skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only bit we are missing is fully automated fabrication.

Supply chains for high tech goods such as AI-powered autonomous fighter jets are extremely complex. We've already automated some of the individual steps, and will surely in the coming decades automate many more. But high-level orchestration of the chains as a whole, that requires many human-level intelligences to cooperate in advanced social systems, I don't think anything short of general AI could replace that.
Peace time is the best time to invest in military research because you'll be more prepared to secure an advantageous position when a conflict emerges. If you only invest during an in-progress conflict then what you're really doing is playing catch up.
I don't think that's what it means.

> When a pull is attempted with a tag, the Registry checks the remote

Checking the remote is a manifest pull.
Salesforce, Honeywell, Amgen into the Dow; Exxon, Raytheon, and Pfizer Out
Sure, but that is still not as convenient. I don’t carry cash very often, and with doordash/grub hub, they can leave the food at the door for no contact.

I can also try a ton of new restaurants without having to re-enter my details, and there is a consistent interface. In addition, I get some sort of guarantee that the place is legit... if I don’t get my food, I can get a refund.
If that were true, everyone with a very high IQ would be a great poker player, a great negotiator, a great writer, a great leader, a great investor.. etc.

IQ is as proxy for problem solving if the problems look like a standardized test. The problems people face in the real world require more specialization and a more complex combination of skills and traits.
That proves that consoles are more open than iPhones where no other OS than iOS can run
if "Humans are known to compromise their ethics for relatively small amounts of money", how does transferring the ability to choose how money is spent from "humans who have money" to "humans who do not" solve the ethics problem?
Sadly, I can confirm this is true.

Most single-seat customers are fine, of course, but a very vocal minority can cause a lot of problems.

I believe it's due to the mindset shift. If a team or company decides to use a specific software, people are more likely to accept the decision and learn to work within the tool's features and limitations. The cost of switching tools is high, so they tend to stick around for a long time.

Single-user freelancers can change tools at any time, because they don't have to negotiate with anyone else. As such, they feel they have more leverage in threatening to cancel their subscription if the company doesn't cave to their demands.

Most of them don't realize that the company isn't making much, or any, money off of their single-seat license when they're consuming hours of customer support or social media engagement time every month. It's better to see the squeaky wheels just leave the platform.

For another data point: At scale, you get a lot of threats from people claiming they're going to Tweet about how bad your product is to their thousands of followers, or write a newsletter about how much they hate your product, unless you implement the specific feature they're demanding. These threats exclusively come from the single-seat users, because no company is dumb enough to try to extort another company with threats of tarnishing their reputation in public.

It's unfortunate, but it's true. It's vastly easier to just deal with enterprise customers or larger teams who have better things to do than tie up customer support time for every little complaint or suggestion (or demand)
In the days before the Internet, a new episode of Computer Chronicles was a big deal to a young me. It was the only source of personal computing news at the time besides going to the library once a month to read the new magazines.

Fun moment in retrospect: Someone from Blizzard demoed a preview of Diablo on the show. In the live demo, the first monster he kills drops a Book of Identify (permanent ability). Before the game shipped, they removed that item and made buying and carrying Scrolls of Identify (consumable) into a rather annoying gameplay mechanic.
Salesforce replaces Exxon Mobil. Data really is the new oil.
Microsoft Has Announced WSL 2 Support to Older Versions of Windows 10
Gatsby is pretty powerful but also quite complicated and has a fair amount of issues to deal with.

For example it was pretty unergonomic to set up support for deploying to a `pathPrefix` [1] while retaining the ability to develop locally [2].

Nevertheless, we were able to make it work and have been relatively happy with Gatsby overall.

Absolutely! The docs are dual MIT and Apache licensed [3] so have at it. One note: we have not yet completely teased apart the so-called “engine” from our particularly implementation itself. This is something we’re planning to do, in part because we need to to support our other docs sites. You may find it easier to work with once we’ve done that. That being said, you can also just fork the repo, change the content and branding, and things should mostly “just work”. Of course if you run into issues along the way, we’d be glad to have contributions back to the project itself. Good luck!

[1]: https://git.io/JUJsy

[2]: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/16040

[3]: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-docs-engine
The proposed change to use the signal protocol wouldn't seem to address all the metadata issues with their core tech. Their statement mentioned nothing more than "oops we're a startup", the signal change, and an intention to continue to invest in the "mesh".

It does seem like a nice feature for existing platforms to be able to enable in disasters and at events.

As for protests, maybe some communication is better than none if the government is shutting things down?
Yeah I think it may be a bit overzealous to say that even people who are not supplementing at all, and even in a population where low Vitamin D is common, should wait until they measure k and Vitamin D (which could be not for a long time).

