skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to see good old Hanoi Jane's reaction given her movement pretty much ended nuclear in the US.

Her stance is one that sticks in my mind as to why Celebrities should not set out to be influencers. Most know too little but have too much sway.
This gets even worse when posting research results on divisive topics that you have a minority opinion on and having people flag you.
What about a ride-sharing protocol, like IRC? Seems like this is what is needed. We don't need a company here to help us hail a ride, we just need a standard way to hail a ride. We would then need to use our judgment as always. Caveat Emptor. I know there's little money to be made in the creation of an RFC for ride sharing. So much of the current Internet could be standardized in this way.
Stone structures in Saudi Arabia may be among oldest monuments in world
>Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836209504...
Email hn@ycombinator.com and they will change the link on the post
iPadOS 14 is still in beta. Crashes on beta aren't representative of released product.
The funny thing is that for a long time the opposite applied to fighter planes post WW2 - a more advanced one could take down entire airwings of older planes as the tech dominated so well and spam wasn't the answer.

Of course drones lack the biological limits on G-Force and the economic scales and factors like pilot deaths mean the situations are not identical.

The real question to be answered is probably one of "expendible drones vs premium super drones" long term as the age old battle of quality vs quantity.
> Central Park was mostly a loose collection of shantytowns full of Irish people.

I wouldn't call a 50 year old neighborhood with 1,600 Irish and Black residents "not a large group of people". Calling that "not a neighborhood" is also an eyebrow raising population, especially given that Seneca Village had a large chunk of the (extremely rare) Black property owners in New York State.

You have to be careful repeating historical claims of an area being a "shantytown", as sometimes that is less a statement of fact and more of a way to justify a negative or prejudiced opinion. Given that the same people who called Seneca Village a "shantytown" also used slurs to described the area and called the residents "debased" and "wretched", there is reason to doubt the impartiality of those calling it a "shantytown".
Phew. Thankfully since we decided not to invest in defensive AI our power rivals also decided not to invest heavily in offensive AI. I was afraid the world wasn’t a fair and moral place for a minute there!
I call bullshit on the idea that industriousness is entirely learned. You can definitely improve it but research shows a significant part of it is genetic.
I remember first reading a profile on Lanier in the Beyond Cyberpunk! hypercard, touted as a visionary for VR. I'm glad his takes on the dangers of social media have held up, but also relieved he's optimistic on the recent wave of social justice knowledge sharing.
x86 has been (effectively) a duopoly for over 20 years but breaking the ARM ecosystem would be a new thing. Building a moat is one thing but privatizing an existing ecosystem is different.
How do you plan to moderate this? I notice there's a report button, but does that lead to a manual process for you? How do you plan to scale that? 10K articles is already sizable!

For a site that claims no IP tracking, the constant callbacks (to /api/api/analytics..., some of which include a parameter `unique_id`) and the inclusion of googletagmanager make me a little uneasy.
"Shantytown" is usually more of a pejorative value judgement than an objective statement of fact.
Hopefully we can remove many or most of those bases in the future. No reason to be the world police or to let other counties outsource their military to American lives.
I used Unity for robotics simulations, and while it was incredible in most ways, it was really heavy. A lot of the scientists involved were working with old computers and the simulator was a little too slow for them.

Perhaps I could have optimized better, but I struggled to find ways to do it. Admittedly, their computers were laughably old and terrible. Building $250k robots and working on under-powered laptops from 2010 or so - I never understood it.

One of the main obstacles that could have helped a lot was reducing mesh complexity. We were working with models directly from Fusion 360 and the meshes were incredibly dense. No one was comfortable deviating from the original models, so interpolating meshes or even manually reducing polygon counts wasn't an option. There was concern that we'd end up losing important data and create inaccurate simulations.

Anyway, it was an incredibly fun project and Unity made it effortless to prototype. It was ultimately built from the ground up using another tool which allowed for much better performance, but Unity allowed us to finish prototyping way, way ahead of schedule.
Very well could be since it would have to fallback to the naive graphdriver that just copies stuff around.
How do you reach that concclusion/ How can a region be tested based on housing-market freeness?

Who or what interests advance restrictions?
The diversity argument is stronger. Even if you argue that the skeletons post-date Columbus, now you also need to argue that it wasn't just one case that came back but several (or that the understanding of its mutation clock & strains are wrong).
There's no way to put up that many drones at 40K feet. It's just impossible regardless of cost per unit. The sky is a big place.
> Have you not just described an anti-air missile?

Yes, but a loitering anti-air missile.
Arguably that’s what a missile is.
For people living in the southern hemisphere, don't feel too smug about all the comments that this only affects people 'in northern latitudes'.

What they mean is 'the northern parts of North America'.

