skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a question of whether the robots could attack and kill people, it’s a question of whether they could defend the dictator’s interests. In a protracted guerrilla war against survivalist Americans with machine guns and large stashes of preserved food, not to mention access to tons of technology? I doubt it.

It’s not very difficult to attach a hand grenade (or even a pipe bomb) to a quadcopter drone and use it to attack a military checkpoint or a politician’s entourage. It’s simply much harder to defend than it is to attack nowadays, and centralized power is offset by scattered, decentralized resistance.

Finally, you might be able to convince a unit based in one state to attack another, but you’re unlikely to have the loyalty of all generals in a civil war.
There's an interesting sci-fi dystopia in there, maybe. Everything up to light machine guns are available with no restrictions to anyone who wants to buy them. The government constantly talks up the sanctity of the right to bear arms, and the importance of being prepared at all times to defend innocents against <insert scapegoat group here>. The dystopian military enforcers wear bulletproof powered armor, and private ownership of any weapon that can pierce that armor is a "grievous threat to public order," punishable by summary execution.
Facebook (et al.) has done an incredible job (for better or worse) at changing the way people in society interact with and perceive others. It really is staggering when you think about it,.
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>Yeah, that's my problem. Vaccines are oversold, so to speak. Everyone has a story about getting the flu immediately after getting the shot.

No, it's because the average person has no idea what they are talking about and do primitive correlation.

After a flu shot you can very well feel unwell as your immune system ramps up to eliminate the inactive virus.
The real flu is actually nasty. Most people just have colds and never experience full blown flu until they finally do and regret.
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And then all you get is a whole bunch of mutually hostile regional militias sitting on piles of rubble shooting at each other. This is not a recipe for a stable state of any kind, and certainly not a democratic one. Guns and democracy simply don't mix. Democracy is about giving an equal voice to every citizen, while firearms are a force multiplier. They make the strong stronger and the weak comparatively weaker.
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All sounded good until the part about only collecting samples in Nigeria.

All the world has less genetic variation, than that between any two populations in Africa. Sampling one African population is a start, in that it nearly doubles the DNA sample space for study. But it won't help all of Africa - just the one population sampled.
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This is going to have people reading out the blood libel on stage, isn't it?
This is not supported by the evidence. They wear street clothes. Look at any pictures or videos, you'll see that they're wearing normal clothes of all colors.
The US military requires a massive functioning economy to feed it goods, fuel, food, etc. If enough of the US were rebelling against the govt, the military would fold.

And it's likely hard to get troops to shoot their own countrymen.

As direct evidence, over the past few decades the US has been unable to stop a vastly smaller, vastly less armed resistance in various regions of the world.

Maybe you underestimate the power of a few armed people against a military. And in any case, if it came to people vs military (which I do not think is anywhere close to happening), armed people do much better than unarmed.
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It isn't so simple. We are developers, we are used to solve problems on our own. A lot of times I spend a lot of time solving a problem that a coworker already knows. And I don't know that he already knows.
I'm guessing Foreign Policy loves China too much to call them totalitarian.

"To be a modern-day Chinese nationalist is to unknowingly agree to all of that and to become a de facto Han supremacist."
Personal relationships with "Leadership"
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Yes, they would. But only if they were given the right a decade or more ago, so more people were trained to use firearms. Now, it won't really do much.

The 2nd amendment isn't necessarily a way to win a fight one-on-one. It creates an idea in any leader in government not to even attempt to start killing people by force, because of the potential bloodbath and resistance that would ensue.

IEDs are also pretty effective.
The point I was making is that we aren't just talking about people with guns (the ones who had them) but people with guns and training.

But judging from the downvotes most people assume the only thing they need to effectively stop a mass shooter or fight a war is a gun.
> There is no good way for a person to identify another person without first mutually agreeing on Brand identities.

How is this absence not a good thing? If someone wants to be identified, they have to go through the trouble of creating an identity. In fact, it would be preferable to also not have a permanent or consistent personal identity with respect to brands either.
I like this article. It is concise and really lays out the issue in an organized way that explains a lot. I've understood this as a problem for so long, but I've not had the perspective to think about it clearly.
This also seemed weird to me. From the tone of the article I was expecting that they never even replaced the phone booths or something like that. But it sounds like they were replaced within a month, which seems fairly prompt considering they weren't essential items
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If I have the wrong opinion on the matter, will you assassinate my career for it regardless of the rationality of any argument I might make?
Well, I think the word "idea" covers a vast range, everything from ideas that you come up with in the shower, to ideas you come up with after a decade of specializing in a specific domain, noticing unmet needs and figuring out how those needs can be met.

What is important to understand is that both types of ideas are useless to the layperson. The former is useless obviously because it hasn't been validated. The latter is also useless however because even if the layperson learns it, they won't have the knowledge and expertise to understand its value, much less know how to execute it.