“first, do no harm” seems to be the thread of this caution though, so not exactly unexpected from a doctor.
1) the insistence that every regulation scale perfectly and apply in all cases is the root of the problem

2) I did point out that each regulation, taken in isolation, looks like a good idea: you're illustrating that with your objection

3) There will always be a gap between reasonable accommodation and perfect accommodation, and what's reasonable is always subject to some debate: the effect of this is to push the reasonable further out into the realm of the unreasonable, in pursuit of the perfect

After all, no one wants to strand a wheelchair user with nowhere to pee. Certainly I don't.

But no one, wheelchair or no, can enjoy a coffeeshop which never existed because the starting costs were too high.
Right now I'm solving the problem by only doing my dev work on Linux. That works fine for me, since the output binaries run on other platforms too. But I'd love to support more flexibility for more people! Not everyone is accustomed to doing their coding via an SSH terminal. So the challenge is getting more eyeballs on the Cosmo source code so we can add features and iron out the long tail of bugs.

Earlier this year, I somehow managed to successfully compile an x86_64-linux-gnu toolchain under MinGW. Using that, pretty much 90% of the Cosmopolitan built fine under Windows without needing a Linux VM (which actually goes faster than native WIN32 due to how Make+GCC assumes processes work). I've tried and failed several times to compile GCC from source on Mac.

But I think compiling GCC is just so hard, that I'd probably rather embed the GNU/Linux compiler binaries in the PKZIP embedded file structure of EMULATOR.COM, since that should create a GPL boundary that's kosher per the GPLv3 and GCC RTEv3 terms.
It'd be nice to see COVID Alert in F-Droid, or somewhere else that doesn't require nonfree dependencies.
I don't mind "spending" karma on here to have interesting discussion and ask hard questions.
Saw an interesting video on the military channel a couple of years back that pointed out something important about these super powerful, super fast, super expensive aircraft.

You'd be better off from a cost perspective running a swarm of hundreds of drone strapped with explosives, only one of them needs to get lucky to disable a multi-million dollar plane and the drones themselves can be pretty cheap.
Worked at a place where everything went through the VP finance and they were making $15M/yr profit. At one point we brought ion a desktop off of the curb to use as our build server. Sure, we got in trouble with ops later but those above us didn't care since it didn't cost us anything.
I like having a single portal to order from hundreds of restaurants. I use them for food discovery, and then I can order from any without having to re-enter info.

I would happily pay more for this service. I don’t want to take advantage of anyone, so please charge me enough to get me this kind of service and pay everyone a fair wage.
The reason a restaurant wants the physical location of a building to cook food is because you can't make industrial quantities of food in your kitchen. Well, you can try, but it's going to be slow, inefficient, and your kitchen will become unusable quite quickly.
IMO this will be one of the failed IPOs of the 2020.

I understand (but not approve) 300 devs - they got a ton of integrations, enterprise client handling, lot of mobile, frontend and backend surface area to cover, lots of devops and support, teams to build new features, maintain tooling and so on... given time, any software team will slow down and scale up, unless it is specifically countered by the company. There's always stuff to be done (create, maintain, or both), pressure comes from the top and the usual response is "throw bodies at it". The less hackerish/the more corporate the company, the faster the engineering team blows up. Kinda inverse function of the red tape.

But the reason I believe Asana is going down is that their product is just what it sounds like - boring. It's a problem that's been solved a million times and they are just lucky they got on the ride in the early days. But they never evolved and the marked is getting new competition every day that is fighting to take their users away the moment they google asana alternatives. On one hand, they got Jira/YouTrack to fight on the enterprise side and Trello/Monday/Clubhouse/Notion to fight at the startup & SMB sides. If they don't evolve their product and bring something unique that will differentiate them and save their customers more time or mental context, they will remain the "boring" choice in a time where people are looking for the "fun" thing. And while it's good to be the boring choice, it's also a good way to haemorrhage users and profits.

If I was steering Asana, I'd look at stuff like Notion and JetBrains Space for inspiration and product evolution, focus on minimising users context burn rate, developer and general UX optimisation and visual noise reduction.
If there is no large changes soon, grab some popcorn and watch it burn - I give it about a year before it starts tumbling downwards.
> Which individuals? What if they're part of an organisation? What is the actual research they are trying to fund? What could they gain from the research?

Legally, I think any individual should be able to write any other individual a check so that the second individual can afford to study any subject. I assume institutions will have more restrictions to maintain scientific credibility.

> What do you mean by 'should society ban'?

