skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the potential defense a swarm of drones equipped with various countermeasures could be against those missiles. They could be deployed quickly from a ground station or any cargo vehicle; possibly even from an eighteen wheeler if they were made small enough, and certainly something like a C-130 as someone else pointed out. I'm not clear on the effectiveness of anti-missle systems like the Iron Dome but I doubt there's anything that could to that kind of air defense from a platform that mobile and of such a small form-factor. You could even use a tower as a station in an urban setting and just drop them out the windows and crank up the engines midair. You could have an air-defense tower every few blocks.

It might seem minor but shifts like this have the potential to give one combatant a meaningful edge against an opponent lacking the same capabilities. Imo, even as a purely defensive tool this will allow much smaller entities to maintain control over their space against aggressive neighbors. Miniaturization of computers and automated weaponry reduces the space/resource requirements to maintain a state-like monopoly on violence within that space. I see this all as being firmly in the same trend as the increasing availability and power of biological engineering equipment and techniques and the increasing risk posed by locally-embodied/concerned AGI. These all have wildly varying threat profiles and difficulties with determining likely timelines but you get my point.

I never even got into possible offensive uses of these drones but one of my nightmares is matroska drones, C-130, to these (which can deal with other airforces and large ground forces,) to hunt-and-kill quadracopters to little single-serving shaped-charge drones. You can't nuke a city because of insurmountable optics but enough people were able to stomach large-lascale bombing of cities within the last 20 years that I would not be surprised at all if this kind of force was used to neutralize a city by bringing to fruition the promise of "precise bombing" and actually only killing the people and destroying the structures you mean to. It's a brand new WMD.

And even if I'm totally off base this is great sci-fi.

Edit: Bullshit punctuation to trim one word (and then add this note and actually make it a good deal longer, nice.)
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Just one from my personal experience: Conda installed Python having different compilation flags than official and distro Python builds, breaking ABI and causing native extensions built against official Python to crash when loaded in Conda Python.
That could run fowl of gambling laws? Depending on jurisdiction and details.
Re-training! The generalised models are... Generalised. They have learned to pick up details from a vast, varied data set.

You can reuse that, and fine tune to the model to your specific data set, which could save you days worth of computation, and also decreases the data set size requirement on your end.
A lot of is to do with black on black homicide. Murder is the leading cause of death for Black men, ages 15 to 34. Their murderers are other Black men 93 percent of the time. Is this also caused by racism?
It's an impediment with any mask which can form some kind of seal. A surgical mask will stick to your face when you breathe in, which indicates that it does form an imperfect seal.

If one's beard is creating even more space between the face and mask, it's of course going to make things worse.
What is your internet experience like in general? How often do you encounter road blocks on sites that shouldn't require JavaScript to function?
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Actually both ML and Scheme were at first implemented in Lisp.
Is there any way to do anything with this right now?
Is there anything you can buy or sell with it? Do I need real life friends to use this so I can set up "trust" as this will be a problem preventing me from even trying it out? (I have friends, just not ones that will try this)
You just redefined what the word "investment" means, this is not a proper argument. Investment is relatively well-defined in ecomomics, see here for an introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_(macroeconomics)
It seems to me that VSCode is developing toward greater intergration with Azure and GitHub as a cloud platform.

e.g. if you look at the docs presently https://code.visualstudio.com/docs , you see some signs of it already with a section dedicated to azure containing extensions dedicated to managing and deploying to parts of azure from within VSCode.
Black or white?

Also, poor animal.
AI's fighting it out while the human crew does nothing is not compelling drama. That's why Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. etc. all have 2nd World War style fighting going on. To get a more realistic idea of what future battles will be like, you need to read Ian M. Banks. In his books, humans are (correctly) too slow and fragile to do any fighting.
and how do you know that? did you check the source? oh wait..
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Ask HN: How does your company manage remote working security?
Hi all,

I guess most of the people out there working remotely nowadays. But how does your company make sure it's remote working infrastructure is secure enough?

I guess most of the people would answer this as 'plain VPN' but I hope there are more paranoid companies those also care about: physical security, home router configurations, enforced OTP's, secure communication channels, full disk encryption etc.

What is your company's paranoia level - and what they do?
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This also seems to be a perfect description of what chrome is doing with internet standards -- I wonder how common this exact strategy is in business, even if they don't call it EEE
You must be using the app?
"So the (reasonable) assumption was that people mostly know when they are contagious and stay at home."

