skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt there's any kind of direct link between video games and people becoming violent, but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in CS:GO and Call of Duty but if you show one women's nipple it's unacceptable.

So the problem is that the weapons be realistic?

I've always noted that rather extreme violence has always been a case of children's entertainment — in something such as Looney Tunes, the characters are frequently the subject of violence that would surely kill a man. Is this acceptable because it's not realistic?
I dub it Full Suicide Deathwish.
It's definitely worse in American media but I think this bias exists even in Europe, just to a slightly lesser extent.

Also, even though we're not quite as prude this side of the Atlantic ocean, we still have to abide by American cultural rules when we use Facebook, Twitter and similar services that have strict no-nudity rules. Similarly, any media produced over here that ambitions to enter the American market will also have to follow these guidelines.

American culture is very pervasive.
Out of curiosity who were the pure originals in your view? Native Americans?
ZFS checksums metadata, too.
But pre-existing conditions isn't only heart disease. It includes a long list, many of which can be well maintained and have no impact on the person's day to day life.

https://twitter.com/profhelenward/status/1343883846568325122...
20M is the number they switched to after failing to meet their estimate from 3 months ago. In October, HHS Secretary Azar said that Operation Warp Speed would deliver 100 million doses by the end of the year.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
Billions and billions is nowhere near enough. https://www.eteknix.com/tsmc-building-fab-18-5nm-production/

> The entire cost of Fab 18 will cost TSMC $17.08 billion.

Mind you, that's the 5nm production facility which is now complete and churning pretty good CPUs for Apple. They are also building a 3nm fab for 19.6 billion USD. Source https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3805032

To leapfrog TSMC, we are quite probably looking at something like 40-50 billion USD in R&D and fab costs and that's a gambit because they are now behind. It's one hell of a gambit for a 200B market cap company.
There's a big difference between a helpless pedestrian walking down the street and a wealthy corporation abdicating their security responsibilities.

Of course the criminal should ultimately be held accountable, but to be honest when when these kind of hacks occur I tend to direct more rage toward the corporation. The analogy I picture is more like an overloaded train crossing the same creaky and neglected bridge every day.
> Over 11 years, bitcoin's full blockchain has grown to 1/25th of a $150 hard drive.

No doubt due to the 1MB/block limit that's in place.

>There are lots of cryptocurrencies now, no chain is going to suddenly have 150 million transactions per day while all the others die off

So large transaction volumes aren't going to be an issue because there's also going to be multiple blockchains to spread the transaction volume across? I'm not sure that's any better, because you'd either be heavily dependent on intermediary exchange services and be exposed to exchange rate fluctuations, or having to keep multiple crypto wallets synced and having to juggle disk space between them.

>Even then, it would cost a single person far less in disk space than the electricity to run their refrigerator

The problem is that the cost compounds, so comparing the cost to running a refrigerator isn't exactly fair. A refrigerator costs around $90/year to run today, 5 years ago, and 5 years from now. On the other hand, running a full node might cost $90/year today, but 5 years from now would cost $450 upfront + $90/year.

>and again, few people even sync with the chain.

This goes back to the decentralization debate. Needing a huge upfront investment to fully participate in the network is very much anti-decentralization.
> "It was the only nano-UAV able to cope with the uncompromising weather during a recent Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) event"

I hadn't thought too much about how UAVs of any class will need to cope with adverse weather conditions. Seems like that will become an even larger variable in military planning, as UAVs etc. become more prevalent.

E.g. it might be hard to totally replace a manned surveillance platform with an unmanned system, if the manned system is 'all-weather capable' and the unmanned is not.
“I love my Tesla but” has become so overused it is on the verge of becoming a meme.
Vitalik was 3 years old when it started. Creating Bitcoin was a 15 year process counting from the Cypherpunk's manifesto with many failed cryptocurrencies.