This doesn't seem confusing to me. Banning means to legally restrict. With an onerous example being "Only the government can fund research, private contributions to any organization that performs research is banned". Maybe you could elucidate which part of that was unclear.
US spends so much on military because other countries essentially outsource their own military to the US. For example, the EU spends very little on military in large part because of a large US military presence in Europe.
Sort of. We spend 4% of our GDP, the average is 2%. So we still spend double as a percent of GDP, and yeah, we have the biggest GDP.
Crystal announces new apt/RPM repos in preparation for 1.0.0-pre1
Anyone that wants to make money with developer tools with the free beer generation, can only focus on enterprise customers, while adopting the traditional sales models.

Even here, when commercial projects are show, there is always an endless thread of free beer open source alternatives.
> Do you really need, given the possibility to cache downloads, to pull a new image every 1.8 minutes in environments where paying $5 a month for individuals or $25 a month for a team would be prohibitive?

Given that even a "docker build" does a manifest pull, it's not just "new images", but existing ones as well.

Now expand that to a team that say, builds 10 images in parallel using Docker Compose. Now it's a build every ~18 minutes will hit the limit. Larger builds, like say a CI system building every time there's a push to a branch? Yikes.

I've expressed my thoughts in detail here about why I think they should find another avenue to monetize Docker: https://twitter.com/AaronFriel/status/1297988737981247488
> Does scientific-grade code need to be reproducible? Yes. Fundamentally yes

This is definitely not correct. The experiment as a whole needs to be reproducible independently. This is very different, and more robust, from requiring that a particular portion of a previous version of the experiment to be reproducible in isolation.
Quanta is an ODM. You said OEM.

Unless this is some kind of performance art, you really should stop commenting and switch to reading.
> The fact that in the contest, the AI had perfect information at all times, and rules of engagement were not a factor, are not inconsequential details. I recognize that providing the amount of data and sensor fusion the AI would require to perform at the same level in a real aerial engagement (one that does not take place in cyberspace) is not a small undertaking and still a bit in the future. The rules of engagement discussion could fill up the syllabus for the entire semester of an ethics class, and will always be a touchy subject with regards to AI's involvement in war.

This is probably the important bit, and the bit that most needs a human in the loop. Once the decision is made, engage the AI and let it do its thing.

Of course, if some regime out there didn't care at all about ROE or human life or killing the wrong people, they could build a bunch of killing machines to take out anything that moves. It would be more efficient.
Why is "doing software engineering" not "doing science"?

Anybody who has conducted experimental research will say they spent 80% of the time using a hammer or a spanner. Repairing faulty lasers or power supplies. This process of reliable and repeatable experimentation is the basis of science itself.

Computational experiments must be held to the same standards as physical experiments. They must be reproducible and they should be publicly available (if publicly funded).
The article seems to purposefully obfuscate this, but all of the money he donated was before his arrest. And when he tried to donate more money after his arrest Harvard said no.
Again no one is keeping their money under a mattress. Even money in assets is not unused. Surely the fact that Apple's stock is worth a bazillion dollars has some utility to the company? If they sell stock they must be using it for something. If I buy the stock and it goes up - even if I'm not buying it from Apple - it makes things easier for Apple.
One of those web pages I can't scroll down using the space bar.
Can you really iMessage with your non Apple pc?

Or develop iOS apps with it?

Or test them?

For many people being able to do it makes the difference between a salary and not being able to pay the rent

As much as "a nice have" it looks, and I agree it somewhat is, that's not the full story.
React's default way of appending itself to a DOM tree considered harmful
> mostly kept nuclear weapons programs in check.

It has completely failed to keep nuclear weapons in check, imo.

Keeping AI technology out of existence has the same problem as keeping nuclear weapons out of existence - the incentives are too great for any nation to have them.

If a nation is armed with nuclear weapons, the only possible check on them is another nation that is armed with nuclear weapons. Thus even in the existing non-proliferation framework, the largest nations (the United States, Russia, China, several European powers) ALL still have nuclear weapons. The reason why is that if any nation was the only nuclear armed nation it would be impossible to defeat with any quantity of conventional force.

The same argument applies for AI. It would be impossible avoid the existence of militarized AI if it provides the same level of force multiplication as nuclear weapons. It would be necessary for any nation to try to gain the same technology as a deterrent against attack by a rival that possesses the technology.
The United States presidential election is that day

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Major Advancement Towards Artificial Photosynthesis
I wonder if it is because they believe that their cloud gaming platform will be more lucrative than XBox in a few years and think that not having to pay apple the 30% and still have access to the iOS userbase will be more profitable.

I for one wouldn't mind if this case ended up forcing Apple to loosen their restrictions in regards to sideloading and other app stores on the device.

A pipe dream, but one can hope.
HZD is a grey goo scenario with extra steps.