Too bad this pandemic overlapped with the flu season and with a period of time where many people had colds, thereby rendering the above assumption null and void.
It's more stuff that can go wrong. I understand why you would want a wired mouse for a weird setup where you don't want a wire from the mouse or /can't/ have a wire from the mouse to the machine. But I don't see the need just like I don't see a need for wireless charging or wireless hdmi or wireless southbridge.
Do keep in mind that those ~20 W typically apply to a single MIMO band (so, 10 W +45 deg linear polarization, 10 W -45 deg linear polarization, for a, say, 120 deg wide and 5-20 deg high sector). One eNodeB can have multiple frequency bands, that are aggregated when communicating with a recent high-end smartphone. Of course this restricts deployments where humans can easily walk up to the antenna, but these power levels are only worth it for long-range scenarios.

The 11 kW seem realistic when you take a multi-sector mast that fills 200 MHz TDD with 1W/Mhz in 3 separate 120 deg sectors (600W), at least once you include the compute to handle aggregate data at a realistic maximum spectral efficiency of ~10 (bit/s)/Hz (6 Gbit/s). These power amplifiers are typically between 10 and 40% efficiency.
Almost all contagious people never stay at home. Based on my experience, people with colds come to work and go about their business.
> There is clearly a market: pinboard.io, lots of positive feedback for raindrop.io, and I see bookmarking tool threads on HN very frequently.

> Often, people ask me "why should I use this instead of x product?" I don't have a good answer: except that I like mine better

I think that sums it up. If your product doesn't offer anything unique, I might as well take one of the 100 bookmarking tools out there. Yeah, the market is there, so is the tooling. Just have a look at this list [1] - what makes your bookmark manager special?

I have written my own bookmark manager [2], and it provides a unique feature that I haven't seen anywhere else (a single HTML file is being generated, with the whole app included, so it can be easily shared without hosting it anywhere). I'm dog-fooding this project at my job and many people find it useful. Still, I've noticed early that it will be very difficult to market, so it remains an open-source project.

I'm closely following bookmarking discussions (hence also seeing your post :) ). One trend I've noticed is that most people like a "dumpster"-like pinboard solution more than any folder-like tool like yours or mine. So that's another factor that makes our approach more difficult to market.

> Put together a landing page

One point I recommend changing is the headline/subheadline. The main benefit, "essential bookmarking for teams", is 14px light gray. Make it much more prominent. Make it even part of the main headline. The light gray doesn't pass accessibility contrast ratio by the way - this applies to all the heavy light gray usage. It makes it difficult to read.

Is it possible to provide a live demo for your app? Maybe a demo/demo account?

BTW - the "take the tour" link in the footer scrolls the page to the top, not the "tour" part.

I hope your project takes off :)

[1] https://serafin.io/bookmark-managers/

[2] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
I agree that responsibility is what we are actually looking for.

The term 'ownership' is popular in product teams [1] and in engineering career frameworks [2]. In the second example, it's defined as "The rest of that story is about owning increasingly heavy responsibilities". Even github allows defining code ownership through the CODEOWNERS files.

[1] https://svpg.com/autonomy-vs-ownership/
[2] https://open.buffer.com/engineering-career-framework/
I'm going to be honest, I don't remember the last time I turned off a Linux machine...
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The USAF will do everything in its power to keep human pilots in the loop. It would take a credible opponent (Russia/China) switching to drones and/or a third world oil country putting up a real fight with drones to change that.
Given that this assumption doesn't work with something as banal and common place as the flu... why would it apply to a new respiratory virus, especially since people were anyways coming down with colds and the flu and had no clue what they had.
> So, why not use "discrimination on the basis of race" or "racial discrimination" for the non-systemic kind, and reserve "racist" for the systemic one?

Because it is already the other way around, why swap definitions to create more confusion? "racism" is broadly the discrimination on the basis of race. Any nuance should get a new definition. Period.
Stacks 4 n00bs. Cosmac did not have any. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802
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That doesn't seem to be a particular fast adoption. I remember seeing the first wheels when working at a job I quit early 2010. So it must be over 10 years.

Edit: A web search points to 2012, so maybe it's "only" 8 years?

Edit 2: Pip came in 2008, so something changed somewhat before 2010 as I remembered. But what did it install if not wheels?
Yes this is a very good way to think about it.

I've had this argument many times - it's seems the web has endless sources erroneously "explaining" how retail banking works that has convinced people that there is shenanigans involved in retail banking. Generally they mix up M2 money supply with retail bank operations. It's very difficult to convince people that they are wrong in this regard as they become convinced they've been let into some huge Matrix-like secret of how the financial system operates and tend to savour such knowledge (wow - money doesn't really exist!!) even in defiance of reasonableness or logic.
If targeting gamedev users, why not Lua? You can switch from Lisp to something more people are familiar with without losing the dynamic environment.
The arms race between drones+AI that can beat countermeasures and countermeasure-carrying drones+AI is going to be insane.
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Don't bring me solutions, bring me well-formed problems

(that are unsolvable at your level of resource allocation.)

But that's far less catchy...
I used it in the wild for some week-end project [1][2]. To get around the bandwidth issue, I used it as a browser extension. This means that weights are downloaded and installed only once during the setup. But I also used it in the past in a website for real-time audio processing when model are small enough [3].

Novel models will probably need to have some custom layers, which are quite painful to write. The weights for the web version will probably be a low quality of what you achieve on a more powerful machine. And you don't need to provide the code for the training, nor the dataset used, so you will still have an edge over people copying you.

The main problem I have with tensorflow.js is that it's not production ready yet. It's probably 10 years ahead of it's time. Most people don't have recent GPU or recent video drivers. As it's doing some tricks with the GPU to have some acceleration, a fraction of your clients will encounter random bugs and crashes. I even got some bad review for causing reboots on Firefox :). For some people it will be so slow it will feel unresponsive, and others will find that it's unimpressive because you would have to use the minimal model. In a day and age where you need 99% satisfaction to exist, picking tensorflow.js is a mistake.

[1] chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorify/pipnfjhpb...

[2] firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/

[3] Wisteria : https://gistnoesis.github.io/
I've asked teams in the US offices to volunteer people to come on the show. I imagine that once we get through the first week of this we'll add another Story Time slot so I can talk to people in California easily.
There is a process called transfer learning where you take a model that has been trained on a large data set and then modify the last few layers of the neural network by training them on your specific/smaller data set. Not sure if there are any good resources for beginners but I learned about the technique from fast.ai videos.
I can't speak for anyone but myself, however I now no faith in anything that the WHO, US surgeon general and to some limited extend the CDC and RKI say, because of the way they lied or hid the truth in the past.

I have much more faith in the KCDC for example and otherwise I want to see studies.

And anyway, people are unfairly accused of hoarding masks. It turns out that in the US, Australia, Germany (and probably other countries) China was buying up all the masks.
Remote work with traveling opportunities is the holy grail.
Like sugar, it is healthy in moderation, and better to have too much than too little. But more often than not in our society, there are very unhealthy levels of it.
That can be true for almost all software then?
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Why are snaps so controversial?
> Lisp Machines were designed to be individual workstations

in networked environments. They were developed for use in early large networks like Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the MIT. They were an early (starting mid 70s) step from time-shared hosts to personal networked workstations for developers.
How right or wrong it is to collect information about people and what they do is not entirely determined by how much personal information there is to get.

Just like how right or wrong it is to break into someones house is not entirely determined by what they take, or how much personal information you have in your house.

But yes, if you don't have anything valuable in your house, maybe you don't need to be concerned about people breaking in, but that doesn't make it more right.
Its not that it doesn't work, but rather that it is not guaranteed to work, and the design is basically a pile of duck tape. For example, you can use Rust arrays in a C FFI declaration, but that won't do what you think it does:

extern "C" { fn foo(x: [u8; 42]); }

does not declare the C function

void foo(uint8_t x[42]);
> I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content

There are many good videos lectures available on YouTube from Stanford, MIT and other universities. You also have student questions on tape, very much like sitting in the real lecture. Could you explain what exactly makes the content uninteresting, when it is in video format?
If COVID can’t spread as well due to higher heat and wind that would be great. But literally this evening I saw the same thing again walking around with the thousand protestors in close proximity to the police. According to the CDC the last super-spreader event in this area was 53.3% to 86.7% infected [0] but that was in an enclosed space.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm
The "stop solutionising" mantra in agile is equally harmful.
Personally I prefer written content because I can pace it myself. I can skim past stuff that I already know, jump to a different section quickly, and reread complex content. You can play a video at 1.25x or 1.5x but sometimes that can be hard to understand and skipping and finding a section in a video can be time consuming.
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>They also end up making hammer factory factory factory factories

Funny but accurate article! I did not know they saw that as a problem in 2005, which means it could be a lot more factories by now.
> He led the city’s high-profile pivot to community policing from 2013 until last year and oversaw what turned out to be a steep decline in crime. Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25.

That's significant improvement. Waiting until you can "solve crime" seems unproductive.
I remember paying by the minute for internet access so this argument is kinda null especially when you think of the early days of email which predates the internet and in which you basically had to pay for email.
I don't know...

http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Mutual_recursion#Ruby

I find almost every other implementation better on the eyes; picolisp, pari/gp, nim and some others I would call elegant; the Ruby version looks like overly noisy and fairly ugly to me. Not so much (but still) the function defs, but p (Array.new(20) {|n| F(n) }) I find pretty nasty for some reason (again, not sure why).

Randomly picked example.
Ah, so I've been confusing PyPI with PyPy. Someone made a great naming decision there.
I do trust the C++ of V8 and NodeJS because it's used by many and well tested in the field.

I do not trust a random npm package with C++. C++ is way too level and insecure and it's not worth it.
For graphics programming tutorials a video is a huge help. The huge problem with text articles about complex dev topics is that errors compound - if you're following along and you make a mistake early on you won't necessarily know until much later, by which time it's a lot harder to figure out where you went wrong. Being able to see what was supposed to happen at each step makes it much easier to follow.

Also, with a live stream in particular, you frequently get to see the author make mistakes and stop to figure stuff out rather than just the edited and polished perfection of a published article. I find that really helps to humanize the author, and gives me confidence that even though I'm making a lot of mistakes I'll be able to get to a finished product eventually.
The irony being that in the fully developed OS I experience:

- Outdated packages

- Having to build from source when the package is not in the repos

- Failed builds for no good reason

- Unability to have many versions of that same packages

- having to install log(n) build tools if I want to build n packages

- etc

while in half-developed OS'es everything just works (application-wise, at least)
Hey - just my two cents. You seem like someone of means (intellectual and financial). Volunteering and charity can be personally fulfilling but systemised charity is ineffective. Use your skillset and networks to resolve something from the root. Financial inequality is the root of most social ills - is there something you can do in micro-financing? Something in upskilling/education or employment?

Good luck! I feel you will hit upon something worth while.
Maybe I am a stupid layman but isn't that mouse pad basically a low power induction cooker? Am I superstitious to not want to keep my hand on an induction cooker for hours per day?
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I do agree, focusing on communication is an important part of a job and for sure it makes your work visible across company.

The are other pros. Maybe someone else is facing similar issue - communication may lead to collaboration in this case. If you communicate (early!) about some issues, mgmt has time to account for extra risks or delays.

So yeah, communication will get you promoted earlier than focusing on your tasks and keeping everything to yourself. I just cannot agree with the 10% for work and 90% for the communication ratio, that seems like way too much overhead. I think I would rather swap those numbers. Because how are you going to do anything meaningful if you work less than an hour a day?
> Technology isn't a complete panacea, but humans in general are highly adaptable. History seems to indicate...

The most critical processes for human success - population growth - is an exponential process. Pretty much all of it happened in the age of fossil fuels. We have 200 years (out of 200,000 of human history according to Wikipedia) of experience with global populations >1 billion and we are currently cruising at about 8 billion souls on the planet. All of that 200 years is in the context of freely available and rapidly growing utilisation of fossil fuels to power the logistics networks enabling the growth.

History doesn't show us being adaptable, history shows if something happens to the solid/liquid carbon supply around 7/8 of us are expected to die. And we can statistically all-but guarantee something will sooner or later over a long period.

Our major reason to be hopeful is our history isn't a guide and that something other than oil really makes strides. Maybe nuclear, maybe renewables.
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Doesn't it cost about $1000 to build a printNC? And if you are just cutting sheets of wood or plastic, you don't really need a proper CAD package.
I would be OK with WSL being close-sourced, as long as the interface (including programmatic interfaces) to which you interact with it are open and documented.

Vendor lock-in is what i would see as bad-faith actor's action. A product being good should be the only lock-in required.
What if all the people involved are kind of "untrustworthy"(e.g. criminal organizations)?
Very much.

This Schopenhauer essay resonates strongly with me, hitting on and unifying numerous concepts I'd been playing with. And saying it well.

Even in translation ;-)

I'm still upset that the University of Adelaide's book server was shut down, as it had a wonderfully-formatted set of the essays, shared recently to HN. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386663
If you're looking for inspiration on how to organize your docs, I found this resource really valuable: https://documentation.divio.com

You can see the documentation system in action in this project: https://www.brachiograph.art

Regarding Grid, personally I always like to look at example applications built with framework/library/engine so seeing a list of projects that utilize Grid would be nice.
How can you possibly think so when there are about 25 police killings in Germany in the last 30 years and about 25 police killings in the US in the last month?