Greg Maxwell, Nick Szabo, Adam Back were working on it earlier. Vitalik represents a very different thinking, which is OK.
That transport speed has to just be for rewinding and fast-forwarding. If the terabyte you want is the 580th terabyte, you need a quick way to skip past terabytes 1 through 579.

The hardware is not going to read 300 Gb/in density at bicycle speeds. :)
This has become quite entertaining.

>>Still, are the interior doors more durable than the external doors?

Yes.

>> Could be easy enough to go into the attic (either with access or by force) and come down in the room in under 5 minutes.

Locate the entrance to the attic. Then the room I am in, despite not knowing the layout to the house. Then smash a hole in the ceiling. Then climb through said hole without getting stuck. Without me noticing. In under 5 minutes.
Governments should enact legislation making the payment of a Cybersecurity ransom a criminal offense with serious penalties. Organizations would then be faced with the choice of paying the bribe or facing time in jail - an uneasy decision. However, the effect would be to reduce the likelihood of ransom payment, thereby reducing the incentive to launch such an attack in the first place.
I have to state a fact that there is no child labour in China. Were their child labour before? Maybe some. My uncle left home when he was 14 to work in a factory. 40-50 years ago. Nowadays, the earliest age you can find real jobs is probably 16. So no, you don't find a child labour made iPhone. But if there is child labour somewhere, you either find a not-worst-case solution or you get him out of there. And you have to think from his point of view, understand his circumstances.
It's funny because you in fact treat it here like it's a natural disaster and not a premeditated crime.
No, they have stopped reducing the prices of existing services once they become depricated, so they effectively become more expensive compared to other services but never increased.

Although reselling other products, such as RDS Oracle or MSSQL could potentially have increased if the licences fees went up.

But I don't think that is what you are referring to.
It feels like they're paying ludicrous money for these. Can someone in the know explain what differentiates these from shop-bought or scratch-built drones?

As per this article below, the Nano 1A UAV Quadcopter Bug drone sells for £4,500 (a tenth of the price of another model, the Black Hornet Nano):

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drone-nano-b...

I appreciate that this is probably a variation on the old canard that goes "I could have written that government software in a weekend", but it does seem pricey.
I think he meant something of the sort of exploding drones are deadly and don't require that level of AI. and I guess if one of these bots ran towards you, you wouldn't be reluctant to dance with it, while it inconspicuously arms it's self-destruct mechanism. the future is here! STILL NO FLYING CARS.
I just wiped a new M1 device and set it up from scratch using the latest version of Big Sur. If you skip iCloud setup you are never asked to turn on FileVault. When you skip iCloud you are never told this will result in FileVault being disabled.

I took photographs of the entire process if you'd like me to provide proof.

I am the CEO of Kolide. An employee wrote this article because....of our customers who do not fully manage their Macs, the amount of them without FileVault can be as high as 1/3 of the entire Mac fleet. That number tracks with the UX of the setup screen I mentioned above. Esp for privacy conscious orgs.
UX Papercuts
Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi
In his case, his buddies in soccer either put up with it or don't. They have choice whether to go play with him. Also, soccer is played relatively rarely, like twice a week.

In case of gaming, people in the same householde are getting that despite not having much choice. It is also much more frequent - dedicated gamers play hours and hours every day.

Another aspect with soccer is that really only few people can do overnight, so again, the bad behavior due to sleep deprivation is less likely to happen. If course it can happen if you party while night or something.

These logistical differences can make big difference in terms of how annoying the hobby is for those who have to put up with people like your friend.
>Analogy: I hate Google's business model, but I still have to use their products for lack of better alternatives.

I'm curious, which Google product must you use that has no reasonable analog from a different vendor?

I'm not being snarky here just a little confused.

I suppose Android could fall into that definition, although LineageOS[0]+MicroG[1] do provide a reasonable alternative.

My question isn't rhetorical. I'm genuinely not familiar with any Google product without a reasonable alternative.

