary to accomodate Amazon and deal with various other problems their presence would have created.
SunOS before 4.0, when it still used SunView¹ instead of X11, still did not have dynamic linking. Hence this email rant by John Rose titled Pros and Cons of Suns from 1987 (as included in the preface of The UNIX-HATERS Handbook²):

[…]

What has happened? Two things, apparently. One is that when I created my custom patch to the window system, to send mouse clicks to
Emacs, I created another massive 3/4 megabyte binary, which
doesn’t share space with the standard Sun window applications
(“tools”).

This means that instead of one huge mass of shared object code running the window system, and taking up space on my paging disk, I
had two such huge masses, identical except for a few pages of code.
So I paid a megabyte of swap space for the privilege of using a
mouse with my editor. (Emacs itself is a third large mass.)
The Sun kernel was just plain running out of room. Every trivial hack
you make to the window system replicates the entire window system.

[…]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunView

2. https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
> Fair enough, although it is the case if the host OS is different then the container, VM would be a better name then I guess.

If the host OS is different than the container's you need either an intermediate hypervisor / VM (pretty sure that's what happens for docker on OSX, and why it's much more expensive than on linux) or for the host to provide an ABI compatible with the VM's OS/expectations (WSL, smartos's branded zones).

Either adds even more "dynamic linking" to the pile.

> So maybe not kernel, but the entire userland/OS of the app is still statically linked with containers.

Yes, a container's userland should be statically linked.
Are there any parallels in other industries where the fruit of labor is given away for free?
Burnside’s Zeroth Law of space combat:

Science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#id--Yo...
No, Mozilla would've gotten plenty of hate for potentially breaking sites, and adding features without discussing things with other vendors and Internet bodies. The thing is, we all know that Mozilla can't get away with that, but Google can, given Blink's market dominance.
Computing extremely accurate quantiles using t-digests
Interactive map of vocalizations [EN-USA] used to communicate without words
PyPy will get you a 10-time speed up over pure Python in real-world code on a good day. While that is nice, it's not close to C.
Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution