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We need robots for three reasons:

First, special forces are having a hard time recruiting and the reality, it's not just them [0].

Secondly, why not purely for defensive purposes? Want to eliminate the effectiveness of nuclear weapons? If we can have self landing rockets. Why not a missile that breaks into multiple rockets in space and destroys all nukes whilst they are inbound?

Thirdly, why should billionaires and those who can afford them have their own private security? Imagine having your own inside the home? 24 hour protection. Only calling the Police to effectively clean up the situation? Could be a new startup right there.

Finally, we should be encouraging darpa and the military to be spending billions on robots. That technology will filter down eventually to the consumer. That's better for all of us.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OFevGcLHTU
In principle yes, but what happens when a pariah state like Venezuela or Iran decide to do this, no amount of international ostracizing and sanctions will deter them. What leverage are you going to use to enforce this?
The point is that we were able to mostly get rid of chemical weapons and landmines, which is also not easy to enforce.

The effectiveness of enforcement is no argument.
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> it was bad for New York

And I think that's where our disconnect here is. Most were advertising this deal at a net +$30bn revenue for the state over 10y, even after this $3bn deal. 25,000 highly-paid people brings serious money. Income tax revenue. Sales tax revenue. 25,000 property tax payments. That's before you consider auxiliary businesses you get serving a campus of 25k.

What I'm not saying is that New York should have made this deal. They would have lost some potential revenue, but that's not the issue. What I'm saying is that no city, no state should be able to barter tax rates. Allowing that means that Amazon is paying less tax on its operations and making them even harder to compete with for SMEs. That hurts the nation at large.
90% + 90% == 180%
It's possible for a person to be a member of multiple nations. In the eyes of many Americans (USian), American most certainly is a nation.

MAGA-style nationalism is quite popular and powerful at the moment...
It also resembles patterns of loathed parasitic social middlemen who come in and insist that they are essential to what they just built and started to be successful. Anyone with actual empathy would understand why they would find such a thing suspicious or annoying - even if said middlemen are actually right as the case may be.

Especially with the implicit insult if you don't agree social trick. That really raises the "sociopath" flags and thus they get resoundingly told to get lost.
Especially in American English, the term nation state is often used to disambugiate from a 'state' at the sub national level -- eg one of the 50 US ones.
Having lots of money doesn’t make you wise.

When I worked retail in college I dealt with impulsive millionaires all of the time. They would spend up to $50k without blinking on computers and crap. I sold a neurosurgeon $75k worth of laptops, games, and accessories so his kids, nephews and nieces could amuse themselves on a ski road trip. My dads neighbor (Wall St type who plays gentleman farmer) bought a kenworth and custom trailer so he could haul 3 cars to a salt flat with his buddies once a year. The impulsive buys get bigger with bank account.

If you’re some princling, pictures of a gulfstream or yacht are the equivalent of a lady in a bikini leaning over a sports car in a magazine.
We often forget that by the time the tech world is playing with something, it has perhaps already done the rounds in military.

Automated sentry guns on the Korean DMZ have existed since around 2003, developed by a company that was associated with Samsung (not sure if it still is).

Therefore this isn't, quote, "at best, a few years away". Unless that quote was from around the year 2000.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1
If they want to accept money from US based companies.

Otherwise if you want to accept US money and manipulate US public opinions you can get put on lists of businesses that are prohibited to deal with.
Fun fact, there were serious plans in the 1950ies to build a nuclear power plant right in Zurich, primarily as district heating for ETH Zurich.

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.... (page 83, German)
Is nuclear power worse than alternatives at comparable scale?

I'd much rather have a one meltdown - globally - every x years than have coal power dominate for example
I agree about where he got most of his following. From the embedded instagram posts, he has 800.1k followers, which seems... rather close to a round number.
I'd say the benefits are dubious even for countries with mountains. You don't own your country. If people in Bangladesh are displaced because of global warming, they have a right to move into neighboring places in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. I think the same is true for the Arabian peninsula and Central Europe. What are you going to do? Shoot and kill refugees?
Not quite the same style but engineerman is pretty good
I'm aware it contains my name and email, that's okay.
Is the pricing here normal for conferences? I've only attended a few and 300 GBP seems quite excessive to me.
> why should billionaires and those who can afford them have their own private security?

Has it ever occurred to you that banning killer robots not just for the poor and the public sector might be on the table?
What Lazarus and Free Pascal need is someone to sponsor a full-time technical writer to produce reference and tutorial documentation. There so much potential in both Lazarus and Free Pascal but I suspect many curious minds give up because of the scattered and often out-of-date docs. The official Free Pascal documentation is terse and formal, but not ideal for learning purposes.

So many people complain about Electron or rush to use it. Yet, Lazarus gives you cross-platform apps with self-contained binaries. How many people will never give it a second glance because there's no getting starting guide to ease them into the language and tools? (I realise some people, possibly many, will never give it a chance because of Pascal).

Interesting aside and previously discussed on Hacker News:

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate? - Pascal ranks well in this analysis.

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289
True, but like with all these stupid gun laws, people are just ignoring them now. The left blew its wad. The left wants all drugs to be legal and holds up people who break drug laws to be some kind of heroes.

The left wants to let rampant illegal immigration take place, in other words, they want to treat our legal system like the Old Country Buffet, pick and choose what they want from it.

But when it comes to a civil right, the right to self preservation, or free speech, all of a sudden you're a madman if you don't abide by the ridiculous laws.

Yeah, whatever.
After quickly scanning the summary and first chapters, it looks pretty similar to MLS94, perhaps a little more approachable.
Interesting claim about Airbnb or Facebook. Thanks for an answer didn't knew it and I was seriously interested. I always ask to get answers - in good faith for me and others. No idea why you stalk my history and make false assumptions.
Don't. Get a job. Be happy.
> https://web.hypothes.is/ is the URL parent was referring to, but there was a typo.

> This looks similar to Genius.com's annotations

» At least one member of the Hypothesis team came from Genius (formerly Rap Genius) which is the largest annotation service on the web.« https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13739965
The uk and us are definitely referred to as nation states in cyber Warfare lingo. I think the meaning is close to: group with lots of resources and strategic goal directed in that context.
The Chinese and Russians will do it whether you ban it or not.
My list of "don't even bother" websites is growing. It basically includes anything owned by oath/verizon media and I guess medium is on the list now too.
It depends on where you are in terms of your learning and background. Some people will find value in intuitive blogposts which complement research papers. Others can “grok” this as you say and will find more value in code. Yet others can “grok” the code if only they had the intuitive understanding. You can see where I am getting: everyone has different backgrounds and needs and different articles will appeal to different audiences. There is no one audience to appeal to.

On the note of code: this tends to be more subjective than the maths in a paper. There are lots of design decisions that can affect the overall structure of the code. Then there is the trade off between readability and performance. Readable code for blogs is probably not the code you would use in practice.

Personally I find it easier to establish the ground truth in the mathematics than to try and figure out the underlying truth from the code. And if you can’t do it yourself, then that’s where the intuitive blogposts help. After that you can choose your own libraries, frameworks, programming design decisions and teachers (including other blogposts) to help you get the code.
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Did we make that many or is he just milking a union job?
Actually GCC has an explicit clause that GPL doesn't apply to the generated binary, otherwise you could not link to the C runtime library

"GCC Runtime Library Exception"

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html

This document was also the inspiration for the Classpath exception in OpenJDK.
Thats what appimage is for, but if every single thing in /bin/ was 100mb you would have an OS much larger then windows
Well, what if your weapon is a fixed turret built on top of your city hall?
True, but what about the subsequent treaties that created the EU? The EU is a long way from what was originally voted on.
Something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19169582 ?
Why not law YYYY, you cannot own the search engine, video distribution platform and ad platform at the same time. The ad platform must be spun off as a separate non-colluding entity.
Nobody cares, really, except for a percent fringe users of a percent of Google users.

On a more general point, once again Google Search is provided to you for free. If you don't want to use it by their rules, you are entirely free to use Bing or Yahoo. Actually using the service regularly, because it is tailored to your workflow and provides value to you, while complaining that the tailored/value-adding part is driven by an analysis of your behaviour on the servicee... that's very hypocritical.
Reminds me of Scot Aaronson's Malthusianisms: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418
Last I checked, FileCoin was just an incentive layer for IPFS, not a core part of the protocol. Close association between Protocol Labs and the Ethereum community doesn't inspire me with confidence, but as long as IPFS works without it, I'm happy.
The US had been destroying chemical weapons for decades, due to treaty obligations. Thinking is not knowing.
I mean static linking is not on by default either so you have to flip a flag as well. Adding -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to the compiler and --gc-sections to the linker is not hugely difficult, although of course you have to make sure that the static libraries were built that way as well.

That being said I agree that even with that you'd still end up with a massive binary because of all the code that's actually used in one way or an other and all of the code that the compiler and linker can't statically mark as dead. In particular anything being called indirectly through a function pointer is almost certainly going to end up in the final binary regardless of whether it's used or not.

And even if a lot of the code gets removed it's a bit silly not to reuse the shared code in RAM instead of allocating pages containing the same thing over and over again. It's wasteful and cache-unfriendly.
>and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

They could just be perfectly written (for their time), just legacy and not updated, is my distinction.
You need to be careful not to compare existing, written-off power plants with new plants. What's compared is what would happen if you start a tender for a new generation capacity - what generation capacity would then win.

Regarding your questions: subsidies have fallen over the years, and we're beginning to see the first projects without direct subsidies:

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/30/17408602/solar-wind-energy-ren...

And yes, it's true that running a grid is much more complicated than just LCoE.
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"I had a network locally that I knew I could sell to"

I suspect this is the key to success in most smaller startups. Instead of focusing on getting 0.01% of a global market go for 10% of very local/focused market.

A prepopulated sales channel goes a long way.
I’m not suggesting fraud, just that we should take forecasts for what they are - forecasts, not guarantees.

However it seems to me that Amazon did not seem to mind taking a reputation hit with the idea of a year-long “search” and bake-off for HQ2 where the results were obviously pre-determined in advance.
Yes establishing your own nation as a state is a goal for many nationalists. And you can see some nationalists pointing at Japan (a nation-state) and saying that they'd prefer their state to be more homogenous like Japan.
Pretty much all of these tools feel like the wrong abstraction level for app devs.

Have to imagine some k8s-controller/git server that enables git deployments to k8s with just a node size config is the optimal end state.

I’ve mentioned this before in related threads: app devs want heroku. They want a managed platform where they type “git push” and they have an application with all the fixings. Heroku got the UX right long ago, and the rest of the ecosystem is still playing catchup
OP here!

Thanks hvaoc, there's a time and a place for stuff and for predominantly text-based content, I like the clean approach.
No. The reason we don't kill each other or engage in other aggression is because we risk getting seriously hurt or suffering other serious consequences in the process. This is true from the individual up to the national level.

There's a reason nuclear nations (definition to include non-nuclear nations that are sufficiently good friends with nuclear nations) don't get in fights with each other.
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> 1) "Shared libraries are bogus."

Starwman, nobody said that. Shared libraries make sense when a program wants to load additional code at run time. A classical example is loading and unloading plugins.

For everything else, not so much.

2) "Anyone who likes normal-looking user interfaces rather than plain boxes with text in them is a poopipants."

Most people I know use a tiling window manager with terminals. So plain boxes with text in them seems to make sense for many people.
Yeah, I know. Parent was saying that the History API doesn't need any server support, because you can just serve the same file no matter what the subpath, but my point is that lots of servers don't even have support for that. That's why the fragment is still more useful than the History API in some cases.
RL is really really brittle, i.e. one simple bug that wouldn't matter in GAN/LSTM (such as e.g. adding one more or less number than needed) would cause your RL algorithm not to converge and you'd spend days-weeks debugging it - it requires extreme discipline verifying every single step of your algorithm. Often you don't know if your model didn't converge because it is not strong enough or if there was some tiny little error/wrong assumption leading to divergence.
And of course land mines have existed for decades longer, and “covered pit of spikes” centuries before that.

No situation is totally new, though sometimes the equilibrium shifts so much that the top 3 driving factors in an environment are qualitatively different
That's the same mistaken meaning that the original commenter is using.

A nation state is a nation that is also a state. The UK clearly is a union of four nations into one kingdom. I mean - the clue's in the name.
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The cross-posting and multiple accounts strategy is rampant on IG. I have two major hobbies (very unrelated), and very much the same there.

It's kind of annoying, because in the end, there's no stylistic difference. So my IG feed gets bombarded with content from the same handful of people. Gets old real quick.
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Troubleshot? Any random advertiser has most of those data...
> Think about it: If you were to force absolutely everything to be statically linked, your KDE app would have to include the ENTIRE KDE library suite, as well as the QT libraries it's based on, as well as the X window libraries those are based on, etc etc.

no, because we had working LTO for a long time - every KDE app would contain only the exact code that it needs, down to the individual member function. Sure, all KDE apps would have a copy of QObject / QString / QWhatever - but most C++ code nowadays is in headers anyways .

> You'd quickly end up with a calculator app that's hundreds of megabytes.