[0] https://lineageos.org

[1] https://microg.org

Edit: Fixed nonsensical sentence.
What's the definition of debris?

The article mentions tracking/estimation of debris greater than 1cm. This seems reasonable to me. I doubt particulate matter counts as debris. We can see this in other parts of life. For example, if you are doing a FOD walk, you don't care about dust and "invisible" particulate matter.
Takeaway: The kiss of death in a job interview is to not be 100% positive at all times. Do not exhibit anger or irritation at any time.

Honesty is not always the best policy, it seems...
Kudos!

[..] "I was asked for one episode to get Norton grapes, but Norton grapes are not in season, they're only grown in Virginia in one area, and they're very specific in their looks: a big, round, dark, purple, grape," Poon says. "In the script it calls for Hannibal to peel the grape to reveal that the grape is the same color as inside. I called everywhere, couldn't find them to save my life, and I hesitate to tell you, I even learned that Norton grapes are not the same color inside as they are outside."

But, Poon says, it wasn't in her interest to go back to writer and explain that Norton grapes aren't the same color inside and out. "The whole scene hinges on that. So in my little mind, I justified it. I thought, well Hannibal lies about everything — he's telling you it's jelly when it's made from the bones of young women — so he'd lie about Norton grapes too." And Poon knew she would have to create these nonexistent grapes from scratch. "So I peeled and dipped grapes in food coloring, hung them all around my kitchen studio, dripping dye, and then once they were semi dry, because of course grapes won't dry, they're juicy, I dipped them in wax and dusted them with corn starch." That night she got a phone call from the producer asking about the grapes. He said the plan sounded fine, but she should also have a backup grape made a second way by 8:30 a.m.[..]
Adding to the anecdata, this was actually infuriating recently while I was on a road trip. I was searching along my route for gas stations and it seemed to be prioritizing Chevron stations. I ended up at a sketchy gas station in the middle of nowhere where half the pumps didn't work and the other half had broken card readers. Come to find out there was a Love's less than 5 miles up the road, right off the highway, with clean restrooms and working amenities.
> But to answer their question: yes, I think Substack is definitely part of the future we want.

You wrote what I wanted to.

Substack is an enabling technology, and functionally replaces the printer that magazines like the New Yorker use to physically print their magazine before sending them out to readers via USPS (instead of email) or to bookstores.

They also picked a very good payment processor in Stripe, another enabling technology that functionally replaces the physical terminals you would get from Square or First Data.

In the long term I might be concerned about Substack if they take on too much VC money and try to go the full Medium route. In the short term, concerning yourself with Substack is like concerning yourself with what kind of printers that a book publisher uses. A printer can be technically interesting, but ultimately it does the job you ask of it.
I think what happened is they used a fancy camera with a big lens and a 30 FPS frame rate, giving a very high quality image reminiscent of Hollywood films, but they set a faster shutter speed than Hollywood generally uses, giving less motion blur than is normal in high quality footage like this. The relative lack of motion blur despite the low frame rate gives it a jerky appearance similar to sped up or timelapse video, or animation. Combined with the slightly odd motion of the robots, it has an uncanny look.

It's kinda funny because most robot demo videos are sped up and/or CGI, but this one isn't.
> The animations look so fake.

Let’s talk about why it looks fake.

I think it comes from the use of hydraulics.
Biological muscle is way less linear (it works more like a second-order control system, where things often overshoot their target before dampening).

But one part of it may also be algorithmic: the robot’s Kalman filter (?) may correct for errors from sensor fusion much faster than a human would.

I would love a more informed opinion than mine though.
Change playback speed to 50% and it looks more realistic. That's probably realtime and they sped up the video.
Even if people are misinformed, it’s still democracy. There’s simply no other way. Maybe it will destroy the country, but at least they will have done it themselves.
On desktop/linux/firefox/private window and vpn, how can Google know which Wi-Fi network I'm connected to?
> I can tell you it does stop it quite efficiently.

Please avoid the patronizing tone. Your experience is not universal. I've personally witnessed victims escalating the conflict into much worse situations.
You are on Hacker News as such saying anything against the Covid-19 party line will get you down voted. This comment is merely to let you know you aren't alone.

As a supposedly free country we have a large portion of people who are willing to give up all its freedoms out of a little fear. In the history of humanity giving great power to a very few almost never ends well for the masses. Those who are put in place to "protect" invariably seek to become those who control.
Capitalism and regulation can coexist.
Broooks framing does apply when you can avoid programming altogether. He specifically mentions that as is prefered solution to the problem. Rather than coding systems from scratch, in which case you have to deal with the essential complexity inherent in the problem, you can either buy software or share components between developers and avoid having to deal with the problem altogether.
In a Tesla, you are the QA.
Not enough for them to win in the market, apparently.
I mean it’s either good science or it isn’t.
Do you consider people bothering you at 9pm, instead of 10pm, ok instead? I ask because I found your threshold quite odd. I would have set it at ~7pm.
I was ready for some interesting points about the downsides of Substack.

But reading the article, especially with the 15(!!) inset ads and the Creative Cloud sidebar ad that followed me the whole length of the article, I realized how hard it is to damn Substack with anything that doesn't pale in comparison to ad-captured traditional media.
You could say the same about cars, bicycles and babies. Still you don't see many of those just running around.
To be fair, Apple is the only company that can get away with this, without significant impact on sales. Remove floppy drive, remove headphone jack, ship without charger. Coming next: portless phone. Anyone else trying to pull this off would be destroyed by reviewers and customers alike.
I read a story in the recent past about a 30 some year old constant gamer who lived in his parents' house who shot and killed his mother for messing with his gaming console. There is some anecdata for you.
I have the Mavic Mini 1.

It weighs 249g (which is 27% more than this drone).

It also realistically only flies for about 15-20 minutes before needing a recharge, which is half as much as this drone.

So while similar to the Mavic Mini, I think it's clear they're not in the same league.
From the description, this podcast episode doesn't seem to talk about religion at all. Do you have a better source?
Well, your reach should exceed your grasp! It's already an interesting tool and one that I'm sure will improve as you work further on it.
Why not break her out I have an 85 year old grandma living with me an its fine...
Why would these things need to be fully autonomous to be scary? The fact that there might be a human operator in the loop would be cold comfort with one of these things hauling ass towards me...
Neuroaesthetic
I don't think your anecdote lends any evidence to the claim they're not close. Several reasons:

- You weren't using the actual FSD software, but the live production autopilot, so it's Apples to Oranges.

- It's not clear that the transition from low quality to high quality full self driving will be linear. Most claims around anecdotes come with an unspoken assumption we ought to see steady improvement over time vs a step-function like behavior. The latter seems somewhat possible given the nature of how improvements in AI systems seem to happen.

- Beyond all this, without understanding the underlying cause of the behavior you mention, it's hard to say from a risk perspective if the car made the right choice. Unless you have a clear understanding of the data and mechanisms that led to the speed reduction, it's hard to be sure it's a bug beyond not doing such transitions in a way that are comfortable for passengers. (My understanding is adding smoothing to the control algorithm is somewhat separate from overall decisionmaking, and hence poor control algorithms may mislead you into thinking it's more dangerous.)
Is it so hard to imagine that folks risking their lives to fight fires should be paid for that heroic service, be they incarcerated or not?
Option 4: spend some of their massive amounts of money to rebuild their R&D capabilities. Simultaneously give up their outdated idea that their core architecture is so valuable and secret that it must never be fabbed elsewhere. And spend the money to keep up with fab technology. And possibly put an actual engineer at the helm. Right now Intel seems to be going the way of Boeing — plenty of money, but less innovation than they ought to have.)

Keeping fab and design under one roof does not require that the fab and the design sides of the business exclusively with with each other.

