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I don't really get the hype/fear surrounding drone warfare, at least not when it comes to combat. It sounds super scary to have these drones that can outperform pilots, until you realize that guided missiles are already able to destroy pretty much anything from tens of kilometers away already. It doesn't matter if pilots are slower than drones when they are able to fire off missiles before the drone even detects them.

The main benefit of drones is surveillance imo, since they can just circle an area for hours. For combat I think we will have pilots for the foreseeable future, they can react more quickly and have a better view of the situation than a drone operator. Also I would imagine having a pilot can also be useful if you don't want other countries shooting down your planes (or if you want to start a conflict) - Iran would have been much more resistant to shooting down a US predator drone if it was a manned aircraft instead. I don't really know though.
Interesting looking paper. From the abstract it seems that the claim is about about perfectly replicating a future state of the simulated system? Simulation with a less ambitious fidelity level still seems useful to understand these kind of systems.
Reaper has extensive support for customizing keyboard shortcuts. I think there's even a Cubase skin theme.
Not the OP, and it's definitely not my style, but some people really like taking classes. They love the environment and energy that a university life gives them. I've known one or two people who have spent decades just taking classes (and accumulating degrees).
I think the pareto curve still covers that idea. You want to be farther along the curve towards speed.

Also you may be thinking in terms of a different optimality criterion for quality, which as the above poster noted may be unclear, e.g. a lot of effort in one direction that seems like the best decision in the short term but actually hinders needed flexibility in the long term. This just means the short term improvement wasn't really towards optimal after all.
Perhaps if it were open source. Sublime Text is closed source, so it's more like Safari, Opera, or Vivaldi.
Are you a founder, needing help setting up your SAAS metrics?
> [banker refused to cancel a personal credit card because it was the bank's]

The comment disappeared, but I wanted to illuminate ...

Banks do have reasons for delaying account closures:

- good reason - delay closing until statements arrive and are paid. This is also commonly done with checking accounts in the US, which has delayed final settlement for inter-bank transactions.

- bad reason - employees get rewards for signups and face consequences for cancellations. See Wells Fargo scandals.
There are several nuances. I’d say these:

“don’t bring me solutions.. (for approval). Implement them and show me the results.”

“You are allowed to bring me problems that you have tried and decided you cannot solve”(But that’s going to affect how I view you - over time if you keep bringing me the same type of problems, I’ll decide you’re not good enough for your job).

I’m generally talking about tech problems here.
Will it be blocked by Chrome as resource heavy ?
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/resource-heavy-ads-in-chro...
>there’s definitely ways to retrieve past writes from a hard drive.

Please provide some evidence.

> You think just zero writing it out once is enough?

I definitely think a single zero write on a disk drive is enough (or at least that it's as good as 3 writes or 100 writes). There's no evidence anyone has ever recovered a file that was overwritten by zeros a single time on any hard disk drive from the last 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Feasibility_of_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511568

Hmm, it looks like the site is down now. Well, here's a copy of the content:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/the-great-zero-ch...

I might have to run my own Great Zero Challenge v2.

> Why do you think DoD standards call for no less than 3 writes when erasing a drive?

I think you're referring to an old DoD standard. Prior to 2007 the DoD recommended that. Now they don't recommend that, and only recommend degaussing or destruction of the drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Standards

Old one:

https://it.ouhsc.edu/policies/documents/infosecurity/DoD_522...

New one:

https://files.meetup.com/7887332/107-009-005_Exhibit_B.pdf
Err.. I hate to break it to you, but the Chan trolling culture has been used a a deliberate way of pushing extreme views into the mainstream for a long time now.

Look no further than Pizzagate and now QAnon. Boogaloo may have started out like that but people quickly made it a real thing long before mainstream media jumped on board.

The whole "oh it's only trolling, can't you take a joke" is just a front used for people to shield their true beliefs behind.

Here's a criminal charge[1] against one Boogaloo person. I'd note this sentence: "During the rally LYNAM stated their group was not for joking around"

[1] http://www.seditionists.com/parshall_complaint.pdf
I hadn't seen any of these before, and the first word I found for i18n was "iodochlorhydroxyquin". Seemed somewhat unlikely.
True. Also: when one is in a local maximum, bad ideas are the easiest way to get in the attraction basin of a better one.
Why is it not realistic? The CCP numbers are essentially propaganda and have no basis in reality.

The CCP claims ~4,600 deaths, while there are reports like 5,000 urns being delivered to a single mortuary in Wuhan alone (Wuhan has at least eight mortuaries). According to some reports 40,000 urns were distributed in the span of just 10 days.