The DAW I'm working on (340kloc), which can be built statically linked to Qt, LLVM, libclang, ffmpeg and a few others, is a grand total of 130 megabytes in that case.
It's actually heavier when distributed as set of dynamically linked things (unless shipped by linux distros of course, and most of that size is useless LLVM things that I haven't found how to disable yet) :
only accounting for the dependencies I have to ship, it would be 176 megabytes - plus 17 megabytes of the actual software. I'd argue that in that case dynamic linking actually takes less disk space overall because most people don't have LLVM installed on their machines and don't need to.
No one said don't enforce it, they said it's difficult to enforce. Those are very different.
Because there aren't 100 easier ways to achieve that?
I think it's silly to dismiss static linking like TFA seems to do but I don't think your point is very fair. Assuming that you have a proper package manager upgrading all applications that link to libssl would definitely be a much larger download that merely libssl.so but it could be handled automatically and without too much fuss.
It’s indeed a very high trials to success ratio. Again though, there’s enough papers preceding this one that you could have good confidence in the effort. Another thing that helps is orgs like OpenAI have their own servers, rather than renting ec2 instances.

You also don’t just launch that many things and them ignore it. You monitor it to make sure nothing is going terribly wrong.

But yeah there’s also the fact that if you’re Google, throwing $2m worth of compute at something becomes worth it for some reason (eg Starcraft)
Why, how many would you expect?

It's not like people are on their yacht liking IG pictures all day - realistically his account is probably paid out of he gets a couple of people to buy a superyacht.

The story's images have 5k, 10k, 10k likes. His IG has a range (small sample) from <1k to 32k, commonly 3-15k. Most of the low likes are, it seems, not yacht pictures.
New York, the wealthiest, biggest city in the country can have good mass transit by properly spending the money it already collects.

New Yorkers already pay tremendous tax dollars yet we have the mass transit that we do. The idea that there are no tax dollars is a myth. The funds are simply siphoned off to some other who-knows-what, and the remaining is poorly spent. The purported Amazon tax base would have likely been spent the same.
Alex Jones is just blatant about it.

Remember NYT and Iraq's "WMD" used to sell a 1 trillion plus war?

Or most news headlines most of the time...
yes, makes me think of the trolley problem [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
> The expectation to join a community or to contribute as a cost for using FOSS code is a limitation on user freedom which goes against the free software ethos.

It's really hard to argue with this. But I'm not sure "freedom to be an asshole" (to state the extreme case) is the primary ethical good that is being sought -- particularly since one could easily restate the freedoms of, say, the GPL in negative terms. You are not free to redistribute the program without its source, you are not free to use the software without accepting the terms of the license, you are not free to not indemnify the authors of the software against lawsuit over fitness for a particular purpose, and so forth.

But what this does imply is that however you slice it, fixing this problem involves ethical coercion. You can only try to persuade people (and companies) that it would be better to behave a certain way. You can't force them to do so.
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I believe GP is talking about Israel's oft denied nuclear missles program which everyone knows they have but they refuse to confirm.

They're probably breaking some nuclear non proliferation treaty put into place by a bunch of nuclear powers. (Whether there's anything wrong with the people with sticks saying no sticks is a different matter).

Israel definitely has nukes already, they're not working towards it.
I saw the video, but they don't go much in details on the actual implementation, so it's hard to say where, how and if things are optimized or not. Moreover, the speaker stresses also on the fact that ECS is used for code organization in most cases and they benefit a lot on this aspect.
This is the most important point regarding nuclear if you ask me. If it is to have any chance at a rebound, it has to start from smaller reactors again. And it has to do be a design that's geared towards load-following rather than baseload, so that it complements renewable rather than compete with it.

The focus now should be on massive investments into R&D and smaller scale developments
Everyone can randomly quite Einstein.
I dunno about the poster you were responding to, but any time the massive worldwide spying platform I can't not use gains more capabilities I'm not really thrilled about it. Even if the security against exploits is somehow perfect, it'll leak data. It'll be used to spy on us. The whole platform became hopelessly pwned when we started letting any ol' page send data without explicit user action and say-so. The by-design low effort and rapid linking between documents never should have been coupled with the capabilities of Javascript.
How do D and Rust stack up against each other? Both seem to quite attractive as next generation compiled languages.
Windows Forms inherited this concept given Anders. :)
Ya, I dropped in an unwanted $.
They all look the same. I miss the good old times when "mobile first" was nothing to think about and people went crazy and really hit the limits of what was possible and good loking...
Why would I use John D. Rockefeller’s oil refinery for data (MLaaS)?
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Microservices solve a number of engineers scale problem, not a traffic scale problem. Tech scale is drastically more simple in a single application, because you don’t introduce an unreliable network and related complexity into all of your problems
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There is an older theory of law that only things which are enforcable (which detectability is a requirement for) should be illegal otherwise it only breeds contempt for the law. This was way back when the concerns were more "could a king enforce it" than any notion of natrual rights. Personally I think that philosophy is not wrong at very least even if other valid frameworks could exist.