Not only what we are missing is self replication but everything else including the important part and what was the problem “converting bio-mass into energy” without that it wouldn’t be an issue, not to mention that HZD makes little sense in general even with the coverup nukes exist and they blow up shit just fine their lore made little sense in the long run as they couldn’t replicate they just had really big robots the octopus ones that could manufacture more of the smaller ones.

And more importantly since the biomass conversion was basically nano machines why couldn’t you produce a swarm of them that simply eats robots? Or why couldn’t you produce a swarm of robots to fight the rogue swarm.

The whole “unhackable” thing also doesn’t makes sense and if they were then well make another swarm that just is unhackable and let them duke it out. The technology and more importantly the consistency of the technology in that universe makes absolutely no sense.

As much as I liked the game the story while cool was about as plausible as an alien invasion that triggers a zombie apocalypse followed by the second coming.
Actually the CDS was based on the Obama era model created in the US Digital Service. It’s a great idea and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Canada COVID app (which is very well designed!) was created by them (well, and Shopify :) )
No, you're oversimplifying a lot. Just security and infrastructure operating at Asana's scale requires several dozen engineers. Additionally, Asana has been developing all sorts of features around working with "tickets" - Gantt charts, automation, 3rd party APIs, mobile apps, etc. All of this while working with a large legacy codebase that makes development slow.

(Note: I worked at Asana when it was ~100-150 engineers, and it felt like we could use double that. Having since moved to a FB team, I find I can develop UI features at probably 3-4x the speed in comparison to my time working on Asana UI, simply due to using modern React code with jsx and functional components using hooks)
An article by Tom Tungz that relates SAAS co marketing budgets to to annuity grabs helps me contextualize this S1.

Asana's gross margin is ~85%!

Their net retention is tracking @ 120% in 2020.

So every $1.00 dollar of sales to a customer last year turned into $1.20 this year.

AKA negative churn.

Which explains the reason you see them spending $105m in sales & marketing to generate $142m in topline.

Obviously this runs its course eventually, but at that point you cool down your S&M & R&D engine and try to keep up with counting all the cash flows.

SAAS is just a remarkable business, absolute cash pigs.

(1) https://tomtunguz.com/does-better-ndr-imply-greater-toleranc...
I'm very curious of the gods eye factor of the video game environment vs the real world sensor processing.
Even in that international agreement, someone still has the weapons. International agreements failed to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the strongest nations because why would they ever give up their nukes?
> You could pave a road with the gravestones of technology vendors who pursued industry dominance with faster, more expensive chips. If IBM, Sun, Unisys, HP, Digital, SGI and a dozen others failed, why would a company with almost zero datacenter presence succeed?

I have very much the same opinion, and I think that Huang is at least aware of that.

> Nvidia would probably pursue a similar strategy -- sell chips with lots and lots of cores and lease capacity on demand.

But this will be pretty much the same IBM thing. Some banks, and Oracle/SAP buyer types may buy in, but that will be it. It does not change anything to how the companies in the above list of "big iron" vendors attempted to do it before.

I want to remind that Huang is also, a very big "investment relations" player, and he likes to make an impression of "grandiose" plans to impressionable investor guys.
> people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study.

But that's exactly the problem.

Are you familiar with that bug in early Civ games where an overflow was making Ghandi nuke the crap out of everyone? What if your code has a similar issue?

What if you have a random value right smack in the middle of your calculations and you just happened to be lucky when you run your code?

I'm not that familiar with Monte Carlo, my understanding is that this is just a way to sample the data. And I won't be testing your data sampling, but I will expect that given the same data to your calculations part (eg, after the sampling happens), I get exactly the same results every time I run the code and on any computer. And if there are differences I expect you to be able to explain why they don't matter, which will show you were aware of the differences in the first place and you were not just lucky.

And then there is the matter of magic values that plaster research code.

Researchers should understand that the rules for "software engineering grade code" are not there just because we want to complicate things, but because we want to make sure the code is correct and does what we expect it to do.

/edit: The real problem is not getting good results with faulty code, is ignoring good solutions because faulty code.
This is a really great perspective. As someone who dealt with the external pressures of being 'extraordinary' at a young age, it seems to me that curiosity is one of the easiest things to lose, and hardest to bring back, when your focus is on others' expectations.

Somewhat unexpectedly, discovering some parts of Stoic philosophy has definitely helped to rediscover the joy of curiosity that can be found almost anywhere.
It seems strange to me to believe that a wealthy person can spend a 100 million dollars on a yacht, but if he instead gives that money to one of the brightest minds we have a problem.
True, in fact is is quite different

Epic doesn't make Epic HW that only runs Epic software or the software you can buy on Epic store, chosen by Epic that also takes 30% on any sell
How are you hosting this?