If you're south of the equator by, say, 35-40 degrees or more - similar risks & problems apply.
Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1
Apple Judge ‘Inclined’ to Unblock Epic’s Unreal Engine but Not Fortnite
I use robots in my day job for industrial automation. $12k to 60k, SCARA or 6-axis robot arms, from Fanuc, ABB, Epson, Denso etc.

We call them "robots" and not just "machines" or "actuators" like the rest of the equipment because, in comparison with the rest of the industrial LEGO with which they interact, they are incredibly versatile.

They're not sci-fi "Do what I mean" versatile, no, but if the requirements change (or are likely to change) then they're probably going to be your easiest path to accommodate those changes, without buying new parts. Sure, you can, say, design in a shim pack to precisely set the travel of a pneumatic cylinder (to make one of six degrees of freedom able to be changed), but with a robot you just bolt the fixture down to the concrete at woodworker precision and let the robot programmer (sigh...) accomodate any tolerance you may need to take up.
Come on, Kardashian or Paris Hilton? I personally find Jaron Lanier to be the antithesis to those self centered and inane celebrities. He actually raises some very interesting points and even if his ideas were wrong, they are very interesting to think about. I also find him quite caring and humane, quite contrary to a lot of SV celebs
I would think most birds don’t fly straight into a blade, but get hit from the side (modern turbines are large; tips of blades will easily hit 100mph)

That would make relative speed in both cases about equal.
This what Cloud Native Buildpacks do. There are already three major suppliers of these: Heroku, Paketo (by Cloud Foundry folks), and Google Cloud.

I'd be pretty thrilled if Docker encouraged buildpack use. It would be a huge win for them.
It's interesting how far software lags behind hardware. We've had touch screens for ~15 years and we still don't know how to use them. I'm glad there are people pushing the envelope for direct manipulation UIs.
Usually my first and only questions when looking at trying a new note-taking app - have you implemented client-side encryption? How are my notes secured?
What are the greatest advances in science and/or technology?

How were those financed?

Is there any evidence of bias toward or away from specific areas based on moneyed, political, or other interests?
Ah, nice. I didn't try to create a channel before and didn't know that I can be the sole subscriber. Thanks for the cue!
would like to get this
> What about the rest of us?

The rest would have significantly less spots in college, if this funding method was gotten rid of. So less people would be educated.

If rich people going to an elite college results in significantly more spots at that college being funded, then that is a benefit.
> Honest question, but why can't docker use something like bittorrent to download images?

Docker will be limiting manifest operations, not actual blob transmissions.
I'd say the majority of your demographic (mid 30s Java jockey) feel this way.
Knuth said always do the opposite of what's hot.
If your definition of "fairly common" is something like a ~1% chance, then sure.
> For example, Martha Stewart was a billionaire when she engaged in insider trading and then lied about it to the FBI

I can't say I know anyone who would be __ethically__ opposed to insider trading. From a regulatory view point most people would be against it, but I don't think anyone views it as a ethical issue.
What if one party has all the money?
Any drone that can operate with reasonable endurance at the same altitude as those super powerful, super fast, super expensive aircraft will not be cheap. An MQ-9 is somewhat cheaper than a manned fighter, but not by orders of magnitude.

If you're going to use the drone in an A2A role then it needs a powerful radar for accurate targeting. Targeting from other platforms using data links is possible in theory, but in practice only works in a narrow set of ideal conditions. Modern radars and other sensors are themselves super expensive.
Out of curiosity, what technological investments do you think the government could be making today that would have the impact that satellites and the internet could have?

I ask because the way I see it there are some pretty fundamental differences between now and the 1970s.

The way I see it, progress is made not so much by companies or government but by those individuals with the intellect and gumption to invent the future. All that matters is that there exist organizations, be it corporations or the government, willing to invest money on big bold bets that attract such ambitious individuals and create conditions for them to collaborate.

At times in history, private industry achieved it (Bell Labs, Ford, Google, Facebook, Tesla) at other times the government/military achieved it (Manhattan Project, NASA, DARPA, etc.)

If government got heavily involved it would contribute just by putting more money in the ring, but I don't see how it would achieve more than corporations putting more money in the ring. End of the day, it's the money being put in the ring that matters most, not who is putting the money in the ring.

Not saying, I'm against more money chasing ambitious ideas, I just fail to see the argument that government is any better than private industry here. The one advantage I do see of government is that they'll generally allow money to be spent far more recklessly for longer than private industry and if that's not your money, then that is something that is more likely to produce an occasional great technological outcome.
How do you balance both of those roles? Do you take on a smaller portion of technical work and "manage yourself"?
> 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

Really debatable. Bribe enemy generals, drop commando paratroopers right on top of enemy's political leadership, even at 90% attrition rates, bomb vital military infrastructure, like strategic stockpiles, to demoralise the enemy (making them understand that the war will be long, hungry, and ugly,) even if it means sacrificing the entirety of your airforce, and wait until your land force finally reaches enemy territory amid this complete chaos.
conversely a munition could be designed which destroys the entire drone swarm.
Stewart was found guilty of lying to the FBI, not insider trading. There wasn't enough evidence to convict her of the latter.