That's one city!
Hey, thanks. Yes I’ve seen them. Trustory was pretty cool. They started with fact-based statements I think, but then transitioned to any kind of debate. Ended up closing down though: https://medium.com/trustory-app/why-trustory-is-shutting-dow...
Drones are loud and pretty energy inefficient compared to hydrogen balloons. I understand large balloons like Zeplins cost a lot of lives, why can’t we make mini Zeplins for <1kg payloads. Or <5kg payloads. That should scale right?

A drone could be attached to the balloon and it would help reduce the energy needed to fight gravity and could probably cruise for a much longer distance.
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Seems he really went against the curve.
>"Money creation in Offset

Money in Offset is created and destroyed by users. Offset is designed so that the money supply changes to match the market. As the market expands, the money supply increases. When the market shrinks, money is destroyed. Therefore, You will not become rich by joining Offset early.

The total sum of balances in Offset is always zero. Consider two Offset friends: Bob and Charli. If Bob’s balance with respect to Charli is x, then Charli’s balance with respect to Bob is -x. The sum of those two balances is always 0.

We count the amount of money in an Offset network by summing all the positive balances. For example purposes, consider again the two Offset friends: Bob and Charli. Suppose that initially the balance between Bob and Charli is 0.

Next, assume that Bob buys a chocolate bar from Charli for the price of $2. Now the balance between Bob and Charli is -$2 from Bob’s point of view, and +$2 from Charli’s point of view. In the moment of purchase, new money was created by Bob. In this case we can say that the total amount of money in the market is $2.

The money created by Bob’s purchase will be destroyed when a complete buying cycle is complete: For example, Charli will use the newly created money to buy something from Dan, which will use the money to buy something from Eve, which will eventually buy services from Bob. When Eve buys from Bob, the money is destroyed."

A lot of good and interesting ideas, but what about the Infinite Hotel Paradox, as applied to money?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...

That is, consider users as hotel rooms, and money as guests for those hotel rooms...

That value, as it approaches infinity, is sort of the theoretical upper limit of Milton Friedman's "Velocity Of Money" theory...

Also, as a side note, you'd probably find economic islands, that is, users who were corporations, where they produce much more than they consume, where, without taxation or other depletion, money would gel and pool and basically be prevented from circulating...

And, what about the people that borrowed, on credit, and never replenished from society what they took? If there's no limit, no "credit limit", then what prevents them from continuing to take, and what prevents everyone from doing this, resulting in a crashed economy?

Also, if there's no limitation on what constitutes an identity, then what prevents someone from signing up multiple times as different users, and giving themselves extra "credit" (ability to take) and taking, that way?

This being said, I think you have a lot of good ideas, and perhaps the only way to know if/when/where/how users "game the system" would be to deploy it -- and see what happens.

Does it succeed? If so why? Does it fail? If so why?

Either way, information could be gained to determine how to create more robust systems in the future.

Your system could work, and I hope it does!

Wishing you well in your endeavors!
You need to reopen this https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/92
I haven't ever really used it, but doesn't Microsoft run its own tv style video series since more than a decade?

I don't understand the format personally (I'd always take articles over video). It's probably appealing to a demographic that I'm not. But in either case, the approach is many years old.
My experience has been the opposite: building Docker images is much easier with conda than it is with pip. With conda you can start from miniconda3, copy an environment.yml, and then conda create it. With pip, you might need to take additional steps to install system dependencies like build-essential first, and you'll need different tools to manage your virtual environment and Python installation too.
Yes, but then by definition they aren't communicating, and their effectiveness is massively reduced. They could, for instance, be attacking the same target or even a decoy (wasting ammo), or fly into a trap that other drones would have warned them about. There are also no drones currently that can make firing decisions on their own, thank god, this small scale test notwithstaning. The problems AI has to solve are hard enough even without radioelectronic warfare or adversarial, AI-specific countermeasures. With it they become even less tractable.
Ok. Let's put aside the content that Cloudflare will produce. They aren't a content company.

What they are showing is that cable is dying and using Cloudflare technology they can standup a global 24-hour TV station.

How many TV stations are there around the world? A lot and the future of TV is certainly digital. I don't care about the content but if they can pull this off then it's a showcase to every one of the tens of thousands of QVC, MTV, BBC, CSPAN, Discovery Channel, networks that they don't need the big cable players to broadcast anymore.
/r/idiotsincars
/r/batman
/r/scala
/r/me_irl
Can you give an example of a case outside of the happy path?
Fair point. That would definitely be a challenge.
That’s tech biaised perspective. For a lot of topics there isn’t much resources available online, or not of good quality enough to get started and for this university classes are really helpful. Moreover, university and using the internet are not mutually exclusive: a lot of universities offers remote degrees. Depending on the languages you speak it can be very cheap (French univ are around 400€/year + one travel for final exam).
This is the usual response from engineers who love their work :) In my experience there is always a point to NOT doing things "well" the first time round. Read the old article on "programming is terrible": write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co...
Neither of those are solutions; the second one is just a reworded problem. I doubt your manager can't tell the difference between solutions and reworded problems.
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It's interesting, if we look at the size of webpages in everyday browsing, which can go from tens of megabytes to a few kilobytes when blocking tracking/analytics scripts.

I wonder what would be the back of the napkin calculations for network traffic and energy savings (local and server side) of regulating tracking and telemetry?

Is there an environmental case to be made against modern web practices on tracking and telemetry?
Cowgol: Experimental, Ada-inspired language for small systems (6502, Z80)
I would say because there are things that you can more effectively directly from others. It's easy to learn facts by yourself. It's more difficult to learn what they mean, or how to analyze them, or (sometimes) even how to pronounce the terms. (Side note: maybe this is why there are such great debates in the tech world about pronunciations...)

That's not to say you can't learn remotely, but rather than in many fields, it certainly helps to have a teacher/guide.
The easiest fruit to plant at the balcony upon the quarantine
The example manager in the article is an example of a bad manager, nothing to do with "don't bring me problems". Shouting at people who bring bad news is a dick move regardless.

And the point of "don't bring me problems" is not that no employee should bring you a problem, but that no employee should bring you a problem that they haven't tried to find a solution for.

There are often problems that are outside the scope of a single employee to solve, and that's OK. But the employee needs to have at least tried to find that out. If they're genuinely unable to find a solution, that's fine.

It's not fine when the first tiny problem causes them to give up on a task and say they can't do it. That's an indication of a deeper issue, and needs investigation. Or a sign that they've been trained by previous managers to bring up any problems - this is when "don't bring me problems" works well.
I like PRs; they let me easily solicit feedback without risking impacting master (or other "shared" branches). I could tay, "how do you feel about this change?", but it's so much easier to say, "I propose this exact diff, what do you think?". Now, caveat: I'm in a distributed team that's already async and operates nearly like a FOSS project, so even OP seems to accept that PRs might suit us.
Same thing is done by JetBrains

Technically, somewhat similar. Socially, hell no! If you visit the Idea home page, it's a normal product page. It offers to buy the full product or download the free edition. Their business is pretty obvious. On the other hand, VS Code page has misleading "Free. Built on open source." in big letters under the headline. What's their business?
Combine:

* good peering all over the world
* vast resources in datacenters to host it
* minimum actual usage
* the fact that it is not one of petabytes of videos that have to be stored somewhere, but a smallish content that fits in memory

and it's rather unsurprisng.
How can you, with your specific talent/skills, make your family/community/the world better? In that struggle you will find your meaning.
In software roles, we're often asked by customers to "Build me this.", which is a solution. The first thing we need to actually solve their problem is "what problem are you trying to solve?". Sometimes its easy to get an answer to that question immediately, and sometimes you never ever will. If you work in a place where the latter is frequent, find a new job whenever you can. You or your division will be blamed for the bad outcome caused by lack of trust and communication.
I assume you have similar feelings about the Washington Post after this https://s9503.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rachael-Bad...
Ask HN: Who are your everyday heroes?
When looking for inspiration, this community often suggests to look at the likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs etc.

While each of these are most certainly very accomplished, I wonder if it's really valuable to look at those that are furthest away from ourselves on their path.

So who are the more accessible people you admire or get inspiration from ?

The ones that might make smaller but equally important contributions in improving life for people on earth. Or the ones who's contribution is as big but are simply less well known ?

Which "normal" person inspires you ?
That's a Flatpak version of Visual Studio Code, which only works on Linux. Unfortunately, it's unmaintained and stuck on version 1.41.1 (December 2019).

Arch Linux users do have access to a fully open source version of Visual Studio Code in the community repository, which includes access to the Visual Studio Marketplace:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/
What a lovely paper! I loved Mr Tompkins and spent a lot ot time in high thinking about how various things would look. Nothing this sophisticated of course so this was such a pleasure!
Yes, the idea is that the model is local to the user and runs in their browser (pushing the computation to the edge). Here's a project demonstrating pose estimation from Twilio's engineering blog: https://www.twilio.com/blog/pose-detection-video-tensorflow-....

Re: bandwidth. Do you mean the weights? If so then yes, you'd have to think about distilling large models to smaller ones. There are techniques for doing this. Here is an explanation of distillation from Floyd Hub's engineering blog: https://blog.floydhub.com/knowledge-distillation/.
It's an interesting idea, but I've got 2 questions:

- What happens with fraud? I can reverse my cc transaction, but here there's no insurance. (Just in case someone answers with trust - see how many finance SE questions go like "brother asked me to guarantee a loan and disappeared, what do I do")

- How is this usable for people working in online services? I'm never going to be paid in OUSD, or by local people, so it looks like I'd either have to continuously exchange money with a person I know, or some banker-equivalent online. That gives me no benefit over CC.
There are a lot of “totally timeless” ideas, so lots of reasons to have paper books. There’s also nothing wrong with a book becoming outdated. A book is the most efficient way to transfer a large amount of information between two human minds. Just because some syntax changes doesn’t remove the value of that information being transferred in the first place. And just because a “best practice” changes, that doesn’t mean that understanding the old best practice has no value. In fact, everyone would benefit from understanding the history, context, and evolution of “best practices” (which change so often that they should really be called “current practices”).