(I think Intel should keep Altera, too. A paired CPU and FPGA solution has genuine value. One thing that Intel appears to still be good at is software tooling. If Intel were to provide tooling for their FPGAs that was anywhere near as good as their x86 tooling, then Altera could take off as everyone’s favorite platform. Right now they’re at substantial risk of losing new developer mindshare to Lattice because of the IceStorm project. I have trouble imagining that more than a few $M of total resources have been spent there.

As it stands, nVidia is a major player in big chips that do serious computation. Whatever one may think about CUDA, it’s in a whole different league from the garbage currently available from Xilinx and Altera.)
Wasn't the point of that episode to show that Frank Grimes would have been the "regular person" and it was the Simpsons the outliers?
showing how the cartoon/sitcom logic is so out out of touch with the harsh reality?
Oof. I don’t know how sad it is. Slap some guns on them and they’ll start selling. I kind of hope they stick to dancing and novelty tricks.
Yeah there's a couple in this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_by_...

Tibetan dissent in china, russians spying on their own people, ect. There's a few entries that contain multiple countries. I only skimmed the list.
Yeah, that's exactly how I put it as well.

Winter tires, once you've seen / touched them, are visibly different: different tread, way softer rubber, etc. I also pretty much always use studded tires, as we've been getting a lot of freezing rain in the last few years, and the one accident I've ever had was due to that (fell in the ditch while driving at ~30 km/h. I had a hard time _walking_ on the road without slipping).

The flip side is that they're more likely to skid on pavement, especially in summer. That's why you have both.
Maybe not on hard demonetized, but they will run ads on videos of creators that are not eligible for the partner program:

https://www.engadget.com/youtube-ads-on-small-creator-videos...
I know second hand that UCSD is giving all doses right now. Vials contain 20% more to account for spills, so they are using this extra to give extra vaccinations. The second dose for each patient will come from future vaccine shipments. Other providers in San Diego may be doing the same thing.
>Slavery is when a person is treated as a property of another person.

That's called chattel slavery. Just because something isn't chattel slavery doesn't mean it isn't still slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

"Slavery relies heavily on the enslaved person being intimidated either by the threat of violence or some other method of abuse. In chattel slavery, the enslaved person is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner."
Not really, by my understanding. Corellium is effectively providing a hosted virtual machine, presumably running on their own custom hypervisor, with their own management stack to give a convenient user experience.

You "spin up" VM-based instances of emulated devices (i.e. booting an emulator from a filesystem image), and can then research vulnerabilities and explore, and downgrade/upgrade iOS versions rapidly, like you can with VMs. Real devices are fused to prevent downgrades.

Side-stepping brute force lockouts on passcode would be irrelevant, since that's enforced on physical devices via the Secure Enclave - even if you dumped the flash from a real device, you'd not be any further forward as you would need the enclave's contents to derive the correct keys to do anything.
It's not reliable if you're cross referencing constantly.

I live outside of the USA, and Apple maps consistently screwed up to the point that I've deleted it.
Wouldn't carbon fiber be a good candidate for replacing aluminium? It would burn up and result as carbon in the atmosphere similar to the wood, but should be more environment insensitive and probably lighter weight.
AWS is already on generation 2 of their equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
It's not even charitable, more likely it's true.

Commercial agreements are complicated, if you can re-use text, you do.

I suggest the lawyers may not view the 'examples of tech' as we do, after all 'Mozilla' is still a 'browser'.

Brexit was never so much about commercial terms, it was about political ones. There would be no 'Brexit' from the EEC.

So if the mandate is 'keep the trade stuff the same as possible so 28 different countries can just say yes quickly' - then this snafu would seem more than rational.
Not talking about Heinleinian "resleeving" in case anyone is wondering.
Really scary. Whenever I see the latest Boston Dynamics video, I’m always thinking ‘and now imagine it’s hunting you’.