Ironically, if she'd simply said nothing to the FBI, she would have walked.
How large an area do you need to cover with drones to avoid, say, the F-22 climbing or diving by 10,000 feet?

A wall of drones 100 feet apart, covering 10,000 x 10,000 feet, is 100 x 100 drones, or 10,000 drones, which is a wall that's a little under 2 miles by 2 miles. That's a lot of drones to cover very little area, and they have to each carry enough explosive to create a shockwave that might damage the plane.

Moreover, this is a one-shot weapon. Once something sets it off (like a plane-like drone), there's a big gap in the wall. The idea of saturating an area with explosive drones has a scaling problem that would probably make it cost-prohibitive quite quickly.
Productivity isn’t the only factor. C# and Kotlin are great languages in their own right. Notably for very dynamic workloads, the respective JIT compilers can do some impressive optimizations.
It does. You can set up a usage charge on top of an existing subscription:

https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/rest/reference/billing/us...
You're basically admitting that you don't know much about these parts of the datacenter industry, but you keep posting comments authoritatively like you do.

Why can't you just ask questions instead of misleading people?
You would have to check whether emitting UV light attracts insects. If they do, chances are the insects would attract insect-eating birds, and death rate could go up, even if the birds can see the blades better.
I am anecdotally aware of large Concourse installations that have caused individual companies to be blocked entirely from Dockerhub (and which caused "face melting" of Github Enterprise instances).

Badly-behaved CI is a serious issue at scale.
Code must be re-used or it rots.

Fortran was the first language I learned, and naming things was a problem.

Guix, mentioned in the fine article, or like it is the answer as long as we keep reading and writing our code. This is why all scientific code should be public, we need continuous review.

Papers without code should be refused.

I'm in the middle of a storm in the west of Ireland. It's windy and wet and hn is still a thing. Happy out
Bought by Facebook?
I've only ever used Git with Unity and as long as we're disciplined in our process, it's not a problem. It's free, scales to any size team for free, and lets us open source our projects easily.

I would be willing to consider Perforce, but it seems very expensive.

What is the industry standard means of open sourcing a Perforce repository?
"If only you knew how bad things really are"
Read past my first few sentences. I'm arguing that civilian research IS military research. I'm also not arguing 100% in one vs 100% in another, such a scheme would be absurdly idiotic.
You're still describing missiles; most missiles use blast pressure and shrapnel, only a few are hit-to-kill.
https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

This is about chemical weapons but a lot of it applies to biological as well. Biological weapons also have the added benefit of possibly becoming a global pandemic and infecting your own military and economic base.
Rgb.txt (1985)
Why so? In web world we represent most of our non-UI structural data in JSON. HTML is also structural data but what makes it so special that serialization format is needed? Or why won't we represent any abstract business data as HTML even if it would have similiar structure?

Therefore I think it's very understandable why people come to that conclusion so often.
That seems rather objectifying of the brightest minds. They have their own agency and motivations. It is ultimately up to them whether they are swayed or tell objectionable sources to get bent.
Being an excellent communicator is a great virtue to have and something I come to value more and more in co-workers. Once upon a time in my career it was standard for devs to wander off into the woods to painstakingly craft a wonder over 3-4 months, now collaborative working is the thing and it's far more productive. Those people who have the right balance of not being constantly dependent on others but knowing when they need to tap someone in and, specifically, knowing how to get someone up to speed quickly for that tap in - those people shine brightly.

Being a good communicator is probably what I'd ask new devs to focus on the most - it's going to pay out a lot more than an encyclopedic knowledge of algorithms or creative problem solving and it's the only skill that everyone on the team greatly benefits from.
Zynga hires a game veteran as its chief marketing officer
I’m sure China and Russia are making that connection with gusto. Should we?
You're making the mistake of valuing this IPO on its fundamentals while currently the market is largely being driven by liquidity.

It's really hard to have a failed tech IPO at the moment with all the demand which is why they're all rushing the gates.

It'll take a large, broad recession to bring tech stocks back down

I'd expect Asana, Unity, Sumo and Snowflake to all pop and stay up in the short term

I'd add AirBNB to the list considering booking is only down 10% off it's high and Expedia is up 100%+ from it's covid-low
I think problem solving is knowing when and what terms to google
Tesla, Intel, Ford and others waging a new war against Qualcomm over its patents
A lot of internal tools is overengineered bullshit... if that’s what they are spending it on (doubtful though - it’s probably mostly some form of sales).
I think they want you to login because it's hard to monetize anything while hemorrhaging cash to egress fees.
Sigh.