So, if you’re only looking at a book along one dimension which is “getting the most recent fashion status” in a fast-changing industry, then paper books aren’t appealing. But that’s the saddest dimension to evaluate a book on.
and docker is (was) written in go who kinda put more light on static, the circle is complete
I think the article linked by @antoncohen sums up the situation nicely:

https://medium.com/s/story/fearing-for-our-lives-82ad7eb7d75...

I don't think the reasons you have given should give the U.S police license to default act aggressively towards others - due to being in fear of their lives.

From my perspective, the U.S. police are not in fear of their lives through fear of immigrants or terrorists. They are trained to be in fear of someone having a gun pointed at them.
Being a business owed many small amounts of money from many people seems expensive to collect - any thoughts on that?
probably the best joke in HN today :)
> People change jobs all the time, and 8 years is a long time in the same position.

Really? I'm coming up to five years at my job, and I can easily stay another five.
Examine your defensiveness. Where's it coming from? Why are you angrily splitting hairs over phrasing and putting words in my mouth, instead of engaging with my core point: that you should actually put in a bit of effort and go learn about this stuff?
mersi — this is about the protestors, was it ever sung by them?

(coincidentally, YT just suggested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTOD5jjac4 )
The situation is no longer as urgent?

Number of new cases and new deaths have dropped off a bit and mostly flattened out. Health care capacity is handling current loads. Economy is opening back up..

There is still plenty of talk about COVID-19, but I'm not sure how much cynicism is required to explain why something that is no longer a critically urgent emergency is no longer being reported as a critically urgent emergency.
I'm actually kind of into this idea, even if it's purely as a Free and Open Source alternative to Venmo. But even then, you'll have to give me some good selling points to get my normie friends to use it, as they all already like Venmo.
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Bad code has a real world business cost, and velocity is it.

Suddenly you will see you can’t just scale the team up because it takes new team members a long time to grok the codebase and work within it.

Similarly, a disconnect happens between business and engineering where building features that appear similar to already existing features still take longer to build since the existing implementations were never built to be extendable or reusable.

While all this is happening, the team is busy working around the codebase, not with it, to the point where they can’t apply solid refinement to the end product. Adequate time for bug fixing/testing is not allotted since the team is fighting the codebase to just get features out. Your product ends up lacking quality.

Developer quality of life goes down, which believe it or not, impacts velocity. Suddenly it’s not pleasant for the team to casually peruse the codebase. Suddenly those time estimates are all in the mid-high range, they can’t get a breather from the cognitive overload.

Finally, those little tweaks business wants to make become the stuff of nightmare. Stand-up becomes a call for mercy, ‘Making that change is not straightforward’, a constant compromise, ‘Can we just settle for this alternative instead?’.

A shitty codebase has an outsized cost for sure.
No, not taking anything the wrong way. I wanted to get some views and you are providing them - thanks for that

'kia mihi'
A Love of Future Existence
Certainly! Some highlights:

- A Newsweek article https://www.newsweek.com/openai-text-generator-gpt-2-video-g...

- GPT-2 chess https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/10/gpt2_chess/

- ... which DeepMind referenced: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1226916484938530819

- GPT-2 music https://soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-generated-videogame...

- Swarm training (WIP) https://www.docdroid.net/faDq8Bu/swarm-training-v01a.pdf
Oh, thanks for explaining. Here's the Why article: https://collapseos.org/why.html (didn't see it before).

In it, he writes: "... two important stages of collapse ... the second one is when, in a particular community, the last modern computer dies ... decades between the two ... Collapse OS won't be actually useful before you and I are both long dead"

making me wonder if one scenario he has in mind, is the different biggest countries in the world stopping trading with each other, so it won't be possible to get more rare earth metals (needed for today's computers, right). And then, maybe downhill from there, the thereafter following 50 or 100 years? — But not _necessarily_ a nuclear winter or something that dramatic & sudden.

And ... He also writes:

> What made me turn to the "yup, we're fucked" camp was "Comment tout peut s'effondrer" [a book]

I think you'd find the answers in that book then? Seems the book got translated: "How Everything Can Collapse" [in our lifetime] by Pablo Servigne.
Great. Yet another online psuedo-intellectual "guru" with pretentious posts full of meaningless, vague trueisms. Why are posts like these so popular on Hacker News?