This is why when someone comes to you and says "I have an idea, but you need to sign an NDA first before I can share it", you should just smile, nod and politely change the subject.
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“My wanting to share every waking thought became eclipsed by a desire for an increasingly rare commodity — a private life.”

She forgot the part when she wrote a New York Times piece about her life.
People used to copy quotes all the time. I've known older folks who kept entire journals of memorable and meaningful quotations from books and poems they've read, sometimes annotated with a little note for context or what they were thinking when they read it. Usually with a page number reference.

Other people would put book darts or little sticky notes in their books or dog ear pages where they've highlighted the quotations.
Honestly, reading this makes me nervous - it's scary just how fragile our modern way of life is.
This isn't a rant, it's a statement of facts.
The planet where cheap or old or buggy routers, VPN software, etc don't properly support tcp window scaling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option

I didn't say anything like what you're describing. Also not a fan of your unnecessary cheap shot.
Mice, like humans, fidget when deep in thought
Moderators, as community leaders, need to go out of their way to signal inclusion for trans people. If they are unwilling to they should resign or be fired.
I would understand if projects were launched, didn’t caught up and were abandoned (like Google Wave).

What makes no sense to me is building something that everyone knows from the start there’s no market for it, Or getting something ready and then just not bothering to sell it.
> This is not a recipe for a stable state of any kind

It is not meant to be used in a stable state. It’s a Hobbesian point of last resort, to be used when democracy has failed and autocracy/tyranny is in effect. It’s a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency, so to speak.
It's more complicated, there are many variants. Some use a live weakened version of the virus/bacteria. Some use a dead versions. Some use only a small part of the surface of the virus/bacteria that is enough to be recognized. (The last is similar to the approach in this vaccine.)

[In some old vaccines, they used a somewhat related similar virus/bacteria that was close enough to make you get the immunity, but not to cause the illness. I'm not sure if this method is used still today.]
> because it was it's one of those faux-profound images that adds very little

That's a very strange interpretation to me. It doesn't look at all profound or faux-profound to me, it's just imagery.
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I own Sonos and I program in Rust. Two interest points.

Rust is trying to get to the threshold where it's applicable in the workplace. (All but a few major companies use it.) Unlike Golang, it needs all the cheerleading it can get to push it over that hurdle.

I want to use Rust at work instead of Java.
We can't defeat the insurgents in Afghanistan... and that's just the size of Texas. The rocky mountains cover more area than AF; our borders are more porous (the Canadian border is the longest in the world); and our citizens have the most firearms in the world - total or per person (far more than AF or IQ). The US military cant stop insurgents from moving across the border with Pakistan, but they would be able to stop them on a border 4x longer? They can't stop drugs from south america (at the mexican border, or through the gulf of mexico), but they would if it were money or weapons?

I've posted this here before: The US military has an urban warfare document that states the number of troops required to secure N population. It's based on their experience and the experience of others in past wars in holding urban terrain. If you add up all of the military, police, national guard, fbi, etc... you aren't even close to the number the US military says are required to secure the US. Even if they hired millions of people to do so, they would still leave large swaths of the US unsecured (like the rocky mountains) where insurgents could operate.

I don't know why when this is brought up people imagine citizens would stand face to face with the US military. Like they would be so dumb as to stick their face in front of a gun and ask they be shot.

The US military says they can't secure the US from an insurgency. If you think otherwise, I would seriously like to hear what you base that on.
I used to excessively post on Facebook. I started to worry that it was unhealthy- why do I need the constant validation from strangers? What is wrong with me psychologically that I crave that more than my own privacy? So I quit last year and I've felt good about that choice.

Now I have 17000 HN points and I'm starting to feel like I gave up meth and replaced it with cocaine. Maybe better, but still not good.

Going to stop posting here now too. Thanks everyone for the good times.
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Very cool, exploring math visually like this fills me with harmonic happiness.
“Perform oral practice periodontal surgery on the jaw or mouth.” Dude! I even have a spare room, we can totally do this one!
if you're asking a proof question, it will be something of the form "prove that there are as many solutions as the degree for all polynomials" rather than a specific polynomial.

if you skip writing down each step in the proof, aka your work, you haven't completed the proof.
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And those people have families too. People are willing to give up a lot to take care of their families. How many of us would do the right thing knowing what might happen to our families? I bet not many.
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At one shop where I worked we used the phrases "A good integration test is worth a thousand unit tests" and "Unit test that which cannot be easily tested with an integration test." I guess they had issues with people writing unit tests that were effectively testing getters and setters so they were trying to swing the pendulum hard the other way... but it also somewhat makes sense: invest your test writing where you get the biggest bang for the buck time-wise.