In Germany, a cyclist riding properly takes more or less a whole lane on its own, like a car. No, we don't pass trucks on the right, not even if they are stopped.

Sigh. One could probably find American cyclists who will happily park behind a big truck and wait to get pancaked too. Momentum is valuable. To each her own. I do agree that in many situations it's better to split lanes and pass on the left than to pass on the right. It isn't always possible.

This kind of accident usually happens if the truck overtakes a cyclist which is crossing an intersection, the cyclist going straight ahead...

As I'm sure you agree, cyclists entering an intersection should already have taken the whole lane, to prevent exactly that problem. Cyclists beside a big truck are already in the wrong place. As you indicate, grade-separated bike lanes are a big reason why cyclists might not realize that they're in such a situation. The grade separation is often interrupted at intersections. At that point cyclists in the bike lane aren't much different from cyclists on the sidewalk.
Which app are you using?

Google Authenticator for Android, eg, will let you generate a QR code. Others can back up to the cloud.
I would love to be able to do all those things. However, time is finite and so it's inevitable that you have to sacrifice some things.
I should really figure out what’s capturing spacebar for public page viewers
...hence the "scare quotes". b^)
By the same principle, a small and inexperienced navy can effectively harass and perhaps even the defeat the US navy with a swarm of small boats

https://gcaptain.com/can-u-s-navy-defeat-swarm-attacks/
And with the only payout option being PayPal, the fees are even higher…
Nope, we haven't. Part of that is we are trying to help you save content from many places and be able to provide great search for you as well, which means we need to be able to index the content server side. We do encrypt the content server side, making the content inaccessible to anyone at Journal without explicitly accessing the decryption keys, for which we have an audit trail. Also makes it harder for someone to access your content if for some reason we got hacked.
I think it says quite a lot.

It's possible that one of the things it says is that democracy (at least the values measured by the index) is not scale independent, and more specifically democratic values are inherently incompatible with large states. I don't think the second part is actually true, at least with current technology and at the scales involved, but that seems to be the “defense” of India here.
The Unity editor gives you compiler errors and warnings in its console window. Why shouldn’t it give you these warnings as well?

The Unity editor also has lots of features that IDE’s have already, including a profiler, ability to inspect the world hierarchy, inspectors for components on that hierarchy, and ability to pause and restart execution.
There's always a mix between "now we're at scale and need to solve this really hard data sync problem" and "let's build an internal slack clone because we can".
Hasura GraphQL Remote JOINs Running on AKS and GKE
Why VCs are obsessed with Unicorns (we do the math)
2038: Y2K, Unix, and the End of Time
I'm pretty sure he is.

You may have him confused with Palmer Luckey, if you think he was just in the right place at the right time with a big mouth.
The Onkalo spent fuel repository I linked to is the only such operational site in existence, and is slated to start storing fuel in 2020. So I think it's safe to say that no data exists to support your claim.
Most current fighter aircraft have airframe stress limits below 9G, especially when loaded. Building an airplane to handle more Gs makes it heavier, which makes it less maneuverable.
> Second, why are profitable opportunities for investment lacking?

I'd say that it is because we've picked a lot of the low hanging fruit and picking the rest of the fruit requires greater effort.

I don't think it's reasonable to think we're going to pick the rest of the fruit without some fundamental breakthroughs, likely in fields like AI.
I am not an IRC user, so I don't really have a comparison.

But I don't live in a world where people drop in and ask me enough questions that I feel the need to criticize the quality of question.
The F-22 could also just climb above the drones' operating ceiling. Small, cheap drones will not have the thrust or fuel fraction to cruise up there, let alone maneuver without stalling.
The paymaster always calls the tune, whether it's the government, rich people, corporations, even crowdfunding.

This is why free markets work better, because there are multiple paymasters with varying points of view, not just one.
Epstein wanted an island of pregnant women raising his babies.
Always start out streaming in really, really low quality on the Firestick and gets stuck there despite us having gigabit fiber. Usually have to stop playing, exit and then go back in again then it works and plays in HD. Never happens on Netflix or Hulu or any other app, just Prime Video.
Yes, Epstein. There's a few trustworthy articles out there which share a quote that he 'hoped to seed the human race with his DNA'. He had allegedly confided with quite a few people about it.
I don't see how that's functionally different than SAM on the back of a truck or on someone's shoulder.
you are right, I assumed it was a rho but on closer inspection it's a lowercase p
> Many people are comparing themselves to the most privileged of backgrounds - where they were at the top from birth and only had to get a bit higher. I'm considered extraordinary in comparison to the place I grew up - just because of my background and where I am now

This is why I'm often envious of successful people, especially in the tech world. They just don't seem to get how privileged they were _from birth_.